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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
Reality, Realism, Representation
35270D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Samantha Burton	VKC158	PDF (474673 KB)
Listening and Making: Poetry and Its Forms
35274D	001	Lecture	1:00-1:50pm	MWF	18 of 18	Molly Bendall	GFS202
Looking at Language
35277D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 19	Alice Gambrell	VKC252
The Dream in Poetry
35278D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Carol Muske-Dukes	MHP102	Word (69120 KB)
African Literature and Film
35279D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 19	Lydie Moudileno	KAP140	PDF (157371 KB)
Medieval Art and Christian Ritual
35280D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 18	Carolyn Malone	VKC256
The Poetry of Translation
35281D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Marci Vogel	VKC200	PDF (204306 KB)
Visual Art and the Representation of Knowledge
35283D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Susanna Berger	VKC203
Questions of Documentary
35285D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	John Alexander	VKC200

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
35290D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:50am	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Zachary Steel	MCC102	Word (41777 KB)
Making Drawings
35291D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 14	Karen Liebowitz	WAH102A
Shelter
35292D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:20am	Mon, Wed	16 of 18	Lauren Matchison	WAH212
Performing Revolutions--Global History of Theatre and Social Change
35294D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Brent Blair	DRC120	PDF (497919 KB)
Surveillance Culture
35295D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:50pm	Tue, Thu	9 of 14	Julia Paull	HAR211
Making Paintings
35296D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 15	Robert Alderette	HAR202
Music as Politics
35297D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Joanna Demers	MUS204
Asian and Asian American Culture on Stage and Film
35298D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Paula Cizmar	MCC102	PDF (243300 KB)
The Modern Movement in Architecture
35299D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	James Steele	VKC200
China Goes Un-Pop--Contemporary Chinese Performance
35300D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Meiling Cheng	GFS220	Word (64785 KB)
The Theatre Scene
35301D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Els Collins,Oliver Mayer	MCC102	PDF (770662 KB)
The Holocaust and the Creative Impulse
35302D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Nick Strimple	MUS303
Photography, Art and Landscape
35303D	001	Lecture	3:00-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	11 of 15	Caroline Clerc	HAR220
Jazz--America's Music
35304D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	13 of 18	John Thomas	MUS204

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
Russian Prison Camp Literature
35325D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Natalia Dame	GFS228
Shakespeare on His Feet
35326D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Andrew Stott	VKC102	PDF (1236818 MB)
Brasil/Brazil: Figuration of Brazil and Its Other
35327D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Brenno Kaneyasu Maranhao	VPD107
Democracy, Dissent, and Assimilation
35329D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	16 of 18	James Lewis Heft	VKC254	Word (22593 KB)
Science in Western Philosophy
35330D	001	Lecture	9:00-9:50am	MWF	18 of 19	Zlatan Damnjanovic	GFS229
Los Angeles Stories
35331D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 17	Christopher Freeman	WPH106	Word (41826 KB)
Death and Gender in Media and Society
35332D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Diana Blaine	VKC200
Poltical Philosophy Meets Reality
35333D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Sharon Lloyd	GFS229
Trauma and Memory in Spanish and Latin American Cinema and Literature
35334D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Julian Gutierrez-Albilla	VKC252
Transforming Italy: Italian Literature Today
35335D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	James Fortney	VPD107
Language, Law and Literature
35336D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Sandra Disner	GFS210	PDF (128371 KB)
Time in Culture and Social Experience
35337D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Emily Zeamer	GFS228
Decline and Fall
35339D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Frederic Clark	VKC256
Classics in Greek Literature and Philosophy
35340D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	17 of 18	Kevin Robb	VKC260
Women in Ancient Literature
35343D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Kristine Garroway	VKC205
Italianisms: Introduction to Modern Italy
35344D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Jonathan Mullins	WPH205	PDF (185361 KB)
America and France--Literary and Visual Representations of of Turbulent Times
35345D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Panivong Norindr	THH214
Lost Christian Scriptures from the Egyptian Desert
35347D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 18	Cavan Concannon	GFS229
Time in Culture and Social Experience
35348D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 19	Emily Zeamer	GFS228
Literature of Resistance
35353D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Yaffa Weisman	WPH103
Part of a Larger Story: American Jewish Experience in Literature
35354D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Bruce Phillips	VKC205
Trauma and Memory in Spanish and Latin American Cinema and Literature
35355D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Julian Gutierrez-Albilla	VKC254
Eastern European Crime Stories: Legal Fiction Crime to Punishment
35356D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Anna Krakus	VKC200
Ideas of Nature in American Culture
35357D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	William Handley	VKC255
On Beauty
35358D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Daniel Tiffany	GFS228
Knowledge and Fallibility
35359D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Jeremy Goodman	VPD107
Jews and Muslims
35360D	001	Lecture	1:00-1:50pm	MWF	18 of 18	Jessica Marglin	LVL3Y
The Uncanny in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
35361D	001	Lecture	1:00-1:50pm	MWF	17 of 18	Thea Tomaini	GFS229
The Romantic Hero(ine) in Russia and the West
35362D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	16 of 18	Kelsey Rubin-Detlev	WPH206
Plants Attack! Botany in Fiction, Film and Ecolog
35363D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 18	Antonia Szabari	THH215	PDF (145283 KB)
Homer, Virgil, Dante
35364D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Stefano Rebeggiani	GFS212
A Sea of History Writing the Caribbean
35365D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Ronald Mendoza-De Jesus	SGM226	PDF (760561 KB)
Reading Scripture: The Hebrew Bible, New Testament and Qur'an in Dialogue
35366D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Reuven Firestone	VKC200
Justice and Community from Plato to Machiavelli
35367D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Alexandre Roberts	GFS229
Messiah: The History of Idea
35368D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Joshua Garroway	GFS228
Italian Organized Crime in Literature and Cinema
35369D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Alessio Filippi	VKC207
Philosophy and the Emotions
35370D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Jacob Ross	THH214
Self and Society in Ancient Athenian Drama
35371D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 18	Susan Lape	WPH107	Word (129793 KB)
Kings and Heroes, Villains and Saints
35372D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Hani Khafipour	THH213
Engineering California: Technology from Sutter's Mill to Silicon Beach
35373D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Peter Westwick	GFS210
On Beauty
35375D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Daniel Tiffany	GFS228
Crime Fiction: Hard-Boiled and Noir
35376D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Edwin Hill	THH115
The Philosophy of Death and Dying
35377D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Porter Williams	WPH101
Christianity in the Roman Empire
35378D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	13 of 18	Sheila Briggs	LVL3Y
Daughters of Africa: Black Women in U.S. History
35379D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Francille Wilson	GFS228
Mindfulness in Cultural Practices
35381D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Thomas Ward	VKC255
Incarceration in Popular Culture
35382D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Sara Sligar	THH214
Japanese Fiction and Film
35383D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	David Bialock	GFS229
On Beauty
35384D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 18	Daniel Tiffany	GFS228
What Makes a Leader? Perspectives from Japanese History
35385D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Sachiko Kawai	LVL3V
Are Corporations People?
35386D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Kenneth Silver	GFS107	PDF (147581 KB)
Vampires and Other Monsters in World Literature, Film and Art
35387D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Ellen Oliveira	VKC200
Types and Stereotypes in Films of the American Western Genre
35388D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Percival Everett	THH214
Christianity in the Roman Empire
35389D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	11 of 18	Sheila Briggs	LVL3Y
Science and Values
35390D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Porter Williams	GFS111
Girlhood: Twentieth Century Perspectives
35391D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Dana Johnson	GFS202
Democracy, Diplomacy, and Duels -- Party Politics from the English Revolution to the Age of Hamilton
35392D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Amy Watson	VKC207
The Autobiographical I(mpulse)
35393D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 18	David Ulin	GFS107

