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Spring 2004 Course Offerings

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  Chemistry & Biochemistry 98T
Applications of Enzymes		  
  Comparative Literature 98T
Passing for and Passing through: Narratives of Racial Passing from a Comparative Perspective		  
  English 98T
Shakespeare's Strangers: Jews, Christians, and Muslims, in Renaissance Drama		  
  Ethnomusicology 98T
Identity, Nationalism and Resistance in African Music		  
  Music History 98T
The Sound of Commitment: Music & Culture in 1930s America		  
  Sociology 98T
A Cyber-Ethnographic Approach to Online Communities: Exploring Online Communities Through an Innovative Methodology		  
  Statistics 98T
Making Sense of Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics		  

#142-294-200 Chemistry & Biochemistry 98T
Applications of Enzymes
Offered T, R 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location Bunche 2173
Instructor Jerome-Ieronymos Zoidakis
Grade Letter grade
L&S GE Credit Physical & Life Science
Course Description A brief introduction to the properties of enzymes will be followed by specific examples of their applications in biotechnology and food industry. The role of enzymes in metabolic disorders, bacterial pathogenesis and the production of biological weapons will be discussed.
Class Requirements Class discussion, class presentation, midterm, final paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
#152-292-200 Comparative Literature 98T
Passing for and Passing through: Narratives of Racial Passing from a Comparative Perspective
Offered M, W 10:00 - 11:50 AM
Location Rolfe 3135
Instructor Susan Bausch
Grade Letter grade
L&S GE Credit Literary & Cultural Analysis
Course Description This seminar will focus on narratives of racial and ethnic passing from various national literatures. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which the imaginative construction of race differs according to geographic and cultural context.
Class Requirements Class discussion, class presentation, midterm, final paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
#196-294-200 English 98T
Shakespeare's Strangers: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Renaissance Drama
Offered T 12:00 - 2:50 PM
Location Kinsey 289
Instructor Holly Crawford Pickett
Grade Letter grade
L&S GE Credit Literary & Cultural Analysis
Course Description Although there were few Jews and Muslims in Renaissance England, the period's plays represent them frequently. We will investigate the function of these representations in plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and their contemporaries, uncovering the culture's notions of race, gender, pluralism, and colonialism.
Class Requirements Class discussion, class presentation, midterm, final paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
#208-291-200 Ethnomusicology 98T
Identity, Nationalism and Resistance in African Music
Offered R 10:00 AM - 12:50 PM
Location Schoenberg 1151
Instructor Jeffrey Callen
Grade Letter grade
L&S GE Credit Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice
Course Description Music listeners are drawn to styles that reflect images of how they see themselves and who they want to be. This seminar will examine the role of popular music in treating particular senses of national identity in Africa.
Class Requirements Class discussion, class presentation, midterm, final paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
#278-294-200 Music History 98T
The Sound of Commitment: Music & Culture in 1930s America
Offered R 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Location Schoenberg 1818
Instructor Andrew Berish
Grade Letter grade
L&S GE Credit Literary & Cultural Analysis and Visual & Performance Arts Analysis
Course Description This seminar will explore the turbulent and politicized decades of the Great Depression in America through its vibrant musical life. Topics covered will range the breadth of American musical life: classical, jazz, hillbilly, folk and film music.
Class Requirements Class discussion, class presentation, midterm, final paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
#347-288-200 Sociology 98T
A Cyber Ethnographic Approach to Online Communities: Exploring Online Communities Through an Innovative Methodology
Offered R 11 AM -2 PM
Location Kinsey 88
Instructor Laura Robinson
Grade Letter Grade
L&S GE Credit Social Analysis
Course Description This course will introduce students to a new body of literature on cyber communities by examining key theoretical and empirical works. Students will also explore an innovative research methodology, cyber ethnography, to develop and conduct individual research projects.
Class Requirements Class discussion, class presentation, midterm, final paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A
#263-296-200 Statistics 98T
Making Sense of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Offered T, R 12:30 - 1:50 PM
Location Franz 1354
Instructor Katherine Tranbarger
Grade Letter grade
L&S GE Credit None
Course Description Statistics are cited to sway our opinion on everything from which toothbrush dentists prefer to how crime rates have changed. This seminar focuses not on their calculation, but on the critical evaluation of statistics that are presented to us everyday.
Class Requirements Class discussion, class presentation, midterm, final paper
Prerequisite Satisfaction of Subject A

Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF)

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151504 Campus

310 206-8998
Fax 310 206-1455
Mail to:  cutf@oid.ucla.edu

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Closed 12:00 - 1:00 PM