| source UCLA (X) |
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department History (X) |
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Broad, historical study of major elements in Western heritage from the world of the Greeks to that of the 20th century, designed to further beginning students' general education, introduce them to ideas, attitudes, and institutions basic to Western civilization, and acquaint them, through reading and critical discussion, with representative contemporary documents and writings of enduring interest. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Honors course parallel to course 1A. P/NP or letter grading.
Score: 6.9154463 Details | Listing | Web page
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Broad, historical study of major elements in Western heritage from the world of the Greeks to that of the 20th century, designed to further beginning students' general education, introduce them to ideas, attitudes, and institutions basic to Western civilization, and acquaint them, through reading and critical discussion, with representative contemporary documents and writings of enduring interest. P/NP or letter grading.
Score: 6.9154463 Details | Listing | Web page
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Honors course parallel to course 1B. P/NP or letter grading.
Score: 6.9154463 Details | Listing | Web page
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Broad, historical study of major elements in Western heritage from the world of the Greeks to that of the 20th century, designed to further beginning students' general education, introduce them to ideas, attitudes, and institutions basic to Western civilization, and acquaint them, through reading and critical discussion, with representative contemporary documents and writings of enduring interest. P/NP or letter grading.
Score: 6.9154463 Details | Listing | Web page
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Honors course parallel to course 1C. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Examination of historical and theoretical relationships between ethical behavior, corporate power, and technological change. Topics include engineering practice and business profits, gender and engineering cultures, product liability and consumer safety, and engineering and computer ethics. Historical case studies include Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the DC-10, and Challenger Disaster. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. History of social knowledge and social power in the 19th and 20th centuries. Everyday ideas and practices about human nature, common sense, and community and relation of those practices to social thought, social engineering, and social science. Themes include development of social knowledges through public activities and discourses; how social knowledge differs in agricultural, mercantile, industrial, and information-based political economies; and how social science addresses these issues. P/NP or letter grading.
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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. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Science and religion as historical phenomena that have evolved over time. Examination of earlier mind-set before 1700 when into science fitted elements that came eventually to be seen as magical. How Western cosmologies became "disenchanted." Magical tradition transformed into modern mysticisms. Political implications of these movements; science in totalitarian settings as well as "big science" during the Cold War. Discussion of anti-science and cult movements. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Survey of beginnings of physical sciences involving transformation from Aristotelian to Newtonian cosmology, mechanization of natural world, rise of experimental science, and origin of scientific societies. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. In this period science became part of Enlightenment campaign for reason and of culture of an Industrial Revolution. New social science and evolutionary debates about science and religion demonstrate its rising intellectual and practical significance. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Ranging from startling new physics of relativity and the quantum, and of nuclear weapons, to molecular reductionism in biology and campaigns for statistical objectivity, examination of involvement of science in technological, military, intellectual, and political changes of the 20th century. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Honors course parallel to course 3C. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Examination, through illustrated lectures and focused discussion of primary sources, of five important themes in development of modern medicine: nature of diagnosis, emergence of surgery, epidemics, conception and treatment of insanity, and use of medical technology. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Discussion of various systems, ideas, and fashions of thought that have dominated Western approaches to religions of the world since antiquity. Survey of development from classical Greek and early Christian theories to modern history with its discoveries of religions of India, China, ancient Near East, etc., and problem of encounter of various religions in the 19th and 20th centuries. P/NP or letter grading.
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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. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Honors course parallel to course 8A. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Interaction of precapitalist and modern modes of social organization in Latin American history, particularly during the "long" 19th century, by focusing on relationship between economic change, social and cultural structures, and politics in the region. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Honors course parallel to course 8B. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Historical and contemporary perspective of role of ordinary people in Latin American society. Each lecture/film session centers on a major Latin American movie illustrative of a theme in social history. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Honors course parallel to course 8C. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Introductory survey for beginning students of major cultural, social, and political ideas, traditions, and institutions of Indic civilization. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Survey of Japanese history from earliest recorded time to the present, with emphasis on development of Japan as a cultural daughter of China. Attention to manner in which Chinese culture was Japanized and aspects of Japanese civilization which became unique. Creation of the modern state in the last century and impact of Western civilization on Japanese culture. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Honors course parallel to course 9C. P/NP or letter grading.
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