Course Outline and Schedule


Orientation Session
Saturday, September 29, 9am-1pm (10383 Bunche Hall, 88 Kinsey Hall)

Session One
Wednesday, October 10, 8am-3pm
Morning: Theofil Ruiz, Department of History, UCLA
Coming of Age in Medieval Europe
Afternoon: Screening and discussion of the film 400 Blows. Media Lab/270 Powell Library

Session Two
Wednesday, November 14, 8am-3pm
Morning: Marianna Birnbaum, UCLA Emerita and Visiting Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Coming of Age In 20th-Century Europe: Genocide, War and Holocaust
Afternoon: Screening and discussion of the film Au Revoir les Enfants (Goodbye, Children). Media Lab/270 Powell Library

Session Three
Wednesday, December 5, 8am-3pm
Morning: Irina Gutkin, Los Angeles City College
Coming of Age in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia
Afternoon: Screening and discussion of the film Vor (The Thief). Media Lab/270 Powell Library

REQUIRED READINGS

Session 1
one of the following:
Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring
Gluckel of Hameln, The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

Session 2
one of the following:
Thea Halo, Not Even My Name: From a Death March in Turkey to a New Home
in America
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

Session 3
one of the following:
Maxim Gorky, In the World
Eduard Limonov, Memoir of a Russian Punk