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Course Catalog 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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

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  • CINE 395 - Fall Practicum in Media Literacy and Pedagogy II: Practice


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3HU
    Students will participate in media literacy and outreach projects in the Oberlin Public Schools, grades K-12. Pass/No Pass grading.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: C. Carter
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    CINE 394 AND consent of the instructor by application.
  

  • CINE 396 - Spring Practicum in Media Literacy and Pedagogy II: Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3HU
    Students will participate in media literacy and outreach projects in the Oberlin Public Schools grades K-12. Pass/No Pass grading.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: C. Carter
  

  • CINE 400 - The Senior Portfolio


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4HU, WR
    This seminar allows seniors to produce substantial independent work of their own design. The Senior Portfolio is enrolled by invitation based on submission of portfolio proposals by majors at the end of their junior years. NB: CINE 400, The Senior Portfolio, is offered ONLY during the Fall semester.
    Enrollment Limit: 8
    Instructor: G. Pingree
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    CINE 290 or CINE 299; CINE 298; at least one Advanced Cinema Studies Course; a completed application and work sample; AND consent of instructor.
  

  • CINE 411 - History of World Film: The Silent Era


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    The silent film era, circa 1895-1928, saw not only the so-called invention of cinema, but also crucial innovations in film technology, style, and industry. This course examines the emergence of cinema out of the culture of modernity, the development of feature films, the formation of the classical Hollywood system, as well as cinema’s first interactions with European modernist art movements. Course screenings range from early trick films to surrealist works and glamorous 1920s Hollywood pictures.
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: D. Galili
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
     CINE 110, CINE 111, or CINE 298; and CINE 290 or CINE 299; at least one Advanced Cinema Studies Course, and consent of instructor.
  

  • CINE 498 - Senior Tutorial


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4HU, WR
    Supervised independent projects by senior majors. Admission by consent of instructor only.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: J. Pence
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    CINE 110, CINE 111, or CINE 298; and CINE 290 or CINE 299; at least one Advanced Cinema Studies Course; and consent of instructor.
  

  • CINE 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU
    Consent of instructor required. Signed Private Reading card must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: G. An, R. Brown-Orso, C. Carter, W.P. Day, D. Galili, J. Pence, G. Pingree
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Private Readings are available to students who have completed introductory coursework in the Program. Students seeking to arrange Private Readings should contact professors directly.
  

  • CLAS 101 - Homer’s Iliad and the Myths of Tragedy


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    THEA
    Next Offered: 2012-2013
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, WR
    Critical study of Homer’s Iliad, the First example of the tragic perspective in western literature, selected tragic dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, and Shakespeare, and some modern films. Attention to how the view of human experience established in these works serves to reflect and comment upon recurring themes in western civilization.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: T. Van Nortwick
  

  • CLAS 102 - The Odyssey and the Myths of Comedy


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Theater, Comparative Literature
    Next Offered: 2013-14
    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, WR
    Critical study of Homer’s Odyssey, the first example of the comic perspective in western literature, selected comic dramas by Euripides, Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence, and Shakespeare, and some modern films. Attention to how the view of human experience established in these works serves to reflect and comment upon recurring themes in western civilization. Lecture and discussion.
    Enrollment Limit: 60
    Instructor: T. Van Nortwick
  

  • CLAS 103 - History of Greece


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society, History
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    An introduction to Greek history, from the prehistoric period to the end of the 4th century BCE. Special emphasis will be given to the study of material culture and original historical documents, as well as Herodotus and Thucydides, who were the first historians of the West. We will also consider social history and the development of Greek art in relation to military and polticial developments.
    Enrollment Limit: 60
    Instructor: K. Lawrence
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: May count toward a history major.
  

  • CLAS 104 - History of Rome


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    History, Law and Society
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This course will provide a survey of the history of Rome, from its prehistoric origins to its ‘decline and fall’ in the fifth century A.D. Attention will be given to the evolution of Roman social and political structures, Roman imperialism, and the transition from paganism to Christianity. Readings from the ancient sources will provide the basis for discussions.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: C. Trinacty
  

  • CLAS 201 - Magic & Mystery Ancient World


    Next Offered: 2012-2013
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This course surveys the evidence for magic and the occult in antiquity, focusing on the traditions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Topics covered include theoretical approaches to magic, practitioners (witches, sorcerers, and priests), magical objects (curse tablets, voodoo dolls, and amulets), magical words (spells and prayers), ancient mystery cults, and the interaction between early Christianity and magic. Special attention will be paid to how ancient individuals interacted with the unseen world in their daily lives, and when and how they employed the services of professional magicians. Readings of ancient sources in translation and classroom discussion.
    Enrollment Limit: 55
    Instructor: D. Wilburn
  

  • CLAS 203 - The City in Antiquity


    Next Offered: 2013-4
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Urban centers have been important aspects of human life for more than 5000 years, and the city played a central role in the development of Greek and Roman society. This course will investigate the function of the city in classical antiquity by studying a number of urban centers, including Mycenae, Athens, Alexandria, Pergamon, Rome, Pompeii, Palmyra and Constantinople. Topics will include the urban plan, monumental architecture, domestic space, and social interaction. Studies of architectural and archaeological remains will be complemented by readings of ancient sources in translation.
    Instructor: A. Wilburn
  

