Art History

• AHIS 121gp: Foundations of Western Art: Renaissance to Contemporary

Instructor: Amy Ogata

Description: European art its legacy in the Americas. Painting, sculpture, architecture and other visual media considered in relation to social and cultural history.

• AHIS 361: British Modernism, 1780-1918

Instructor: Samantha Burton

Description: A survey of art and architecture in Britain from the age of Hogart to Art Nouveau. Among the artists studied are Constable, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites.

• AHIS 368: Modern Art I: 1700-1850

Instructor: Hector Reyes

Description: A culture and historical examination of European art and architecture from 1700 (Rococo) to 1850 (Realism), focusing on the beginnings of modernsim in the age of revolution.

Classics

• CLAS 101gp: State and Society in the Ancient World

Instructor: Christelle Fischer-Bovet

Description: Achievement of the near East, Greece, and Rome with emphasis on the development of ideas, arts, and institutions which have influenced modern man.

• CLAS 151gp: The Legacy of Rome

Instructor: Frederic Clark

Description: Ancient Roman values, ideas, and institutions of relevance to later periods of civilization.

• CLAS 310: Pagans and Christians

Instructor: Frederic Clark

Description: The Christian reception and transformation of pagan religious and philosophical thought.

• CLAS 328: Archaelogy of Religion in the Greco-Roman World

Instructor: Carolyn Laferriere

Description: Examination of ancient objects, images and archaerlogical sites as evidence for religious practice and ideas about the sacred in the Greco Roman world. Recommended preparation: AHIS 201g.

• CLAS 349gp: Ancient Empires

Instructor: Brandon Bourgeois

Description: History and cultures of the ancient empires of southwest Asia, from Cyrus the Great to the establishment of Islam.

Comparative Literature

• COLT 312: Heroes, Myths, and Legends in Literature and the Arts

Instructor: Nike Nivar Ortiz

Description: Study of transformations of characters and themes from myth, legend or fairytale (Oedipus, Antigone, Faust, Don Juan, Cinderella, Comic and Tragic Twins, Hero and Monster).

English

• ENGL 174g: Reading the Heart: Emotional Intelligence and the Humanities

Instructor: Thomas Gustafson

Description: A study of emotional intelligence through literature, history and the hearts with a focus on anger, happiness, love and empathy.

• ENGL 299g: Introduction to the Genre of Poetry

Instructor: Christopher Freeman

Description: Historical survey of the traditions of lyric poetry from Shakespeare to the contemporary, examining the genre's multiple forms of literary, visual, and aural expression.

• ENGL 304: Introduction to Poetry Writing

Instructor: Molly Bendall, Mark Irwin

Description: Introduction to the techniques and practice of writing poetry.

• ENGL 420: English Literature of the Middle Ages

Instructor: David Rollo

Description: Selected studies in the major figures, genres, and thems of Middle English literature to Malory, with special emphasis on Chaucer.

• ENGL 422: English Literature of the 17th Century

Instructor: Thea Tomaini

Description: Selected studies of prose and poetry in the ages of Bacon, Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Browne, Marvell, and Milton.

• ENGL 424: English Literature of the Romantic Age (1800-1832)

Instructor: Margaret Russett

Description: Selected studies of major writers, including Blake, Austen, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Mary Shelley, P.B. Shelley, and Keats.

• ENGL 426: Modern English Literature (1890-1945)

Instructor: Susan Mccabe

Description: Studies in English literary modernism, including the prose of Conrad, Joyce, and Woolf, and the poetry of Pound, Eliot, Yeats, and Auden.

• ENGL 442: American Literature, 1920 to the Present

Instructor: David Roman

Description: American poetry, fiction, and drama since World War I with special attention to Eliot, Frost, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, O'Neil, Stevens, Faulkner, and Nabokov.

• ENGL 447m: African-American Narrative

Instructor: Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus

Description: Development of the novel in African-American literature beginning with the anti-slavery fiction of William W. Brown and his pre-Emancipation contemporaries and concluding with the emerging novelists of the late Sixties.

• ENGL 448m: Chicano and Literature

Instructor: Elda Maria Roman

Description: Development of the poetry, essay, short story, and novel of the Chicano and Latino peoples of the United States, with particular emphasis on the differentiating characteristics between the multiple cultures that constitute the Latino populations.

• ENGL 449m: Asian American Literature

Instructor: Dorinne Kondo

Description: Survey of Asian American literature from the earliest time to the present; development of prose, poetry, and novel.

History

• HIST 307: The High Middle Ages: 1100-1400

Instructor: Jay Rubenstein

Description: Europe 1100-1400. Knights, castles, chivalry, the early university, monks, popes and the Gothic cathedral. Miraclesm plague and war.

• HIST 386: American Legal History

Instructor: Elizabeth Logan

Description: An introduction to the study of law from a historical persepctive; explores the interaction of law, culture and politics from the Revolution through the New Deal.

• HIST 411: Early Modern European Cultural History

Instructor: Anne Goldgar

Description: Examines themes in European and English cultural history 1500-1800, including identity, power, group dynamics, display, space, communication, control.

