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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
Animals and Ideas in Ancient and Medieval Art
35270D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Andrew Griebeler	GFS229
The Essay -- Form and Practice
35271D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	4 of 17	David Treuer	GFS228
What Is a Book?
35272D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	15 of 16	Lisa Pon	VKC255
Privacy and Interiority in the Visual Arts
35273D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	10 of 15	Amy Powell	THH308
Looking at Language
35274D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Alice Gambrell	GFS228
Authenticity and Popular Music
35276D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Alice Echols	WPH103
Pioneers of the Impossibe--Poetry and Fiction through Regions of Unlikeness
35277D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 17	Mark Irwin	VKC255
Listening and Making: Poetry and Its Forms
35278D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Molly Bendall	VKC155
Medieval Art and Christian Ritual
35279D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 17	Carolyn Malone	VKC154
Art and Nuclear Technology, Destruction and Contamination
35280D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Rika Hiro	VKC255
Ecology--Literature and Culture
35284D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 17	Susan McCabe	VKC255
Six Feet Under--Death and Dying in Contemporary American Fiction
35286D	001	Lecture	6:30-7:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Susan Segal	THH209

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
Surveillance Culture
35291D	001	Lecture	9:00-10:50am	Tue, Thu	12 of 16	Julia Paull	HAR211
Shelter
35292D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:20am	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Lauren Matchison	WAH212
Performing Revolutions--Global History of Theatre and Social Change
35293D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Brent Blair	MCC102
The Modern Movement in Architecture
35294D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	James Steele	VKC154
Making Paintings
35295D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 15	Marisa Mandler	WAH118
Making Drawings
35296D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 14	Karen Liebowitz	WAH102A
Images of the Self in Music of the Romantic Era
35297D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 17	Leah Morrison	KDC241
Asian and Asian American Culture on Stage and Film
35298D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 18	Velina Hasu Houston	MCC102	PDF (180077 KB)
I Too, Am American--Theatre and Cultural Literacy
35299D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Anita Dashiell-Sparks	MCC108
Jazz:America's Music
35300D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	12 of 17	John Thomas	MUS204
The Theatre SCene
35301D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	12 of 17	Melinda Finberg	MCC102	Word (317638 KB)
Eco-Theatre
35302D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	10 of 17	Oliver Mayer	VKC209	PDF (250829 KB)
The Holocaust and the Creative Impulse
35303D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Nick Strimple	MUS303	Word (35932 KB)
Health and Fitness through Dance
35304D	001	Lecture	4:00-5:40pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Margo Apostolos	KDC241
China Goes Un-Pop--Contemporary Chinese Performance
35305D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Meiling Cheng	VKC160
The Theatre SCene
35306D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Els Collins	KDC241	PDF (525048 KB)

