American jazz dance has regularly adopted new looks as styles, technology, and popular culture have evolved throughout the twentieth century. Yet the fundamental basis of jazz dancing - feeling and reacting to rhythm - still remains the same. This seminar will examine the roots of jazz dance, its philosophy, societal influences, and the pioneers of the changing nature of American jazz dance.

Bob Boross has written on jazz dance for national publications, as well as choreographed and taught jazz dance on an international level. He is the head of the jazz and tap dance areas within the UCI Dance Department and artistic director of the UCI Jazz Dance Ensemble.

SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Brain Repair
Ronald Meyer, Developmental and Cell Biology
W 9:00-9:50am, MH 4248
Course Code 87583

We are born with all of the nerve cells that we will ever have, and they stay with us until we die. When the brain or spinal cord is injured from trauma or stroke, some of neurons are directly killed, but many neurons die because they commit suicide. Those that die are not replaced with new neurons. Other neurons survive injury, but have their axons severed. The axons are long thin extensions of the neurons that are used to communicate over long distances, such as from the brain to the spinal cord. When severed, this communication is interrupted, causing paralysis and other symptoms. Although axons in the rest of our body can regrow when severed, those in the brain or spinal cord normally do not, so that dysfunction is permanent. Exciting recent developments in the search for a cure for neurological damage will be discussed. These include replacing neurons with cloned cells, administering survival molecules to prevent cell suicide, and treating the nervous system to make axons regrow.

Professor Meyer studied with Nobel winner Roger Sperry, who conducted research into "split-brain" humans. At UCI, he began research into brain injury in goldfish, which can regrow axons, so as to understand why these animals can regenerate. More recently he has turned to the mouse, which like humans, can not recover from brain damage. He has been researching treatments aimed at stimulating axonal regeneration with the hope of curing spinal cord and brain injuries.

HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Amazing Inventors in Communications and Computing
Ender Ayanoglu, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
W 5:00-5:50pm, ET 201
Course Code 87578

The world of communications and computing has many inventors who changed the way we live, work, and play. While these inventors put together amazing inventions, most of the time they risked everything to make their inventions work and get adopted. Studying these inventions within the context of their particular history is very useful; not only does it provide a better understanding of the technical subject areas but also makes one understand what drove these unusually bright and creative people. In many cases, there is a different human story behind the success story. In this seminar we will concentrate on the invention and building of radio, transistor, the personal computer, and the Internet. We will concentrate on inventors Tesla (radio), De Forest (triode vacuum tube), Armstrong (radio receivers and FM), Shockley, Bardeen, and Brittain (transistor), Wozniak, Jobs, and Gates (PC industry), Kahn, Cerf, and Kleinrock (the Internet). We will discuss Tesla's fight with Edison, Westinghouse, and Marconi, de Forest's constant battles with Armstrong, Armstrong's David and Goliath story with Sarnoff and RCA, the stories behind the invention of the transistor, Shockley's management style, the accidental empire that Gates has built, and how the Internet was put together, among many other interesting details.

Ender Ayanoglu is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UCI. He currently serves as Director of the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing, and holds the Conexant-Broadcom Endowed Chair. Prior to joining UCI in July 2002, he was with Cisco Systems (1999-2002) and Bell Labs (1986-1999). He is an IEEE Fellow, an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and holds two best paper awards from the IEEE Communications Society. He holds a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Successes and Failures in Materials Science and Engineering
James Earthman, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
F 9-9:50 am, ET 201
Course Code 87580

Students will read case histories of and discuss successful and unsuccessful applications of materials in engineering systems. Emphasis will be placed on what scientists and engineers were able to learn, and in some cases missed, from both successful and failed applications. Case histories include materials used in the Titanic, Apollo vehicles, Space Shuttle, and osteoconductive implants. Case history reading will be assigned weekly.

James Earthman has been a faculty member at the University of California, Irvine since July 1988. He received his B.S. degree (1980) in Materials Science from Rice University and his M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Following his graduate work at Stanford, he spent two years as a Research Associate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. Dr. Earthman's teaching and research activities include studies of a broad range of deformation and damage mechanisms in both model and advanced materials. His work has also involved the development of computer-based techniques for determining the damping characteristics of biomaterials, the corrosion rate of metals exposed to bacteria, and the nature and size of surface defects using rapid in-situ laser scanning techniques. He has authored and co-authored over 80 research articles and has served as editor for two books in the field of Materials Science and Engineering.