• HIST 431: Histories of the Apocalypse

Instructor: Aro Velmet

Description: A historical overview of apocalyptic hopes and fears, from Revelations to the present. New World exploration, utopian communes, nuclear war, zombies, climate change.

International Relations

• IR 150xg: Environmental Issues in Society

Instructor: Robert English

Description: Exploration of the major social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical disagreements that exist between scholars, leaders, and citizens concerning today's most serious environmental issues and problems. Not available for credit to environmental studies majors and minors.

• IR 310: Peace and Conflict Studies

Instructor: Douglas Becker

Description: Interdisciplinary study of the pursuit of peace, including causes of war, arms races, conflict resolution, peace movements, nonviolent resistance, and peace with justice.

• IR 319: Human Security and Humanitarian Intervention

Instructor: Stephanie Schwartz

Description: Explore causes of human security threats, challenges to state sovereignty, and actions to address failed states, conflicts and protect people through humanitarian intervention.

Judaic Studies

• JS 100gp: Introduction to Judaism

Instructor: Joshua Garroway, Leah Hochman

Description: Major ideas, personalities, and movements in Jewish history from antiquity to the present in light of interaction of the Jews with the general culture.

• JS 211gw: The Holocaust

Instructor: Benjamin Ratskoff, Leah Hochman

Description: Historical background and responses to the Holocaust, with special emphasis on ethical implications.

• JS 314gp: Holy War And History: Jews, Christians, Muslims

Instructor: Reveun Firestone, Leah Hochman

Description: Investigates the engagement in war by Judaism, Christianity and Islam by examining history and theology and looks at religious justifications and condemnations of war.

• JS 342: Reading in Two Directions: Connecting Law and Literature in Jewish Tradition

Instructor: Joshua Garroway, Leah Hochman

Description: Investigates understandings of law, legal interpretation and the integration of law and narrative in Jewish texts by exploring how to examine legal and literary texts.

Philosophy

• PHIL 100g: Central Problems of Philosophy

Instructor: Josh Hawthorne

Description: Explores questions about human beings and their place in nature, including questions about knowledge, mind and body, freedom and determinism, and the existence of God.

• PHIL 174gw: Freedom, Equality, and Social Justice

Instructor: Jonathan Quong

Description: Explores the nature of justice, and how apparently conflicting ideals, such as freedom and equality, are able to be balanced within a just society.

• PHIL 178gw: Moral Dilemmas in the Legal Domain

Instructor: John Hawthorne

Description: Philosophical theories of law and applications to controversies of importance to society and our legal system, such as free speech, civil disobedience, and selfdefense.

• PHIL 256g: Science, Religion, and the Making of the Modern Mind

Instructor: Zlatan Damnjanovic

Description: Exploration of the philosophical and religious implications of major scientific revolutions, such as those of Copernicus, Galileo, and Darwin.

• PHIL 284gp: Ideas on Trial

Instructor: Edwin McCann

Description: The trials of Socrates, Joan of Arc, the Salem witches, Galileo, Scopes and Nuremberg and Eichman trials; their social and cultural consequences.

• PHIL 315: History of Western Philosophy: Ancient Period

Instructor: Kevin Robb

Description: Major figures in the history of Western philosophical thought from the presocratics to the Hellenistic period; emphasis on Plato and Aristotle .

Religion

• REL 141g: Global Religions in Los Angeles

Instructor: Varun Soni

Description: Congregational and individual expressions of religion in Los Angeles.

• REL 146gp: Spirituality in America

Instructor: Arjun Nair

Description: Examination of the historical continuities and disjunctions between "spiritual but not religious" Americans; the relationship between spirituality, politics and social change, and the role of media.

• REL 324g: Sex and the Bible: Gender, Sexuality, and Scripture

Instructor: Cavan Concannon

Description: Role the Bible has played in debates about sex, gender, and sexuality in Western history.

• REL 325g: Religious Experiences in the Greco-Roman World

Instructor: Sheila Briggs

Description: Varieties of religious experience as reflected in the literature, art, and cultic practices of the Hellenistic world.

• REL 334g: Religion and Colonial Encounter

Instructor: Kelsey Moss

Description: Survey of religious responses to colonial encounter in the Americas. Emphasis given to a study of religious innovations of Amerindians, Africans and Europeans.

• REL 361: Law and Religion

Instructor: Jessica Marglin

Description: Explores the intersection between law and religion including ways in which religious traditions conceive of, create, order, and contest law.

• REL 469: Black Religion in America

Instructor: Kelsey Moss

Description: Historical, sociological, and theological analysis of the nature and role of black religion in the American setting.

Slavic Languages and Literature

• SLL 344g: Tolstoy: Writer and Moralist

Instructor: TBA

Description: Tolstoy's major works in the context of his ethical views. Readings and lectures in English.

Thematic Option

• Core 200: Liberal Arts Reading Salon

Instructor: Trisha Tucker, Richard Edinger

Description: Critical readings of a series of texts in the liberal arts designed to promote discussion of important themes, theoretical approaches, research directions, and interdisciplinary connections. Graded CR,NC.