Schedule of Classes   Collegium of University Teaching Fellows Seminars

Fall 2009

Winter 2010

Spring 2010
   available February 1

Fall 2009

The Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) is an innovative program that creates unique learning opportunities for both graduate teaching fellows and undergraduate students on campus. Through the program, some of UCLA’s very best advanced graduate students have the opportunity to develop and teach a lower division seminar in their field of specialization on a one-time only basis. This experience serves as a capstone to the teaching apprenticeship, preparing them for the academic job market and their role as future faculty members. At the same time, undergraduate students who enroll in CUTF seminars have the chance to take courses that are at the cutting edge of a discipline, and to experience the benefits of participating in a small-seminar environment. Seminars are taught in Winter and Spring Quarters.

Winter 2010

Comparative Literature

98TA. Crusader Jerusalem: Textual Representations of City in Medieval Narratives. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of representations of city of Jerusalem in chronicles and literature of Arabic, Armenian, Latin, Old French, and Middle English traditions. Exposure to number of texts dealing with loss of city to make connections and develop threads among these variant traditions. Drawing from both medieval and contemporary theories pertaining to idea of loss, examination of prevailing anxieties within these texts regarding Jerusalem and ways in which various authors, from differing traditions in 12th century, come to terms with loss of city to enemy. Letter grading. T.M. Boyadjian

M98TB. Reimagining Family in Transnational World. (5) (Same as Italian M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of ways traditional social form — family — is being represented and reimagined in contemporary cultural production in Western Europe and North America. Globalization is word that is constantly being used to describe flow of people, products, and information around world. How do immigration policies attempt to regulate and normalize family as gendered entity through restrictions on flows of humans across borders? How does lived experience of immigrants, exiles, refugees, and other such people on move subvert or conform to these restrictions? How are these flows and barriers imposed on them affecting way in which we view and live family relations? Close analysis of contemporary literature and film and consideration of current migration theories to discover that what is at stake, politically and culturally, in representations of families that move across borders or are torn and reconfigured by migration or exile. Letter grading. S. Divorski

Film and Television

98T. Punk Cinema and Media. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Consideration of many formulations of punk cinema and media by looking at them through conceptual framework. Screening of Julien Temple’s The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle and talking about what terms punk and punk cinema might mean as alternatives to mainstream musical and cinematic production, then moving on to talking about punk documentaries and their role in constituting subcultural identities and communities. Consideration of punk as aesthetic and ethos for film and videomaking, with time spent on concept of DIY (do-it-yourself) production and even producing punk films. Punk also looked at as particular type of performance with transgressive possibilities for expression of gender. Presentations of student research. Letter grading. L. Westrup

German

98T. Sex and City in Vienna 1900: Dreams, Anxiety, and Sexuality in Freud and His Circle. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Critical re-reading of Sigmund Freud’s works alongside other theories of his time, including works about sexuality and analytical literary texts by Viennese authors from early 20th century. Expansion of perspectives through representation of emotions in visual art of that time, with some contemporary theories about conception of city. Besides interpreting literary, theoretical, and other artistic works, attempt also to reconnect atmosphere of 1900s to 21st century through TV show “Sex and the City.” Letter grading. I.R. Guntersdorfer

Italian

M98T. Reimagining Family in Transnational World. (5) (Same as Comparative Literature M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of ways traditional social form — family — is being represented and reimagined in contemporary cultural production in Western Europe and North America. Globalization is word that is constantly being used to describe flow of people, products, and information around world. How do immigration policies attempt to regulate and normalize family as gendered entity through restrictions on flows of humans across borders? How does lived experience of immigrants, exiles, refugees, and other such people on move subvert or conform to these restrictions? How are these flows and barriers imposed on them affecting way in which we view and live family relations? Close analysis of contemporary literature and film and consideration of current migration theories to discover that what is at stake, politically and culturally, in representations of families that move across borders or are torn and reconfigured by migration or exile. Letter grading. S. Divorski

Law

98T. Alice in Eduland: Adventures in Education Reform Politics and Policy. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Inside view into major public education debates happening nationally and locally, based primarily on current events with corresponding readings. Investigation of philosophical underpinnings of some policy choices, with special attention to educational inequities and impact of decisions on low-income families and students of color. Letter grading. H. Korman

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

M98T. Divas in Song: Women, Hollywood Studio System, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Audiences. (5) (Same as Music History M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Musical styles that shaped divas in Hollywood studio system from 1930 to period of reorganization after U.S. versus Paramount Pictures (1948), with emphasis on role of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender audiences. Letter grading. R. Fenimore

Music History

M98T. Divas in Song: Women, Hollywood Studio System, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Audiences. (5) (Same as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Musical styles that shaped divas in Hollywood studio system from 1930 to period of reorganization after U.S. versus Paramount Pictures (1948), with emphasis on role of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender audiences. Letter grading. R. Fenimore

Political Science

98T. Comparative Responses to AIDS in Africa. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Comparative study of global and local interventions against HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Critical and analytic approaches to international health and development interventions that require coordination of actors across multiple levels of governance. Letter grading. K.Y. Dionne

Psychology

98TA. From Michael to Mia: Psychology of Race and Gender in Sport. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Use of social psychological approach to examine how issues of race and gender affect sporting domain. Exploration of how racial and gender stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination impact athletes, coaches, referees, and fans. Letter grading. K. Kahn

98TB. Why We Remember and Why We Forget: Educational Applications of Memory Research. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Why do people forget? And how can they better remember? Introduction to research findings in human learning and memory, including techniques found to improve long-term retention of information and its transfer to other contexts. Letter grading. J. Little

World Arts and Cultures

98T. Site-Specific Performance and Politics of Place. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Examination of interactions of bodies performing in various geographical and architectural sites. Investigation of meanings of diverse places and how performance intervenes in, enhances, or alters space, looking specifically at politics engendered in each case. Letter grading. R. Candelario