General Education Seminar 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 | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | |