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MTL 130: Introduction to Environmental Humanities: Cultures of Nature in the American West (AMSTUD 130)

What do we mean when we use the terms "nature" and "culture"? This course examines these two complex ideas in the context of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century American West. Topics include Los Angeles as a lived space and its place in the national spatial imaginary, urban environmental movements, mining cultures, toxics legacies, geographies of social difference, animal studies, and biodiversity and Native American DNA databases. The approach is interdisciplinary, and includes environmental history, cultural geography, critical race studies, literature, and documentary film methodologies and texts.
| Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

MTL 334A: Concepts of Modernity 1: Philosophical Foundations

(Same as LAW 501) The philosophical foundations of the modern period through the prism of law and legal rationality. Focus is on concepts of the nation state, justice, legal interpretation, individual agency and moral choice, equality, punishment, legislation, and international society. Readings include: Rousseau, Locke; Hegel; Montesquieu, Kant, Bentham, Marx, Weber; and may also include critiques of those works offered by writers including: Arendt, Habermas, Foucault; Rose; Said; Spivak; Butler; MacKinnon.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Stacy, H. (PI)

MTL 334B: Concepts of Modernity 2: Aesthetics and the Public Sphere (ENGLISH 334B)

A selection of 20th-century theory focusing on the relation of aesthetics and the public sphere. Themes include the conceptualization of the public sphere, the debates over the relation of art and politics, aesthetics as form of public rhetoric, the social mission of literature and other arts. Readings from Habermas, Adorno, Horkheimer, Arendt, Lukacs, Bloch, Brecht, Jameson, Negt and Kluge, Kristeva, Spivak, Appiah, Coetzee.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Majumdar, S. (PI)

MTL 390: Qualifying Paper

Preparation and writing of the qualifying paper for the Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature. nn (Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Anderson, R. (PI); Bukatman, S. (PI); Callan, E. (PI); Cohen, J. (PI); Domanska, E. (PI); Dupuy, J. (PI); Ebron, P. (PI); Elam, H. (PI); Elam, M. (PI); Ferguson, J. (PI); Fishkin, S. (PI); Friedman, M. (PI); Gumbrecht, H. (PI); Hanretta, S. (PI); Heise, U. (PI); Jain, S. (PI); Longino, H. (PI); Lowood, H. (PI); Lunsford, A. (PI); Majumdar, S. (PI); Malkki, L. (PI); McGinn, R. (PI); Moretti, F. (PI); Moya, P. (PI); Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI); Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI); Proctor, R. (PI); Roberts, R. (PI); Saldivar, R. (PI); Schiebinger, L. (PI); Sohn, S. (PI); Stacy, H. (PI); Turner, F. (PI); Weisberg, R. (PI); White, R. (PI); Woloch, A. (PI); Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI); Onorato, C. (GP)

MTL 395: Ad Hoc Graduate Seminar

Graduate students (three or more) who wish to study a subject or an area not covered by regular courses and seminars may plan an informal seminar and approach a member of the faculty to supervise it. May be repeated for
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Anderson, R. (PI); Bukatman, S. (PI); Callan, E. (PI); Cohen, J. (PI); Dupuy, J. (PI); Ebron, P. (PI); Elam, H. (PI); Elam, M. (PI); Ferguson, J. (PI); Fishkin, S. (PI); Friedman, M. (PI); Gumbrecht, H. (PI); Hanretta, S. (PI); Heise, U. (PI); Jain, S. (PI); Longino, H. (PI); Lowood, H. (PI); Lunsford, A. (PI); Majumdar, S. (PI); Malkki, L. (PI); Moretti, F. (PI); Moya, P. (PI); Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI); Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI); Proctor, R. (PI); Roberts, R. (PI); Saldivar, R. (PI); Schiebinger, L. (PI); Sohn, S. (PI); Stacy, H. (PI); Weisberg, R. (PI); White, R. (PI); Woloch, A. (PI); Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI); Onorato, C. (GP)