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
Ethics of Science and Technology
35400D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Elisa Warford	GFS229	PDF (634531 KB)
Science, Literature and Ethics
35401D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Amy Schroeder	GFS108

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
Solving Social Problems
35425D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 14	Paul Lichterman	VKC255
Who Owns the Past? Cultural Heritage in the News
35426D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Kirby Farah	LVL3V
Spy Novel Diplomacy-Propaganda and International Relations
35427D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 19	Patrick James	SOSB40
Sociology of Youth, Culture and Society
35428D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Elaine Bell Kaplan	LVL3Y
Turkey--The Failure of a Democracy
35429D	001	Lecture	12:00-12:50pm	MWF	17 of 18	Mehmet Birdal	WPH202
Nation, Culture, and Power in East Asia
35430D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Jenny Chio	VKC252
Interrogating Authenticity
35431D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Lanita Jacobs	GFS229
Sociology of Youth, Culture and Society
35432D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Elaine Bell Kaplan	GFS112
Climate Change: The Science, the History and Our Future
35433D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 19	Joshua Goldstein, Victoria Petryshyn	VKC255
Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective
35435D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 18	Erin Moore	GFS108	Word (99840 KB)
Food--Then and Now
35436D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 19	Jessica Kanoski	GFS229
From Public Sphere to Twitterverse: Publics, the Public and Social Media
35437D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Jennifer Cool	LVL3Y
Race, Empire, and Immigration
35438D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 18	Katrina Quisumbing King	MRF206

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	Syllabus
Diversity in Hollywood: Social Inquiry into Causes, Constraints and Change-Making Processes
35441D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Stacy Smith	ANN406
Introduction to Education Inquiry through the Study of Inequities in Education
35442D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 19	Briana Hinga	WPH101
Prosperity Across the Lifespan
35443D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Aaron Hagedorn	GER224
Managing Stress for a Better Life
35444D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Elahe Nezami	LVL3Y
Food, Society and Health
35445D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Beth Pyatak	LVL3V
Science Communication in a Post-Truth Era
35446D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 19	Cristina Visperas	ASC331	PDF (189302 KB)
Technology and Society
35447D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	John Slaughter	LVL3Y

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.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
Contemplative Neuroscience
35460D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Laura Baker	GFS204

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	Aaron Hagedorn	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	18 of 18	Roumyana Pancheva	LVL3V
Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation
35482D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	12 of 18	Gary Rosen	KAP113
The Logic of Events
35483D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 18	Alexis Wellwood	LVL3V

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
35490D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Patricia Tobey	WPH106
Statistical Analysis for Games: Storytelling with Numbers T
35491D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Wednesday	18 of 18	Dennis Wixon	SCA258
			10:00-11:50am	Friday			SCIL113
Statistics and Quantitative Literacy
35492D	001	Lecture	10:00-10:50am	MWF	13 of 18	Inga Maslova	VKC254
Statistics and Quantitative Literacy
35493D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	16 of 18	Inga Maslova	VKC254
Technologies that Change the World
35494D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Michelle Povinelli	VKC161

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