Freshman Seminars, last quarter back through 2000

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Spring 2007, 1-unit

Understanding Calculus Using Physical Experiments

Two Hundred Years of American Song

Exercise and the Cardiovascular System in Health and Disease 

The Human Animal: The Evolution and Ecology of Individual Identity

Obesity and the Politics of Food

History of the Motion Picture 

Gene Therapy: How Genes Control You and How You Can Control Them 

Small Animal Clinical Toxicology

Culture Clash!: A Systematic Way of Looking at Ourselves and the Rest of the World 

Languages: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How Humans Learn a Second Language

The Rhetoric of Satire

Biblical Hebrew

Poetry by Heart

Liver Regeneration and Stem Cell Biology

Fluid Flow in Nature 

Speaking of Health: Special Topics in Health Communication

Darwinism and Society

Famous Problems in Mathematics

Introduction to Culinary and Medicinal Herbs

Masters and Masterpieces of Art

Sports Injuries: Facts, Myths and Unanswered Questions

Research Opportunities in Civil & Environmental Engineering

Children and Mathematics: Making Connections

History and Environment of Davis: The College Town Context of UCD at 100

Mindfulness: Buddhist and Taoist Meditation

Human Factors and Ergonomics

What the *#&$ Does A Mathematician Do? Exploring Careers in the Math and Physical Sciences

Township Music in South Africa

Plagues: Past, Present and Future

How Science Might Work — Discussions on the Philosophy of Science

Science vs. Faith

The Argument Over the Environment

Doctors, Neurobiology & Relationships

Japanese Culture: Reflection of Nature and Lifelong Learning in Visual Art

Spring 2007, 2-unit

Life and Art in Hitler's Germany

From the Big Bang to Life

Traditional Chinese Physical Culture and Some Contemporary Applications

Genetic Engineering & Society

The California Mystery Novel

Insects in the City

Renewable Sources of Energy

A Level Playing Field? High School Resources and Academic Success

Extra Dimensions

Herbal Medicine

Political Persuasion and Presidential Leadership

Exploring the Soul of an Ancient Culture Through Indian Classical Music

Arts and Cultures of Java and Bali

Hollywood Goes To Hell

Environmental Education in California's Schools: Another Inconvenient Truth

Bollywood Film: An Introduction to Hindi Cinema

Multi-Media Portraits: Same Old Same Old? Or Something New and Completely Different

Real Options Analysis

Three Poems a Week: Creative Writing in the Computer Classroom

Youth at Odds with Itself: Seeking Role Models? A Cinematic Investigation

An Investigation Into Human Evil

Applications of Waves--From Music to Imaging Atoms

The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Ursula K. Le Guin

Chaos, Complexity and Christianity

The Chemistry of Putting Humans on Mars (and Getting Them Home Again

Art and the Miseries of War

Korean Cinema: History and Cultural Identity in the Global Age

Music and the Movies

Germany: Highlights of German Cultural History

The Origin of Language

Exploring Majors in the Humanities

Bugs and Media

Political Economy of War

Fat Physics: The Emerging Science of Lipidomics

Seeing Is In The Brain, Not The Eye

Religious Pluralism in Modern America

Peak Oil - Is The World Running Out of Gas?

Japan vs. US Through Media

Genetics in Film

What's News?

Indigenous Resistance

Chalk Talk: Learn and Analyze Offensive and Defensive Basketball Strategy

Winter 2007, 1-unit

Rocket Science

Critical Issues in World Food Security

Australia's Intangible Heritage 

A Leisurely Look at Genomic Research Using Microarrays

Tower of Babel: How Students LearnAnd How Teachers TeachA Second Language

Why Can't We All Just Be Friends?: A Systematic Way of Looking at People From Other Cultures

Biblical Hebrew

Reel Lawyers: A Look at Lawyers, Their Ethics, and Law Practice Through Film 

The Molecular Kitchen

Biological Exploration of the Amazon

The Da Vinci Code: History, Mystery or Fantasy

Understanding and Navigating the Research University

How to do a Survey

Einstein's Equation

Globalization and the Media Industry

Japanese Culture: Reflection of Nature and Lifelong Learning in Visual Art

Working Class Life in Victorian London

Engineering Abroad: An Exploration of Opportunities

Darwinism and Society

Winter 2007, 2-unit

How to Make a Lens - An Introduction and Practical Application

Drawings of Invisible Neural Activity

What Happened to English?

