STSC Related Courses, Spring 2007

Official course infomation including accurate room and time information can be found on
the UC Berkeley Online Schedule of Classes.

African American Studies

• Africam 137. Multicultural Communities. LaGuerre.

  Examination of theoretical issues in urban anthropology and sociology pertaining to the United States as a multicultural society. Comparative analysis of the ecology and social structure of African American, Native American, Asian American, Mexican American and Afro-Caribbean urban communities with special emphasis on social class, ethnicity, and culture.

  Day/Time: Tu 2-5pm

Agricultural and Resource Economics

• ARESEC 202. Issues and Concepts in Agricultural Economics. Perloff/Villas-Boas.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: Economics 201A-201B or consent of instructor. Economics, institutions, and policies relating to agricultural and resource markets. The course makes extensive use of microeconomic modeling techniques including equilibrium concepts, comparative statics, and welfare economics using partial and general equilibrium models. The course concentrates on industrial organization: dominant firm and competitive fringe, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, vertical integration, price discrimination, and economics of information with applications to agriculture, food retailing, cooperatives, fishing, and energy.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2 pm

American Studies

• American Studies 101.002. The Atomic Age & Cold War Culture. Palmer.

  Three hours of lecture per week. The atomic bomb changed the world. In this course, we will examine the impact the development of the bomb, the decision to use it, and the nuclear arms race have had on American culture and society. The threat of nuclear annihilation, the rise of anti-Communist ideology, the development of a powerful military-industrial complex, the reliance on covert and proxy warfare, changing family dynamics, and postwar sexuality are among the topics to be considered. Our task in this class is to figure out how people use and respond to the rhetoric of progress and annihilation in the United States. We will study a variety of literary and visual media, and research scientific and political publications, aesthetic and artistic movements, and spectacular public events.

  Day/Time: TuTh 8-9:30am

Anthropology

• Anthro 139. Controlling Processes. Nader.

  Three hours of lecture per week. This course will discuss key theoretical concepts related to power and control and examine indirect mechanisms and processes by which direct control becomes hidden, voluntary, and unconscious in industrialized societies. Readings will cover language, science and technology, law, politics, religion, medicine, sex, and gender. The manner of thinking about controlling processes emphasizes connections rather than disciplinary boundaries in the anthropological perspectives.

  Day/Time: TuTh 11-12:30pm

• Anthro 219. Prognosis, Prevention and Prediction: Colonizing Future Health. Gordon.

  New knowledges increasingly put the future in question. But which futures are projected, how are they produced, and how are they lived? Future life and health for whom, made by whom? Who decides and on the basis of what? How do these affect our understandings of what it means to be human (anthropos) and of life itself? How do they affect the ways we live time, health, illness, disability, death, kinship and citizenship? The first half of this seminar will approach these and other questions through theoretical frameworks and with conceptual tools from anthropology, social theory, and science and technology studies, including bio-power--regimes of truth/knowledge, strategies of intervention, subjectivities, and ethics--, political economy, and narrative. The second half will explore, through case studies of contemporary forms, how these elements are choreographed in different social, historical, political, economic, and religious contexts, what new assemblages and dilemmas emerge when future-producing technologies travel? The specific topics considered will reflect the topical and geographical interests of the students and the instructor, but could include exploring the dynamics in particular contexts around different ways of ‘reading,’ communicating about, and prolonging future health and life; the rising dominance of epidemiological and molecular biological modes of reasoning and thought; pre-natal and adult ‘preventive’ screening, prophylactic surgeries, and other preventive interventions; ‘predictive medicine,’ genetic testing, and bio-banks; as well as the latest icon of hope-- stem cells. The course will be explorative, collaborative, interdisciplinary, comparative, and critically relevant.

  Day/Time: Th 2-4 pm

• Anthro 250X.002. Visual Anthropology: The Photograph as Social Document. Brandes.

  This graduate seminar in visual anthropology, open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates (with the permission of the instructor) explores the uses and abuses of photography in anthropology, both historically and contemporaneously. We examine still photography as a means of communication, a source of information, and a potential cause of distortion and impression management. The course also is designed to analyze the relationship between documentary photography, photojournalism, and the kind of photography that professional ethnographers usually practice. Readings provide a critical examination of photographic imagery in ethnographic research and publication, past and present. The overall course goal is to explore--through literature review and practice--diverse ways in which photography might be integrated into the ethnographic project. The course begins with a consideration of core readings in which central themes are introduced, including the objectivity or subjectivity of the photographer (and the lens); photography as a methodological tool; intentionality in photographic representation; diachronic change in ethnographic image-making; the photographic construction of the Other; and related matters. The latter portion of the course consists of student presentations of research projects, to be decided in consultation with the instructor.

  Day/Time: W 10-12pm

• Anthro 250X.004. Global Knowledge. Ong.

  This seminar is for students who wish to discover the issues and methods of an anthropology of global knowledge. Topics include modernity, neoliberalism, territory, sovereignty, technology, trust,and ethics. There is some flexibility for incorporating students' particular interests and orientations. Possible Readings include: T. Luhmann, Observations on Modernity, Stanford University Press, 1998; B. Czarniakwska & G. Sevon, Global Ideas, Daleke Grafiska AB, 2005; A. Ong & S. Collier, Global Assemblages, Blackwell, 2005; A. Ong, Neoliberalism as Exception Duke U. Press, 2006; Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights:From Medieval to Global Assemblages. Princeton, 2006; Xiang Biao, Global "Body Shopping" Princeton U Press; and Kauskik Sunder Rajan, Biocapital.Duke U Press, 2006.

  Day/Time: M 11-1pm

Bioengineering

• Bioengineering 100. Ethics in Science and Engineering. Budinger.

  Three hours of lecture per week. The goal of this course is to present the issues of professional conduct in the practice of engineering, in the conduct of research, in publication, in disclosures private and public, and in managing conflicts both professional and financial. The topics include bioethics, human genetics, information ethics, in addition to professional research and engineering ethics. The method is through historical didactic presentations, case studies, presentations of technical methods for problem solving in ethical matters, and classroom debates on contemporary ethical issues. The guest lecturers will be drawn from faculty from religious studies, journalism, and law from the UC Berkeley.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2 pm

Business Administration

• Business 279S. Research Seminar in Business and Public Policy. Gertler/Tadelis.

