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Course Catalog 2008-2009 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Oberlin College Courses

 
  

  • JAPN 101 - Elementary Japanese I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD

    First-year Japanese. An introduction to basic grammar, sentence patterns and vocabulary of the modern language. Attention to the written component of modern Japanese will include the hiragana and katakana syllabaries, as well as kanji. This course is designed for students with no previous knowledge of Japanese. No auditors. See instructor for correct placement. Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Instructor: M. Aoyama, S. Gay
  

  • JAPN 102 - Elementary Japanese II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD

    First-year Japanese. Continuation of JAPN 101. An introduction to basic grammar, sentence patterns, and vocabulary of the modern language. Attention to the written component of modern Japanese will include the hiragana and katakana syllabaries, as well as kanji. No auditors. See instructor for correct placement. Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Instructor: M. Aoyama, I. Kurasawa,
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 101 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 201 - Intermediate Japanese I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD

    Second-year Japanese. Primary emphasis on the development of oral skills and secondary emphasis on reading skills. Students will continue to learn basic grammatical patterns, expand vocabulary and improve communicative skills in modern Japanese through oral-aural drills and exercises. Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Instructor: M. Aoyama, I. Kurasawa
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN l02 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 202 - Intermediate Japanese II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD

    Second-year Japanese. Continuation of JAPN 201. Primary emphasis on the development of oral skills and secondary emphasis on reading skills. Students will continue to learn basic grammatical patterns, expand vocabulary, and improve communicative skills in modern Japanese through oral-aural drills and exercises. Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Instructor: M. Aoyama, A. Sherif
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 201 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 301 - Japanese Reading and Conversation I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    Third-year Japanese. This course seeks to reinforce the vocabulary and grammatical patterns learned in the first two years and to improve speaking and reading skills through task-oriented conversational practices, reading practices and group discussion. Conducted in Japanese.
    Instructor: I. Kurasawa, A. Harada
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 202 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 302 - Japanese Reading and Conversation II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    Third-year Japanese. Continuation of JAPN 301. This course seeks to reinforce the vocabulary and grammatical patterns learned in the first two years and to improve speaking and reading skills through task-oriented conversational practices, reading practices, and group discussion. Conducted in Japanese.
    Instructor: A. Harada
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 301 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 401 - Advanced Japanese I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    Fourth-year Japanese. This course is intended primarily for students who have completed a period of study in Japan. It seeks to further improve speaking, reading, and writing skills through the use of authentic reading materials, group discussion, and writing exercises. Materials are taken from modern literary works. Conducted in Japanese.
    Instructor: A. Sherif
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 302 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 402 - Advanced Japanese II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    Fourth-year Japanese. This course is intended primarily for students who have completed a period of study in Japan. It seeks to further improve speaking, reading, and writing skills through the use of authentic reading materials, group discussion, and writing exercises. Readings are taken from newspapers, magazines, and other media. Conducted in Japanese.
    Instructor: S. Gay
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 401 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 451 - Readings in Japanese Sources


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    Fifth-year Japanese. This course is designed for students who have completed four levels of Japanese language or the equivalent. Conducted in Japanese.
    Instructor: A. Harada
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 402 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 500 - Capstone Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0 hours
    Attribute: 0HU

    Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: S. Gay, I. Kurasawa, A. Sherif
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading only.
  

  • JAPN 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU, CD

    Independent study of a Japanese subject beyond the range of catalog course offerings. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: S. Gay, A. Harada, I. Kurasawa, A. Sherif,
  

  • JAZZ 100 - Jazz Aural Skills


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A one-semester course in aural perception devoted to the study of rhythm, scales, melody, harmony, and forms idiomatic to jazz, through sight singing, dictation, and programmed instruction. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: R. Ferrazza
    Prerequisites & Notes
    May be taken concurrently with MUTH 101 (Aural Skills I)
  

  • JAZZ 110 - Jazz Keyboard


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Designed for musicians whose major instrument is other than piano. Content includes chord symbol interpretation, cycles, sequences, turnarounds, and elementary improvisational concepts. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 8.
    Instructor: D. Wall
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: piano proficiency, which may be satisfied either by successful completion of two semesters of APST 110-111 (Piano Class) or by audition for waiver.
  

  • JAZZ 120 - Jazz Theory


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Designed to acquaint students with rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and structural aspects of improvised music, including chord/scale relationships, common chord progressions, chord voicing and harmonization, chord substitution and reharmonizations, melodic transformation, and modal mixture and chromaticism. Emphasis will be placed on the development of analytical and writing skills within the context of such forms as the blues and song forms. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: R. Ferrazza
  

  • JAZZ 121 - Jazz Theory


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Designed to acquaint students with rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and structural aspects of improvised music, including chord/scale relationships, common chord progressions, chord voicing and harmonization, chord substitution and reharmonizations, melodic transformation, and modal mixture and chromaticism. Emphasis will be placed on the development of analytical and writing skills within the context of such forms as the blues and song forms. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: R. Ferrazza
  

  • JAZZ 130 - Basic Arranging/Composition Techniques


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Designed to develop writing and arranging skills for various instrumental/vocal combinations. The course will include jazz chord symbology and terminology and basic voicings and scoring methods for brass, reeds, and rhythm instruments. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 132. JAZZ 130 is prerequisite to JAZZ 131.
    Not intended for Jazz Composition majors.
    Alternates with JAZZ 160, 161.
  

