Course Descriptions

Term:

Inter Area Studies

Spring Quarter (S25)

Dept/Description Course No., Title  Instructor
ART HIS (S25)145B  MODERN ARCHITECTUREDIMENDBERG, E.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies, Inter-Area Studies

Art History 145B Modern Architecture from 1933 to 2024

This course will survey principal developments in architecture and urbanism from 1933 to the present. It will begin with a consideration of the role of architecture in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia and then explore the global diffusion of western modernism, the development of the metropolis and megalopolis, suburbanization, the emergence of postmodernist and critical regionalist traditions, architectures of the welfare state, the quest for sustainability and green buildings, and the imbrication of the built environment in the political, social, and cultural changes accompanying the coldwar, the civil rights and anti-war movements, the counterculture, and decolonization. Architects and urbanists to be studied include Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, Gunther Behnisch, Alvar Aalto, Alison and Peter Smithson, Archigram, Superstudio, Frei Otto, Alvaro Siza, Gunnar Asplund, Sigurd Lewerentz, Jorn Utzon, Frank Gehry, Carlo Scarpa, Buckminster Fuller, Clorindo Testa, Lina Bo Bardi, Charles and Ray Eames, Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano, Richard Meier, Aldo Van Eyck, Peter Eisenman, Bruce Goff, Paul Rudolph, Norman Foster, Tadao Ando, Charles Correa, Arthur Erickson, Paolo Solieri, Constant, Jean Nouvel, James Stirling, Wang Shu, Charles Moore, Michael Graves, Kongjian Yu, Balkrishna Doshi, Kenzo Tange, Steven Holl, Kengo Kuma, Francis Kere, Herzog and de Meuron, Peter Zumthor, Arata Isozaki, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Enrique Norton, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Candilis, Josic, and Woods. Assignment structure: Weekly reading assignment questions, take-home midterm, and final research paper.  Instructor: Edward Dimendberg.
Days: TU TH  05:00-06:20 PM

EURO ST (S25)100B  HOWNATIONSREMEMBERBIENDARRA, A.
Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies, Inter-Area Studies

ES 100B / GLBCLT 191/ HIST 114
How Nations Remember | 
Winter 2025
Professor Anke Biendarra (abiendar@uci.edu)

Just as different nations have individual histories, they select and organize what they want to remember about their pasts in different and often specific ways. This seminar takes a comparative look at models of remembrance and the memorialization of specific historical and political events, mostly of the 20th century, in various countries and regions (Germany, France, Poland, and South Africa). We will ask how these events are represented in political discourse, public art works and museums, as well as in literature and film. What happens when different historical and political perspectives and memories confront each other in the public sphere? How can different groups stake their own claims for recognition and justice within a given national and political framework? What role do memorials, museums and public artworks play in the process, and how democratic are they?
Days: TU TH  11:00-12:20 PM

FLM&MDA (S25)101B  STUDIO ERASODERMAN, A.
FLM&MDA (S25)110  FILM & MEDIA THEORYHATCH, K.
FLM&MDA (S25)110  FILM & MEDIA THEORYGUTIERREZ, A.
Emphasis/Category: Inter-Area Studies

This seminar introduces students to thories about race, ethnicity, and media. It explores U.S. race and ethnicity—as social categories and markers of identity/identification—and systemic racism and racial capitalism—as structures of power, inequality, and domination—from the lens of media and popular culture. We will develop conceptual and theoretical tools to analyze media and entertainment, with an emphasis on developing the student’s ability to analyze and articulate a theoretical argument.
Days: TU TH  03:30-04:50 PM

Courses Offered by Global Cultures or other Schools at UCI

Inter Area Studies

Spring Quarter (S25)

Dept Course No., Title   Instructor
GLBLCLT (S25)103B  PALESTINIAN FLM&MDAKAMIL, M.

Emphasis/Category: Inter-Area Studies, Global Middle East
This course examines how Palestinian makers use film & digital storytelling objects to understand identity, culture, history, memory and belonging. History surveys, literature, poetry, and political documents will provide context for the film and digital media objects centered in the syllabus.
Days: MO WE  01:00-02:20 PM

GLBLCLT (S25)191  HOWNATIONSREMEMBERBIENDARRA, A.

Emphasis/Category: Locating Europes and European Colonies, Inter-Area Studies
Just as different nations have individual histories, they select and organize what they want to remember about their pasts in different and often specific ways. This seminar takes a comparative look at models of remembrance and the memorialization of specific historical and political events, mostly of the 20th century, in various countries and regions (Germany, France, Poland, and South Africa). We will ask how these events are represented in political discourse, public art works and museums, as well as in literature and film. What happens when different historical and political perspectives and memories confront each other in the public sphere? How can different groups stake their own claims for recognition and justice within a given national and political framework? What role do memorials, museums and public artworks play in the process, and how democratic are they?
Days: TU TH  11:00-12:20 PM