  • CLAS 209 - The Ancient and Modern Novel


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
    Next Offered: 2013-14
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course will take as its point of departure the surviving novels of Greek and Roman antiquity. We will read a selection of Greek novels, as well as Petronius’ Satyricon and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. To these ancient works we will compare a series of modern novels, especially Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis and Kennedy’s Confederacy of Dunces. The course will also pursue critical and theoretical issues regarding the genre of the novel raised by Bakhtin, Lukacs, Winkler and others. All works will be read in translation.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: B. Lee
  

  • CLAS 210 - Greek and Roman Mythology


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, WR
    Introduction to the major myths of ancient Greece and Rome and their adaptation by later Western culture. Study of the idea and function of myth, with introductions to some of the most important schools of interpretation: psychoanalysis, structuralism, and semiotics. In this vein will also consider contemporary trends of self-mythologizing in digital social media.
    Enrollment Limit: 60
    Instructor: B. Lee
  

  • CLAS 219 - Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome


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

    Study of the construction of gender and sexual identities in ancient Greece and Rome. Emphasis will be on primary texts that demonstrate notions of sexual practice and/or identity, such as Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousae, Plato’s Symposium, Aeschines’ Against Timarchos, and poetry of Sappho, Catullus, Ovid, Martial, Juvenal. We will also read modern critical theorists of sexuality, and will interrogate the usefulness of their arguments for understanding ancient Greece and Rome.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: K. Ormand
  

  • CLAS 226 - Sports and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU
    New course added 11.01.12.

    This course examines the role that sport played in ancient Greece and Rome. It will focus on the complex and sometimes controversial role that sports played in these cultures using a variety of ancient sources. We will explore such topics as the origins of Greek sport, the role of the gymnasium in the ancient world, the literature of sports, and the role of gladiators and chariot racing in the Roman Empire.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: K. Laurence
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
  

  • CLAS 303 - The City in Antiquity


    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Urban centers have been important aspects of human life for more than 5000 years, and the city played a central role in the development of Greek and Roman society. This course will investigate the function of the city in classical antiquity by studying a number of urban centers, including Mycenae, Athens, Alexandria, Pergamon, Rome, Pompeii, Palmyra and Constantinople. Topics will include the urban plan, monumental architecture, domestic space, and social interaction. Studies of architectural and archaeological remains will be complemented by readings of ancient sources in translation.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: D. Wilburn
  

  • CLAS 306 - Egypt after the Pharaohs


    Next Offered: 2013-14
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD
    From 323 BCE until the seventh century Arab conquest, the Macedonian Ptolemies and subsequently, the Romans ruled Egypt. During this colonial period, Egypt was inhabited by a multitude of ethnic groups, including Persians, Jews, Greeks, Egyptians and Romans. Yet, Egyptian culture and heritage, particularly in the realm of religion and art, remained vibrant. Through thematic topics rather than a strict chronological approach, this course surveys the social, political and cultural history of Greco-Roman Egypt.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Wilburn
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    100- or 200 - level course in Classics Dept.
  

  • CLAS 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: K. Ormand
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Senior major standing and invitation of the department.
  

  • CLAS 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.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: B. Lee, K. Ormand, T. Van Nortwick, A. Wilburn
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CMPL 200 - Introduction to Comparative Literature


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    English
    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    Comparative Literature is the study of literature, theory, and criticism across the boundaries of language, nation, culture, artistic medium and historical period. This course examines the nature and scope of the discipline, focusing both on its theoretical assumptions and its practical applications. Texts and topics reflect curricular strengths of the college and include literary theory, literature & the other arts, East-West studies, European languages and literatures, and translation. Diversity.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Deppman, T. Scholl
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: An introductory literature course in any language. Note: Comparative Literature majors should take this course by the sophomore year.
    Cross List Information This course is cross listed with ENGL 275.
  

  • CMPL 265 - Anglophone Literatures of the Third World


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality, Feminist Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    Through theoretical essays and novels, we will examine the problems of definition and evaluation that attend our interpretation of works from the ‘Third World.’ We will consider whether or not: 1) ‘Third World’ or ‘Post-colonial’ are appropriate designations; 2) notions of ‘marginality,’ ‘difference,’ and ‘alterity,? so often deployed to characterize these works, are useful interpretive tools; 3) the perception that these works are always enactments of resistance against dominant ideologies is effective. Diversity, Post-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: A. Needham
    Cross List Information This course is crosslisted with ENGL 265.
  

  • CMPL 350 - Translation Workshop


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    Work by modern and contemporary world poets?and some classical examples?will be studied in the original languages and translated into American English. The first half of the course will focus on translation exercises and readings in translation theory which will help students to design the projects on which they will be working during the second half.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: A. Osanloo
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course has no prerequisites, but some knowledge of a foreign language and some experience in writing poetry are required. Admission is based on a completed application form and writing sample (due in Program office by 5:00 p.m. the last day of semester classes).
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CRWR 350.
  

  • CMPL 360 - Picture Theory


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, WR
    This course will study literary theory through the lens of pictures. Since the beginnings of critical thought, images have appeared as the ghostly Other to words, and literary critics have unfailingly resorted to visual metaphors to study texts. But what do concepts such as gaze, perspective, surveillance, and visual pleasure mean in literature? We will examine a range of theories and test them analytically, comparatively, and creatively on poetry, short stories, and visual artworks.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: P. Dimova
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 275/CMPL 200, or ENGL 299, or a 200-level course in Art History, or consent of the instructor. 
  

