May 11, 2024  
Course Catalog 2012-2013 
    
Catalog Navigation
  Catalog Home
  Using the Online Catalog to My Advantage
  About Oberlin
  >>Admission
  >>Expenses
  >>Financial Aid
  >>Academic Policies
  >>Academic Opportunities
  >>Student Life
  Oberlin College Courses Offered in 2012-13 (and planned offerings in future years)
  College of Arts and Sciences, Degree Programs and Requirements
  Interdivisional Programs/Courses
  The Double-Degree Program
  Conservatory of Music
  PRESTO
  Class Schedule Information for First Semester 2012–Meeting Times/Days/Rooms
  Class Schedule Information for Spring Semester 2013–Meeting Times/Days/Rooms
  2012-2013 Academic Calendar
  Faculty, Staff and Trustees–an updated list will be published by August 1, 2012
  My Portfolio
HELP
Course Catalog 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Oberlin College Courses Offered in 2012-13 (and planned offerings in future years)

 You may wish to consult inforamation about using the Oberlin Catalog located here: Using the Online Catalog to My Advantage 

 
  

  • AAST 072 - Blues Aesthetic: Continuity and Transformation


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    The emphasis of this course is upon the thesis that the Black or `Blues Aesthetic’ is a cultural perspective that emerges from within the experiences of Black people, facing the socio-political and economic conditions of modern and contemporary America. Our focus will be upon the traditions of African American music, literature, theater/film, and specifically the visual arts.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: J. Coleman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • AAST 101 - Introduction to the Black Experience


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    An interdisciplinary exploration of key aspects of Black history, culture, and life in Africa and the Americas. The course attempts to provide students with a fundamental intellectual understanding of the universal Black experience as it has been described and interpreted by humanists and social scientists. Included in the course will be such topics as: the African American Studies movement, the African heritage of Afro-Americans, Pan-African relations, racism and sexism, the family, the role of religion in Black life, class structure and class relations, the political economy of African American life, and Black political power.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: G. Gill, M. Gadsby
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Declared majors are given priority for this course
  

  • AAST 106 - History of Racism in the Atlantic World


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    As part of their colonial structures, Europe colonizers developed systems of racism in the Americas. The basis of racism is the assumption that as the result of biological heredity, groups of humans differ in their beliefs, behavior, and physical appearance from those in authority and are therefore inferior. This course will examine the history of the develpoment of forms of racism in the various socio-political entities in the Americas from 1492 to the early twentieth century.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: G. Gill
  

  • AAST 117 - Immigrant and Second-Generation American Narratives


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD
    This survey course treats the experiences of immigrants of color and their American-born children as central to United States literatures of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. We will learn about literary close reading and oral history by using those methods to examine themes of language, identity, place, and culture. Our texts will include novels, autobiographies, and semi-autobiographical writing about immigrant families from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: A. Ofori-Mensa
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CAST 117
  

  • AAST 118 - Ritual and Performance I: The World According to the Yoruba and their Descendants in the New World


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    This course will explore religious phenomena, performance, and artistic agency of the Yoruba and their descendants. We will look at Yoruba syncretic beliefs in the New World as well as in the Old World in relation to ritual secrets and choices for artistic representation in the performance arena. After reading and discussion of written and verbal expression on this subject by practitioners, artists, and intellectuals, students will use dance movement, artistic representation, and ‘nommo’ - the word to represent their own construct of a ritual - to render their example of a specific construct of ritual.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Sharpley
    Prerequisites & Notes
    First year students only.
  

  • AAST 121 - African Presence in the Atlantic World


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course is an introduction to the history of Africans in the Atlantic world from 1441, when the first African slaves were carried by ship from Africa to Portugal, until 1888 when Brazil became the last country to abolish slavery. It addresses such themes as the life of enslaved Africans and their various forms of resistance. Students will also be introduced to the continuities and transformations of African structures and belief systems in the Diaspora.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: G. Gill
  

  • AAST 131 - Traditional African Cosmology


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    How do Africans conceive the origin and nature of their universe? What is their view of God? How do they relate to natural phenomena and the dead? This course surveys traditional African cosmology through various avenues, including systems of believe, philosophy, cultural practices, and state formations. It also probes how African nationalists (e.g. Nkrumah, Nyerere, etc.) invoked such beliefs and practices in the independence struggles and incorporated them into their political philosophies.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Opoku
  

  • AAST 132 - Introduction to African Studies: Patterns, Issues and Controversies


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    This course introduces students to the study of Africa. It examines the often negative media representation of Africa as a continuation of a long pattern established by colonial anthropologists, officials and literary writers. It also examines the destabilizing impact of colonialism on pre-colonial African political institutions, social organizations, patterns of belief, etc. Africa’s current difficulties can more fully be understood within this context, which contemporary media portrayals of Africa often ignore.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Opoku
  

  • AAST 158 - Something from Something


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Studio Art
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course is a ‘hands on’ exploration of vernacular visual traditions existing within African American Culture. We will examine design choices/material processes used to define and describe the specificity of lived experience within African American culture. Our focus is upon elders within black communities and the stories that they tell through their work. These ‘folk artists’ function as influences upon contemporary African American artists ranging from Alison Saar, to Renee Stout. These vernacular traditions will serve as resources that extend our own working processes as we tell our own stories.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: J. Coleman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Counts as Visual Concepts and Processes for Art majors.
  

  • AAST 161 - Capoeira Angola I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    New course added 11.01.12.

