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3.00 Credits
The United States had an essentially open border at the turn of the twentieth century, so why has increased border control become one of the top concerns of many Americans at the start of the twenty-first The current, often volatile and certainly emotional debates about immigration raise questions about not only the reform of immigration policy, but also the meanings of American citizenship and the futures of the nation. This course will analyze the contemporary immigration controversies through a close examination of their historical roots. Course topics will include the history of immigration policy in the United States; analysis of the relationships between the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of immigration, past and present; engagement with contemporary community groups that take different perspectives on immigration; analysis of the current proposals for immigration reform by the House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, and individual political representatives; and critical comparisons with immigration policies used by other countries. SOCIAL SCIENCE 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
The place we now call Los Angeles emerged 17,000,000 years ago from the Pacific Ocean. In the intervening years, mountains forced their way up from the land forming the boundaries of a large basin. Vast quantities of water coursed down the north and south sides of mountains and hills we now call Santa Monica, Simi, Santa Susanna, San Gabriel, and Verdugo. For all but 8,000 of those years, this place and those mountains needed no name. They just were. Then came the Tongva, the Chumash, and others-the first humans to settle here. Their names for this place were various: Kaweenga, Pasheekwnga, Komiivet, to name a few. After what seems to have been 8,000 relatively peaceful years, representatives of the Spanish King arrived in an area somewhere near the confluence of the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco, declared this place to be El Pueblo de Nuestra Se ora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula. This course examines the changes in the land going forward from that time. HUMANITIES & SCIENCE 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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1.00 Credits
This workshop will investigate the central and most influential elements of Marx's thought (e.g., Alienation, Fetishism, Exploitation, Historical Materialism, Class Consciousness, Dialectics, and Ideology). Students critically investigate and weigh Marx's thought in an effort to assess its current value for understanding the world. No grade equivalent allowed. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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This course investigates where, when, and how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities have developed and how queer community formation intersects with the city's racial, ethnic, and economic geography. The course reaches beyond the most obvious sites of queer life to understand less-recognized queer histories, particularly those in communities of color, immigrant communities, and among transgender people. Through discussions, the class constructs a map and timeline of queer L.A. and explores how this map and timeline contribute to an understanding of racial, economic, and other hierarchies in the city. Finally, the class looks at queer activism and how it has shaped queer history and historical geography in L.A. and the L.A. basin. No grade equivalent allowed. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
This course examines the varieties of musical voices of 1960s America. Students look at various musics as cultural artifacts, in an attempt to forge a revisionist view of what has become a mythologized decade in American history. Contemporary views reflecting back on the 1960s tend to either idealize the era for its sex, drugs, rock n' roll and successful social activism or denounce it as the beginnings of America's moral downfall. To address this historiographical mythology, the course moves chronologically through the 1960s, examining what musics reveal about changing notions of individuality, communality, social structures, politics, race, gender, the environment, sex, and spirituality. The goal is to understand how meaning was made and negotiated in different socio-cultural arenas by looking at the relationship between historical events, movements, attitudes, and the types of music that expressed them. No grade equivalents allowed. FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES DOMAINS
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this class is to learn how to ask better research questions, to develop better means of answering those questions, to learn what resources are available, and to recognize the researcher's own limitations - with the goal of learning to create knowledge that will support a more socially just world. Specifically, the course explores qualitative methods, which focus on understanding interactive processes and events and interpreting constructed socio-cultural meanings. While students consider theoretical and ethical research issues, the emphasis is on learning methods by putting them into practice. The class travels to several sites throughout the city where research is conducted in different ways; students speak to and learn from researchers inside and outside of the academy; and students learn to apply some of the methods through small but tangible projects. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Documentary films have gained considerable popularity of late as a means of representing this particular moment in history. This course investigates reasons for this new interest; charting a history of documentary film. Considering innovations in style and form, from early observational films to contemporary reflexive ones, the course unpacks the erotics of documentary through a critical reading of classic films in the genre. FINE ARTS AND HUMANITIES DOMAINS
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3.00 Credits
Notions of the self, subjectivity, and identity have been central to the history of the 20th century and have driven debates about race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, politics, and social justice. This course maps out sections of this history and these debates as represented in the works of Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, and others. This course provides an overview of key theoretical and philosophical concerns of the past century. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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