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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Law

Courses numbered 500 and above are open only to law students except by special permission from the associate dean.
  

  • LAW 819 ADR Ethics

    Units: 1, 2
    Provides law students, lawyers and professional neutrals with an in-depth examination of the rules guiding our behavior in various dispute resolution processes.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to law students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 820 Pretrial Advocacy

    Units: 3 or 4
    Examines conceptual and practical aspects of interviewing, counseling, negotiation, settlement, drafting, and formal advocacy in the handling of legal cases.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 821 Trial Advocacy

    Units: 3 or 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examines decision-making by counsel in the litigation of cases. Emphasis is given to decisions involving tactics and strategies and their implications for the functioning of legal institutions and substantive doctrine. Extensive use of simulated trial practice exercises.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 822 Alternative Dispute Resolution Clause Drafting

    Units: 1
    Explores a variety of contract provisions, and teaches students the important drafting skills necessary to achieve a client’s goal.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 823 Statutory Interpretation

    Units: 2 or 3
    Examines the change and evolution of law to discover its political roots and the ways policy making branches work to make and implement law.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 824 Arbitration Advocacy

    Units: 1, 2
    Helps students understand the basic approaches to preparing and presenting cases in the arbitration context.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law School students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 825 International Arbitration Competition

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Max Units: 6
    Covers basic aspects of international commercial arbitration and prepares a USC Law School team for participation in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 826 Employment Dispute Mediation

    Units: 1, 2
    Provides hands-on experience in mediation of the complex issues of disability, wage and hour, sex and sex harassment, age, race, religion, and national origin.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 827 Counseling the Startup Company

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Role of the attorney in startup firms: business plan, employment agreements, lease, stock option plan, financing documents and distribution and strategic partnership arrangements.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 828 Mediation Advocacy

    Units: 3
    Introduces students to the process of mediation, explores the philosophical approaches to mediation and different styles of mediating, develops a working knowledge of the stages of mediation, and cultivates students’ skills to become effective advocates throughout each stage of the process.  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 829 Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolution

    Units: 2
    Brings an international perspective to understanding the impact of culture in the most commonly used international and domestic dispute resolution practices (negotiation, mediation, and arbitration).
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 830 Law Firm Economics and the Public Interest

    Units: 1
    Introduces students to the tools needed to work in a large law firm pro bono practice.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 831 International Business Negotiations

    Units: 2
    Simulated negotiation of an international transaction; will address legal and related business issues that commonly arise in international deals.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 833 Labor Arbitration

    Units: 2
    Introduces students to the National Labor Relations Act, collective bargaining and the labor arbitration process. Students also prepare labor arbitration briefs.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 834 Veterans Legal Practicum

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 08
    Allows students to hone their legal skills while representing veterans of the United States Armed Forces in administrative proceedings.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 835 Transactional Due Diligence

    Units: 1
    Prepares students to handle due diligence projects at the level of a first-year or second-year transactional associate through hands-on, practical training.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 837 Diversity: Legal and Social Perspectives

    Units: 2, 3
    Examine legal and social perspectives on the concept of diversity.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 838 Patent Drafting and Prosecution

    Units: 3
    Students learn how to prepare and prosecute U.S. patent applications, as well as an overview of design and foreign patent prosecution.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 839 Copyright Law in Practice

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Study of federal copyright law, analysis of property rights and interests created thereunder. Manner in which these rights can be exploited in the various entertainment media.
    Prerequisite: LAW 772  or LAW 841 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 840 Copyright and Fictional Characters

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Involves the treatment of fictional characters by the courts and in new media and the fundamental copyright concepts that have shaped that treatment.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 841 Copyright, Trademark and Related Rights

    Units: 3
    An introductory survey of statutory and case law, and underlying policy issues, concerning copyright, trademark and certain related legal rights.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 842 Partnership Taxation

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 843 Tax Policy Seminar

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Students will write and present papers discussing topics in tax policy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 844 Prepare for Trial Like a Master

    Units: 1
    Allows students to practice trial techniques and covers cutting-edge techniques in trial preparation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 845 Negotiation Skills

