UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

ARABIC 120. Islamic Texts
LEC 1
Instructor: FISHBEIN, M.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 103C. Readings from Qur'an, Tafsir, Hadith, Fiqh.
Units: 4.0

ARABIC 150 Classical Arabic Literature in English
LEC 1
Instructor: COOPERSON, M.D.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. The cultural history of Arabic speakers from 500 to 1800, including the debates over the origins of Islam, early Islamic history, and the so-called "age of decline," with readings from poetry, history, geography and travel, biography, popular literature, philosophy, medicine, law, and mysticism. Readings in English; knowledge of Arabic not required. Culture of Arabic-speaking peoples through their literature. Texts range from pre-Islamic to early modern, along with works in history and anthropology, to place these writings in social context.
Units: 4.0

Architecture and Urban Design

Not scheduled this quarter.

ART HIS 104A. Western Islamic Art
LEC 1
Instructor: SIMONOWITZ, D.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. From Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to Spain, 7th to 16th century. Units: 4.0

ART HIS 105A. Early Christian Art
LEC 1
Instructor: GERSTEL, S.E.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 51. Origins and development of architecture, sculpture, and painting of early Christianity to iconoclastic controversy. Units: 4.0

ART HIS 127. Undergraduate Seminar
SEM 2
Class Title: Crusader Morea
Instructor: GERSTEL, S.E.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Selected aspects of art history explored through readings, discussion, research papers, and oral presentations. May be repeated twice. P/NP or letter grading.
Class Description: Examination of Crusader presence in Morea, Peloponnese, from early 13th century. Latin presence in Morea through physical remains--castles, churches, pottery, sculpture, and seals--as well as through historical texts, studies on chivalry, and chivalric literature. Students should read The Chronicle of the Morea before first meeting. Units: 4.0

ENGL 111F. Celtic Folklore
LEC 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: NAGY, J.F.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Folkloric traditions of modern Ireland, Scotland, and other Celtic countries, with attention to current techniques of folkloristic research. Units: 4.0

ENGL 180. Specialized Studies in Literature
SEM 2
Class Title: Arthurian Legend and Its Celtic Roots
Instructor: NAGY, J.F.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 180X.) Seminar, four hours. Requisites: courses 10A, 10B, 10C. Consult "Schedule of Classes" for author, period, genre, or subject to be studied in specific term.
Class Description: Examination of evolution of popular stories about King Arthur and some other famous characters associated with him (such as Merlin and Tristan) in light of Celtic origins of Arthurian tradition. Readings include medieval texts in translation. Students develop their own research projects. Units: 5.0

Not scheduled this quarter.

Comparative Literature

COM LIT 2BW. Survey of Literature: Middle Ages to 17th Century
LEC 1
Instructor: GABRIEL, D.H.
Course Description: Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1B or 4BW. Study of selected texts from Middle Ages to 17th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include works by authors such as Chaucer, Dante, Cervantes, Marguerite de Navarre, Shakespeare, Calderón, Molière, and Racine. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading. Units: 5.0

COM LIT 4AW. Literature and Writing: Antiquity to Middle Ages
DIS 1
Instructor: GABRA, M.H. / KOMAR, K.L.
Course Description: Discussion, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1A or 2AW. Study and discussion of selected texts from antiquity to Middle Ages, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts include works and authors such as "Iliad," "Odyssey," "Gilgamesh," Sappho, Greek tragedies, "Aeneid," Petronius, "Beowulf," or Marie de France. Units: 5.0

COM LIT 4BW. Literature and Writing: Middle Ages to 17th Century
DIS 1
Instructor: BRAUN, W.L. / KOMAR, K.L.
Course Description: Discussion, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1B or 2BW. Study and discussion of selected texts from Middle Ages to 17th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include works and authors such as Chaucer, Dante's "Divine Comedy," Cervantes' "Don Quixote," Shakespeare, "1001 Nights," Christine de Pizan, "Popul Vuh," Molière, and Racine. Units: 5.0

ENGL 10A. English Literature to 1660
LEC 1
Instructor: FISHER, M.N.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: English Composition 3 or 3H, English 4W or 4HW. Study of selected works of period, beginning with selections from Old English poetry and including writings by Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. Units: 5.0

ENGL 111F. Celtic Folklore
LEC 1
Instructor: NAGY, J.F.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Folkloric traditions of modern Ireland, Scotland, and other Celtic countries, with attention to current techniques of folkloristic research.

