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Spring 2003 Course Offerings

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  Economics 98T
Intellectual Property Wars: The Economics of Innovation 		 
  English 98T
The Modern Highway and the Image of the American West		  
  Film & Television 98T
From Aztlan to the Cyber Barrio: Visualizing Chicano Space		  
  Germanic Languages 98T
Vienna's Modernism: from "Starbucks" to Japan at the Turn of the Century		  
  Musicology 98T
Music in 20th-Century Los Angeles: Place, Race, Ethnicity and Identity		  
  Islamic Studies 98T
Introduction to Sufism		  
  Psychology 98T
The Social Psychology of Stigma		  
  Sociology 98T
Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Modern World		  

#180-294-200 Economics 98T
Intellectual Property Wars: The Economics of Innovation
Offered M 10:00 - 12:50
Location MS 391D
Instructor Carlos Albert Ponce
Grade Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit Pending
Course Description How do firms protect their intellectual developments? What is a patent war? What is the role of the resent legal system of intellectual property rights in the patent wars? This seminar will protect and exploit their investments in intellectual property, their implications for economic performance, and how patents, trade secrets and trademarks are strategically used in the knowledge-based economy.
Class Requirements Weekly essays
Prerequisite Satisfaction of subject A
#196-292-200 English 98T
The Modern Highway and the Image of the American West
Offered T 11:00 - 1:50
Location Bunche 2174
Instructor Lars Erik Larson
Grade Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit Pending
Course Description Roads have been primary factors in the settlement and structuring of the American West, not only physically but conceptually. This course will explore how texts about highways (literature, film, photography) have helped construct twentieth-century ideas about the West.
Class Requirements Responses to readings (written & website submissions)
Prerequisite Satisfaction of subject A
#238-290-200 Film & Television 98T
From Aztlan to the Cyber Barrio: Visualizing Chicano Space
Offered W 1:00 - 3:30 PM
W 7:00 - 9:00 PM (Screening)
Location Melnitz 2589
Melnitz 2534 (Screening)
Instructor Rita Aida Gonzalez
Grade Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit Pending
Course Description An interdisciplinary course in dialogue with Chicano Studies, Art History, Urban Studies and Critical Studies to stress the conceptual dimensions of contemporary Chicana/o media makers, visual artists, performance artists and urban designers. The course will center on public negotiations of cultural space, from the traditional appropriative strategies of muralists to the current uses of the internet as both archive and "virtual barrio."
Class Requirements  
Prerequisite Satisfaction of subject A
#215-291-200 Germanic Languages 98T
Vienna's Modernism: from "Starbucks" to Japan at the Turn of the Century
Offered T & R 11:00 - 12:20
Location Bunche 1265
Instructor Susanne Andrea Kelley
Grade Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit Pending
Course Description What is modernism, and how did a handful of authors and artists in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century manage to influence and guide our vision of the modern up till today? We will explore the meaning of modernism by concentrating on Vienna and its close circle of authors and artists whose work is marked as much by the intimacy of the coffee house form as by a fascination with East Asia.
Class Requirements Web-based response journal & final paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of subject A
#278-292-200 Musicology 98T
Music in 20th-Century Los Angeles: Place, Race, Ethnicity and Identity
Offered R 2:00 - 4:50
Location SMB 1818
Instructor Charles Hiroshi Garrett
Grade Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit Pending
Course Description An exploration of 20th-Century Los Angeles music-making in culturally diverse communities - from South Central hip hop to South Asian dance music, surf pop to Chicano rock - integrating cultural theory and centering upon issues of identity-making, race, ethnicity, class and immigration.
Class Requirements  
Prerequisite Satisfaction of subject A
#292-291-200 Islamic Studies 98T
Introduction to Sufism
Offered T & R 9:00 - 1050
Location Royce 166
Instructor Edgar W. Francis, IV
Grade Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit Pending
Course Description The beliefs connected to Sufism (Islamic mysticism) and Sufism's role in the society, arts, and politics of the Islamic world - both past and present. Special focus on controversies among Muslims and Western scholars, such as Sufism's legitimacy
Class Requirements Written response to classmate's paper-draft
Prerequisite Satisfaction of subject A
#328-285-200 Psychology 98T
The Social Psychology of Stigma
Offered T 1:00 - 3:50
Location Franz 5461
Instructor Kristin Beals
Grade Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit Pending
Course Description What do obese people, African Americans, people with physical disabilities, lesbians, and Muslims all have in common? They all have a social stigma. This course examines stigma from the perspective of the stigmatized individual, non-stigmatized observers, and the interaction between the two.
Class Requirements Study proposal and literature review outline
Prerequisite Satisfaction of subject A
#347-299-200 Sociology 98T
Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Modern World
Offered T 10:00 - 12:50
Location Haines A6
Instructor Jon E. Fox
Grade Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit Pending
Course Description The goal of modern nationalism is for preexisting ethnic groups to make new nation-states, or for preexisting nation-states to make new ethnic groups. This course will provide an introduction to core concepts in the study of nationalism and ethnicity.
Class Requirements  
Prerequisite Satisfaction of subject A

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