  • CMPL 367 - The French Joyce


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, WR, CD
    James Joyce wrote mainly in English but drew great inspiration from French writers: Dujardin, Laforgue, Balzac, Flaubert, Verlaine, and many more. This course examines both the influence of French authors on Joyce and of Joyce on subsequent French literary culture. Taught in English with extra sessions in French.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    A literature course in any language.

     
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ENGL 367
  

  • CMPL 370 - Itineraries of Postmodernism


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    This hybrid course examines the roots of literary modernism and postmodernism in continental philosophy.  We will read theoretical texts by Nietzsche, Derrida, Rorty, Vattimo, Lyotard, Jameson, Irigarary, and Spivak; fiction by Woolf, Ford, Borges, Chu T’ien-wen, Carter, Duras, and Garcia-Marquez.  
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prequisites:  A literature course in any language. 
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ENGL 370.
  

  • CMPL 372 - Contemporary Literary Theory: Post-Modernity and Imagination


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This course is about developments in literary theory in the context of the last 35 years of American intellectual and artistic culture. Our concern will be understanding literary theories in their historical and institutional contexts as well as considering their value as ways of thinking about literature and art. We’ll pay particular attention to the impact of post-structuralism on American critics, the relation of literary criticism to cultural criticism, and various elaborations of the idea of post-modernity.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: W. P. Day
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 275/CMPL 200, or ENGL 299, or any two 200-level English courses, or consent of the instructor.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ENGL 372
  

  • CMPL 375 - Violence in Twentieth-Century World Literature


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    Covers violence in 20th century literature alongside key theoretical formulations of the subject. Starting with early 20th century Modernism, we will compare creative developments in East Europe, Middle East and South America. Violence’s relations to body, trauma, sovereignty and the other will be examined both in literature and theory. Among others we will read: Kafka, Doblin, Aeurbach, Freud, Arendt, Bataille, Primo Levi, Fanon, Agamben, Habibi and Castel-Bloom.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: A. Ofengenden
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 375.
  

  • CMPL 400 - Senior Capstone Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    Senior capstone project.
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CMPL 410 - Tango: The Politics and Poetics of a National Icon


    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: 3HU, CD
    This course, taught in English, examines the sociocultural, political and artistic dimensions of tango. By looking at dance, music, lyrics and other tango manifestations students will explore how communities encode their traditional values in expressive forms, how these forms operate subversively in popular culture, and how they officially represent the nation. Films, recordings, performances, and guest speakers complement class readings.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Cara
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For optional extra hour conducted in Spanish see HISP 401.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed HISP 410.
  

  • CMPL 457 - Caribbean Cultures and Literatures


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course examines the relationship between literature and folklore in the Francophone, Anglophone, Spanish-speaking and Dutch Caribbean. Central issues include: the creolization of cultures and presence of a creole aesthetic in literature and the traditional arts (music, dance, theater, painting, etc.), the relationship of colonialism and tourism to cultural productions, the re-writing of ‘master texts’ from the Western canon, the dialogue between oral and written literatures, and the literary re-writings of history. Taught in English.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: A. Cara
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with HISP 457.
  

  • CMPL 474 - La Chine et le Japon dans l’imaginaire français


    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    In this course students will examine French representations of East Asia from the late 19th century to the present. Through close readings of films, paintings, comic books, and literary texts, students will expand their sense of the visual/verbal literacy with which one ‘reads culture’ through these different literary and artistic media. Topics addressed will include ‘chinoiseries’ and ‘japonisme,’ literary exoticism, French Maoism, travel literature, war documentaries, and the challenges of cross-cultural exchange. Taught in French.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: G. An
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites and Notes Two courses at the 300-level beyond 301
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with FREN 419
  

  • CMPL 501 - Honors Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    Consent of Program Director required.
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CMPL 502 - Honors Project


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    Consent of Program Director required.
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CMPL 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3HU
    Independent study of a subject beyond the range of catalog course offerings. Signed permission of the instructor is required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: J. Deppman, P. O’Connor
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CMUS 100 - Introduction to Western Art Music


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: ARHU
    A survey of Western music of the last 1000 years, with emphasis on new music and on concert life today. Focus throughout the course is twofold: on cultural context, past and present, that lends music its vitality; and on the development of various listening strategies. Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: P. Schick
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course (or MHST 101) is a prerequisite for all Music History survey courses (226, 235, 245, 255, 275).

    No previous musical training is required.

    Open to College of Arts and Sciences students only.
  

  • CMUS 103 - Introduction to the Anthropology of Music: Case Studies from around the World


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: ARHU
    This course examines music as an inherently social act, illustrating how music is informed by - and conversely informs - historical, political, cultural, and economic processes. Using selected case studies from around the world, we will examine music in both historical and contemporary contexts and encounter musical styles ranging from indigenous practices to classical traditions and pop genres. We will pay particular attention to the transformation of sounds and their meaning resulting from colonialism, nationalism, technological innovations, and/or the expansion of trans-national music markets. The course material will also address issues of cultural representation; how recordings, articles, web, and video material frame the discussion or presentation of music. At the same time, we will explore the variety of ways these musics are structured and develop critical listening skills. In some cases, we will learn to perform the practices we are studying.