  Day/Time: Th 12-2pm

Earth and Planetary Science

• EPS 39A. Geological Influences in California Society Today. Helgeson/Richards/Allen.

  Two to four hours of seminar per week. Students have an opportunity to learn about the earth through direct field observation. The main part is a 4-day fieldtrip that introduces a variety of geological issues ranging from evolution of California, rock-forming processes, earthquakes, environmental concerns, mining and water management. The fieldtrip is preceded by a two introductory lectures. A fee is required to cover cost of transportation and food. ($152-$200 Course Materials Fee - subject to change). Tent and sleeping bag needed. Freshmen only!

  Day/Time: MW 4-5pm

Economics

• Econ C125. Environmental Economics. Zilberman.

  Theories of externalities and public goods applied to pollution and environmental policy. Trade-off between production and environmental amenities. Assessing nonmarket value of environmental amenities. Remediation and clean-up policies. Environment and development. Biodiversity management. Also listed as Environmental Economics and Policy C101.

  Day/Time: TuTh 3:30-5pm

• Econ 222. Economics of Innovation. Hall.

  Study of innovation, technical change, and intellectual property, including the industrial organization and performance of high-technology industries and firms; the use of economic, patent, and other bibliometric data for the analysis of technical change; legal and economic issues of intellectual property rights; science and technology policy; and the contributions of innovation and diffusion to economic growth. Methods of analysis are both theoretical and empirical, econometric and case study.

  Day/Time: W 12-2pm

Energy and Resources Group

• Energy and Resources 102. Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental Problems. Harte.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: Upper division standing; calculus (Math 1A-1B or 16A-16B); physics (7A-7B or 8A-8B), chemistry (1A or 4A), biology (1B or 11), or consent of instructor. Application of basic principles of natural science to the analysis of human influence on environmental conditions and processes at continental to global scale. Topics covered include dimensions of the physical world and of human modifications of it; techniques of estimation and back of the envelope calculation; box models of environmental stocks and flows: equilibrium and feedback; chemical equilibria in the environment; nutrient cycles and their disruptions; acid deposition and its consequences; climate change and its consequences; stratospheric ozone depletion; sources, fate and effects of toxic substances in the global environment; radioactivity and radiation; epidemics; biodiversity and its diminution; carrying capacity and human population growth.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11am

• Energy and Resources 291.004. End-use Energy Efficiency: Technology, Economics, and Policy. Sanstad.

  This seminar will provide an introduction to end-use energy efficiency in its engineering, economic, and policy aspects, as well as more in-depth treatment of selected topics in each category. The technical foundations of the end-use or demand-side paradigm will be analyzed, as well as those of both basic and advanced economic methods for analyzing energy efficiency and designing and evaluating policies and measures to increase it in specific sectors and specific technologies. Contrasting views of different rationales for demand-side policies will be carefully analyzed. Special emphasis will be given to the role of end-use efficiency in the context of formulating approaches to address global climate change. The seminar is aimed both at students who anticipate working professionally in energy or environmental policy, and will benefit from a graduate-level treatment of these topics, and at students who may be interested in technical dissertation topics within this area.

  Day/Time: Th 10-12pm

• Energy and Resources 291.002. Climate Change Policy. Farrell.

  Public policies (actual and proposed) to study, control, and adapt to climate change have been growing in number and importance over the last two decades. This class is designed to introduce the student to the main concepts and options in climate change policy, what climate change policies are currently in place and being discussed, and how current and future climate change policies may affect us in the future. The class will be taught as a seminar and will involve readings, short writing assignments, class discussion, and a research paper. Specific topics include the impacts of climate change, possible mitigation strategies, cap-and-trade programs, technological innovation and climate change, voluntary approaches, and polices relating to the study of climate change. Students should already have a basic understanding of climate change science and of economics.

  Day/Time: M 2-4pm

• Energy and Resources 291.001. Transportation Energy. Farrell.

  This course addresses the technical and social issues that are important to the demand for and the supply of transportation energy in the United States. It will include both lectures and discussions of readings, which will be fairly substantial but which will provide an overview of relevant issues. Topics include Transportation demand, land use, fuel technologies and economics, automotive technologies, fuel economy, and societal implications of the automobile. Students will be expected to participate in class discussions, make at least one presentation on course materials, and write a 5000 word research paper.

  Day/Time: Tu 12-2pm

Engineering

• Engineering 24.001. Time, Money, and Love in the Age of Technology. Azevedo.

  One hour of lecture/discussion/seminar per week. Many people in technological societies complain of "time poverty." What are the real relationships between time, money, and love in our lives? Where is love in a world dominated by the technological paradigm? Is there a balance to be found? Does technology make us happy? What is the good life? How can we cultivate peace of mind in a world of rapid change? These and other fundamental questions will be at the heart of a semester-long Socratic dialogue. (Freshman Seminar)

  Day/Time: M 1-2pm

• Engineering 124. Ethics and the Impact of Technology on Society. Kastenberg.

  Because of the rapidly changing nature of technology, new and complex ethical issues are emerging which bring into question the ability of society to address, and hopefully resolve them. These new issues are arising in such areas as biotechnology, information technology, nanotechnology and nuclear technology. They range from protecting the health and welfare of the public and the environment, to patenting living organisms and labeling products containing genetically modified organisms, to biological, chemical and nuclear weapons of mass destruction, to concerns regarding the alteration of the ecology of life. This course focuses on the nature of these emerging technical issues, their ethical, legal and social ramifications, and what individuals and our society value in relation to these issues. We will examine what contemporary philosophy, religion and art, and contemporary views of natural and social science have to say about these issues, and about the relationship between individual and societal values regarding these issues. The goal of this course is to develop awareness in our students of these issues and a basis to pursue future study.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3pm

• Engineering 195. Science, Technology, and Culture. Philippi.

  Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: English 1A or equivalent; a course in physical or biological science; upper division standing; or consent of instructor. This course is designed (1) to encourage students to see science and technology in a broad cultural context and from a variety of perspectives (historical, philosophical, ethical, etc,) and (2) to help them develop their writing skills. Science and its ways of knowing; science, technology, and community; science, technology and the conscience; technology and the environment; the two cultures. Sponsoring department: Engineering Interdisciplinary Studies.

  Day/Time: TuTh 11-12:30pm

Environment Economics and Policy

• EEP 101. Environmental Economics. Zilberman.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: 100, Mathematics 16A-16B, or Economics 100A or 101A. Theories of externalities and public goods applied to pollution and environmental policy. Trade-off between production and environmental amenities. Assessing nonmarket value of environmental amenities. Remediation and clean-up policies. Environment and development. Biodiversity management. Also listed as Economics C125.

  Day/Time: TuTh 3:30-5pm

• EEP 153. Population, Environment, and Development. Trist/Marsh.

  This course offers a multidisciplinary view of the complex and contentious relationships between population, environmental change, and economic development. Two hundred years after Thomas Malthus wrote his famous treatise on population, the debates continue. Does population growth spell environmental disaster? Or do Western affluence and arrogance? What are the implications for economic growth (poverty/affluence), well-being, and social justice? How can we understand the causes and linkages? During the semester, we will examine different approaches to understanding interactions among population growth, environmental quality, and economic development, with attention to case studies and policy questions from around the world. Specific issues to be covered include the evolving demographic transition in different regions of the world, poverty and resource degradation, gender equality and development, food security, international migration, and population implications for water, land and biodiversity resources.

  Day/Time: MW 3-4pm

• EEP 162. Economics of Water Resources. Hanemann.

  Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: 100 or Economics 100A or 101A; 101 recommended. The course covers the economics of water resources, with special emphasis on areas such as California where water is a scarce resource. The aim is to teach both about economic tools – how economists go about analyzing key aspects of water policy – and also about the specifics of water in the US West – what has been learned by applying these tools to water issues in the region. The course assumes a knowledge of intermediate microeconomics, and some familiarity with linear regression.

  Day/Time: MW 4-5 pm

Environmental Science, Policy & Management

• ESPM C10. Environmental Issues. Welter.

  Three hours of lecture and one and one-half hours of discussion per week. Relationship between human society and the natural environment; case studies of ecosystem maintenance and disruption. Issues of economic development, population, energy, resources, technology, and alternative systems. Cross-listed with Letters and Science C30V section 1.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11 am

• ESPM 50AC. Introduction to Culture and Natural Resource Management. The Staff.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. An introduction to how culture affects the way we use and manage fire, wildland and urban forests, rangelands, parks and preserves, and croplands in America. The basic concepts and tools for evaluating the role of culture in resource use and management are introduced and used to examine the experience of American cultural groups in the development and management of western natural resources.

  Day/Time: MWF 11-12 pm

• ESPM 102D. Resource and Environmental Policy. Romm.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: 50AC, 60, Environmental Economics and Policy 1, equivalent courses, or consent of instructor. The course develops capacities to analyze and affect the cause, dynamics, and consequences of resources and environmental policy formation and execution. It develops concepts of public policy and how cultural, legal, political, economic, and administrative processes form, execute, and modify it. It analyzes public policy formation and execution. It examines resource and environmental consequences of national macropolicy and international arrangements, and develops an ability to maintain a professional stance in severe contests of values. Oral presentation skills are developed.

  Day/Time: TuTh 11-12:30 pm

• ESPM 151. Society and Environment. Fortmann.

  Issues, concepts, and processes pertaining to the diverse approaches to understanding the relationship between human society and the environment. Core ideas in and approaches to U.S. environmental policy and management; global environmental politics; environmental justice and development. Critical analysis and discussion of foundational and contemporary texts in the field. Required for the major in society and environment.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11am

• ESPM 162. Bioethics and Society. Winickoff.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Developments in biotechnology and the life sciences have thrown into question existing policy approaches and instruments dealing with intellectual property, reproduction, health, informed consent and privacy. Rapid changes in science and technology appear to be reconstituting concepts of the self and its boundaries, kinship, ownership, and legal rights and obligations of people in relation to their governing institutions. Through reading primary materials and relevant secondary sources, this course seeks to identify and explore salient ethical, legal, and policy issues—and possible solutions—associated with these developments.

  Day/Time: TuTh 3:30-5 pm

• ESPM 251. International Conservation and Development. Carr.

  Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Prerequisites: One upper division course in international development. Changes in Third World rural economy, ecology, and environment and ways in which these are affected by development policies. Historical dimensions of Third World environmental problems. Changing patterns of rural production (especially food) and resource use; alternative theories of natural resource and socioeconomic development; linkages between socioeconomy and environment in agrarian change and development policy; technology and resource control; conservation and development problems.

  Day/Time: W 2-5 pm

• ESPM 252. Seminar in Forest and Wildland Resource Policy Analysis. Romm.

  Three hours of lecture/seminar per week. The seminar addresses (1) methods of policy analysis for wildland resource issues, (2) applications of analysis in policy formation, and (3) processes of policy formation. It proceeds through these phases for a specific policy problem selected each year.

  Day/Time: Th 3-6 pm

• ESPM 253. Advanced Readings in Political Ecology. .

  Three hours of seminar per week. Critique and comparison of literature in political ecology--an approach to sociological analysis of environmental change focusing on environmental conflict. Initial sessions address the definition of political ecology, its origins, and the politics and discourses of natural resource management. Literature includes domestic and international research involving the combination of social and environmental history, local perspectives, and political economy to discuss accounts of social and environmental change.

  Day/Time: W 2-5 pm

• ESPM 256. Science, Technology, and the Politics of Nature. Winickoff.

  Three hours of seminar per week. This course will introduce the methods and theories of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in order to explore the relationships among science, technology, law, and politics in the domains of environment and health. The course will focus some attention on the tension between technocracy and democracy in science policy, and on the role of biotechnology in reshaping the natural and political order. The course will equip graduate students in the social sciences, law, life sciences, and public policy with theoretical and practical tools for analyzing complex problems at the science, technology, and society interface.

  Day/Time: W 2-5 pm

Geography

• Geography 51. Political Economy of Development in East Asia. Hsing.