    Capoeira Angola is the African-Brazilian martial art that combines dance, music, and combat to create a game of strategy, style and wit. This course will introduce students to the aspects of Capoeira Angola including the movement, music, philosophy and history traced through great masters of the past to its African beginnings in the Bantu’s dance of N’golo. Each class will involve daily physical training and music lessons. Students will also engage in readings and discussions aimed at providing a historic context for contemporary styles and traditions.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Emeka
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    During registration, students should register for AAST 161; during add/drop, students may change to DANC 161 if they prefer.

    May be repreated once for credit.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with DANC 161.
  

  • AAST 191 - West African Dance Forms in the Diaspora II: Cuba


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course will expand the dance movements, forms, and techniques from AAST 190 class. Extensive dance performance within a particular area (Brazil, Cuba and Haiti) will be examined. The dances will be explored in their total experience in context with costumes and music.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: M. Sharpley
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: AAST/DANC 190 or previous dance experience.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with DANC 191.
  

  • AAST 206 - People of the Caribbean: Indigenes and Immigrants


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    Beginning with an examination of indigenous Caribbean societies, this course then studies how the various European colonial enterprises affected the region’s social and economic history. It examines such themes as trade, the evolution of labor systems, the establishment of the plantation enterprises, and political and social organizations. A central feature of this course is to understand the evolution of such concepts as class, gender, and ‘race’ in the context of the Caribbean.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: G. Gill
  

  • AAST 213 - Long Walk to Freedom: South Africa Since 1948


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course provides students with a political and social history of South Africa’s struggle for true democracy. Beginning with the National Party’s launching of apartheid in 1948, the course also includes a discussion of the pre-1948 development of white supremacy, national liberation and new structures of governance, the 1996 National Constitution, and newer social and economic challenges to South African progress. A variety of sources, including cultural, will complement Leonard Thompson’s historical text.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: P. Brooks
  

  • AAST 225 - Women in Caribbean History


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies; Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course studies the economic, social, cultural and political activities of women in the Caribbean from the era of Pre-conquest to the dawn of political independence in the various colonies. It will therefore begin with an examination of the lives of indigenous Caribbean women and continue with an analysis of the historical setting and factors which affected the behavior of women of African, European, Chinese and Indian descent.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: G. Gill
  

  • AAST 226 - Slave Revolts in Atlantic Wrld


    Next Offered: 2013-14
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Open revolt was but one expression of resistance to slavery. Throughout the Atlantic World enslaved Africans and their progeny plotted revolts and in hundreds of cases were able to foment rebellions but only one was successful. This course provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena in the Atlantic World by analyzing their aims, planning and execution. It also seeks to understand why they failed and why the Haitian Revolution was the only successful slave revolt.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: G. Gill
  

  • AAST 228 - Katrina and Black Freedom Struggle


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course situates August 29, 2005 and the meaning of the Katrina disaster in the history of Black Struggle in Louisiana and the surrounding region. Using texts such as Adam Fairclough’s Race and Democracy, Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke, and Hartman and Squires’s There Is No Such Thing As A Natural Disaster, students examine the historical interplay of race, gender, poverty, and the politics of resistance in a unique area of the U. S. South.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: P. Brooks
  

  • AAST 235 - Government and Politics of Africa


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    This course examines pre-colonial African political and social systems and how these were weakened by the imposition of colonialism. It also considers the rise of leaders such as Nkrumah, Kenyatta and Nyerere, the liberation struggles and the wave of independence that swept through Africa in the 1960s. While acknowledging Africa’s development challenges, this course also highlights recent developments such as relative political stability, democratic deepening and the emergence of the African Union as constituting grounds for hope.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Opoku
  

  • AAST 236 - Politics and Society in Africa since the 1980s


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    Two momentous changes have occurred in Africa since the 1980s. The first was the shift to liberal economic reforms commonly called structural adjustment. The second was democratization. These changes, many argue, have vastly diminished the autonomy of the African state, and enabled external hegemonic powers to gain unprecedented influence in Africa since independence. This course examines the political, social and economic implications of these changes at both local and international levels.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Opoku
  

  • AAST 240 - How to Win a Beauty Pageant: Race, Gender, Culture, and U.S. National Identity


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course examines US beauty pageants from the 1920s to the present. Our aim will be to analyze pageantry as a unique site for the interplay of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation. We will learn about cultural studies methodology, including close reading, cultural history, critical discourse analysis, and ethnography, and use those methods to understand the changing identity of the US over time. This course includes a field visit to a pageant in Ohio.
    Enrollment Limit: 13
    Instructor: A. Ofori-Mensa
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CAST 240
  

  • AAST 247 - Black Popular Literature


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    This Course will examine the emergence of African American popular literature, or literature that exists outside of the widely accepeted canon and will examine the methods used by authors such as Zane, J California Cooper, and Omar Tyree to discuss issues such as sexuality, eroticism, incarceration, poverty, and violence. We will also deal with the politics of canonicity.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: M. Gadsby
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: AAST 141 or AAST 101
  

  • AAST 248 - Resistance and Voice: Literature of the African Diaspora


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    This course is a comparative examination of literature written by peoples of African descent internationally. The course will examine the literary expression of peoples of African descent and Africans in the Americas, Europe, South and Central America. Using Paule Marshall’s discussion of ‘taking [one’s] mouth and [making] a gun,’ we will look at the ways in which peoples of African descent write resistance into their literature in creative ways. We will read the work of several authors including, Paule Marshall, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Ama Ata Aidoo, Dorothea Smartt, Kwame Dawes, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Amiri Baraka, Suheir Hammad, and Earl Lovelace.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: M. Gadsby
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • AAST 264 - African American Drama


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    English
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This class surveys plays written by Black Americans from the post-slavery period through the late 20th century. An overview of the history of African-American performance is followed by reading and discussion of current criticism and a wide selection of plays by writers such as James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Adrienne Kennedy, Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, August Wilson, and George Wolfe. Requirements include papers, journals and scene work.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: C. Jackson-Smith
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with THEA 264.
  

