Undergraduate Courses
Spring 2023
AN N EA 10W – Jerusalem: Holy City
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5.0
Instructor(s): Schniedewind, W.M.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 12W. Survey of religious, political, and cultural history of Jerusalem over three millennia as symbolic focus of three faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Transformation of sacred space as reflected by literary and archaeological evidence through examination of testimony of artifacts, architecture, and iconography in relation to written word. Study of creation of mythic Jerusalem through event and experience. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
AN N EA C123B – Coptic
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Winnerman, J.P.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course C123A. Introduction to Coptic, final phase of Egyptian language, which is attested in writing from circa 300 to 1400 CE. Introduction to variety of Coptic textual genres, from hagiographies to homilies, magical spells, private letters, legal contracts, and Gnostic Gospels found in Nag Hammadi. Readings in texts in dialects other than Sahidic (Bohairic, Fayumic, Akhmimic). Concurrently scheduled with course C223B. P/NP or letter grading.
ARABIC 150 – Classical Arabic Literature in English
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Cooperson, M.D.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Readings in English; knowledge of Arabic not required. Survey of premodern Arabic cultural production in its political, religious, and social contexts. Coverage of pre-Islamic Arabia, rise of Islam, and major themes of Southwest Asian history, along with significant figures and moments in literature and culture of premodern period. Consideration of selected modern responses to Arabic tradition. P/NP or letter grading.
ARABIC 181 – Translating Arabic
Seminar: Sem 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Cooperson, M.D.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Preparation: advanced proficiency in English and Arabic (at least three years of Arabic instruction or equivalent). Open to both native and nonnative speakers of English and Arabic. Training of students in methodology of translation from Arabic into English, with focus on producing accurate and readable English versions of Arabic texts from variety of fields. Close reading and written translation of Arabic texts, with review of linguistic and cultural difficulties that arise in course of translation. Texts may include classical Arabic literature (religion, historiography), modern writing (literature, media), and spoken Arabic (television, radio), based on student interest. Letter grading.
ARMENIA 230A – Elementary Classical Armenian
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Cowe, P.S.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Course 230A is requisite to 230B, which is requisite to 230C. Introduction to grammar of classical literary language (5th to mid-19th century) and guided readings in narrative prose texts. Letter grading.
ART HIS 19 – Tea and Japan: Art, Environment, and Material Culture
Seminar: Sem 1
Units: 1
Instructor(s): Kersey, K.W.
Course Description: Seminar, one hour. Discussion of and critical thinking about topics of current intellectual importance, taught by faculty members in their areas of expertise and illuminating many paths of discovery at UCLA. P/NP grading.
Class Description: From its importation in 12th century to Starbucks Matcha Latte, tea (Camellia sinensis) has had major impact on numerous aspects of Japanese culture and history. Religion, agriculture, architecture, ceramics, painting, incense, class structures, garden design, and even ethnography all intersect with history of tea. Introduction to long history of tea consumption in Japan. In addition to topics such as Zen and tea ceremony (Chanoyu), discussion of more contemporary and critical lenses: rebel tea to overturn elitism of tea culture, radiation contamination following 2011 tsunami, botany of desire, tea in contemporary art, and global turn in Japanese tea culture. Study also revisits The Book of Tea, highly influential book that attempted to use tea as lens through which to read all of Japanese culture. Therein, students practice reading problematic historical document and learning to identify prejudiced reasoning. Study punctuated by tastings and site visits. Class meets April 4, 18, May 2, 16, 30.
ART HIS 31 – Art of India and Southeast Asia
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Hall, R.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; museum field trips. Discussion of selection of monuments and objects from Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia using key historical, cultural, and religious concepts. Analysis of each monument or object in detail, with their relationships compared and contrasted. P/NP or letter grading.
ART HIS 115C – Romanesque Art and Architecture
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Cohen, M.M.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 21. Art and architecture of Western Europe in 11th and 12th centuries. P/NP or letter grading.
ART HIS C116B – Late Byzantine Art and Architecture
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Horvat, F.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Theory and development of Byzantine art from 1204 to 1453. Concurrently scheduled with course C216B. P/NP or letter grading.
