Schedule of Classes   Collegium of University Teaching Fellows Seminars

Fall 2012

Winter 2013

Spring 2013

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.

Spring 2013

Asian American Studies

M98T. Cross-Cultural Identities: Making Music in Asian America. (5) (Same as Music History M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of political contexts that have shaped contemporary musical cultures involving Asian American musicians and, to some extent, musicians in Asia. Discussion of relationships between music and political history through frameworks of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Letter grading. H.K. Chang (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice)

Film and Television

98TA. Media Industry Convergence: Past and Present, Texts and Contexts. (5) Seminar, five hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Introduction to media industry convergence (i.e., manner in which media industries work together, particularly during times of change or introduction of new medium) and to transmedia properties (i.e., stories that are told across variety of media, including film, television, video games, etc.) in their historical development and contemporary manifestations. Investigation of industrial and textual practices involved in creation and consumption of transmedia properties. Letter grading. J. Porst (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice)

Gender Studies

M98T. Her Side of Story: How Women Wrote Modernism, 1900 to 1940. (5) (Same as Spanish M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Investigation of gender in various international modernisms by comparing and contrasting literary and artistic representations of and by women. Exploration of how women helped shape modernism and simultaneously redefined their role in society. Letter grading. V. Fernandez (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Literary and Cultural Analysis, Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice)

Italian

98T. Mafia Movies: Understanding International Criminal Organizations and National Stereotypes. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Through selection of Italian and Italian American films, discussion of idea of mafia in its historical, social, economic, cultural, and political dimensions in Italy and abroad. Exploration of how mafioso image has become part of international cultural lexis and how adamantly Italian films struggle not only to discredit, but to subvert viewers’ fascination with that image. Letter grading. C. Zamboni (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

Music History

M98T. Cross-Cultural Identities: Making Music in Asian America. (5) (Same as Asian American Studies M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of political contexts that have shaped contemporary musical cultures involving Asian American musicians and, to some extent, musicians in Asia. Discussion of relationships between music and political history through frameworks of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Letter grading. H.K. Chang (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice)

Political Science

98T. Revolutions and International Politics. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Discussion of following questions: What are causes of revolutions? Why do they sometimes spread? What explains foreign policy of revolutionary states and reaction of other states? Why do revolutions sometimes lead to war? Letter grading. C. Nelson (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

Spanish

M98T. Her Side of Story: How Women Wrote Modernism, 1900 to 1940. (5) (Same as Gender Studies M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Investigation of gender in various international modernisms by comparing and contrasting literary and artistic representations of and by women. Exploration of how women helped shape modernism and simultaneously redefined their role in society. Letter grading. V. Fernandez (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Literary and Cultural Analysis, Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice)

Statistics

98T. Burden of Proof: Data and Scientific Reasoning. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of ways in which scientific reasoning is used to go from data to decisions. Examination of ideas in probability, logic, reasoning, and economics to establish methods that constitute gold standard for reasoning through science. Letter grading. A. Bray (GE Foundation — Scientific Inquiry: Physical Sciences)

Winter 2013

Ancient Near East

98T. Mixed Messages: Identity in Hellenistic World. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of aspects of cultural and ethnic identity through investigation of texts and archaeological material from kingdoms of Hellenistic world, circa 332 to 30 B.C.E. Letter grading. E. Cole (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Historical Analysis)

Art History

M98T. Constructing Natural Body: Choreographing Nature on Concert Stage. (5) (Same as World Arts and Cultures M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. With perspective that social arrangements extend from construction of body, use of examples from 20th-century American modern dance to examine how presumption that body is natural has figured in historical change and stasis. Letter grading. D. Gilbert (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice)

Classics

98T. Defining Bad Emperors: Ancient and Modern Depictions of Caligula, Nero, and Commodus. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Corrupt emperor is essential figure in many movies about Rome. Analysis of Caligula, Nero, and Commodus as primary examples of this character type, investigating original Roman texts alongside these emperors’ modern representations in film. Letter grading. K. Piller (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Literary and Cultural Analysis)