  This course focuses on the political economy of development in East and Southeast Asia. Topics include the colonial histories and legacies in East Asia, the transition of the development state, transformation of former socialist economies, technology exchanges and transfer across the Pacific, new generations of women workers in the global economy, the politics of deforestation, and Asian financial crises and recovery. Cases used to illustrate the development issues in East Asia include China, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2pm

• Geography 130. Natural Resources and Population. The Staff.

  Three hours of lecture per week. Are there enough energy, water, mineral, and land resources for the world's population? The role of natural resources in the world economy, national development and human welfare focusing on the Third World. The origins of scarcity and abundance, population growth, and migration, hunger and poverty.

  Day/Time: MWF 2-3 pm

• Geography 298. Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge. Johns.

  A robust agricultural system is vital to the health of metropolitan regions worldwide. This course will engage students in an investigation of urban-rural interface issues including land use policies and economics, the role of local food systems, environmental services and impacts, and urban/rural linkages. Through case study-based lectures and weekly readings and discussions, students will explore periurban agriculture as one of the basic frameworks for understanding and managing the growth of metropolitan regions worldwide. Students will also prepare individual presentations. The first seven weeks will be spent on readings and discussion, establishing basic knowledge and a common language for describing urban-rural interface issues. During each of these first weeks, a doctoral student or visiting speaker will present a case study relevant to the themes of the class. The last two weeks will be devoted to presentation of student research projects. The course will culminate with attendance at the Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge symposium, April 5-6.

  Day/Time: Tu 3:30-5:30pm

History

• History 30B. Science, Technology, and Society since Newton. Groppi.

  An introductory survey of the history of the sciences and the increasingly important place they have come to occupy in modern societies since 1700. We begin by looking at the legacy of the Scientific Revolution, the consolidation of classical physics and natural history in the Enlightenment, and popular science. We go on to consider Darwin and evolution, the organizational transformation of science in the nineteenth century, the emergence of chemistry as a science and source of new technologies, and the foundations of genetics around 1900. In the twentieth century we will emphasize the relations of science to technology, medicine, industry, government, and warfare. Course requirements include a discussion section, a midterm and a final examination, and one paper.

  Day/Time: MWF 3-4 pm

• History 101.005. History of Science. Groppi.

  This course is designed for students who wish to write their 101 paper on topics related to the history of science. We will spend the first few weeks of the course looking at the ways that different types of cultural artifacts (such as works of fiction) can be used to gain an understanding of the relationship between science and society. We will also work on developing the students' individual research topics and finding appropriate source materials. The bulk of the work in this course will be directed towards the production of the senior thesis, and the latter part of the semester will be devoted to one-on-one or small-group meetings.

  Day/Time: MWF 11-12 pm

• History 103S.002. Gas, Bombs, and Rockets: Science-Based Warfare in the 20th Century. Schuering.

  This seminar will examine how modern science changed warfare in the period between 1914 and 1945. The approach is comparative, focusing on developments in Germany and the United States. Instead of simply concentrating on the scientists and administrators who conceived the weapons, we will also try to let the artifacts themselves guide us through the course, regarding them as central "actors" on a huge stage of industry and technology. While becoming complex technological systems these weapons tend to group a unique social formation around them, consisting of soldiers, scientists and politicians, sometimes of "hybrid" figures acting in more than one of these functions. Furthermore, we will put the development of these weapons in a broader context of military and economic history, foreign policy and labor relations in countries at war. Gas, bombs, and rockets have not only changed and expanded the battlefield, but also become powerful symbols of fear, altering the public perception of space, vulnerability, and security. We will thus also look at how popular culture dealt with these threats and how it influenced our view of science and technology. The course will contain a session with the Teaching Library, and students who plan to write their theses in the general area will be introduced to basic primary sources. They will be asked to write a non-binding "pre-prospectus" as part of their course work.

  Day/Time: Th 12-2pm

• History 103S.003. Revolution in Physics: Quantum, Relativity, and the Destruction of the Classical World. Oldham.

  This seminar covers the modern revolution in physics as well as the relationship between science and culture at the fin-de-siecle. Many of physics' fundamental principles, such as absolute concepts of space and time, mechanical explanation, determinism, and causality were under attack at the turn of the 20th century. Misgivings about the basic assumptions of science were widespread; they came from intellectuals in fields such as aesthetics, philosophy, and politics. Concerns about the limits of "classical" science and the meaning of modern developments, especially in physics, also came from scientists themselves. Relativity and quantum mechanics challenged the traditional scientific outlook and at the same time dovetailed with modern cultural movements. We will examine the history of physics in this tumultuous period, discussing for example, the conspicuous correspondences between Einstein's relativity and Picasso's cubism, between the development of Quantum Mechanics and the emergence of Fascism, and between the collapse of the mechanical world-view and the end of Europe's long century of peace. Physics' relation to broader cultural movements profoundly shaped the future of the discipline, as scientists' interaction with the non-scientific public evolved throughout the 20th century.

  Day/Time: W 12-2pm

Integrative Biology

• Integrative Biology 119. Evaluating Scientific Evidence in Medicine. Caldwell.

  Two hours of lecture, one computer laboratory, and one discussion per week. Prerequisites: An introductory biology course. A course in critical analysis of medical reports and studies using recent controversial topics in medicine. Course will focus on information gathering, hypothesis testing, evaluating study design, methodological problems, mechanisms of bias, interpretation of results, statistics, and attribution of causation.

  Day/Time: MW 9-10 am

• Integrative Biology 140. Biology and Sociobiology of Human Reproduction. Carlson.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: A course in physiology. Evaluation of human reproduction, social problems and demographics, anatomy and physiology of reproductive organs, endocrinology of the menstrual cycle; puberty, psycho-physiology of copulation and orgasm; fertilization and implantation infertility and sexual dysfunction; conception and contraception; pregnancy and abortion; birth and lactation; sexual differentiation of brain and reproductive organs; homosexuality and transexualism.

  Day/Time: F 2-5 pm

• Integrative Biology 152. Marine Pollution. Weston.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. The environmental fate and effects of human wastes, particularly toxic chemicals, in estuarine and coastal systems. Course will review waste types, principal sources, their impacts on marine communities, monitoring approaches, and regulatory issues.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11 am

Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major

• ISF 100A. Introduction to Social Theory and Cultural Analysis. Klee.