  • JAZZ 131 - Basic Arranging/Composition Techniques


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Designed to develop writing and arranging skills for various instrumental/vocal combinations. The course will include jazz chord symbology and terminology, basic voicings and scoring methods for brass, reeds, and rhythm instruments. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Not intended for Jazz Composition majors
    Alternates with JAZZ 160, 161
    Prerequisite: MUTH 132. JAZZ 130 is prerequisite to JAZZ 131
  

  • JAZZ 150 - Jazz Improvisation I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A course in the technique and performance practice of jazz improvisation, covering the period 1935-60. The course includes historical investigation, transcriptions, aural analysis, rhythmic, harmonic and melodic technical studies and repertoire development. Additional outside listening is required. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: D. Wall
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Proficiency on a musical instrument; knowledge of scales, key signatures, intervals, and chords.
    Admission by audition.
    Required ensemble affiliation.
  

  • JAZZ 151 - Jazz Improvisation II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A course in the technique and performance practice of jazz improvisation, covering the period 1935-60. The course includes historical investigation, transcriptions, aural analysis, rhythmic, harmonic and melodic technical studies, and repertoire development. Additional outside listening is required. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: P. Dominguez
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Proficiency on a musical instrument; knowledge of scales, key signatures, intervals, and chords.
    Admission by audition.
    Required ensemble affiliation.
  

  • JAZZ 250 - Advanced Jazz Improvisation III


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A continuation of concepts introduced in JAZZ 150, 151 (Jazz Improvisation) and an introduction to more recent improvisational concepts such as absence of a pulse, panmeter and polymeter. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: M. Belgrave
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAZZ 150, 151 (Jazz Improvisation.)
  

  • JAZZ 251 - Advanced Jazz Improvisation IV


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A continuation of concepts introduced in JAZZ 150, 151 (Jazz Improvisation) and an introduction to more recent improvisational concepts such as absence of a pulse, panmeter and polymeter. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: M. Belgrave
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAZZ 150, 151 (Jazz Improvisation).
  

  • JAZZ 290 - Introduction to African American Music


    Next Offered: [2009-2010]
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: CD

    The first semester of a one-year survey of musical styles and forms cultivated by African Americans. First semester includes West African music and West African continuity in the American, early African American instrumental-vocal forms, and the social implications of African American music. Second semester includes later instrumental and vocal music (jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, soul, etc.) and important composers and performers of works in extended forms. Enrollment Limit: 50.
    Instructor: W. Logan

    Prerequisites & Notes

    Offered alternate years.




    Cross List Information
    Cross-listed with AAST 171 and MHST 290.
  

  • JAZZ 291 - Introduction to African American Music


    Next Offered: [2009-2010]
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    The second semester of a one-year survey of musical styles and forms cultivated by African Americans. First semester includes West African music and West African continuity in the American, early African American instrumental-vocal forms, and the social implications of African American music. Second semester includes later instrumental and vocal music (jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, soul, etc.) and important composers and performers of works in extended forms. Enrollment Limit: 50.
    Instructor: W. Logan

    Prerequisites & Notes

    Offered alternate years.
    Cross List Information
    Cross-listed with AAST 172 and MHST 291.
  

  • JAZZ 380 - Special Topic: The Jazz Avant Garde


    Next Offered: [TBD]
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 to 3 hours
    A study of post-bebop projections in American improvised music, beginning with the first sustained developments and reactions to metrically and harmonically confined styles. The course will focus on the philosophical bases of this music (the so-called: “new thing,” avantgarde jazz, “creative music,” etc.), the emergence of new forms, musical content (and the implications for newer improvisational resources and approaches), the changed (and the changing) contexts in which this music was/is performed, and important practitioners and their music.
    Instructor: W. Logan
    Prerequisites & Notes

    Prerequisite: JAZZ 291. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
  

  • JAZZ 700 - Jazz Ensemble—Large Group


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    The ensemble performs a variety of large ensemble literature ranging from the music of Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington to the master composers of the present. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 22.
    Instructor: W. Logan

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission by audition.
  

  • JAZZ 803 - Jazz Ensemble—Small Group


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Groups of 4-9 players. Emphasis will be placed on the performance of a variety of literature and may include writing transcriptions, arrangements and compositions. Attendance at the Jazz Forums and 2 one-hour rehearsals (one with the faculty instructor) a week are required. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Recommended to be taken concurrently with JAZZ 150, 151.
  

  • JWST 101 - Modern Hebrew I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    This is a course in modern, conversational Hebrew, geared to beginners. It emphasizes basic vocabulary, grammar, and idiomatic expression in interactive classroom activities and through assigned exercises to develop students’ aural and reading comprehension and basic spoken expression. Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: S. Yungster
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Registration open but admission and placement determined by the instructor.
  