ART HIS C126 – Selected Topics in Early Modern Art: Early Netherlandish Painting
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Variable topics in early modern art that reflect interests of individual regular and/or visiting faculty members. May be repeated twice for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C226. P/NP or letter grading.
Class Description: Selected topics about some of most prominent artists active in Low Countries during 15th and 16th centuries, notably Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan Gossart, Quinten Massys, Hans Memling, Rogier Van der Weyden, and Jan Van Eyck. Study covers range of methodological approaches such as historical source criticism, technical art history, and issues of conservation and restoration.
ART HIS C148G – Gardens in Chinese Art and Culture
Lecture: Lec 2
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Lee, H.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Overview of practice, theory, and representation of Chinese gardens in their historical, philosophical, artistic, social, and cultural contexts through literary writings, paintings, and aspects of material culture. Concurrently scheduled with course C248G. P/NP or letter grading.
ASIAN M60W – Introduction to Buddhism
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Bodiford, W.M.
This is a multiple-listed class: Asian M60W – Introduction to Buddhism; Religion, Study of (RELIGN) M60W – Introduction to Buddhism
Course Description: (Same as Religion M60W.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course M60. Knowledge of Asian languages not required. General survey of Buddhist worldview and lifestyle, with focus on those religious doctrines and meditative practices most essential to various Asian traditions of Buddhism. Particular attention to problems involved in study of religion. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
CHIN 70 – Introduction to Traditional Chinese Literature
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Mai, H.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 70W. Prior knowledge of Chinese culture, literature, or language not required. Introduction to pre-20th-century Chinese literary traditions, including selections from poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. P/NP or letter grading.
CHIN 110C – Introduction to Classical Chinese
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Mai, H.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 110B. Grammar and readings in selected premodern texts. P/NP or letter grading.
CHIN C150B – Chinese Literature in Translation: Traditional Narrative and Fiction
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Wu, Y.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Chinese not required. Examination of formation and development of Chinese narrative traditions from Tang to mid-Qing periods (7th-18th centuries). Readings from biographical writings, fiction, drama, legal cases, etc., with emphasis on different narrative conventions and their cultural assumptions and intersections. Exploration of important issues in context of imperial China, including order and chaos, self and other, desire and transcendence, gender norms and transgression, violence and justice. May be taken independently for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C250B. Letter grading.
CHIN 180 – Chinese Mythology and Supernatural
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Duthie, N.N.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Chinese not required. Survey of corpus of traditional Chinese mythology, with focus on examples preserved in variety of early texts, later evolutions in dramatic and fictional works, and evidence from visual arts. Letter grading.
CLASSIC 47 – Medical Terminology: Origins, Nature, and Practice
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Beckelhymer, S.D.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Introduction to specialized vocabulary of health sciences, which is rooted in Greek and Roman languages and in those two cultures from which much of history of modern medicine is derived. Students gain working knowledge of fundamental terminology used in medicine and health sciences as well as how this terminology has been composed. Development of ability to interpret and pronounce words. Students apply linguistic rules and how they operate in English and field-specific vocabulary to understand new terminology in various health science fields. Study of etymological origins of fundamental terminology as mnemonic aid for learning and recalling this terminology, and also to serve as mechanism for connecting health/medical professions to humanistic origins. P/NP or letter grading.
CLUSTER M27CW – Global Islam: Special Topics: Encountering Unbelievers in Indian Ocean Region, 1000 to Present
Seminar: Sem 3
Units: 6
Instructor(s): Shah, H.; Yarbrough, L.B.
