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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
Reading and Writing Digital Literature
35268D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	11 of 7	Mark Marino	GFS212	Word (16626 KB)
Questions of Documentary
35272D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	John Alexander	LVL3B
Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales
35275D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Aimee Bender	GFS223
World Arts, Cultures and Empires
35276D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	10 of 7	Indra Mukhopadhyay	KAP166
The Poetry of Translation
35277D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Marci Vogel	DMC208
African Literature and Film
35279D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Lydie Moudileno	GFS223
Mixtape--Explorations Across Genre
35280D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 7	Marci Vogel	THH217
Lives of Poets
35281R	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Marci Vogel	WPH202
Hong Kong Cinema
35284D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 7	Ka Lee Wong	KAP166
Contemporary Indigenous Art--Innovations and Interventions
35285D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	10 of 7	Christine Garnier	KAP141
Surrealism in France, Spain and Mexico
35286D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Marie Enright	GFS105
Writing Stories from Real Life
35289D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Michael Bunn	DMC107
Designing Things for Kids
35290D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Amy Ogata	KAP141
East Asian Musical Histories
35291D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	15 of 7	Christopher Hepburn	DMC259

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
Topics in Architectural History--Plato to Nato
35299D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	3 of 1	Diane Ghirardo,Vittoria Di Palma	ONLINE
The Actor at Work
35300D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:50am	Mon, Wed	15 of 7	Rodney To	MRF206	PDF (539125 KB)
Making Drawings
35301D	001	Lecture	9:00-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Osvaldo Trujillo	WAH102A
Stages of Healing - The World of Theatre and Therapy
35302D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Brent Blair	GFS212
Music as Material
35303D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Mon, Wed	12 of 7	Camae Dennis	KDC241
L.A. Culture Behind the Scenes--Process Storytelling
35304D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	16 of 16	Oscar Garza	GFS107	Word (66925 KB)
Theatre SCene
35305D	001	Lecture	12:00-1:50pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Bob Bailey	KAP138
Sound, Space, Listening
35307D	001	Lecture	10:00-11:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Scott Spencer	KDC241
I Too, Am American: Theatre and Cultural Literacy
35308D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:50pm	Tue, Thu	7 of 10	Lena Ford	DRC105
California's Modern Masters of Housing Design
35309D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 14	Victor Regnier	DMC260

