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Below is a list of Special Topics courses which were added recently to the UGBA Spring 2020 schedule. Non-Haas students are encouraged to add themselves to the waitlist during the remaining Phase II enrollment period. Once adjustment period starts on January 6th, students from the waitlist will be added to UGBA courses on a space available basis. UGBA 167.1 (Class Number: 11623) Special Topics in Marketing:  Marketing Analytics  with Giovanni Compiani -  3 units ; MW 12:30PM-2:00PM UGBA 192T.5 (Class Number: 11781) Topics in Corporate Social Responsibility:  Impact Startup Disco  w/ Jorge Calderon-  1 unit ; This is uniquely scheduled on weekends with the following schedule:  Friday, January 24th - 5pm-7pm Friday, February 7th - 4pm-8pm Saturday, February 8th - 9am-4pm Sunday, February 9th - 12pm-4pm UGBA 192T.6 (Class Number: 32509) Topics in Corporate Social Responsibility:  Financial Tools for Social Impact  w/ Brent Copen-...

American Studies 10 – “Frontiers” in American History and Culture TTh 9:30-11:00 am -  141 McCone; plus one one-hour discussion section per week Instructors: C. Palmer/M. Brilliant Class # 18860 -  4 units Few, if any, concepts in American history and culture resonate more powerfully and reverberate more persistently than the “frontier.” This course will explore multiple manifestations of the frontier in United States history and culture, from the nineteenth century western frontier, to the early twentieth century overseas frontier associated with U.S. expansion abroad, to the mid-twentieth century’s “crabgrass” (or, suburban), “atomic,” and “final” (space) frontiers, to the late twentieth century’s “digital” / “electronic” frontier.  Each of these frontiers will serve as a lens through which we will introduce students to the concepts and methods of American Studies. This course satisfies the Historical Studies AND the Social and Behavio...

Big Ideas Courses L&S 25 : Thinking Through Art and Design@Berkeley: Public Art and Belonging (L. Raiford, L. Kroiz)                                    Breadth: Arts and Literature L&S Discovery Courses L&S C60U/GERMAN C25 : Revolutionary Thinking: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (K. Feldman)                               Breadth: Philosophy and Values L&S C70T/ASTRON C12/EPS C12 : The Planets (C. Dressing, R. Jeanloz)                           Breadth: Physical Science L&S C70V/PHYSICS C10 : Physics for Modern Citizens (N. Ji)                           Breadth: Physical Science L&S C70W/PHYSICS C21 : Physics and Music (T. Buehler)   ...

Apply to join  DevEng 290:   Innovation in Disaster Response  - a new class offered in Spring 2020! In this class, students will leverage technology toolkits (e.g. machine learning, IoT, AR/VR) to work on challenges related to Disaster Response. Students will learn methods from design and systems thinking to create a technology-based intervention that addresses specific needs identified by problem partners (including Google.org and the World Bank). Interventions will be designed for specific use cases, tested and presented to a committee of external stakeholders for feedback at the end of the course.  All disciplinary backgrounds welcome - no technical experience is required! Information sessions: Monday Nov 25, 4 pm, Blum Hall B100 Thursday Dec 5, 4 pm, Blum Hall 330 Wednesday Dec 11, 3 pm Blum Hall 330 Course details and application link:  DevEng 290: Innovation in Disaster Response Class # 27940 Friday 1-4pm Apply here :  bit.ly/idr-b...

UGBA 127.1:  Special Topics in Accounting:  Financial Reporting and Decision Making for Real Life Success . This is a brand new course and enrollment into this class is available exclusively to non-Haas majors including graduate and PhD students (see attached course fliers for both undergraduates and graduate students). For questions about this course, please contact the instructor,  Professor Yaniv Konchitchki at  yaniv@haas.berkeley.edu    UGBA 135.1 and UGBA 135.2:   Personal Financial Management  (see course flier below) UGBA 19T.2:  Special Topics in Corporate Social Responsibility:  Edible Education  (see course flier below) UGBA 194.2:  Undergraduate Colloquium on Business Topics:  Colloquium in Leadership. Also a brand new course  (see course flier below)

Enrollment Now Open for Undergraduates Art of Writing  courses teach UC Berkeley undergraduates to write clearly and eloquently in a variety of forms. These intimate courses develop advanced skills in close reading and artful writing, and provide students with intensive feedback on their work. Enrollment in  Spring 2020  courses listed below is now open.  Additional information is available on the  Art of Writing   website .  Comparative Literature 190 Tues Thurs | 9:30-11 am Timothy Hampton & Kathryn Crim Writing About Words and Music Class Number 18544 Academic Guide College Writing 175 Tues Thurs | 2-3:30 pm Michael Larkin & Ryan Sloan Players, Spectators, and Fanatics: Writing on the Cultures of Sports Class Number 30357 Academic Guide English 166 Mon Weds | 12-1 pm Susan Schweik, Max Stevenson, & Tara Phillips Grant Writing, Food Writing, Food Justice Class Number 30379 Academic Guide Integrative Biology...

