CLAIRE TREVOR SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

"So, You Want to be a Star?"
Donald Hill, Drama
Tu 4:00-4:50pm, Mesa Court Housing Complex, Community Center Classrooms
Course Code 87570

NOTE: This class is being held in Mesa Court Housing. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Central Campus. For a map of Mesa Court, please go to http://www.housing.uci.edu/ug/mc/.

An in depth look at the many career paths, vocations and jobs that exist both in front and behind the curtain in the exciting world of the performing arts.

Don Hill is the head of UCI's Graduate Stage Management program. In a thirty year professional career that spans both coasts, Mr. Hill has worked with some of the biggest names in show business as a stage manager, director and producer. As a chief business representative for Actors' Equity he negotiaged the Broadway Production Contract along with many others. He holds a MFA degree in directing from USC.

Fashion History: A Key to the Past and a Guide to the Future
Madeline Kozlowski, Drama
W 12:00-12:50pm, MAB 302
Course Code 87571

"Panniers, poulaines, pompadours, and pourpoints." Who thought up these fashion styles and why? This seminar will examine the BASICS of 500 years of Fashion History and how it continues to shape our thoughts about style today. Students will expand their knowledge of the social and cultural history of dress by using historical research.

As a member of USA Local 829 and The Costume Designer's Guild, IATSE Local 892 Emmy Award winning Costume Designer Madeline Kozlowski works in television, film, video, arena, and live stage. At UCI she is Head of Graduate Studies in Design in the Drama Department.

SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Why People Believe Weird Things
Nancy Burley, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Th 12:00-12:50pm, Mesa Court Housing Complex, Mesa Activity Center
Course Code 87573

NOTE: This class is being held in Mesa Court Housing. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Central Campus. For a map of Mesa Court, please go to http://www.housing.uci.edu/ug/mc/.

Have you ever wondered why some people believe in ghosts or Alien Presence or consult their horoscope regularly? Where do such beliefs come from? Are they harmless? This course explores reasons for contemporary belief in paranormal phenomena and aliens, as well as historical belief in witches. Other topics include fringe science and pseudoscience and how to evaluate claims that a field of study is scientific. The goals of the course are to increase awareness of human susceptibility to weird beliefs and to provide participants with skills for becoming more skeptical thinkers.

Nancy Burley is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She studies the evolution of social and sexual behavior, especially in birds.

Darwinism in the Modern World
Michael Rose, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
W 3:00-3:50pm, SH 239
Course Code 87566

A portrait of Darwinian biology as a part of the social and political fabric of our time, as opposed to a purely academic discipline, integrating scientific, biographical, and journalistic elements.

Michael Rose went to the University of Sussex in 1976 for his doctoral studies on aging in Drosophila melanogaster. There he began his work on the evolution of aging and created Drosophila stocks with postponed aging by selection for later reproduction. In 1991, his book "Evolutionary Biology of Aging" appeared, offering a view of aging that was a complete departure from the views that had dominated the aging field since 1960. The journal Evolution described the field of gerontology as having become "after Rose". In 1997, Rose was awarded the Busse Research Prize by the World Congress of Gerontology. He is the author of a number of books, including the just-published "Evolution and Ecology of the Organism."

Water Crisis in California and the American West
Richard Symanski, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
M 1:00-1:50pm, Middle Earth Housing Complex, Harrowdale Study Room
Course Code 87583

NOTE: This class is being held in Middle Earth Housing. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Mesa Court or the School of the Arts. For a map of Middle Earth, please go to http://www.housing.uci.edu/ug/mc/.

Water shortage is one of the important issues in the western United States, and water scarcity is particularly important in Southern California, where the human population is large and growing. In this seminar we examine the history of water problems in the American West, current issues in the Southland and in the Imperial Valley, and possible solutions to the growing crisis.

Richard Symanski is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He is the author of six books, including two on conservation issues in the United States and Australia. He teaches courses in introductory biology, conservation, and upper-division writing.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

How Advertising Has Made You Who You Are
Hank Becker, Education
Tu 1:00-1:50pm, BP 2001A
Course Code 87574

Three generations ago, a person could go entire weeks without observing an ad. Today the typical American experiences 3,000 commercial advertisements per day. Sure, people "can" ignore them, but if they did, ads wouldn't exist. This seminar asks "how has pervasive advertising changed your life and even your identity?" Are the consequences, on balance, good or bad? If the latter, what can you do about it?