This is a multiple-listed class: Clusters (CLUSTER) M27CW – Global Islam: Special Topics; Islamic Studies (ISLM ST) M27CW – Global Islam: Special Topics
Course Description:(Formerly numbered 27CW.) (Same as Islamic Studies M27CW.) Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: course M27B. Introduction to Islam, immensely diverse global tradition which is second largest religion. Study of Islam and Muslims within framework of study of global religious traditions and emphasis on profound diversity of localized belief and practice found across world. Examination of Islam’s evolution across 15 centuries, from late antiquity–when it emerged as localized religion in Central Arabia–to modern era where it is practice from U.S. to Indonesia. Concentration on broad analytical categories in study of religion such as text, culture, history, and prophecy. Students transition to more complex analyses through chronological overview of Islamic history. Study also of case studies of Muslim global networks in arenas such as art, music, literature, and political thought. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Class Description: Study of how Muslims and non-Muslims have interacted across South Asia, from year 1000 CE to present. Exploration of topics such as religious syncretism, Muslim studies of Hinduism, conversion, Islamization, and Persian translations of Sanskrit; as well as more controversial topics such as desecration of sacred sites, and religious polemics and violence. Study equips students with solid and balanced understanding of religious dynamics of Indian subcontinent over last 1000 years.
COM LIT 2BW – Survey of Literature: Middle Ages to 17th Century
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Pack, E.R.
Course Description:Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1B or 4BW. Study of selected texts from Middle Ages to 17th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include works by authors such as Chaucer, Dante, Cervantes, Marguerite de Navarre, Shakespeare, Calderón, Molière, and Racine. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
DH 187/Spanish 191B: 3D Digital Reconstructions along the Medieval Camino de Santiago
Seminar: Sem 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Dagenais, J.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course 101. Students are guided in development and realization of collaborative digital humanities research project. Students learn to develop and refine research question, carry out advanced research in digital humanities, and present results of their research to their peers. Students participate in structured trainings, work with classmates to select suitable research topics, give weekly updates about their research process, and develop presentation of project. Librarians and members of Digital Research Consortium introduce students to available digital collections, archives, and other resources at UCLA. Letter grading.
Class Description: The course will study the rise of the medieval Camino de Santiago and the spread of architectural ideas along its course, focusing on Romanesque architecture and sculpture in particular. The course will alternate between readings and discussion of the medieval pilgrimage itself and hands-on projects to reconstruct churches, monasteries, civil architecture, roads and walls along the Camino or in the city of Santiago de Compostela itself, using the existing model of the Romanesque church as anchor point. Students will learn theories, best practices, and best tools for undertaking 3D VR modeling of cultural sites. Course will be taught in English
ENGL 70 – Medievalisms: Medieval Literature and Contemporary Culture
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Jager, E.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Not open for credit to English majors or students with credit for any course in the 140 series. Introduction to medieval texts juxtaposed with modern texts and media to analyze how and why the medieval (in form of crusade, quest, romance, world-construction, etc.) is continually reproduced and transformed in large scale popular productions, novels, film, and television. Textual focus on medieval works in comparison to analysis of 20th- and 21st-century works may include Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte Darthur, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and Harry Potter. P/NP or letter grading.
ENGL 141A – Early Medieval Literature
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Jager, E.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 141.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Major poetry and prose of early medieval Britain, including epic, romance, history, saints’ lives, and travel literature. Texts and topics include Beowulf, Vikings, poems on women, Bede, and King Alfred. P/NP or letter grading.
ENGL 141C – Topics in Old English: Beowulf
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Weaver, E.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: course 141B. Intensive study of Old English literature in original language. Texts and topics may include Beowulf, Vercelli Book, books of monsters, medical writing, etc. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
Class Description: Although it only survives in one half-burned copy, Beowulf is today both early medieval poem that begins countless British literature surveys, and subject of blockbuster movie and novel adaptations. Yet even as poem invites reader into its mead halls and dragon hoards relatively easily, it remains impossible to say exactly when or by whom it was written, or what its earliest audiences may have thought of it. Study translates key scenes from original Old English, while reading through range of translations and critical lenses. One guiding course theme is intimacy: How close can one get to poem (and language) from 1000 years ago; and what ways of reading can help to illuminate it? Study serves as laboratory for different interpretive approaches, from manuscript analysis and linguistic questions to theoretical frameworks drawn from feminist criticism, queer theory, and indigenous studies. Students also pursue original research project on poem and its readers, medieval and modern.