  • AAST 275 - African-American Performance Theater


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD
    New course added 08.31.12.

    In this course students gain academic information about the history and emergence of African-American culture while developing their own artistic responses through theater. Students engage in drama, spoken word, dance, and/or musical performance that explore the intersections African and American identity. Experience performing is helpful but not required–as well as an interest in African-American culture. Some evening rehearsals will be required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: J. Emeka
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • AAST 281 - Practicum in Tutoring


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3SS, CD
    Tutors offer academic help to children in schools, homes, etc. Focus is on academically weak children generally, and on Black children specifically. By critiquing the instructor’s tutorial demonstrations, tutors develop an appreciation and understanding of the Master Tutor Concept.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: B. Peek
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: Repeatable up to eight hours. P/NP grading. TB test required. Obtain and return questionnaires before tutoring.
  

  • AAST 290 - Ritual and Performance II


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Dance
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    This course will further explore the religious phenomenon discussed in AAST 118 in performance and artistic agency of the Yoruba and Kongo as their descendants develop the secular Blues’ dance and music. This course will also explore the Blues’ on-going artistic and musical tradition that includes the greater Mali Empire’s tradition of the Griot and the codes and signals used in Blues that are the choices of its artistic expression and its uses in the performance arena.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • AAST 337 - African Capitalists and African Development: Seminar


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Politics
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    The World Bank, backed by Western governments, has been leading efforts to stimulate business and economic development in Africa. African entrepreneurs have been conceived as the linchpin of this project, but their ability to spearhead economic growth confronts a legacy of anti-capitalist attitudes. This course examines the political and institutional barriers to capitalism in Africa and their implications for the economic development of the continent.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: D. Opoku
  

  • AAST 345 - Narratives of Passing


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    Is passing about pretending to be someone you are not, or is it about becoming someone different than you were before? This course uses passing as a paradigm to destabilize normative understandings of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality. Through literature and film about various forms of passing from the early 20th century through the present, we will analyze relationships between privilege and oppression, representation and performance, normativity and difference, and visible and invisible identities.
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: A. Ofori-Mensa
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CAST 345.
  

  • AAST 350 - Intermediate Seminar: Research and Practice in African American Studies


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD
    Students will engage in focused study and analysis of African American Studies methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to the field as foundation for the advanced research pursued in the Senior Seminar. Students will explore interdisciplinarity in an African American Studies context, what disciplines inform African American Studies methodologies, and examine the circumstances that led to the establishment of Black/African American/Africana Studies Departments and Programs in the United States.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: M. Gadsby
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • AAST 361 - Framing Blackness II: African Americans and Cinema in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Cinema Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    This course will continue the inquiry in AAST 261, but will intensively focus on more recent films with Black subjectivity in both dominant and independent cinema. We will consider the legacy of both ‘Blaxplolitation’ and the radical film movement of the early 1970’s on artists of the 1980’s and 90’s. Short papers will be required every week with lengthier assignments at mid-term and finals.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: C. Jackson-Smith
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Students must be able to attend all morning classes and evening screenings.
  

  • AAST 368 - Black Arts Workshop II: African Diasporan Culture in Performance from Blues to Hip Hop


    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    This course continues the inquiry begun in AAST/THEA 268 focusing on the Western Hemispheric inheritance from traditional African cultures. This course will focus on performance in sacred and secular cultures of the African diaspora in the mid-to-late 20th century. The class will hone performance skills through in-class exercises and assignments, and intellectual and critical skills through reading, discussions, presentations, journals and critical papers examining aesthetic and cultural performance theories. The course will culminate in a final performance.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: C. Jackson-Smith
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: AAST/THEA 268 or other AAST Fine Arts classes taught by Professors Coleman or Sharpley.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with THEA 368
  

  • AAST 378 - Soc of African-Amer Community


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course shifts through many of the perspectives and empirical research relating to the condition of the African-American community. This will be aided by our exploration into various cultural, religious, historical, educational, economic, and political indicators of these conditions. We will also critically examine the nature and applicability of various sociological and ‘alternative’ theoretical paradigms and discuss the implications of our finding for social policy.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: C. White
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: One course in Sociology or African-American Studies or consent of the instructor.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with SOCI 378.
  

  • AAST 390 - Essence Dance Class


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3HU, CD
    This course is designed to promote and develop creativity in dance performance through the Black experience. A variety of dance forms will be used such as: modern, Afro-forms, and Black urban vernacular dances. Students are expected to purchase costumes.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: AAST 101, AAST 190, or AAST/DANC 191. P/NP grading. Note: This class may be repeated for a maximum of four accumulated hours. This course is cross-listed with DANC 390.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with DANC 390.
  

  • AAST 391 - Dance Diaspora


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3HU, CD
    Faculty directed performance project. Auditions are held during each semester before enrollment.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: May be repeated for a maximum of four accumulated hours. African American Studies majors and Dance majors will have first priority.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with DANC 391.
  