Your Genes, The Environment and Your Health

What is Beauty? Cultural and Historical Roots of Japanese Garden Design

Drowning on the Mountain: Physiology and Pathophysiology of High Altitude

Contemporary Shamanism

Real Options Analyses

Chaos, Complexity and Christianity

Introduction to Wilderness Medicine

A Level Playing Field? High School Resources and Academic Success

African Prehistory: Light From the "Dark Continent"

Guilty Pleasures: Films We Love to Watch

Appropriate Engineering Technology for Improving Sanitation in Developing Communities

The Recovery of Energy and Compost from Municipal Solid Waste

A Crash Course in Creativity: Poetry, Prose and Art in the Computer Classroom

An Insider's Perspective: Understanding Mental Illness Through Autobiographies

Identity in the Global Marketplace: Readings in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

My Reality: Psychology and Symbolism in Literature and Film

The Boa Constrictor of Censorship

Influence in Action

Performance and Culture in the African Diaspora

Constitutionalism and the Claim of Inherent Presidential Authority

Using Spreadsheets to Model Environmental Change

Languages of the World

Food, Culture and Story-telling

Television and the Developing Child

Field Identification of Birds., a.k.a. Birdwatching

The Cultural Politics of South Park

Japan vs. US Through Media

Creativity and Consciousness: Contemplation, Reflection, Action

Bones: An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology

Troilus and Cressida: Love and War

Introduction to Flight Testing and Simulation

Plants for People

Industrial Tourism--How We Sell Travel and Places

Nazi Perpetrators in Holocaust Cinema

The Literature of War

Doctors, Neurobiology & Relationships

Religious Pluralism in Modern America

Fall 2006, 1-unit

What Makes Airplanes Fly?

Formulating an Immigration Policy

Poetry By Heart

Languages: A Behind the Scenes Look at How Humans Learn Other Languages

THEY DO WHAT?! Examining Stereotypes and Perspectives

Data Mining in the Chemical Sciences

Introduction to Biophotonics

Litigating the Right to Die: Medicine, Bioethics, and the Courts

Agriculture's Role in the Conservation of Wildlands

Alternative Medicine - Health or Hoax?

Genes and the Environment

Latinos and Latinas and the Law

Nature and Photochemistry

Earthquakes in California: Are We Ready for the Big One?

Bionanotechnology: Fact Versus Hype

Career Opportunities for Veterinarians

Historical Roots of Elementary Mathematics

Fall 2006, 2-unit

The Origins of Romantic Love: Knights, Ladies, Sex and Sinners in the Middle Ages

The California Mystery Novel

South Africa's Biodiversity

The Discovery of the Structure of DNA

American Roots Music: Chicago Blues

Stormwater Runoff Pollutants and Their Impact on our Environment

Pollution and Population Dynamics

Beyond Perrault: French Folk Tales and Fairy Tales

Chaos, Complexity and Christianity

Classical Japan: Reading The Tale of Genji

An Intellectual History of Film Noir

The Count of Monte Cristo and France in the 19th Century

The Supreme Court and You

Doing Mathematics — With A Computer At Your Side

Indian Classical Music and Dance: Art and Culture

Organ Transplantation Ethics in Film and TV

Nanomaterials: From Biology to Applications

What in the World Will You Do? Career Choices from a Global Perspective

Science and Politics of Energy

Underreported News—A Study of Important Issues and Journalistic Neglect

Mindfulness: Buddhist and Taoist Meditation

Pain and Pleasure

Edible Missions to Mars

Summer Session 2006, 1-unit

History of Engineering

Cultural Offerings in the City of Davis

The Cultural Politics of South Park

Music and the Movies

Summer Session 2006, 2-unit

The Chemistry of Putting Humans on Mars (and Getting Them Home Again)

Human Evil: A Presentation Through Film and Readings

Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion: The Power of the Stars to Solve Energy Needs on Earth

Spring 2006, 1-unit

Evidence: Truth and Its Rivals

Understanding Calculus Using Physical Experiments

Small Animal Clinical Toxicology

Entering the Hot Zone: Topics in Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Culture Clash: A Systematic Way of Looking at Ourselves and the Rest of the World

Tower of Babel: How Students Learn--And How Teachers Teach--A Second Language

Identity in a Diverse Society

Sports Injuries: Facts, Myths & Unanswered Questions

Exercise and the Cardiovascular System in Health and Disease

Addiction and Addictive Drugs

An Island Called California: An Ecological Journey Through California's Natural Communities

Deluge and Drought: California and its Problems With Too Much Water, and Too Little

Understanding the Research University

Music and the Movies

Germany: Highlights of Cultural History

Nanotechnology - Promise and Problems

Sleep

Power

Japanese Culture: Reflection of Nature and Lifelong Learning in Visual Art

San Francisco Earthquake of 1906--Rethinking Causes and Consequences

Spring 2006, 2-unit

Life and Art in Hitler's Germany

From the Big Bang to DNA

The Book of Job

Old Norse Tradition in Tolkien's The Hobbit

The Joy of Traveling

Stormwater Runoff Pollutants and its Impact on our Environment

Art and the Miseries of War

Introduction to Wilderness Medicine

Dynamics of Development and Change in the Middle East: Only by Revolution

Political Persuasion and Presidential Leadership

Extra Dimensions

Bond. James Bond.