  Three to four hours of lecture and up to one hour of discussion per week. Introduction to central theoretical investigations concerning the construction and organization of social life. Using some works from the "classical" traditions of social theory as well as some examples of contemporary analysis, this course will explore such topics as the nature of power and social/historical change, the nature of economic production and consumption, the meaning of difference--racial, sexual, class--the development of institutions, etc. Satisfies the following L&S breadth requirements: (IS) International Studies, (PV) Philosophy&Values, or (SBS) Social & Behavioral Sciences.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11 am

• ISF C101. Economic Geography of the Industrial World. Walker.

  Industrialization, urbanization, and economic growth in the global North. Locational patterns in manufacturing, retailing trade, and finance. Geographic dynamics of technical change, employment, business organization, resource use, and divisions of labor. Property, labor, and social conflict as geographic forces. Local, national, and continental rivalries in a global economy, and challenges to U.S. dominance. Also listed as Geography C110.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30pm

Journalism

• Journalism 226. Science Reporting. Pollan.

  Advanced study of methods of reporting developments in such fields as science, education, health, or the environment.

  Day/Time: M 3-6pm

• Journalism 218. China's Information Revolution. Xiao.

  This class is about how to tap the power of the Internet to cover China's social and political transition and its emerging role in the global community. Students will learn about weblogs, wiki, and syndication technologies and how to use these information tools to follow unfolding developments in this rapidly changing country. The class will also conduct extensive reading/discussion sessions on China, especially focusing on the intersection of technology, media, and social changes.

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Landscape Architecture

• LA 228.001. Research in Environmental River Planning, Management, and Restoration. Kondolf.

  This course consists of (1) presentation by students of proposals, progress reports, and final results of their independent research projects, and (2) reviews of recently published research papers in the field. Students review recent issues of specific journals for all papers relevant to environmental river planning, management and restoration, and report on the papers to the seminar, broadly reviewing all the relevant papers and going into depth on one. Emphasis is on research methods and new findings.

  Day/Time: Tu 5:30-7:30pm

• LA 256. Special Topics in Social Factors in Landscape Architecture. McNally.

  Research Seminar on selected topics in social factors in landscape architecture. Seminars will focus on the interaction of landscapes and human societies as well as social science methods appropriate to landscape analysis. Seminars will include lectures by the faculty member offering course, guest lectures, student presentations and discussions. Readings and requirements vary year-to-year based on the topic and instructor.

  Day/Time: F 9-12pm

Law

• Law 264.1. Ocean Law & Policy. Scheiber.

  The global crisis in oceans resources is one of the major issues in both international law and environmental law for the 21st century. In this course, students will participate in weekly class discussion of materials relating to the history of ocean resource management and other aspects of ocean law (navigation, pollution, jurisdiction offshore, naval security, etc.), with most of the course concentrating on the UN Law of the Sea Convention and its implementation since 1982. We will analyze through study of treaties and commentaries the character and operations of various regional ocean organizations in which, under many multilateral agreements, environmental protection, fisheries and whaling, exploitation of marine genetic resources, and other issues have been addressed. One segment of the course will consider the various mechanisms and institutions of dispute settlement in ocean conflicts. Visiting speakers from practice and the international judiciary occasionally participate. Grading is based on class participation, including an oral report, and a paper.

  Day/Time: TBA

• Law 270.6. Energy Regulations & the Environment. Weissman.

  Energy production and use drive the world’s economies and offer hope for growth and prosperity. Yet, the extraction and use of fuels and the development of energy facilities are among the greatest threats to the global environment. This course introduces students to the legal, economic, and structural issues that both shape our energy practices and provide opportunities to overcome these critical problems. The course focuses primarily on the regulation and design of electricity systems and markets since so many energy choices–the use of oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, the green alternatives such as solar, wind, and energy conservation or “demand side management”– relate to the way we generate or deliver electricity, or avoid the need to do so. Next to the use of petroleum for transportation, electric generation is the greatest contributor to air pollution and the greatest source of greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, as urban and suburban development spread across the land, the maintenance and expansion of the electric transmission grid provide increasingly challenging land use problems. The course examines both the traditional monopoly model of regulation and evolving competitive alternatives. The course exposes students to energy resource planning, pollution management, rate design, green markets, energy efficiency, demand side management, renewable energy portfolios, climate change and carbon management. The course provides an introduction to administrative law and to practice issues in the field. The course is for three units.

  Day/Time: Th 3:20-6 pm

• Law 271.71. International Environmental Law. Popovic.

  This course is a seminar on the role of law in the management of international environmental problems. The course will begin with a brief introduction to public international law as it relates to the environment and a discussion of what “international environmental law” means in contemporary society. Participants in the course will study a range of environmental issues, legal sources, and institutions. The course will include consideration of international environmental treaties, the role of the International Court of Justice in identifying and establishing international environmental law, international regulation of private conduct that affects the environment, trade and the environment, international financial institutions, human rights and the environment, and the relationship between domestic and international law. Students will examine procedural concerns, such as access to information, environmental impact assessment, and public participation, as well as substantive concerns, such as the regulation of human conduct and the protection of particular environmental resources. Grades will be based on discussion and two short papers. Prior or concurrent enrollment in International Law is recommended

  Day/Time: W 5:20-7:10 pm

• Law 273.71. California Environmental Issues. Frank.

  Mr. Frank will moderate eight panel discussions by outside speakers on key California environmental law and policy issues. One of the sessions will focus on the law of global warming/climate control. Other topics may include environmental federalism (i.e., the respective California and federal roles in environmental regulation); the clash between environmental regulation and private property rights; the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); and coastal resource regulation and preservation in California. The guest speakers will include academics, practicing environmental attorneys, and non-legal experts (e.g., scientists and economists.) This class will meet on the following days: 1/8,1/22, 2/5, 2/26, 3/5, 3/19, 4/2 and 4/16

  Day/Time: M 2:20-5:30 pm

• Law 275.3. Introduction to Intellectual Property. Menell.

