Liberal Studies

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Office of Advanced and Professional Programs
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(213) 740-1349
FAX: (213) 740-5002
Email: mls@dornsife.usc.edu

Interim Director: Richard Fliegel, PhD

Affiliated Faculty

University Professor: Kevin Starr, PhD* (History)

Florence R. Scott Professor of English: Tania Modleski, PhD (English)

Professors: Jack Halberstam, PhD* (American Studies and Ethnicity); Peter C. Mancall, PhD* (History); Edwin McCann, PhD* (Philosophy); Beth Meyerowitz, PhD* (Psychology); William G. Thalmann, PhD* (Classics)

Associate Professors: Emily Anderson, PhD (English); Roberto Ignacio Diáz, PhD* (Spanish and Portuguese); William R. Handley, PhD (English); Lori Meeks, PhD

Associate Professor (Teaching): Tok Thompson, PhD (Anthropology)

*Recipient of university-wide or college award for teaching or research.

Programs

Master’s Degree

• •  Liberal Studies (MLS)

Courses

Liberal Studies

• •  LBST 500 Introduction to Liberal Studies: Methods of Knowing
• •  LBST 502 The Anthropology of Popular Culture
• •  LBST 503 Self-Justifying Fictions
• •  LBST 505 East Asian Humanities: Classics of China, Korea, and Japan
• •  LBST 507 Great Western Cities
• •  LBST 510 Cities and Globalization
• •  LBST 512 Language in a Globalizing World
• •  LBST 514 Ideas of Nature in American Culture
• •  LBST 516 Urban Conservation Biology
• •  LBST 520 Tradition and the Modern World
• •  LBST 525 The Revolution That Made America
• •  LBST 527 Information Systems From Libraries to the Internet
• •  LBST 530 Portraits of Leadership
• •  LBST 531 The Hero/Heroine in History
• •  LBST 532 Ideas on Trial
• •  LBST 535 Great Works, Great Challenges
• •  LBST 537 Empire and Social Reform in America 1890–1917
• •  LBST 540 Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise: Dante’s Divine Comedy
• •  LBST 541 Opera, Culture, History, and Thought
• •  LBST 542 The Culture of Comedy
• •  LBST 544 Representations of Los Angeles
• •  LBST 545 Imagining the American West
• •  LBST 547 Acts of Interpretation: Literature, Film, and Methodology
• •  LBST 548 Contemporary Fiction in Social Context
• •  LBST 550 Theories and Methods of Analysis in Cultural Studies
• •  LBST 551 Narrative Forms
• •  LBST 554 Century City: 100 Years of LA Literature and Culture
• •  LBST 555 Constructions of Childhood
• •  LBST 560 Effects of Traumatic Life Experiences
• •  LBST 570 Ecology of Night
• •  LBST 571 Food, Fashion and Furniture: Commodities in the Global Economy
• •  LBST 572 Controversies in Science, Medicine and Ethics
• •  LBST 574 Advances in Genetics and Evolutionary Biology
• •  LBST 585a Master’s Project
• •  LBST 585b Master’s Project
• •  LBST 585z Master’s Project
• •  LBST 590 Directed Research
• •  LBST 599 Special Topics