Comparative Literature

M98T. Nuclear Literatures: Comparative Approach. (5) (Same as Slavic M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Comparative exploration of nuclear themes in three literary traditions and cultures: Japanese, American, and Soviet/post-Soviet. Examination of some contemporary uses of social media in generating literary responses to nuclear disasters (e.g., Fukushima Twitter poetry). Letter grading. N. Caffee (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Literary and Cultural Analysis)

Disability Studies

M98TB. Litigating Disability: Strategic Integrated Plan for Social Change. (5) (Same as Law M98TB.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of strategic plans for social change. Topics include current disability and education rights issues. Students analyze relevant law and build plans to engage media, organizing, lobbying, and litigation efforts in their proposed solutions. Letter grading. K. Perez (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

English

98T. Sedition! Romantic Literature at Limits of Law. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Examination of banned texts from Britain in 1790s, alongside legal documents, parliamentary proceedings, and trial literature. Consideration of how literature engages with, and falls foul of, state-approved standards of admissible ideas in Romantic period. Letter grading. I. Newman (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Literary and Cultural Analysis)

Film and Television

98TB. Working Girls: History of Women Directors in U.S. (5) Seminar, five hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Study of women filmmakers in Hollywood from early cinema to present day, within industrial-cultural context of film history and American society. Letter grading. M. Montanez Smukler (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice)

History

98T. Narco-mundo: How Narcotraficantes Gained Control of Northern Mexico. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Examination of Mexico’s War on Drugs from historical perspective to gain basic understanding of origins of War on Drugs, with emphasis on U.S.-Mexico border and its impact on culture and immigration. Letter grading. C. Hernandez (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

Law

M98TA. Criminal Justice and Forensic Issues in Later Life. (5) (Same as Nursing M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Examination of state of forensic science for older adults, policy protecting older adults, and ways both intersect. Analysis of research, policy, and media in discussing ways to protect older adults from victimization. Letter grading. C.E. Ziminski (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

M98TB. Litigating Disability: Strategic Integrated Plan for Social Change. (5) (Same as Disability Studies M98TB.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of strategic plans for social change. Topics include current disability and education rights issues. Students analyze relevant law and build plans to engage media, organizing, lobbying, and litigation efforts in their proposed solutions. Letter grading. K. Perez (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics

98T. Prostate Cancer: Scientific and Social Implications of Aging Society. (4) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Engagement in active dialogue concerning prostate cancer and medical and social issues it presents, with emphasis on discussion and critical analysis of primary scientific literature and methods pertinent to prostate and general cancer research. Letter grading. D. Smith (Not currently approved for GE Foundations)

Nursing

M98T. Criminal Justice and Forensic Issues in Later Life. (5) (Same as Law M98TA.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Examination of state of forensic science for older adults, policy protecting older adults, and ways both intersect. Analysis of research, policy, and media in discussing ways to protect older adults from victimization. Letter grading. C.E. Ziminski (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

Slavic

M98T. Nuclear Literatures: Comparative Approach. (5) (Same as Comparative Literature M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Comparative exploration of nuclear themes in three literary traditions and cultures: Japanese, American, and Soviet/post-Soviet. Examination of some contemporary uses of social media in generating literary responses to nuclear disasters (e.g., Fukushima Twitter poetry). Letter grading. N. Caffee (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Literary and Cultural Analysis)

Sociology

98TA. History and Development of Racial and Ethnic Categorization in U.S. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Where do race and ethnicity come from? What historical processes created racial and ethnic categories in U.S.? Racial and ethnic categorization addressed through U.S. history, including external classification, identification, state classification, and panethnicity. Letter grading. C. O’Malley (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

98TB. Production of Poverty Knowledge. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Examination of how scholarly and public understandings of poverty in U.S. come to exist as they do, with emphasis on varied theoretical and methodological approaches used to create this knowledge. Letter grading. P. Prickett (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

World Arts and Cultures

M98T. Constructing Natural Body: Choreographing Nature on Concert Stage. (5) (Same as Art History M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. With perspective that social arrangements extend from construction of body, use of examples from 20th-century American modern dance to examine how presumption that body is natural has figured in historical change and stasis. Letter grading. D. Gilbert (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice)

Fall 2012

Seminars are taught in Winter and Spring Quarters.