Hank Becker has been a professor at UCI since 1992. Before that he did research on schooling at Johns Hopkins. Until recently, his research had been on the use of computers in middle and high schools. However, now he has turned his attention to the secondary social studies curriculum and the development of political attitudes during adolescence.

HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Engineering Cell Processes
Nancy Da Silva, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
M 4:00-4:50pm, ET 918
Course Code 87577

Discoveries in biological sciences coupled with new biochemical engineering approaches have led to tremendous advances in biotechnology. The cell (ranging from microbial cells to animal cells) can be harnessed to produce a wide variety of compounds. This freshman seminar will introduce the basic methods of cell and bioprocess engineering while focusing on a large range of applications. Examples will include the synthesis of valuable pharmaceuticals (e.g., insulin and polyketides), engineering of microbial cells for the production of chemicals (e.g., indigo -- the dye in blue jeans), biodegradation of pollutants, genetic engineering of plants, etc.

Nancy Da Silva is a Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. Her research focuses on the molecular level design of cell systems and subsequent applications. An example is the metabolic engineering of yeast for the production of pharmaceuticals and other products.

PAUL MERAGE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

There is Nothing Natural about Organizations
Jone Pearce, Management
Every other Monday 10:00-11:50am, GSM 116
Course Code 87582

NOTE: This seminar will only meet weeks 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 (September 28th, October 12th, October 26th, November 9th and November 23rd).

No matter what you want to accomplish in life, you will need organizations to do it. Whether you want to make fifty million dollars, see your new technology conquer the marketplace, save the planet from global warming, or just figure out how to avoid getting stuck with all of the club’s work you need organizations. In this seminar we will address several popular, common-sense truisms about organizations by seeing what research addressing them has to tell us.

Jone Pearce is a Professor of Organization & Strategy. She earned her Ph.D. at Yale University and her M.A. at Yale University. Her Key Research Areas include Employee perceptions of workplace trust and justice, contract labor, compensation, management practices in the transition from communism and personal relationships as the basis for organization.

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

On the Liberation of Women
Ermanno Bencivenga, Philosophy
Tu 1:00-1:50pm, Mesa Court Housing Complex, Mesa Activity Center
Course Code 87553

NOTE: This class is being held in Mesa Court Housing. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Central Campus. For a map of Mesa Court, please go to http://www.housing.uci.edu/ug/mc/.

In this seminar we will discuss the groundbreaking essay in which John Stuart Mill examines and refutes the basic arguments that were classically used to maintain women in a position of dependence on men.

Professor Bencivenga has been at UCI since 1979. He is the author of 29 books and over 70 scholarly articles. He is the winner of five teaching awards and is the founding editor of an international philosophy journal and of a book series.

To Hell with Dante
James T. Chiampi, Italian
Tu 1:00-1:50pm, HOB2 128
Course Code 87587

We will choose passages and themes from Dante's "Inferno" and study the way they have been studied and illustrated through the ages to learn what that tells us about Dante's time, that of his commentators, and ours. Among his commentators, we shall read passages from the Old Commentators down to T. S. Eliot; among his illustrators, we shall study artists from Botticelli through Doré to Baskin.

Professor James T. Chiampi was educated at Fordham, Yale, the University of Florence and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. He has published a book and more than twenty articles on various aspects of the "Divine Comedy."

Tradition and Storytelling
Alexander Gelley, Comparative Literature
Th 4:00-4:50pm, HH 251, Mesa Court Housing Complex, Mesa Activity Center
Course Code 87578

NOTE: This class is being held in Mesa Court Housing. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Central Campus. For a map of Mesa Court, please go to http://www.housing.uci.edu/ug/mc/.

Many recent short stories enact a form of storytelling that derives from oral practices, suggesting that the storyteller is in touch with the traditions of a community. Another type of story reflects the "homelessness" of modern life, where communal values are precarious and often survive only at the level of memory and nostalgia. This contrast between types of narrative was suggested by Walter Benjamin, a literary critic of the earlier 20th century. We shall read his essay "The Storyteller" and then test his argument in relation to works from an international anthology of contemporary short stories, The Art of the Tale.

Alexander Gelley is a Professor of comparative literature. His special interest is in 19th-20th century novel and theory of narrative.

