UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

ARABIC 220. SEMINAR: ISLAMIC TEXTS
Instructor: POONAWALA, I.K.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Major Islamic thinkers and their works from classical period to modern times. Coverage of doctrines and hermeneutics of various schools of thought in Islam, such as Ahl al-sunna wa'l-jama'a, Shi'a, Mu'tazila, and Sufis. May be organized around one author and his works, multiple authors and their works, or specific topic with representative readings from various schools. Exploration of secondary literature in Arabic and other languages for student research papers. Units: 4.0

Architecture and Urban Design

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ARMENIA 231C. INTERMEDIATE CLASSICAL ARMENIAN
Instructor: COWE, P.S.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 230C. Intensive review of grammar and reading of select prose and poetic texts. May be taken independently for credit. Units: 4.0

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

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CHIN 245B. SEMINAR: TRADITIONAL CHINESE NARRATIVE AND DRAMA
Instructor: STRASSBERG, R.E.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of colloquial and literary Chinese. Seminar topics alternate yearly between traditional narrative and drama, with emphasis on generic, hermeneutical, and historical approaches. Topics in narrative selected from genres from Chou through Ch'ing periods. Topics in drama selected from tsa-chü and ch'uan-ch'i. Units: 4.0

CHIN 285B. SEMINAR: READINGS IN CHINESE RELIGIONS
Instructor: HELLER, N.L.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of classical Chinese. Selected readings from religious traditions of China, with introduction to different disciplinary approaches, secondary scholarship, and research methodology. Topics rotate among chronological periods and major religious traditions. Units: 4.0

CLASSIC M218. PALEOGRAPHY OF LATIN AND VERNACULAR MANUSCRIPTS, 900 TO 1500
Instructor: ROUSE, R.H.
Course Description: (Same as English M215, French M210, and History M218.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Introduction to history of Latin and vernacular manuscript book from 900 to 1500 to (1) train students to make informed judgments with regard to place and date of origin, (2) provide training in accurate reading and transcription of later medieval scripts, and (3) examine manuscript book as witness to changing society that produced it. Focus on relationship between Latin manuscripts and vernacular manuscripts with regard to their respective presentation of written texts. Units: 4.0

Comparative Literature

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ENGL M215. PALEOGRAPHY OF LATIN AND VERNACULAR MANUSCRIPTS, 900 TO 1500
Instructor: ROUSE, R.H.
Course Description: (Same as Classics M218, French M210, and History M218.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Introduction to history of Latin and vernacular manuscript book from 900 to 1500 to (1) train students to make informed judgments with regard to place and date of origin, (2) provide training in accurate reading and transcription of later medieval scripts, and (3) examine manuscript book as witness to changing society that produced it. Focus on relationship between Latin manuscripts and vernacular manuscripts with regard to their respective presentation of written texts. Units: 4.0

ENGL 244. OLD AND MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE
Instructor: JAGER, E.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Studies in poetry and prose of Old and medieval English literature; limits of investigation set by individual instructor. Units: 4.0

ENGL 247. SHAKESPEARE
Instructor: FUCHS, B.
Class Title: Bardolatry
This course will read Shakespearean texts with particular attention to the canonization, popularization, and apotheosis of the Bard. We will consider problems of literary biography, textual history, adaptation/appropriation, the Shakespearean canon, and global circulation. How is “Shakespeare” defined and delimited, as the canon waxes and wanes? What kind of ideological investments produce “Shakespeare” in different historical contexts? How is Shakespearean cultural capital distributed and allotted? The course will meet at the UCLA Clark Library, in West Adams. Shuttle transportation to and from the campus will be provided. Units: 4.0

FRNCH M210. PALEOGRAPHY OF LATIN AND VERNACULAR MANUSCRIPTS, 900 TO 1500
Instructor: ROUSE, R.H.
Course Description: (Same as Classics M218, English M215, and History M218.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Introduction to history of Latin and vernacular manuscript book from 900 to 1500 to (1) train students to make informed judgments with regard to place and date of origin, (2) provide training in accurate reading and transcription of later medieval scripts, and (3) examine manuscript book as witness to changing society that produced it. Focus on relationship between Latin manuscripts and vernacular manuscripts with regard to their respective presentation of written texts. Units: 4.0

FRNCH 216. RENAISSANCE
Instructor: CARRON, J.
Class Title: Ronsard and Montaigne: from the sonnet to the essay
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. This course addresses two of the main French literary figures of the 16th century, situating them in their historical contexts and focusing on the seminal use of new poetical and narrative genres. The course will be taught in French. Units: 4.0

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GERMAN 202B. READINGS IN MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN LITERATURE
Instructor: SCHULTZ, J.A.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Introduction to medieval German literature and literary history and to use of contemporary theory in study of medieval texts. Continued practice in reading Middle High German, although most texts to be read in modern translation. Units: 4.0

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HEBREW 220. STUDIES IN HEBREW BIBLICAL LITERATURE
Instructor: SCHNIEDEWIND, W.M.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Critical study of Hebrew texts in relation to major versions; philological, comparative, literary, and historical study of various biblical books. Units: 4.0

HIST 201C. TOPICS IN HISTORY: MEDIEVAL
Class Title: Late Medieval and Early Modern Western Mediterranean: Travel, Festivals, and Languages
Instructor: RUIZ, T.F.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Graduate course involving reading, lecturing, and discussion of selected topics. May be repeated for credit. When concurrently scheduled with course 191, undergraduates must obtain consent of instructor to enroll.
Class Description: Discussion of actual history of the western Mediterranean in this period (circa 1250 to 1600). Most historians of the Mediterranean write under the considerable shadow cast by Fernand Braudel's monumental The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. While one cannot easily escape methodological questions and issues raised by Braudel's great book more than half a century ago, study seeks to place the Mediterranean within broader geographical and chronological context and to address some questions (for example: culture, language) neglected by Braudel's rightly famous work. Parting from a not-so-veiled geographical and climatic determinism, Braudel emphasized unity of Mediterranean world. Although political axis of book was located in Madrid and centered chronologically on long and complex reign of Philip II (1556 to 1598), Mediterranean also could have been titled The Mediterranean in the Age of Suleiman I, the Magnificent (1520 to 1566). Units: 4.0

