All Courses
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MUS 024A 001 FQ 2018
Meeting Times: MWF 1:10 - 2:00 PM Location: Music 115 Office hours: WF: 2:05-3:15 (after class) or by appointment. Room: Music 132. Instructor: Professor Pierpaolo Polzonetti e-mail: ppolzonetti@ucdavis.edu
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ATM 010 A01 FQ 2018
This course looks at more than a dozen kinds of severe weather and at least a dozen kinds of unusual weather. Beyond the wonder and awe of these phenomena, we shall uncover scientific principles that explain why these phenomena occur.
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ENT 100 001 FQ 2018
Everything you ever wanted to know about insects but were afraid to ask.
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RUS 124 001 FQ 2018
This course will introduce students to some of the major works and authors of Russian prose, poetry, and drama of the twentieth century. We will pay particular attention to the intersections between literature and important historical events, such as the Russian Revolution, the rise of Stalinism, the waves of Russian emigration, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Students will learn skills for closely reading and analyzing Russian texts in the original. Among the authors covered are Vladimir Nabokov, Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Evgeny Zamiatin, Anna Akhmatova, Daniil Kharms, Sergei Dovlatov and Liudmila Ulitskaia. Taught in Russian.
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RUS 142 001 FQ 2018
This course focuses on the representation of (and by) women in Russian fiction and film, with special attention devoted to the late-Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Beginning with Anna Akhmatova’s classic narrative poem Requiem, set during the darkest years of the Stalinist terror, the readings will span over five decades and take place against the backdrop of profound social, cultural and political shifts, including perestroika/glasnost of the 1980s and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The texts and films covered in the course will explore such issues as family dynamics/motherhood, sexuality, work, and women’s relationship to the state. Fictional texts will be supplemented by sociological readings that illuminate the conditions of women's lives during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Students will become familiar with the works of several prominent contemporary female authors, including Liudmila Petrushevskaia, Svetlana Vasilenko, Liudmila Ulitskaia, Tatyana Tolstaya, and recent Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Svetlana Alexeivich. At the end of the quarter, we will analyze the contributions of the feminist, activist collective Pussy Riot--whose daring acts of social protest against the Putin regime have attracted international attention.
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ALEKS Preparatory Chemistry Fall 18
Completion of the ALEKS Preparatory Chemistry Course will satisfy the prerequisite requirement to enroll in CHE 2A (not 2AH) beginning Winter 2019.