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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water and the Imagination | |||||||||
| 35327D | 001 | Lecture | 8:30-9:50am | Mon, Wed | 16 of 17 | Jackie Wang | CPA111 |  | |
| Laughter and the Transformation--From Ancient Athens to Modern Standup | |||||||||
| 35332D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 18 of 17 | Devon Harlow | WPH107 | | |
| Vampires and Other Monsters in World Literature, Film and Art | |||||||||
| 35333D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 18 of 17 | Ellen Oliveira | THH215 | | |
| Feminist Science Fiction Studies | |||||||||
| 35334D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 18 of 17 | Atia Sattar | THH110 | | |
| Modern Russian Culture | |||||||||
| 35337D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 19 of 17 | Natalia Dame | WPH203 | | |
| Being Muslim in America | |||||||||
| 35338D | 001 | Lecture | 9:30-10:50am | Tue, Thu | 18 of 18 | Arjun Nair | CPA256 | | |
| The Uncanny in Medieval and Renaissance Europe | |||||||||
| 35339D | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-10:50am | MWF | 18 of 17 | Thea Tomaini | THH115 | | |
| Science in Western Philosophy | |||||||||
| 35340D | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-10:50am | MWF | 17 of 17 | Zlatan Damnjanovic | GFS201 | | |
| Envisioning Afterlives: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Literature and History | |||||||||
| 35341D | 001 | Lecture | 10:00-11:50am | Mon, Wed | 18 of 17 | Lori Meeks | SOSB41 | | |
| Poetry Across Media | |||||||||
| 35342D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 17 | Bruce Smith | ONLINE | | |
| Labor in the Greco-Roman World | |||||||||
| 35343D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 12 of 12 | Steven Gonzalez | THH106 | | |
| Contemporary Korean Film and Culture | |||||||||
| 35344D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 19 of 17 | Youngmin Choe | CPA258 | | |
| Biblical Protagonists | |||||||||
| 35345D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Kristine Garroway | GFS113 | | |
| Climate Fiction--Speculative Fiction for a Broken World | |||||||||
| 35346D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 17 | Stephanie Bower | WPH106 | | |
| Modern Russian Culture | |||||||||
| 35347D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 19 of 17 | Natalia Dame | WPH107 | | |
| St. Petersburg--City of Myth | |||||||||
| 35348D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 19 of 17 | Colleen McQuillen | CPA205 | | |
| Reason and the Unbearable Lightness of Being | |||||||||
| 35349D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 18 | Sally Pratt | CPA151 | | |
| Language, Law and Literature | |||||||||
| 35350D | 001 | Lecture | 11:00-12:20pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 17 | Sandra Disner | CPA256 | PDF (170500 KB) | |
| Classics in Greek Literature and Philosophy | |||||||||
| 35351D | 001 | Lecture | 12:00-12:50pm | MWF | 19 of 17 | CPA255 | PDF (555248 KB) | | |
| Reading "Black Love" | |||||||||
| 35352D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 16 | Lanita Jacobs | KAP166 | | |
| Human Reason--Its Scope and Limits | |||||||||
| 35353D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | Canceled | Janet Levin | | ||
| Kurosawa's Cosmos | |||||||||
| 35354D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 19 of 17 | Kerim Yasar | CPA256 | | |
| Indian Traditions of Mind and Body | |||||||||
| 35355D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 19 of 17 | James Mchugh | CPA210 | | |
| Literature of Resistance | |||||||||
| 35356R | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 19 of 17 | Yaffa Weisman | WPH101 | | |
| Culture, Conformity, Revolt | |||||||||
| 35357D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 16 | David Rollo | ONLINE | | |
| Masterpieces of the Short Story | |||||||||
| 35359D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 14 of 15 | Alexander Zholkovsky | THH215 & ONLINE | Word (24191 KB) | |
| The Dream of Poetry | |||||||||
| 35360D | 001 | Lecture | 12:30-1:50pm | Tue, Thu | 13 of 14 | Carol Muske-Dukes | ONLINE | Word (72633 KB) | |