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.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
Immigration and Assimilation -- the U.S. Catholic Experience
35328D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	15 of 17	James Lewis Heft	VKC255	Word (24926 KB)
Revolutions of the Global South
35330D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	16 of 16	Olivia C Harrison	THH214	Word (1517885 MB)
The Romantic Hero(ine) in Russia and the West
35332D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Kelsey Rubin-Detlev	VKC154
Strangers and Strange Lands
35333D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Emily Zeamer	VKC158
Plants Attack! Botany in Fiction, Film and Ecological Thought
35334D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Antonia Szabari	VKC155	Word (34705 KB)
Brasil/Brazil-- Figuration of Brazil and Its Other.
35335D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Brenno Kaneyasu Maranhao	VKC256
Apocalypse Medieval
35338D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Jay Rubenstein	VPD107
Science in Western Philosophy
35339D	001	Lecture	10:00-10:50am	MWF	19 of 19	Zlatan Damnjanovic	VKC254
The Apocalypse in Literature, Art and Film
35340D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	19 of 19	Michael Du Plessis	THH119	PDF (928410 KB)
Language, Law and Literature
35341D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 19	Sandra Disner	WPH202	Word (38113 KB)
Strangers and Strange Lands
35342D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Emily Zeamer	VKC158
Plants Attack! Botany in Fiction, Film and Ecological Thought
35343D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 18	Antonia Szabari	VKC155	Word (30224 KB)
Brasil/Brazil--Figuration of Brazil and Its Other
35344D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Brenno Kaneyasu Maranhao	VKC256
Death and Gender in Media and Society
35346D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Diana Blaine	VKC200
The Philosophy of Death and Dying
35347D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Porter Williams	GFS229
Transforming Italy: Italian Literature Today
35348D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	James Fortney	WPH203
Women in Ancient Literature
35349D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Kristine Garroway	VKC203
Contemporary Korean Film and Culture
35350D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Youngmin Choe	VKC255
Islam in America
35351D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Alaina Morgan	WPH103
Master Pieces of the Short Story
35352D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Alexander Zholkovsky	VKC158	Word (19420 KB)
Literature of Resistance
35353D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 16	Yaffa Weisman	VKC256
Divine Women in the West -- Their Rise and Fall
35354D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Kathryn Dickason	WPH202
Ancient and Modern Narratives of Trauma
35355D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	11 of 17	Afroditi Angelopoulou	THH119
Decline and Fall
35356D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 17	Frederic Clark	VKC200
On Beauty
35357D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 18	Daniel Tiffany	GFS229
Being Black in Britain, 1500-2000
35358D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Lindsay O'Neill	VKC157
Reading "Black Love"
35359D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Lanita Jacobs	KAP148
Social Justice and Classical Antiquity in the United States
35360D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Brandon Bourgeois	LVL3V	PDF (933285 KB)
Reading Scripture: The Hebrew Bible, New Testament and Qur'an in Dialogue
35363D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Reuven Firestone	SOSB41
Kurosawa's Cosmos
35364D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Kerim Yasar	WPH206
Vampires and Other Monsters in World Literature, Film and Art
35366D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Ellen Oliveira	LVL3V
Mind, Matter, and Mystery
35367D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	James Van Cleve	VKC200
Tell Me a Story--American Novels that Made a Difference
35369D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 17	Jessica Cantiello	GFS108	PDF (171688 KB)
Slavery and Salvation
35370D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Kelsey Moss	LVL3Y	PDF (195918 KB)
Self and Society in Ancient Athenian Drama
35371D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 17	Susan Lape	VKC155
The Uncanny in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
35372D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Thea Tomaini	VKC252
Part of a Larger Story--American Jewish Experience in Literature
35373D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Bruce Phillips	WPH202
The German Experience
35374D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	John Arensmeyer	WPH203
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Magical Realism
35375D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Marjorie Becker	VKC200
On Beauty
35376D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 17	Daniel Tiffany	GFS229
Anime, Comics, and the Japanese Experience of the Second World War
35377D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Benjamin Uchiyama	VKC158
Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution in Early America
35378D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	16 of 17	Amy Watson	VKC200
Daughters of Africa: Black Women in U.S. History
35379D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Francille Wilson	GFS229
Mindfulness in Cultural Practices
35380D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Thomas Ward	GFS228
Ultra-Close Readings of the Hebrew Scriptures
35381D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 16	Bruce Zuckerman	VKC255
Christianity in the Roman Empire
35382D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	11 of 17	Sheila Briggs	VKC254	Word (28617 KB)
Indian Images
35383D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	9 of 17	Ketaki Pant	VKC252
Japanese Fiction and Film
35384D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	David Bialock	VKC200
On Beauty
35385D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 17	Daniel Tiffany	GFS229
The World of Genji--The Tale of Genji in Historical Perspective
35386D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	5 of 17	Joan Piggott	VKC155
Italian Organized Crime in Literature and Cinema
35387D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Alessio Filippi	VKC202
Philosophy and the Emotions
35388D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	16 of 17	Jacob Ross	VKC254
Language, Law, and Literature
35389D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	16 of 17	Sandra Disner	GFS109	Word (37909 KB)
Girlhood: Twentieth Century Perspectives
35390D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 19	Dana Johnson	VKC202
Eastern European Crime Stories: Legal Fiction Crime to Punishment
35391D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Anna Krakus	VKC256
Women, Writing and Visuality in Modern China
35392D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Geraldine Fiss	VKC256	PDF (175915 KB)
Engineering California--Technology from Sutter's Mill to Silicon Beach
35393D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Peter Westwick	LVL3V

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	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Elisa Warford	GFS229	PDF (536612 KB)
Science, Literature and Ethics
35401D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Amy Schroeder	VKC254
American Spirituality: Radicals, Rebels and Freethinkers
35402D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	17 of 18	Diane Winston	ANN211

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
35426D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 16	Paul Lichterman	GFS228
Language, Race and Identity in the United States Today
35427D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Sarah Benor	WPH202
Sociology of Youth, Culture and Society
35428D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Elaine Bell Kaplan	WPH203
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	LVL13	Word (34574 KB)
The Psychology of Racial Bias
35434D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	19 of 19	Stanley Huey	VKC254
Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective
35435D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Erin Moore	VKC254
The United Nations in the World
35437D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 18	Douglas Becker	VKC158	PDF (416221 KB)
Food--Then and Now
35439D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 18	Jessica Kanoski	GFS218

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
Managing Stress for a Better Life
35441D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	18 of 18	Elahe Nezami	IRC1016
Technology and Society
35442D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	John Slaughter	LVL3V
Prosperity Across the Lifespan
35443D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Min-Kyoung Rhee	GER224
Media and Social Change
35444D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	19 of 19	Daniela Baroffio	ANN209	Word (34145 KB)
Engineering Diplomacy--Fusing Engineering with Foreign Policy and International Development
35445D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 19	Najmedin Meshkati	VHE210
Media and the Latinx Community
35446D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Laura Castaneda	ANN210	PDF (250551 KB)
Making Better Worlds--Collective Occupations and Social Transformations
35447D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Gelya Frank	VKC211
The Bilingual-Bicultural Experience in America: A focus on Latinos
35448D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	18 of 18	Eugenia Mora-Flores	LVL3Y	PDF (311860 KB)

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	17 of 17	Laura Baker	WPH103

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	Marc Vermulst	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	Syllabus	Info
Mathematics for Earthling Ambassadors to Outer Space
35482D	001	Lecture	1:00-1:50pm	MWF	13 of 17	Neelesh Tiruviluamala	GFS220

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	Syllabus
The Perils of Prediction
35485D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	17 of 17	Todd Brun	LVL3Y	PDF (146390 KB)
Statistical Analysis for Games: Storytelling with Numbers
35486D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Wednesday	18 of 18	Dennis Wixon	SCA258
			10:00-11:50am	Friday			SCIL113
Statistics and Quantitative Literacy
35487D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 17	Inga Maslova	LVL3Y	PDF (257279 KB)

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