  • AAST 450 - Senior Seminar


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WR
    This course will cover aspects of philosophy, history, methodology and research methods in the discipline.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: P. Brooks
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Juniors who are majors will be accepted only with consent of instructor or department chair. This is a required course for all African American Studies majors during the senior year.
  

  • AAST 500 - Junior Honors Project


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    Specialized readings pertaining to a well-defined Honors project. Students must be supervised by a member of the department to identify research sources. Consent of chair required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: M. Gadsby
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Honors Program is by departmental invitation.
  

  • AAST 501 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-6 hours
    Attribute: 3-6SS, CD, WR
    The preparation of Honors theses under the supervision of faculty supervisors. Consent of chair required.
    Instructor: P. Brooks, J. Coleman, M. Gadsby, G. Gill, C. Jackson-Smith, M. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Honors Program is by departmental invitation
  

  • AAST 502 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-6 hours
    Attribute: 3-6SS, CD, WR
    The preparation of Honors theses under the supervision of faculty supervisors. Consent of chair required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: P. Brooks, J. Coleman, M. Gadsby, G. Gill, C. Jackson-Smith, M. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Honors Program is by departmental invitation.
  

  • AAST 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3SS, CD
    Open to any student who is interested in undertaking a Private Reading course with a member of the department. Signature of the instructor on the Private Reading form is required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: P. Brooks, J. Coleman, J. Emeka, M. Gadsby, G. Gill, C. Jackson-Smith, D. Opoku, B. Peek, M. Sharpley, B. Yates
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • ACHS 200 - Archeological Field Course


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS
    A four week summer course in field archaeology offered in conjunction with the Sangro Valley Project, a joint archaeological project of Oberlin College and Oxford University (www.sangro.org) at the Samnite/Roman site of Monte Pallano in the Abruzzo, Italy. Participants will learn theoretical and practical aspects of excavation. There will also be field trips, lectures on the history of the region, and discussions of the current problems facing professionals in the field of heritage resource management. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 6.
    Instructor: S. Kane
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ARTS 413.
  

  • ACHS 210 - Readings on the Techniques of Archaeological Excavation


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hours
    Attribute: 1SS
    This modular course will review the history of archaeological field work and provide exercises in archaeological methods and techniques.
    Enrollment Limit: 9
    Instructor: S. Kane
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Pre-requisites & Notes: Consent of the instructor. Only open to those enrolling in the summer field course ACHS 200/ARTS 413.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ARTS 403
  

  • ACHS 250 - Advanced Archeological Field Course


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 5 Hours
    Attribute: 5 SS
    A four week summer course for students with previous fieldwork experience who wish to further their training in archaeological field methods and research. Offered in conjunction with the Sangro Valley Project in the Abruzzo, Italy (www.sangro.org). The seven week course will include pre-season training; four weeks of excavation; and post-excavation analysis. Students taking this course will serve as trench supervisors and/or laboratory/technical assistants under the supervision of the senior personnel; they will also collaborate with professional staff in their ongoing research projects.
    Instructor: S. Kane
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ARTS 423.
  

  • ACHS 300 - Senior Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3SS
    Archeology senior project.
    Instructor: S. Kane, A. Margaris
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • ACHS 400 - Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-5 hours
    Attribute: 2-5EX
    Honors. Archeological Studies majors may undertake Honors research during their senior year under the supervision of a faculty advisor who is normally a member of the Curricular Committee on Archeology. An Honors Project normally consists of a written thesis or other creative project based on original library, laboratory, or field research, or some combination thereof. The final project is submitted in the spring semester of the senior year and followed by a public presentation.
    Instructor: S. Kane
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Students who qualify for Honors and are interested in the program should consult with the program director by the beginning of the second semester in his or her junior year. Honors proposals are due on or about April 15.
  

  • ACHS 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3EX
    Signature of the instructor is required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: S. Kane, A. Margaris
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes; a signature is required on the Private Reading card.
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Available as extra-divisional credit only.
  

  • ANTH 101 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    An introduction to cultural anthropology through an examination of basic concepts, methods, and theories that anthropologists employ in order to understand the unity and diversity of human thought and action cross-culturally. Language and culture, kinship and the family, politics and conflict, religion and belief, and the impact of social change and globalization on traditional institutions are some of the topics to be considered in a range of ethnographic contexts.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: C. Biruk, B. Pineda
  

  • ANTH 102 - Human Origins


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course focuses on paleoanthropology and is an introduction to the evolutionary development of humans. We will examine biological relationships between humans and other primates, primate behavior and classification, and the fossil evidence for human evolution. Emphasis will be placed on the methods used in the study of prehistoric human biological and cultural development.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: A. Margaris
  

  • ANTH 103 - Introduction to Archeology


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    An introduction to the subfield of anthropology concerned with past human cultures. A basic objective is to acquaint students with both the methods and techniques that archeologists employ in the study and reconstruction of prehistoric societies. Examples will be drawn from a variety of archeological situations ranging from simple hunting and gathering societies to complex chiefdoms and states. Matters of contemporary debate in the area of archeology and the public will also be considered.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: A. Davis
  

  • ANTH 202 - Fundamentals of Linguistics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This course introduces the scientific study of language by systematically exploring similarities and differences across human languages. Using actual data from real languages, students will learn basic methodologies of analysis and important results from subfields of linguistics including phonetics (possible human speech sounds), phonology (language-specific systemic organization of speech sounds), morphology (word-formation processes), syntax (sentence structures), semantics (meaning), language change, and sociolinguistics. Additional topics may include sign languages, language acquisition, and/or animal communication.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Haugen
  

  • ANTH 204 - Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course is an introduction to the subfield of linguistic anthropology. Topics include surveys of theories of language and culture and theories of linguistic diversity (including contributions of such seminal figures as Boas, Sapir, and Whorf), ethnographic methods (including conceptions of speech communities, practices of observing, interviewing, and recording, and discussion of ethics), methods of transcription, and contemporary approaches to understanding language and meaning and language as social action.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Haugen, E. Hoffmann-Dilloway
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: One introductory course. The course is intended as a prerequisite for more advanced courses in Linguistic Anthropology and in related areas. No prior coursework in language and culture is required.
  