Stem cells and regenerative medicine
Noo Li Jeon, Biomedical Engineering
F 12-12:50pm, ET 201
Course Code 87581

Stem cells are the foundation cells for every organ, tissue and cell in the body. They have the potential to develop into any and every type of cells in the body with appropriate cues and guidance from the environment. Stem cells are undifferentiated, "blank" cells that do not yet have a specific function. Under proper conditions, stem cells begin to develop into specialized tissues and organs. Additionally, stem cells are self-sustaining and can replicate themselves for long periods of time. These unique characteristics make stem cells very promising for supplying cells to treat debilitating diseases like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, spinal cord injury, and stroke. Today, donated organs and tissues are often used to replace those that are diseased or destroyed. Unfortunately, the number of people needing transplants far exceeds the number of organs available. Stem cells offer the potential for supplying cells and tissues, which can be used to treat these various diseases. This class will discuss different classes of stem cells and how they might be used in “regenerative medicine” applications.

Noo Li Jeon received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Materials Science and Engineering. In 1991 he received his B.S. from Northwestern University in Materials Science and Engineering, Dr. Jeon ’s research focuses on developing new experimental methods and solutions for nanoscale biomedical problems by using soft lithography, microfluidics and surface chemistry. He is interested in applying the engineering approaches and techniques developed in the semiconductor industry to control and manipulate the microenvironment of cells. Dr. Jeon has several research projects underway that seek to understand the quantitative aspects of cell migration. He currently is investigating the role of different chemicals--for example, chemokines and their antibodies--in the guidance and migration of cancer and immune cells. He also is developing a novel bio-microelectromechanical (bioMEMS) device to generate a precise gradient of biological molecules. Dr. Jeon's microdevice research, which is supported by the National Science Foundation, will help microbiologists understand how mammalian cells respond to complex patterns of stimuli. The work could ultimately be used to develop and test new drugs to stop breast cancer metastasis and speed wound healing.

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

US Health Policy
Tom Buchmueller, Graduate School of Management
Class meets every other Monday, 1:00pm-2:50pm, MPAA 130AB
Course Code 87552

This course will prevent an overview of key issues in US health policy with a particular emphasis on insurance and public policy concerning the financing of care. Specific topics include the problem of the uninsured and alternative strategies for expanding coverage, the link between health insurance and the labor market, the relative roles of market competition and government regulation, and the future of Medicare. The main focus will be on economic aspects of these issues, though there will be some discussion of politics as well.

Professor Buchmueller's research focuses on a number of economic and public policy issues related to health insurance. His work, the economics of employer-provided insurance, investigates how the link between health insurance and the workplace affects the behavior of workers and firms. In other research, Professor Buchmueller has examined the health plan choice and switching behavior of consumers under managed competition; and the effects of health insurance regulation and reform.

Mathematical Approach to Marketing Strategy
Rajeev Tyagi, Graduate School of Management
Every other Thursday, 9:00-10:50am, GSM 111
Course Code 87577

This seminar will introduce students to marketing decision-making (pricing, advertising, etc.) using mathematical models. Students should have some familiarity with calculus.

Rajeev Tyagi earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in Marketing from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania in 1996. He earned his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta in 1992. His B.E. is in Electronics Engineering which he earned in REC, Surat, 1988. His research interests include Competitive Marketing Strategies, Distribution Channels, New Products and Game Theory. He teaches courses in New Product Development, Marketing Strategies in High-Technology Markets, and in Multivariate Statistics. He has received many Honors and Awards including the Excellence in Teaching Award at UC Irvine in 2003.

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

King Arthur: The Man and the Myth
Linda Georgianna, English
Tu 2:00-2:50pm HH 251
Course Code 87555

Using resources ranging from ninth century chronicles to modern films and novels, we will explore both the "real" King Arthur and the myths of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table that developed beginning in middle ages. The focus will be on why the myths proved useful in the first place, and how they have been adapted at different moments in history.