  • JWST 102 - Modern Hebrew II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    Modern, conversational Hebrew geared to upper level beginners who have successfully completed Hebrew 101 or its equivalent. Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Instructor: S. Yungster
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: Registration open but admission and placement determined by the instructor.
  

  • JWST 131 - Jewish History from Biblical Antiquity to 1492


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR

    Survey of Jewish history from biblical antiquity through the medieval period in the middle East, Christian and Islamic realms. Topics include:   biblical society, ideas and literature; Jewish society under Hellenistic and Roman rule in Judea; Jewish sects of the Second Temple period, including early Christianity; emergence and development of rabbinic Judaism; Jewish attitudes to non-Jews and State authorities and about loss of sovereignty and exile; Christianity and Islam and the Jews; community and family; theological and popular Jew-hatred and Jewish responses to persecution.  Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with HIST 131.
  

  • JWST 132 - Jewish History from the Spanish Expulsion to the Present


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: CD, 3SS, WR

    Survey of Jewish history, 1492-present, studying Jewish modernity in Europe, the US, and Middle East. Topics include the demise of traditional society and emerging modernity in the experience of Marranos, mystics, messiahs, religious reformers and secular Jews; the struggle for legal equality, economic betterment and social acceptance; family and community; acculturation, assimilation and cultural revival; modern Jew-hatred and Jewish responses; Zionism; Jewish socialism; the Shoah; founding of Israel.  Enrollment limit: 40.
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information
    The course is cross-listed with HIST 132.
  

  • JWST 150 - Introduction to Judaism


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    A theoretical introduction to Judaism as a religious system. Special attention will be paid to the historical development of the religion through interpretation of traditional texts and ritual practices. Enrollment limit: 40.
    Instructor: A. Socher
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with RELG 250.
  

  • JWST 151 - Modern Jewish Thought


    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD, WR

    An interpretive study of key figures and movements in modern Jewish thought, from the 17th to the 20th century. Central topics to be examined include the ideologies of the modern movements (Reform, Conservative, Orthodox), challenges to the veracity of biblical texts, authority of rabbinic tradition, and the place of the Jew and Judaism in an enlightened secular society. Thinkers to be studied include Spinoza, Mendelssohn, the Baal Shem Tov, Marx, Herzl, Kook, Buber, Soloveitchik and Heschel. Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: A. Socher
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Indentical to RELG 251.

     
  

  • JWST 152 - Medieval Jewish Thought: Law, Mysticism, and Philosophy


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR

    An interpretive study of main trends in Jewish thought, from the 9th through the 16th centuries. The course will cover post-talmudic developments in Halacha (Jewish law); biblical exegesis; the competing theological systems of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) and philosophical rationalism; and inter-religious influence and polemics. Prerequisites and Notes: Special attention will be paid throughout the course to the interpretation of ritual.
    Instructor: A. Socher
    Cross List Information
    Cross-listed with RELG 252.
  

  • JWST 197 - The Islamic Remaking of Judaism: 622-1258


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 HU

    New Course Added 01.16.2009.

    The Jewish encounter with Islam during the medieval period engendered profound political, intellectual and spiritual transformations. As avid readers of Arabic and Islamic intellectual literature and as witnesses to new models of power and government, Jews engaged with contemporary trends to produce new types of works (philosophical, theological, exegetical, mystical, poetic, polemical) that would forever change the nature and course of Judaism. In this minicourse, we will survey Jewish political and intellectual life in the Islamic world from the foundation of Islam (622) to the fall of the Abbasid Empire (1258). This is a mini-course meeting Sun., Mar. 1, 2-4:30 pm and 7-9:30 pm; and from Monday, Mar. 2 through Thurs., Mar. 5, from 7 - 9:30 pm.
    Instructor: J. Decter
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Pass/No Pass Grading only.
  

  • JWST 202 - The Nature of Suffering: The Book of Job and its History of Interpretation


    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD, WR

    This course will focus on the biblical book of Job as a piece of ancient religious literature that has fostered centuries of theological and existential questioning on the nature of divine justice and activity in the world, the meaning of suffering, and the existence of evil. The course will first consider Job in its ancient Israelite context as it spoke to a conquered and exiled “people of God.” Secondarily, the course will introduce Jewish and Christian interpretations of the book as these interpretations evolved through history addressing different contexts of human alienation and suffering. Enrollment Limit: 35.
    Instructor: C. Chapman
    Prerequisites & Notes

     
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with RELG 202.
  

  • JWST 205 - Hebrew Bible in its Near Eastern Context


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    An introduction to the literature, religion, and history of ancient Israel as contained within the Hebrew Bible and to the methods of interpretation used by modern scholars to understand this ancient text. Biblical writings will be studied within the context of other ancient Near Eastern texts.  Thematic emphases include the emergence of monotheism, the conceptualization of  the divine/human relationship, the mediation of priest, prophet and king, and issues of canon. No previous knowledge of the Hebrew Bible is assumed.  Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Instructor: C. Chapman
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with RELG 205.
  