  • ANTH 228 - Archeology and the Public: A Global Perspective


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD
    Why is the public so interested in archaeology? What are archaeologists’ responsibilities to the public? Power differences can be justified through claims about the past, archaeological sites can be developed as money-making resources, and audiences love Indiana Jones. Each week, we will explore one way that archaeology is relevant to modern life and ask how archaeologists can engage with the public about that issue. Students will present viewpoints on case studies from around the world. 
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Davis
  

  • ANTH 243 - Language and the Body: Embodied Communication in Cross-cultural Perspective


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course introduces students to anthropological perspectives on embodied communication, including natural and experimental studies of primate communication, and cross-cultural studies of body language, gesture, and sign languages in human societies. Our approach to these topics will draw on biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropological perspectives. Students will conduct research projects that they will present to the class in the form of a paper, a poster project, or a video project.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: E. Hoffmann-Dilloway
    Prerequisites & Notes
    One introductory course (100 level) in Anthropology or the equivalent.
  

  • ANTH 278 - Human Rights, Universalism and Cultural Relativism


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    Through an examination of the ways in which people in different societies identify and define ethical and social standards, this course will examine the concept of universal human rights. This course will consider the tension between universal claims and cultural relativism. We will also document and analyze the development of international efforts to apply universal rights.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: B. Pineda
  

  • ANTH 281 - Empires of Science


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course examines the intersections of race, gender, culture, and sexuality with science and technology in colonial and post-colonial contexts. What are the social and historical dimensions of technoscientific encounters between the global North and the global South? Drawing on accounts by science studies scholars, post-colonial theorists, historians, and anthropologists, we analyze how the uneven flow of technoscientific experts, practices, objects, and knowledge transforms social relations, bodies, and selves.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: C. Biruk
  

  • ANTH 334 - Grave Matters: The Archaeology of Death, Decay, and Discovery


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS
    How do archaeologists study coffins, tombs, and human remains to learn about ancient societies? This course will explore the theory and practice of the archaeology of death. Topics will include the inference of social organization from mortuary remains, the experience of death and dying, social memory, identity, and others. Students will learn approaches to mortuary excavation and consider the politics and ethics of conducting burial archaeology globally.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: A. Davis
  

  • ANTH 353 - Culture Theory


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    A critical examination of major issues in the study of culture since the late nineteenth century through a discussion of cultural evolution and neo-evolution, materialism and cultural ecology, functionalism and ecosystems theory, interpretive and symbolic anthropology, structuralism and political economy. Ethnography, science and humanism, and the relationships between various theories are also considered. Recent multicultural and postmodernist efforts at cultural explanation on the part of anthropologists and other scholars will be examined.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: C. Biruk
  

  • ANTH 376 - Language and Prehistory


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course examines what anthropologists can glean from the prehistoric human past through the study of language relatedness, linguistic reconstruction, and language change. The major theoretical approaches to and methodologies of historical linguistics will be introduced and then applied to specific case studies from around the world. Major issues to be addressed will include prehistoric population contacts and movements, as well as the reconstruction of protolanguages and protocultures.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: J. Haugen
  

  • ANTH 391 - Practicum in Anthropology


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3SS
    Junior or senior majors in the department may receive up to three hours of credit for applied fieldwork in anthropology. The work should be carried out in connection with a systematic course of reading and the writing of a paper on the topic of the project. The purpose of the paper is to tie the field experience to relevant anthropological principles. The program should be worked out in advance with a department faculty sponsor. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: C. Biruk, J. Haugen, E. Hoffmann-Dilloway, A. Margaris, B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • ANTH 402 - The Native Languages of the Americas


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This course surveys the languages indigenous to North and South America, and addresses such topics as grammatical (phonetic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic) diversity among these languages; language families and other historical relationships in the Americas; the use of linguistic evidence to investigate the first peopling of the Americas; and historical and contemporary cultural contexts of language use in the Americas, including issues surrounding language maintenance and revitalization, and colonial contact and language death.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: J. Haugen
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: ANTH 202 or another course in introductory linguistics, or consent of instructor.
  