Linda Georgianna has been a professor of English Literature at UCI since 1976. She teaches and writes on all aspects of the Middle Ages, particularly the literature of England and France. She has written on Beowulf, Chaucer, and the twelfth-century renaissance and is currently writing the first volume of the new Oxford English Literary History.

Humans, Animals, and Slaves in Ancient Greece
Susan Lape, Classics
F 3:00-3:50pm, HOB2 108
Course Code 87561

What does it mean to be human? This class will explore how the ancient Greeks formulated and attempted to answer this question. We will investigate the Greek view of women as members of separate species and the Greek view of slaves as less than human. We will also consider how some ancient Greek thinkers sought to perfect human beings by using various eugenic reproductive technologies. In conclusion, we will compare contemporary debates surrounding reproductive technologies with ancient eugenic ideas and practices.

Susan Lape is an assistant Professor of Classics. Her research interests focus on ancient Greek culture, political theory, and drama. She has just completed a book (Reproducing Athens: Menander's Comedy, Democratic Culture, and the Hellenistic City) and is currently working on a project on the history of the citizen in Greek antiquity.

Who's Afraid of James Joyce
Karen Lawrence, English
M 2:00-2:50pm, HIB 246
Course Code 87562

James Joyce has fascinated other writers and artists and inspired fear and awe in the general public (“you must be smart if you have read Ulysses!"). In this Freshman Seminar we will discuss the myths of James Joyce as we read him. What makes him great? How has he managed to “keep the professors busy for 100 years”?

Karen Lawrence is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature, author of books on Joyce, and former President of the International James Joyce Foundation. She is also the Dean of Humanities at UCI.

Introducing Opera: I Pagliacci and Carmina Burana
Meredith Lee, German
Tu 10:00-10:50am, KH 400D
Course Code 87563

A late-19th-century Italian opera and an early 20th-century choral work using Latin and Middle High German poems from the 13th century? Has the opera world gone mad? This spring Orange County’s Opera Pacific brings back its unusual and highly popular pairing of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera I Pagliacci and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Capricious fate, passionate love, pulsing rhythms and a tragic ending mark the evening. The seminar will read the librettos in translation, view the opera and listen to recordings, and learn about contemporary opera production and interpretation. No formal musical training is required. The seminar will include attendance at the Opera Pacific production, which runs April 20-25. Attendance is mandatory. (We will attend on Thursday evening, April 22.)

Meredith Lee is Professor of German and Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education. Her research and teaching focus on 18th- and 19th-century German literature, especially poetry. She teaches Opera and Literature in a comparative literature setting.

Literature of Citizenship
Julia Lupton, English
F 12:00-12:50pm, HH 251
Course Code 87566

Origins, aims and limits of citizenship as a concept linked to the practice and study of literature, beginning with the ancient Greeks and ending with US and world multicultural states. At any historical moment, who is included in the circle of citizens, who is excluded, and why? In the struggle to define membership in a nation or community, how is "citizenship" different from "culture"? What features of life does citizenship organize, and what aspects does it leave aside? What texts, activities, and underlying principles should comprise "civic education," in the university and in the schools?

Julia Reinhard Lupton is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. She is the founding director of Humanities Out There, a partnership between UCI and the Santa Ana school district, and a lecturer in the Humanities Core Course. She has published two books on Shakespeare, and is completing a third.

1798: The Lyrical Ballads and the Romantic Revolution
Hugh Roberts, English
F 10:00-10:50am, KH 537
Course Code 87570

In this seminar we will read Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collection of poetry: The Lyrical Ballads (which included such famous poems as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Tintern Abbey"). We will try to understand both what made these works so new and revolutionary in their day and why they have been so influential on both popular and high culture ever since.

Hugh Roberts is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. He is a New Zealander who did his undergraduate work at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and his PhD at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His area of specialization is Romantic-period literature. He has been at UCI since 1998.

Our City of "The Angels"
Martin Schwab, Philosophy
Tu 4:00-4:50pm, HH 251
Course Code 87573

This seminar studies the city of Los Angeles and how it is interpreted in films and novels. It will also look at how the city presents itself in its buildings and people.

