Category V - Spring 2008

SPRING 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 Spring 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
Biblical Protagonists Through An Ancient Lens	35229	Holo	TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
Bookends of Literature: Folklore and Popular Culture	35235	Thompson	TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
Bookends of Literature: Folklore and Popular Culture	35262	Thompson	TTh, 3:30 - 4:50
Chinese Imagination: Culture in Fiction	35211	Hayden	TTh, 9:30 - 10:50
Christianity in the Roman Empire	35253	Briggs	MW, 3:30 - 4:50
Classics and Contemporary Fairy Tales	35233	Bender	TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
Classics of Greek Philosophy and Literature	35217	Robb	MWF, 11:00 - 11:50
Classics of Greek Philosophy and Literature	35237	Robb	MWF, 2:00 - 2:50
Colonial Love: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Representation of Forbidden Desire	35223	Hill	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Comedy of Difference: Jewish Humor int he Twentieth Century	35257	Kaufman	TTh, 3:30 - 4:50
Conceptions of God and Self	35252	Dreher	MW, 3:30 - 4:50
Cosmopolitan Cultures	35251	Rowe	TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
Culture, Conformity, Revolt	35228	Rollo	MWF, 12:00 - 12:50
Democracy, Dissent, and the Da Vinci Code: Catholicism in the U.S.	35260	Heft	MW, 8:00 - 9:20
Free Will and Determinism	35221	Vihvelin	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
How the World Ends: Armageddon Texts	35213	Wiggins	MW, 10:00 - 11:50
How to Read a Poem	35219	McCabe	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
In Their Own Words: North American Natives	35247	Thompson	TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
Jew in American Fiction	35238	Phillips	MW, 2:00 - 3:20
La Virgen de Guadalupe: Devotion and Nationalism	35208	Lint Sagarena	TTh, 9:30 - 10:50
Literature of Resistance	35220	Weisman	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Los Angeles Stories	35246	Freeman	TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
Love and Desire in Medieval Christian Mysticism	35204	Albertson	TTh, 9:30 - 10:50
Masterpieces of the Short Story	35205	Zholkovsky	TTh, 9:30 - 10:50
Medieval Thought	35242	Manley	MW, 2:00 - 3:20
Mexican American Places in Literature and Film	35222	Pulido	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
The New Vietnam: Arts, Culture and Diaspora	35225	Hoskins	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Novels and Anti-Novels	35214	Levitt	MWF, 10:00 - 10:50
Nun, Witches, and Deviant Sexuality in Spain's Early Modern Empire	35261	Velasco	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
On Beauty	35245	Tiffany	TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
On Beauty	35255	Tiffany	TTh, 3:30 - 4:50
The Outsider in Modern German Literature and Film	35230	Clausing	TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
Pain and Suffering in Literature and Philosophy	35231	Meeker	TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
Poetry, Evidence and Methods of Reading	35218	Dane	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
The Quester Hero from Classical to Contemporary Literature	35224	Irwin	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
*Reading the Tale of Genji, and the Year 1000 in Japan*	35210	Piggott	TTh, 9:30 - 10:50
Reason and the Unbearable Lightness of Being	35232	Pratt	TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
(Re)Imagining the Middle Ages	35202	Walling	MWF, 9:00 - 9:50
Reimagining the Renaissance	35256	Roberts	TTh, 3:30 - 4:50
Self and Society in Ancient Athenian Drama	35207	Lape	TTh, 9:30 - 10:50
Speaking Minds	35206	Pancheva	TTh, 9:30 - 10:50
Speed, Time, Motion	35201	Halberstam	MW, 8:00 - 9:20
True Confessions: Writing the Self	35258	Walling	MWF, 2:00 - 2:50
Utopian Thought: Ancient and Modern	35226	Richter	MW, 12:00 - 1:50
Varieties of Love and Literary Form	35234	Boone	TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
Women in Literature and Art	35249	Orenstein	TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
Women in Literature and Film	35259	Modleski	TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
Worlds of Change from Ovid to Modernity	35200	James	MW, 8:30 - 9:50