ENGL 121. History of the English Language
LEC 1
Instructor: STOCKWELL, D.M.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Study directed toward English majors of main features in grammatical, lexical, and phonetic condition of the English language from Indo-European time to the present. Units: 4.0

ENGL 141A. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
LEC 1
Instructor: CUNNINGHAM, K.J. / JAGER, E. / KIPLING, G.L.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Introductory study of Chaucer's language, versification, and historical and literary background, including analysis and discussion of his long major poem, "The Canterbury Tales." Satisfies department's Chaucer requirement. Units: 5.0

ENGL 142A. Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays
LEC 1
Instructor: DICKEY, S.J.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Intensive study of selected poems and representative comedies, histories, and tragedies through "Hamlet." Units: 5.0

ENGL 142B. Shakespeare: Later Plays
LEC 1
Instructor: LITTLE, A.L.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Intensive study of representative problem plays, major tragedies, Roman plays, and romances. Units: 5.0

ENGL 143. Milton
LEC 1
Instructor: CUNNINGHAM, K.J.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Study of major works of Milton, with emphasis on "Paradise Lost." Units: 5.0

ENGL 152B. Drama, 1567 to 1642
LEC 1
Instructor: KIPLING, G.L.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours. Requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Non-Shakespearean English drama from opening of first public playhouse to closing of the theaters. Units: 5.0

ENGL 181B. Specialized Studies in Renaissance Literature
SEM 1
Class Title: Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy
Instructor: DICKEY, S.J.
Course Description: Seminar, three or four hours. Units: 5.0

FRNCH 116. Studies in Renaissance French Culture and Literature
LEC 1
Instructor: CARRON, J.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 116A.) Lecture, three hours. Taught in French. Study of Renaissance French culture and literature, including la Pléiade and 16th-century poetry, linguistic and poetic revolution, novel and early prose, and late French humanism. Units: 4.0

Not scheduled this quarter.

HIST 2C. Religion, the Occult, and Science: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in Western Tradition, 1000 to 1600
LEC 1
Instructor: RUIZ, T.F.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Specific aspects of elite and popular culture in medieval and early modern Europe. Manner in which men and women sought to explain, order, and escape terrors of their lives by embracing transcendental religious experiences and dreaming of apocalypse and witchcraft. Examination of experiences in context of genesis of the state, birth of a new science, and economic and social change. Units: 5.0

HIST 8A. Colonial Latin America
LEC 1
Instructor: NAMALA, D.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. General introduction to Latin American history from contact period to independence (1490s to 1820s), with emphasis on convergence of Native American, European, and African cultures in Latin America; issues of ethnicity and gender; development of colonial institutions and societies; and emergence of local and national identities. Readings focus on writings of Latin American men and women from the period studied. Units: 5.0

HIST 9D. Introduction to Asian Civilizations: History of the Near and Middle East
LEC 1
Instructor: PITERBERG, G.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Introduction to history of Muslim world from advent of Islam to the present day. Units: 5.0

HIST M10A. History of Africa to 1800
LEC 1
Instructor: EHRET, C.
Course Description: (Same as Afro-American Studies M10A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Exploration of development of African societies from earliest times to late 18th century. Units: 5.0

HIST 11A. History of China: To 1000
LEC 1
Instructor: VON GLAHN, R.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Survey of early history of China -- genesis of characteristic Chinese institutions and modes of thought from antiquity to 1000. Focus on social, political, intellectual, and economic aspects of early and middle empires.Units: 5.0