Crafting Apologies
Zina Giannopoulou, Classics
Tu 3:00-3:50pm, HOB2 108
Course Code 87579

When accused of having committed socially reprehensible actions, people find themselves in the uncomfortable position of offering public apologies. How does one go about presenting the motivations and intentions of unpalatable actions, thereby attempting to create a positive public image of oneself? In what ways do considerations of the audience of one’s apology affect the rhetoric used in it? Is it possible for the accused to justify her actions by describing a coherent, personal moral stance that differs from that endorsed by society? These are some of the questions we shall examine by focusing on three texts: a philosophical account (Plato’s Apology), a literary essay (Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis), and a theatrical piece (Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo).

Professor Giannopoulou is Assistant Professor of Classics. Her research is focused on Platonic philosophy and the reception and adaptation of classical motifs in contemporary literature.

How to Read a Picture
James D. Herbert, Art History
Th 2:00-2:50pm, HIB 90
Course Code 87580

In our age when digital media have increased the amount of information conveyed by images, visual literacy has become as necessary as the textual sort. This seminar will sharpen visual skills by looking attentively at a set of pictures from the history of art--only one or two a week--that present especially rich examples of visual complexity. The meaning of images are almost always not as straightforward as they initially might seem.

James D. Herbert is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Art. He is the author of two books on art and visual culture in France in the early twentieth century. He also writes on music. He currently is working on a book entitled "The Distance of Gods: The Divine and the Mundane in Western Art and Music from the 17th to the 21st Centuries."

Thinking With Shakespeare
Julia Lupton, English
Th 12:00-12:50pm, HH 251
Course Code 87560

Selections from Shakespeare will introduce students to poetic, dramatic, and cognitive techniques of the Bard.

Julia Lupton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature. She has published three books and many articles on Shakespeare and related topics. She is the faculty director of Humanities Out There, an educational partnership between UCI's School of Humanities and the Santa Ana Unified School District. You can learn more about her teaching and research at www.ThinkingWithShakespeare.org.

Race and Identity in South Africa
Laura Mitchell, History
Tu 3:30-5:20pm, Mesa Court Housing Complex, Mesa Activity Center
Course Code 87563

NOTE: This class is being held in Mesa Court Housing. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Central Campus. For a map of Mesa Court, please go to http://www.housing.uci.edu/ug/mc/.

This seminar will explore the lived experience and social meaning of race categories in Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa. We will engage with fiction, flim, journalistic accounts, and scholarly analysis to understand the arbitrary nature of the four principal Apartheid-era race categories and to see the significant schisms within these four groups. We will conclude the seminar by examining the ways in which race-based identities have changed since 1994.

Laura Mitchell specializes in South African history. She spent four years in Cape Town researching, writing, teaching, and learning to kayak. She has travelled widely in Africa.

DONALD BREN SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCES

The future of learning, in the US and Globally
Alfred Bork, Information and Computer Science
W 11:00-11:50am, CS 432
Course Code 87554

Many people in the world receive no education, or a very limited education. We csn change this, providing excellent learning for everyone on earth. Ths key is highly adaptive tutorial learnng through the computer. This seminar, based on group discussions (not lectures) will review a plan for creating such a global lifelong educational system.

Alfred Bork is Professor Emeritus of Information and Computer Science. His degrees are from Georgia Tech and Brown University. He has been at the Dubln Institue of Advanced Studies, the University of Alaska, Harvard University, and Reed College. He has written many papers and books on the subjecct of this seminar.

SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Chemistry in the Making
V. Ara Apkarian, Chemistry
W 12:00-12:50pm, NSI 4112
Course Code 87572

Chemistry is a live science, being made in significant parts in research labs such as those at UCI. Come witness the cutting-edge science being made in the chemistry department at UCI, as world-renowned faculty share their excitement with you. See the discoveries being made and the impact these discoveries will make upon the world. This seminar is designed for chemistry majors, or anyone interested in undergraduate research opportunities in the chemistry department. Interaction with faculty in an informal setting, and tours of chemistry research labs will be included.

Professor Apkarian is a professor and chair in the Depatment of Chemistry. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Southern California in 1976, his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1980, and has been a UCI faculty member since 1983. His current research interests include understanding of photophysics and chemical dynamics in condensed media.