    This course explores the variety of musical traditions in the world by selecting five from the following areas: Africa, India, Indonesia, Japan, Europe, Native America, and South America.  The focus is dual, covering both sociology (the musicians, their roles, their audiences) and musicology (the instruments, elements of style, and basic theory) through a filed project, listening, and in-class performance.
    Enrollment Limit: 45
    Instructor: J. Fraser
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    No prior knowledge of music required.  Students with a knowledge of musical notiation and rudiments may wish to select from the 200-level Ethnomusicology courses.  (See Conservatory course descriptions.)
  

  • CMUS 104 - American Popular Song


    Semester Offered: Spring
    Credits (Range): 3
    Attribute: ARHU

    This course will survey American popular song from the late eighteenth century to the present day.  Our inquiry will follow three main paths: (1) we will engage with popular songs as salable goods in a marketplace of culture; (2) we will analyze these songs’ structures to determine the various compositional strategies deployed in their construction; (3) we will view them as interventions into a public discourse that played off well established dichotomies: popular versus high-art music, American versus international music, and so on, all for ideological purposes.  Topics for discussion will include: eighteenth-and nineteenth-century dance music, minstrelsy, Stephen Foster, operetta, Tin Pan Alley, dances of the early twentieth century, blues, Broadway musicals, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm ‘n’ blues, fold music, hip hop, and rap.  Students will be responsible for putting together a radio program or podcast at the Oberlin College radio station during which they also provide a commentary about the pieces they have chosen.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: J. O’Leary
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    None
  

  • CMUS 300 - Musical Studies Senior Seminar


    Semester Offered: Fall & Spring
    Credits (Range): 4
    Attribute: ARHU
    The Senior Seminar is required of all Musical Studies majors and includes a capstone project appropriate to each student’s concentration within the major.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: P. Cox
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CMUS 400 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: ARHU
    TBA
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: Staff

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CMUS 401 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: ARHU
    TBA
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: Staff

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CNST 130 - Phys Wellnss Musician’s Life


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    The musician’s body and its state of physical health has a strong influence on his or her ability to play or sing. This course will emphasize physical restructuring, as well as practical methods for maintaining balanced physical health. Students will develop an increased understanding of the body’s physical and muscular structures and its movement principles. Their everyday postural habits will be evaluated and corrective patterns explored. This is a practical course, with daily lab components which will allow the information to be integrated into their bodies, setting the foundation for physical health, and decreasing the possibility of injuries. Enrollment Limit 15
    Instructor: D. Vogel
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP or CR/NE only.
    Students on the wait list must attend the first class meeting to be considered for any openings.
  

  • CNST 140 - Introduction to Harpsichord Tuning and Maintenance


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1
    Attribute: CNDP
    This course will provide both the theoretical and practical skills necessary for tuning a harpsichord in a variety of common temeraments. Basic maintenance skills, including string replacement, will also be covered.
    Enrollment Limit: 4
    Instructor: R. Murphy, K. Stewart
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CNST 141 - Harpsichord Tuning Practicum


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1
    Attribute: CNDP
    This course builds on the skills acquired in Introduction to Harpsichord Tuning. Students will be expected to do three tunings every week, and will receive feedback from the instructors. Other maintenance tasks may also be covered, depending on the interest and capabilities of the students.
    Enrollment Limit: 4
    Instructor: R. Murphy, K. Stewart
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Introduction to Harpsichord Tuning and Maintenance or permission of the instructors.
  

  • CNST 150 - Introduction Piano Technology


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Introductory course in equal temperament tuning theory and application, piano nomenclature, basic piano repairs and modern action regulation. Introduction oto piano building materials and an overview of modern piano construction. Combination of lectures and hands-on shop training. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 8
    Instructor: J. Cavanaugh
  

  • CNST 151 - Intermediate Piano Technology


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3
    The class starts with a week-long review of equal temperament and action regulation/repair review. Students then focus on developing their  tuning skills, with respect to accuracy and speed, and turning the action regulation theory they were taught in the Intro course into practical skills as action technicians in the workshop. As the course nears its end, students will be introduced to the art of building and regulating tone in Steinway hammers.
    Instructor: J. Cavanaugh
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CNST 150
    Limit 8
    Consent of Intructor required.
  

  • CNST 160 - Digital Audio Skills


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module and Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    This course educates student musicians about the practical aspects of recording, editing, and distributing their music. 
    Students who complete the course will acquire the following skills:
     • choosing microphones appropriate to their instrument(s)
     • operating an audio recording device of CD-quality
     • transferring their recording to computer
     • editing their recording with computer software
     • saving their finished recording in a format for distribution (CD and/or MP3 file)
    Students will learn primarily through hands-on experience.  Each component of the course will include a technical
    introduction with written materials and practical experience with hands-on exercises.
    Instructor: P. Bloland
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of Instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 9
  

  • CNST 170 - Introduction to Music Criticism


    Next Offered: Fall 2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4
    Attribute: CNDP
    This team-taught, introductory course about music criticism will focus on developing critical professional skills through intensive writing, concert reviews, guest lectures, research, and discussion. Students will learn how to listen critically, how to prepare before reviewing a concert, and how to acquire the vocabulary, writing skills, and accumulated knowledge necessary for informed criticism. Classes will emphasize student collaboration, peer review, and frequent revisions. Online technologies will enable students to read, critique, and edit their own work and others’; and instructors to offer frequent feedback and critique.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: B. Alegant, Staff
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CNST 200 - Prof Development for the Freelance Artist