Applications of Waves -- From Music to Imaging Atoms

The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Revisited

Genetic Engineering: The Science and Impact on Society

Shaking It: The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and its 100 Year Impact on California, the U.S. and the World

Alexandre Dumas' France and The Count of Monte Cristo

Education, Justice and the Law

Insects in the City

Challenge for Premedical Students: Homelessness in America

The Origins of Tolerance in the English Enlightenment

An Investigation into Human Evil

Traditional Chinese Physical Culture and Some Contemporary Applications

Modern Physics, Cosmology and Religion

Personality Type and Learning Styles

Backstage at the Mondavi

Introduction to Cryptology

Spinal Cord Injury: From the Patient's Perspective to the Promise of Research

Alternative Fuels Technology

"Underreported News"--An Examination of Major Issues and Journalistic Neglect

Learning Science Through Modeling

European Literature & The Environment

Wine and War

What's Best for Baby? Perspectives on Early Infant Care

Globalization and the Media Industry

Meditation: Buddhism and the Practice of Mindfulness

Winter 2006, 1-unit

The Blues

Rocket Science

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Data Mining in the Chemical Sciences

Producing 3D Computer Animation

Shakespeare and Love

Poetry By Heart

Dietary Sabotage: Evolutionary Perspectives, Institutional Secrets, and Health Consequences

Languages: A Behind-the-scenes Look at How Humans Learn a Second Language

Why Can't We All Just Be Friends? A Systematic Way of Looking at People From Other Cultures

Working Class Life in Victorian London

Women's Sports and the Media

Will Europe Thrive or Fade in the 21st Century: A Newly-United Europe Competes with Asia and North America

How To Conduct A Survey

Music, Dance and Social Life in the Americas

Winter 2006, 2-unit

Narration on the Brink: Three Contemporary Novels

Contemporary Shamanism

Contemporary Infectious Diseases

The Recovery of Energy from Waste Materials

The Hero and the Heroic From the Middle Ages to the Present

Literature and Cinema: The Italian Case

Drowning on the Mountain: Physiology and Pathophysiology of High Altitude

Great Engineering and Engineers

Natural Disasters in World History

Herbal Medicine

How to Make a Lens - An Introduction and Practical Application

Masters and Masterpieces of Art

Appropriate Engineering Technology for Drinking Water Treatment in Developing Communities (Drinking Water Quality for Health)

Meditation: Buddhism and the Practice of Mindfulness

Encountering Islam in the Enlightenment: Traveler's Tales from the East, 1660-1789

What Is Beauty? Cultural and Historical Roots of Japanese Garden Design

Long-term Impact of Hurricane Katrina

Your Genes, the Environment and Your Health

Making a Difference on the Path to Medical School: Serving the Medically Underserved

Anglos, Latinos and the Spanish "Black Legend"

Performance and Culture in the African Diaspora

The Octopus of Censorship

Japan vs. US Through Media

The Cultural Politics of South Park

Homer's Odyssey

What Makes You Unique? Your Genome!

Science and Human Movement

Communicating with Japanese: Introduction to Intercultural Communication

Using Spreadsheets to Model Environmental Change

Understanding Environmental Activism

Intellectual Quiz

The Rise and Limits of Documentary Film

The Octopus of Censorship

Industrial Tourism--How We Sell Travel and Places

Career Exploration

Fall 2005, 1-unit

What Makes Airplanes Fly?

Introduction to Oncology

Biomedical Research: Methods and Design

Latinos and Latinas and the Law

Mexican Music: los clásicos

Agriculture's Role in the Conservation of Wildlands

THEY DO WHAT?! Examining Stereotypes and Perspectives

Listening to Music With a Scientific Mind

Obesity and the Politics of Food

Law and Sport in America

Introduction to Biophotonics

The Role of Negotiation in Leadership

Understanding the Research University

Nature and Photochemistry

A Leisurely Look at Genomic Research Using Microarrays

Al Qaeda and Modernity

The Chemistry of Putting Humans on Mars (and Getting Them Home Again)

Reading a Political Novel: Orhan Pamuk's Snow

Taking Care of the Hospitalized Patient: A Glimpse Into Medical Care After the ER

Strategic Behavior

Issues in Youth Sports

Current Issues in Constitutional Law

Career Opportunities for Veterinarians

Computer Simulation in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Pain Stays Mainly in the Brain (But Don't Forget the Spinal Cord!)

