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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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EDUA 563 - OCEAN Graduate Workshop: American History
Semester Offered: Summer 2012
Credits (Range): 1 Hour
Attribute: 1 EX
This course helps teachers enhance content knowledge and explore effective college-level pedagogy including identifiying appropriate materials for course preparation and student use, and appropriate grading standards. This section focuses on developing critical analysis and substantial resources on a selected topic or period in American history. We read 3-4 books, discuss how to integrate them into syllabus revisions, evaluate research topics, and discuss how to teach students to research and write college-level history papers.
Instructor: C. Lasser
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
Open to a selected graduate audience only.
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EDUA 564 - OCEAN Graduate Workshop: American Government
Semester Offered: Summer 2013
Credits (Range): 1 Hour
Attribute: 1 EX
This course helps teachers enhance content knowledge and explore effective college-level pedagogy including identifying appropriate materials and grading standards. This section focuses on contemporary debates and controversies in American government to deepen teachers’ knowledge of recent developments and emerging scholarship. Discussion addresses book-length analytical works and selected readings from readers and journals. Topics include: representation in Congress; presidential power; civil rights and civil liberties; media and politics; and campaign effectiveness.
Instructor: M Parkin
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
Open to a selected graduate audience only
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EDUA 570 - Graduate Workshop: Ohio and the Spanish Civil War
Semester Offered: Summer 2010
Credits (Range): 1 Hour
Attribute: 1 EX
The Spanish Civil War (1936-39), in which almost 3,000 Americans—including more than 100 Ohioans—joined the fight against fascism, is an outstanding pedagogical tool to introduce the major historical, political, and cultural issues that marked the evolution of twentieth-century history and culture, helping students understand the extent to which political ideas and ideals can shape people’s lives and move them to make difficult and sometimes dangerous choices.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: S. Faber
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
Open to a selected graduate audience only.
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EDUC 300 - Principles of Education
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: WRi
Foundations of education with emphasis on examination of current educational issues in a historical context and identification of underlying philosophical assumptions. Enrollment Limit: Open to juniors and seniors only.
Instructor: P. Bennett
Prerequisites & Notes
Counts as liberal arts course for Conservatory and Double-Degree students.
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ENGL 107 - Shakespeare and Film
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
An introduction to studying Shakespeare through attention to the films that have been made of his plays for over a century, and that determine many of the meanings of his works for us today. This lecture course will balance an interest in the plays themselves with close reading of selected films, considered as works of art, as cultural documents, and as interpretations of Shakespeare.
Enrollment Limit: 50
Instructor: N. Jones
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ENGL 112 - One Hundred Poems
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU
An introduction to poetry in English, from Late Middle English to the present, giving particular attention to the ways in which lyric distinguishes itself from other genres, manifests both thought and feeling, relates to historical and cultural context, and rewards close, often excruciatingly close, reading. Students will be expected to demonstrate an intimate familiarity with the texts.
Enrollment Limit: 50
Instructor: D. Harrison
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ENGL 202 - Medieval British Literature
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
We will survey the beginnings of British literature, from Beowulf to Le Morte d’Arthur. How did orality and literacy influence the development of medieval poetry? How did courtly and popular entertainments influence one another? What part did fiction play in festivals and religious life? How did English, the language of uneducated peasants, become a literary language of choice on the eve of the English Renaissance? British, Pre-1700.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: J. Bryan
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 206 - Shakespearean Tragedy
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
Intrigue, heartache, existential despair, violence, madness, guilt, shame, grief, jealousy, revenge, murder: the themes of England’s great playwright, writing at the peak of his artistic achievement. Through a careful reading of the plays, we will discover Shakespeare’s remarkable achievements as a tragedian; the course will also provide a sense of the vital world of early modern England, and theoretical considerations of Tragedy as a genre. British, Pre-1700.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: W. Hyman
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 212 - Wits, Rakes, Madmen, and Jane: A Survey of Eighteenth-Century Literature
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
This course explores eighteenth-century British literature and culture through these four pivotal figures. We will follow these figures across a variety of genres and literary traditions – including poetry, drama, the periodical essay, novels, gothic fiction, travel literature – as well as across media, in particular the visual arts. With their help we will also trace important cultural shifts in the period, such as the development of a middle class; growth of consumer culture; the expansion of Empire; and the rise of a literary marketplace. British, 1700-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: L. Baudot
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 218 - Shakespeare and the Limits of Genre
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Theater
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
An exploration of Shakespeare’s experiments with the idea of genre, considered in both thematic and formal terms. We will study seven plays in depth, concentrating on the so-called problem comedies and late romances, probably Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well, Cymbeline, and The Winter’s Tale. Attention will be paid to the plays both as literature and as texts for performance. British, Pre-1700.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: D. Walker
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200 Level Courses.’