Nanotechnology - the real and imagined wave of the future
Philip Collins, Physics
Tu 2:00-2:50pm, FRH 2111
Course Code 87575

Nanotechnology is the art of building useful things at the atomic scale - electronics, machines, robots, etc - most of which we don't yet know how to do. We'll discuss nanotechnology from multiple points of view, including its potential for the future, the current state of the art, and its possible risks and dangers. We'll also see what's available on campus for interested students who want to learn more or get involved. The technical content will be accessible to all majors.

Professor Collins is a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. His research focuses on using nanomaterials for next-generation electronics, including circuits at the molecular scale. He has helped to form a startup company on this topic, and has performed research at IBM, UC Berkeley, and MIT.

A Century After: How Einstein Changed the World
Asantha Cooray, Physics
Th 11:00-11:50am, FRH 4135
Course Code 87576

A century ago in 1905, a clerk at a patent office in Bern, Switzerland with an undistinguished academic record published five papers in six months. These papers were major leaps in physics and led either to the creation of most things we hear nowdays from computer electronics to the H-bomb or to an increased understanding of the cosmos from stars to the Big Bang. In year 2000, Albert Einstein was recognized as the Person of the Century. This year, physicists all over the world celebrate the century of his Einstein's initial research papers that changed our lives forever. In this seminar, we will explore Einstein's ideas, how he changed the Newtonian-based physics view during his time, and how his works are continuing to affect the things we built, such as the Global Positioning System, or the basic research we do today.

Assistant Professor Cooray received his bachelor's degrees in Physics and Mathematics from MIT in 1997, his Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from U. of Chicago in 2001, and has been a UCI faculty member since 2005. His current research attempts to understand how the Universe got to be the way it is. He is also interested in understanding the inner workings of the "Big Bang" event, and if there are signatures from the event that we can see and detect today. His website is http://www.cooray.org.

Introduction to Physics & Astronomy at UC Irvine
Roger McWilliams, Physics
M 10:00-10:50am, FRH B012
Course Code 87562

Physics & Astronomy majors, and those considering becoming a major, will be given an introduction to the research topics and people in the department, learning what topics are exciting and touring the facilities in which the work is pursued. Learn about the department's leading edge science and scientists and what is done outside the classroom at Irvine.

Professor McWilliams is an experimental physicist who has enjoyed sharing with students for 25 years the joys of learning about Nature and discovering new facets of it.

I breathe: the science of our atmosphere
Sergey Nizkorodov, Chemistry
W 3:00-3:50pm, PSCB 230
Course Code 87588

The main goals of the class are to introduce the students to the basics of atmospheric sciences and to help our future scientists, doctors, politicians, and engineers better appreciate the impact of human activities on the atmospheric environment. The discussion topics will include the history of atmospheric research, the current status and the evolution of the Earth atmosphere, basic physical and chemical properties of the atmosphere, comparison between the atmosphere of Earth and other planets of the solar system, the problems of air pollution and smog, worldwide environmental problems related to the atmosphere such as global warming and ozone layer degradation, environmental policies, and current topics in atmospheric research.

Sergey Nizkorodov received his undergraduate education from Novosibirsk State University, Russia, and his graduate education from Basel University, Switzerland. After doing postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado at Boulder and then at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty at the UCI Chemistry Department in 2002. He teaches analytical, physical and atmospheric chemistry courses, and does research on chemistry of particulate matter in the atmosphere.

Monte Carlo Methods in the Analysis of Clinical Trials
Howard Tucker, Mathematics
M 4:00-4:50pm, HH 251
Course Code 87567

Uses of computer simulation methods to determine effectiveness of new treatments in biomedical research and development. Common sense statistical analyses of experimental data.

Howard Tucker received his Ph.D. in mathematics at U.C. Berkeley in 1955. He has taught at University of Oregon and Rutgers University, but for the last 49 years he has been in the U.C. system, starting as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UCR in 1956, becoming Professor in 1967, and transfering to UCI in 1968. Over the years he has been involved in creating a statistics program for the department of mathematics and consulting for research personnel on campus and in industry. He has authored and coauthored a significant number of research papers in basic theory of statistical inference. He feels that in a small conversational setting, he can supply an interesting and useful experience for any freshman who is interested in listening and in participating. More complete information is available in my curriculum vitae in my web page http://www.math.uci.edu/~htucker.

