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For general information about the courses, visit the Liberal Arts and Sciences Curricula page.

Select a course below to view the course materials and price information.

Estimated price list of books and readers for Liberal Arts and Sciences for  Summer 2013
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Course Course Title Faculty
AHCS 121 A-B Modern Art History Donohue
AHCS 220/310 A

Production Cultures
Online Course

Albright
     
ENGL 104 A Critical Analysis & Semiotics
Samuel
ENGL 106 A

Composition & Critical Thought

 
ENGL 202/400 A Time Travel Narratives
Online Course
Venturini
     
SSCI 130 A Cultural Studies Branch
LIBS 410/SSCI 210 A Virtual Worlds
Online Course
Joseph-Witham
LIBS 440 A Capstone Hopkins
MATH 136 A Math for Artists and Designers
Online Course
Morozov

 Estimated price list of books and readers for Liberal Arts and Sciences for  Fall 2013
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CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Course Number Course Title Faculty
 AHCS 120 ALL    

 Introduction to Visual Culture                             

 Paul, Blackwell,Steinberg,
 von der Horst, McFaull, Donohue,   
 Cutajar
 AHCS 120 C  Introduction to Visual Culture - Linked  Willette
 AHCS 120 H  Introduction to Visual Culture - Honors  Giuntini
 AHCS 220 A  Confronting the Contemporary  Cutajar
 AHCS 220 B  Contemporary Afro-Carribean  Flores-Pena
 AHCS 220 C  Representing Self & Others in American Art  Stuart
 AHCS 220 D  Advertising the American Dream  Steinberg
 AHCS 220 E  Contemporary Fashion Culture  Blackwell
 AHCS 220 F  Perspectives on the Sublime  Berg
 AHCS 220 G  Healing Arts of Indigenous People  Alvitre
 AHCS 220 H  Text and Image
 Blended
 Paul
 AHCS 220 I  Land Art, Site Specific Installations  Donohue
 AHCS 220 J  Film and Dreams
 Blended
 Albright
 AHCS 220 K  Ethics and Sustainability  Westbrook
 AHCS 220 L  Contemporary Horror Film  Moorman
 AHCS 220 M  Women in Art  Cutshaw
 AHCS 220 N  Global Cinema  Gendler
 AHCS 246 A-B  Postmodern Theory  Cranston, Donohue
 AHCS 310 AA  Art and Issues of the 2000s  Willette
 AHCS 310 AB  African, Native American and Oceanic Art  Caldwell
 AHCS 310 AC  Contemporary Art in China and Japan  Cheng
 AHCS 310 AD  Renaissance  Byce
 AHCS 310 AE  Contemporary Design  McFaull
 AHCS 310 AF  American Film 1900-1950  Chierichetti
 AHCS 310 AG  Queer Film  Moorman
 AHCS 310 AH  Madonna, Whore and More  von der Horst
 AHCS 310 AI  Media Culture  Legg
 AHCS 312 A  History of Aesthetics  Willette
AHCS 321 A History of Photography
Blended
Blackwell
 AHCS 999 Z  Independent Study  Staff
     
 ENGL 050 A  Developmental English I  Samuel
 ENGL 090 A-B  Developmental English II  Carlos, Robinson
 ENGL 090 C  Developmental English II - Linked  Samuel
 ENGL 104 ALL  Critical Analysis and Semiotics  Light, Robinson, Ngo, Perea, Rocio,
 Luebke
 ENGL 104 D  Critical Analysis and Semiotics - Ipad  Venturini
 ENGL 106 ALL  Composition and Critical Thought  Hopkins, Perea, Ahn, Neilson, Luebke
 ENGL 106 H  Composition and Critical Thought - Honors  Bennett
 ENGL 202 A  Dystopian Literature
 Blended
 Pendharker
 ENGL 202 B  Playwrights and Performances  Light
 ENGL 202 C  O-Zine  Ahn
 ENGL 202 D  The Literature of Food  Ngo
 ENGL 202 E  Harry Potter: The Literary Tradition  Branch
 ENGL 202 F  Creative Nonfiction  Clark
 ENGL 202 G  In Their Own Words  Clark
 ENGL 400 A  Reel Docs: Change Through Film  Chasin
 ENGL 400 B  Literature & Film: Journey and Quest  Bremer
 ENGL 400 C  Creative Writing Workshop II  Bynum
 ENGL 400 D  History of Books  Bennett
     
 ILML 200 A  Comic Books and Social Issues  Lavin
 ILML 200 B  Food Politics in LA  Hernandez
 ILML 200 C  Life Stages: Creating a Portrait with Words  Ollstein
 ILML 200 D  Saints and Spirits  Joseph-Witham
 ILML 200 E  Museum of Social Justice  Berg
 ILML 200 F  Movies That Matter  Chasin
 ILML 200 G  Clay in LA  Takayama-Ogawa
 ILML 200 H  "Homeboy" Histories  Flores-Pena
 ILML 200 I  Creating Children's Culture  Willsey
 ILML 201 A  Human Ecology  Grant
     
 LIBS 217 A-D  Concepts and Issues  Wright
 LIBS 245 A  Community Arts in LA  Bachman
 LIBS 404 A-B  Senior Project Research  Steinberg, Neel
 LIBS 410 A  Tripping the Light Fantastic  Lightbody
 LIBS 410 B  World Music  Lightbody
 LIBS 440 ALL  Capstone  Ngo, Ju, Perea, Ahn, Hernandez, Bremer,
 von der Horst, Giuntini,   Ballard, Bremer,
 Joseph-Witham, Paul, Neel, Samuel
 LIBS 440 N  Capstone - ESL Only  Willette
 LIBS 455 A-B  FA: Senior Thesis  Berg, Donohue
 LIBS 999 Z  Independent Study  Staff
     
 MATH 136 A  Math for Artists and Designers
 Blended
 Morozov
 MATH 136 B  Math for Artists and Designers  Morozov
 MATH 336 A-B  Introduction to Symbolic Logic  Westbrook
 NSCI 307 A  The Psychology of Seeing  Spruijt
 NSCI 307 B  Imagination and the Brain  Spruijt
 NSCI 307 C  The Science of Sleep and Dreaming  Spruijt
 NSCI 308 A  Juvenile Anatomy and Ergonomics  Plakos
 SSCI 130 ALL  Cultural Studies  Willsey, Graham, Hernandez,
 Saunders, Flores-Pena
 SSCI 130 H  Cultural Studies - Honors  Joseph-Witham
 SSCI 210 A  Witchcraft, Religion and Magic  Joseph-Witham
 SSCI 211 A  Child Psychology  Guerrero