ENGL 148 – Cultures of Middle Ages: Dreaming City across Cultures
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Chism, C.N.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Interdisciplinary survey of particular medieval societies, with special emphasis on complex interactions between different ethnic and cultural traditions of medieval world. Examination of processes of intercultural encounter and transmission: classical or patristic traditions into medieval culture, crusade, travel literature, and literature of contact zones, including interactions between Celtic, Anglo, and Norman societies, and debates between Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
Class Description: Exploration of premodern cities as both cultural/religious totalities and cultural fracture points that express divided interests of pagans, Christians, Jews, and Muslims who inhabit them. Study asks how cities function as imagined communities, in both materialized and fantasized forms; how stories about cities make chronotopes out of their urban landscapes, that invite further elaborations and narrative traditions; how contested cities such as Rome, Jerusalem, Constantinople, and Cairo situate contrasting and cooperative imperatives of resident cultures, in sites such as saints’ shrines that serve believers of many confessions simultaneously, and their access or occlusion. Exploration of premodern urban and material culture, civic citizenship, and archaeological reconstructions, and literary and narrative methodologies. Assignments include two 2000-word papers or one shared class project with 1500-word analytical debrief and online forum; weekly response papers; and optional class presentation (replaces one paper).
ENGL 150B – Shakespeare: Later Plays
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Watson, R.N.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Intensive study of representative problem plays, major tragedies, Roman plays, and romances. P/NP or letter grading.
ENGL 150C – Topics in Shakespeare: Resourceful Shakespeare: Origins, Analogs, and Offshoots
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Dickey, S.J.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Introduction to or advancement of student knowledge of Shakespeare’s works through broad or specific topics set by instructor. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
Class Description: Exploration of selected plays by William Shakespeare from general perspective of source study, considering both Shakespeare’s use of sources and use of Shakespeare as source. Students read some narrative and dramatic works that Shakespeare used in crafting his own plays to better understand playwright’s transformational strategies. Students gain fresh awareness of plays’ particular idiosyncrasies, and more complex sense of Shakespearean imitation and originality. Consideration of those plays as sources, in turn, for modern theatrical, literary, cinematic and musical derivatives. Although main focus is Shakespeare’s plays, students also acquire sense of their durable importance as cultural properties, resources, and totemic objects of veneration, homage, allusion, and parody.
FIAT LX 19 – Animation, Myth, and Folktale
Seminar: Sem 1
Units: 1
Instructor(s): Nagy, J.F.
Course Description: Seminar, one hour. Discussion of and critical thinking about topics of current intellectual importance, taught by faculty members in their areas of expertise and illuminating many paths of discovery at UCLA. P/NP grading.
Class Description: Examination of how cartoons and feature-length animation incorporate elements of traditional narrative including myth, legend, folktale, and epic. Animation offers fascinating demonstration of pervasiveness and persistence of age-old story patterns and motifs.
FRNCH 12 – Introduction to Study of French and Francophone Literature
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s)Carron, J.
Course Description: Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 6. Principles of literary analysis as applied to selected texts in poetry, theater, and prose by French and Francophone writers. P/NP or letter grading.
FRNCH 16 – Society And Self in Early Modern France
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Burns, R.J.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Role of religion, politics, and sociability in constructing self and understanding its relation with society in early modern France. Development of students’ critical thought and knowledge of French and European intellectual tradition. P/NP or letter grading.
FRNCH 116 – Studies in Renaissance French Culture and Literature
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Carron, J.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Taught in French. Study of Renaissance French culture and literature, including la Pléiade and 16th-century poetry, linguistic and poetic revolution, novel and early prose, and late French humanism. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
FRNCH 117 – Studies in 17th-Century French Culture and Literature
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Burns, R.J.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 5. Taught in French. Study of 17th-century French culture and literature, including theater, philosophers, moralists, novelists, and cultural, political, social, religious, and courtly aspects. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
HIST 11A – History of China: To 1000
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s):Chapman, J.J.; Goldman, A.S.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Survey of early history of China–genesis of characteristic Chinese institutions and modes of thought from antiquity to 1000. Focus on social, political, intellectual, and economic aspects of early and middle empires. P/NP or letter grading.
HIST 105C – Survey of Middle East, 500 to Present: 1700 to Present
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Gelvin, J.L.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Background and circumstances of rise of Islam, creation of Islamic Empire, and its development. Rise of Dynastic Successor States and Modern Nation States. Social, intellectual, political, and economic development. P/NP or letter grading.