  • ANTH 413 - From Comanches to Aztecs


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course explores the changing lifeways of one historically related group, the Uto-Aztecans, who over millennia developed radically different social systems: state-level societies with major urban centers (Aztecs), agriculturalists living in small towns (Hopis) or small dispersed groups (Yaquis), and bands of hunter-gatherers (Comanches). We will examine their major differences at the time of European contact, ways colonialism differently transformed their cultures, and how and where the original population may have originated and dispersed.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: J. Haugen
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • ANTH 415 - Internships in Teaching


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-2 hours
    Attribute: 1-2SS
    Qualified seniors who wish to assist in the teaching of specific courses may, upon consent of the instructor, achieve one or two hours for their work in such courses. Assistance with laboratory sessions, data analysis, and the research concerns of students in the class compose the major activities of the teaching internships.
    Instructor: C. Biruk, J. Haugen, E. Hoffmann-Dilloway, A. Margaris, B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • ANTH 416 - Race, Racism, and Human Variation in Global Perspective


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    The belief that the inborn characteristics of groups of people are responsible for differences in achievement, among other things, between them is present in one form or another in every society. In this seminar we will use a four-fields approach (biological and cultural) to examine both the underlying patterns of human biological variation as well as the varied manifestations of race and racism today. Case studies will be drawn from across the globe.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • ANTH 456 - Seminar in Culture Contact and Colonialism


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course focuses on anthropological approaches to culture contact and colonialism. We will trace the development of theoretical models relating to gender and ethnicity, acculturation, frontiers and boundaries, and World-Systems theory. Through case studies and student-facilitated discussion we will explore how anthropologists attempt to construct explanatory frameworks for culture contact that have wide applicability, while acknowledging the uniqueness of individual cultures and the historical paths they have traveled.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: A. Margaris
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • ANTH 490 - Junior Year Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-3 hours
    Attribute: 2-3SS
    Junior honors. Requires consent of the instructor.
    Instructor: C. Biruk, E. Hoffmann-Dilloway, A. Margaris, B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Open only to second semester junior majors.
  

  • ANTH 491 - Senior Year Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-6 hours
    Attribute: 2-6SS
    Senior year honors. Requires consent of the instructor.
    Instructor: C. Biruk, J. Haugen, E. Hoffmann-Dilloway, A. Margaris, B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • ANTH 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3SS
    Private readings with a faculty member from the department. The signature of the instructor on a private reading card is required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: C. Biruk, J. Haugen, E. Hoffmann-Dilloway, A. Margaris, B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • APST 110 - Piano Class


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A basic one-year course (should be taken in the freshman year) including technique, sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, accompaniment, and piano repertoire. Section numbers  (last two digits) relate to placement levels.
    Instructor: A. McAlister, L. Kennedy
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission by placement/audition. Open only to Conservatory students who must complete a piano requirement.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 12.
  

  • APST 111 - Piano Class


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: CNDP
    A basic one-year course (should be taken in the freshman year) including technique, sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, accompaniment and piano repertoire. Section numbers (last two digits) relate to placement levels.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: A. McAlister, L. Kennedy
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission by placement/audition.
    Open only to Conservatory students who must complete a piano requirement.

     
  

  • APST 112 - Keyboard Accompanying (Vocal)


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    Following a brief placement audition, pianists are paired with singers according to the needs of the voice department. Students may also make arrangements to accompany specific singers, subject to accompanying faculty’s approval. Accompanying projects are supervised by the voice teacher and accompanying faculty. Five hours of weekly contact time are expected, including rehearsals, voice lessons, coachings with accompanying faculty, but not practice time.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: P. Highfill
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    May be repeated for credit. Open to all keyboard players.

     
  

  • APST 113 - Keyboard Accomp (Instrumental)


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    Assignments will be made from repertoire requests submitted by the applied faculty. Students are encouraged to make arrangements to accompany specific instrumentalists, subject to accompanying faculty?s approval. Accompanying projects will be supervised by the instrumental teacher and accompanying faculty. Five hours of weekly contact time are expected, including weekly master classes with accompanying faculty, rehearsals, lessons, coachings, but not individual practice time.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: J. Howsmon
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
     

     

    May be repeated for credit.  Open to all keyboard players.

     
  

  • APST 118 - Vocal Studies Seminar


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    This course is limited to and required of first-year Conservatory voice majors.
    Semester Offered: Spring Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    Team-taught by members of the Vocal Studies Division and invited guests, this seminar provides voice majors information that will help them succeed at Oberlin and in their future performing careers.  Among the topics covered are Learning and Practice Strategies, Vocal Health and Nutrition, Recital Planning, Vocal Coaching, and Resumes/Bios/CVs.  
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: T. LeFebvre
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course is limited to and required of first-year and Conservatory voice majors.
  

  • APST 120A; 120B - Time Travel for Pianists


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester; First Module & Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    A one-module course. Historical keyboard instruments (various fortepianos and clavichords) are used as experimental tools for learning about style. Students will be expected to bring pieces they are studying or have studied (Bach through Liszt) to a weekly meeting with the instructor, and will be expected to make a presentation in class, at the end of the module. May be repeated for credit with permission of the instructor.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 4
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor’s consent with the permission of the principal teacher.  Pass/No Pass Grading only
  

  • APST 121 - Performing Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    This course gives students the opportunity to play in a workshop setting with David Breitman at the fortepiano (pitch=A440). Each student will prepare a different movement each week (6 movements over the module). Prior experience with a period violin/bow is neither required nor expected; students may use their modern violin in this course. Differences between the modern and earlier violin will be touched on, however, and interested students may be able to borrow equipment,depending on availability.
    Enrollment Limit: 4
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Violin majors only (permission of the principal teacher required).
  

  • APST 122 - Performing Beethoven’s Cello Sonatas


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    This course gives students the opportunity to play in a workshop setting with David Breitman at the fortepiano (pitch=A440). Each student will prepare a different movement each week (6 movements over the module). Prior experience with a period cello/bow is neither required nor expected; students may use their modern cello in this course. Differences between the modern and earlier cello will be touched on, however, and interested students may be able to borrow equipment,depending on availability.
    Enrollment Limit: 4
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Cello majors only (permission of the prinicpal teacher required).
  

