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Against a background and critical analysis of past and current American presidential campaigns, 1960-2008, students examine a broad spectrum of issues related to American voting patterns and perspectives based on ethnicity, race, and gender. Further, students examine, through lecture, critical dialogue, and guest panels, a vivid history and contemporary view of America's political landscape, its deep racial divide and presidential campaigns. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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This interdisciplinary humanities course uses methods and insights from history, philosophy, and sociology to examine the religious worldviews of Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam in terms of their experiential, mythological, doctrinal, ethical, ritual, and social dimensions. In light of each of these worldviews, the issues of nationalism, capitalism, globalization, technology, environmentalism, feminism, and education are explored. The overriding concern of the course is to understand and appreciate the concrete ideological implications of three religious worldviews. Representatives of these religious traditions participate as guest speakers to provide direct experience of these worldviews and their implications. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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Museums are traditionally yet mistakenly viewed simply as repositories of antiquity, as warehouses of relics from earlier times. However, museums play an indispensable role in contributing to the urban narrative. They are vibrant and exciting institutions of contemporary life and reminders of that which made earlier times and events relevant. Their collections help shape the public memory of what, from the past, has meaning. Conversely, what museums choose not to make available to the visiting and viewing public also implicitly contributes to the shaping of public memory. This course engages the urban narratives of Los Angeles by lecture, discussion, and field trips to local museums. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This upper-division course uses a case study approach to address the issue of human rights and children. The rights of children are examined from a national and international perspective as well as from the point of view of political philosophy. The national perspective uses Supreme Court cases that have examined and established children's rights such as limiting or forbidding child labor, protection of the dependent and incompetent, constraints on parental authority, children's' rights to access to education and medical services. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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"Latino" people now constitute the fastest growing "minority" population in tUnited States, with historically important urban centers in the U.S. Southwest (including Los Angeles) and rapidly growing concentrations in the Midwest and U.S. South. But to what extent is it even possible to study this diversity of people under the rubric of a unitary "Latino" identity category This course is organizedaround a series of "keywords" that allow students to submerge themselves insome of the major issues, debates, and controversies involved in the study of Chicano and Latino communities. These keywords include: mestizaje, borders, migration, labor, feminism, public arts, commodified ethnicity, state violence, refugees, and radical politics. These keywords emphasize the intimately related roles of government, corporate capital, cultural producers, social movements, neighborhoods, and individuals in constructing diverse, fluid, complex, and sometimes contradictory "Latino" and "Hispanic" identities. The course alexplores how diverse people negotiate those constructed identities in their everyday lives in terms of employment, politics, education, family, neighborhood, and cultural expression. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This class introduces students to essential texts that mark issues and stages in the evolution of American democracy and shed light on ongoing political and ideological struggles in local and transnational spheres. The colonial conquest of the "new world," as Europeans understood it, had various motives and manyconsequences. The best and the worst come to light as students explore three enduring struggles for freedom on American soil, particularly from an oratorical perspective. One struggle is that of Africans enslaved and brought to the United States, and their often mixed-race children. Phillis Wheatly, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass are examples of extraordinary "slaves" who unmasked thehypocrisy of a slave-holding, "Christian," and "democratic nation." TDeclaration of Independence of 1776 and speeches by Abraham Lincoln frame the poems and slave-narratives and shed light on the founding flaws, from which the United States is still recovering. From this perspective, too, students review aspects of American Indian history, myths and poems framed by the eye-witness account of genocide by Bartolomé de Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552). Shakespeare's The Tempest (viewed as a film) and Book IV of Gulliver's Travels provide appraisals Old World assumptions about class, race, and gender in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A third focus of the class is the women's suffrage movement in the United States, pioneered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, lasting till 1920. These three strands interweave as the class takes stock of the Civil Rights Movement's legacy in other liberation struggles that are ongoing. Students evaluate the power of the spoken as well as the written word in creating uniquely "American" values and responsibilities. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course studies Picasso as an original artist and Picasso, the person, in relation to his constructivism. Contributions to Cubism are emphasized. In addition, the work of other artists are compared and contrasted such as Rodin, Matisse, Rembrandt, and Michelangelo. FINE ARTS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Italian literature is a tight-knit braid in which the founders of the tradition deeply influence future authors. Steeped in Mediterranean culture (Pagan, Jewish, Christian and Islamic), medieval Italian literature reinvented the past to fit new social and political conditions. Petty wars, trans-national crusades, the Bubonic plague, foreign occupation -- these and other catastrophes spurred writers to protest. Francis of Assisi founded an order based on peace and love for all creatures -- and wrote the first real poem in Italian. Dante's ethical hike through Hell exposed the vices that bring suffering to individuals, communities and the world as a whole. Boccaccio, directly in contact with Muslims and Jews in Naples, reacted to religious intolerance and fear of sexuality by writing entertaining and transgressive stories that send up the folly of people from all walks of life, but also celebrated heroic human ingenuity and diversity. Machiavelli focused new insights on the natural drives to power and pleasure in his comedy The Mandragola. Manzoni's colossal historical novel, The Betrothed, set in the 17th century, has the moral seriousness of Dante, the shrewdness of Machiavelli, the story-telling magic of the Decameron. This tradition continues in Primo Levi. His Survival at Auschwitz owes much to Dante and Manzoni's works, which helped him write his account of the hell of a Nazi concentration camp and scrutinize the choices people make in lethal situations of unimaginable brutality. Students become familiar with essential aspects of Italian culture and discuss how literature can delight, enlighten and empower us to understand abuses of power, the aspiration to justice and happiness, and other aspects of the human condition. This course includes a field trip to the Norton Simon Museum. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Our sense of cultural identity is in flux and under construction, subject to the play of history and difference. Through documentaries, videos and readings of American Indian myths, stories from the Latin American Boom, and vernacular African-American tales, students uncover layered histories of American destinies and their possible role in defining a more inclusive sense of "American" culture. Students analyze how stories and counter-stories teach and delight; how gender is constructed through cautionary or celebratory tales and how diverse spiritual and erotic values are encoded. Students locate, in stories, the struggle against inhuman (but all too human) violence motivated by greed and fear. Students explore the American Indian presence in Los Angeles, in a powwow, museum visit and guest interview. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary on-line humanities course explores the diverse array of American utopian communities that emerged during the 19th century. Exemplary communities include: the Shakers, the Harmony Society, the Zoarists, New Harmony, Yellow Springs communities, Brook Farm, Fruit lands, the Amana Society, the Oneida community, the Icarians, and Modern Times. These communities are placed in their historical, sociological, and economic context, and the variety of impulses that conditioned the rise of utopian communities is examined. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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