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Arabic

240. Seminar: Arab Historians and Geographers. (4) / I. K. Poonawala
Seminar, three hours. May be repeated for a maximum of 24 units. S/U or letter grading.
The Arab-Muslims did not conceive of geography as a well-defined discipline. The Arabic geographical literature, therefore, is scattered in a number of disciplines. Separate monographs on various aspects of geography were composed under such headings as Kitab al-Buldan (Book of countries), Surat al-Ard (Map of the globe), and al-Masalik wa'l-Mamalik (Roads and countries).
The course will survey the whole range of geographical literature written in Arabic beginning with the Qur'an and the traditions of the Prophet with selected readings in Arabic from the classical period

Anthropology

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Arabic

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Archaelolgy

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Architecture and Urban Design

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Armenian

231B. Intermediate Classical Armenian. (4) / Cowe, P. S.
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 230C. Intensive review of grammar and reading of select prose and poetic texts. Each course may be taken independently for credit. Letter grading.

Art History

219B. Pre-Columbian Art. (4) / Klein, C. F. and Black, C. V.
The first of a two-quarter seminar on The Body co-taught by Professors Klein and Black. Students who write a paper on a Pre-Columbian or Early Colonial topic can enroll in the seminar under 218B. The seminar can also be taken for Baroque Art credit. The course will entail reading and discussing much of the theoretical literature on the body, as well as reporting on culture/period specific readings relevant to the student's area of study.

230. Italian Renaissance Art. (4) / The Staff
Seminar, two hours. Preparation: knowledge of Italian. Study of various aspects of Leonardo's theoretical approach to art in terms of sources and impact on followers. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser.

240. Baroque Art. (4) / Black, C. V.
Seminar, two hours. Emphasis on selected topic (e.g., particular artist, trend, or problem). Research papers and oral reports required. Language requirements depend on area of focus. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser.

C261C. Art and Material Culture of Late Imperial China, 906 to 1911. (4) / The Staff
Lecture, three hours. Secular and religious (Buddhist and Taoist) architecture, painting, sculpture, and various luxury industries (lacquer, porcelain, textiles, jade, bronze, furniture, wood and bamboo carving, etc.). May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Concurrently scheduled with course C115F. S/U or letter grading.

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Celtic Studies

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Chicana/Chicano Studies

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Classics

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Communications Studies

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Comparative Literature

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English

M205A. Study of Oral Tradition: History and Methods. (4) / Nagy, J. F.
(Formerly numbered 205A.) (Same as Scandinavian M271.) Seminar, three hours. S/U or letter grading.
The course covers the history of folklore and mythology studies with special reference to the concept of oral tradition. Special attention is paid to the evolving scholarly understanding of the historical relationship between oral and literary traditions, and to theories of epistemological, ideological, and aesthetic differences between "oral" and "literate" modes of communication. The course's scope includes extensive comparative considerations. All readings are in English, but students with the linguistic competency are encouraged to read relevant texts in the original languages. For more information, please contact Professor Joseph Nagy, jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu.

244. Old and Medieval English Literature: Medieval Writings by and for Women. (4) / Baswell, C. C.
Feminist scholarship of the past two decades has revealed an enormous amount about the figuring and self-figuring of women in medieval culture and society, and in the texts produced by that culture and society. In this seminar we will study the varied and interrelated versions of female selfhood produced in medieval texts by and for women, as well as in texts for mixed audiences that (like some of the Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) ventriloquize female voices. The main focus will be on the British Isles, but we will also read works by continental women, especially those who had an impact on their British counterparts.
This seminar is based in the English Department, but is also open to students from other departments. It will be the Graduate Seminar of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies for 2002-03, and under those auspices several meetings of the seminar will include distinguished visiting scholars in the field.

249. Milton: Picturing Paradise Lost. (4) / Post, J. F.
This seminar will be an experiment in cross-disciplinary interpretation of the greatest long poem in English, Paradise Lost. That is, we will read Milton's epic in relation to the pictorial and iconographical roots underlying the story itself, in part for their hermeneutical value (i.e. just what do we learn from, say, a Lutheran depiction of the fall by Lucas Cranach, that enables an understanding of this scene in Milton?), and in light of more general theories of visualizing appropriate to a Protestant (sometimes described) iconophobe.
A vast number of visual analogues--and some proclaimed sources--for Milton's poem are described in Roland Frye's Milton's Imagery and the Visual Arts (Princeton: 1978): these will help to locate possible areas of visual inquiry. Our task will be to take advantage of this and other Miltonic scholarship on the subject of inter-arts comparisons, but to work more selectively, and more deeply, with key episodes and images, and in light of relevant art history criticism.
As a kind of interpretive "control," we will also consult the illustrations Blake did for Paradise Lost. Welcome, of course, are students with a special interest in art history and/or Milton; but because Paradise Lost occupies a unique place in the curriculum as Renaissance summa of western thinking, taught at many levels, the seminar encourages wide participation.

