Winter 2009

Arts & Humanities

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

Comparative Literature 19, Seminar 2
Poets and Desire
Ross Shideler

English 19, Seminar 1
Cartoons, Folklore, and Myth
Joseph Nagy

English 19, Seminar 2
Origins of Identity: History and Memory in Women's Poetry
Karen Rowe

Ethnomusicology 19, Seminar 1
Music Theory through the Recorder
Roger Savage

Film and Television 19, Seminar 1
The Art of Cinematography
William McDonald

French 19, Seminar 1
How Tasty is My Little Frenchman
Jean-Claude Carron

German 19, Seminar 1
The "War to End All Wars" and the "Greatest War Novel(anti-war) of All Time
Wolfgang Nehring

Music History 19, Seminar 1
Rock Lyrics
Thomas Harrison

Study of Religion 19, Seminar 1
Are You Saved?: Paradigms of Salvation in Judeo-Christian Tradition
Ronald Vroon

Theater 19, Seminar 1
Greek Tragedy: The Plays of Sophocles
Anna Krajewska-Wieczorek

World Arts & Culture 19, Seminar 1
Global Summit: Inspiring Activism through the Life and Work of Dr. Paul Farmer
David Gere and Bridget Le Loup

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Culture & Society

Anthropology 19, Seminar 1
Language Myths: Beliefs about Language that are Harmfully Wrong
Paul Kroskrity

Economics 19, Seminar 1
Winner's Curse in Common Value Auctions
Hugo Hopenhayn

Economics 19, Seminar 4
Bargaining, Haggling, and Fairness Across Cultures
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn

Education 19, Seminar 1
Gender Gap in College: How and Why Does College Differ for the Two Sexes?
Linda Sax

European Studies 19, Seminar 1
The History and Political Economy of the European Union: Will It Elevate as a Federal State or Disintegrate?
Ivan Berend

Geography 19, Seminar 1
American Rivers: History of Environmental Change
Stanley Trimble

History 19, Seminar 1
How We Remember the Bomb
Ludwig Lauerhass

History 19, Seminar 2
End of Empire and TV drama: Dennis Potter's "Lipstick on Your Collar"
Gabriel Piterburg

History 19, Seminar 3
Abraham Lincoln Turns 200
Joan Waugh

History 19, Seminar 4
Monkey Trials: Public Confrontations of Science and Religion
Theodore Porter

History 19, Seminar 5
Honor and Shame in Clash in Civilizations and Religions
Scott Bartchy

History 19, Seminar 6
Animals and Culture
Lauren Derby

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 1
Civic Engagement in Los Angeles
Laura C. Romero

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 2
Navigating to Success – What the Literature Tells Re-entry Students
Betty Glick, Tina Oakland and Christina Miller

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 4
Perceptions of Americans Abroad: Discussions with Visiting Fulbright Scholars
Ann Kerr

Human Complex Systems 19, Seminar 1
Understanding and Managing Complex Natural and Social Systems
William McKelvey

Information Studies 19, Seminar 1
Be the Media: Indymedia, Blogs, and "Open Source" Journalism
Leah Lievrouw

Information Studies 19, Seminar 2
Asians in Latin America: Constructing and Representing Community and Identity
Clara Chu

Law 19, Seminar 1
Ending Welfare As We Know It
Joel Handler

Management 19, Seminar 1
An Introduction to Human Resource Management
Samuel Culbert, Christopher Erickson, Andrew Goldstein, William Ouchi, and Diana Shih

Spanish 19, Seminar 1
Los Angeles: Ethnicity, Architecture, and Culture
Teofilo Ruiz

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Science & Technology

Astronomy 19, Seminar 1
Invisible Universal Life in Solar System: from Alpha to Omega
David Cline

Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences 19, Seminar 1
Space Weather: Impacts of Solar Activity on Earth
Richard Thorne

Community Health Sciences 19, Seminars 1 & 2
Cosmo Says You're Fat? I Ain't Down with That: Nutrition & Body Image LifeSkills
Jill DeJager & Rena Orenstein

Dentistry 19, Seminar 1
Current Issues in Evidence-Based Research in Dentistry
Francesco Chiappelli

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 19, Seminar 1
Evolutionary Medicine: How Natural Selection Helps Us Understand Why We Get Sick
Peter Nonacs

Honors Collegium 19, Seminar 5
Rise and Fall of a Blockbuster Drug
Michael Gresser

Management 19, Seminar 2
Technology in Time of Obama
Martin Greenberger

Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology 19, Seminar 1
Read Science Times on Tuesday, Discuss over Coffee on Wednesday
John Merriam

Neurobiology 19, Seminar 1
Links between the Nervous and Immune Systems
Edwin L. Cooper

Nursing 19, Seminar 1
Who Wants to Live to 100? Aging in the 21st Century
Janet Mentes

Nursing 19, Seminar 2
Elders on YouTube
Diana Lynn Woods

Physiological Science 19, Seminar 1
On Human Nature: Evolution of the Human Animal
Alan Grinnell

Psychology 19, Seminar 1
See the Colors: Glimpses of What We See and How We See Them
James Thomas

Psychology 19, Seminar 2
Human Aggression: Issues, Causes, Myths, and Management
Seymour Feshbach

Psychology 19, Seminar 3
Sex and Gender: Current Controversies
Letitia Anne Peplau

Psychology 19, Seminar 4
The Diversity Challenge: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflicts
Yuen Huo

Psychology 19, Seminar 5
Tool Use and Causal Cognition in Animals
Aaron Blaisdell

Psychology 19, Seminar 6
Psychobiology of Stress Resistance
Thomas Minor

Society and Genetics 19, Seminar 1
Forensic DNA Searching: Guilt by Association
Linda McCabe and Edward McCabe

Society and Genetics 19, Seminar 2
Food and Science
Hannah Landecker

Statistics 19, Seminar 1
Hold'em or Fold'em: Poker and Probability
Frederic Paik Schoenberg

Statistics 19, Seminar 2
Statistics and Portfolio Risk Management with Stock Market Applications
Nicolas Christou

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