HIST M218. PALEOGRAPHY OF LATIN AND VERNACULAR MANUSCRIPTS, 900 TO 1500
Instructor: ROUSE, R.H.
Course Description: (Same as Classics M218, English M215, and French M210.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Introduction to history of Latin and vernacular manuscript book from 900 to 1500 to (1) train students to make informed judgments with regard to place and date of origin, (2) provide training in accurate reading and transcription of later medieval scripts, and (3) examine manuscript book as witness to changing society that produced it. Focus on relationship between Latin manuscripts and vernacular manuscripts with regard to their respective presentation of written texts. Units: 4.0

Indo-European Studies

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IRANIAN 220A. CLASSICAL PERSIAN TEXTS
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 103A, 103B, 103C. Study of selected classical Persian texts. Units: 4.0

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JAPAN 241A. SEMINAR: JAPANESE CLASSICS
Instructor: DUTHIE, T.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Prose and poetry from early times to 1868. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. In Progress grading (credit to be given only on completion of course 241B). Units: 4.0

JAPAN 243. TRANSLATION WORKSHOP: PREMODERN JAPANESE TEXTS
Instructor: DUTHIE, T.
Course Description: Seminar, two hours. Requisite: course 200. Translation, grammatical analysis, and discussion of selections from premodern Japanese texts. Units: 2.0

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KOREA 243. TRANSLATION WORKSHOP: PREMODERN KOREAN TEXTS
SEM 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: DUNCAN, J.
Course Description: Seminar, two hours. Requisite: course 200. Translation, grammatical analysis, and discussion of selections from premodern Korean texts. Units: 2.0

KOREA 265A. SEMINAR: KOREAN BUDDHIST TEXTS
SEM 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: BUSWELL, R.E.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Selected topics in Korean Buddhist texts. Coverage varies. In Progress grading (credit to be given only on completion of course 265B). Units: 4.0

LATIN 245. NEO-LATIN
Instructor: SHUGER, D.K.
Class Title: Reading Renaissance Latin, The Colloquies of Erasmus
Class Description: This is a reading class, intended for graduate students in all fields of Renaissance/early modern studies who have at least one year of college Latin or the equivalent and now need to prepare themselves to read long Latin books for which no translation is available. Erasmus’s Colloquies, a basic schooltext for over 150 years, was written with something very close to this purpose in mind: their Latin is elegant and Classical, but simplified just enough to make them suitable for grammar-school boys then and graduate students now. They are also amazingly interesting, covering such topics as dating, ghost stories, what makes a good dinner party, and the ordination of women. There will be no papers, but some memorization plus recitation (dramatic or monologue), plus (maybe) participation in an international scholarly project (with credit on CV) preparing indices for a splendid mostly neo-Latin site called the Post-Reformation Digital Library (http://libguides.calvin.edu/content.php?pid=46750&sid=344821).

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MUSCLGY 255. SEMINAR: HISTORICAL TOPICS
Instructor: UPTON, E.R.
Class Title: Historical Research on Fifteenth-Century Music
This seminar will survey nineteenth- and twentieth-century musicological scholarship on fifteenth century music, focusing on the codicological study of surviving musical manuscripts, biographical and historical research concerning composers and patrons, questions of modern musical editing and performance, and the development of concepts of periodization and genre. Graduate students planning on taking the seminar are recommended to have taken the Repertory class in the winter, but this will not be required.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 260G.) Seminar, three hours. Designed for graduate musicology students. Coverage of historical topics that vary from year to year. May be repeated for credit. Meets with course 256; concurrent enrollment in both courses not allowed. Units: 4.0

MUSCLGY 256. AUDIT SEMINAR: HISTORICAL TOPICS
Instructor: UPTON, E.R.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Requisite or corequisite: course 200A. Specific topics vary from year to year. May not be applied toward M.A. or Ph.D. degree requirements. May be repeated for credit. Meets with course 255; concurrent enrollment in both courses not allowed. Units: 2.0

MUSCLGY C490T. EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Instructor: LE GUIN, E.C. / TA
Course Description: Activity, four hours. Preparation: audition. Group performance of Western vocal and instrumental music from historical periods prior to 1800. Early instruments may be used at instructor's discretion. May be repeated for credit without limitation. May be concurrently scheduled with Music History CM90T. Units: 4.0

Near Eastern Languages

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

Political Science

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PORTGSE 290. SPECIAL TOPICS
Instructor: MORE, A.H.
Course Description: Discussion, two hours. Designed for graduate students. Units: 4.0

Romance Linguistics

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Slavic Languages and Literature

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SPAN 225. DRAMA OF THE GOLDEN AGE
Instructor: FUCHS, B.
Class Title: Theater and Impersonation in the Early Modern Hispanic World
This course examines subjectivities on stage in the 16th-17th centuries, to explore how the theater contributes both to the categorization of persons and to the transgression of those categories. How does the theater negotiate the fixity of gender roles and class positions? How does it portray religious choice (converts, renegades) vs. the increasing racialization of religious difference (“New” Christians vs. “Old” Christians)? How is political representation itself represented on the stage? Readings will include Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and others. The course will also expose students to a number of cutting-edge perspectives on early modern theater, complementing our central questions with a series of seminars with renowned scholars, during regular class meeting times. The class is designated a Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Seminar.