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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.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
Creating Art from Real Life
35280D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Michael Bunn	GFS229	Word (23756 KB)
Designing Things for Kids
35281D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:25pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Amy Ogata	VKC256
Mixed Media in Early Modern Europe
35282D	001	Lecture	1:00-1:50pm	MWF	17 of 17	Hector Reyes	LVL3V
The Dream in Poetry
35283D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Carol Muske-Dukes	WPH103	Word (70144 KB)
Surrealism in France, Spain and Mexico
35284D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Marie Enright	VKC254
Art and Nuclear Technology, Destruction, and Contamination
35290D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Rika Hiro	VKC151
Reading Magazines
35292D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 17	Liying Sun	VKC151
Listening and Making: Poetry and Its Forms
35294D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	16 of 18	Molly Bendall	GFS228
Medieval Art and Christian Ritual
35295D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	8 of 17	Carolyn Malone	VKC154
Soundscapes
35296D	001	Lecture	12:00-12:50pm	MWF	16 of 17	Eric Rawson	VKC255
Six Feet Under: Death and Dying in Contemporary American Fiction
35297D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Susan Segal	VKC256
Art and Nuclear Technology, Destruction, and Contamination
35299D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Rika Hiro	VKC260
Looking at Language
35300D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Alice Gambrell	GFS107
The Essay -- Form and Practice
35301D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	13 of 17	David Treuer	KAP159	Word (147811 KB)
Reading Magazines
35302D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Liying Sun	GFS229
Performing Race
35304D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	6 of 17	Dorinne Kondo	KAP113

GESM 111g: 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. Offered by a USC professional school.

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
The Actor at Work
35305D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:50am	Mon, Wed	13 of 17	John De Mita,Christopher Shaw	MCC102	Word (161929 KB)
Performing Revolutions; Global History of Theatre and Social Change
35306D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	13 of 17	Brent Blair	MCC102
Stages of Healing--The World of Theatre and Therapy
35307D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	12 of 17	Brent Blair	MCC102
I Too Am America--Theatre and Cultural Literacy
35308D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	4 of 17	Anita Dashiell-Sparks	MCC102
Shelter
35309D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:20am	Mon, Wed	16 of 17	Lauren Matchison	WAH212
Eco-Theatre--Art, Science, and Bio-Regionalism in Contemporary Plays
35310D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Paula Cizmar	MCC102	PDF (247761 KB)
Making Paintings
35311D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 15	Margaret Lazzari	HAR202
Music as Politics
35312D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Joanna Demers	KDC236
Asian and Asian American Culture on Stage and Film
35313D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Velina Hasu Houston	MCC102	PDF (177408 KB)
Health and Fitness Through Dance
35314D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:40pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Margo Apostolos	KDC241
Photography, Art and Landscape
35315D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 14	Caroline Clerc	WAH6
The Theatre Scene
35316D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Els Collins	MCC102	PDF (746021 KB)
The Holocaust and the Creative Impulse
35317D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Nick Strimple	MUS303
Jazz: America's Music
35318D	001	Lecture	4:00-5:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	John Thomas	TMCG156
Surveillance Culture
35319D	001	Lecture	3:00-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	10 of 14	Julia Paull	HAR211

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
Conquest and Revolution in 20th Century Mexican Literary and Visual Texts
35325D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Liana Stepanyan	GFS229
Democracy, Dissent, and Assimilation
35327D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	15 of 18	James Lewis Heft	VKC255	Word (22600 KB)
Are Corporations People?
35328D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Kenneth Silver	THH117	PDF (133472 KB)
A Sea of History Writing the Caribbean
35329D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	14 of 17	Ronald Mendoza-De Jesus	VPD107	PDF (739356 KB)
Kings and Heroes, Villains and Saints
35330D	001	Lecture	9:00-9:50am	MWF	17 of 18	Hani Khafipour	GFS228
Culture, Conformity, Revolt
35331D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	David Rollo	VKC207
Adolescence in Hispanic Literature and Film
35332D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Leah Kemp	VPD107
Political Philosophy Meets Reality
35334D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Sharon Lloyd	GFS228	Word (35018 KB)
Utopianism and the History of "Progress"
35335D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 18	Nina Eliasoph	VKC256
The Power of Place
35336D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Karen Halttunen	VKC255
What is a Good Life? Foundations of Western Ethics
35339D	001	Lecture	10:00-10:50am	MWF	17 of 18	David Albertson	VKC255
The Ways of Paradox
35341D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	19 of 19	James Van Cleve	VKC255
America and France--Literary and Visual Representations of Turbulent Times
35343D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 17	Panivong Norindr	VKC207
Women in Ancient Literature
35345D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Kristine Garroway	MRF229
Types and Stereotypes in Films of the American Western Genre
35346D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Percival Everett	VKC200
Women and Revolution in the Middle East
35347D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Sarah Gualtieri	GFS229
Eastern European Crime Stories: Legal Fiction Crime to Punishment
35352D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Anna Krakus	WPH205
Masterpieces of the Short Story
35353D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Alexander Zholkovsky	WPH106
Health and the Body Politic in African Literature and Film
35354D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Julie Van Dam	GFS107	PDF (1016729 MB)
On Beauty
35357D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Daniel Tiffany	GFS228
Borderland Encounters--Haitian and Dominican Literature and Culture
35358D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 17	Nathalie Bragadir	VKC200
Literature of Resistance
35359D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Yaffa Weisman	VKC255
The Uncanny in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
35360D	001	Lecture	1:00-1:50pm	MWF	18 of 18	Thea Tomaini	LVL3Y
The Hebrew Bible, New Testament and the Qur'an in Dialogue
35362D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	13 of 18	Reuven Firestone	WPHB26
Unorthodox Jewish Writing in the Americas
35363D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	6 of 17	Erin Graff Zivin	VKC155	PDF (222940 KB)
Representing the Holocaust
35364D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Sharon Gillerman	VKC154
Scandalous Ethics
35365D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Stephen Finlay	VKC252
Traditional Chinese Stories to Awaken the World
35366D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Mengjun Li	SOSB48
Kurosawa's Cosmos:from Noh to Dostoevsky
35367D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Kerim Yasar	WPH203
Faith and Doubt in the Secular Age
35369D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 19	Beatrice Sanford	VKC200
Transforming Italy: Italian Literature Today
35372D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	James Fortney	VKC210	PDF (270929 KB)
The Japanese Warrior in War and Peace
35375D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 18	Dan Sherer	VKC200
Time in Culture and Social Experience
35376D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 18	Emily Zeamer	GFS229
On Beauty
35377D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Daniel Tiffany	GFS228
The Poetics of Loss
35378D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 16	Marci Vogel	VKC255
Italianisms: Introduction to Modern Italy
35380D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Gian-Maria Annovi	GFS228
Sites of Memory in Modern Arabic Letters
35381D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	8 of 17	Veli N Yashin	VKC255
Christianity in the Roman Empire
35382D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	11 of 17	Sheila Briggs	VKC254
Mindfulness in Cultural Practices
35383D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Thomas Ward	GFS229
On Beauty
35384D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Daniel Tiffany	GFS228
The Corporation: An Intellectual History
35385D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Asheesh Siddique	LVL3Y	Word (109798 KB)
Christianity in the Roman Empire
35389D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	11 of 17	Sheila Briggs	VKC254
Girlhood: Twentieth Century Perspectives
35390D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Dana Johnson	THH117
The Autobiographical I(mpulse)
35391D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	David Ulin	VKC108
Reading Black Love
35395D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Lanita Jacobs	KAP167	PDF (597216 KB)