    Units: 2, 3
    Develops students’ negotiating skills through role plays, reflection and instructor feedback.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 846 Mathematical Modeling of Law and Society

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Explores the use of mathematical modeling as a way of describing the dynamic relationships between legal regulation and the social behavior that law regulates.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 847 Refugee and Forced Migration Law

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Examines refugee law and forced migration, including the causes and consequences of forced migration and the responses to forced migration.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Number

  

  • LAW 849 International Human Rights Clinic I

    Units: 4, 5
    Students work under close faculty supervision on cases and projects that involve the application of international law to address human rights violations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 850 International Human Rights Clinic II

    Units: 4 or 5
    Continuation of the International Human Rights Clinic.
    Prerequisite: LAW 849 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 851 Topics in Criminal Law and Criminology

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Selected topics in criminal law or criminology. May be repeated with permission of the instructor as topics vary.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 854 Legal Design Lab

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 09
    Students work in teams to develop innovative ways of addressing shortcomings in our legal systems to improve access, quality, efficiency and global integration and prosperity.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 855 Topics in Maritime and Admiralty Law

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 6.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Taught in honor of James Ackerman, USC Law graduate of 1948, this class examines selected topics in maritime and admiralty law. May be repeated with permission of the instructor as topics vary.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 856 Transnational Human Rights Litigation

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Provides an introduction to the legal and political issues raised by cases involving international human right violations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 857 Legal Design Challenge

    Units: 2
    Students develop a proposal in response to the call for solutions to global supply chains problems from the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 858 Law and Psychology

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Examines the psychological factors that hinder the making of accurate factual findings.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 859 Communications Law: Internet, Television and Other Media

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Concentrates on the regulation of broadcast television, cable television, telephone, and spectrum management.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 860 International Criminal Law

    Units: 4
    Covers the prosecution, trial and punishment of individuals suspected of crimes considered among the most serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 861 International Law Seminar

    Units: 2, 3
    Max Units: 6.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Investigation of selected problems of international law. May be repeated with permission of the instructor as topics vary.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 862 Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project Seminar

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Formally instructs students on U.S. and international refugee law and policy regarding the Iraqi refugee humanitarian crisis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 863 International Negotiations and Mediation

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Introduction to negotiation and mediation from an international perspective. Development of essential skills for effective client representation in negotiation and mediation.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 864 Sovereign Debt

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Examines the legal regimes that exist to address the problems that arise when a sovereign cannot pay back what it owes.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 865 Legislative Policy Practicum

    Units: 3
    Provides students with an opportunity to participate in realworld advocacy on juvenile justice issues.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 866 Counterterrorism, Privacy and Civil Liberties

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Explores the spectrum of interrelated legal and policy issues known as “homeland security” since the events of September 11, 2001.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 867 Corporate Fraud

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduces law students to the real world issues of major civil and criminal corporate fraud.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 868 Business Enterprise Taxation

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examination of the taxation of corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 869 Family Law Mediation Clinic

    Units: 2, 4
    Teaches the skills and substantive area of the law necessary to successfully mediate cases in the Edelman Children’s courthouse in Monterey Park.
    Prerequisite: LAW 630 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 870 Legal Writing Fellows

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 7.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Assist in teaching writing and advocacy. Responsibilities include helping prepare lesson plans and drafting writing assignments and sample answers; leading class exercises; and judging first-year moot court practice rounds.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • LAW 871 First Amendment

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Freedom of expression (political speech, symbolic expression, obscenity, commercial speech, defamation), rights of access to the media, religious protection and prohibition of establishment of religion.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 872 Advanced Legal Writing and Advocacy: Appellate Advocacy

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Students will research, write, and rewrite an appellate brief and may work on motions and oral advocacy as well.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 873 Judicial Opinion Writing

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Students write a majority opinion and a dissenting opinion based on cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. This is a writing-intensive course.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 874 Media Law in the Digital Age

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Explores the interplay between the law, politics, and media, particularly mass media, in the digital age.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 875 Current Constitutional Problems Seminar

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Seminar course devoted to different methods of reading the Constitution.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 877 Major Trends in American Legal Thought

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Survey of major trends in American legal thought.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 878 Evolutionary Game Theory and the Law

