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General Education Seminar (GESM)

Instructions on how to obtain department authorization (d-clearance) for GESM courses are available at dornsife.usc.edu/2015ge/gesm-registration/. Course descriptions are available at dornsife.usc.edu/2015ge/course-descriptions/

GESM 110g: Seminar in the Arts (4.0 units)

The multifaceted history of the creative act, its analysis, production, and context as a representation of human experience. (Satisfies GE-A, The Arts) 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
Secrets of the American Short Story
35293D	001	Lecture	6:30-7:50pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 17	Jeffrey Solomon	VKC255	PDF (133371 KB)
The Theatre Scene
35294D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	10 of 17	Carla Della Gatta	MCC102
Stages of Healing: The World of Theatre and Therapy
35296D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Brent Blair	MCC102
I Too Am American: Theatre and Cultural Literacy
35297D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	10 of 17	Anita Dashiell-Sparks	MCC102
Putting Documentary to Work
35298D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Paula Cizmar	MCC102	PDF (182116 KB)
Asian and Asian American Culture on Stage and Film
35299D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Velina Hasu Houston	MCC102	PDF (175658 KB)
Looking at Language
35303D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	14 of 17	Alice Gambrell	VKC255
How to Tell Stories with Pictures
35304D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	18 of 18	Hector Reyes	VPD107
Listening and Making: Poetry and Its Forms
35306D	001	Lecture	12:00-12:50pm	MWF	16 of 17	Molly Bendall	GFS229
Six Feet Under: Death and Dying in Contemporary American Fiction
35309D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Susan Segal	GFS228
The Dream in Poetry
35310D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	8 of 17	Carol Muske-Dukes	THH106	Word (61440 KB)
Authenticity and Popular Music
35312D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 17	Alice Echols	VKC254	Word (54272 KB)
California's Modern Masters of Housing Design
35314D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	8 of 17	Victor Regnier	GFS228
Making Paintings
35315D	001	Lecture	9:00-10:50am	Mon, Wed	12 of 17	Karen Liebowitz	HAR202
Shelter
35316D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:20am	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Lauren Matchison	WAH212	PDF (148353 KB)
Making Moving Images in Art
35317D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Tue, Thu	6 of 17	Jennifer Greisz West	WAH6
The Arts of Globalization
35318D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Joshua Kun	ANN406
Photography, Art, and the Landscape
35319D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	11 of 17	Caroline Clerc	WAH6
On Creativity and Collaboration in Storytelling
35320D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tuesday	16 of 17	Mark Shepherd	SCA258
			2:00-3:20pm	Thursday			SCA258
Holocaust and the Creative Impulse
35321D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 17	Nick Strimple	MUS204
Music and Performance Art
35322D	001	Lecture	4:00-5:50pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 17	Veronika Krausas	MUS204
Music as Material
35323D	001	Lecture	4:00-5:50pm	Mon, Wed	9 of 17	Lisa Vest	MUS319
Jazz: America's Music
35324D	001	Lecture	4:00-5:50pm	Mon, Wed	11 of 17	John Thomas	TMCG156

GESM 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
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

GESM 130g: Seminar in Social Analysis (4.0 units)

Individual and collective human action as it shapes and is shaped by economic organizations, political institutions, and broad social and cultural settings. (Satisfies GE-C, Social Analysis) 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 are available at dornsife.usc.edu/2015ge/gesm-registration/.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
Gaming Chinese Historical Capitalism
35425D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 19	Brett Sheehan	GFS221
Sociology of Youth, Culture and Society
35426D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Elaine Kaplan	THH211
The Art and Science of Decision Making
35427D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Cheryl Wakslak	VPD107
Educational Access and Opportunity: From Cradle to College
35428D	001	Lecture	10:00-10:50am	MWF	15 of 17	Katharine Strunk	LVL3V
Educational Access and Opportunity: From Cradle to College
35429D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	14 of 17	Katharine Strunk	LVL3V
Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective
35432D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 17	Erin Moore	VKC200	Word (107479 KB)
Making Better Worlds: Collective Occupations and Social Transformations
35433D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 17	Gelya Frank	SOSB47	PDF (243925 KB)
The Psychology of Racial Bias
35434D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Stanley Huey	VKC200
Climate Change: The Science, the History and Our Future
35435D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Lisa Collins, Joshua Goldstein	VHE210	PDF (115689 KB)
Gender, Sexual Orientation and Families
35436D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	16 of 17	Tim Biblarz	OFFICE	PDF (231198 KB)
Food, Society and Health
35437D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 17	Beth Pyatak	SOSB37
Solving Social Problems
35439D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	9 of 17	Paul Lichterman	THH213
The Art and Science of Decision Making
35440D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Cheryl Wakslak	VPD107
Managing Stress for a Better Life
35441D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 19	Elahe Nezami	IRC1016
Diversity in Hollywood: Social Inquiry into Causes, Constraints, and Change-Making Processes
35442D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Stacy Smith	ASC331
Technology and Society
35443D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	John Slaughter	VKC255
Clicking, Liking, Sharing -- Debating Social Media and Social Change
35444D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Kjerstin Thorson	ANNL101
Prosperity Across the Lifespan
35445D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Aaron Hagedorn

GESM 140g: Seminar in the Life Sciences (4.0 units)

Scientific understanding of a full range of living systems from molecules to ecosystems, prokaryotes to humans, past and present. (Satisfies GE-D, Life Sciences) 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
Aging and the Human Brain
35455D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	11 of 17	Mara Mather	GER224

GESM 160g: Seminar in Quantitative Reasoning (4.0 units)

Analysis and manipulation of data and information related to quantifiable objects, symbolic elements, or logic; formal reasoning, abstract representation, and empirical analysis. (Satisfies GE-F, Quantitative Reasoning). 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
Population and Social Change
35480D	001	Lecture	9:00-9:50am	MWF	13 of 17	Emily Greenaway	GFS109
Mind, Belief and Behavior: Learning about Learning.
35482D	001	Lecture	2:00-2:50pm	MWF	5 of 17	Patricia Tobey	OFFICE
Adventures in Mathematics
35483D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	3 of 17	Larry Goldstein	VKC157	PDF (19384 KB)
The Perils of Prediction
35484D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	8 of 17	Todd Brun	VKC254	PDF (137314 KB)
Statistics and Quantitative Literacy
35485D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	11 of 17	Abbass Sharif	LVL3V
Statistical Analysis for Games: Storytelling with Numbers
35486D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Mon, Fri	13 of 17	Dennis Wixon	SCAB148	Word (55419 KB)
Checkmate: Using Computers to Win Games of Strategy and Chance
35487D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	11 of 17	Sanjay Madhav	GFS212	PDF (361788 KB)
Statistics and Quantitative Literacy
35488D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 17	Abbass Sharif	LVL3V

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