Italian Cities

Understanding the Research University

The Century of Biomedical Imaging

Computers and Biology

Understanding the Research University

Understanding the Research University

Pollution and Population Dynamics

Problem Solving Through Creativity and Non-Linearity

Responding to the Times: Modern Journalism and the Short Essay

Fall 2005, 2-unit

The Origins of Romantic Love: Knights, Ladies, Sex and Sinners in the Middle Ages

Forensic Biology - Medicine and the Law

California Mystery Novels

Environmental Impacts of Stormwater Runoff

Impact of Biomedical Molecular Revolution on Society: Ethical and Social Implications

American Roots Music: Chicago Blues

Research in Plant Biology: Relevance for Students, Society and Scientists

Spanish and Latino Communities in the United States

Alternative Media Practices

Nazi Perpetrators in Holocaust Cinema

Chaos, Complexity and Christianity

On Creativity and Contemporary Performance

Literary Representations of Islam in the English Enlightenment: Investigating the Archive

American Image Around the World

Introduction to Hospital and Medical Physics

Exploring Writing and Research in African American & African Studies

Insects in the City

Hollywood Digs Archaeology

Plant Ecology of the Northern California Coast Range

Sense of Place in American Art

Small Group Communication

Attachment Theory and Close Relationships

Addiction and Addictive Drugs

An Intellectual History of Film Noir

Othello in Performance

Bionanotechnology: Fact or Hype

My Reality: Psychology and Symbolism in Literature and Film

Getting Your Feet Wet in Putah Creek

Imprisonment in California; Theory and Practice of Incarceration in a "Free" Society

Science and News: Why American Journalism Sometimes Succeeds But So Often Fails in Reporting the Biggest Issues of Our Time

Campus Community Book Project Seminar: Exploring the Kite Runner

Experiencing Success on the Path to Medical School: The Tao of Medicine

Doing Mathematics — With A Computer At Your Side

The Supreme Court and You

Inventions That Shaped the World

Insights Into Sport and Exercise Through Science

Spring 2005, 1-unit

The Book of Job

Dog Overpopulation

Coastal Oceanography of the Marin and Sonoma Coasts

Following Foo..., being born too soon

An Experiential Guide to Hiking Around Davis

An Island Called California: An Ecological Journey Through California's Natural Communities

Know Your Brain: Exciting Developments in Neuroscience

Decision Making

Germany: Highlights of Cultural History

Stealth Marketing: Opportunities and Ethical Issues

Japanese Culture: Reflection of Nature and Lifelong Learning in Visual Art

Shakespeare, Performance, Criticism: Romeo and Juliet

Sense and Nonsense About Crime and Drugs

Art and the Miseries of War (Art Holds a Mirror to War)

Language Myths: Things Everyone Knows About Language (That Happen to be Wrong)

Pomp and Circumstance: British Classical Music Hits (and Misses) in the 20th Century

Small Animal Clinical Toxicology

Languages: A Behind the Scenes Look at How Humans Learn Other Languages

Exercise and the Cardiovascular System in Health and Disease

Why Can't We All Just Be Friends?: A Systematic Way of Looking at People From Other Cultures 

Social Security Reforms

Shakespeare's Politics

Healthy Mind, Healthy Body

Parallel and Distributed Computing

Taking Care of Hospitalized Patients: A Glimpse Into Medical Care After the ER

Understanding Calculus Using Physical Experiments

Introduction to Oncology

Language and Cultural Identity

Issues in Youth Sports

Topics in Earthquake Engineering Research

Bond, James Bond: The 007 Phenomenon

Reading a Political Novel: Orhan Pamuk's Snow

Cancer Biology & Molecular-targeted Therapies 

The Science of Baseball

Bicycles and Bicyclists

Volcanic Hazards: Eruptions, Landslides, Tsunamis

Micromachines - How New Technologies Impact Society

Sleep

The Black Art of Mathematical Programming: Proverbs and Illustrations

The Science and Engineering Behind Multimedia Communications and Networking

Understanding the Research University

Spring 2005, 2-units

Life and Art in Hitler's Germany

"Underreported News"--Issues That Transform the World and the Media System That Neglects Them

From the Big Bang to DNA

Genetic Engineering: The Science and Impact on Society

Creativity and Consciousness: Contemplation, Reflection and Action

Attachment Theory and Close Relationships

Weddings and Marriage in America

Maximum Performance in Human and Animal Athletes: When Does Drug Use Become Abuse

Introduction to Cryptology

Persuasion in Today's World

The Pros and Cons of Online Learning

Modern Physics, Cosmology and Religion

Impact of Biomedical Molecular Revolution on Society: Ethical and Social Implications

Political Economy of the Middle East

Why Can't States Get Along? Cooperation and Conflict in the International System

Scientific Illustration in Public Murals

Writing & Research in African American and African Studies

A Cradle to Grave Look at Materials in Society

Your Genes, The Environment and Your Health

Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles

Genetics in Film

Physics in the 20th Century: The Advent of the Nuclear Age

Shaking It: Earthquakes in Human and California History

Epidemiology - The Study of Health in Populations

Butterflies Demystified

Greening the Visual Arts

Consumer Designs: Product Packaging and American Culture

Physical Culture Methods for Stress Management

Moral Reasoning in Scientific Research

Frankenstein's Monster: A Model for Medical Research?