Requirements: Instructor will most likely identify specific topics for research and have students reports on their research during the quarter, on the way to producing a final paper of approximately 20 pages.

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Folklore & Mythology

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French

217. 17th Century: The French as the Barbarian "Other" - The Hidden Underside of the Classical Era (Offered in English). (4) / Melzer, S. E.
(Formerly numbered 217A.) Lecture, three hours. Letter grading.
This course is an attempt to make sense of an important part of French colonial history that has been hidden to the French consciousness. During the classical era when the social and esthetic ideals fostered purity, refinement, elegance and politeness, the French State and Church were encouraging the French to marry the dirty, unrefined "savages" of the New World and live in mixed communities to colonize them. This was a strategy of assimilation that existed in its most intimate form - more so than at any other point in French history.

The goal of this course is to fit this piece of the puzzle into the other parts that have come to constitute the mainstay of our understanding of French history and literature. The particular part of the puzzle that this course will focus on is France's relation to the classical world since conventionally, the classical era is seen as a legacy of Europe's "discovery" of the ancient world of Greece and Rome. Yet, at the same time, Europeans made a second 'discovery' - that of the New World. Scholars have constructed French history as if it evolved only in relation to the classical world and have assumed that the New World was off the map, so to speak, with little importance for France's self-understanding.

To understand how French literary history needs to be re-configured to incorporate a (hidden) triangulated relationship between 1) France, 2) the Classical World, 3) the New World, this course will focus on the concepts of the 'barbarian' and the 'savage,' since the French called themselves "barbarians" vis-à-vis their masters, the Greeks and Romans whom they sought to imitate. At the same time, the French were seeking to assimilate the New World "Savages" and make them French. We will re-think French Classicism as a effort to deal with the barbarian Other, and with the fear that they themselves might be the barbarian Other.

Readings: Du Bellay, La Defense et Illustration de la Langue Française, Selections from La Boetie, La Servitude Volontaire, Vaugelas, Furetière, Boileau, Les Relations Jésuites, Fontenelle. We will also read Corneille's, Cinna and Racine's, Phèdre

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German

1G. Elementary German for Graduate Students. (4) / Stevens, C. M.
Preparation for Graduate Division foreign language reading requirement. May not be applied toward degree requirements. S/U grading. German 1G German for Reading Knowledge
The objectives of this course are to acquire a fundamental knowledge of German grammar and vocabulary, also to acquire sound reading strategies for accessing academic articles, monographs, etc., in your specialized field of study. Other important objectives: learn something about German culture and history, something about language in general, and have some fun.

202B. Readings in Middle High German Literature. (4) / Schultz, J. A.
Lecture, three hours. Introduction to medieval German literature and literary history and to use of contemporary theory in study of medieval texts. Continued practice in reading Middle High German, although most texts to be read in modern translation. Letter grading.

231. Gothic. (4) / Stevens, C. M.
The Gothic language is the oldest attested Germanic language in continuous texts from ca. 350AD. In this course you will become familiar with the phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexical composition of the Gothic language with readings in Wulfila's translation of the Bible. At the same time, you will be introduced to the history of the Goths and their place in the development of modern Europe (their association with the other Germanic tribes, the Huns, and the Romans). You will also learn about the most famous Gothic manuscript, the Codex Argenteus, and about the Crimean Gothic of the 16th (!) century. Some of the linguistic problems that we will be discussing include: Gothic <au> and <ai>, IE *bh,*dh,*gh (in Gothic), the -nan class of weak verbs, reduplication of strong verbs, the Glottalic Theory of Indo-European, and the Gothic alphabet. By the end of the term, you should be able to read Gothic with minimum difficulty, be able to translate it into English, and to parse the major word classes and grammatical categories of Gothic.

Greek

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Hebrew

220. Studies in Hebrew Biblical Literature. (4) / Schniedewind, W. M.
Seminar, three hours. Critical study of Hebrew texts in relation to major versions; philological, comparative, literary, and historical study of various biblical books. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.

History

201R. Topics in History, Seminar 1: Popes and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. (4) / Kriegel, M.
Seminar, three hours. Graduate courses involving reading, lecturing, and discussion of selected topics. Does not fulfill seminar requirements for Ph.D. degree. May be repeated for credit. When concurrently scheduled with course 197, undergraduates must obtain consent of instructor to enroll.
Issues that will be discussed in this seminar include the following: On which set of principles was the Church's policy toward the Jews Based? Was there a shift, during the 12th-13th centuries, from a policy that was partly integrative to one that that was decidedly exclusionary? What were the respective roles, in the deterioration of the condition of the Jews in the Late Middle Ages, of the specific changes in the policies toward the Jews, as defined by Church and states, and of the growth of a "persecuting society" that directs violence against a number of marginal and underprivileged groups, including the Jews? Was there a radical change in the Church's stance in early modern times, in the context of the Counter-Reformation?

