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SOC Title |
Code |
Instructor |
Time |
Place |
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87552 |
BASOLO, V. |
M 11-11:50 AM |
DBH 1420 |
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87553 |
BENCIVENGA, E. |
TU 1-1:50 PM |
Contact Instructor |
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87554 |
CHEN, M. |
TH 4-4:50 PM |
DBH 1420 |
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87555 |
DAVIS, C. |
TU 5-5:50 PM |
SE 1013 |
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87556 |
DO, A. |
M 10-10:50 AM |
DBH 1420 |
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87557 |
FRANK, D. |
W 3-3:50 PM |
DBH 1420 |
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87558 |
HILL, D. |
M, 5-5:50 PM |
CAC 3100B |
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87559 |
KOPSTEIN, J. |
TH 10-10:50 AM |
SSL 119 |
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BIAS AND PREJUDICE B is the second of a three-part, integrated series. See description below. |
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87560 |
LAKES, K. |
TH 9-9:50 AM |
Contact Instructor |
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87561 |
LOUDON, C. |
W 10-10:50 AM |
DBH 1420 |
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87562 |
LUPTON J. |
T 11-11:50 AM |
DBH 1422 |
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87563 |
SCHWEGLER, A. |
F 1-1:50 PM |
HH 100 |
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87564 |
SMITH, D. |
TH 11-11:50 PM |
SSPB 5206 |
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87565 |
TORRES,R. |
M, 4-4:50 PM |
DBH 1420 |
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87566 |
BRODBECK, D. |
W 10-10:50 AM |
MM 302 |
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Knowing Your Neighborhood: How Neighborhoods Shape Human Behavior and Outcomes
Neighborhoods are spaces of daily life that can shape human behavior and life outcomes. The meaning and significance of neighborhood, however, varies among people and may conjure images of friendship, isolation, security, danger, wealth, poverty and more. In this course, students will explore the various meanings of neighborhood, examine their own neighborhood, and learn about policy approaches to address neighborhood effects. The class includes readings, activities, and discussion.
Victoria Basolo is a Professor in the Department of Urban Planning & Public Policy.
A study of Plato’s Phaedrus. Emphasis will be on discussion, to maximize which, in every meeting except the first and last one, one or more students will be responsible for presenting the reading and asking questions about it. Grade will be based on class participation and on an optional 1000-word paper in which the student evaluates what he/she has learned from the course.
Ermanno Bencivenga is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy.
In April 1967, CBS Television broadcast an hour‐long program hosted by the noted composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein entitled “Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution.” Here, in effect, Bernstein –an establishment figure but one with an open mind –
takes rock music seriously as a “legitimate” art form and aims to explain (to what was presumably an older “mainstream” audience) what it was coming to mean to America’s middle-class, suburban youth. Using this documentary as a springboard, this seminar explores several key texts and watershed recordings of the time. This course is a seminar. It is designed to help you, during your first months as a university student, learn to read and think critically and to express your thoughts in effective oral communication. Our work together requires that we complete all assignments on schedule. Because each of our class sessions is important, faithful attendance is necessary. Seminar format invites collegial engagement, and it is expected that all members will participate fully in class discussion.
David Brodbeck is a Professor in the School of Arts.
What is the ultimate essence of all phenomena? Modern Physics and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy are both on quests for the answer to this fundamental question. We will explore the key concepts in Modern Physics, including Einstein’s Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and String Theory, and in Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy, including Interdependence and Emptiness. We will explore similarities and differences in these two frameworks’ underlying notions and analyze how they lead to the mirages of reality.
Mu-Chun Chen is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Academy Awards 2018: Big Data, Small Data
There is a universe of data related to movies. Can we use it to better predict the winners of the next Academy Awards? We’ll investigate this question from different perspectives: film and media studies, machine learning, probability and statistics, voting theory, psychology. We’ll make predictions and follow along during the process: from the announcement of nominees early in winter quarter, to the award show itself near the end of the quarter. No prerequisites: all are welcome!
Christopher J. Davis is a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics.
Neural Technologies – A New Way to Cure Paralysis?
Neural interface technologies are systems which convert nervous system activity into the control of external devices. This essentially allows a person to directly mind control computers, robots, and other devices without the need to generate any movements. Such technologies can potentially help people with severe paralysis to control assistive or prosthetic devices to interact with their environment again. This seminar will introduce fundamental concepts underlying how these systems operate.
