UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

ARABIC 240. SEMINAR: ARAB HISTORIANS AND GEOGRAPHERS
SEM 1
Class Title: None
Instructor:
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Selected readings from works of major historians, geographers, and travelers. Units: 4.0

Architecture and Urban Design

ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN 288: Renaissance Architecture and Urbanism
Lecture, three hours. Examination of architectural developments from the 15th to 17th century. Primary focus on Italian peninsula, and extending to entire Mediterranean basin. Analysis of individual structures, cities, and landscape designs to reveal changing cultural and theoretical values, as well as specific aesthetic and iconographic content.

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

ART HIS 225. Medieval Art: The Crusader Morea
SEM 1
Instructor: GERSTEL, S.E.
Course Description: Seminar, two hours. Studies in selected topics in Byzantine and European medieval art. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Units: 4.0

ENGL 217A. Medieval Welsh
LEC 1
Instructor: NAGY, J.F.
Course Description: Studies in grammar. Readings in the Mabinogi and other texts. Comparative considerations. Units: 4.0

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Comparative Literature

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ECON 241. Economic History of Western Europe
LEC 1
Instructor:
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Designed for graduate students. Seminar on European economic history, with emphasis on evolution of institutions and growth. Serfdom, medieval agriculture and the agricultural revolution, demographics, industrial revolution, imperial expansion, and decline of Britain. Units: 4.0

ENGL 211. Old English
LEC 1
Instructor: STOCKWELL, D.M.
Course Description: Study of Old English grammar, lexicon, phonology, and pronunciation to enable students to read the literature silently and aloud. Reading of as much of the more interesting Old English prose and poetry as can be read in a term. Units: 4.0

ENGL 217A. Medieval Welsh
LEC 1
Instructor: NAGY, J.F.
Course Description: Studies in grammar. Readings in the Mabinogi and other texts. Comparative considerations. Units: 4.0

ENGL 248. Earlier 17th-Century Literature
LEC 1
Instructor: SHUGER, D.K.
Course Description: Religion and Literature of Caroline England (to the Interregnum)
With the exception of Herbert scholarship, this is a much understudied period, although it includes the late works of Donne and Jonson, Crashaw, Herrick, Browne's Religio Medici, Fuller's Holy and Profane State, as well as two of the great unknown works of English literature: Archbishop Laud's prison diaries and the Story Books composed by the women of Little Gidding. Professor Post's winter sequel will focus on the major poetry. The fall seminar will have a wide-angle focus, or, more likely, lack focus altogether, attempting instead to get some sense of the diversity and complexity of the religious literature of the era (and some sense of opportunities for new and important scholarship on it). Along with the works noted above, we will look at theological controversies, Parliamentary debates on religion, sermons, devotional handbooks, Star Chamber trials, casuistry manuals, diaries, deist tracts, church histories. The reading will be heavy, but there will be no term paper; instead, there will be informal, short (2-3 pp.) weekly jottings and a bibliographic adventure. Units: 4.0

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GERMAN 231. Gothic
DIS 1
Instructor: STEVENS, C.M.
Course Description: Discussion, three hours. Systematic study of phonology and grammar of Gothic language, with readings in Wulfila's translation of Bible and introduction to history of Goths and their place in development of modern Europe. Units: 4.0

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HIST 200C. Advanced Historiography: Medieval
SEM 1
Instructor: GEARY, P.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Units: 4.0

HIST 200D. Advanced Historiography: Europe
SEM 1
Class Title: Advanced Historiography: Renaissance
Instructor: SYMCOX, G.W.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours.
Class Description: Aids graduate students preparing for European field qualifying examinations. Covers some of major developments in historiography of renaissance since Burckhardt (1860). Students write short critical paper (750 words maximum) on each week's readings in form of book review, to be submitted at start of each meeting. Units: 4.0

HIST 201O. Topics in History: Science/Technology
SEM 1
Class Title: The Politics of Health: Personal, Public, and Global Health Issues, 1750-1850
Instructor: WEINER, D.B.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. This seminar will explore the history of physical and mental health and illness as experienced by individuals, social groups or entire countries, especially when confronted by governments or by the international community, from the Enlightenment to the mid-nineteenth century. Units: 4.0

Indo-European Studies

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ITALIAN 214F. Studies in Medieval Literature: Variable Topics
LEC 1
Instructor: THE STAFF
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Variable-content seminar on themes and issues of medieval literature, with coverage of authors such as St. Francis of Assissi or Jacopone de Todi. Units: 4.0

JAPAN 265A. Seminar: Japanese Buddhist Texts
SEM 1
Instructor: BODIFORD, W.M.
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Units: 4.0

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MSCLGY 261C Performance Practices: Baroque
SEM
Investigation of primary source readings in performance practices as related to period; analytical reports and practical applications in class demonstrations. Units: 3

Near Eastern Languages

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PHILOS 206. Topics in Medieval Philosophy
LEC 1
Instructor:
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Study of philosophy and theology of one or several medieval philosophers such as Augustine, Anselm, Abelard, Aquinas, Scotus, or Ockham or study of single area such as logic or theory of knowledge in several medieval philosophers. Units: 4.0

PHILOS C210. Spinoza
LEC 1
Instructor: ALMOG, J.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Selected topics in philosophy of Spinoza. May be concurrently scheduled with course C110, in which case there is two-hour biweekly discussion meeting, plus additional readings and longer term paper for graduate students. Units: 4.0

Political Science

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Romance Linguistics

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SCAND C271. Introduction to Scandinavian Folklore
SEM 1
Instructor: TANGHERLINI, T.R.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered C178.) Seminar, three hours. Introduction to fairy tales and legends of Scandinavian tradition as well as to interpretive methodologies that strive to answer question "why do people tell stories that they tell?" Concurrently scheduled with course C171. Units: 4.0

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Slavic Languages and Literature

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SPAN 291A. Colonial Studies Research Group
RGP 1
Instructor: PARODI-LEWIN, C.
Course Description: Research group meeting, two hours. Limited to graduate students. Course 291A is requisite to 291B. Discussion and analysis of colonial manuscripts. Units: 2.0