Martin Schwab teaches in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. He has publications on film, painting, literature and philosophy. His main fields are 20th-and 19th-century Europe.

The Spanish Language Worldwide: Its History and Contemporary Usage
Armin Schwegler, Spanish
Th 3:30-4:20pm, HH 251
Course Code 87574

This "fun course" studies the history and contemporary usage of Spanish worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on Latin American dialect varieties (including Mexican, Cuban, Argentinean, Colombian, and USA Spanish). By taking this course, students will gain a better appreciation for (1) how and why a once very marginal tongue has become one of the world's major languages, (2) the extent to which Spanish dialects differ today, and (3) how Spanish evolved from Roman times into what it is today.

Raised in Switzerland, Armin Schwegler speaks Spanish and has learned about 10 other languages. His research on the Spanish language and its dialects have taken him to virtually every corner of Latin America (he often does field work in remote jungles in South America). He is the author of over 40 scholarly articles and several books.

SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Puzzlers for Computer Scientists
Dan Hirschberg and Michael Goodrich, Information and Computer Science
M 11:00-11:50am, CS 213
Course Code 87558

This seminar will explore problem solving and critical thinking through the study of puzzlers and brain teasers, focusing on problems related to computer science. Problem solutions will need only high school mathematics and logic.

Dan Hirschberg is an ICS professor with research interests in design/analysis of algorithms, including foci in data compression and searching. Michael Goodrich is an ICS professor with research interests in design/analysis of algorithms, including foci in graph drawing and computer security.

Introduction to the Theory of Science
Alfred Kobsa, Information and Computer Science
F 9:00-9:50am, CS 243
Course Code 87560

Information and Computer Science increasingly becomes an empirical discipline. In this seminar we will learn about the theoretical underpinnings of such research.

Dr Alfred Kobsa is an ICS Professor at UCI and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Essen, Germany. He was a Director of the Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) at the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD). He was also an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Information Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany, and a Senior Researcher at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Saarbrücken. He received his master degrees in Computer Science and in the Social and Economic Sciences from the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology. Dr Kobsa's research lies in the areas of user modeling and personalized systems (with applications in the areas of information environments, expert finders, and user interfaces for disabled and elderly people), privacy, and in information visualization. He is the editor of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, editorial board member of World-Wide Web, Universal Access in the Information Society and Information Technology and Decision Making, and was the founding president of User Modeling Inc. Dr. Kobsa edited several books and authored numerous publications in the areas of user-adaptive systems, human-computer interaction and knowledge representation. He also co-founded a national workshop series and an international conference series in these areas.

Solving Problems Using Computer Science
Chen Li, Information & Computer Science
M 10:00-10:50am, CS 243
Course Code 87564

We need to access information in our everyday life, especially because of the advent of the Internet. For instance, we use banking systems, do on-line shopping, do Google searching, and check class schedules. All of these applications rely on state-of-the-art techniques of databases and information systems. This seminar will give an overview of how all these systems work in our everyday life.

Chen Li received the B.S. and M.S. from Tsinghua University in China, and Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 2001. He is currently an Assistant Professor in School of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine. His research interests are in the fields of database and information systems, including data integration, data warehouses, data cleansing, multimedia databases, and XML.

SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Fragile Objects: Physics of Shampoo and Ketchup
Michael Dennin, Physics
Th 10:00-10:50am, FRH 2111
Course Code 87554

Many objects of everyday use fall into the category of “soft matter”. Examples include everything from shampoo to your cell membranes to pharmaceutical powders to grain to foam used in oil recovery. One motivation for studying these systems is to improve our understanding of biological systems, which are mostly composed of “soft matter”. Another reason that these “fragile objects” are so useful is that they can both act like a solid (hold their shape) and flow like a liquid. For example, foam is useful in oil recovery because it can be forced to flow through the ground, but it is more “rigid” than water and, therefore, better at pushing the oil as it flows. On the other hand, sometimes this fluid/solid combination is a problem. Grain stored in silos can often undergo dramatic “explosions” that completely destroy the grain silo. This behavior is related to the ability of a pile of sand to form a rigid object that suddenly “flows” and releases an immense amount of stored energy. This course will discuss the current understanding of “fragile” material and the many open questions.