Jazz and Literature

Perspectives on Plant Diversity

Unhappy Families: Staging Family Trauma in Contemporary Film

Reading Vietnam

Insights Into Sport and Exercise Through Science

Literary Representations of Islam in the English Enlightenment

Humphrey Bogart - The Greatest Actor of All Time??

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Debate: Scientific and Ethical Aspects

Winter 2005, 1-unit

Field Identification of Birds a.k.a. Birdwatching 

Communicating with Japanese: Introduction to Intercultural Communication

Human Nature, Animal Culture

The "Biggest" American Novel You've Never Read: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Spinal Cord Injury: From the Patient's Reality to the Promise of Research

Rocket Science

Life of the Poor in Victorian London

The Chemistry of Putting Humans on Mars (And Getting Them Home Again)

Environmental Narratives

Winter 2005, 2-units

On the Administration and Validity of Lie Detector Tests

Producing 3D Computer Animation

Traditional Chinese Physical Culture and Some Contemporary Applications

Psychology in Film

Performance and Culture in the African Diaspora

Contemporary Infectious Diseases

The Origins of Tolerance and the English Enlightenment

Using Stella to Model Environmental Change

How to Make a Lens -- An Introduction and Practical Application

Introduction to Hospital and Medical Physics

California Mystery Novels

Masters and Masterpieces of Art

Picturing Social Reality: Photographs and Film, Facts and Fabrications

What is Beauty? Cultural and Historical Roots of Japanese Garden Design

Drowning on the Mountain: Physiology and Pathophysiology of High Altitude

Industrial Tourism -- How We Sell the Grand Canyon, Disneyland, Aspen, Las Vegas and the West

Current Developments in Civil Rights

Japan vs. US Through Media

The Botany of Desire: Integrating the Social History, Natural History, and Biology of Plant and Human Interactions

Appropriate Engineering Technology in Developing Communities (Drinking Water Quality for Health)

Chocolate: Integrated Perspectives from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Biological Sciences

Education, Justice and the Law

Applications of Waves -- From Music to Imaging Atoms

American Popular Culture

Genetic Engineering of Humans

Hollywood Goes Back in Time

Exploring Mars

Fall 2004, 1-unit

What Makes Airplanes Fly? 

Latinos and Latinas and the Law

Agriculture's Role in the Conservation of Wildlands

Biophotonics

Science and Soccer

Life-Cycle Design of Civil Structures

The Way We Talk Now

The Rule of Law: Texts and Contexts

THEY DO WHAT? Examining Stereotypes and Perspectives

The Presidential Election 2004

What is Mental Illness?

A Bug's Life

Environmental Issues in Art & Design

The Nobel Laureates: Intellectual Icons of Modern Society

Be Your Own Publisher

Let's Talk Political Geography: Is the "Cold War" Really Over?

Ecological Invasions by Animals and Plants

The Constitution in the Supreme Court of the United States: A Close Look at Recent Controversial Cases

Reel Lawyers: A Look at Lawyers, Their Ethics, and Law Practice Through Film

Fall 2004, 2-units

The Origins of Romantic Love: Knights, Ladies, Sex, and Sinners in the Middle Ages

Research in Plant Biology: Relevance for Students, Society and Scientists

Environmental Coprology - The Case for Law and Ordure

American Roots Music: Chicago Blues

Edible Missions to Mars

Campus Community Book Project Seminar: Everyday Life Performance

The Supreme Court and You

Screenplay by William Shakespeare

Influence In Action

Doing Mathematics -- With a Computer At Your Side

Directing The Laramie Project Production

Contemporary Shamanism

Globalization and the Media Industry

Latina Identities: Testimonio and Narrative

Learn Telugu and its Culture

Chemistry and Evolution -- From Molecules to Elephants

Anglos and Latinos: A Tale of Two Empires

Chaos, Complexity and Christianity

Learning Science Through Modeling

Nuclear Terrorism

Cancer in Animals & People

Oil, Israel, and Conflict in the Middle East

On Art and Creativity

Spring 2004, 1-unit

What Makes Airplanes Fly?

Understanding the Literature of Biology

Gandhi's Way, Science, Technology & Planet Earth

Shakespeare's Politics

What's In A Name

Know Your Brain: Exciting Developments in Neuroscience

Origin of Language

 

Spring 2004, 2-units

Philosophy of Non-Violence

Unhappy Families: Staging Family Trauma in Contemporary Film and Theater

Applications of Waves -- From Music to Imaging Atoms

The Poetics of Farming

Obesity and the Politics of Food

The Science of Cooking

Algorithmic Science: Exploring Wolfram's New Kind of Science

Exploring Writing and Research in African American and African Studies

Symbiosis, Coevolution, and the Evolution of Cooperation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Genetic Engineering: The Science and Impact on Society

From the Big Bang to DNA

Remote Sensing - What Can You See From Space?