  This course is intended both for students who are interested in a general overview of intellectual property and as a gateway to Boalt's Law and Technology program. The course begins with an analysis of the competing policies underlying the intellectual property laws. It covers patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret law, as well as state law forms of protection. No technical background is expected or required. The textbook for the course will be Merges, Menell & Lemley, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (4th ed. Aspen 2006).

  Day/Time: MTuW 8:45-9:50 am

• Law 275.65. International Intellectual Property. Atik.

  This course will survey the international system for intellectual property. This system includes international treaties that enable the recognition of intellectual property interests across borders, such as the Berne Convention (copyright) and Paris Convention (patent and trademark), as well as the IP-specific law generated within the World Trade Organization. The course will also examine contemporary topics, such as the treatment of traditional knowledge, compulsory licenses for essential medicines, disclosure of test data, and the use of IP rights to limit parallel trade.

  Day/Time: MTu 3:20-4:35 pm

• Law 276.61. Biotechnology & Chemical Patent Law. Blackburn/Boyd.

  This course will examine some of the issues encountered frequently (and sometimes uniquely) in the application of patent law to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Particular attention will be given to the legal and policy issues in connection with the disclosure and scope of patents. In addition to a caselaw survey approach, pharmaceutical/biotechnology cases and issues pending in the courts and of particular concern in industry will be studied. In lieu of a final exam, students will choose 3 classes for which to prepare short (5-7 page) papers on the cases/materials addressed in those classes. Prerequisite: Patent Law (Intro to Intellectual Property requires instructor approval)

  Day/Time: Th 2:20-4:10 pm

• Law 276.1. CyberLaw. Schultz.

  The emergence of global digital networks, such as the Internet, and digital technologies that enhance human abilities to access, store, manipulate, and transmit vast amounts of information has brought with it a host of new legal issues that lawyers preparing to practice in the 21st century will need to understand and address. Although many are trying to "map" existing legal concepts onto problems arising in cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly evident that this strategy sometimes doesn't work. In some cases, it is necessary to go back to first principles to understand how to accomplish the purposes of existing law in digital networked environments. The course will explore specific problems in applying law to cyberspace in areas such as intellectual property, privacy, content control, and the bounds of jurisdiction. Students with familiarity with the Internet and its resources or with backgrounds in some of the substantive fields explored in this course are especially welcome, but there are no formal prerequisites. Grades for the course will be based on a take-home exam.

  Day/Time: Th 3:20-6 pm

• Law 276.2. Antitrust & IP. Miller.

  This is an advanced seminar (one prior course in antitrust or intellectual property required), which will examine the legal issues arising at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property. The course will focus on such issues as: exclusionary practices involving intellectual property; the Microsoft antitrust cases; intellectual property as a “essential facility”; the definition of “relevant markets” involving intellectual property; antitrust issues involving intellectual property standards; antitrust pitfalls in intellectual property licensing; merger enforcement in technology markets; antitrust issues in settling intellectual property litigation; and horizontal antitrust issues involving intellectual property. A paper (or series of short papers) will be required, which may satisfy the writing requirement.

  Day/Time: F 8-9:50 am

• Law 276.4. Computer Law. Determann.

  This course explores the law relating to the protection of software, databases and computers. The primary focus will be on three areas of law: intellectual property, contracts and licensing, and antitrust law. We will also cover international and commercial issues as well as current hot topics, such as Open Source Licensing and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Prior courses in intellectual property topics are recommended but not required; there will be no or minimal overlap with other courses. No technical background is required; a hands-on introduction to information technology will be provided as part of the course. The course will have a final exam. Students can satisfy Writing Requirement.

  Day/Time: Th 9-10:50 am

• Law 278.7. IP in the Entertainment Industries. Menell/Stern.

  This course explores the role of intellectual property in the music, film, and television industries. Each industry will be discussed from a variety of perspectives, detailing the business, legal, social, and ethical issues encountered by practitioners. Lecture classes will be combined with guest speakers from several sectors of the entertainment business. Topics will also include agents, managers, the studio system, and new media. The course will emphasize the ways in which digital technology is reshaping and augmenting the traditional entertainment industries. Prerequisite: A working knowledge of copyright and trademark law will be presumed. Thus, Introduction to Intellectual Property should be taken either prior to or concurrently with this course

  Day/Time: TuW 6:20-9 pm

• Law 285.9. Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic Seminar. Mulligan.

  The Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic is one of the first clinical education programs designed to involve students in advancing the public interest in the Internet and other emerging technologies. By representing institutional and individual clients in legislative, regulatory, litigation and technical standard-setting proceedings, clinic students will develop the skills necessary to effectively influence the development of law and technology in a fashion that supports important democratic values. Clinic students work on issues ranging from the protection of individual privacy, freedom of speech and association, consumer protection, and copyright. The accompanying seminar provides a forum for students to learn and discuss underlying legal principles, explore the practice and theory of public interest representation, gain an understanding of the workings of various legal and technical forums and, also, “workshop” their cases. Enrollment in the seminar is limited to participants in the Samuelson clinic. All students must have permission of the instructor to enroll.

  Day/Time: Tu 2:20-4:10 pm

• Law 295.5T. Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. Mulligan.

  The Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic is one of the first clinical education programs designed to involve students in advancing the public interest in the Internet and other emerging technologies. By representing institutional and individual clients in legislative, regulatory, litigation and technical standard-setting proceedings, clinic students will develop the skills necessary to effectively influence the development of law and technology in a fashion that supports important democratic values. Clinic students work on issues ranging from the protection of individual privacy, freedom of speech and association, consumer protection, and copyright. The accompanying seminar provides a forum for students to learn and discuss underlying legal principles, explore the practice and theory of public interest representation, gain an understanding of the workings of various legal and technical forums and, also, “workshop” their cases. Enrollment in the seminar is limited to participants in the Samuelson clinic. All students must have permission of the instructor to enroll.

  Day/Time: TBA

Legal Studies

• Legal Studies 103. Theories of Law and Society. Lieberman.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. An historical examination of major interpretations of law, morals and social development, with special emphasis on the social thought of the 18th and 19th centuries and including the writings of Marx, Maine, Durkheim, Weber and other contemporary figures.