LETTERS AND SCIENCE 105:: Arts Entrepreneurship (3 units) Mondays 2-5, 241 CORY Instructor: ANDREWS, R.. The course uses the development of student projects to explore the intersections between art and business. Along with encouraging innovation and creative/critical thinking about the role of arts organizations in society, the course examines theories and practical techniques for professional arts managers, including: · Building an arts community · Strategic planning for arts organizations · Mission and program development · Fundraising · Financial management · Marketing The course combines readings, in-class discussions and exercises with site visits, case studies and guest speakers from the local arts community.  INSTRUCTOR: Richard Andrews

Env Des 98 (CCN 28807) or Env Des 198 (CCN 28867) Tuesdays 7-10 pm 112 Wurster Hall This class meets for the first five weeks of the semester only. This colloquium will explore the creative potential of cultural difference in teaching, research and campus life at Berkeley.  The first part, lasting three weeks, is a film series where students will watch and discuss films exploring cultural difference and the spaces of urban life.  The second part is an evening lecture and follow-up workshop with acclaimed author Manil Suri, who will discuss his provocative 2013 book, City of Devi, about national politics, religion, social division, sexuality and space in Mumbai, India.  For the third part of the colloquium, students will work in class on a creative project with Suri and invited critics that will explore the translation of knowledge and creative practices across disciplines in relation to questions of cultural difference.

Check out which classes for the minor are currently on the Spring 14 schedule Don't forget - you will need to check for any prerequisites or course restrictions. List 1: CED Courses · ARCH 140 (4) Energy and Environment (Sp) · ARCH 169 (1-4) Special Topics in Construction Materials (Fa, Sp, Su)** · ARCH 245 (3) Daylighting (Fa, Sp) · ARCH 249 (1-4) Special Topics in the Physical Environment in Buildings (Fa, Sp) · CY PLAN 114 (3) Introduction to Urban and Regional Transportation Planning (Sp) · CY PLAN 119 (3) Planning for Sustainability · CY PLAN 254 (3) Sustainable Communities · LD ARCH 130 (3) Sustainable Landscapes and Cities (Fa, Sp, Su) ** Special Topics courses will be evaluated each semester by student request. Please ask the relevant staff adviser if a course has been reviewed and/or approved. List 2: Non-CED Courses · ANTHRO 137 (4) Energy, Culture and Social Organization (S...

Seats available! MEDITATION, STUDYING AND LIVING Arch 198, CCN: 03804 Arch 298, CCN: 03954 Arch 98, CCN: 03606 Fall 2013 Jean-Paul Bourdier 1 unit 11 -12 Wednesday 104 Wurster Hall Open to all majors, graduate and undergraduate class levels. The purpose of this course is to discover how the anxieties and confusing questions that arise in our mind can be grounded-- or even dissolved-- into the equanimous space of our Body-Heart, lending greater clarity. To directly experience this state of being, each week we will participate in a question/answer period and meditate shortly in the class. All questions and answers sessions will address ANY of your questions and delve into who we are, what is the nature of our mind and how meditation and other techniques may help us become intimate with ourselves, while possibly letting us see the difference between knowledge and experience, changing our creativity, our view on spirituality and our outlook on studying and living. Homework will ...

The Academic Senate's deadline for fall DeCal classes is 16 July, 2013. All proposals must be submitted, after they've gone through the respective departments, before then, they will NOT schedule any DeCals that have not gone through COCI.

Set Design - Fashion Show Installation Need 2 units? Interested in Set Design? If so, you should consider signing up for ED 198. This Decal will be an opportunity to help design and construct an installation project for a fashion show that will be held this spring! When: Tuesdays 8:00pm-9:30pm Where: 120 Krober Interested Students should email us at calsetdesign@gmail.com or come to our info session at 120 Krober on Tuesday, Feb. 5th at 8pm.

CED students - please consider being a mentor to a prospective CED transfer student!! -Susan Dear Campus Colleagues, I am very pleased to inform you that the Starting Point Mentorship Program (SPMP) is currently in progress at the Transfer, Re-entry, and Student Parent Center. For the Spring 2013 semester, one of SPMP's primary goals is to recruit and encourage potential mentors from as many of Berkeley’s wide array of colleges and departments as possible. Each semester, the program serves roughly 200 prospective transfer students, or mentees. In a typical semester, at least half of these will pursue admission either to the College of Engineering or School of Business. Many will apply to the Colleges of Chemistry, Natural Resources, Letters & Sciences, or Environmental Design. Though we can never predict the mentees’ academic interests, we can be certain that they will cover a broad and diverse intellectual spectrum. By recruiting student mentors from all corners of our camp...