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
Childhood Narratives
35319D	001	Lecture	10:00-10:50am	MWF	11 of 7	Beatrice Mousli	DMC108	PDF (344234 KB)
Trouble As Their Business--Mid-20th Century Noir and Detective Fiction
35320D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Ben Levine	THH215
Trouble As Their Business--Mid-20th Century Noir and Detective Fiction
35321D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 7	Ben Levine	DMC160
Trouble As Their Business--Mid-20th Century Noir and Detective Fiction
35322D	001	Lecture	6:30-7:50pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Ben Levine	DMC160
Choice, Chance, Fate and Dilemmas in Literature and Film
35323D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Nathalie Burle	LVL3V
The Golden Age of Catherine the Great
35324D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Erica Camisa Morale	THH205
Remembering Spain
35325D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Lori Mesrobian	THH203	PDF (891269 KB)
Rendering the Void--Moby-Dick, Words, and Images
35326D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	13 of 7	Enrique Martinez Celaya	DMC108	PDF (393634 KB)
Trauma and Memory in Latin American and Spanish Cinema
35327D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Julian Gutierrez-Albilla	GFS221	PDF (402245 KB)
Sex and Sexes--Spanish Literature, Culture and Film
35328D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Jaclyn Cohen-Steinberg	DMC208
Conquest and Revolution in 20th-Century Mexican Literary and Visual Texts
35329D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	13 of 7	Liana Stepanyan	WPH202
Science in Western Philosophy
35330D	001	Lecture	9:00-9:50am	MWF	13 of 7	Zlatan Damnjanovic	THH117
Sympathy for the Devil
35331D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Steven Minas	KAP148
Mindfulness in Cultural Practices
35332D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Thomas Ward	KAP147
Mixed Media and Multiracial America
35333D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Corrine Collins	KAP140
Reading Scripture--The Hebrew Bible, New Testament and Qur'an
35334D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	9 of 7	Reuven Firestone	DMC108
Tell Me a Story--Novels That Made a Difference
35335D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Jessica Cantiello	GFS205	Word (42659 KB)
The Golden Age of Catherine the Great
35336D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	11 of 7	Erica Camisa Morale	THH107
Plants Attack! Botany and the Uncanny Plant in Fiction, Film and Ecological Thought
35337D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	8 of 9	Antonia Szabari	GFS107
Southern Literature and American Identity
35338D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Kerry Ingram	KAP167
Science in Western Philosophy
35339D	001	Lecture	10:00-10:50am	MWF	13 of 7	Zlatan Damnjanovic	THH117
Telling Animals
35340D	001	Lecture	11:00-11:50am	MWF	14 of 7	Mia Du Plessis	THH115
The New Vietnam--Arts, Culture, Diaspora
35341D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Janet Hoskins	KAP167
The Problem of Evil in Literature and Film
35342D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Candice Levy	DMC104
The Theater of Ancient Rome
35343D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Anthony Boyle, Madeline Thayer	KAP159
Feminist Science Fiction Studies
35344D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Atia Sattar	SOSB43
Adolescence in Hispanic Literature and Film
35345D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Leah Kemp	GFS229
Pagan, Pagans, Panganism in Europe
35346D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	9 of 10	Lisa Bitel	GFS228
Transforming Italy--Italian Literature Today
35347D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	James Fortney	GFS221
Thai Literature and Popular Culture
35348D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Brian Bernards	GFS220	PDF (1032609 MB)
Types and Stereotypes in Films of the American Western Genre
35349D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Percival Everett	GFS213
Telling Animals
35350D	001	Lecture	12:00-12:50pm	MWF	14 of 7	Mia Du Plessis	THH115
Women in Ancient Literature
35351D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Kristine Garroway	DMC254
Sympathy for the Devil
35352D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Steven Minas	KAP148
Crime, Criminality, Prisons and the Police
35353D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	9 of 7	Ashley Cohen	KAP147
Mixed Media and Multiracial America
35354D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Corrine Collins	KAP140
Arab Cityscapes in Fiction and Film
35355D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Brady Ryan	WPH101
Death and Gender in Media and Society
35356D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Diana Blaine	LVL13
The Romantic Hero(ine) in Russia and the West
35357D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Erica Camisa Morale	THH107
Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World
35358D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 7	Steven Gonzalez	KAP159
Social Justice and Classical Antiquity in the Unit
35359D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Brandon Bourgeois	KAP113
After the Apocalypse
35360D	001	Lecture	1:00-1:50pm	MWF	14 of 7	Jonathan Leal	THH209
Asian Popular Culture and Fandom
35362D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 7	Ka Lee Wong	KAP167
Trouble As Their Business--Mid-20th Century Noir and Detective Fiction
35363D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 7	Ben Levine	DMC155
Animals and Japanese Imaginations
35364D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Matthew Keller	LVL3Y
Audio(visuality)
35366D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	12 of 7	Sarah Kessler	GFS220
The Power of Stories--Tribal Identity in Contemporary America
35367D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 7	Antonio Idini	GFS213	Word (39091 KB)
St. Petersburg--City of Myth
35368D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 7	Colleen McQuillen	GFS109
Agatha Christie's Poirot--the Labors of Hercules
35369D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	13 of 7	Cavan Concannon	GFS108
Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World
35371D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Steven Gonzalez	KAP159
Prison in Film and Visual Culture
35373D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Joshua Mitchell	GFS229
Eastern European Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
35374D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Andrzej Brylak	GFS228
Laughter and Transformation--From Ancient Athens to Modern Standup
35375D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Devon Harlow	GFS221
On Beauty
35376D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Daniel Tiffany	GFS220
Japan in the Year 1000-The Tale of the Genji
35377D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	3 of 1	Joan Piggott	DMC156
Animals and Japanese Imaginations
35381D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 7	Matthew Keller	LVL3Y
Kurosawa's Cosmos
35382D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 7	Kerim Yasar	KAP141
Ancient and Modern Narratives of Trauma
35383D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Afroditi Angelopoulou	GFS108
Ancient and Modern Citizenship
35384D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	11 of 7	Claudia Moatti	DMC111
Crime and Punishment in Los Angeles
35385D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus	GFS228	PDF (1187435 MB)
On Beauty
35386D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Daniel Tiffany	GFS220
Labor in the Greco-Roman World
35387D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Steven Gonzalez	KAP159
Shakespeare on His Feet
35388D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Andrew Stott	DMC152
Messiah--the History of an Idea
35389D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Joshua Garroway	KAP137
Religion and Science Fiction
35390D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Matthew Keller	LVL3Y
Asian Pop Culture and Fandom
35391D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Ka Lee Wong	KAP167
Engineering California
35392D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Peter Westwick	LVL3B
Girlhood--Twentieth Century Perspectives
35393D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 7	Dana Johnson	GFS212
Race and Religion in the American West
35396D	001	Lecture	6:30-7:50pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Cori Tucker-Price	GFS201
Race and Class in U.S. Media and Fiction
35397D	001	Lecture	6:30-7:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Elda Maria Roman	GFS202
Stories and Smarts --Literary Portrayals of Intellectual Acuity
35398D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Nathalie Joseph	KAP145
Self-Construction--Fictions of the First Person
35399D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Adam Spanos	LVL3Y	PDF (491415 KB)