  Day/Time: MWF 11-12 pm

• Legal Studies 160. Punishment, Culture, and Society. Simon.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Criminal punishment in the United States. (1) Forms, justifications, and relation to larger cultural and societal changes, colonial period to the present. (2) Speculation about the meaning and direction of current trends.

  Day/Time: TuTh 11-12:30 pm

• Legal Studies 168. Sex, Reproduction and the Law. Hollinger.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Why and how does the State regulate sex, sexuality, and reproductive behavior? What are the personal and societal consequences of our technological capacity to separate sex from reproduction? A number of legal and social issues will be analyzed, including sterilization, access to contraception and abortion, adolescent sexuality and statutory rape, the legal status of fetuses and frozen embryos, and the parentage of children conceived through assisted reproduction.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11 am

School of Information

• Information 203. Social and Organizational Issues of Information. Cheshire.

  The relationship between information and information systems, technology, practices, and artifacts on how people organize their work, interact, and understand experience. Individual, group, organizational, and societal issues in information production and use, information systems design and management, and information and communication technologies. Social science research methods for understanding information issues.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2pm

• Information 212. Information in Society. Vanhouse.

  This course is, in practice, a special topics seminar that changes from year to year. The overall theme is methods and approaches to understanding the interaction of technology and the social, with an emphasis on approaches and topics that are relevant to design of information systems and technologies. A major (but not the only) foundation for this course is the interdisciplinary field known as Science and Technology Studies (STS). Topics will depend on who attends and what people are interested in. We will not plan out the entire semester in advance, but will make choices among an array of topics based on what the class is interested in. Past years' topics include Social Construction of Technology (SCOT), Actor-Network Theory (ANT), Activity Theory, configuring users, epistemic cultures, situated action, and distributed cognition.

  Day/Time: M 1-4 pm

• Information 235. Cyberlaw. Schultz.

  The emergence of global digital networks, such as the Internet, and digital technologies that enhance human abilities to access, store, manipulate, and transmit vast amounts of information has brought with it a host of new legal issues that lawyers preparing to practice in the 21st century will need to understand and address. Although many are trying to "map" existing legal concepts onto problems arising in cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly evident that this strategy sometimes doesn't work. In some cases, it is necessary to go back to first principles to understand how to accomplish the purposes of existing law in digital networked environments. The course will explore specific problems in applying law to cyberspace in areas such as intellectual property, privacy, content control, and the bounds of jurisdiction. Students with familiarity with the Internet and its resources or with backgrounds in some of the substantive fields explored in this course are especially welcome, but there are no formal prerequisites.

  Day/Time: Th 3:30-6:30 pm

• Information 290.008. Managing Innovation and Change. Chesbrough.

  This course is designed to introduce students to the innovation process and its management. It provides an overview of technological change and links it to specific strategic challenges; examines the diverse elements of the innovation process and how they are managed; discusses the uneasy relationship between technology and the workforce; and examines challenges of managing innovation globally.

  Day/Time: Tu 6-9:30pm

• Information 290.003. The Social Life of Visual Media. Van House.

  This course brings together several approaches to visual media, with two goals: first, to use the resources of a variety of fields to understand (and perhaps anticipate) changes in the production and uses of personal photographic images (loosely defined); second, to examine the possibilities of multi-disciplinary approaches to new media and new technology. Our organizing topic will be personal photography, but that will be the springboard for discussions about new media and developing information technologies and ways of understanding them. The disciplines that we will be exploring include: new media studies, visual studies, visual sociology, human-computer interaction, and science and technology studies. We'll look to the first three of these to help us understand the uses of images, the role of images in society and in human activity. We'll use the last two (along with the field of new media, again) to see how our understanding of images and visual media can help us understand innovations in the creation and use of images, design innovative technologies, and perhaps anticipate future directions.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30pm

• Information 290.007. Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology. Laski/Adams.

  This class provides students — scientists and non-scientists alike — with a solid understanding of the issues, strategies, and technologies of the biotech industry. The core of the course is an in-depth analysis of the strategies that companies use to compete in the biotech and healthcare industries. We will understand how companies derive winning (or otherwise) business strategies across the value chain of the pharmaceutical, agbio and healthcare industries. In specialized modules we will examine intellectual property protection issues of the biotech industry, including the challenges of commercializing academically-derived IP. We'll also look at the rising influence of the bioinformatics, genomics and proteomics companies. The final module will examine ethical issues facing the industry, such as organ and tissue farming, genetic screening and biowarfare. An early module on basic biotech science will help the non-scientists in the class to appreciate technical issues. By the end of the class, students should be able to understand and intelligently critique the business and marketing strategies of companies participating in the biotech revolution.

  Day/Time: Tu 2-4pm

Molecular Cell Biology

• MCB 41. Genetics and Society. Wilt/Garriga/Tanouye.

  Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Basic communication of inheritance; gene mapping; gene expression and genetic disease in animals and humans; social inheritance of genetics.

  Day/Time: MW 11-12 pm

• MCB 90A. Evolution: Creatures, not Creation. Thorner.

  The advent of molecular biology, recombinant DNA methodology, and the capacity to obtain the complete nucleotide sequence of any genome (from a bacterium to a human) has confirmed the close relationships among all organisms at the genetic and biochemical level, and has confirmed the major tenets of the theory of evolution that were based on the fossil record and other more circumstantial and empirical evidence based on field observations of extant organisms. This course will discuss the unique physical and chemical properties of both water and carbon, and other molecules and elements on which the life forms on our planet are based; the principles of the scientific method and its application to our observations of the natural world; how the term "theory" is applied in science; and, the forces that influence organismal survival, adaptation and speciation. Readings will range from Charles Darwin to Steven Jay Gould to James D. Watson.

  Day/Time: F 12-1 pm

• MCB 90E. Brain, Mind, Music, Culture. Presti.

  Day/Time: W 3-4 pm

Philosophy

• Philosophy 104. Ethical Theories. Kolodny.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. The fundamental concepts and problems of morality examined through the study of classical and contemporary philosophical theories of ethics.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11 am

• Philosophy 128. Philosophy of Science. Roush.

