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Spring 2008 Courses 158 courses approved as of July 4, 2008 6:26AM.
cs/fw denotes courses that are based around community service or field work.
Title Units Time Status The Ancient Sky Watchers: Topics in Archaeoastronomy 1 — — Jack Kerouac Seminar 2 TuTh 5:30-6:30 started Amusing Ourselves to Death: The Desensitizing Effects of the Media 1 M 5:00-6:30 full Bollywood: A Celebration of Hindi Cinema 2 Th 5:00-8:30 full LaTeX for Math and Science 1 M 4-6 full The History of Middle Earth 2 Th 5-7 full Iran: 28 Years of Revolution 2 Tu 6-8 open The Happiest Decal on Earth 2 Wed 4-6 pm full Greek Folk Dancing 1 Th 5-7 open Governance @ Cal 1 W 5-6:30 open Bookworlds: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Analysis 2 Tu 6-8 pm full Conversational English 2 M 4-6 full M 6-8 full From Mind to Movement: Pilipino/American Leadership, Community, and Organizing for a Changing World cs/fw 2 — — Beat Poetry 2 Tuesday 5:00-7:00pm started James Bond: Politics, Pop Culture, Hero 2 W 5-7 full The Art, Music and Lyrics of Radiohead 2 M 7-9PM full Networked Computing: Principles and Problems 2 Tu 7-8:30PM started From Civil War to Civil Rights: African American Literature, Activism and Sentimentality 2 T 6-8 started Religious Conversion and Literature 1 Tu 5:00-6:30 open Israeli Folk Dancing-Beginners 1-2 Tu 6:30-8 open Israeli Folk Dancing-Advanced 1-2 Tu 5-6:30 open Interactive Data Language (IDL) Decal 1 W 6:30-8PM open Computer Generated Creativity 1 Monday 5-8pm started Catching the Big Lynch: The David Lynch DeCal 2 W 7-9 full Curiouser and Curiouser 2 Thur 5-7pm started Questioning Racial Labels: Asian (&) (/) Pacific Islander 2 W 4-6 started Star Wars Galaxy 2 W 5-7PM full Craft of Facilitating cs/fw 2-3 W 3-5 full Audition Techniques: How to Get Your Foot in the Door 1 W 4 - 5:30 open The Life and Legacy of Tupac Amaru Shakur 2 M 4-6 full The New and Improved Digital Photo Decal 1-2 M6-8 full W2-3 full Raptors and Sea Monsters: An Overview of Mesozoic Saurischians and Marine Reptiles 2 W 5-6:30 started An Introduction to the Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard 2 Tu 6-8pm started Video Game Level Design: Introduction to Mapping for Counter-Strike Source 2 Wednesday 5pm-7pm full Introduction to Stocks 2 W 530-7 full W 7-8:30 full Integrative Medicine 2 M 7-9pm started Bookworlds: A Series of Unfortunate Events 2 Thursdays 5-7pm full Perspectives on Genocide 2 Tu 4-6 full UNICEF: Awareness of Children in the Developing World cs/fw 1-2 Wed 6-7 full Hunger and Malnutrition in the Berkeley Area cs/fw 2 M 4-6 started Learn to Play the Sather Tower Bells - Carillon Study 1 W 7-8pm full Improvisation for Storytellers 1 Wed 9-11am started The Daily Cal Decal: Introduction to Newspaper Journalism 1 Wed 7-8:30pm started Introduction to Chess 2 T 6-8 pm started T 6-8 pm started History of the Aphorism 1 M 6-7p started Downstage Left: Performing Sketch Comedy 1 TuTh 5-6 open Sustainability: Environment, Economy & Society cs/fw 2-3 W 5:30-7:30 full Bookworlds: Dark Fantasy 2 Tuesday 5-7pm full Berkeley Poetry Review: Publishing & Poetry 2 M 6-8 full Bollywood and Terrorism 2 M 6-10 open ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union 