Are you interested in learning about infrastructure in the Global South? Take the "Design Activism with Global Architecture Brigades" DeCAL! As the mission statement of Global Architecture Brigades reads, “We partner with the local municipality when selecting the design and in the gathering of local materials, labor, advice, and land for the projects. This is a crucial part of the Global Brigades model, allowing us to work together with the community to achieve a common goal that both parties take pride in.” With an emphasis on sustainable design and the ethics of humanitarian architecture, this DeCAL aims to prepare students for one of the week-long brigades as well as to familiarize them with successful design strategies. The DeCAL will feature lectures on case studies, design strategies, and ethics of humanitarian architecture in addition to video viewing, guest lectures, and reading-based discussion. Students will have an understanding of the political and environmenta...

Topics - A History of Śiva Worship in Tamil South India S,SEASN 120 105 Latimer TTh 330-5P Units: 4 CCN: 83242 Instructor: Wentworth, B T Śiva worship is central to understanding south India. From Śaivism's first textual records in the early centuries CE to its contemporary practice in temples and homes in Tamilnadu and throughout the world, the history of devotion to Śiva offers great treasures of cultural expression and human thought. This course surveys the contours of this rich tradition as it has developed in the Tamil country, exploring its religious commitments, philosophies, artistic displays, and rituals in city and village; its role in the political assertions of the great imperial dynasties of medieval Tamilnadu; its use as a means of cultural resistance; and its life in the Tamil diaspora. All texts will be available in translation, and no previous experience in Tamil or South Asian studies will be required. The Birth of Kumara by David Smith, New York University ...

There is still room for interested freshmen and sophomores in CP 39:  Global Cities. It meets MW from 9:00 – 10:30 in Dwinelle 127.

*Starting Feb. 4th* *Art 198, Open Critique (The Critical Forum, Visual Semiotics, and The Avant-Garde)* Art Dept., Spring 2013 http://opencritique.tumblr.com/ *6-8PM, Mondays, Loc. Krober Hall 120* *2 unit course,*Sponsor: Katherine Sherwood, Facilitators: Jonathan Gomez, Yen-ting Wang (Ryo), CCN: (request over email) Contacts: ryocalmail@gmail.com , metajgomez@gmail.com *Course Description:* In this class we will learn about and practice various approaches to critique, which enable student artists, designers, or any creative persons to better give constructive criticism, to understand and develop their own work, and to participate in critical discussion with interdisciplinary communities. In the course of weeks one and two foundational learning of critique will be introduced through lectures, readings, and discussions, and readings on distinct critique approaches, creating what we may call [The Critical Forum]. Student critiques wi...

Freshman and Sophomore Seminars with Seats Available as of January 16, 2013: Seminar descriptions are available online at  http://fss.berkeley.edu  and via the links attached to the titles above. Seminars open to Freshmen: ·        Anthropology 24-1: The Imagined Past: Archaeology in Film (1 unit, P/NP) ·        Anthropology 24-2: Student Life at Cal: Documentary and Archaeological Perspectives (1 unit, P/NP) ·       Computer Science 39P: Photographing History in the Making (2 units, P/NP) ·        English 24-2: Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and The Prince and the Pauper (1 unit, P/NP) ·        Integrative Biology 24-4: Animal and Human Navigation: Which Way Is Home? (1 unit, LG) ·        Mathematics 24-1: Mathematical Lives (1 unit, P/NP) ·        Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology 24-1: Fiat Lux: Mem...

Interested in learning about sustainability issues and how you can help make campus buildings more efficient? Majoring in something related to design/architecture, planning, policy-making, science/engineering, or psychology/human behavior? Take the "Building Sustainability at Cal" class offered this Spring 2013 semester and contribute to the culture of sustainability at Berkeley! Students will have the opportunity to implement infrastructural & educational projects focused on improving the operational efficiency of campus buildings. They will benefit from the guest lecture series & field-trips related to various energy, water, and social justice issues affecting the environment. The class will be held T/Th 5-6pm, in 101 Wurster. Register for the class via Tele-BEARS with the CCN 28763 (ED 98) if you have freshman/sophomore standing or 28820 (ED 198) if you have junior/senior standing. The class is 2 units, P/NP. It is posted on schedule.berkeley.edu as Environmen...