  • APST 130 - Viola Class


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    A one-semester course required of all students whose principal applied study is violin. The course is designed to familiarize the student with viola technique and clef reading.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: K. Ritscher
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course may be waived by examination.

     
  

  • APST 140 - Internalizing Rhythms


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    A workshop for instrumentalists and vocalists that focuses on the student’s ability to internalize and comprehend a range of rhythms that originate in multiple cultures. The teaching emphasizes speaking rhythm and then performing the lessons on the frame drum. The course materials are based upon a contemporary application of old-world teaching methods from North Africa, the Mid-east, and South India. The rhythms are poly-rhythmical an cyclical in nature. The playing techniques implemented are basic hand and finger techniques adapted from South Indian drumming and can be applied to a variety of percussion instruments.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: J. Haddad
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • APST 141 - Internalizing Rhythms II


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    Continues work on the concepts of levels of rhythms and the ways to view them. The effect of these lessons is meant to give the student a greater sense of the mystical power of something simply done in a clear profound fashion. The class will explore how the split finger drum technique can be applied to other drums and percussion instruments, and watch and hear audio examples of a variety of indigenous musicians  from around the world and discuss the aspects that transcend style on a global music basis. Applying the concepts shared in class, students will start to create some pieces using the frame drum and a family of other percussion instruments that the instructor will provide. Class assignments will include original short basic compositions or adaptations of known songs that show a level of mastery of the concepts presented in class.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: J. Haddad
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Completion of APST 140.
  

  • APST 142 - Beginning Improvisation


    Semester Offered: Spring Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: CNDP
    Intended for beginning improvisers or those with only limited experience in improvisation, this class will introduce techniques and concepts that cultivate the development of basic improvisational skills: Melodic embellishment, outlining chords with melody, melodic transformation, developing vocabulary, strategies for ear training and strengthening theoretical knowledge.  This class is not genre specific; examples of common practices in a variety of styles and genres will be studied.  Prerequisites: Open to all instrumentalists and vocalists in majors other than jazz. 
    Enrollment Limit: 18
    Instructor: P. Dominguez
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • APST 145 - Mozart Opera Study


    Next Offered: TBD
    Semester Offered: Fall Semester
    Credits (Range): 2
    Attribute: CNDP
    This course provides musical and linguistic preparation of entire Mozart roles from the three Da Ponte operas.  Emphasis is on idiomatic delivery of recitative, stylistically appropriate performance of arias and ensembles, and general concepts applied to learning entire roles.  The course is given as a combination of individual musical coachings, ensemble coachings, class presentations and discussions. 
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: H. Lubin; T. Bandy
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Italian Diction
  

  • APST 150 - North Indian Classical Music


    Semester Offered: Fall and Spring Semesters
    Credits (Range): 1 Hr.
    Group lessons in sitar, tabla, or voice at beginning or intermediate levels.  The course will also include studies of the raga and tala system of India as applied in performance.
    Enrollment Limit: 24
    Instructor: H. Patel
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    No prerequisite.
  

  • APST 204 - Interpretation of Art Song


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    Individual coaching sessions for singer/accompanist duos on musical style, interpretation, ensemble, languages, and presentation. Students who begin coaching first semester for a second semester recital will receive a deferred grade pending completion of the recital. Piano majors may substitute this course for one of the required keyboard accompanying credits. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 8. Prerequisites and Notes Note: Accompanists may repeat the course for credit once. Open to seniors and artist diploma candidates preparing degree recitals, and to their accompanists.
    Enrollment Limit: 8
    Instructor: P. Highfill
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • APST 208 - Guided Piano Pedagogy Proj


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    An independent study course for prospective and declared piano pedagogy minors. Students must propose and complete a significant written research project in the field of piano pedagogy and present their work in a public lecture-demonstration. Topics may be drawn from the piano teaching literature, current pedagogical trends, or historical pedagogy.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: A. McAlister
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to declared piano pedagogy minors only.

     
  

  • APST 209 - Guided Teaching Observation


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    A student will observe a series of individual and group lessons to become familiar with a variety of teaching styles and pedagogical approaches.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: A. McAlister
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Requirements will include a portfolio of observation reports and regular consultation with the instructor.
    Open to piano pedagogy minors or those intending to pursue the minor.

     
  

  • APST 210 - Intermediate Piano Pedagogy


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: CNDP
    General introduction for pianists to pedagogical principles, teaching repertoire, and learning materials and technology, with focus on teaching intermediate level students. Students will engage in lecture-discussions, critically respond to assigned readings, examine current teaching materials, and contribute regularly to a web-based discussion group.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: A. McAlister
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Observation and practice teaching of private and group lessons is required.

     
  

  • APST 211 - Elementary Piano Pedagogy


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A one-semester introduction to the teaching of beginning piano and musicianship skills to young students in group and private settings. The course covers philosophical and developmental issues; as well as a thorough review of methods, materials, resources, and techniques for teaching at the elementary level. Weekly one-hour lecture; regular supervised group and private teaching experiences.
    Instructor: A. McAlister
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 8.

    Prerequisites and Notes Open to piano majors or principals.
  

  • APST 212 - Advanced Piano Class


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A continuation of APST 110, 111 Piano Class, including advanced work in technique, sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, accompaniment, and piano repertoire.
    Instructor: A. McAlister
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open only to Conservatory students.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 12.
  

