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.
SectionSessionTypeTimeDaysRegisteredInstructorLocationSyllabusInfo
Modern Russian Art
35200D001Lecture8:00-9:20amTue, Thu
30 of 30
John BowltVKC200notesession datesbook list
Uncharted
35201D001Lecture8:00-9:20amTue, Thu14 of 28Emily ZeamerWPH103session datesbook list
Into the Pacific
35202D001Lecture8:30-9:50amMon, Wed28 of 29Michael BlockVKC200session datesbook list
Classics in Modern Philosophy
35204D001Lecture9:00-9:50amMWF30 of 31Zlatan DamnjanovicWPH206Word (28429 KB)session datesbook list
Chinese Imagination: Culture in Fiction
35206D001Lecture9:30-10:50amTue, Thu
28 of 28
George HaydenVKC200session datesbook list
Los Angeles Stories
35207D001Lecture9:30-10:50amTue, Thu
30 of 30
Christopher FreemanVKC201Word (58368 KB)session datesbook list
Conquest and Revolution in 20th Century Mexican Literary and Visual Texts
35208D001Lecture9:30-10:50amTue, Thu
29 of 29
Liana StepanyanVKC211session datesbook list
Sex and the Bible
35209D001Lecture9:30-10:50amTue, Thu28 of 30Cavan ConcannonVKC258PDF (73747 KB)session dates
Masterpieces of the Short Story
35211D001Lecture9:30-10:50amTue, Thu25 of 28Alexander ZholkovskyWPH107session dates
Health and the Body Politic in African Literature and Film
35212D001Lecture10:00-11:50amMon, Wed
29 of 29
Julie Nack NgueTHH215session dates
The Story of the Chinese Language
35213D001Lecture10:00-11:50amMon, Wed27 of 28Audrey LiVKC201session datesbook list
Problems of Time and Space
35214D001Lecture10:00-11:50amMon, Wed
30 of 30
Kadri VihvelinVKC211Word (57344 KB)session datesbook list
Democracy, Dissent and Assimilation: Catholics in the U.S.
35217D001Lecture10:00-11:50amMon, Wed26 of 28James HeftVKC200session datesbook list
Time and Time Travel
35219D001Lecture11:00-11:50amMWF
30 of 30
James Van CleveWPH103session datesbook list
Biography and the Renaissance Artist
35220D001Lecture11:00-12:20pmTue, Thu28 of 29Eunice HoweVKC200session datesbook list
Pioneers of the Impossible: Poetry and Fiction Through Regions of Unlikeness
35221D001Lecture11:00-12:20pmTue, Thu25 of 28Mark IrwinVKC201session datesbook list
Korean Literature and Thought
35222D001Lecture11:00-12:20pmTue, Thu29 of 30Seung-Ah LeeVKC211session datesbook list
Listening and Making: Poetry and Its Forms
35223D001Lecture11:00-12:20pmTue, Thu27 of 29Molly BendallWPH205session datesbook list
Love and Death in the Russian Novel
35225D001Lecture11:00-12:20pmTue, Thu26 of 28Thomas SeifridTHH112session datesbook list
Reading "Black Love"
35226D001Lecture11:00-12:20pmTue, Thu
31 of 31
Lanita JacobsTHH215PDF (770987 KB)session datesbook list
Conceptions of Space from Zeno to Einstein
35227D001Lecture11:00-12:20pmTue, Thu26 of 29Thomas PashbyVKC154PDF (147304 KB)session datesbook list
Six Feet Under: Death and Dying in Contemporary American Fiction
35228D001Lecture12:00-1:50pmMon, Wed28 of 29Susan SegalVKC200session datesbook list
The New Vietnam: Arts, Culture and Diaspora
35229D001Lecture12:00-1:50pmMon, Wed23 of 28Janet HoskinsVKC201session datesbook list
Language, Law, and Literature
35231D001Lecture12:00-1:50pmMon, Wed
30 of 30
Sandra DisnerVKC155PDF (132857 KB)session datesbook list
From Bebop to Doo Wop to Hip Hop: Evolution of an American Musical Literature
35232D001Lecture12:00-1:50pmMon, Wed29 of 30Ron Mc CurdyTMCG156session datesbook list
Traces of the Global Sixties
35235D001Lecture12:30-1:50pmTue, Thu28 of 30Samuel SteinbergVKC200session datesbook list
Sexuality in Premodern Japan
35236D001Lecture12:30-1:50pmTue, Thu
30 of 30
Jason WebbVKC201session datesbook list
Language, Race and Identity in the United States Today
35237D001Lecture12:30-1:50pmTue, Thu
30 of 30
Sarah BenorVKC211session datesbook list
Short Takes on Fiction
35238D001Lecture12:30-1:50pmTue, Thu27 of 28Carol Muske-DukesTHH108Word (123969 KB)session datesbook list
Lifecycles and Cyclotrons: Thinking about Time
35239D001Lecture12:30-1:50pmTue, Thu21 of 28Emily ZeamerWPH103session datesbook list
Literature of Resistance
35240D001Lecture12:30-1:50pmTue, Thu