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    A semester-long course that will examine the many aspects of a freelance artist’s career. The purpose of this course is to introduce the techniques necessary to survive in the business of hte Arts. Skills such as: marketing, negotiating, entrepreneurship, writing, networking and business skills will be studied. Specialists in the various fields will be invited to the class to speak about their own professional experience. Each student will conduct an informational interview, present a press book or portfolio and set up a personal Web page.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: K. Chastain
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CNST 201 - Touring for Musicians


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1
    Overview of musical and business condsiderations in planning a tour, including repertoire selection, age-appropriate presentation techniques, audience development, contracts, travel arrangements, insurance communication and publicity.
    Instructor: G. Kim
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 25
  

  • CNST 202 - Presentation Skills


    Semester Offered: First & Second Semester (Module)
    Credits (Range): 1
    Attribute: CNDP/DDHU
    Students will design and implement successful presentations.  This class is experiential in nature and uses workshopping and peer review to build and refine skills.  The class is open to both college and conservatory students.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: M. Alegant
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
  

  • COMP 101 - Composition Workshop


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    N/A
    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    This workshop provides young composers with practical technical training in composition through direct work with Oberlin Composition Faculty, outstanding performers, and highly qualified student assistants.  Participants will receive: daily private study, workshops in idiomatic writing for a chosen group of instruments, study and discussion of works representing significant trends in contemporary music, master class experience with Oberlin Faculty composers, and a concert by our resident players of works composed during the workshop.  The concert of participant works will consist of the completed pieces that will have been worked on intensively during the session.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: L. Nielson & J. Levine
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Pass/No Pass

    20 Hrs/1 Wk
  

  • COMP 201 - Composition Class I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A course designed for composition majors, composition minors, or College music majors with composition emphasis. Units include study of notation, techniques of composition, improvisation, free composition.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Composition major, composition minor, or a College music major with emphasis in composition required.
  

  • COMP 202 - Composition Class II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A course designed for composition majors, composition minors, or College music majors with composition emphasis. Units include study of notation, techniques of composition, improvisation, free composition.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Composition major, composition minor, or a College music major with emphasis in composition required.
    Prerequisite: COMP 201
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
  

  • COMP 203 - Orchestration


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    The purpose is to develop facility in writing for various instrumental combinations. The study includes: comparison of techniques of orchestration (18th-20th centuries), practice writing and arranging for the different choirs of the modern orchestra, orchestrating complete compositions; the graphic aspect of and notational problems in more recent music.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Prerequisites: MUTH 232; COMP 202

    Junior status as a composition major or minor (or College music major, composition emphasis).

    Primarily for composition majors.
  

  • COMP 204 - New Music Workshop


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A workshop for performers and composers centered around continuing collaborations. Topics will include conventional and extended instrumental techniques, scoring, notation, performance, and compositional issues. Composers will be given regular writing assignments ranging in degrees of constraint in terms of scope and instrumentation. There will be numerous opportunities for contact between faculty and student. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: COMP 203

    Note: The course may be repeated for credit up to a maximum of eight credits
    It may be taken once in place of  TECH 350
  

  • COMP 350 - Composition Seminar


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A one-semester course designed for composition students. The semester is divided into two units of six (or seven) weeks. A variety of activities germane to the development of composers are included, such as the analysis and discussion of music by guest composers; open rehearsal-discussions; score-reading sessions; visitors from other creative arts areas on campus; outside readings in criticism and aesthetics.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: COMP 204.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Note: May be repeated for credit.
  

  • CRWR 110 - Technique and Form in Poetry


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    Extensive reading of published poetry from a creative writing perspective. Writing includes weekly exercises aimed at exploring the various techniques of poetry used in the assigned reading. In-class discussion of both assigned reading and student exercises. Primarily for first years. Upper division students may be considered during add/drop. Contact: Suzanne Overstreet, the program coordinator, to be placed on the waitlist.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: B. Matambo
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CRWR 120 - Technique and Form in Fiction


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    Extensive reading of published fiction from a creative writing perspective. Writing includes weekly exercises aimed at exploring the various techniques of fiction used in the assigned reading. Primarily for first years. Upper division students may be considered during add/drop. Contact: Suzanne Overstreet, the program coordinator, to be placed on the waitlist.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: A. Osanloo
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CRWR 201 - Poetry/Prose Workshop


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    The reading and writing of poetry and short fiction. Weekly reading and writing assignments. Extensive discussion of student work. Students will be expected to produce a substantial portfolio of fiction and poetry by the end of the term.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Chaon, L. Powell, B. Matambo, S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CRWR 246 - Poetry Out Loud


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    This course will explore a variety of performance modes, oral traditions and writing techniques that engage poetry as both a written and an oral art. Course work will include writing and performance exercises, readings on poetry’s role in public discourse and social movements, and some discussion of student assignments.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: K. Ali
  

  • CRWR 255 - Graphic Narrative


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    This course will examine the emerging art of the graphic novel and related forms such as the comic book, comic strip, and manga, with particular attention to the ways in which the structure, rhetoric and methods of the form relate to the other narrative form, such as fiction and drama.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: D. Chaon
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to non-majors
  