  • JWST 208 - New Testament and Christian Origins


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU

    An introduction to the academic study of the New Testament in its ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts. This course explores early Christian writings as Jewish sectarian literature and as early Christian foundational scripture. Thematic emphases include the diversity of early Christian writings, Christianity within first century Judaisms, the evolution of the Jesus narrative, and the rise of institutional Christianity. No previous knowledge of the New Testament is assumed. Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Instructor: C. Chapman
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with RELG 208
  

  • JWST 234 - Good and Evil: Ethics and Decision Making in the Holocaust


    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 to 4 Hours
    Attribute: 3 to 4 SS, CD, WR

    This course focuses on the decision making of five groups: German civilians, Jews, allies, churches, rescuers, and bystanders during the Nazi era; on the often unconscious value judgments that we bring to the study of this subject; and the basis for expectation that individuals, groups, or governments behave ethically in extreme situations. Aside from readings, some films and possible lectures by outside specialists will be required. Previous historical study of the Holocaust strongly recommended. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Prerequisites & Notes

    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with HIST 234.
  

  • JWST 235 - Inside the Pale: East European Jewry: 1772-1939


    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: f
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR

    Explores the social, cultural and political history of  what was the world’s largest Jewish population, and the explosive creativity which was its mark.  Topics include religious and political movements (Haskalah/ enlightenment; Hasidism; Mitnagdism; Musar; forms of Zionism and other kinds of Jewish nationalism; Jewish socialism and secularism); government policy and Jewish responses; the birth of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature; Jewish music and cinema; demographic and economic change; Jew-hatred and Jewish responses, from 1772 - to the eve of  World War II.   Enrollment Limit:  40.
    Instructor: Ms. Magnus
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-referenced with HIST 235.
  

  • JWST 237 - Women & Gender in Jewish Society, Antiquity to Modernity


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR

    Topics in Jewish women’s history and the construction of gender in Jewish society from Graeco-Roman antiquity to the 20th century. Studies “normative” constructions of women’s roles, idealized constructions of Jewish maleness and femaleness, and realities of gendered behavior. Using rabbinic and communal materials, women’s letters, memoirs and rituals, explores family and power relations between women and men; women’s economic functions and power; gender and religion; transformation of roles in modernity; gendered responses to persecution; feminism. Enrollment limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with HIST 237.
  

  • JWST 258 - Introduction to the Talmud: Argument and Interpretation


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR

    The Talmud is a sprawling multi-volume compendium of rigorous legal argument, ingenious and fanciful biblical interpretations, rabbinic anecdotes, jokes, and deep moral and theological investigations. Compiled between 200 and 600 CE, it has been the most important generative force in Jewish religion and culture for the following two millennia. Exemplary texts will be studied (in English translation) with an emphasis on developing students’ skills in close reading and critical discussion. Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: A. Socher
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with RELG 258
  

  • JWST 303 - Anthropological Approaches to the Study of the Bible: Kinship and the Family in Ancient Israel


    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, WR

    This course examines the structure and function of the kinship unit known as the “House of the Father” in the Hebrew Bible. The function of the “natal family” or “House of the Mother” will also be identified and explored. Modern ethnographic studies of kinship will provide a comparative framework for conceptualizing the Israelite family. Topics include: patterns for brokering marriages, patterns of inheritance, perceptions of intimacy, the practice of blood vengeance, royal succession, and evidence for household religion. Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: C. Chapman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: JWST 205 or 208 and consent of instructor required.

    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with RELG 303
  

  • JWST 307 - Seminar: Jewish Memoirs & Memory: Writing the Self in Jewish Society


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    GSFS
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-4 hours
    Attribute: 2-4SS, CD, WR

    Explores cultivation of memory in Jewish tradition and the emergence of a genre of writing about the self in a culture that emphasizes the collectivity. Readings about Jewish memory and writing and selected memoirs from early Jewish modernity to the present, looking at motivation for writing; intended and actual audience; the role of gender and class in memory and writing; the relationship between personal and collective identity and experience; and memoirs as sources of Jewish history.  Enrollment Limit 15.
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites and Notes: prior study of Jewish history (HIST 131 or 132 or equivalent) recommended.  Consent of instructor required.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with HIST 307.
  

  • JWST 309 - Seminar: Modern Jewish Identity


    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 to 4 Hours
    Attribute: 3 to 4 SS, CD, WR

    This course studies ways that Jews redefined Jewish identity after the breakdown of the traditional, autonomous Jewish community and the creation of entirely new sites of Jewish settlement, especially in the United States, made affiliation and the content of Jewishness subjective and extremely varied. Why and how did Jews choose Jewish identity in these circumstances, and what new forms did identity assume? Studies pressures on Jews to renounce or limit Jewishness, social and ideological forces that supported identity formation, class and gender as variables, and selected cases of individual and group expression. Consent of the instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with HIST 309.
  