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Uses the Evolutionary Game Theory methodology to explore the dynamics of cooperative interaction among people, and the role that legal punishment plays.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 879 Future Property Interests

    Units: 3
    Combines state and national statutory and common laws relating to present and future property interests important to the preparation of gifts, trusts, wills and deeds.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 880 Treating Difference Equally

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Comparative look at the legal treatment of religious, cultural, gender and sexual differences and differences in physical and mental ability.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 881 Constitutional Innovation

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Examines the U.S. Constitution in transnational perspective. The focus is democracy; slavery, emancipation, and freedom; empire; and governmental structures.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 882 Advanced Legal Writing for Pretrial Practice

    Units: 2, 3
    Hone written advocacy skills for pretrial litigation practice. Draft motions, letters, and other communications to court, opposing counsel, and client. Practice oral communication through exercises.
    Registration Restriction: Op
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 883 Advanced Legal Writing for International Business Lawyers

    Units: 2
    Develop communication skills for international transactional practice. Practice drafting memoranda, letters, and other communications to partners, clients, and other attorneys. Practice negotiation in intercultural setting.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 884 Constitutional Law: Equality and Liberty

    Units: 3, 4
    Focuses on individual rights and liberties, with special attention paid to equal protection and substantive due process.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 885 Advanced Legal Writing: A Partnership with Public Counsel

    Units: 2
    Write office memoranda and sample pleadings modeled after real legal issues faced by attorneys at Public Counsel.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 886 Justice and the Foundations of Liberalism

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Discusses John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice (1971), critical reactions to it and some possible extensions of Rawls’ theory of justice.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 887 Religious Freedom and its Limits

    Units: 2, 3
    Surveys constitutional doctrines pertaining to the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment and the emergent doctrine regarding the application of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and its state offspring.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 888 First Amendment: Law and Religion

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Explores the laws that govern and affect religious groups and religious belief-systems and religious experience in the United States.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 889 Law Informed by Faith

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Considers the role of faith in a lawyer’s life and work. Discusses issues in constitutional law, tort law, criminal law, professional responsibility and more.
    Prerequisite: LAW 748 
    Duplicates Credit in LAW 748.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 890 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    One CR/D/F unit for a research proposal approved by a full- or part-time faculty supervisor; up to four graded units with academic dean’s approval of proposal by LLM or third-year JD student to produce a publishable paper under full-time professor.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 891 Post-Conviction Justice Seminar I

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Examines the substantive rights of federal prisoners with respect to parole, sentencing, validity of conviction and conditions of confinement and the procedural mechanisms by which to enforce those rights. Under faculty supervision, students provide legal assistance to federal inmates in administrative and judicial proceedings.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Law majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 892 Post-Conviction Justice Seminar II

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Max Units: 5.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Continuation of LAW 891 .
    Prerequisite: LAW 891 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 893 Advanced Clinical Training

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Max Units: 10.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    For third-year students who wish to continue their clinical training.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric

  

  • LAW 894 Advanced Mediation Clinic

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 10
    Students learn mediation skills, conduct live mediations and help to run the regular Mediation Clinic.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to USC Gould School of Law students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Numeric


Liberal Studies
  

  • LBST 500 Introduction to Liberal Studies: Methods of Knowing

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Introduction to research methods in the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences; then methods for applied interdisciplinary research.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 502 The Anthropology of Popular Culture

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in ANTH 602 )
  

  • LBST 503 Self-Justifying Fictions

    Units: 3
    Theoretical approaches to the study of literature, including formal and cultural analysis and the ethics and social impact of the humanities.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 505 East Asian Humanities: Classics of China, Korea, and Japan

    Units: 3
    Examination of major themes in East Asian culture through primary texts in translation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 507 Great Western Cities

    Units: 3
    Examination of Western civilization in the urban context, focusing on several great cities in their “golden age” of creativity, accomplishment, and influence.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 510 Cities and Globalization

    Units: 3
    Contemporary urban theory and comparative urban analysis. Emphasis on the role of globalization in shaping urban form and problems.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 512 Language in a Globalizing World

