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.
| Section | Session | Type | Time | Days | Registered | Instructor | Location | Syllabus | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern Russian Culture | |||||||||
| 35324D | 060 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 10 of 9 | Natalia Dame | ONLINE |  | |
| Reason and the Unbearable Lightness of Being | |||||||||
| 35325D | 060 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Tue, Thu | 13 of 13 | Sally Pratt | ONLINE |   | |
| Crime and Punishment in Los Angeles | |||||||||
| 35326D | 060 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 16 of 15 | Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus | ONLINE | PDF (1158893 MB) | |
| Immigration and Assimilation -- the U.S. Catholic Experience | |||||||||
| 35327D | 060 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 13 of 12 | James Lewis Heft | ONLINE | Word (28679 KB) | |
| Ancient and Modern Narratives of Trauma | |||||||||
| 35328D | 060 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 15 of 14 | Afroditi Angelopoulou | ONLINE | | |
| Mindfulness in Cultural Practices | |||||||||
| 35329D | 060 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 16 of 15 | Thomas Ward | ONLINE | | |
| Laughter and the Transformation--From Ancient Athens to Modern Standup | |||||||||
| 35330D | 060 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 15 of 15 | Devon Harlow | ONLINE | | |
| Legal Fictions--Storytelling and Empathy in U.S. Law | |||||||||
| 35332D | 060 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 16 of 15 | Elizabeth Logan | ONLINE | | |
| Part of a Larger Story: American Jewish Experience in Literature Y | |||||||||
| 35333D | 060 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 16 of 15 | Bruce Phillips | ONLINE | | |
| Nature, Environment, and Asian America, 1850-Present | |||||||||
| 35334D | 060 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 16 of 15 | Ashanti Shih | ONLINE | | |
| What Was Truth? | |||||||||
| 35335D | 060 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 15 of 15 | Mark Letteney | ONLINE | | |
| Modern Russian Culture | |||||||||
| 35336D | 060 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 14 of 14 | Natalia Dame | ONLINE | | |
| Being Muslim in America | |||||||||
| 35338D | 060 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 16 of 15 | Arjun Nair | ONLINE | | |
| Science in Western Philosophy | |||||||||
| 35339D | 060 | Lecture | 10:00-10:50am | MWF | 13 of 12 | Zlatan Damnjanovic | ONLINE | Word (39799 KB) | |
| Kings and Heroes, Villians and Saints | |||||||||
| 35340D | 060 | Lecture | 11:00-11:50am | MWF | 16 of 15 | Hani Khafipour | ONLINE | | |
| Mind, Matter, and Mystery | |||||||||
| 35341D | 060 | Lecture | 11:00-11:50am | MWF | 14 of 13 | James Van Cleve | ONLINE | | |
| Human Reason: Its Scope and Limits | |||||||||
| 35342D | 060 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Janet Levin | ONLINE | | |
| Representing the Holocaust | |||||||||
| 35344D | 060 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 15 | Sharon Gillerman, Leah Hochman | ONLINE | | |
| Women in Ancient Literature | |||||||||
| 35345D | 060 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 15 | Kristine Garroway | ONLINE | | |
| Audio(visuality)--Voice and Sound in Popular Media | |||||||||
| 35346D | 060 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 15 | Sarah Kessler | ONLINE | | |
| Death and Gender in Media and Society | |||||||||
| 35347D | 060 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 15 of 13 | Diana Blaine | ONLINE | | |
| Buddhist Literature--From The Buddha to Black Buddhism | |||||||||
| 35348D | 060 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 13 of 12 | Jessica Zu | ONLINE | | |
| Trauma, Death, and Love in Italian Storytelling | |||||||||
| 35349D | 060 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 12 of 11 | Francesca Leardini | ONLINE | PDF (1463457 MB) | |
| Poetry Across Media | |||||||||
| 35350D | 060 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 13 of 12 | Bruce Smith | ONLINE | | |
| The Uncanny in Medieval and Renaissance Europe | |||||||||
| 35351D | 060 | Lecture | 12:00-12:50pm | MWF | 14 of 13 | Thea Tomaini | ONLINE | Word (11903 KB) | |
| Reading "Black Love" | |||||||||
| 35352D | 060 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 15 | Lanita Jacobs | ONLINE | PDF (448673 KB) | |
| Homer, Virgil, Dante | |||||||||
| 35353D | 060 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 14 of 14 | Stefano Rebeggiani | ONLINE | | |