  • JWST 321 - Unspeakable–Representing the Holocaust


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD, WR

    This course investigates a broad range of testimonial, literary, visual, philosophical and historiographical materials pertaining to the question of how postwar Germany deals, and ought to deal, with the Nazi past. Situated at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics, memory and history, the Holocaust has emerged as a critical paradigm of postmodernity because it raises complex ethical and representational issues concerning the limits of art and writing in the face of the alleged unspeakability and incommensurability of Auschwitz. Topics include: theories of violence, authority, obedience, conformity, testimony, trauma, memory, survival, guilt, shame, the history of antisemitism, assimilation and exclusion, and the uniqueness of the Holocaust.
    Instructor: S. Boos
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with GERM 321
  

  • JWST 353 - Moses Maimonides: Philosophy and Law


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR

    Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) is the pivotal thinker of the Jewish middle ages. He is the author of the most influential work of Jewish philosophy, The Guide of the Perplexed, and the most comprehensive code of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah. These works have engendered both controversy and commentary from the 12th century through the 20th century. This seminar will focus on selected Maimonidean texts together with classical commentaries and modern scholarship. Enrollment limit: 12.
    Instructor: A. Socher
    Prerequisites & Notes
    All readings in English.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with RELG 353
  

  • JWST 500 - Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3HU, CD

    Details about JWST Honors are in the front matter of this catalog and on the JWST website. Consent of the Program chair and instructor is required.
    Instructor: C. Chapman, S. Magnus, A. Socher
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Students wishing to do Honors in Jewish Studies during their final year should consult their Major Advisor and/or JWST Program Chair, submitting a Proposal by the established deadline in the year prior to proposed Honors work.
  

  • JWST 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3HU, CD

    Private Reading. Signed permission of the instructor is required.
    Instructor: C. Chapman, S. Magnus, A. Socher, S. Yungster
  

  • LANG 100 - English Diction


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A study of English language sounds as they relate to singing and speaking with emphasis on the fundamentals of phonetics and sound production. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: D. Mahy
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course is a prerequisite for all other diction courses.
    Preference is given to students for whom this course is a requirement.
  

  • LANG 101 - Italian Diction


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    The fundamentals of phonetics and sound production as applied to singing and speaking in Italian. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: S. Champagne
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: LANG 100 (English Diction), one semester of Elementary Italian or equivalent.
  

  • LANG 200 - German Diction


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    The fundamentals of phonetics and sound production as applied to singing and speaking in German. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: D. Mahy
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: LANG 100 (English Diction), one semester of German or equivalent.
  

  • LANG 201 - French Diction


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    The fundamentals of phonetics and sound production as applied to singing and speaking in French. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: D. Mahy
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: LANG 100 (English Diction), one semester of French or equivalent.
  

  • LATN 101 - Elementary Latin


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    The essentials of the Latin language, with emphasis on reading. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: B. Lee
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course is intended for students with no previous training in Latin.
  

  • LATN 102 - Introduction to Latin Prose


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    Continuation of LATN 101. Completion of the study of the essentials of Latin grammar and reading of a variety of Latin prose, such as the younger Pliny?s account of the eruption of Vesuvius, and selections from the letters of Abelhard and Heloise and the Carmina Burana. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: B. Lee
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: LATN 101 or equivalent.
  

  • LATN 201 - Introduction to Latin Literature: Vergil’s Aeneid


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    A careful reading selected books of the Aeneid, with attention to stylistic and literary issues. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: B. Lee
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: LATN 102 or equivalent.
  

  • LATN 202 - Cicero in Speech and Letters


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    Introduction to the prose of Rome’s premier oratorical stylist, Cicero. We will read sections of Cicero’s defense of Caelius, before turning to a selection of his collected letters. Emphasis on reading Latin prose, with a review of advanced grammar. We will also study the historical background of the late Republic, and will read a few poems of Catullus in the context of the Pro Caelio. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: T. Van Nortwick
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: LATN 201 or equivalent.
  

  • LATN 307 - The Roman Historians


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU

    Study of Sallust and Tacitus, as well as other topics in Roman history or historiography. We will examine the artistic and philosophical elements of the text as products of the social and political history of the Late Republic and the Flavian period.
    Instructor: A. Wilburn
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or equivalent.
  

  • LATN 308 - Lucan and Seneca


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD

    In this course we will read Latin prose and poetry from the Neronian period, with a particular emphasis on Lucan’s radical historical Epic, the Pharsalia. We will pay attention to the development of the epic form in a time of repression, poetic technique during the “silver age” of Latin poetry, and to the relation of art to politics. We will read some of the poetry and prose of Seneca, who was Lucan’s uncle and served as an advisor to Nero. We will read and evaluate second scholarship on both authors.
    Instructor: K. Ormand
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or equivalent.
  

  • LATN 309 - Petronius and Apuleius: The Latin Novel


    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD

    Study in Latin of the novels of Petronius and Apuleius. Special attention to theoretical and critical issues regarding the genre of the novel, as raised in these works and in the secondary literature. Attention also to the literary functions of sexuality, ethnicity and political identity in these novels. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: B. Lee
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: LATN 202 or equivalent.
  

  • LATN 320 - The End of the Aeneid


    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD

    Reading and discussion of selections from the last six books of Virgil’s Aeneid. Special attention to the place of the poem in the Augustan art and politics, and in the genre of western heroic literature. Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Instructor: T. Van Nortwick
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Latin 202 or equivalent.
  

  • LATN 501 - Senior Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-6 hours
    Attribute: 3-6HU

    Intensive work on a topic selected in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a presentation of a paper or other project. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: B. Lee, K. Ormand, J. Thomas, T. Van Nortwick, A. Wilburn
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Senior major standing and invitation of the department.
  