31 of 31
Yaffa WeismanWPH106session datesbook list
Performing Race
35241D001Lecture12:30-1:50pmTue, Thu20 of 28Dorinne KondoWPH205session datesbook list
Classics of Greek Philosophy and Literature
35242D001Lecture1:00-1:50pmMWF30 of 31Kevin RobbVKC256session datesbook list
Just Because It Happened to You Doesn't Make It Interesting: the Art of the Autobiography
35243D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmMon, Wed
29 of 29
Marianne WigginsVKC200session dates
Reading Scripture: The Qur'an, New Testament and Hebrew Bible in Dialogue
35244D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmMon, Wed21 of 27Reuven FirestoneVKC201session datesbook list
The Living Traditions of Hindu Yoga
35245D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmMon, Wed
30 of 30
Rita ShermaVKC211session dates
Jews and Muslims
35246D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmMon, Wed
29 of 29
Jessica MarglinVKC210session dates
The Secret Life of the American Short Story
35247D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmMon, Wed29 of 30Jeffrey SolomonMRF229PDF (150115 KB)session datesbook list
Happiness and the Human Condition
35248D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmMon, Wed
30 of 30
Susan LapeWPH103session datesbook list
Fictions of the Floating World
35249D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmMon, Wed27 of 29Satoko ShimazakiVKC154session datesbook list
Looking at Language
35250D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmMon, Wed26 of 29Alice GambrellWPH106session datesbook list
The Power of Stories: Tribal Identity in Contemporary America
35251D001Lecture2:00-2:50pmMWF23 of 25Antonio IdiniVKC207Word (82944 KB)session dates
Scripture and Script: the Bible in Contemporary Literature and Film
35252D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmTue, Thu26 of 29Leah HochmanVKC200session datesbook list
On Beauty
35253D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmTue, Thu
29 of 29
Daniel TiffanyVKC201session datesbook list
Kings and Heroes, Villains and Saints in Medieval Persian Literature
35254D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmTue, Thu
30 of 30
Hani KhafipourVKC211session datesbook list
Trips: Movement and the Making of Subjectivity
35255D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmTue, Thu25 of 28Alison AnnunziataWPH106Word (65024 KB)session datesbook list
Monsters in Literature, Films and other Works of Art
35256D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmTue, Thu
30 of 30
Ellen OliveiraWPH102session dates
Literature and Empire
35257D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmTue, Thu28 of 29Indra MukhopadhyayVKC210session datesbook list
Lifecycles and Cyclotrons: Thinking about Time
35258D001Lecture2:00-3:20pmTue, Thu14 of 28Emily ZeamerWPH103session datesbook list
Holocaust and the Creative Impulse
35259D001Lecture2:00-3:50pmTue, Thu
28 of 28
Nick StrimpleMUS204session datesbook list
Christianity in the Roman Empire
35260D001Lecture3:30-4:50pmMon, Wed24 of 29Sheila BriggsVKC200session datesbook list
Utopian Thought: Ancient and Modern
35261D001Lecture3:30-4:50pmMon, Wed20 of 28Lucas HerchenroederVKC201session datesbook list
Conceptions of God and Self
35262D001Lecture3:30-4:50pmMon, Wed
30 of 30
John DreherVKC211Word (73728 KB)session datesbook list
Writing Wars in the Twentieth Century
35265D001Lecture3:30-4:50pmTue, Thu26 of 28Heather DalyVKC210Word (30703 KB)session dates
Sexuality in Premodern Japan
35266D001Lecture3:30-4:50pmTue, Thu29 of 30Jason WebbVKC211session datesbook list
Humans and Animals in Classical Literature and Beyond
35268D001Lecture5:00-6:20pmMon, Wed19 of 20Lucas HerchenroederVKC200session datesbook list
Girlhood: Twentieth-Century Perspectives
35270D001Lecture5:00-6:20pmTue, Thu26 of 28Dana JohnsonVKC200session datesbook list
Women Writing Diaspora in the Middle East and North Africa
35271D001Lecture5:00-6:20pmTue, Thu20 of 28Karina EileraasVKC211session datesbook list
Information accurate as of 9/24/2014 10:03 AM.