For questions about restricted courses, please contact the Honors Collegium Coordinator.

Please note: HC 20 and HC 86 are currently full.

HC 56: Language as a Window to the Mind

This course tackles topics in language and the mind, including language acquisition in the child, language representation in the brain, the relationship between language and other mental abilities, and the autonomous nature of language as a system of knowledge.

Students expected to enroll are upperclass students who have NOT taken any linguistics course.

HC 70AL: Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture, and Law (lab associated with HC 70A from W08)

Prerequisite: course 70A. Laboratory work in genomics research and seminar discussion that apply experimentally those concepts and techniques taught in course 70A.

Admission is by application, restricted to those who have taken HNRS 70A:
To apply, please e-mail the professor at bobg@ucla.edu.

HC M106: Imaginary Women

Examination of archetypal women in the classical/traditional literatures of African, European, and Native American Cultures and their re-visioned reincarnations in modern African-American, Anglo-American, European, Native American, and Chicana literatures. We will focus on two archetypes: the wife/mother who goes off with another man and the infanticide mother. The original and re-visioned versions will be compared cross-culturally and across time, with particular emphasis on what they reveal about the position of women in the cultures that form their context and the ideologies of their male and female authors.

Students will be graded on class participation including one 10 minute report (25%), a midterm examination (25%), a final examination (25%), and a 10-page term paper (25%). For the term paper, students must find an example of one of the archetypes in any 20th-century literature, including popular culture and film, and analyze it in terms of what we have read and discussed in class.

Books to buy: Silko Storyteller; Grahn Queen of Wands; Euripides Medea (Dover) and Trojan Women (Euripides III), Anzaldua Borderlands, Valdez Puentes y Fronteras, Morrison Beloved. There is also a Course Reader, which can be purchased at ASUCLA.

To apply, please see Prof. Katherine King during her office hours or email her for an appointment at king@humnet.ucla.edu. She will provide the whole syllabus, discuss reports, and give out PTEs.

HC 144: Stigma: Anthropology of the Dangerous Other

The professor requires a 3.5 or higher cumulative GPA for students enrolling in this course. To apply, please contact the Honors Collegium Coordinator (click on email link near the top of this page). Qualified applicants will be given PTEs on a first-come, first-served basis. Please write "HNRS 144" and your student ID number in the subject line.

HC M152: Past Societies and Their Lessons for Our Own Future (Syllabus)

Examination of modern and past tribal and band societies (Amazonian Indians, Kalahari bushmen, and others) that met varying fates, as background to examination of how modern state societies are coping or failing to cope with similar issues.