| Ultra-Close Readings of the Hebrew Scriptures | |||||||||
| 35361D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 17 of 17 | Bruce Zuckerman | THH217 | | |
| Reading Scripture--The Hebrew Bible, New Testament and Qur'an in Dialogue | |||||||||
| 35362D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 17 of 17 | Reuven Firestone | WPH101 | | |
| Trouble As Their Business--Mid-20th Century Noir and Detective Fiction | |||||||||
| 35363D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 19 of 17 | Ben Levine | CPA210 | | |
| Messiah--The History of an Idea | |||||||||
| 35364D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 17 of 17 | Joshua Garroway | WPH107 | | |
| Mindfulness in Cultural Practices | |||||||||
| 35365D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 19 of 17 | Thomas Ward | THH215 | Word (180029 KB) | |
| Plants Attack! Botany in Fiction, Film and Ecological Thought | |||||||||
| 35366D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 18 of 17 | Antonia Szabari | THH112 | Word (28329 KB) | |
| Vampires and Other Monsters in World Literature, Film and Art | |||||||||
| 35367D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 17 of 17 | Ellen Oliveira | THH110 | | |
| Immigration and Assimilation -- the U.S. Catholic Experience | |||||||||
| 35368D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 18 of 17 | James Lewis Heft | THH108 | Word (33158 KB) | |
| Slavery and Salvation | |||||||||
| 35369D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 17 of 17 | Kelsey Moss | WPH203 | | |
| Indian Images | |||||||||
| 35370D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 16 of 17 | Ketaki Pant | ONLINE | | |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Magical Realism | |||||||||
| 35371D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 17 | Marjorie Becker | WPH107 | | |
| Christianity and the Roman Empire | |||||||||
| 35372D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 15 of 14 | Sheila Briggs | CPA256 | | |
| Eastern European Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction | |||||||||
| 35373D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Mon, Wed | 18 of 17 | Andrzej Brylak | WPH206 | Word (380606 KB) | |
| On Beauty | |||||||||
| 35375D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 17 | Daniel Tiffany | CPA109 | | |
| Representations of Nature in the Roman Empire | |||||||||
| 35376D | 001 | Lecture | 2:00-3:20pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 17 | Emily Brown | THH217 | | |
| Transforming Italy--Italian Literature Today | |||||||||
| 35378D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 18 of 17 | James Fortney | CPA206 | | |
| Los Angeles Stories | |||||||||
| 35379D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 18 of 17 | Christopher Freeman | THH217 | PDF (611621 KB) | |
| Christianity and the Roman Empire | |||||||||
| 35380D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 12 of 12 | Sheila Briggs | CPA161 | | |
| Daughters of Africa--Black Women in U.S. History | |||||||||
| 35381D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 19 of 17 | Francille Wilson | CPA111 | | |
| Trouble As Their Business--Mid-20th Century Noir and Detective Fiction | |||||||||
| 35382D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Mon, Wed | 18 of 17 | Ben Levine | CPA106 | | |
| On Beauty | |||||||||
| 35386D | 001 | Lecture | 3:30-4:50pm | Tue, Thu | 17 of 15 | Daniel Tiffany | CPA109 | | |
| Mindfulness in Cultural Practices | |||||||||
| 35388D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Mon, Wed | 19 of 17 | Thomas Ward | ONLINE | Word (182029 KB) | |
| Anime, Comics, and the Japanese Experience of the Second World War | |||||||||
| 35391D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Tue, Thu | 19 of 17 | Benjamin Uchiyama | CPA254 | | |
| Reading "Black Love" | |||||||||
| 35392D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Tue, Thu | 14 of 17 | Lanita Jacobs | KAP165 | | |
| Ghost Stories-Throughout Time and Around the World | |||||||||
| 35393D | 001 | Lecture | 5:00-6:20pm | Tue, Thu | 18 of 17 | Tok Thompson | ONLINE | Word (54272 KB) | |