Terrorism and the War on Terrorism: Political and Cultural Issues

Reading Recent Canadian Writing

Introduction to Cryptology

Learn a Foreign Language, Learn Telugu and its Culture

Modern Physics, Cosmology & Religion

Physics in the 20th Century: The Advent of the Nuclear Age

Medical Ethics: Lessons from the Emergency Department

The Romantic Fairy Tale

Shakespeare In-Depth: The Merchant of Venice

Vision: Evolution's Witness

Elvis Presley: Roots, Impacts, Legacies

Political Economy of the Middle East

Global Climate Change: Convergence of Biological, Geophysical & Social Sciences

Shakespeare From Page to Stage

Rock and Roll Films: An Overview

Expressing Society Through its Many Uses of Violence: An Examination of Five New Plays

The Argument Over the Environment

Hollywood Looks at L.A.

Creativity in the Digital Age: Reading and Writing Poetry with Computers

Shaking It: Earthquakes in Human and California History

 

Winter 2004, 1-unit

Rebuilding Ground Zero: Memorial as Meaning and Memory

Aspects of Comedy, Parody, Irony and Tragedy in Modern Short Fiction

Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice": From Fact to Fiction to Film

THEY DO WHAT? Examining Stereotypes and Perspectives

Where Do We Go From Here?

Rocket Science

Biology of Cell Death

Nanotechnology - Promise and Problems

Can the Internet be Tamed?

History of U.S. Immigration Policy

Current Developments in Civil Rights

The Writing on the Wall

How Much Should California Spend on Crime Control?

Authorship and Authority in Scientific Culture

A Leisurely Look at Genomic Research Using Microarrays

Introduction to Hospital Physics

The Role of Dreams in Culture

Indoor Air Pollution: Is It Really a Problem Everyone Should Know About?

Life of the Masses in Victorian London

Appropriate Engineering Technology in Developing Communities

Winter 2004, 2-units

 California Mystery Novels

Hollywood Goes to Mars

 What is Beauty? Cultural and Historical Roots of Japanese Garden Design

How Do We Know What Molecules Look Like?

The Origins of Romantic Love: Knights, Ladies, Sex, and Sinners in the Middle Ages

Voltaire's Candide: A Reflection on Knowledge, Sex, Happiness and Much Else

Famous Trials: History, Law and the Dramatic Arts

Storytelling & Leadership

 Feminist Legal Theory

Homer's Odyssey

The 'Other' Lords of the Ring

Presidential Primaries: Strategy, Ideology, and the Media

"California Classics:" Exploring Challenges to the Golden State via Literature

AIDS and Literature

Topsy-Turvy: Japan on Stage in Victorian England

Exploring Mars

Why Do Dead Men Play the Guitar? The Meaning of Popular Culture Icons in Mexico

The Human-Animal Bond

The Botany of Desire: Integrating the Social History, Natural History, and Biology of Plant and Human Interactions

What's All the Fuss About (Anti)Globalization?

Forensic Biology — Medicine and the Law

 A Cradle to Grave Look at Materials in Technological Sciences

Obesity, Diabetes and Heart Disease

Using Stella to Model Environmental Change

Ethnic Identity and Academic Achievement

Traditional Chinese Physical Culture and Some Contemporary Applications

Before California: An Archaeological Examination of the First Inhabitants

Drowning on the Mountain: Physiology and Pathophysiology of High Altitude

Picturing Social Reality: Photographs and Film, Facts and Fabrications

Victor Hugo's France

Masters and Masterpieces of Art

Comparing Mammalian Genomes

Your Genes, The Environment and Your Health

Industrial Tourism -- How We Sell the Grand Canyon, Disneyland, Aspen, Las Vegas, and the West

Education, Law and Justice

Fall 2003, 1-unit

Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice

Biophotonics

Latinos and Latinas and the Law

Games and Strategic Behavior

How to Lie with Statistics — in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Learning Calculus Using Physical Experiments and Their Computer Modeling and Simulation

Law and Sports in America

The 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

"Pushing Drugs?" Consumers and Prescription Drug Advertising

Wind Energy —Explanation and Issues

Volcanoes and Their Influence on Human Culture and Civilization

Agriculture's Role in the Conservation of Wildlands

Stitching African-American Culture: African-American Narrative Quilts

Defense Against Dark Information: Microbes, Microcode and Memes

Symbolic Computing in Maple

Life-Cycle Design of Civil Structures

Performance and Culture in the African Diaspora

Inventions That Shaped the World

Freshmen Perception and Reality of Academic Rigor During the First 5 Weeks at UCD

Approaches to American History: The Historian's Craft

The Social Animal

 

Fall 2003, 2-units

Conserving Australia's Biodiversity

A Historic View of Mathematics

Life and Art in Hitler's Germany

Chance and Randomness: From Probability Theory to Games

American Roots Music — Chicago Blues

Greek Tragedy as a Performing Art

The Supreme Court and You

Food, Technology & Culture

Exploring the Landscape of the Cache Creek Watershed

Literature and Cinema: The Italian Case

Experiencing Psychosis Through Autobiography

How Serious is the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism?

