Category V - Fall 2008

FALL 2008 COURSE GUIDE

Category V: Arts and Letters
ARLT 100g

These courses aim at depth of knowledge and development of students' interpretive skills through intellectual engagement with major works of philosophy, literature, art, film, or music. Classes are writing-intensive and limited to thirty students to promote direct interaction between students and faculty. For additional enrollment information, see the Fall 2008 Schedule of Classes.

Arts and Letters (ARLT) 100g courses are only open to freshmen. Sophomores have the option of registering for Arts and Letters (ARLT) 100g or Arts and Letters (ARLT) 101g. Juniors and seniors must enroll in Arts and Letters (ARLT) 101g.

ARLT 100g Course Title	Section	Professor	Days and Time
Art and Text in Imperial Rome	35224	Boyle	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Asian American Performance	35238	Kondo	TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
Biblical Protagonists Through An Ancient Lens	35243	Holo	MW, 2:00 - 3:20
Border and Spirit, Land and Nation: The "Heart" Land in Literature and Film	35257	McKenna	TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
Chinese Imagination: Culture in Fiction	35206	Hayden	TTh, 9:30 - 10:50
Christianity in the Roman Empire	35262	Briggs	MW, 3:30 - 4:50
Classics in Modern Philosophy	35215	Damnjanovic	MWF, 10:00 - 10:50
Classics of Greek Philosophy and Literature	35232	Robb	MWF, 12:00 - 12:50
Conceptions of God and Self	35260	Dreher	MW, 3:30 - 4:50
Daughters of Africa: Black Women in U.S. History	35267	Wilson, F.	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Detectives with an Accent	35234	Pillado	TTh, 12:30 - 1:40
Families and Phantoms, Witches and Warlords: The Human Condition in the Literature of the Ancient Near East	35235	Porter	TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
Fanatic: Fan Obsession, Imitation and Expertise in Literature and Film	35253	Tongson	TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
Free Will and Determinism	35227	Vihvelin	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Ghost Stories: Throughout Time and Around the World	35240	Thompson	TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
In Their Own Words: North American Natives	35258	Thompson	TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
Knowledge and Imagination in Science Fiction	35204	Shugarman	MWF, 9:00 - 9:50
Lenses on Society: Literature and Society	35207	Phillips	TTh, 9:30 - 10:50
Los Angeles Stories	35255	Freeman	TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
Los Angeles Stories	35264	Freeman	TTh, 3:30 - 4:50
Love and Desire in Medieval Christian Mysticism	35205	Alberston	MWF, 9:00 - 9:50
Love and Desire in Medieval Christian Mysticism	35216	Alberston	MWF, 10:00 - 10:50
Love, Marriage and the Experience of Being a Wife	35250	Parish	MW, 2:00 - 3:20
Masterpieces of the Short Story	35213	Zholkovsky	MW, 10:00 - 11:50
Masterpieces of the Short Story	35244	Zholkovsky	MW, 2:00 - 3:20
Medieval Art and Christian Liturgy	35225	Malone	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Mexican American Places in Literature and Film	35223	Pulido	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Modern Russian Art	35202	Bowlt	MW, 8:30 - 9:50
Music and the Modern Imagination	35259	Demers	TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
The Nation, Narratives, and the Individual in US Literature and Culture	35220	Gordon	MWF, 11:00 - 11:50
Neorealism: From Postwar Italy to Reality TV	35248	Pinkus	MW, 2:00 - 3:20
On Beauty	35245	Tiffany	MW, 2:00 - 3:20
On Beauty	35261	Tiffany	MW, 3:30 - 4:50
Plato and His Contemporaries	35254	Lewis	TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
Prescriptions for Faith: Jews and Christians of the First Centuries	35228	Weissman	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Problems of Interpretation in Film and Literature	35217	Wilson	MWF, 11:00 - 11:50
Race, Religion and Rhetoric in America	35222	Iwamura	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Reading and Opera	35256	Diaz	TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
Reason and the Unbearable Lightness of Being	35208	Pratt	TTh, 9:30 - 10:50
Renaissance Culture	35221	Rosenthal	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Renaissance Travel Literature	35246	Szabari	MW, 2:00 - 3:20
Representing the Holocaust: History, Memory and National Identity	35236	Gillerman	TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
Russian Literature and Music	35247	Damaré	MW, 2:00 - 3:20
Trials, Torture and "Truth" in Twentieth Century Narrative, Theater and Film	35249	Zivin	MW, 2:00 - 3:20
Twentieth Century Latin American Short Fiction	35226	VanDelden	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Women inLiterature and Film	35237	Modleski	TTh, 12:30 - 1:50