  • CRWR 273 - Imploding Genre: Writing and Dissecting the Mystery Story


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    This course introduces students to the forms and techniques of mystery fiction. Through weekly readings and writing exercises (1-5 pages per), students will develop an understanding of the genre with an eye toward exploring how the same principles might innovate their own narratives. Readings, dissected from a craft-oriented perspective, will include works by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Samuel Beckett, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and others. A portfolio of two stories (15-20 pages per) is due at finals.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: A. Osanloo
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CRWR 310 - Poetry Workshop


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    The writing of poetry. Intensive discussion of student work and assigned reading. Weekly writing exercises. Students will be expected to write at least one new poem every week.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: K. Ali, L. Powell
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CRWR 317 - Between Lyric and Narrative: Transitional Prose Forms


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    In this course we will look at free verse narratives, prose poems, lyric vignettes, short shorts, and modular prose forms. The readings will include work by Cernuda, Rankine, Wideman, and Maso. The weekly writing exercises will require creative responses in the forms being studied, building over the course of the term, to longer prose narratives. A portfolio of 6-7 shorter pieces, a mid-length piece, and a longer narrative (min. 10 pp) will berequired at the end of term.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: B. Matambo
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: Pre-requisites: CrWr 201 recommended.
  

  • CRWR 320 - Fiction Workshop


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    The writing of short fiction. Students will read work by modern and contemporary authors which employ a variety of structural approaches to the short story genre. Weekly reading assignments and writing exrecies. Extensive discussion of student work. Students will be expected to produce a substantial portfolio of 4-5 stories (approx. 40-50 pages) by the end of the term.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: S. Watanabe, D. Chaon
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prequisite & Notes: Prerequisite: instructor consent, CrWr 201. Admission based on a completed application form and a writing sample of at least 12 pages of fiction. See the program website for deadlines and to download forms.
  

  • CRWR 330 - Playwriting Workshop


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Theater
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    A workshop focused on discussion of student work and on selected examples from modern and contemporary drama, working toward a staged reading of an original one-act play. The course presupposes considerable knowledge of drama.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Walker
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CRWR 331 - Playwriting Lab


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 hours
    Attribute: 1HU
    For actors who are available to students in the playwriting class; to try out work in progress and be available for any productions that result. 
    Instructor: D. Walker
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP grading. See CRWR 330.
  

  • CRWR 340 - Nonfiction Workshop


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    The writing of personal narratives which employ the techniques of both the traditional essay and fiction, with an emphasis on nonfiction as a literary art form. Students will read work by modern and contemporary authors with an eye toward understanding the variety of modes which come under the current heading ‘creative nonfiction’ (memoir, meditation, travel, cultural critique, etc.), and will be asked to employ a number of these methods and approaches in their own work.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: L. Powell
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor consent, CRWR 201. Admission based on a completed application and writing sample .See the program website for deadlines and to download forms.
  

  • CRWR 350 - Translation Workshop


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    Translations into American English of works by modern and contemporary writers with some classical examples. First half of the term will focus on readings in translation theory, with related exercises. During the second half, students will work on their own translation projects.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: A. Osanloo
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Pre-requisites: Some knowledge of a foreign language and some experience in creative writing are required. Admission is based on a completed application (available on the CrWr website) and writing sample. These are due in the Program Office by the last day of class the previous term.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CMPL 350.
  

  • CRWR 360 - Screenwriting Workshop


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Cinema Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    Students will examine the art and craft of film scripting from a writer’s perspective, focusing on both adaptation and original work.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Chaon
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor consent, a completed application and writing sample. Recommended preparation: CRWR 201. See the program website for deadlines and to download forms.
  

  • CRWR 371 - The Short Story Cycle


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    This course will focus on the structure and function of the short story cycle, as a transitional genre between the short and the long forms. Readings will include work by Anderson, Munro, Erdrich, and Diaz. Students will be required to plan, to workshop, and to revise a cycle of 3-5 interrelated stories (approx. 45 pages) by the end of term.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: CRWR 201, one 300-level prose workshop, instructor consent
  

  • CRWR 450 - Teaching Imaginative Writing


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    A course for writers and aspiring teachers who want to learn how to teach imaginative writing in meaningful and effective ways in the elementary and secondary classroom. In the first half of the semester, students will examine issues of poetics, community engagement, and pedagogy, while preparing and workshopping their own original lesson plans. In the second half of the semester, students will participate in residencies at Langston Middle School.
    Enrollment Limit: 8
    Instructor: L. Powell
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes:

    Though not a prerequisite, completion of an advanced workshop in Creative Writing is encouraged.  Admission to the course is based on a completed application and writing sample.  See the Creative Writing Program’s website for deadlines and to download an application form.

     
  

  • CRWR 470 - Advanced Writing Project I


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4HU
    Advanced students will work individually with an instructor. Instructor consent. Majors should have completed two of their required 300-level workshops before applying. Please see the program website for deadlines and to download application forms.
    Instructor: K. Ali, D. Chaon, J. Grim, D. Harrison, C. Jackson-Smith, B. Matambo, P. Moser, A. Osanloo, L. Podis, L. Powell, T. Scholl, D. Walker, S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Majors should have completed two of their required 300-level workshops before applying. Please see the program website for deadlines and to download application forms.
  