Michael Dennin received his Ph.D. in physics from UCSB. After that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA in physical chemistry. He started at UCI 6 years ago, and has been recognized for both his teaching and research while at UCI. His current research focuses on everyday things (shaving cream, piles of sand, dishes of water) that under relatively common forces exhibit surprising and interesting behavior. For some systems, this means a perfectly uniform system spontaneously exhibits a pattern (such as stripes, squares, or hexagons). For example, a smooth, sandy beach will develop stripes when a uniform wind blows across it. For others, there is an interesting change in fundamental properties. For example, a pile of sand will sit there like a rigid solid until enough force is applied, and then it begins to flow.

Elegant Mathematics
Zhiqin Lu, Mathematics
Class meets every other M 6:00-7:50pm, PSCB 210
Course Code 87565

The topics covered in this course are important, but are not "standard" in the regular courses of either high school or college Mathematics. In this course, we will answer questions like...

• Is the sum of angles of a triangle always 180 degrees?
• Are there any mathematicians whose field is trigonometry?
• Why is Calculus the most important part of Mathematics?

The seminar will also provide a brief introduction to modern Mathematics and its exciting relationship to string theory, which is possibly the theory of everything - from general relativity to quantum mechanics.

Dr. Zhiqin Lu has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics since 2000. From 1997-2000 Lu was Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University. He received the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2003-2005), MSRI member (2003-2004) and in 2002-2004 was Organizer of the 9th-11th Southern California Geometric Analysis Seminar (with P. Li and B. Chow). He also received the Dean's Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Courant Institute, NYU in 1997.

The Chemistry of Health and Disease
A.J. Shaka, Chemistry
F 4:00-4:50pm, PSCB 220
Course Code 87575

Why do we age, senesce, and finally become ill and die? What is known, on a molecular level, about how environment and genetics interact to promote health and well being or, conversely, to promote disease? Advances in bio-analytical chemistry and information technology allow tentative answers to some of these questions. In this Freshman Seminar we will learn some of the chemistry that is implicated in the multifaceted process of aging, and diseases of aging, in mammals. By exploring what is known about the chemistry of health and disease we will learn how to sidestep some chronic disease states, and how to promote longevity. Best of all, some of the measures can, with prudence and moderation, be applied to ourselves.

Professor Shaka received his B.S. degree from Harvey Mudd College in 1980 and his Ph. D. from Oxford University in 1984. After a postdoctoral position at UC Berkeley, he joined the UC Irvine Chemistry Department in 1988. Professor Shaka's research focuses on the structure and dynamics of molecules in solution, using NMR spectroscopy. A recent area of interest is the structure of polysaccharides isolated by reductive cleavage from the glycoproteins on cancer cells.

Biophysics of Perception: Beyond Five Senses
Thorsten Ritz, Physics
M 11:00-11:50am, NS1 1114
Course Code 87569

Vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste are commonly referred to as the Five Senses. But what about temperature, time of day, gravity, or the fascinating sensory abilities in the animal kingdom, including echolot, magnetic, and electric sensors? How do we as scientists decide whether these senses indeed exist? We will first study the topic through readings from reviews accessible to any student. Each participant will be asked to become a ‘chief critic’ of an area of their interest, such as behavioral methods, analysis of physics limits, neurophysiological, and molecular level studies. We will then use the magnetic sense of birds as a case study to emulate the scientific process involved in discovering a new sense. Presentation of results suggesting characteristics of a magnetic sense will be followed by critical feedback from the participants. If the participants’ questions cannot be answered based on existing studies, we will develop suggestions for the design of desirable studies.