  Three hours of lecture per week. A survey of main topics in the logic of science and of other issues coming under the general heading of philosophy of science.

  Day/Time: MWF 1-2 pm

• Philosophy C138. Philosophy of Society. Searle.

  Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. This course deals with the ontology of society and thus provides a foundation for the social sciences. The main questions discussed are: 1) What is the mode of existence of social reality? 2) How does it relate to psychological and physical reality? 3) What implications does social ontology have for social explanations? Also listed as Letters and Science C160U.

  Day/Time: TuTh 8-9:30 am

Public Health

• Public Health 103. Drugs, Health, and Society. Kodama.

  Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Introduces undergraduates to concepts basic to understanding and analyzing relationships between drugs, health, and society. Using a broad multi-disciplinary perspective, examines legal and illegal drugs and their effects on personal and community health. Prevention of drug problems at the policy, community, organization, and individual levels will be examined.

  Day/Time: MW 12-1 pm

• Public Health 116. Seminar on Social, Political, and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine. Duhl.

  Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. An interdisciplinary approach to health and medicine administered through the Health and Medical Apprenticeship Program (HMAP). Guest lecturers will speak on the social, political, and ethical aspects of health and medicine; students will then discuss and present analyses of the reading materials as well as issues raised by the speakers.

  Day/Time: M 4-6 pm

• Public Health 131AC. Race, Ethnicity, and Health in America. Griego.

  Three hours of lecture per week. Race, Ethnicity, and Health in America will attempt to integrate public health theory, values, and practice into a curriculum that acknowledges and values the health practices and philosophies of African American, Chicano/Latino, Asian, and Native American communities. By examining the historical and cultural prerequisites to health for each ethnic community, this course will allow students to fully appreciate the distinct contributions of each group.

  Day/Time: MWF 11-12 pm

• Public Health 183. The History of Medicine, Public Health, and the Allied Health Sciences. Hook.

  This course will consider from humanistic, social and scientific perspectives, the evolution over the past 2500 years of diagnoses, treatment, and prevention of human morbidity and death. It invites students who wish an overview of significant trends in these areas from a broad historical perspectives and who may be interested in disciplines such as public health, public policy and health-related law, history and/or philosophy and/or sociology of science and technology, humanities such as "general" history or anthropology, and, as well, those contemplating practice in health related fields such as medicine, dentistry, optometry, nursing, or other health sciences.

  Day/Time: M 2-5 pm

• Public Health 271d. Global Burden of Disease and Comparative Risk Assessment. Smith.

  The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database utilized by provides estimates of illness, injury, and death by disease type, age, sex, and world region in a consistent and coherent manner. The course will explore the ways such a detailed database makes possible a wide range of new types of analysis of health priorities and the relationship of database will also be introduced. This seminar will also provide an opportunity for reading and discussion of the basic assumptions, data limitations, critiques, and methodological difficulties of the GBD. It is intended to be a true seminar relying heavy on class participation. The homework assignments will be greatly facilitated by use of computer spreadsheets.

  Day/Time: F 9-11am

• Public Health 271e. Policy for Health and Environment. Kyle.

  The course introduces students to technical, legal, administrative, and political elements that contribute to environmental health policy in the U.S. and how their interplay shapes policy decisions. The course covers major approaches to making policy decisions for environmental contaminants; technical methods used in policy analysis including risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, and technology-related review; the role of legislative and administrative institutions; and the role of interests and political actors in policy debates, particularly those with technical components. The course will also examine emerging approaches to assessment of environmental and health problems including use of precautionary principles and environmental justice, comparing these to the currently predominant environmental management paradigm.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30pm

• Public Health 282. Topics in the History of Medicine and Public Health. Hook.

  The seminar will consider selected episodes in the history of medicine, broadly construed, e.g. including public health, that may cast light upon inferences for current medical, health, and science policy. At the first few sessions, the instructor will present, as background, an overview of key historical developments. The course will continue on a seminar basis, in an interactive manner with the instructor, and consider selected appropriate topics of particular interest to enrollees.

  Day/Time: M 10-12 pm

Rhetoric

• Rhetoric 174. Rhetoric of Scientific Discourse: Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects of Stem Cell Research. Thompson.

  This course fulfills the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine's requirement for a course in the Ethical, Social, and Legal Implications of stem cell research for the scholars in UC Berkeley's CIRM training grant. It covers core elements of the history, ethics, legal, business, and political dimensions of California's stem cell initiative and beyond. Course is open to upper division undergraduates, and is not restricted to CIRM scholars.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2 pm

Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies

• UGIS 39B. Archival Research: Working with Primary Sources in the Humanities, Sciences and Engineering. Casey.

  This seminar offers undergraduates from any major the opportunity to perform original research using primary sources from the archives of the Bancroft Library, or from other specialized libraries at the University or in the San Francisco Bay Area. Students will have direct access to the unique collections of original manuscripts, papers, early printed editions, photographs, paintings, and other items in the Berkeley archives. These cover literary, historical, philosophical, social, cultural, scientific, engineering, and artistic areas, spanning many centuries and different cultures. Bancroft has an especially rich collection of primary sources from California during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (e.g., original documents, drawings, and paintings from the Gold Rush era; reports, engineering drawings, and photographs for the Golden Gate and Bay Bridge projects; an extensive archive on the poetry and fiction of the Beat Generation; and the papers of the Sierra Club and the Free Speech Movement). In the past, we have found that the seminar works best when our students come from diverse cultural and academic backgrounds and are eager to engage in academic dialogue. We are particularly interested in attracting students from the sciences and engineering in addition to the humanities and arts, so that problems can be discussed from different angles, and interdisciplinary collaborations can take place. After some introductory sessions on the use of primary documents and artifacts in research, we will explore the Bancroft archives in areas of interest to the group. By mid-semester, several topics will be identified and participants will subsequently work individually or in pairs to pursue in-depth research on a topic of their own choosing and based on archival materials. Creativity and ingenuity in research are encouraged and everyone is expected to participate vigorously in the discussions. Library specialists will provide technical assistance. A presentation and research report will be due at the end of the semester.

  Day/Time: W 3-4:30pm

 

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