Freshman Seminars

The following courses, open only to first-year students, provide small, interactive, credit-bearing contexts in which to discuss the featured films.

Spring 2009

English 24, Section 2

Ang Lee Films and James Schamus' Screenplays (1 unit, P/NP)
Professor Richard Hutson

Ethnic Studies 24, Section 2

Culture, Gender and Sexuality in Ang Lee's "Father Knows Best" Trilogy: Pushing Hands, Eat Drink Man Woman, and The Wedding Banquet (1 unit, P/NP)
Professor Sau-ling Wong

Landscape Architecture 24, Section 1

The River on Film (1 unit, P/NP)
Professor G. Mathias Kondolf

Psychology 24, Section 1

Brokeback Mountain: Psychological Study of an Ang Lee Film (1 unit, P/NP)
Professor Mary Main and Dr. Erik Hesse

Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies 24, Section 2

Kung-Fu and Cowboy Flicks Redux: Ang Lee's Films as Genre Revisionism (1 unit, P/NP)
Professor Abigail De Kosnik

Fall 2008

Anthropology 24, Section 2

The Imagined Past: Other Times in Film (1 unit, P/NP)
Professor Rosemary Joyce

Gender and Women's Studies 24, Section 1

Gender, Sexuality, and the Family in the Films of Ang Lee (1 unit, P/NP)
Professor Charis Thompson

History 24, Section 3

Chinese Movies for Domestic and American Audiences (1 unit, P/NP)
Professor Michael Nylan

Landscape Architecture 24, Section 1

The River on Film (1 unit, P/NP)
Professor G. Mathias Kondolf

Music 24, Section 1

Film & Music: Ang Lee & Tan Dun (1 unit, P/NP)
Professor Benjamin Brinner