Category V: Arts and Letters 100g:
Arts and Letters (4.0 units)
Critical analysis of significant works of literature, philosophy, visual arts, music and/or film; intensive reading and writing to develop knowledge of analytical techniques in the humanities. Limited to freshmen and sophomores. (Duplicates credit in ARLT 101.)
- Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen, Sophomore
- General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.
- Note: D-Clearance instructions for ARLT courses are available at dornsife.usc.edu/arlt.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern Russian Art | |||||||||
| 35200D | 001 | Lecture | 8:00-9:20am | Tue, Thu | 30 of 30 | John Bowlt | VKC200 |    | |
| Uncharted | |||||||||
| 35201D | 001 | Lecture | 8:00-9:20am | Tue, Thu | 14 of 28 | Emily Zeamer | WPH103 | | |
| Into the Pacific | |||||||||
| 35202D | 001 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 28 of 29 | Michael Block | VKC200 | | |
| Classics in Modern Philosophy | |||||||||
| 35204D | 001 | Lecture | 9:00-9:50am | MWF | 30 of 31 | Zlatan Damnjanovic | WPH206 | Word (28429 KB) | |
| Chinese Imagination: Culture in Fiction | |||||||||
| 35206D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 28 of 28 | George Hayden | VKC200 | | |
| Los Angeles Stories | |||||||||
| 35207D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 30 of 30 | Christopher Freeman | VKC201 | Word (58368 KB) | |
| Conquest and Revolution in 20th Century Mexican Literary and Visual Texts | |||||||||
| 35208D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 29 of 29 | Liana Stepanyan | VKC211 | | |
| Sex and the Bible | |||||||||
| 35209D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 28 of 30 | Cavan Concannon | VKC258 | PDF (73747 KB) | |
| Masterpieces of the Short Story | |||||||||
| 35211D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 25 of 28 | Alexander Zholkovsky | WPH107 | | |
| Health and the Body Politic in African Literature and Film | |||||||||
| 35212D | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-11:50am | Mon, Wed | 29 of 29 | Julie Nack Ngue | THH215 | | |
| The Story of the Chinese Language | |||||||||
| 35213D | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-11:50am | Mon, Wed | 27 of 28 | Audrey Li | VKC201 | | |
| Problems of Time and Space | |||||||||
| 35214D | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-11:50am | Mon, Wed | 30 of 30 | Kadri Vihvelin | VKC211 | Word (57344 KB) | |
| Democracy, Dissent and Assimilation: Catholics in the U.S. | |||||||||
| 35217D | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-11:50am | Mon, Wed | 26 of 28 | James Heft | VKC200 | | |
| Time and Time Travel | |||||||||
| 35219D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-11:50am | MWF | 30 of 30 | James Van Cleve | WPH103 | | |
| Biography and the Renaissance Artist | |||||||||
| 35220D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 28 of 29 | Eunice Howe | VKC200 | | |
| Pioneers of the Impossible: Poetry and Fiction Through Regions of Unlikeness | |||||||||
| 35221D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 25 of 28 | Mark Irwin | VKC201 | | |
| Korean Literature and Thought | |||||||||
| 35222D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 29 of 30 | Seung-Ah Lee | VKC211 | | |
| Listening and Making: Poetry and Its Forms | |||||||||
| 35223D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 27 of 29 | Molly Bendall | WPH205 | | |
| Love and Death in the Russian Novel | |||||||||
| 35225D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 26 of 28 | Thomas Seifrid | THH112 | | |
| Reading "Black Love" | |||||||||
| 35226D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 31 of 31 | Lanita Jacobs | THH215 | PDF (770987 KB) | |
| Conceptions of Space from Zeno to Einstein | |||||||||
| 35227D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 26 of 29 | Thomas Pashby | VKC154 | PDF (147304 KB) | |
| Six Feet Under: Death and Dying in Contemporary American Fiction | |||||||||
| 35228D | 001 | Lecture | 12:00-1:50pm | Mon, Wed | 28 of 29 | Susan Segal | VKC200 | | |
| The New Vietnam: Arts, Culture and Diaspora | |||||||||
| 35229D | 001 | Lecture | 12:00-1:50pm | Mon, Wed | 23 of 28 | Janet Hoskins | VKC201 | | |
| Language, Law, and Literature | |||||||||
| 35231D | 001 | Lecture | 12:00-1:50pm | Mon, Wed | 30 of 30 | Sandra Disner | VKC155 | PDF (132857 KB) | |
| From Bebop to Doo Wop to Hip Hop: Evolution of an American Musical Literature | |||||||||
| 35232D | 001 | Lecture | 12:00-1:50pm | Mon, Wed | 29 of 30 | Ron Mc Curdy | TMCG156 | | |
| Traces of the Global Sixties | |||||||||
| 35235D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 28 of 30 | Samuel Steinberg | VKC200 | | |
| Sexuality in Premodern Japan | |||||||||
| 35236D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 30 of 30 | Jason Webb | VKC201 | | |
| Language, Race and Identity in the United States Today | |||||||||