Sitar and physics of music
Gaurang Yodh, Physics
M 3:00-3:50pm, FRH 4135
Course Code 87569

A seminar to introduce you to physics of music and the music of India through first hand demonstrations on the Sitar and discussions of the physics of sound and its relation to musical instruments. Gaurang Yodh was an instructor of the Sitar at the University of Maryland and is a Professor of Physics at UCI. Students will be introduced to wave motion, sound and its properties, characteritstic vibrations and resonance and non-western musical systems.

Dr. Yodh has performed extensively in the United States with many notable sitar recitals and expositions. He gave the first concert on classical Indian music at the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art(1955). His recordings include two releases on the Westminister label(1956) which were the amongst the first recorded presentations of Indian music in America. In addition he composed the background music for the award-winning film,Future of Ram, by Dr. Phillips Foster. While he was a professor of physics He introduced a course on the " Physics of Music " at the University of Maryland for general students. He is currently a professor of physics at the University of California at Irvine.

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY

Understanding Cities: Learning from Popular Film, Television, Song, and Print
Victoria Basolo, Planning, Policy & Design
W 11:00-11:50am, SE 225
Course Code 87552

Images of cities are developed through experience, mostly second-hand through film, television, song, and print. This seminar explores the images of cities offered through these sources and challenges course participants to analyze the presentation of cities and city life as depicted through the mass media.

Victoria Basolo, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Planning, Policy & Design. Her research interests focus on urban planning and policy issues including housing, economic development, intergovernmental relations, and politics.

Living in Space
Jonathon Ericson, Environmental Health, Science & Policy
M 11:00-11:50am, Middle Earth Housing Complex, Gandalf’s Classroom B
Course Code 87556

NOTE: This class is being held in Middle Earth Housing. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Mesa Court or the School of the Arts. For a map of Middle Earth, please go to http://www.housing.uci.edu/ug/mc/.

We discuss and expolore the issues of living in space: habitat,engineering, geological location, space travel, working, psychological and sociological issues.

Jonathon Ericson is a Professor of Social Ecology, He completed a 10 week NASA summer training on this topic, He also concluded a 2 week consultantship with NASA on this topic.

Crime and Justice in the United States
Michael Gottfredson, Criminology, Law & Society
W 4:00-4:50pm, Aldrich Hall Room 501
Course Code 87557

In this seminar we will study the nature of crime in the U.S. and popular means used to control it. Topics will include homicide trends, terrorism, gun control and the use of prisons. Our focus will be on social scientific evidence.

Michael Gottfredson is a Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Executive Vice Chancellor.

Ceasefire: Addressing Gun Violence in America
George Tita, Criminology, Law & Society
Tu 3:00-3:50pm, Middle Earth Housing Complex, Gandalf's Classroom B
Course Code 87584

NOTE: This class is being held in Middle Earth Housing. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Mesa Court or the School of the Arts. For a map of Middle Earth, please go to http://www.housing.uci.edu/ug/mc/.

Violence, especially gun violence, is the one type of crime that truly distinguishes the United States from other countries. In this seminar we'll explore America's love of guns; the circumstances in which guns are most often used; and, effective strategies aimed at curbing levels of gun violence.

Professor Tita received his MS and PhD in Public Policy and Management from the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon. He joined UCI in 2000 after spending 2 years at RAND as a policy analyst. His research focuses on the community context of crime, especially violence. He has experience working with local community groups and law enforcement at the local, state and federal level in devising gun violence reduction strategies.

The American Dream
Rodolfo Torres, Planning, Policy & Design
M 7:00-7:50pm, SST 318
Course Code 87585

Just what is the American Dream? Through the use of films, and historical and sociological writings the illusory idea of the "American Dream" will be the subject of interrogation. Learn about the social movements and the men and women who shaped the “American Dream,” how they affected both society as a whole and the dreams we hold for a democratic future.

Rodolfo D. Torres was born and raised in East Los Angeles and attended Lincoln High School. He holds a BA from UC Irvine and Ph.D from Claremont Graduate School. Professor Torres teaches urban planning, public policy, and comparative ethnic studies.

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Quantum Mysteries for Everyone
Jeffrey Barrettt, Logic and Philosophy of Science
M 12:00-12:50pm, SST 777
Course Code 87551

If quantum mechanics is right, then the structure of the physical world is very different from what one might have imagined. In this seminar we will discuss how quantum mechanics explains the counterintuitive experimental evidence we find when we look at small, well-isolated physical systems. We will also discuss the famous quantum measurement problem and some possible solutions.