  • LATN 502 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-6 hours
    Attribute: 3-6HU

    Intensive work on a topic selected in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a presentation of a paper or other project. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: B. Lee, K. Ormand, J. Thomas, T. Van Nortwick, A. Wilburn
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Senior major standing and invitation of the department.
  

  • LATN 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU

    Signed permission of the instructor is required.
    Instructor: B. Lee, K. Ormand, J. Thomas, T. Van Nortwick, A. Wilburn
  

  • LATS 401 - Honors Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 to 4 Hours
    Attribute: 3 to 4 EX

    Students interested in pursuing Honors in this interdisciplinary major should consult the Chair of the Latin American Studies Committee in their sixth semester. Honors work normally consists of the preparation of a thesis under faculty supervision. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: S. Volk
  

  • LATS 402 - Honors Project


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 to 4 Hours
    Attribute: 3 to 4 EX

    Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: S. Volk
  

  • LATS 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): .5 to 3 Hours
    Attribute: .5 to 3 EX

    Independent study of a subject beyond the range of catalog course offerings. Signed permission of instructor required.
    Instructor: A. Cara, S. Faber, G. Gill, K.Mani, E. Martinez-Tapia, J. Millette, P. O’Connor, V. Perez-de Leon, B. Pineda, S. Volk(first semester only)
  

  • LOND 903 - Introduction to Shakespeare


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    English
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU

    This course will study representative plays from each period of Shakespeare’s career, including histories, tragedies and comedies. Through close analysis of these plays both on the page and on the stage the course develops an appreciation of the richness of Shakespeare’s theatrical art, in its powerful marriage of words and images. We will attend productions of Shakespeare both in Stratford and in London, including at the newly built replica of the Globe in Southwark.
    Instructor: D. Vinter
  

  • LOND 904 - Principles of Ethno-National Conflicts & Their Management


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Politics
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: 2 SS

    This course focuses on devices used for the regulation of national and ethnic conflicts and the tools available to states and policy makers to manage conflict. It examines cases of divided societies such as India, South Africa, Lebanon and Yugoslavia. It divides conflict management into territorial devices repressive and accommodation incorporation, violence, and solutions within democracies. Instruction and discussion occurs in the classroom as well as out in London, at various museums, communities, and sites.

     
    Instructor: J. Fuzesi
    Prerequisites & Notes

     

     
  

  • LOND 905 - British Theater in Performance


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: 2 HU

    This course explores the inner workings of the elements that comprise the professional theatre in Britain through a careful examination of contemporary and classic plays in actual performance.

     
    Instructor: S. Fox
  

  • LOND 906 - Modern Literature in Place: Modern Irish Literature


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU

    This course includes fiction, poetry and drama by such authors as W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. It introduces the student to the turbulent history of modern Ireland, considering how writers foster, invent, reinvent and critique ideas of Irish national, cultural and religious identity. It will also look at how the authors engage with the wider modern human experience. We will see Irish plays and hear Irish music in London, and take a field trip to the Republic of Ireland.
    Instructor: D. Vinter
  

  • LOND 907 - A History of London


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: 2 SS

    This course explores the history of London from its Roman origins to the present day and examines how royalty, trade, religion and transport have shaped the city’s pattern of growth over 2,000 years. Course work consists of weekly lectures, guided walks and discussions of readings from contemporary sources. Students are given an opportunity to investigate an aspect of London history of particular interest to them.

     
    Instructor:

    Prerequisites & Notes

    Required for all Oberlin students.
  

  • LOND 908 - The London Stage


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU

    This course aims to expose students to contemporary British theatre in all its variety. It will encourage critical thinking about different ways that drama may present human beings in significant action and about different ways that live performance may generate imaginative responses. At its heart will be discussion of productions in the current London repertory, with plays ranging from classical to contemporary, and venues including subsidized, commercial and fringe theatres.
    Instructor: D. Vinter
  

  • LOND 909 - Museums in Contemporary Society


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS

    This course examines museums as repositories of cultural and historical knowledge as well as institutions of social political power.  Readings will focus on issues such as the ownership of objects and their value, war and remembrance, history and cultural memory, racial and national identity, institutions and their communities, the poetics and politics of display, culture wars over scientific knowledge, and new trends in entertainment and tourism.  We will, of course, visit many museums.
    Instructor: S. Strauber
  

  • LOND 910 - London Internship Seminar


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: 2 EX

    Class discussions and assignments focus on understanding and interpreting internship experiences in academic perspective.
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course is required for participation in an internship.
  

  • LOND 911 - London Program Internship


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 EX

    Students work at internship sites in London. Learning contracts must be approved by the instructor, the internship coordinator, and the work-site supervisor.
  