1-2 W 5:00-6:30 started SwingCal 1 M: 6-8 full M: 6-8 full DeCal Internship 1-4 TBA full Investment Principles 1-2 W 6:30-8 started Introduction to I Banking 2 — — Issues: Berkeley Medical Journal 2 W 5-7 open Dynamics of Beirut 2 — — Maganda Magazine: Expression and Representation Through Publication 2 M 6-8 started X-treme Thinking 1 M 5-7 started Vietnam and Vietnamese Culture Through Films 2 Tue 6-830 full An Introduction to Leadership and Organizational Dynamics 2 Tuesday 4-6pm full Bookworlds: The Marvelous World of Modern Fairy Tales 2 Wed 6-8pm full Fight Club 2 Tu 5-7 started Student Success Part II 2 M 6-8PM started SEX 101: Topics in Sexual Health and Sexuality 2 TBA full Social Development During Childhood and Adolescence 2 Thursday 5-7 started CALSTAR Yoga cs/fw 2 Friday 1-4 p.m. full Affordable Housing Issues De-Cal cs/fw 1 Th 4-5:30 pm open Creative Writing Workshop: Campus Stories 1 W 5-6 started Taiwanese Language Course 1 or 2 TuTh 5-6:30 started MW 5-6:30 started TuTh 5-6:30 started TuTh 5-6:30 started Bookworlds: Intro Into the Writings of Jules Verne 2 Tues 5:30-7:30pm started The Modern Slave Trade 2 Th 5-7 open The Philosophy of Seinfeld 2 Wed 6-8 started Chamber Music for Fun 2 — — The Architecture of Berkeley 2 Tu 5:30-7:30 started PreMed 101 2 W 5:00-6:30P full *SSPC Peer Counseling* 2 Tu 5-7pm full Adventures in Neuroscience 2 M 12-2 full Berkeley Fiction Review: Small Press Publishing 1-2 Tu 5:30-7 started Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Radical Interpretation of the Text 2 MW 7:30-9:00 open Female Sexuality 3 — — Scrabble: Strategy, Knowledge, and Fun 2 W 5-7 full Advanced Scrabble: Strategy, Competition and Fun 2 — — Storytelling and Characterization in Video Games 2 Tu 5-7 open The Daily Cal DeCal: Intro to Photo Journalism 2 6:30-8:30 full Social Science and Social Change: Pierre Bourdieu and the Political Field 1 Th 5:00-6:30pm started Project: College Bound - Berkeley Mentorship Program cs/fw 1-4 — — Awakened Leadership cs/fw 2-3 — — The South Park Decal 2 W 6-8 open Batman as American Mythology 2 TuTh 6-7pm open Teach The Bay: Providing Free Test Prep for High School Students cs/fw 1-2 Tu 6-8 open Berkeley Political Review: Introduction to Writing for a Political Magazine 2 Tuesdays 6-8PM full HIKE (Health Information for Kids' Education) DeCal cs/fw 2 Th 2-4 p.m started Cal History: The University Through its People 2 Th 5:00-6:30 started PeacePower: Nonviolence Journalism and Publishing 2 W 6-8 open Perspectives on Internal Happiness 2 Tu 4-6 started Foundation for Sustainable Development: Argentina cs/fw 2 W 6-8 open Warrior Philosophies: Endurance and Ambition 2 W 5-7 started Chinese for Restaurants 2 W 6-8 full The Future of China-US-Taiwan Relations 1 M 17:30-18:30 started Bookworlds: Fairy Tale Villains 2 M 5:30-7:30 started Transition to Cal: Resources for Immigrant Students 1 Tu 12:30-2 full Making Comics (Comicbook, Manga, and Graphic Novel Techniques) 2 W 6:00-7:30 PM open Bookworlds: Reading Comics (Intro to Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels) 2 M 6-8 open Zapatismo: Creating New Worlds 2 Th. 5-7 started Actuarial Finance 2 Tu 6-8 full The Japanese American Voice cs/fw 1 W 5-7 started Archery 2 Saturday, 