201P. Topics in History: Spirituality and Sexuality in Early Christianity. (4) / Bartchy, S. S.
Seminar, three hours. Graduate courses involving reading, lecturing, and discussion of selected topics. Does not fulfill seminar requirements for Ph.D. degree. May be repeated for credit. When concurrently scheduled with course 197, undergraduates must obtain consent of instructor to enroll.

218B. Paleography, II. (4) / Rouse, R. H.
(Formerly numbered 219B.) Seminar, three hours; discussion, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of Latin and German or French. S/U or letter grading. History of the manuscript book from the Carolingian renaissance through the invention of printing, with emphasis on dating and localization as well as on proficiency in reading. Course serves as an introduction to medieval manuscripts of the period 900-1500, the transcription of their texts , evidence for their dating and localization and for the circumstances of their production.

229A. Seminar: Early Modern Court Culture and Ceremonial. (4) / Symcox, G. W.
Seminar, three hours. In Progress and S/U or letter grading.
This is a two-part seminar. During the winter term we will discuss some of the recent literature on court entertainments and public ceremonies in early modern Europe (state funerals, royal entries, tourneys, ballets de cour, etc), principally - but not exclusively -- in Italy and France. Students will meanwhile choose their topics for their research paper, to be presented in the spring term.
Meetings in the spring term will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of students' research papers.

242. Colloquium: European History. (2) / McClendon, M. C.
Designed for graduate students. Forum for critical discussion of work of students and invited scholars. Presentation of student dissertation prospectuses during their third or fourth year in residence. S/U grading for students presenting papers.

291B. Seminar: Jewish History. (4) / Myers, D. N.
Seminar, three hours. In Progress and S/U or letter grading.
This course explores the unfolding of Jewish history from the rise of Christianity to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. At the heart of our inquiry will be the experience of Jews between and within the major religious and cultural systems that dominated medieval Europe: Christianity and Islam.
The course will trace the development of both Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewry, noting the important social, religious, cultural, and political characteristics of each community, as well as the nature of their interaction with two great world civilizations. Given our emphasis on these two major Jewries, our course will not proceed in strict chronological fashion. Rather, we will investigate four distinct historical strands, represented by the four parts of the syllabus, in order to capture the diversity and complexity of medieval Jewish history.

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Indo-European Studies

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Iranian

220B. Classical Persian Texts. (4) / Ziai, H.
Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 103A, 103B, 103C. Course may be taken for credit independently of others in series. This course is a graduate seminar on the language and structure of Jalal al-Din Rumi's magnum opus "Masnavi." Special emphasis will be given to the discussion of the philosophical foundation of Rumi's thinking and its relation to the holistic philosophical systems of his time--the Avicennan and the Illuminationist.

Islamics

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Italian

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Japanese

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Jewish Studies

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Korean

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Latin

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Linguistics

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Musicology

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Old Norse

221. Advanced Old Norse Prose. (4) / Byock, J. L.
Advanced Old Norse Prose is a course for those students who have already had at least one semester of Old Norse. We will read a variety of saga and mythological texts and continue with the grammar. Students who have begun Old Norse at another institution are welcome. This course is a requirement for those students who wish to take graduate exams in Old Norse.

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Philosophy

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Portuguese

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Russian

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Scandivanian

M271. Study of Oral Tradition: History and Methods. (4) / Nagy, J. F.
(Same as English M205A.) Seminar, three hours. S/U or letter grading.
The course covers the history of folklore and mythology studies with special reference to the concept of oral tradition. Special attention is paid to the evolving scholarly understanding of the historical relationship between oral and literary traditions, and to theories of epistemological, ideological, and aesthetic differences between "oral" and "literate" modes of communication. The course's scope includes extensive comparative considerations. All readings are in English, but students with the linguistic competency are encouraged to read relevant texts in the original languages. For more information, please contact Professor Joseph Nagy, jfnagy@humnet.ucla.edu.

Spanish

224. Poetry of the Golden Age. (4) / Cartagena-Calderon, J.
Lecture, three hours. Drawing on the critical methods of cultural, gender, postcolonial and trans-Atlantic studies this course will look at representative works of early modern Spanish poetry, including the lyric poetry produced by Garcilaso de la Vega, Juan Boscan, Fray Luis de Leon, Fernando de Herrera, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Gongora and Quevedo. The aim of this course is to develop a critical perspective from which to study the texts as a site for fashioning cultural, gendered, imperial and national identities. Course will be conducted in Spanish.

265. Cervantes. (4) / Johnson, C. B.
Discussion, two hours. May be repeated once with topic change and consent of appropriate guidance committee.
Spanish 265 is a seminar on "Don Quijote." It will meet Wed 3-6, following Spanish 127 "Don Quijote." Professor Johnson would like members of the seminar to attend the 127 lectures (MW 1-3), then stay after on Wednesdays to discuss the text in the graduate seminar. The particular topics will emerge from discussion of student needs and interests during the first meeting. In the past, students in seminar have also acted as study group leaders for the undergraduates, at midterm and final time.

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Women's Studies

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