  • LOND 912 - Semiotic City: Reading the Signs, Learning London


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS

    Exploring London using theories of mental maps (in which “place legibility” can be read from perceptions of urbanscapes) and semiotic textual readings (the relationship among actions and objects as signs and systems of signs), we draw on students’ experiences. Students also interview urban residents and tourists. We ask whether mental maps and textual readings are shared or largely idiosyncratic. If shared, we will attempt to identify the cultural schemas that inform them.
    Instructor: D. Calkins
  

  • LOND 913 - Urban Ethnographic Research


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD

    Use of sociological and anthropological methods, including interviews, observations, participant observation, and focus groups, to learn the variety of meanings and understandings that information diverse individuals, communities, and organizations in London.  Each student selects his or her own projects, focusing on either a museum, neighborhood or organization. 
    Instructor: D. Caulkins
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite:  LOND 904, 909, 930, or 912.
  

  • LOND 930 - Globalization: The View from London


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    POLT
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS

    We will begin with competing theoretical perspectives on globalization, and then investigate issues such as British controversies over globalizations’s impact on labor, the environment, state sovereignty and culture. We will use local resources such as the City of London (London’s financial center and long the linchpin of Britain’s global role); London’s many post-colonial diasporas and the cultural hybrids they have created; and even the English Premier (soccer) League as the world’s most internationalized sports league.
    Instructor: S. Crowley
  

  • LOND 931 - The UK and the EU


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    POLT
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS

    This course examines the evolution of the EU, its current institutions, and conflicts in Britain over EU policy, including the decision to retain the pound, Britain’s neo-liberal policies, the “democracy deficit” in the EU, and unease over recent EU expansion and the waves of immigration if has generated. We will also explore Britain’s “Atlanticist” (pro0US) foreign policy, which has been at odds with core EU members who call for a more independent European foreign policy.
    Instructor: S. Crowley
  

  • LOND 932 - The Place of “Islam” in British Discourses of Multiculturalism and Immigrant Identity


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD

    Through select contemporary literary texts and relevant theoretical/critical essays, this course will examine how “Islam” is positioned within dominant (white) discourses of multiculturalism and immigrant identity in present-day Britain. We will examine The Satanic Verses, My Son the Fanatic, White Teeth, Brick Lane, and Maps for Lost Lovers. With Satanic Verses as our paradigmatic text, we will also examine some of the significant debates and controversies surrounding it as they relate to our subject. The course will be reading and writing intensive and require significant student engagement.
    Instructor: A. Needham
  

  • LOND 933 - Colonialism’s Impact on the Shaping of English National Identity


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 6 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, 3SS, CD

    This course will critically examine the way in which the interaction between England and its colonial “peripheries” – the Caribbean and Africa, the Indian subcontinent and the Far East –ultimately helped shape national English identity. Students will explore the memories, myths, and histories underwriting dominant representations of English identity as well as those invoked by minority populations that work their way into, contest, or modify, standard narratives. We will explore greater London as a site in which English identity was formed and contested.
    Instructor: A. Needham, S. Volk
  

  • LOND 934 - Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 6 Hours
    Attribute: 6SS

    Every museum is a narrative, every visit to a museum a chance to explore the ways that narrative shapes and reflects how we think about the past and the present, underlying ideologies that represent or challenge dominant thought, and assumptions about how we learn. This course is intended for students interested in the myriad ways we look at and conserve the past via the organization of material culture and what that reflects about contemporary thought and social and political practice. London is a city of museums, and the class will visit a number of museums each week and will meet with curators, education and outreach directors, and academics involved in museum studies.
    Instructor: S. Volk
  

  • LOND 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: 2 SS

    Private readings in London will enable you to undertake additional research or to work on a series of essays or journals treating your evolving response to this great city. Students may decide to keep a theatre journal, write about some aspect of contemporary London, or explore a topic using one or more of the city museums. Signed permission of instructor required.

     
    Instructor: T.S. McMillin
    Prerequisites & Notes
     

     
  

  • LRNS 099 - Basic Mathematics


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module, Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 0-1 hours
    Attribute: 0-1EX

    This course offers a review of the fundamentals of mathematics including percents, radicals, and operations with real numbers. This course may be taken to enhance mathematical skills and understanding or to support the mathematical concepts necessary in a natural or social science course. The variable credit option is flexible to permit registration for the module even though maximum credit hours have been reached or to allow for support in Calculus 131, 132, or 133 without additional credit. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: K. Knight
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading if registered.
  

  • LRNS 100 - Effective Learning Strategies


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2EX

    Topics will include college study and reading strategies. Students will complete their own self-managed learning study, and they will have opportunities to practice reading strategies with short, personal essays on education, some written by first-generation college students. This course is primarily intended for first-year students. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: M. Ballard
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites and Notes Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading.
  

  • LRNS 101 - Effective Study Strategies


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module, Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1EX

    Topics include: assessing learning styles, managing time, reading and taking notes, preparing for exams and writing papers. Development and implementation of individualized strategies are emphasized. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: M. Ballard
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: P/NP or CR/NE grading. This course is appropriate for both first-year and upper-level students.
  

  • LRNS 102 - Effective Reading Strategies


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Module, Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1EX

    Topics include: establishing a purpose for reading, previewing, and developing flexible modes for academic reading (e.g., rapid reading and critical reading).  Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: M. Ballard
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: P/NP or CR/NE grading. Appropriate for first-year as well as upper-level students. This course is designed to be taken concurrently with at least one academic course that requires a substantial amount of reading.
  