1-3pm full Sunday, 1-3pm full Energy DeCal 2 M 5-6:30 PM full M 5-6:30 PM started Racism and Inequity in Structures of Education (RISE) cs/fw 2 Tu 6-8 full Camp Kesem: Families Coping with Cancer 1 W 7-8 PM started Meditation, Mysticism, and the Mind 1-3 Tuesday 6-8 p.m. started Hardboiled: Asian American Journalism cs/fw 1 W 6-7 p.m. started Prepare to Achieve a College Education cs/fw 2 Thursday 5-7 open The Bear Necessities of Research 1 W 3-4:30 started Introduction to Wall Street 2 W 4-6pm full A Lecture Series on the Progressive Public Policy Landscape 2 Wed. 6-8 started Cinema of Repression and Resistance 1-4 W 5-7 open Cinema of Repression and Resistance 1-4 W 5-7 open Actuarial Exam I/P Prep Course 2 — — Cantonese DeCal: Beginning and Intermediate 1-2 MW 5-6:30 open MW 5-6:30 open TuTh 5-6:30 open TuTh 5-6:30 open Advanced Rubik's Cube DeCal: Speedcubing 1 Tu 5-6 PM full The Brain and Medicine 1 W 5-6 started Jade Ribbon Campaign DeCal: Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer in the Asian community cs/fw 1 W 5-6pm started Student Success at Cal, Part 1 2 M 4-6pm started Haifeng Chinese Magainze (Ocean Breeze) 2 M 6-8 started Introduction to Korean Music: P'ungmul 2 1 W 730-10P started Teaching Mad Science cs/fw 2-3 M 6-7:30, with Wednesday Willard visits started Tu 6-7:30, with Thursday Willard trips ( started Learn How to Solve the Rubik's Cube 1 F 4-5 started W 5-6 started Beginning Chinese Dance 2 Th 6-8 started Th 6-8 open Chemistry in Pop Culture 2 Tu 6-7:30P full Financing Your Education, Before and After Graduation 2 Th 5-7 pm full Perspectives on the Bahai Faith 2 T 5:00 - 7:00 open The Simpsons and Philosophy 1-2 Th 5-6:30 started Stem Cells: Science and Society 2 W 1-2 started W 5-6 started F 10-11 started F 12-1 started F 1-2 started F 2-3 started M 6-7 started Burma: A Closer Look at the Golden Land 2 M 6-8 open All About Cancer: Relay for Life cs/fw 2 Th 5-7 open Applied Optometry 1 Tues 5-6 open Understanding US Healthcare 1 M 5-6 PM started Breaking Down Barriers: Reexamining North Korea 2 M 6:00-8:00 started UCBUGG - UCB Undergraduate Graphics Group 2 Th 5-7 started Sophisticated Humor? The Ali G, Borat, and Bruno DeCal 2 Tuesday 5-630PM started IEEE's Hands on Practical Electronics 1 Tu 5-6:30 started Adventure at Your Doorstep: Creating an Awareness of the Environment Through Backpacking 1-2 Monday 6-7pm started Microfinance 1 Tuesday 5-6 full Zapatismo and La Sexta 2 W 5-7 started Exploring Molecular and Cell Biology 1 Tu 5-6 started D.U.L.C.E. Diabetes Education Decal cs/fw 98/198 Tu 5-7 started System Administration 2 MW 5-6 started W 5:30-7 started The Joy of Garbage 1-2 M 5-7 full Desserts By Ingredients 2 M 5-7pm full Blackjack and Poker 2 — — Undergraduate Molecular Biology Seminar 1 W 5:00-6:30pm started The "Other" Berkeley: An Introduction to City Affairs 2 W 6-8P full Religion and Culture: The Sikh Experience 1-3 Tu 6:30-8:30 open Social Issues/Social Action: Southwest Berkeley cs/fw 2, 3 M 5:00-6:30p started Language Access DeCal 2-3 M 5-7pm every other monday started Practical Applications of Business Law 1 — —
cs/fw denotes courses that are based around community service or field work.
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