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1.00 Credits
This workshop explores the life and works of one of the foremost Existential philosophers and author of one of the most important feminist works of our time, The Second Sex. Students gain insight into the relationship between Beauvoir's values and her works of fiction and philosophy. The course juxtaposes the story of a life, the expression of that life through works of literature, and the philosophy that propelled the life and works of this remarkable and courageous woman. Students explore the influence of concepts in the The Second Sex in shaping the Second Wave of Feminism in the U.S. and abroad. No grade equivalents allowed. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
The early twentieth century marks a time of crisis in Western culture. It was the advent of an era that historian Eric Hobsbawm has labeled "the age of extremes."World war laid waste to the empires and social order of the past along with previously unshakeable faith in reason and progress. And it was a time when fixed notions of the self and its place in the world, notions of reality itself, and long-established forms of art collapsed in a radical break with tradition that gave way to an utterly new form language in all of the arts. This course focuses on modernist innovations in the art of fiction by examining four pioneering texts -- all of which can be read and reread without exhausting their depths -- as seen in this rich and tumultuous historical context: Death in Venice (1911) by Thomas Mann, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914) by James Joyce, Swann's Way (1913) by Marcel Proust, and To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This class focuses on seven Shakespeare plays set in Italy or in which Italy figures in some prominent way: Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest. Students read, view film clips or an entire play, and discuss the plays from a variety of critical perspectives. These include the political uses to which Shakespeare's "Italians" have been put in the past and the present. For each play, students examine aspects of craft, representations of power and control, as well as cautionary, subversive or liberating subtexts. Students are expected to read closely and to argue their ideas in writing, using judicious quotations in support of their claims. An acquaintance with Shakepeare's sources (such as Plutarch's Lives) and modern works that radically rewrite Shakespeare (such as Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête /A Tempest, and Arnold Wesker's Shylock and LadyOthello) expand the cultural horizon offered in this course. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
What does it mean to be an Angeleno Is who we are a function of where we live How can we learn about a particular place -- and our role in it -- through creating our own real-life stories In this course, students examine the literature and culture of their own specific neighborhoods while crafting essays and personal narratives that engage issues of individuality and community as well urban landscape and environment. Pop cultural images of Los Angeles tend to focus on binaries --Skid Row and Watts vs. Melrose and Beverly Hills. But the "Greater Los Angeles Area" consists of five counties and hundreds of culturallydiverse cities, districts, and neighborhoods. Together the class creates an anthology of original personal narratives, mapping and celebrating this diversity through careful attention to both language and place. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course familiarizes students with traditional and contemporary critical approaches to reading and writing about literature, including the historicalbiographical and moral-philosophical, Freudian and Jungian, feminist, sociological, genre, and cultural approaches. Students use literary terminology to analyze, discuss, and write about poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Take a seat in the amphitheater, stand in the democratic agora, walk with Socrates to a shady grove, lie on a bed crafted by Odysseus. This course explores the first great stories that have fueled literature (and film) ever since, beginning with the great Athenian plays. Greek plays are enormously enjoyable and easy to read. Garcia Márquez noted that he learned how to tell stories by reading the Greeks, especially Euripides. Who, if not the playwrights, spoke truth to power in 4th century Athens, a city where life was spiraling out of control in an unending war Students read selections from epic poems such as The Odyssey, poems by Sappho, plays such as Antigone, Medea, and Lysistrata, -- noting how women become essential bearers of truth as Athenian men are killed or enslaved because of war-mongering politicians -- and selected passages from Plato's dialogues on the nature of love (Symposium and Phaedrus). Students consider the unique and vulnerable place that humans negotiate between gods and beasts. Some of the themes: family ties are stronger than death; power intoxicates; moral courage is transformative; men and women love and betray or are faithful; self-centered arrogance (hubris) leads to a fall; women can have more wisdom and courage than men; everyday life can be sweet. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
While conducting observations of the natural world as found in an urban landscape, students study an American literary tradition that runs back beyond Thoreau and forward through John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Annie Dillard, Edward Abby, Terry Tempest Williams and others. Using the Ballona Wetlands -- its social and natural history as well as its status as a present day biotic community -- as a case study, students seek a greater understanding of our relationship to the natural world; some of the scientific methodologies employed in the investigation of the natural world; and advocacy for the restoration, preservation and protection of the natural world. Through an examination of the literary tradition in nature writing, students acquire an understanding of the through-line from observation, to understanding, to authorship, to audience, to advocacy and back again. HUMANITIES & SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the way many contemporary writers have begun to combine, juxtapose, or weave, historical events, memoir, personal experience, various kinds and degrees of poetic language (lyric), and imaginative turns, into new, inviting, sometimes puzzling genres of literature. Students observe how poems combine lyric and narrative (i.e. telling a story) to varying degrees, and then move to the use of lyric, poetic language and stylistics by novel writers in their works of fiction. The course also tackles metafiction, the historiographic novel, and the uses of history, to see how and why writers have developed this relatively new form. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course critically examines the Harlem Renaissance as a by-product of the first Great Migration of African Americans from the south to the north at the turn of the century. The Harlem Renaissance, like the Great Migration, came to symbolize "a people reborn" as they moved from plantation to urban settings.This course focuses on artists, social activists, intellectuals and political operatives of the Harlem Renaissance that include such luminaries as W.E.B. DuBois, Zora Neal Hurston, Duke Ellington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday, and Alain Locke. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This is a multi-genre literature course focusing on work by queer writers from Radclyff Hall to Tony Kushner. How does being "in the life" inform the worksof these authors Are there consistent themes, concerns, symbols, metaphors inherent in gay and lesbian work What impact does homophobia have, and how has the literature changed over the 20th century Is there a marked difference between literature pre-Stonewall, and post-Stonewall Students examine the role of humor in gay and lesbian writing, as well as issues such as AIDS, class, race, trans-gendered identity, bisexuality. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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