Winter 2008
Arts & Humanities
Ancient Near East 19, Seminar 1
Virtual Karnak: Ancient Egyptian Religion in Stone, Bits, and Bytes
Willemina Wendrich
Applied Linguistics and TESL 19, Seminar 1
Language and Gender
Olga T. Yokoyama
Asian 19, Seminar 1
History Wars in Northeast Asia: The Politics of the Past
John Duncan
Chinese 19, Seminar 1
Understanding Chinese Cultures through Keywords
Hongyin Tao
Comparative Literature 19, Seminar 1
The Short Works of Franz Kafka, or How the Modern World Works
Kathleen Komar
Design | Media Arts 19, Seminar 1
What Is Interactive Media?
Erkki Huhtamo
English 19, Seminar 1
What a Poem Says
Jascha Kessler
English 19, Seminar 2
Origins of Identity: History and Memory in Women's Poetry
Karen Rowe
English 19, Seminar 3
John Muir and High Sierra
Paul Sheats
Ethnomusicology 19, Seminar 1
Music Theory through the Recorder
Roger Savage
Film and Television 19, Seminar 1
The Art of Cinematography
William McDonald
German 19, Seminar 1
Writing about Love in the High-Middle Ages
James Schultz
German 19, Seminar 2
Violence, Sex, and Music in Germany's Pre-Nazi Era
Wolfgang Nehring
Music 19, Seminar 1
Opera’s Top Ten
Juliana Gondek
Scandinavian 19, Seminar 1
Strange Things: Folklore, Film, and the Politics of Fear
Timothy Tangherlini
Scandinavian 19, Seminar 2
Short, Short Stories of Scandinavia
Mary Norseng
Slavic 19, Seminar 1
"Are You Saved?" Paradigms of Salvation in the Judeo-Christian Tradition
Ronald Vroon
Culture & Society
Anthropology 19, Seminar 1
Language Myths: Beliefs about Language That Are Harmfully Wrong
Paul Kroskrity
Anthropology 19, Seminar 2
Repatriating Native American Human Remains
Russell Thornton
Communication Studies 19, Seminar 1
The Hidden Side of Female Desire
Martie Haselton
Economics 19, Seminar 1
The "Winner's Curse" in Common Value Auctions
Hugo Hopenhayn
Economics 19, Seminar 3
Was Ihn Khaldun (1332-1406) the "Father of Economics"?
George Murphy
Economics 19, Seminar 4
Bargaining, Haggling, and Fairness Across Cultures
Jernej Copic
Economics 19, Seminar 5
Risk and Inequality
William Zame
Education 19, Seminar 1 (Canceled)
Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth in the Contemporary U.S.
Marjorie Orellana
Education 19, Seminar 2
U.S. and Global Development through Eyes of Hollywood: Environment, Health, Glob
Edith Mukudi Omwami
Geography 19, Seminar 1
American Rivers: History of Environmental Change
Stanley Trimble
History 19, Seminar 1
Los Angeles: Architecture and Ethnicity
Teofilo Ruiz
History 19, Seminar 2
How We Remember the Bomb
Ludwig Lauerhass
History 19, Seminar 3
The 1948 Palestine War in Arabic and Hebrew Literature
Gabriel Piterburg
History 19, Seminar 4
Honor and Shame in Clash of Civilizations and Religions
Scott S. Bartchy
History 19, Seminar 5
The Scopes Trial: Evolution Debates in America
Theodore Porter
History 19, Seminar 6
Revolutionary Thoughts: European Radicalism, 19th to 20th Centuries
Stephen Frank
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 1
The Muslim Student Experience at UCLA
Susan Plann
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 2
Perceptions of Americans Abroad: Discussions with Visiting Fulbright Scholars
Ann Kerr
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 3
LGBT is Not a Sandwich: Straight Talk on the Effects of Silence on Sexual and Gender Minorities in Los Angeles
Ronni Sanlo and Suzanne Seplow
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 5
Civic Engagement in Los Angeles
Laura C. Romero
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 6
The Black Student Experience at UCLA
Kelly Lytle-Hernandez and La'Tonya Rease-Miles
Human Complex Systems 19, Seminar 1
Understanding and Managing Complex Natural and Social Systems
William McKelvey
Latin American 19, Seminar 1
Introduction to Nahuatl (Aztec) Language and History
Kevin Terraciano
Law 19, Seminar 1
Law and the Poor
Joel Handler
Law 19, Seminar 2
Law, Morality, and Social Justice: Conflicts between Theory and Practice
Frances Olsen
Management 19, Seminar 1
An Introduction to Human Resource Management
This seminar will be team-taught by five faculty from the Anderson School of Management: Sanford Jacoby, Christopher Erickson, Samuel Culbert, Daniel Mitchell, and David Lewin
Political Science 19, Seminar 1
Can't We Make Moral Judgments?
Susanne Lohmann
Sociology 19, Seminar 1
Migration as Business: The Migration Industry in Global Perspective
Ruben Hernandez-Leon
Sociology 19, Seminar 2
Cool Japan: Exporting Contemporary Japanese Culture
Adrian Favell
Science & Technology
Astronomy 19, Seminar 1
Invisible Universe and Life in the Solar System: From Alpha to Omega
David Cline
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 19, Seminar 1
Cosmic Evolution: How Everything is Connected By the Arrow of Time
Richard Turco
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 19, Seminar 2
"Anything can happen": Science and Lore of the Santa Ana Winds
Robert Fovell
Chemistry 19, Seminar 1
Chemistry and Art
David Scott
Community Health Sciences 19, Seminars 1 and 2
Cosmo Says You're Fat? I Ain't Down with That: Nutrition and Body Image Life Skills
Jill De Jager and Pamela Viele
Dentistry 19, Seminar 1
Pain and Stress Management in Dentistry
Francesco Chiappelli
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 19, Seminar 1
Parasites: Eating us Alive
Don Buth
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 19, Seminar 2
Evolutionary Medicine: How Natural Selection Helps Us Understand Why We Get Sick
Peter Nonacs
Electrical Engineering 19, Seminar 1
Neuroengineering: Technology that Could Enable "The Matrix"
Jack Judy
Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 4
The Rise and Fall of a Blockbuster Drug
Mike Gresser
Human Genetics 19, Seminar 1
Genetic Counseling: Making Genetics Real
Christina Palmer and Michelle Fox
Human Genetics 19. Seminar 2
Genetic Enhancement and the Quest for Perfection
Chiara Sabatti
Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology 19, Seminar 1
The Joy of Biology
John Merriam
Neurobiology 19, Seminar 1
Links between the Nervous and Immune Systems
Edwin L. Cooper
Nursing 19, Seminar 1
Brain Drain - Why You Are Losing Your Mind (and What to Do About It)
Mary Woo
Pediatrics 19, Seminar 1
Babies by Design: Redefining Humans?
Edward and Linda McCabe
Pediatrics 19, Seminar 2
Being a Doctor to Children with Heart Problems: Diagnoses, Treatment, and Physiology
Daniel Levi
Physiological Science 19, Seminar 1
On Human Nature: Evolution of the Human Animal
Alan Grinnell
Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences 19, Seminar 1
Dinner with Doctor X
Richard De La Garza, II
Psychology 19, Seminar 1
Human Aggression: Issues, Causes, Myths, and Management
Seymour Feshbach
Psychology 19, Seminar 2
Speaking, Listening, and Connecting: How Humans Interact
Thomas Bradbury
Psychology 19, Seminar 3
The Psychobiology of Stress Resilience
Thomas Minor
Psychology 19, Seminar 4
Tool Use and Causal Cognition in Animals
Aaron Blaisdell