| 35237D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 30 of 30 | Sarah Benor | VKC211 | | |
| Short Takes on Fiction | |||||||||
| 35238D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 27 of 28 | Carol Muske-Dukes | THH108 | Word (123969 KB) | |
| Lifecycles and Cyclotrons: Thinking about Time | |||||||||
| 35239D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 21 of 28 | Emily Zeamer | WPH103 | | |
| Literature of Resistance | |||||||||
| 35240D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 31 of 31 | Yaffa Weisman | WPH106 | | |
| Performing Race | |||||||||
| 35241D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 20 of 28 | Dorinne Kondo | WPH205 | | |
| Classics of Greek Philosophy and Literature | |||||||||
| 35242D | 001 | Lecture | 1:00-1:50pm | MWF | 30 of 31 | Kevin Robb | VKC256 | | |
| Just Because It Happened to You Doesn't Make It Interesting: the Art of the Autobiography | |||||||||
| 35243D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 29 of 29 | Marianne Wiggins | VKC200 | | |
| Reading Scripture: The Qur'an, New Testament and Hebrew Bible in Dialogue | |||||||||
| 35244D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 21 of 27 | Reuven Firestone | VKC201 | | |
| The Living Traditions of Hindu Yoga | |||||||||
| 35245D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 30 of 30 | Rita Sherma | VKC211 | | |
| Jews and Muslims | |||||||||
| 35246D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 29 of 29 | Jessica Marglin | VKC210 | | |
| The Secret Life of the American Short Story | |||||||||
| 35247D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 29 of 30 | Jeffrey Solomon | MRF229 | PDF (150115 KB) | |
| Happiness and the Human Condition | |||||||||
| 35248D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 30 of 30 | Susan Lape | WPH103 | | |
| Fictions of the Floating World | |||||||||
| 35249D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 27 of 29 | Satoko Shimazaki | VKC154 | | |
| Looking at Language | |||||||||
| 35250D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 26 of 29 | Alice Gambrell | WPH106 | | |
| The Power of Stories: Tribal Identity in Contemporary America | |||||||||
| 35251D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-2:50pm | MWF | 23 of 25 | Antonio Idini | VKC207 | Word (82944 KB) | |
| Scripture and Script: the Bible in Contemporary Literature and Film | |||||||||
| 35252D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 26 of 29 | Leah Hochman | VKC200 | | |
| On Beauty | |||||||||
| 35253D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 29 of 29 | Daniel Tiffany | VKC201 | | |
| Kings and Heroes, Villains and Saints in Medieval Persian Literature | |||||||||
| 35254D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 30 of 30 | Hani Khafipour | VKC211 | | |
| Trips: Movement and the Making of Subjectivity | |||||||||
| 35255D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 25 of 28 | Alison Annunziata | WPH106 | Word (65024 KB) | |
| Monsters in Literature, Films and other Works of Art | |||||||||
| 35256D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 30 of 30 | Ellen Oliveira | WPH102 | | |
| Literature and Empire | |||||||||
| 35257D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 28 of 29 | Indra Mukhopadhyay | VKC210 | | |
| Lifecycles and Cyclotrons: Thinking about Time | |||||||||
| 35258D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 14 of 28 | Emily Zeamer | WPH103 | | |
| Holocaust and the Creative Impulse | |||||||||
| 35259D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:50pm | Tue, Thu | 28 of 28 | Nick Strimple | MUS204 | | |
| Christianity in the Roman Empire | |||||||||
| 35260D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 24 of 29 | Sheila Briggs | VKC200 | | |
| Utopian Thought: Ancient and Modern | |||||||||
| 35261D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 20 of 28 | Lucas Herchenroeder | VKC201 | | |
| Conceptions of God and Self | |||||||||
| 35262D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 30 of 30 | John Dreher | VKC211 | Word (73728 KB) | |
| Writing Wars in the Twentieth Century | |||||||||
| 35265D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Tue, Thu | 26 of 28 | Heather Daly | VKC210 | Word (30703 KB) | |
| Sexuality in Premodern Japan | |||||||||
| 35266D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Tue, Thu | 29 of 30 | Jason Webb | VKC211 | | |
| Humans and Animals in Classical Literature and Beyond | |||||||||
| 35268D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Mon, Wed | 19 of 20 | Lucas Herchenroeder | VKC200 | | |
| Girlhood: Twentieth-Century Perspectives | |||||||||
| 35270D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Tue, Thu | 26 of 28 | Dana Johnson | VKC200 | | |
| Women Writing Diaspora in the Middle East and North Africa | |||||||||
| 35271D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Tue, Thu | 20 of 28 | Karina Eileraas | VKC211 | | |