General Education Seminar 120g:
Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry (4.0 units)
Interpretation and analysis of works of the imagination, exploring language, thought, and cultural traditions in relation to one another. (Satisfies GE-B, Humanistic Inquiry) Open only to Freshmen.
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen
- General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.
- Note: Instructions on how to obtain department authorization (d-clearance) for GESM courses are available at dornsife.usc.edu/2015ge/gesm-registration/.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conceptions of God and Self: 17th and 18th Centuries | |||||||||
| 35325D | 001 | Lecture | 8:00-9:20am | Mon, Wed | 17 of 17 | John Dreher | VKC210 | Word (77312 KB) |    |
| Contemporary Korean Film and Culture | |||||||||
| 35326D | 001 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 15 of 17 | Youngmin Choe | VKC201 | | |
| Free Will and Determinism | |||||||||
| 35327D | 001 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 18 of 18 | Kadri Vihvelin | GFS212 | | |
| Democracy, Dissent and Assimilation: 19th and 20th Century Catholic Immigrants in the U.S. | |||||||||
| 35328D | 001 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 5 of 17 | James Heft | VKC255 | | |
| Utopianism and the History of Progress | |||||||||
| 35330D | 001 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 17 of 17 | Nina Eliasoph | GFS228 | | |
| Language, Rationality and Culture | |||||||||
| 35331D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 15 of 17 | Robin Jeshion | GFS228 | | |
| Reading Scripture: The Hebrew Bible, New Testament and Qur'an in Dialogue | |||||||||
| 35333D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 10 of 17 | Reuven Firestone | VKC254 | | |
| Thinking About Time | |||||||||
| 35334D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 11 of 17 | Emily Zeamer | GFS229 | | |
| The Familiar Stranger: Cuban Culture in the American Imaginary | |||||||||
| 35335D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 10 of 17 | Ivette Gomez | SOSB37 | | |
| Masterpieces of the Short Story | |||||||||
| 35336D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 16 of 17 | Alexander Zholkovsky | VKC255 | | |
| The Power of Place | |||||||||
| 35342D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 15 of 17 | Karen Halttunen | VKC200 | | |
| The Uncanny in Medieval and Renaissance Europe | |||||||||
| 35343D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 14 of 17 | Thea Tomaini | MRF229 | | |
| Biblical Protagonists | |||||||||
| 35344D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 15 of 17 | Kristine Garroway | VKC158 | | |
| Types and Stereotypes in Films of the American Western Genre | |||||||||
| 35345D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 18 | Percival Everett | SOSB41 | | |
| The Russian Novel | |||||||||
| 35346D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 7 of 17 | Greta Matzner-Gore | SOSB47 | | |
| Renaissance Italy | |||||||||
| 35347D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 13 of 17 | Margaret Rosenthal | GFS229 | | |
| Masterpieces of the Short Story | |||||||||
| 35348D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 15 of 17 | Alexander Zholkovsky | VKC255 | | |
| God on Trial: The Problem of Evil | |||||||||
| 35349D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Candice Levy | LVL3V | | |
| Thinking About Time | |||||||||
| 35350D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 12 of 17 | Emily Zeamer | GFS221 | | |
| Culture, Conformity, Revolt | |||||||||
| 35351D | 001 | Lecture | 12:00-12:50pm | MWF | 17 of 17 | David Rollo | VKC255 | | |
| Literature of Resistance | |||||||||
| 35352D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 14 of 17 | Yaffa Weisman | VKC254 | | |
| On Beauty | |||||||||
| 35353D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 17 | Daniel Tiffany | GFS229 | | |
| Representing the Global War on Terror | |||||||||
| 35354D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 18 | Alexander Young | VPD107 | | |
| Health and the Body Politic in African Literature | |||||||||
| 35355D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 6 of 17 | Julie Nack Ngue | VKC255 | | |