  • LRNS 105 - Mastering Skills for Algebra


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1EX

    Emphasis will be on standard approaches to the symbols, rules and patterns for using the language of algebra in computational problem solving as well as linear and quadratic equations and inequalities, polynomials, exponents, functions and graphs. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: K. Knight
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: P/NP or CR/NE grading. Appropriate for both first-year and upper-level students who seek to improve their coursework in mathematics or natural sciences by strengthening algebra skills.
  

  • LRNS 106 - Mastering Skills for Trigonometry


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1EX

    Standard approaches to trigonometric functions, properties, angles, arcs, graphs, identities, and conditional equations. Recommended for students who seek to improve their coursework in mathematics or natural sciences by strengthening their understanding of trigonometry. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: K. Knight
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading.
  

  • LRNS 107 - Mastering Quantitative Skills for the Natural Sciences


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1EX

    A course to assist students in acquiring computational skills essential to the mathematics required for future coursework in the natural sciences. Symbols, notation, rules of operations, decision-making, problem solving will be emphasized. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: K. Knight
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Appropriate for first-year students who wish to improve their use of mathematics. Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading.
  

  • LRNS 108 - Mastering Quantitative Skills for the Social Sciences


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1EX

    Standard approaches for organizing information and examining relationships within data samples. Linear equations, scatter plots, correlation, basic statistics, hypothesis, probability, and decision-making will be emphasized. Appropriate for both first-year and upper-level students who desire an introductory course to statistics. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: K. Knight
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading.
  

  • LRNS 109 - Communications Skills I


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1EX

    An examination of effective techniques of communication, both in groups and in peer relationships, including listening skills, self-disclosure, body language and assertiveness. Additional topics include interpersonal communication, social skills and personal wellness. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: L. Flood
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading.
  

  • LRNS 110 - English as a Second Language I (Elementary)


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3EX

    An intensive course designed for new students who are non-native speakers of English and whose experience with the English language is limited. The four language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) will be taught simultaneously with special emphasis on the acquisition of grammar as well as practice in speaking and writing. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: S. Miller
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites and Notes Note: Enrollment depends on placement test scores.
  

  • LRNS 111 - English as a Second Language II (Intermediate)


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3EX

    An intensive course designed to build upon skills developed in LRNS 110 and to increase mastery of the basic language skills at the intermediate and upper-intermediate levels. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: R. Arbogast
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: LRNS 110 or qualification by placement test.
  

  • LRNS 112 - English as a Second Language III (Advanced)


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3EX

    An intensive course designed for the advanced student of English as a second language to increase fluency, build rich vocabulary, and practice the use and understanding of idiomatic English. This course will focus on the use of English for academic purposes and academic writing in particular. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: R. Arbogast
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: LRNS 111 or qualification by placement test.
  

  • LRNS 113 - Teaching and Tutoring Quantitative Skills


    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 EX

    A course designed to explore ideas, pedagogical techniques, and problems that arise in helping students (tutees) gain a conceptual understanding and procedural fluency in basic mathematics. This course is appropriate for anyone interested in peer tutoring for QP courses, teaching or tutoring elementary and secondary mathematics, or gaining insight into one’s own personal conceptions (and misconceptions) about mathematics. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: K. Knight
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading.
  

  • LRNS 114 - Communication Skills II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1EX

    A course designed to provide practical experience in audience analysis, organization and dissemination of information, evidence gathering, critical listening, and speech delivery. The underlying philosophy of this course is that speech is a primary vehicle for self-presentation and social interchange in which speech skills are central to personal and social effectiveness. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: L. Flood
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading. This course is designed to build upon skills developed in LRNS 109.
  

  • LRNS 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0-3 hours
    Attribute: 0-3EX

    Signed permission of the instructor is required.
    Instructor: M. Ballard, J. Boomer, L. Flood, L. Gates, K. Grim, K. Jackson Davidson, K. Knight, C. Sedgwick
  

  • MATH 030 - Topics in Contemporary Mathematics


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F

    The interaction of mathematics with the social sciences is the central theme. Topics are drawn from: graph theory, voting systems, discrete models, coding theory, exploratory data analysis, and combinatorics. Applications are given to social choice, decision-making, management and ecological modeling. Enrollment limit: 30.
    Instructor: M. Henle, M. Raney, A. Sinko
    Prerequisites & Notes

    Prerequisites and notes: A working knowledge of elementary algebra and geometry. Note: This course does not count toward a major in Mathematics. (Not open to any student who has received credit for a mathematics course numbered 131 or higher). It is intended for students who have not satisfied the quantitative proficiency requirement.
  

  • MATH 050 - Dots, Lines & Coin Flips


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F

    An introduction to two important ways of describing the world mathematically. Graphs model maps and networks—road, telephone, computer, social. Probability theory describes the order that can lurk in random phenomena. Using both these tools, we will examine questions like: How random is the stock market? How tightly is the World Wide Web connected? Are there just six degrees of separation? Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: E. Wilmer
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: This course does not count toward a major in Mathematics. It is intended for students who have not satisfied the quantitative proficiency requirement.
 

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