HIST 107B – Armenian History: Armenia from Cilician Kingdom through Periods of Foreign Domination and National Stirrings, 11th to 19th Centuries
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Aslanian, S.D.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. P/NP or letter grading.
HIST 116B – Byzantine History
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Langdon, J.S.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Political, socioeconomic, religious, and cultural continuity in millennial history of Byzantium. Reforms of Diocletian. Byzantium’s relations with Latin Europe, Slavs, Sassanids, Arabs, and Turks. P/NP or letter grading.
HIST 129A – Social History of Spain and Portugal: Age of Silver in Spain and Portugal, 1479 to 1789
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Ruiz, T.F.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Development of popular history in Iberian Peninsula. Emphasis on peasants and urban history, gold routes, slave trade, history of women, and development of different types of collective violence. P/NP or letter grading.
HIST 130 – History of European Political Thought
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Stacey, P.J.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Introduction to principal themes in history of European political thought from classical antiquity to close of early modern period. Study of outstanding contributions to history of social, political, and moral philosophy in texts of major thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, More, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Reconstruction of broad intellectual and ideological contexts from which their work emerged to help students make sense of works of political philosophy in their relevant historical setting and to know something about Athenian democracy and its critics, Roman republic and its empire, Renaissance, early modern European civil wars, American and French Revolutions, and Enlightenment. Focus on emergence of some crucial concepts during this period–ideas about state, self, rights, sovereignty, liberty, private property, and more–that define way we think about politics and society in modern world. P/NP or letter grading.
HIST M133C – History of Prostitution
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Norberg, M. TA Dayton, E.C.
This is a multiple-listed class: Gender Studies (GENDER) M133C – History of Prostitution; History (HIST) M133C – History of Prostitution
Course Description: (Same as Gender Studies M133C.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. History of prostitution from ancient times to present. Topics include toleration in medieval Europe, impact of syphilis, birth of courtesan, regulation in 19th-century Europe, white slavery scare, and contemporary global sex trade. Readings include novels, primary sources, and testimony by sex workers. P/NP or letter grading.
HIST 167B – History of East Africa
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Frederick, H.E.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of cultural diversity of east Africa from earliest times to growth of complex societies, its place within wider Indian Ocean system, and colonial conquest to gaining of independence and postcolonial challenges. P/NP or letter grading.
HIST 169A – Thought and Society in China to 1000
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Chapman, J.J.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Recommended preparation: course 11A. Designed for juniors/seniors. Elite and popular expressions of Chinese cultural life examined in readings and lectures. Focus on diversities of thought in classical legacy and their evolution under impact of Buddhism to 1000. Emphasis on intersections between intellectual life and social, political, and economic conditions. P/NP or letter grading.
HIST 191B – Capstone Seminar: History–Medieval: Law, Sin, and Crime in Medieval Europe
Seminar: Sem 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Goldberg, J.L.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Designed for seniors. Limited to 15 students meeting with faculty member. Organized on topics basis with reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. May be repeated once for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
Class Description: Medieval world is often seen as place of disorder and violence, where rules and laws scarcely existed. But medieval Europeans were instead obsessed with law, nature of sin and crime (and changing boundaries between them), and problem of proof. Exploration of medieval society by study of various ways law defined, proved, and punished different kinds of misbehavior. Examination of ordeals and torture, sex and marriage, crime, sin, and social control. Study culminates with research paper based on primary sources.
JAPAN 191C – Variable Topics Research Seminars: Personalities in Japanese Civilization: Current Trends and Scholarship in Medieval Japanese History
Seminar: Sem 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Curtis, P.R.
Class Description: What are current trends in scholarship on medieval Japanese history, and whose work has guided them? Introduction of variety of publications from last decade on Japan’s medieval period (roughly 12th to 16th centuries). Exploration of their topics, themes, and research methods as study asks why and how scholars approach their subjects through certain lenses, whether social history, gender, materiality, environment studies, or others. Study asks what choices writers make when crafting research topic; how they situate themselves in relation to foundational work in Japanese and Medieval studies; and how more sophisticated understanding of present state of medieval Japanese history field can inform research and analytical skills. Focus on reading, writing, discussion, and professional development shaped by critical analyses of how researchers do what they do, and applications of those lessons. Some previous knowledge of premodern Japan highly recommended. Enrollment by instructor consent.
