UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

ART HIS 213. ADVANCED STUDIES IN ISLAMIC ART
SEM 1
Instructor: BIERMAN-MCKINNEY,
Course Description: Seminar, two hours. Art and architecture of Islamic world (Spain to Iran) from 7th to 17th century. Monuments or theoretical problems related to Islamic culture and artistic production. Units: 4.0

ART HIS C218D. AZTEC ART
LEC 1
Instructor: KLEIN, C.F.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 55B or C117A. Painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts of Nahuatl-speaking peoples of central Mexico in centuries before Spanish conquest, with emphasis on their social and historical context and major scholarly debates. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Concurrently scheduled with course C117D. Units: 4.0

ART HIS 219B. PRE-COLUMBIAN ART
SEM 1
Instructor: KLEIN, C.F.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Studies in selected topics in art of pre-Hispanic Latin America. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Units: 4.0

ART HIS 225. HAGIA SOPHIA
SEM 1
Instructor: GERSTEL, S.E.
Course Description: Seminar, two hours. Studies in selected topics in Byzantine and European medieval art. Units: 4.0

ART HIS 230. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART
SEM 2
Instructor:
Course Description: 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. Units: 4.0

ART HIS 240. BAROQUE ART
SEM 1
Instructor: BLACK, C.V.
Course Description: Seminar, two hours. Emphasis on selected topic (e.g., particular artist, trend, or problem). Units: 4.0

ART HIS 260C. JAPANESE ART
LEC 1
Instructor: MCCALLUM, D.F.
Course Description: Lecture, two hours. Advanced studies in secular and religious artistic traditions of Japan. Units: 4.0

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Comparative Literature

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ENGL 211. OLD ENGLISH
LEC 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: MINKOVA, D.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Study of Old English grammar, lexicon, phonology, and pronunciation to enable students to read literature silently and aloud. Reading of as much of more interesting Old English prose and poetry as can be read in one term. Units: 4.0

ENGL 246. HUMANISM / RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
LEC 1
Instructor: MCEACHERN, C.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. This course will undertake to explore the texts of (mostly) English humanism of the (roughly) 16th century. Likely authors are Erasmus, More, Vives, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Elyot, Smith, Ascham, Montaigne, Sidney, Bacon. ―Literary∥ texts will make appearances among the intellectual history candidates. We will also do some secondary reading concerning the period’s educational curricula (what were humanists supposed to read, and how were they to read it?) and explore the connections between humanism then and the humanities now. Units: 4.0

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HEBREW 230. RABBINIC HEBREW LITERATURE
SEM 1
Instructor: BAKHOS, C.A.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Units: 4.0

HIST 2010
SEM 2
Instructor: WEINER, D.B.
Class Title: The Citizen-Patient in Historical and International Perspective
Course Description: 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 191, undergraduates must obtain consent of instructor to enroll.
Course Description: Individual illness has involved not only specialized health-care providers, but social or religious philanthropy, and municipal, national, and international agencies. Diseases, especially if communicable or epidemic, present special histories. In this seminar, participants will bring their individual projects (sources in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese are especially welcome). The shared projects will create a special focus such as individual, national or municipal health care, the “disabled” as a special group, or a specific disease, therapy or country. The instructor’s Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris (1993) will serve as a launching pad. Units 4.0

Indo-European Studies

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ITALIAN 214C. STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: PETRARCA'S CANZONIERE
LEC 1
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Units: 4.0

ITALIAN 214D. STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: BOCCACCIO'S DECAMERON
LEC 1
Instructor: CIAVOLELLA, M.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Units: 4.0

ITALIAN 216A. STUDIES IN THE RENAISSANCE: MACHIAVELLI AND RENAISSANCE POLITICAL THOUGHT
LEC 1
Instructor: BODEI, R.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Units: 4.0

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LATIN 229. SIGHT TRANSLATION
DIS 1
Instructor: BUTLER, M.S.
Course Description: Discussion, three hours. Designed for graduate students. Practice in translation of previously unseen texts from variety of authors and genres. Topics include peculiarities of style and vocabulary of distinct genres, literary versus scholarly translation, semantic properties of particular words and constructions. Units: 2.0 / 4.0 Alternate

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Near Eastern Languages

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PHILOS 207. SEMINAR: HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY
SEM 1
Instructor: NORMORE, C.G.
Course Description: Seminar, four hours. Selected problems and philosophers. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Units: 4.0

Political Science

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Romance Linguistics

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RUSSIAN 211A. LITERATURE OF MEDIEVAL RUS'
LEC 1
Instructor: LENHOFF, G.D.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Required for M.A. (literature). Survey of the literature from its beginning through the Kievan and Muscovite periods up to end of the 17th century. Units: 4.0