  • CRWR 475 - Reading for Writing


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-2 hours
    Attribute: 1-2HU
    This course may be taken in conjunction with an advanced project, but it may not be used toward the textual studies requirement), and it is not a private reading. Upon consulting with a faculty sponsor, students will select a reading list and will complete a project related to the readings. Projects might include creative imitation of techniques in the readings, short essays responding to specific technical elements of the readings, or other craft-oriented analyses of texts. All projects must include at least 10 pages of written work (or the equivalent) per credit hour.
    Instructor: K. Ali, D. Chaon, J. Grim, D. Harrison, C. Jackson-Smith, B. Matambo, P. Moser, A. Osanloo, J. Pence, L. Podis, L. Powell, T. Scholl, D. Walker, S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CRWR 480 - Advanced Writing Project II


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4HU, WR
    Individualized writing projects.
    Instructor: K. Ali, D. Chaon, J. Grim, D. Harrison, C. Jackson-Smith, B. Matambo, P. Moser, A. Osanloo, L. Powell, T. Scholl, D. Walker, S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of 470 and consent of instructor required. Please see the program website for deadlines and to download application forms
  

  • CRWR 485 - Practicum


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-2 hours
    Attribute: 1-2HU
    This course is open to students who are interested in acquiring practical, writing-related skills by working on a literary journal, organizing a reading series, editing a student anthology, assisting with introductory Creative Writing courses, organizing community- or campus-based workshops, helping out with the Creative Writing Student Co-op, or working on other program approved projects. Students can earn a maximum of four credit hours toward the major. Consent of instructor required. Prerequisite and notes: Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: P. Alexander, K. Ali, D. Chaon, B. Matambo, A. Osanloo, L. Powell, S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CRWR 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU
    First and second semester. Independent study of a subject related to Creative Writing outside the range of catalog offerings. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: P. Alexander, K. Ali, D. Chaon, B. Matambo, A. Osanloo, L. Powell, S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CSCI 140 - Introduction to Computer Programming


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    This is a beginning course in programming using the language Python. The course is aimed at students with little or no prior programming experience who would like to know how software is developed or who would like to be able to write short programs for data manipulation. This course is also useful as preparation for students with weaker backgrounds who want to take the CSCI 150,151 sequence.
    Enrollment Limit: 60
    Instructor: R. Geitz
  

  • CSCI 150 - Principles of Computer Science I


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS, QP-F
    Introduction to algorithm design and problem solving in an object- oriented programming language. The course will cover fundamentals of computer programming including data types, variables, expressions, statements, control structures, arrays, and recursion. It will also introduce object- oriented concepts including classes, methods, inheritance, and polymorphism.
    Enrollment Limit: 45
    Instructor: S. Crain, A. Sharp, T. Wexler
    Prerequisites & Notes
    No programming experience required. A Lab is required in addition to the lecture course, either 150-03 or 150-04.
  

  • CSCI 151 - Principles of Computer Science II


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS, QP-F
    This course builds upon the principles introduced in CSCI 150 and provides a general background for further study in Computer Science. The course will cover object-oriented programming concepts; the design and implementation of data structures (linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, heaps, hash tables and graphs) and related algorithmic techniques (searching, sorting, recursion); and algorithm analysis. Students will be expected to complete a number of programming projects illustrating the concepts presented.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: R. Geitz, A. Sharp, C. Taylor, Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 150 or consent of the instructor. Notes: Students considering a computer science major are strongly encouraged to take either CSCI 150-151 or CSCI 140-150 in their first year. A lab is required with this course: 151-02 or 151-03
  

  • CSCI 210 - Computer Organization


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    An introduction to computer architecture and assembly language programming. This course describes the organization of computers at the digital logic, register transfer, and instruction set architecture levels. Emphasis is placed on the design of a CPU and on the role of the CPU within a computer system. This course will teach an assembly language using the computer laboratory facilities.
    Instructor: C. Taylor
    Prerequisites & Notes
    CSCI 150; CSCI 151 is recommended.
  

  • CSCI 241 - Systems Programming


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    This course will consider the C programming language and its relationship to the Unix operating system. It will also introduce the C++ language and focus on differences between the Java and C++. Some Unix system programming issues will also be included. The course will require a significant amount of programming.
    Instructor: S. Crain
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 151 or CSCI 210.
  

  • CSCI 275 - Programming Abstractions


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    Programming language fundamentals are studied as abstract concepts using the programming language Scheme. Included are the notions of closures, first-class data structures, procedure and data abstraction, object-oriented programming, continuations, compilation and interpretation, and syntactic extension. Some advanced control structures such as coroutines and asynchronous interrupts may also be included.
    Instructor: R. Geitz
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 151 or consent of the instructor. Co-requisite: MATH 220.
  

  • CSCI 280 - Introduction to Algorithms


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    Students will be introduced to algorithm design and analysis, with an emphasis on applications to real-life problems arising in computing applications. Students will study the basic design techniques of the field from a theoretical perspective and learn how to apply these techniques to solve problems in simple, efficient ways. Computational complexity focusing on NP-completeness, and algorithmic techniques for intractable problems are also covered. Knowledge of discrete mathematics is necessary.
    Instructor: A. Sharp
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 151 and Math 220.
  

  • CSCI 290 - Studies in Computation and Modeling


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    A course in the fundamental concepts of computational science, the modeling process, computer simulations, and scientific applications. It considers two major approaches to computational science problems: system dynamics models and spacial/agent-based simulations. Students will construct their own models and simulations in a series of projects.
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: R. Salter
    Prerequisites & Notes
    HIgh school math.
  