JEWISH M10 – Introduction to Judaism
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Bonesho, C.E.
This is a multiple-listed class: Jewish Studies (JEWISH) M10 – Introduction to Judaism; Religion, Study of (RELIGN) M10 – Introduction to Judaism
Course Description: (Same as Religion M10.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Judaism’s basic beliefs, institutions, and practices. Topics include development of biblical and rabbinic Judaism; concepts of god, sin, repentance, prayer, and the messiah; history of Talmud and synagogue; evolution of folk beliefs and year-cycle and life-cycle practices. P/NP or letter grading.
KOREA C150 – Korean Literature in Translation: Classical
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Park, H.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 150.) Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Korean not required. Survey of premodern Korean literature from beginning to 19th century. Concurrently scheduled with course C250. P/NP or letter grading.
MUSCLG CM90T – Early Music Ensemble
Activity: Act 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Winkle, M.D.
This is a multiple-listed class: Music (MUSC) M90T – Early Music Ensemble; Musicology (MUSCLG) CM90T – Early Music Ensemble
Course Description: (Formerly numbered Music History CM90T.) (Same as Music M90T.) Activity, four hours. Preparation: audition. Group performance of Western vocal and instrumental music from historical periods prior to 1800. Early instruments may be used at instructor’s discretion. May be repeated for credit without limitation. May be concurrently scheduled with course C490T. P/NP or letter grading.
PHILOS C108 – Hobbes
Lecture: Lec 1
Units:4
Instructor(s): Normore, C.G.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: one philosophy course. Hobbes’ political philosophy, especially “Leviathan,” with attention to its relevance to contemporary political philosophy. May be concurrently scheduled with course C208. P/NP or letter grading.
RELIGN M10 – Introduction to Judaism
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Bonesho, C.E.
This is a multiple-listed class: Jewish Studies (JEWISH) M10 – Introduction to Judaism; Religion, Study of (RELIGN) M10 – Introduction to Judaism.
Course Description: (Same as Jewish Studies M10.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Judaism’s basic beliefs, institutions, and practices. Topics include development of biblical and rabbinic Judaism; concepts of god, sin, repentance, prayer, and the messiah; history of Talmud and synagogue; evolution of folk beliefs and year-cycle and life-cycle practices. P/NP or letter grading.
RELIGN M60W – Introduction to Buddhism
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Bodiford, W.M.
This is a multiple-listed class: Asian M60W – Introduction to Buddhism; Religion, Study of (RELIGN) M60W – Introduction to Buddhism
Course Description: (Same as Asian M60W.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course M60A. Knowledge of Asian languages not required. General survey of Buddhist worldview and lifestyle, with focus on those religious doctrines and meditative practices most essential to various Asian traditions of Buddhism. Particular attention to problems involved in study of religion. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
RELIGN M161D – Buddhism in India
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Loukota Sanclement
This is a multiple-listed class: Religion, Study of (RELIGN) M161D – Buddhism in India; South Asian (S ASIAN) CM160 – Buddhism in India
Course Description: (Same as South Asian CM160.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Indian languages not required. Overview of social and doctrinal history of Buddhism from its origin to its disappearance in India, based not only on texts but on archaeological, art historical, and inscriptional sources. Examination of both formal doctrine and actual practices and on what learned Buddhists wrote and ordinary Buddhists did, saw, and made. Letter grading.
RELIGN 177 – Variable Topics in Religion: Jain Literature
Seminar: Sem 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Hoose, A.G.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Interdisciplinary approach to some major topics in study of religion, such as religion and science, religion and society, politics, mysticism, ideas of revelation, scripture, myth and religion, worship and ritual. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Class Description: Early Jain literature offers window into beliefs, societal norms, and daily life in ancient and medieval India. From perspective of 21st-century America, world revealed is both recognizably human and intriguingly unfamiliar, as authors address universal concerns from distinctively premodern and non-Western point of view. Reading of selected texts–from religious instruction to romantic fairy tale–composed between late first millennium BCE and early second millennium CE. Exploration of themes handled, authors’ literary purposes, relationship between text and context, and interactions between Jain and Hindu literary traditions.