| Jews and Muslims | |||||||||
| 35356D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Jessica Marglin | VKC155 | | |
| The New Frankenstein?: Technology Meets Humanity | |||||||||
| 35357D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 19 | Karina Eileraas | VKC157 | | |
| The World of Genji: The Tale of Genji in Historical Perspective | |||||||||
| 35358D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 2 of 17 | Joan Piggott | SOSB37 | | |
| Homer, Virgil, Dante | |||||||||
| 35359D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 11 of 17 | William Thalmann | VKC109 | | |
| Classics in Greek Literature and Philosophy | |||||||||
| 35360D | 001 | Lecture | 1:00-1:50pm | MWF | 15 of 17 | Kevin Robb | VKC254 | | |
| Sex and Sexes: Spanish Literature, Culture and Film | |||||||||
| 35361D | 001 | Lecture | 1:00-1:50pm | MWF | 11 of 17 | Jaclyn Cohen-Steinberg | LVL3V | | |
| Mediterranean Noir | |||||||||
| 35362D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 15 of 17 | Edwin Hill | VKC255 | | |
| Daughters of Africa: Black Women in U.S. History | |||||||||
| 35363D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 6 of 17 | Francille Wilson | SGM226 | | |
| Part of a Larger Story: American Jewish Expereince in Literature | |||||||||
| 35364D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 7 of 15 | Bruce Phillips | VKC207 | | |
| Faith and Doubt in the Secular Age | |||||||||
| 35365D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 12 of 17 | Beatrice Sanford | LVL3V | PDF (370484 KB) | |
| Gore and Spectacle on Stage and Screen | |||||||||
| 35368D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 16 of 17 | Natalia Perez | SOSB41 | | |
| Blackness and American Cinema | |||||||||
| 35369D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:50pm | Mon, Wed | 14 of 17 | Kara Keeling | GFS205 | | |
| Conquest and Revolution in 20th Century Mexican Literary and Visual Texts | |||||||||
| 35372D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 6 of 17 | Liana Stepanyan | VKC254 | | |
| Scandalous Ethics | |||||||||
| 35373D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Stephen Finlay | WPH206 | | |
| On Beauty | |||||||||
| 35374D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 17 | Daniel Tiffany | GFS229 | | |
| Human Reason: Its Scope and Limits | |||||||||
| 35375D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Janet Levin | GFS228 | | |
| Los Angeles Stories | |||||||||
| 35376D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Christopher Freeman | VKC205 | Word (51700 KB) | |
| Misfits and Mysteries: The Grotesque in Recent American Literature | |||||||||
| 35377D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 11 of 17 | Anna Journey | THH215 | | |
| Women and Revolution in the Middle East | |||||||||
| 35378D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Sarah Gualtieri | VKC203 | | |
| Vampires and Monsters in World Literature, Film and Art | |||||||||
| 35379D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Ellen Oliveira | SOSB37 | | |
| Mindfulness in Cultural Practices | |||||||||
| 35382D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 17 of 17 | Thomas Ward | GFS229 | | |
| Kings and Heroes, Villans and Saints | |||||||||
| 35384D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Hani Khafipour | VKC255 | | |
| On Beauty | |||||||||
| 35385D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Tue, Thu | 15 of 17 | Daniel Tiffany | GFS229 | | |
| Language, Law and Literature | |||||||||
| 35386D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Sandra Disner | GFS228 | | |
| Problems of Life and Death | |||||||||
| 35388D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Mon, Wed | 13 of 17 | Jonathan Quong | VKC254 | PDF (149043 KB) | |
| Subcultures and the American Experience | |||||||||
| 35389D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Mon, Wed | 15 of 17 | Eric Rawson | VKC255 | | |
| Girls Gone Wild: a Century of Bad Behavior | |||||||||
| 35390D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Tue, Thu | 15 of 17 | Jeffrey Solomon | VKC255 | PDF (127211 KB) | |
| Japanese Fiction and Film | |||||||||
| 35392D | 001 | Lecture | 6:30-7:50pm | Mon, Wed | 16 of 17 | David Bialock | GFS228 | | |