Professor Thorsten Ritz received physics degrees from JW Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany) and University of Ulm (Germany). Before joining UCI in April 2003, he has spent two years as a Klivington Fellow researching animal magnetic perception in biology and chemistry labs in Virginia, Oxford (UK) and Frankfurt. This topic remains one the current focus areas in his theoretical and compuational biophysics group, the others being quantum biology and protein complex formation

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY

Urban Sprawl: Friend or Foe?
Marlon Boarnet, Planning, Policy, and Design
W 4:00-4:50pm, SE 225
Course Code 87551

What is urban sprawl, and is it good or bad? The answers to these questions seem obvious to many, but this seminar digs deeper to illuminate what we know, and don't know, about urban development. Ask most persons to name the most sprawling urban area in the United States, and Southern California would be high on the list. Yet the urbanized portion of Los Angeles County is among the most dense metropolitan areas in the United States. Looking beyond simple definitions of which regions sprawl more than others, there is heated debate about whether low density urban settlement patterns are environmentally wasteful or the result of a land market giving persons what they want. This seminar emphasizes that we cannot think carefully about sprawl without understanding land markets, government structure, and the links between urban development, the environment, and quality of life. As such, questions about sprawl relate to a broad array of urban policy issues. Students in this seminar will get an overview of thinking and research on this topic.

Marlon Boarnet, Chair of the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, has published on the economic and urban development impacts of highways, land use and travel behavior, transit-oriented development, urban enterprise zones, and population-employment growth models. Boarnet also co-authored the book, Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel.

Martian Base: Living in Space
Jon Ericson, Environmental Health, Science & Policy
M 10:00-10:50am, SE 200
Course Code 87579

It is inevitable that we are going to live and work in space. This seminar will discuss the problems and potentials of space travel and living in extraterrestrial environments. Space travel represents real challenges to the physiology of the human body, psychological issues resulting from isolation and confinement, and potential hazards of space environments. Humans are very vulnerable to a number of dangers. We will examine the differences in living on Mars and the Moon. We will compare life and livelihood of people in both environments. We will examine technical challenges to sustain life and protect humans in both environments. If you are a space buff, curious, or just interested in the future of mankind, this interdisciplinary seminar is for you.

Jonathon Ericson was most fortunate to spend an entire summer being briefed on the human element in space by NASA as a faculty fellow at Stanford. The seminar, Living in Space, is developed on that detailed information. Professor Ericson is Chair and Professor in the Department of Environmental Analysis and Design. He left the faculty at Harvard University for UCI where he undertook archeological inquiry using scientific methods. His current research is in environmental health science, particularly the neurological effects of heavy metal exposures during child development.

Becoming a Parent: Psychological Perspectives
Wendy Goldberg, Psychology and Social Behavior
W 10:00-10:50am, SSL 122
Course Code 87556

Parenthood: A life role that most adults occupy with little preparation or understanding of its impact on the self, marriage, work, or leisure. This course will delve into the motivation for parenthood, explore gender differences in the meaning of parenthood and parenting roles, and examine the importance of the "social clock" and the timing of parenthood in adult development.

Wendy Goldberg is Associate Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior in the School of Social Ecology. Her research focus is on parenting and child development. She has conducted several studies of men and women during the transition to parenthood; this research and a book in preparation form the basis for the freshman seminar.

Environment and Society
Dele Ogunseitan, Environmental Health, Science & Policy
W 12:00-12:50am, SE 112
Course Code 87568

Environmental problems have become more complex and intractable as the scope of scientific understanding of nature widens and the demands of human-dominated systems increase. Uncertainties about the future outcome of current interactions between human societies and the environment are also increasing. This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical underpinnings of research in the nexus of environment and society. Case studies are used to demonstrate the importance of interdisciplinary research in crafting sustainable solutions to contemporary environmental problems.

Dele Ogunseitan earned his doctorate in Environmental Microbiology. He also has a Master of Public Health degree with a specialization in Environmental Health, and a Certificate in International Health. He has been a faculty fellow in the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is currently an AT&T Industrial Ecology faculty fellow.

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Sociology of Food
Philip Cohen, Sociology
M 12:00-12:50am, SSPB 4206
Course Code 87553

This course uses food as an arena in which to develop our sociological imaginations, to understand how the issues and problems of daily life reflect larger social forces, and how our understanding and actions in turn shape the social world. Through our focus on food, we will treat the major questions facing sociology today, including inequalities and identities based on national, racial/ethnic, class and gender positions; work and family; the environment; globalization and cultural change. As an introductory seminar, we will encourage all kinds of question and discussion, and shape the course around our collective interests as we go.