Women's Sports and the Media

Cancer in Animals and People

Doing Mathematics With A Computer At Your Side

Genetic Engineering of Humans

Globalization and the Media Industry

Chaos, Complexity and Christianity

Chemistry and Evolution -- From Molecules to Elephants

Neurobiology of Addictive Drugs

Learning Science Through Modeling

Campus Community Book Project Seminar: Mahatma Gandhi in Context Through Film

Be Your Own Publisher

Escape From Subsistence: A Brief Economic History of the World, 10,000 BC-2,000 AD

The Beat Generation in Poetry and Film

The Quantum Universe

Living in Space: The Final Frontier?

Saving Endangered Plant Species: Problems and Prospects

Biotechnology—A New Era, A New Struggle?

Food Distribution in a Hungry World

 

Spring 2003, 1-unit

Physics in the 20th Century: The Advent of the Nuclear Age

Aspects of Comedy, Parody, Irony and Tragedy in Modern Short Fiction

What Makes Airplanes Fly

Ethical, Legal and Social Concerns of the Human Genome Project

Painted Deserts: The Literature and Art of America's National Parks

The Origin and Evolution of Comets

Who Pays? The Politics of Funding K-12 Education

The Role of Negotiation in Leadership

Geometry and Computers

Emerging and Re-emerging Viral Diseases of Humans, Lower-Mammals and Birds

NASA's Mars Exploration Program

Electrochemistry and the Energy Crisis

BAD English: Investigating Language in Action

H.M.S. Pinafore: From Text to Performance

The Miseries of War (Art Holds a Mirror to War)

Social Impacts of Genomics and Biotechnology

Nanotechnology — Promise and Problems

Statistics, Science and Public Policy

Learn a Foreign Language, Learn Telugu and its Culture

Disruptive Technologies

Spring 2003, 1-unit

Methuselah Re-visited: Social and Biological Determinants of Life Span

From the Big Bang to B27: Bioastronomy and the Development of the Immune System

Elvis: Roots, Impacts, Legacies

The Origins of Romantic Love: Knights, Ladies, Sex and Sinners in the Middle Ages

Introduction to Screenwriting

Sports and Cultures in Global and Local Societies

Scientific Paradigm of Global Energy Development

The "Other" Lords of the Ring

A Homosexual Hero in Fiction, Film and Fact: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice in Multi-Media Format

The Confessions of Saint Augustine

Modern Physics, Cosmology and Religion

Economic Policy Today

Drowning on the Mountain: Physiology and Pathophysiology of High Altitude

Science in Film: Frankenstein to Jurassic Park

The ABCs of Genetic Engineering

Eyes, Eyes, Eyes: The Exciting World of the Way We See

Research in Plant Biology for Students, Society and Scientists

Living in Space: The Final Frontier?

Agriculture's Role in the Conservation of Wildlands

Globalization and the Media Industry

Biology and Global Climate Change

Art-Science Fusions as a Tool for Teaching Biological Concepts

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Debate: Scientific and Ethical Aspects

Insect Chemical Communication: Chemistry Serving Biology

Life Without Light: The Connections Between Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry and Chemosynthetic Faunal Communities at Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vent Sites

Chance and Randomness: From Probability Theory to Games

Applications of Waves — From Music to Imaging Atoms

Victor Hugo's France

Writing About the Future

Cultures of Terrorism

When is a Doll? The Dissimilar Meaning of Similar Things

The American Teenager

The Archaeology of Technology in Film

 

Winter 2003

Dinosaur Extinction: Is the Asteriod-Impact Theory Ecologically Plausible?

Ethnic Identity in Multicultural Society

A Historic View of Mathematics

Education, Justice and the Law

Litigating the Right to Die: Medicine, Bioethics, and the Courts

AIDS and LIterature

Masters and Masterpieces of Art

Maximum Performance in Human and Animal Athletes: When Does Drug Use Become Abuse?

Using Stella to Model Environmental Change

The California Mystery Novel

Esperanto, A Common Language for All People

Life and Art in Hitler's Germany

Psychology and Film

From Munich to Hiroshima: Problems in the Understanding of World War II's Politics

Campus Community Book Project Seminar: A Study Abroad Perspective on "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down."

