Obsessed with film, mathematician makes movie about obsession
August 16, 2013
Ever since she was a little girl growing up in Russia, UC Berkeley mathematician Olga Holtz has been obsessed with filmmaking. …
What’s in a name? Reading Berkeley’s bilingual signs
April 17, 2013
By David Malinowski and the students of UC Berkeley’s freshman/sophomore seminar East Asian Languages 39A. Perhaps nothing visible in the streets of Berkeley seems more straightforward than the signs that name its businesses. …
UC Berkeley-conceived online tool finalist for SXSW award
March 17, 2013
ChronoZoom, a UC Berkeley-conceived online tool that organizes historical information, is presenting at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, this week as a finalist for the Interactive Educational Resource Award.
L&S ‘Big Ideas Courses’ aim to inspire faculty, students alike
November 30, 2012
What happens when you bring together some of the campus’s best professors — from completely different disciplines — one “big idea” and a room full of bright Berkeley undergraduates? That’s just what the College of Letters and Science plans to find out this spring, when it will launch five innovative
Freshman and Sophomore Seminars Celebrate Twenty Years
November 1, 2012
Twenty years ago, the campus launched the Freshman and Sophomore Seminars. Then Vice Chancellor John Heilbron remembers the occasion in this way: “The Freshman Seminars owe their existence to the combination of a good idea and a bad budgetary situation. In 1992 the University suffered deep cuts in its state
Freshman and Sophomore Seminars Turn Twenty
October 22, 2012
All members of the faculty are invited to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Freshman and Sophomore Seminars: the reception and awards ceremony (featuring the premiere of a new short video about the program) will take place on Monday, October 22, 2012, from 4:00-6:00 in the Alumni House Toll Room.
Lecture Lust: A list of famous courses at Cal: A sample of classes that students of all majors can appreciate.
August 15, 2012
Public Policy C103 “Wealth and Poverty” taught by Professor Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, is always packed with students and auditors. Reich guides the class through the factors that contribute to the gap between the rich and poor and the policies aimed at shrinking it. Many
Occupy: Observers, participants at UC Berkeley
November 27, 2011
I never intended to have the Occupy Movement become the dominant subject of my freshman seminar this term, although I see now that even absent the pepper-spraying and bloodied student foreheads, it was probably inevitable. I teach freshmen every fall, and only in the fall, because I love to encounter
College of Letters and Sciences has ‘Big Ideas’ for undergraduate education
September 14, 2011
UC Berkeley students interested in exploring the world of educational possibilities will have another door open to them — the Big Ideas course program. …
New class focuses on funding for athletics
August 28, 2011
This fall, a few faculty members will teach a freshman seminar that focuses on the priorities of UC Berkeley, specifically with regard to how much the campus should emphasize subsidizing its Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. These three faculty members created this seminar,”Priorities Under Pressure: Critical Assessment of How the University’s