Jeffrey Barrett first encountered quantum mechanics as an undergraduate physics major. He didn't like it because he couldn't understand what it was trying to say about the physical world. While he now understands exactly what quantum mechanics says (it's a subtle theory, but ultimately a simple one), this just leads to deeper puzzles.

Mexican Migration to the United States: Asset or Liability?
Frank D. Bean, Sociology
Tu 12:00-12:50pm, SSL 105
Course Code 87586

This seminar will focus on the dimensions, impact and public policy implications of Mexican migration to the United States.

Frank D. Bean recently delivered in Washington, DC, the inaugural overview address on unauthorized migration to the United States to the 2005 "Independent Task Force on Immigration and the American Future" headed by Lee Hamilton (also co-chair of the 9/11 Commission) and Spencer Abraham (former U.S. Senator from Michigan).

Gender and Racial Discrimination in Jobs and in Everyday Life
Matt Huffman, Sociology
W 11:00-11:50am, Middle Earth Housing Complex, Gandalf’s Classroom B
Course Code 87558

NOTE: This class is being held in Middle Earth Housing. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Mesa Court or the School of the Arts. For a map of Middle Earth, please go to http://www.housing.uci.edu/ug/mc/.

In this seminar we will examine social science research about the prevalence of, and explanations for, gender and racial discrimination. Although we will focus on traditional areas of study, such as discrimination in employment, we will also address discrimination in more "everyday" contexts, such as buying a car, getting a loan from a bank, or paying for personal services.

Matt Huffman is an Associate Professor of Sociology. His main area of research investigates racial and gender inequality in employment contexts. He has served as an expert witness in sex discrimination lawsuits in Orange County Superior Court.

Women of Color in Film
Belinda Robnett-Olsen, Sociology
Tu 4:00-6:50pm, SSL 155
Course Code 87564

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 at the University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1991. Professor Robnett is the author of How Long? How Long? African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights, Oxford University Press, and the co-author of a recent book, Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and the State, Oxford University Press. She is currently working on a new book project, Our Struggle for Unity: African Americans in the Age of Identity Politics and has published numerous articles on race, gender, and social movements.

SOCIALISM AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Feng Wang, Sociology
W 7:00-7:50pm, Middle Earth Housing Complex, Harrowdale Study Room
Course Code 87568

NOTE: This class is being held in Middle Earth Housing. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Mesa Court or the School of the Arts. For a map of Middle Earth, please go to http://www.housing.uci.edu/ug/me/.

Socialism was one of the defining features of the twentieth century. This freshman seminar provides a forum to explore three questions:
1) What made socialism an attractive ideal in the twentieth century?
2) Under what circumstances did socialism as a social system prevail?
3) Why did socialism fail?

Feng Wang teaches and conducts research in comparative sociology, focusing on post communist transformations.

COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES

The Role of Environmental Exposures in Neurodegenerative diseases
Arezoo Campbell, Community and Environmental Medicine
M 2:00-2:50pm, SSL 159
Course Code 87555

Neurodegenerative diseases are multifactorial. While senescence is a common predisposing factor, genetic mutations and environmental factors have also been linked to the onset and progression of these disorders. While the pathological hallmarks of different age-related neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) are unique, certain underlying processes appear to be generally present and enhanced. These include oxidative and inflammatory events. Exposure to aluminum (Al) in drinking water or concentrated particulate matter (PM) present in air pollution enhances proinflammatory markers selectively in the brain. It is possible that these environmental exposures can trigger an innate-immune response in this otherwise immunologically privileged site and by doing so aggravate already existing adverse events.

For the past two and a half years, Arezoo Campbell has been an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community & Environmental Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. His research has focused mainly on the potential neurotoxicity of environmental factors in neurodegenerative disorders.

The Cultural and Philosophical Bases for Health Care Systems
Joie Jones, Radiological Sciences
W 3:00-3:50pm, HH 142
Course Code 87559

This Seminar will examine in some detail the bases or foundations of a variety of health care systems, including conventional Western Medicine, Chinese, Indian, Native American, etc. Although contemporary Western Medicine will be shown to be firmly rooted in deterministic Newtonian Physics, other systems, including so called traditional medicine and those we usually associate with complementary and alternative medicine, will be seen to be universally based on a more modern physics world view. Such observations have a significant impact on the evolution and integration of health care systems, which will be reviewed and discussed.