| Kurosawa's Cosmos | |||||||||
| 35354D | 060 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 15 | Kerim Yasar | ONLINE | | |
| Indian Images | |||||||||
| 35355D | 060 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 11 of 10 | Ketaki Pant | ONLINE | | |
| Literature of Resistance | |||||||||
| 35356D | 060 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 16 | Yaffa Weisman | ONLINE | | |
| Masterpieces of the Short Story | |||||||||
| 35357D | 060 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 12 of 11 | Alexander Zholkovsky | ONLINE | Word (23042 KB) | |
| On Beauty | |||||||||
| 35359D | 060 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 15 | Daniel Tiffany | ONLINE | | |
| Classics in Greek Literature and Philosophy | |||||||||
| 35361D | 060 | Lecture | 12:00-12:50pm | MWF | 14 of 13 | Kevin Robb | ONLINE | PDF (122385 KB) | |
| Vampires and Other Monsters in World Literature, Film and Art | |||||||||
| 35362D | 060 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 16 of 15 | Ellen Oliveira | ONLINE | | |
| Reading Scripture--The Hebrew Bible, New Testament and Qur'an in Dialogue | |||||||||
| 35363D | 060 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 15 of 14 | Reuven Firestone | ONLINE | | |
| Poetry and Protest | |||||||||
| 35364D | 060 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 16 of 15 | Beatrice Sanford Russell | ONLINE | PDF (214337 KB) | |
| Mindfulness in Cultural Practices | |||||||||
| 35365D | 060 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 16 of 15 | Thomas Ward | ONLINE | | |
| Engineering California--Technology from Sutter's Mill to Silicon Beach | |||||||||
| 35366D | 060 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 15 of 14 | Peter Westwick | ONLINE | | |
| What is the Best Way To Live? | |||||||||
| 35369D | 060 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 17 of 16 | Ralph Wedgwood | ONLINE | PDF (239007 KB) | |
| The Ethics of Killing, Saving, and Creating | |||||||||
| 35371D | 060 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 15 | Jacob Nebel | ONLINE | | |
| On Beauty | |||||||||
| 35376D | 060 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 15 | Daniel Tiffany | ONLINE | | |
| Viewing Life through the Prism of Death | |||||||||
| 35377D | 060 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 16 | Nathalie Joseph | ONLINE | | |
| Daughters of Africa--Black Women in U.S. History | |||||||||
| 35379D | 060 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 16 of 15 | Francille Wilson | ONLINE | | |
| Ultra-Close Readings of the Hebrew Scriptures | |||||||||
| 35380D | 060 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 11 of 10 | Bruce Zuckerman | ONLINE | | |
| Transforming Italy--Italian Literature Today | |||||||||
| 35381D | 060 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 16 of 15 | James Fortney | ONLINE | | |
| Mindfulness in Cultural Practices | |||||||||
| 35382D | 060 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 15 of 14 | Thomas Ward | ONLINE | | |
| On Beauty | |||||||||
| 35385D | 060 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Tue, Thu | 15 of 14 | Daniel Tiffany | ONLINE | | |
| The Tale of Genji in East Asian History | |||||||||
| 35387D | 060 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Tue, Thu | 7 of 6 | Joan Piggott | ONLINE | | |
| Anime, Comics, and the Japanese Experience of the Second World War | |||||||||
| 35390D | 060 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 14 | Benjamin Uchiyama | ONLINE | | |
| Language, Law and Literature | |||||||||
| 35391D | 060 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Tue, Thu | 11 of 10 | Sandra Disner | ONLINE | Word (39471 KB) | |
| Ghost Stories-Throughout Time and Around the World | |||||||||
| 35393D | 060 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 15 | Tok Thompson | ONLINE | PDF (113813 KB) | |
| Girlhood--Twentieth Century Perspectives | |||||||||
| 35394D | 060 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 16 | Dana Johnson | ONLINE | | |
| Mixed Media and Multiracial America | |||||||||
| 35395D | 060 | Lecture | 1:00-1:50pm | MWF | 16 of 15 | Corrine Collins | ONLINE | | |
| Southern Literature and American Identity | |||||||||
| 35396D | 060 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 13 of 12 | Kerry Ingram | ONLINE | | |
| Los Angeles Stories | |||||||||
| 35397D | 060 | Lecture | 7:00-8:20pm | Mon, Wed | 16 of 14 | Christopher Freeman | ONLINE | | |