Schedule of Classes   Collegium of University Teaching Fellows Seminars

Fall 2011

Winter 2012

Spring 2012

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 2012

Anthropology

98T. Anthropology of Gender Variance across Cultures from Third Gender to Transgender. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Survey of transgenderism from anthropological perspective to introduce students to concepts, theories, and ethnographic studies of gender variance, gender-nonconformity, and alternative gender roles that challenge Western/Euro-American binary model of sex and gender. Letter grading. M. Vernon (GE Foundation -- Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

Art

98T. Considering Space: Society, Politics, and Poetics. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Consideration of space as topic with social, political, and even poetic significance. Rather than accepting space as pregiven factuality or as mere container to be filled by beings and objects, exploration of different conceptions of space and how these conceptions impact and interact with artistic, architectural, and other disciplines, including political science, sociology, and psychology. Letter grading. R. Moss (GE Foundation -- Arts and Humanities: Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice)

Asian American Studies

M98T. Hip-Hop Dance and Asian American Cultural Politics. (5) (Same as Dance M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Examination of relationship between hip-hop dance and Asian America. Investigation of how hip-hop artists and authors employ choreography to negotiate issues of Asian American culture, dance, racial formation, women's studies, community, and globalization. Letter grading. J. Perillo (GE Foundation -- Arts and Humanities: Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice)

Dance

M98T. Hip-Hop Dance and Asian American Cultural Politics. (5) (Same as Asian American Studies M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Examination of relationship between hip-hop dance and Asian America. Investigation of how hip-hop artists and authors employ choreography to negotiate issues of Asian American culture, dance, racial formation, women's studies, community, and globalization. Letter grading. J. Perillo (GE Foundation -- Arts and Humanities: Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice)

Film and Television

98T. Women's Television. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Illumination of numerous ways in which women have shaped and been shaped by television throughout medium's history, exploring their roles not only as receivers of television texts, but as active participants in their creation and (re)mediation. Letter grading. E. Hill (GE Foundation -- Arts and Humanities: Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice)

M98T. Staging Realness: Performance and Reality Television. (5) (Same as Theater M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Examination of reality television as performance. Engagement with scholarship on media and televisuality to investigate how realness and authenticity are staged in reality television and what it means to consider these notions in terms of performance. Letter grading. L. Hunter (GE Foundation -- Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

French

98T. Strangers in France: Migration in Sub-Saharan African Literature, Popular Music, and Film. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Comparative study of narratives of migration to France in colonial and postcolonial sub-Saharan African literature, music, and film, using critical literary analytic framework and transnational perspective to tease apart and challenge complex notions of race, home, and identity. Letter grading. K. Knox (GE Foundation -- Arts and Humanities: Literary and Cultural Analysis)

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics

98T. Spread of Drug-Resistant Infections: Causes and Response. (4) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Drug-resistant pathogens have led to more deaths than AIDS in recent years. Discussion of history of infectious diseases, development of antimicrobial agents, rise and causes of drug-resistant microbes, and possible countermeasures. Letter grading. E.C. Becket (GE Foundation -- Scientific Inquiry: Life Sciences)

Philosophy

98T. Infinity in Philosophy. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of philosophical history of concept of infinity. Consideration of different notions of infinity in writings of intellectual giants like Aristotle, Aquinas, and Bertrand Russell on topics like space, God, and numbers. Letter grading. E. Nutting (GE Foundation -- Arts and Humanities: Philosophical and Linguistic Analysis)

Theater

M98T. Staging Realness: Performance and Reality Television. (5) (Same as Film and Television M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Examination of reality television as performance. Engagement with scholarship on media and televisuality to investigate how realness and authenticity are staged in reality television and what it means to consider these notions in terms of performance. Letter grading. L. Hunter (GE Foundation -- Society and Culture: Social Analysis)
 

Winter 2012

Education

98T. Consumerism and Commercialization in Higher Education. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of consumer dynamics and opportunities students encounter as they move through college pipeline. From admissions and beyond, critical examination of what it means to buy and sell your way through higher education. Letter grading. A. Liu (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

English

98T. Victorian Masculinities. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Examination of changing ideas about masculinity in British fiction, poetry, and nonfiction prose during latter half of 19th century. Letter grading. D. Friedman (GE Foundation — Arts and Humanities: Literary and Cultural Analysis)

Jewish Studies

M98T. Crisis and War: Jewish Experience in Soviet Promised Land. (5) (Same as Slavic M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Moments of crisis in modern Jewish Soviet experience tracked through literature (both prose and poetry) produced by Jewish writers living in Soviet Union. How Jews expressed themselves, both aesthetically and politically, in constantly shifting Soviet climate that at once gathered Jews from Pale of Settlement into budding Soviet State and then discarded them in moments of acute anti-Semitism. Letter grading. N. Lekht (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Historical Analysis)

Law

98T. Understanding Incentives: How and Why Law Encourages Behavior. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of use of incentives in law to encourage wide range of behaviors. Topics include tax, patent, copyright, education, agricultural subsidies, and clean energy programs. Comparison of policy objectives, implementation, unintended consequences, and alternatives. Letter grading. K. Lorang (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

Mathematics

98T. Boundaries, Edges, and Singularities: Exploring Mathematical Image Segmentation. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Exploration of modern segmentation techniques in image processing from perspective of mathematical intuition and our own visual experience. Applications in medical imaging, satellite and aerial object detection, fingerprint and face recognition, machine learning, and more. Letter grading. H. Schaeffer (GE Foundation — Scientific Inquiry: Physical Sciences)

Political Science

98T. War and Territory. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Role that territory plays within group conflict. Conflicts over territory are known to be among most intractable and contentious in international politics. Exploration of economic, political, normative, and domestic explanations of attitudes toward conflict. Letter grading. J. Barnhart (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)

Slavic

M98T. Crisis and War: Jewish Experience in Soviet Promised Land. (5) (Same as Jewish Studies M98T.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Moments of crisis in modern Jewish Soviet experience tracked through literature (both prose and poetry) produced by Jewish writers living in Soviet Union. How Jews expressed themselves, both aesthetically and politically, in constantly shifting Soviet climate that at once gathered Jews from Pale of Settlement into budding Soviet State and then discarded them in moments of acute anti-Semitism. Letter grading. N. Lekht (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Historical Analysis)

Social Welfare

98T. Violence in Context: Research and Theory of Family, School, and Community Violence. (5) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Freshmen/sophomores preferred. Examination of contemporary topics of violence research, with emphasis on social influences, environment, and larger systems that predict and help explain disparities in violence. Special focus on family, school, and community violence. Letter grading. M. Holmes (GE Foundation — Society and Culture: Social Analysis)
 

Fall 2011

Seminars are taught in Winter and Spring Quarters.