  • CSCI 299 - Seminar: Mind and Machine


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Neuroscience
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    An inter/multidisciplinary exploration of what it means to have a ‘mind.’ Format mostly involves discussions of readings/talks/videos taken from areas as diverse as artificial intelligence, psychology, economics, marketing, philosophy and neuroscience. Labs involve programming using different software packages and building and programming LEGO robots. No background in computer use, programming or neuroscience is required. However, students with a background in any or all of these areas are encouraged to enroll.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: A. Borroni
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: This course has a corresponding lab.
  

  • CSCI 311 - Database Systems


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    This course examines the logical design of databases using the entity-relationship, relational, and object-oriented models; and database application programming using SQL, JDBC, and PHP. Other topics include security and integrity, concurrency control and distributed database systems.
    Instructor: J. Donaldson
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 275.
  

  • CSCI 331 - Compilers


    Semester Offered: 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    A laboratory course - translating programs to machine language - emphasis will be given to the five main steps of compilation: lexical analysis, parsing, semantic analysis, code generation, and code optimization. Alternative strategies will be considered for each of these steps. Each student will write a compiler for a language developed for this course.
    Instructor: J. Donaldson
    Prerequisites & Notes
    CSCI 210 and CSCI 151 or consent of the instructor.
  

  • CSCI 333 - Natural Language Processing


    Semester Offered: 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    An introduction to computational models of natural (human) language at the lexical, syntactic, and semantic levels. The course covers algorithms for sentence parsing and analysis. Applications include language generation and machine translation.
    Instructor: J. Donaldson
  

  • CSCI 341 - Operating Systems


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    The theory of operating system design and implementation. Concepts and techniques of concurrent programming are covered, relevant to the design of operating system kernels. Such functions as process control, memory management, file management, and device management are included.
    Instructor: C. Taylor
    Prerequisites & Notes
    CSCI 210 and CSCI 241 or consent of instructor.
  

  • CSCI 342 - Computer Networks


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    Networks are a central part of any modern computing system. This course will first consider the design of contemporary local and wide-area networks in terms of their abstract layers. (ie. the TCP/IP and OSI reference models) and then focus on actual implementations of those layers. The course will include a study of the protocols used in the Internet.
    Instructor: C. Taylor
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 210, (CSCI 241 recommended), or consent of the instructor. Taught in alternate years only.
  

  • CSCI 345 - Social Networks


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 NS
    New course added 11.02.12.

    This is a course on the analysis of data gathered from social networks. We will focus on algorithms for efficient storage and analysis of “big data”, which is commonly associated with social networks. We will also survey applications of social network data, especially applications that support decisions based on such data. This course crosses many of the traditional boundaries of Computer Science, including elements of algorithms, networks, artificial intelligence and human-computer interface design.
    Instructor: S. Crain
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 241 or consent of the instructor.
  

  • CSCI 357 - Computer Graphics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    An introduction to the theory and practice of computer graphics. Topics include graphics hardware, 2D and 3D transformations, perspective displays and clipping, hidden surfaces, color and shading, lighting models, splines, and fractals. Programming projects will make use of the OpenGL library. This course emphasizes algorithms and techniques for 3D image synthesis.
    Instructor: R. Geitz
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MATH 232, CSCI 241, CSCI 280, or consent of instructor.

    Notes: Taught in alternate years.
  

  • CSCI 361 - Game Design


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 NS
    A project based course in which students analyze, design and develop fully functional computer games in small groups. Topics include graphics, artificial intelligence, user interfaces, setting and storytelling, and game balance. Projects are created using C# and XNA or Unity3D.  Students are expected to develop facility with these tools independently.

    This course replaces CSCI 261, effective Fall Semester 2013.
    Instructor: T. Wexler
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 151 or consent.
  

  • CSCI 364 - Artificial Intelligence


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    A study of the techniques currently being used in programs that mimic intelligent or human behavior. Topics include machine learning, search strategies, and knowledge representation
    Instructor: A. Sharp
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: CSCI 151 or consent of instructor. Taught in alternate years only.
  

  • CSCI 365 - Advanced Algorithms


    Semester Offered: 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    An advanced theoretical class on algorithms techniques, in which students learn about recent and current research. Topics include approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms, game theory, bioinformatics and linear programming.
    Instructor: A. Sharp
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Math 220, CSCI 280 or consent of instructor.
  

  • CSCI 383 - Theory of Computer Science


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    This course examines three increasingly powerful mathematical models of computation. For each model, we explore its capabilities, limitations and variants. Emphasis is placed on abstraction and formal mathematical reasoning. Topics include finite automata and regular expressions, non-determinism, context-free grammars and pushdown automata, Turing machines, undecidability, recursive and recursively enumerable sets, and complexity classes.

     

     

     

     
    Instructor: T. Wexler
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Pre-requisites: CSCI 280 and Math 220.
  

  • CSCI 401 - Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-4 hours
    Attribute: 2-4NS
    Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: A. Borroni, R. Geitz, B. Kuperman, R. Salter, A. Sharp, C. Taylor, T. Wexler
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • CSCI 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3NS
    Signed permission of the instructor is required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: A. Borroni, R. Geitz, B. Kuperman, R. Salter, A. Sharp, C. Taylor, T. Wexler
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
 

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