RUSSN 90A – Introduction to Russian Civilization
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Pilshchikov, I.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to Russian culture and society from earliest times to 1917. P/NP or letter grading.
SCAND 50 – Introduction to Scandinavian Literatures and Cultures
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Wen, P.J.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 50W. Designed for students in general and for those wishing to prepare for more advanced and specialized studies in Scandinavian literature and culture. Selected works from literatures of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland, ranging from myth, national epic, saga, and folktale through modern novel, poem, play, short story, and film, read in English and critically discussed. P/NP or letter grading.
SCAND 50W – Introduction to Scandinavian Literatures and Cultures
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 5
Instructor(s): Lunde, A.O.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 50. Designed for students in general and for those wishing to prepare for more advanced and specialized studies in Scandinavian literature and culture. Selected works from literatures of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland, ranging from myth, national epic, saga, and folktale through modern novel, poem, play, short story, and film, read in English and critically discussed. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
SPAN 11B – Catalan Language and Culture II
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Manuel-Oronich, R.; Dagenais, J.C.
SPAN 135 – Topics in Early Modern Studies: Written on Ocean: Ships and Sailors in Colonial Spanish American Literature
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Rodriguez, J.N.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 25 or 27, and 119. Exploration of 16th and 17th centuries, with focus on early modern period of Spain and Spanish America. Possible topics include Spanish colonization and indigenous responses, transatlantic literary and visual baroque, race and religion in construction of early modern nation, transatlantic fictions, early modern identities and theatrical representations, literature and historiography, transatlantic poetics and poetry. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Class Description: Study of figures of sailors, pilots, and cartographers–and their journeys–as place of enunciation in early modern colonialism. Focus on exploration of great expeditions by sea that achieved circumnavigation and cartography of American continent, and most renowned navigators; but also expeditions of smaller magnitude charged to recognize ocean coastlines. Examination of meaning of transportation used to cross oceans and explore coasts. Exposure of relation between them and ship as locus of enunciation in texts and maps. Readings in Spanish; taught in Spanish.
SPAN 160 – Topics in Spanish Linguistics: Historical Evolution of Spanish and Portuguese Phonology
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Quicoli, A.C.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 25 or 27. Exploration of origin of language, how Spanish is acquired, evolution of Spanish from Latin to early modern period, how Spanish varies in world, how to teach Spanish, Spanish in contact with other languages. Possible topics include Spanish in Los Angeles, history of Spanish language, first- and second-language acquisition, language and cognition. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Class Description: Study traces evolution of sound system of modern Spanish and Portuguese from vulgar Latin within context of modern linguistics theory. Topics include language acquisition and linguistic change; theory of linguistic change; phonological rules, and concept of phonological change; sound systems of classical and vulgar Latin; evolution of Spanish and Portuguese vowels and consonants; and evolution of Mexican Spanish.
Spanish 191B/DH 187 – 3D Digital Reconstructions along the Medieval Camino de Santiago
Seminar: Sem 1
Units: 4
Instructor(s): Dagenais, J.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course 101. Students are guided in development and realization of collaborative digital humanities research project. Students learn to develop and refine research question, carry out advanced research in digital humanities, and present results of their research to their peers. Students participate in structured trainings, work with classmates to select suitable research topics, give weekly updates about their research process, and develop presentation of project. Librarians and members of Digital Research Consortium introduce students to available digital collections, archives, and other resources at UCLA. Letter grading.
Class Description: The course will study the rise of the medieval Camino de Santiago and the spread of architectural ideas along its course, focusing on Romanesque architecture and sculpture in particular. The course will alternate between readings and discussion of the medieval pilgrimage itself and hands-on projects to reconstruct churches, monasteries, civil architecture, roads and walls along the Camino or in the city of Santiago de Compostela itself, using the existing model of the Romanesque church as anchor point. Students will learn theories, best practices, and best tools for undertaking 3D VR modeling of cultural sites. Course will be taught in English