GESM 121g: Seminar in Humanistic Inquiry (4.0 units)

Critical appreciation of various forms of human expression, evaluating works of literature, philosophy, and the arts to enable informed opinions about ideas and values. Offered by a professional school.

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
American Spirituality: Radicals, Rebels and Freethinkers
35400D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Diane Winston	ANN406
Ethics of Science and Technology
35401D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Elisa Warford	GFS228	PDF (619207 KB)
Science, Literature and Ethics
35402D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Amy Schroeder	GFS201

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.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
Solving Social Problems
35428D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Paul Lichterman	VKC254
Language, Race and Identity in the United States Today
35431D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Sarah Benor	VKC254
Climate Change: The Science, the History and Our Future
35433D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Joshua Goldstein, Victoria Petryshyn	VKC255
Communicating the Middle East: Language and Society in the Arab World
35434D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	13 of 18	Afaf Nash	VKC254
Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective
35435D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Erin Moore	GFS229
Turkey--The Failure of a Democracy
35437D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Mehmet Birdal	LVL3V
The United Nations in the World
35440D	001	Lecture	6:30-7:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Douglas Becker	VKC204	Word (50688 KB)

GESM 131g: Seminar in Social Analysis (4.0 units)

The causes and consequences of social phenomena; quantitative and qualitative methods of the social sciences; how people behave and influence the world through cultural forms. Offered by a professional school.

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
African American Child Development in Context
35445D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	14 of 17	Brendesha Tynes	VKC109
Media and Social Change
35446D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Daniela Baroffio	ANNL101
Managing Stress for a Better Life
35447D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Elahe Nezami	WPH104
Introduction to Education: Examining Critical Issues
35448D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	16 of 17	Paula Carbone	LVL3V
Introduction to Education Inquiry through the Study of Inequities in Education
35449D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Briana Hinga	LVL3Y
Diversity in Hollywood: Social Inquiry into Causes, Constraints, and Change-Making Processes
35450D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 19	Stacy Smith	ASC230
Prosperity Across the Lifespan
35451D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Aaron Hagedorn	GER224
Engineering Diplomacy: Fusing Engineering with Foreign Policy and International Development
35452D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Najmedin Meshkati	GFS105
Technology and Society
35453D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	John Slaughter	LVL13

GESM 141g: Seminar in the Life Sciences (4.0 units)

Scientific understanding of living systems from molecules to ecosystems; how data is generated and interpreted; how scientific discovery spurs technological growth and impacts society. Offered by a professional school.

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
Aging and the Human Brain
35465D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Alison Balbag	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.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
Numbers in Language
35481D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Roumyana Pancheva	VKC255
Mathematics for Earthling Ambassadors to Outer Space
35483D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 19	Neelesh Tiruviluamala	VKC206

GESM 161g: Seminar in Quantitative Reasoning (4.0 units)

Logical or statistical inference, probability, or mathematical analysis used as tools to evaluate hypotheses, claims, questions, or problems within a formal mode of thought. Offered by a professional school.

Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Freshmen
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
Mind, Belief and Behavior: Learning about Learning
35485D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Patricia Tobey	LVL3V
Statistics and Quantitative Literacy
35486D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Abbass Sharif	LVL3Y
Statistics and Quantitative Literacy
35487D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Abbass Sharif	LVL3Y
Technologies that Change the World
35490D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Michelle Povinelli	VKC255
Statistical Analysis for Games: Storytelling with Numbers
35491D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Wed, Fri	13 of 17	Dennis Wixon	SCA258

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