MTL 398: Research

Students pursue a special subject of investigation under supervision of a member of the committee or another faculty member. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-15 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Anderson, R. (PI); Bukatman, S. (PI); Callan, E. (PI); Cohen, J. (PI); Daughton, J. (PI); Domanska, E. (PI); Duffey, C. (PI); Dupuy, J. (PI); Ebron, P. (PI); Elam, H. (PI); Elam, M. (PI); Eshel, A. (PI); Ferguson, J. (PI); Fishkin, S. (PI); Friedman, M. (PI); Gumbrecht, H. (PI); Hanretta, S. (PI); Heise, U. (PI); Jain, S. (PI); Longino, H. (PI); Lowood, H. (PI); Lunsford, A. (PI); Majumdar, S. (PI); Malkki, L. (PI); McGinn, R. (PI); Moretti, F. (PI); Moya, P. (PI); Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI); Obenzinger, H. (PI); Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI); Proctor, R. (PI); Roberts, R. (PI); Rose, J. (PI); Saldivar, R. (PI); Schiebinger, L. (PI); Schnapp, J. (PI); Sohn, S. (PI); Stacy, H. (PI); Turner, F. (PI); Weisberg, R. (PI); White, R. (PI); Woloch, A. (PI); Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI); Moore, M. (GP); Onorato, C. (GP)

MTL 399: Reading for Orals

Reading in preparation for the University Oral Examination. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-15 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Anderson, R. (PI); Bukatman, S. (PI); Callan, E. (PI); Cohen, J. (PI); Domanska, E. (PI); Dupuy, J. (PI); Ebron, P. (PI); Elam, H. (PI); Elam, M. (PI); Ferguson, J. (PI); Fishkin, S. (PI); Friedman, M. (PI); Gumbrecht, H. (PI); Hanretta, S. (PI); Heise, U. (PI); Jain, S. (PI); Longino, H. (PI); Lowood, H. (PI); Lunsford, A. (PI); Majumdar, S. (PI); Malkki, L. (PI); McGinn, R. (PI); Moretti, F. (PI); Moya, P. (PI); Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI); Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI); Proctor, R. (PI); Roberts, R. (PI); Saldivar, R. (PI); Schiebinger, L. (PI); Sohn, S. (PI); Stacy, H. (PI); Turner, F. (PI); Weisberg, R. (PI); White, R. (PI); Woloch, A. (PI); Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI); Onorato, C. (GP)

MTL 802: TGR Dissertation

Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 0 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: ; Anderson, R. (PI); Bukatman, S. (PI); Callan, E. (PI); Camarillo, A. (PI); Cohen, J. (PI); Dupuy, J. (PI); Ebron, P. (PI); Elam, H. (PI); Elam, M. (PI); Eshel, A. (PI); Ferguson, J. (PI); Fishkin, S. (PI); Friedman, M. (PI); Gumbrecht, H. (PI); Hanretta, S. (PI); Heise, U. (PI); Jain, S. (PI); Longino, H. (PI); Lowood, H. (PI); Lunsford, A. (PI); Majumdar, S. (PI); Malkki, L. (PI); Moretti, F. (PI); Moya, P. (PI); Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI); Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI); Proctor, R. (PI); Roberts, R. (PI); Saldivar, R. (PI); Schiebinger, L. (PI); Schnapp, J. (PI); Sohn, S. (PI); Stacy, H. (PI); Weisberg, R. (PI); White, R. (PI); Woloch, A. (PI); Yarbro-Bejarano, Y. (PI); Onorato, C. (GP)

MTL 299: Edgework: New Directions in the Study of Culture

Workshop. Required of first-year students in the doctoral program. Methodologies of different disciplines, the possibility and difficulty of interdisciplinary work within these disciplines, and their connection with the individual projects of students in Modern Thought and Literature. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 1-3
Instructors: ; Heise, U. (PI)
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