    Units: 3
    Examination of the relationship between language and geopolitical change, endangered and minority languages, and the public policy implications of multilingualism and multiculturalism.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 514 Ideas of Nature in American Culture

    Units: 3
    Examination of how Americans have used nature to think about themselves, environmentalism, American identity, gender/class relations, the American West, and the mythology of Los Angeles.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 516 Urban Conservation Biology

    Units: 3
    Analysis of plant and animal distribution in urban landscapes. Exploration of major threats to urban biodiversity and nature conservation controversies and successes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 520 Tradition and the Modern World

    Units: 3
    Studies the continuing interplays between tradition and novelty; between locale and globalization; and between heritage and post-modernity with a focus on a specific locale.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 525 The Revolution That Made America

    Units: 3
    Ideas and politics of the world’s first modern revolution, which transformed 13 colonies into a nation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 527 Information Systems From Libraries to the Internet

    Units: 3
    History and sociology of information systems. Philosophical and literary implications of writing, archives, libraries, printing, and publishing from the ancient world to the Internet age.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 530 Portraits of Leadership

    Units: 3
    Analysis of different forms of cultural leadership in their historical, literary, and philosophical context.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 531 The Hero/Heroine in History

    Units: 3
    Analysis of human agency in history and whether individual men and women are capable of altering the course of history by their actions.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 532 Ideas on Trial

    Units: 3
    Examination of great trials in history as indicators of changing social and cultural attitudes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 535 Great Works, Great Challenges

    Units: 3
    Analysis of works of literature, drama, and poetry and their relationship to their historical contexts.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 537 Empire and Social Reform in America 1890–1917

    Units: 3
    Analysis through literary and historical texts of American public life, culture, and social justice during the era of U.S. ascendancy as a world power.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 540 Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise: Dante’s Divine Comedy

    Units: 3
    In-depth reading and analysis of Divine Comedy, in order to develop appreciation for changing values from medieval, to Renaissance and contemporary culture.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 541 Opera, Culture, History, and Thought

    Units: 3
    Analysis of cultural, historic, philosophical, political, and literary movements and themes through the medium of opera.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 542 The Culture of Comedy

    Units: 3
    Historical and synchronic ideas of comedy. Ways in which philosophers, artists, and everyday individuals adapt in our ever-changing world.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 544 Representations of Los Angeles

    Units: 3
    Study of literary, artistic and/or dramatic expressions of Los Angeles and its inhabitants in modern and historical literature, art, photography, film, television, and architecture.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 545 Imagining the American West

    Units: 3
    Explores Western myths and realities through literature, history, film, and painting. Examines why American culture places questions about national pasts and futures in the West.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 547 Acts of Interpretation: Literature, Film, and Methodology

    Units: 3
    Analysis of literature, film, and methodologies for approaching issues of interpretation, readership, and spectatorship. Examination of how interpretation varies across gender, race, class, and sexuality.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 548 Contemporary Fiction in Social Context

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Study of novels and short stories to examine how societal pressures and cultural identity constrain individual actions, with attention to family, gender, class, ethnicity, others. Open only to graduate students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 550 Theories and Methods of Analysis in Cultural Studies

    Units: 3
    Development of cultural studies as a fast-growing area of intellectual inquiry. Case study analysis of race/ethnicity, history and memory, space, postmodernism, globalization, censorship, and originality.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 551 Narrative Forms

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 6.0
    Study of narrative in literature, film, sociology, psychology and history; how narrative conventions shape humans’ experience and understanding of society, past and present.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 554 Century City: 100 Years of LA Literature and Culture

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    The history of Los Angeles since 1910, using literary, historical, autobiographical, and cinematic texts to consider issues of geography, economics, race, class, gender, and sexuality.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 555 Constructions of Childhood

    Units: 3
    Analysis of the concept of childhood from its 18th-century origins. Applications of age studies, language, and cultural construction through fiction, history, film, and other media.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 560 Effects of Traumatic Life Experiences

    Units: 3
    Examination of the psychological and emotional effects of extreme trauma and survivor consequences.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • LBST 570 Ecology of Night

    Units: 3
    Explore the world of night. Human perception of the stars and the role of night in history. Impact of artificial lighting on non-human species and habitat.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

 

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