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
Political Animals--Species, Class, Race, and Gender
35423R	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Luisa Reis Castro	GFS229
Political Violence and Terrorism
35424D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Cody Brown	KAP138
Nudging for Behavior Change
35426D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	13 of 7	Victoria Campbell-Arvai	GFS204
Cities and Climate Justice
35427D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Kalyani Jayasankar	KAP159
Sociology of Youth, Culture and Society
35428D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Elaine Bell Kaplan	KAP113
Money, Punishment, Inequality
35431D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Brittany Friedman	OFFICE
Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective
35432D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Xochitl Ruiz	KAP141
Music and Class in American Society
35433D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Daniela Levy	KAP138
Nation, Culture and Power in East Asia
35434D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	12 of 7	Jenny Chio	KAP141
America at the Crossroads of Race and Science
35435D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	13 of 7	Celeste Menchaca	KAP138
Surviving Climate Change in the Middle East
35436D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 7	Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani	KAP141
Asian Pacific America
35437D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	10 of 7	Lon Kurashige	GFS109
Who Owns the World?
35438D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Meredith Hall	KAP134
Thresholds of Detectability--Violence and Evidence
35439D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Oscar Pedraza Vargas	KAP167
Food--Then and Now
35443D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Jessica Kanoski	GFS220
Political Violence and Terrorism
35444D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Cody Brown	KAP138
Political Violence and Terrorism
35445D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	12 of 7	Cody Brown	KAP166
Who Owns the World?
35446D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Meredith Hall	KAP137

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
Engineering Diplomacy--Fusing Engineering with Foreign Policy and International Development
35447D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	15 of 7	Najmedin Meshkati	GFS229
Public Policy for Aging Populations
35448D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	11 of 7	Emma Aguila Vega	RGL215
Ideology and Mass Media
35449D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Isaac Blacksin	ANN408
The Art and Science of Decision Making
35450D	001	Lecture	8:00-9:20am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Cheryl Wakslak	VPD107
Food, Society and Health
35451D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Camille Dieterle	KAP141
The Art and Science of Decision Making
35452D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Cheryl Wakslak	VPD107
The Health of Populations--Epidemics and Their Causes
35453D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Richard Watanabe	ZHS360
Making Better Worlds--Collective Occupations and Social Transformations
35454D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Kate Crowley	WPH106
African American Child Development in Context
35455D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Mon, Wed	12 of 7	Brendesha Tynes	GFS107
Drugs and Media
35456D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Terry Church,Rebecca Haggerty	GFS105
The Bilingual-Bicultural Experience in America-A Focus on Latinos
35457D	001	Lecture	3:30-4:50pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Nasser Cortez	LVL3V
Media and Social Change
35458D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Daniela Baroffio	ASC228	Word (38088 KB)
Planning for Environmental Justice
35459D	001	Lecture	6:30-7:50pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Santina Contreras	GFS113

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
Contemplative Neuroscience
35461D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Laura Baker	GFS221	Word (41148 KB)
Language in the Age of the Internet
35462D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Elsi Kaiser	KAP138
The Physics of Life
35463D	001	Lecture	12:30-1:50pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	James Boedicker	WPHB36	PDF (174161 KB)
Science of Singing
35464D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Reed Blaylock	KAP137
Science of Singing
35468D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Reed Blaylock	WPH101
Science of Singing
35469D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Reed Blaylock	WPH101

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
Personality Across the Lifespan
35465D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Mon, Wed	14 of 7	Min-Kyoung Rhee	GER224
The Mind and Body Connection Through the Lifespan
35466D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	15 of 7	Min-Kyoung Rhee	GER224
Diseases of the Brain: Why Haven't we won the Battle Yet?
35467D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Daryl Davies,Michael Jakowec	KAP134	PDF (371380 KB)

GESM 150Lg: Seminar in the Physical Sciences (4.0 units)

Analysis of natural phenomenon through quantitative description and synthesis; the processes by which scientific knowledge is obtained, evaluated, and placed in social context. (Satisfies GE-E, Physical 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.
Note: Register for one lecture and one lab listed immediately following that lecture

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus
Putting Science in Science Fiction
35472D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Aaron Wirthwein	VPD107	PDF (319386 KB)
Putting Science in Science Fiction
35476D	001	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Monday	14 of 7	Aaron Wirthwein	DMC101
Putting Science in Science Fiction
35473D	001	Lecture	11:00-12:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Aaron Wirthwein	VPD107	PDF (319573 KB)
Putting the Science in Science Fiction
35477D	001	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Monday	14 of 7	Aaron Wirthwein	DMC101
From Einstein to Nukes--Understanding Energy
35474D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	13 of 7	Aaron Wirthwein	THH209	PDF (269044 KB)
From Einstein to Nukes--Understanding Energy
35478D	001	Lab	4:00-5:50pm	Thursday	13 of 7	Aaron Wirthwein	DMC107
Civilization as a Global Geosystem
35471D	001	Lecture	9:30-10:50am	Tue, Thu	12 of 7	Tom Jordan	ZHS118	PDF (315373 KB)
Civilization as a Global Geosystem
35475D	001	Lab	2:00-3:50pm	Thursday	12 of 7	Reena Joubert	ZHSB65

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, Sophomore
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location
Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation
35485D	001	Lecture	8:30-9:50am	Mon, Wed	6 of 5	Gary Rosen	KAP159
The Logic of Events
35486D	001	Lecture	5:00-6:20pm	Tue, Thu	14 of 7	Alexis Wellwood	GFS210

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, Sophomore
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.

Section	Session	Type	Time	Days	Registered	Instructor	Location	Syllabus	Info
Statistics and Quantitative Literacy
35490D	001	Lecture	2:00-3:20pm	Tue, Thu	7 of 6	Francis Pereira	LVL3Y

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