HIST 97B. Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in Medieval History
SEM 1
Instructor:
Course Description: Seminar, three hours. Discussion classes of no more than 15 students. Introduction to study of history, with emphasis on historical theory and research methods. Variable topics courses; consult "Schedule of Classes" for topics to be offered in specific term. Units: 4.0

HIST 105A. Survey of Middle East from 500 to the Present: 500 to 1300
LEC 1
Instructor: MORONY, M.G.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 106A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Background and circumstances of rise of Islam, creation of Islamic Empire, and its development. Rise of Dynastic Successor States and Modern Nation States. Social, intellectual, political, and economic development. Units: 4.0

HIST 106A. Premodern Islam
LEC 1
Instructor: MORONY, M.G.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 107.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of early development of Islam with special attention to doctrine of nature of God, human responsibility, guidance, revelation and religious authority, duties of believers, ritual, law, sectarian movements, mysticism, and popular religion. Units: 4.0

HIST 107A. Armenian History: Armenia in Ancient and Medieval Times, 2nd Millennium B.C. to A.D. 11th Century
LEC 1
Instructor: HOVANNISIAN, R.G.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 112A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Units: 4.0

HIST 110D. History of Modern Iran, 1500 to the Present
LEC 1
Instructor: THE STAFF
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 110B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Iran as distinct national unit, demystifying Iranian history and distinguishing its peculiarities, Safavid Empire, economy, imperialism, "modernity," construction of Iranian state, religion and political ideologies in early modern and modern periods. Units: 4.0

HIST 116A. Byzantine History
LEC 1
Instructor: LANGDON, J.S.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 123A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Political, socioeconomic, religious, and cultural continuity in millennial history of Byzantium. Reforms of Diocletian. Byzantium's relations with Latin Europe, Slavs, Sassanids, Arabs, and Turks. Units: 4.0

HIST 119A. Medieval Europe, 400 to 1000
LEC 1
Instructor: GEARY, P.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 121A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Basic introduction to Western Europe from Latin antiquity to age of discovery, with emphasis on medieval use of Greco-Roman antiquity, history of manuscript book, and growth of literacy. Units: 4.0

HIST M127A. History of Russia from Origins to Rise of Muscovy
LEC 1
Instructor: LENHOFF, G.D.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 127A.) (Same as Russian M118.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Kievan Russia and its culture, Appanage principalities and towns; Mongol invasion; unification of Russian state by Muscovy, Autocracy and its Servitors; serfdom.
Units: 4.0

HIST M182B. Between Crescent and Cross: Jewish Middle Ages
LEC 1
Instructor: THE STAFF
Course Description: (Formerly numbered M191B.) (Same as Jewish Studies M182B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of unfolding of Jewish history from rise of Christianity to expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. Units: 4.0

Indo-European Studies

Not scheduled this quarter

ISLAMIC 110. Introduction to Islam
LEC 1
Instructor:
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Genesis of Islam, its doctrines, and practices, with readings from the Qur'an and hadith; schools of law and theology; piety and Sufism; reform and modernism. Units: 5.0

ISLAMIC 130. Shi'a in Islamic History
SEM 1
Instructor: THE STAFF
Course Description: Seminar, three hours; discussion, one hour. Rise and development of Shi'a Islam, its doctrines, and practices; major branches: Twelvers, Ismailis, Zaydis; their contribution to Islamic thought and civilization; modern trends of reinterpretation and reform. Units: 4.0

ITALIAN 110. Dante in English
LEC 1
Instructor: THE STAFF
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Close study of one of world's greatest literary geniuses, particularly of his masterpiece, "Divine Comedy," the archetypal medieval journey through the afterworld. Units: 4.0