Homer's Odyssey

Freedom vs. Security: America's Continuing Quandary

Regulation of Cell Death in Human Disease: An Analysis of Our Current Understanding

Global Capitalism

The Beats and the San Francisco Scene (1955-1960)

The Moral Universe of Capitalism

Picturing Social Life: Photographs and Film — Facts and Fabrications

The Evolution of Opera

Chocolate: Integrated Perspectives from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Biological Sciences

Varieties of Religious Experience

Dance, Body and the Hollywood Musical

Forensic Botany: Plant Anatomy, Medicine and the Law

 

Fall 2002

The Supreme Court and You

A Historical View of Mathematics

Broaden Your Horizons: International Educational Issues, Opportunities and You

Dr. Strangelove Revisited

Doing Mathematics -With A Computer At Your Side

Cancer in Animals and People

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Beethoven's Ninth and the Problem of Evil

Physical Activity Throughout Life: Principles and Practices

Campus Community Book Project Seminar: Family Folklore

Chaos, Complexity and Christianity

From Munich to Hiroshima: Problems in the Understanding of World War II's Politics

Women/Gender and Development

Introduction to Psychopharmacology: Physiological Aspects and Controversial Issues

The University: A User's Manual

Your Genes, The Environment and Your Health

 

Spring 2002

Identification and Uses of Plants

Immunity vs. Autoimmunity: Paradox vs. Paradigm

Paradigm of Energy Production, Distribution, and Storage

Elvis: Roots, Impacts, Legacies

Modern Physics, Cosmology and Religion

Research in Plant Biology - Relevance for Society, Students and Scientists

National Aestheticism: The Role of Art, Architecture, Film, and Propaganda in Hitler"s Germany

The Joy of Traveling

Introduction to Screenwriting

What is Design? - Learning From Japanese Garden and Architecture

Moral Outrage in a Postmodern World

Nature and Irish Literature

Chaos, Complexity and Christianity

Economic Policy Today

Medical Ethics: Lessons From the Emergency Department

 

Winter 2002

Methuselah Re-visited: Social and Biological Determinants of Life Spans

Ethnic Identity in Multicultural Society

The Myths of Music, Love, Death and Doctor Faust

AIDS and Literature

Education, Justice and the Law

Masters and Masterpieces of Art

Using Stella to Model Environmental Change

The California Mystery Novel

What’s Wrong with the Air?

The ABCs of Genetic Engineering

Antislavery Literature

Esperanto, A Common Language

Fall 2001

The Supreme Court and You

Germanic Myth and Linguistic Wisdom in Tolkein’s Fiction

The Effects of the Changing Economy and Ecology in Russia and New Independent Countries

A Historical View of Mathematics

The Life, Writings, and Music of Charles Ives

German Culture in Crisis? A Critical Examination

Alternative Medicine – Health or Hoax?

Cancer in Animals and People

Introduction to Space Flight

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Political Economy of the Middle East

Spring 01

Why do Some People Want Nonhuman Animals to Have Rights?

Scientific Paradigm of Global Energy

Elvis Presley: Roots, Impacts, Legacies

Modern Physics, Cosmology and Religion

Inner Space / Outer Space

Research in Plant Biology: Relevance to Society, Students and Scientists

The Age of Chivalry: Europe in the Year 1200

Environmental Problems and Controversies

An Introduction to James Joyce’s Ulysses

Medical Ethics: Lessons from the Emergency Department

Immunity vs. Autoimmunity: Paradox vs. Paradigm

Identification and Uses of Plants

The Science of Life and the Philosophy of Death

Unknown Land: Literary Adventures in NW Mexico

Chaos, Complexity and Christianity

Economic Policy Debates Today

Water in California and the American West

W '01

Why do Some People Want Nonhuman Animals to Have Rights?

Introduction to Wilderness Medicine

Using Stella to Model Environmental Change

The California Mystery Novel

What’s Wrong with the Air?

Esperanto, A Common Language

Education, Justice and the Law

Varieties of Religious Experience

Methuselah Re-visited: Social and Biological Determinants of Life Spans

 

F'00

Why do Some People Want Nonhuman Animals to Have Rights?

The Supreme Court and You

Cultural Identities: Representation of Woman on Film

Nature and Irish Literature

The 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology for Medicine

 

Sp '00

Why do Some People Want Nonhuman Animals to Have Rights?

Elvis Presley: Roots, Impacts Legacies

Modern Physics, Cosmology and Religion

The California Mystery Novel

The Origins of Romantic Love: Ladies, Sex, and Sinners in the Middle Ages

Spectating and Spectators

Medical Ethics: Lessons From The Emergency Department

 

W'00

Why do Some People Want Nonhuman Animals to Have Rights?

Varieties of Religious Experience

Education, Justice and the Law

Using Stella to Model Environmental Change

Esperanto, A Common Second Language for All Peoples

Issues in Body Weight Regulation