Dr. Jones has been Professor of Radiological Sciences at UCI since 1977. He has a wide range of research interests including medical imaging and the general applications of ultrasound technology. In recent years, Dr. Jones has become interested in the critical evaluation of both diagnostic and therapeutic medicine modalities, particularly in the areas of complementary and alternative medicine and subtle energy medicine.

Science versus Religion. The Controversy over Evolution
Cal McLaughlin, Biological Chemistry
Tu 2:00-2:50pm, Medical Sciences D Room D240
Course Code 87561

NOTE: This seminar will meet at the School of Medicine. It will meet in the Medical Sciences D Building (Cheney Hall MSB) Room D240. It is building 825 on a campus map. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Central Campus.

The publication of Charles Darwin's seminal book The Origin of Species in 1859 ignited an important religion versus science controversy that has persisted to this day. We will take both a historical and a conceptual point of view to try to understand why this controversy has been so durable, especially in America. We will start by reading portions of Darwin's book so that we can understand what biologists and other scientists mean by evolution. We will then examine the point of view of religious figures who oppose the theory of evolution so we can understand their objections to the theory or evolution. We will also examine the ideas of religious figures who do not oppose evolution. We will focus on objections to evolution from within the Christian tradition which center on the creation accounts in the book of Genesis. We will also examine the objections to evolution from other great religions. This will involve an examination of the creation accounts at the heart of the major religions. Many Native American Tribes have their own distinctive creation stories that we will discuss. It may surprise many to learn that most of the major religions have branches of thought that oppose the theory of evolution. Since neither the theory of evolution nor the objections to it have remained static, we will document how both sides of the argument have evolved since 1859. Science and non-science majors are welcome. The course is designed for students who are religious and want to understand the meaning of evolution and for students who are interested in the nature of conflict and conflict resolution that involve faith based knowledge systems. We will strive for a free and respectful exchange of views during extensive classroom discussions. This year we will focus on the heart of the issue – the nature and destiny of man.

Sometime early in school Cal McLaughlin decided to become either a scientist or a physician. As a physician he had his father who was a surgeon as an example, but there were no scientists in his family . The appeal of science grew out of the culture of eastern Montana in the late 40s and early 50s. For a formal description of his research interests see http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/biochem/faculty/McLaughlin.html.

Imaging Agents for Medical Diagnosis
Jogesh Mukherjee, Radiology
F 2:00-2:50pm, Tamkin Building Room F108
Course Code 87581

NOTE: This seminar will meet in the College of Medicine. It will meet in the Tamkin Building, Room F108. It is building 831 on a campus map. Please be aware that your travel time will be greater than 10 minutes if you are coming from Central Campus.

Medical diagnosis of various illnesses involves the use of noninvasive imaging technologies. Nuclear medicine methods such as positron emission tomography (PET) is such a procedure which can provide information at the molecular level. One critical component of PET is the use of an imaging agent (or radiopharmaceutical). The goal of this seminar is to introduce the students to imaging methods- in particular PET and the development and use of imaging agents in various imaging studies- both clinical and research.

Jogesh Mukherjee, Ph.D., is a radiopharmaceutical chemist who has been involved in the design, development and use of PET radiopharmaceuticals. He is currently a member of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Radiology and the UCI Cancer Research Center. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1980 from the University of Jodhpur, India. He obtained his training in radiopharmaceuticals and imaging at the University of Chicago where he continued as a faculty member until 1997 and subsequently at Kettering Medical Center, Dayton Ohio until 2001. Dr Mukherjee has authored/coauthored over 150 papers and meeting presentations.

Neurology at the Movies
Anne Tournay, Pediatrics
Tu 10:00-10:50am, HH 214
Course Code 87565

Diseases of the nervous system are common, and can devastate the life of an individual and their family. Hollywood has noticed, and several popular movies have focussed on these issues. Participants will watch one movie each week in their own time, discussing their impressions during the following week's seminar. Popcorn and videos provided!

Anne Tournay is a child neurologist on faculty at UC Irvine. Her interests include epilepsy, neurodevelopmental disabilities, and palliative care. When she is away from work, she enjoys sea kayaking, hiking and travelling with her family.