  • APST 213 - Advanced Piano Class


    Semester Offered: Second Semester (1st and 2nd modules)
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: CNDP
    A continuation of APST 110, 111 Piano Class, including advanced work in technique, sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, accompaniment and piano repertoire.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: A. McAlister
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open only to Conservatory students.

     
  

  • APST 214 - Keyboard Skills I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Intensive practical experience in functional keyboard skills including keyboard harmony, sight reading, transposition, improvisation, score reading, continuo playing.
    Instructor: D. Breitman, W. Wiggins, J. Mitchener
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUTH 132, APST 214 (or the waiver exam) is prerequisite to APST 215.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 8.
  

  • APST 215 - Keyboard Skills II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester (1st and 2nd modules)
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: CNDP
    Intensive practical experience in functional keyboard skills including keyboard harmony, sight reading, transposition, improvisation, score reading, continuo playing.
    Enrollment Limit: 7
    Instructor: D. Breitman, W. Wiggins
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUTH 132, APST 214 (or the waiver exam) is prerequisite to APST 215.

     
  

  • APST 216 - Improvisation at the Organ


    Next Offered: TBD
    Semester Offered: FALL
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: CNDP
    A course designed to help students acquire the technical and mental disciplines necessary to improvise in different classical styles. The course is devoted primarily to learning how to apply keyboard harmony in improvising short pieces and to developing simple contrapuntal techniques. Cantus firmus treatment in two, three, and four-part textures will be explored along with more extended free forms. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: M. Langlais
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: APST 214.  Only open to organ majors.
  

  • APST 221 - Sacred Music Skills


    Next Offered: [2014-2015] Alternate Years
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: CNDP
    First semester of a one-year course having an emphasis on skills necessary to become a successful church/synagogue musician. Units include historical and modern church music history, the role of the organist in the modern synagogue, hymnology, liturgy and worship styles, creative hymn playing, chant, accompanying, sight-reading, transposition, basic skills in improvisation, conducting from the console, rehearsal techniques, basic sacred choral repertoire, and church music administration.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: Staff Con
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to organ majors.

  

  • APST 222 - Sacred Music Skills


    Next Offered: [2014-2015] Alternate Years
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: CNDP
    Second semester of a one-year course having an emphasis on skills necessary to become a successful church/synagogue musician. Units include historical and modern church music history, the role of the organist in the modern synagogue, hymnology, liturgy and worship styles, creative hymn playing, chant, accompanying, sight-reading, transposition, basic skills in improvisation, conducting from the console, rehearsal techniques, basic sacred choral repertoire, and church music administration.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: J. Moyer
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to organ majors.
  

  • APST 230 - The Teaching of Singing


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: CNDP
    The first part of the course is designed as an introduction to aspects of physiology, acoustics, and phonetics of the singing instrument, relating them directly to comparative vocal techniques and to the materials of teaching. It presents practical application of systematic vocal technique to the teaching of singing. The Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center will be heavily relied upon as a resource for the course. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 18
    Instructor: L. Manz
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Significant vocal study.
    Junior or senior status required.
  

  • APST 234 - Flute Pedagogy


    Next Offered: TBD
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    A one-semester course examining the various teaching techniques and methods for beginning through college level flutists. The course will include lectures and teaching observed by the class to be followed by discussion sessions. Participants will also teach supervised private lessons on a pay basis. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 6.
    Instructor: K. Chastain
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to flute performance majors.
  

  • APST 235 - Percussion Instruments


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    Designed to give students knowledge of the pedagogy of percussion instruments, materials and method books, and methods for building percussion sections of school ensembles. All percussion instruments are demonstrated and basic techniques taught, each student being required to develop basic playing ability. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: M. Rosen
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Primarily for music education majors.
  

  • APST 240 - Continuo Realization at the Keyboard


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A course in the technique and practice of realizing continuo parts in the music of the Baroque. Designed primarily for harpsichord, organ, piano, and music history majors. Enrollment Limit: 5.
    Instructor: W. Wiggins
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUTH 132 and APST 214.
  

  • APST 241 - Introduction to Historical Keyboard Instruments for Pianists


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A team-taught, hands-on introduction to the fortepiano, harpsichord, and organ. Three weeks of small-group meetings will be devoted to each of the instruments, and in the final portion of the semester each student will receive individual instruction on one of them. Students wil be expected to prepare excerpts from a variety of repertory. Related readings will also be asigned. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 4 per section.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MHST 215 (first semester of Keyboard Literature).
  

  • APST 242 - Baroque Violin for Violinists


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    A one-semester course designed to acquaint violinists with the technique, style, and literature of the violin before 1750. Period instruments and bows will be used. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 8.
    Instructor: M. McDonald
  

  • APST 243 - Advanced Continuo Realization at the Keyboard


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A sequel to APST 240 (Continuo Realization at the Keyboard). Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: W. Wiggins
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: APST 240.
    May substitute for two hours of APST 340 (Continuo Accompanying) for harpsichord majors.
     
  

  • APST 244 - Advanced Baroque Violin for Violinists


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    A continuation of the introductory course with an emphasis on the solo repertoire. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 8.
    Instructor: M. McDonald
  

  • APST 260 - Conducting I: Techniques of Conducting


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Designed for conservatory students in any major, a course stressing baton technique and score preparation. The development of fundamental conducting approaches for expressive articulations and specific conducting problems. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Instructor: J. Erwin, J. Knight
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Completion of MUTH 101 and 131 or the equivalent; some piano proficiency required.

    Not open to first-year students.
 

Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 … Forward 10 -> 15