ITALIAN 180. History of Italian Language
LEC 1
Instructor: TUTTLE, E.F.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 190.) Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 100. Conducted in Italian. Main forces that have shaped literary or standard Italian and specific ways in which language has evolved. Tracing of its changing relations with other European languages and survey of effects wrought by historical events, changes in taste, and altered social functions.Units: 4.0

JAPAN C160. Japanese Buddhism
LEC 1
Instructor: BODIFORD, W.M.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Japanese not required. Development of Buddhism in Japan in its cultural context, with emphasis on key ideas and teachings. Concurrently scheduled with course C260. Units: 4.0

JAPAN C260. Japanese Buddhism
LEC 1
Instructor: BODIFORD, W.M.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Japanese not required. Development of Buddhism in Japan in its cultural context, with emphasis on key ideas and teachings. Concurrently scheduled with course C160. Units: 4.0

JEWISH 155. Jewish Mysticism, Magic, and Kabbalah
LEC 1
Instructor:
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Exploration of types of Jewish mystical thought and practice from Hebrew Bible to medieval Kabbalah and its modern offshoots. Units: 4.0

JEWISH M182B. Between Crescent and Cross: Jewish Middle Ages
LEC 1
Instructor: THE STAFF
Course Description: (Same as History M182B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of unfolding of Jewish history from rise of Christianity to expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. Units: 4.0

Not scheduled this quarter.

MUS HST 28A. Collegium Musicum: Medieval Period
LEC 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: MORRIS, M.B.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours. Preparation: ability to read music. Group performance of Western vocal and instrumental music. Some coordination with content of courses 26A, 26B, 26C. Units: 2.0

MUS HST 26C. History and Analysis of Music I
LEC 1
Class Title: None
Instructor: EYERLY, S.J.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; laboratory, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 26B with a grade of C- or better. History and literature of music from ancient world to 1815, with emphasis on analysis of representative works of each style period. Materials selected illustrate history of style and changing techniques of composition. Units: 5.0

Not scheduled this quarter.

Near Eastern Languages

Not scheduled this quarter.

NORSE 135. Vikings
LEC 1
Instructor: WILLSON, K.J.
Course Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Survey of history, anthropology, and archaeology of Viking Age society. Readings draw on medieval sagas as well as secondary material, focus on impact of Vikings on northern Europe, and consider ways in which European and Scandinavian societies evolved in response to Viking incursions. Units: 5.0

NORSE 132A. Elementary Old Norse
LEC 1
Instructor: WILLSON, K.J.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 151.) Lecture, three hours. Introduction to grammar and pronunciation of Old Norse. Selected readings from sagas and "Prose Edda." Units: 4.0

Not scheduled this quarter.

Political Science

Not scheduled this quarter.

Romance Linguistics

Not scheduled this quarter.

RUSSIAN M118. History of Russia from Origins to Rise of Muscovy
LEC 1
Instructor: LENHOFF, G.D.
Course Description: (Formerly numbered 118.) (Same as History M127A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Kievan Russia and its culture, Appanage principalities and towns; Mongol invasion; unification of Russian state by Muscovy, Autocracy and its Servitors; serfdom. Units: 4.0

SCAND C171. 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 C271. Units: 4.0

Not scheduled this quarter.

Slavic Languages and Literature

Not scheduled this quarter.

SPAN 120A. Literature in the Hispanic World: Hispanic Literature to 1700
LEC 1
Instructor: MORE, A.H.
Course Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 25. Required of Spanish majors; must be taken in sequence. Historical/cultural survey of Hispanic literature from its beginning in medieval Iberia to contemporary writing in Spain, Latin America, and the U.S. Relationship between fundamental unity and astonishing geographic and cultural diversity. Particular attention to relation between literature and multicultural societies in which it is produced, as well as to individual texts which define or create new artistic possibilities. Multilingual Iberia: first literary texts in Hispanic dialects. Medieval Castilian literature. America: literature of discovery and conquest. Renaissance literature in Spain and America. Spanish Golden Age. Baroque literature in Spain and America. Units: 5.0