An Do is an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine.
The Sociology of Death: An Introduction to the Social Experience of Death
This course uses articles and a classic work by the French historian Philippe Ariès to launch a critical analysis of death and dying. Our basic argument is that death is not only a personal but also a social phenomenon. We’ll reflect on the latter and consider the ways that death and dying are constituted fundamentally by social institutions: religious, medical, legal, familial, and increasingly individual.
David J. Frank is a Professor in the Department of Sociology.
Identify what success means to you and develop your critical thinking skills. Create strategies and action plans to achieve your goals and examine what stops you. Explore a research process on how to find a mentor. Learn the art of how to become unstoppable in going for what you really want in life. Develop greater self-esteem by getting in touch with your personal power and achieve a higher level of self-love and acceptance.
Donald David Hill is a Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts.
Antisemitism – Bias, Prejudice and Bigotry B
The focal point of this integrated freshmen seminar is bias, prejudice and bigotry in society. Led by a different faculty member each quarter, seminar participants will explore the varied sources of hostility to human and cultural diversity through interrogating the manifestations of contemporary homophobia, antisemitism, and Islamophobia. In weekly moderated conversations, students will discuss the causes and consequences of implicit bias, the interaction between personal preferences and political discourses of difference, and the use of ideologies of hate to construct communities organized around fear of the other. The purpose of this seminar series is to provide students with a conceptual vocabulary about bias, prejudice and bigotry in society while equipping them with a greater awareness of campus resources for promoting a culture of inclusive excellence for all.
This freshman seminar is the second of a three-part integrated series on bias and prejudice as seen from different disciplinary perspectives. Completion of the fall and/or spring quarter seminars (Bias and Prejudice A, C) is encouraged, but not required, to enroll in the winter quarter offering of the series.
Jeffrey Kopstein is a Professor in the Department of Political Science.
This seminar will explore the effects of exercise on the brain. We will read and discuss current research in order to learn about how scientists are investigating the effects of exercise on the brain, specifically cognition and mental health. Students will be exposed to current research methodologies used in the field.
Kimberly D. Lakes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine.
Biomimetic Design: Technological Inspiration from Nature
Velcro, flying and walking robots, and self-cleaning surfaces are just a few examples of devices that draw on the amazing
properties of biological organisms to inform novel technological advances. Each week during the quarter we will focus on a different example of a type of biomimetic application.
Catherine Loudon is a Lecturer in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Several major authors are visiting UCI in the Winter and early Spring, 2018. In this seminar, we will read works by novelist Alice Sebold (“The Lovey Bones,” “Lucky”), New Yorker writer and public historian Jill Lepore (“The Secret History of Wonder Woman”), science fiction writer Ted Chiang (“Arrival”), and Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Colson Whitehead (“The Underground Railroad”). Students will read and discuss these works and meet the authors.
Julia R. Lupton is a Professor in the Department of English.
This “fun course”studies the history and contemporary usage of Spanish worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on Latin American dialect varieties (including Mexican, Cuban, Argentinean, Colombian, and USA Spanish). By taking this course students will gain a better appreciation for (1) how and why a once very marginal tongue has become one of the world’s major languages, (2) the extent to which Spanish dialects differ today, and (3) how Spanish evolved from Roman times into what it is today.
Armin Schwegler is a Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.
Globalization: Problem or Panacea?
What does globalization mean and what are its effects on people and the planet? We examine the long- term history of our modern world-system, as well as recent political and economic changes. In a crisis- ridden world rampant with global poverty/inequality, international tension and terrorism, severe ecological catastrophe – is an increasingly integrated and connected world an improved world? Or has globalization just made things worse for most people on the planet? What is to be done?
David A. Smith is a Professor in the Department of Sociology.
Getting Past Capitalism: The ABC’s of Socialism in 21st Century America
With the emergence of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, there has been considerable discussion about socialism and its potential promise in the United States. This Freshman Seminar will offer students an introduction to what a democratic socialism would mean in the practice of contemporary US electoral politics. Particular attention will be paid to exploring the meaning of social and economic justice in a post-capitalist America.
Rodolfo Torres is a Professor in the Department of Urban Planning & Public Policy.