Philip Cohen is an assistant professor at UCI, teaching courses on social inequality and social theory. Sociology of Food is a new area of study, which he is pursuing as a way of expanding popular understanding of sociology and social issues.

Mind and Brain
Gregory Hickok, Psychology
M 11:00-11:50am, SSL 122
Course Code 87557

Our ordinary or conventional understanding of consciousness is that it forms unified whole. Psychological research looks at neurological disorders to uncover the relation between mind and brain. By looking at the ways mental abilities break down following brain damage, we see, perhaps surprisingly, that the mind is an amalgamation of separable modules rather than the unified whole we consciously experience. This seminar will explore some of the research that reveals the multiplicity of mental components that go into making up what we call "consciousness."

Gregory Hickok is currently associate professor in Cognitive Sciences. His research involves the area of overlap between cognitive science and neuroscience. Specifically he is interested in the relation between cognitive abilities -- such as language, memory, and auditory perception -- and brain systems. His work involves several different methods including funtional brain imaging, neuropsychological, and behavioral techniques. He received my Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at Brandeis University. He spent time at MIT and at the Salk Institute before joining the UC Irvine faculty in 1996.

Visual Intelligence
Donald Hoffman, Psychology
W 2:00-2:50pm, SSL 155
Course Code 87559
This seminar is a highly illustrated and accessible introduction to visual intelligence, informed by the latest breakthroughs in vision research. Perhaps the most surprising insight that has emerged from vision research is this: Vision is not merely a matter of passive perception, it is an intelligent process of active construction. What you see is, invariably, what your visual intelligence constructs. Just as scientists intelligently construct useful theories based on experimental evidence, so your visual system intelligently constructs useful visual worlds based on images at the eyes. The main difference is that the constructions of scientists are done consciously, but those of your visual intelligence are done, for the most part, unconsciously.

Donald Hoffman is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on machine and human vision, using computational modeling and psychophysical experiments to study motion, color, contours, 3D perception, and object recognition. He also was a Member of the Technical Staff at Hughes Aircraft Company in El Segundo in the Radar Systems Division for five years. After completing his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he served as a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence at MIT before joining the faculty at UC Irvine in 1983. During the 1995-1996 academic year he was a visiting professor at the Zentrum fuer interdisziplinaere Forschung in Bielefeld, Germany. In addition to his work at UCI, Professor Hoffman also consults for high technology companies in the area of machine vision, and serves as an expert witness for legal cases involving problems with visual perception.

Women of Color in Film
Belinda Robnett, Sociology
Class meets every other W 6:00-7:50pm, HH 251
Course Code 87571

Movies provide viewers with powerful messages about women. In this course we will analyze the ways in which women of color are portrayed. What roles do Asian-American, African-American, and Latinas play in film? Does the media produce stereotypes? How are the roles of women in these groups changing? We will pay particular attention to issues of class and sexuality.

Belinda Robnett is a professor of Sociology and former Director of African-American Studies. Her publications include numerous articles and books including How Long? How Long? African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights. She teaches courses on race/ethnicity, gender, and social movements.

Black and White in America
William R. Schonfeld, Political Science
Tu 5:00-5:50pm, SSPB 5250
Course Code 87572

The seminar will examine the role of race in the United States. This key issue will be considered historically, as well as in today's world, with a focus on African-Americans.

Professor Schonfeld is concerned with understanding what people do in politics and how this is related to the ways in which they talk about political action. As a result, his research has used attitudinal surveys in contexts where he has extensively observed the connection between word and deed. Viewing politics as primarily an authority relationship, he has studied and written about "governance" in settings ranging from the secondary school classroom to the national decision-making bodies of dominant political parties. Using an ethnographic approach, he has done empirical and theoretical work on political socialization, political participation, elites, and political parties. His fieldwork has largely been done in France, and his major geographical area of expertise is Western Europe. Professor Schonfeld's most recent published work contributes to theories of party behavior and involves intensive study of the elites of the French Gaullist and Socialist parties. He is currently working on a comparative organizational sociology of party elites. He has taught graduate seminars on political sociology, empirical democratic theory, and authority relations.