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ENGL 224 - History of Science Fiction
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, WR
New Course added 07.08.12.
Why Science Fiction? What does SF uniquely allow us to say? How does it enable us to think and imagine differently? This course surveys the history of SF beginning in the nineteenth century in the context of developments in science, technology, imperialism, and capitalism that influenced it. Authors include Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Samuel Butler, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, Philip K. Dick, and Ursula K. Le Guin. British.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: J. Kuskey
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 238 - Contemporary American Fiction
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
This course selectively surveys contemporary American fiction. Thematic connections include the role of memory and the past in defining current literary practice. We’ll also focus on the nature of interpretation and its role in consolidating its object of study. The reading list is diverse in a number of ways – stylistic, generic and cultural – but always includes some very recently published work. Past authors have included Bechdel, Canin, Erdrich, Diaz, Lahiri, McCarthy, Pollack, Whitehead. American, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: J. Pence
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200 level Courses.’
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ENGL 239 - History and Structure of the English Language
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU
We will trace the development of the language from its Anglo-Saxon beginnings to the present, emphasizing the intersections between language, literature, and culture. We will also be concerned with changing attitudes toward language and the study of language, including such issues as correctness, dialect, dictionaries, and change itself. The course requires a consistent level of commitment; students should expect frequent assignments and exams. British, Pre-1700.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: J. Bryan
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-level Courses.’
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ENGL 242 - Asian American Literature at the Crossroads
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative American Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR
New course added 10.23.12.
A critical mass of Asian American literature has arrived; that presence, while valuable, also comes with many responsibilities. How does Asian American literature represent its increasingly global constituencies? What narrative forms and literary devices do writers and artists use to give figure to culture? This course explores the aesthetics, theories, and politics of Asian American literature and culture. It will focus especially on questions of diaspora, gender and sexuality, and cultural critique. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: H. Suarez
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 255 - In Search of America: The Concept of Nature in Early American Writing
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Environmental Studies
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
An exploration of different perspectives on the natural world in early American literature, this course also introduces students to research skills and information technology. Texts will include sermons, promotional tracts, descriptions of the land and its inhabitants, captivity narratives, American Indian responses to European encounters, poetry, autobiography, philosophical and political treatises, and fiction. By connecting today’s “information landscape” with the writings of early America, we will investigate the meaning of “nature” in the New World. American, 1700-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: T. S. McMillin
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 257 - American Literature at the Turn into the Twentieth Century: Making and Re-Making “Americans”
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative American Studies
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
The literature of this era reflected and helped shape debates about the nature of “America” and “Americans,” both in flux in the decades after civil war. Diverse notions of “literature” came into play as well. These and related issues will frame the course. Readings will include narratives and essays by Howells, James, Jewett, Freeman, Chesnutt, Hopkins, Twain, Garland, Dunbar Nelson, Sui Sin Far, Zitkala Sa, others. American, Diversity, 1700-1900
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: S. Zagarell
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 258 - August Wilson: The Century Cycle
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
African American Studies, Comparative American Studies, Comparative Literature, Theater
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
August Wilson’s cycle of plays set in each decade of the 20th century is the most ambitious dramatic project depicting the African American experience, and this course surveys the cycle with a critically “syncretic” approach. We will supplement readings of the plays with (self-identified) primary influences on Wilson’s work – Baraka, Blues, Borges, Bearden – in order to describe the unique sense of form and ritual he brings to the collective project of representing the black experience. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: G. Johns
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 260 - Black Humor and Irony: Modern Literary Experiments
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
African American Studies, Comparative American Studies, Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
African American humor has until recently received little academic study. But the many anthologies of folk humor and the visibility of stand-up comedy invite us to examine the presence and rhetorical role of humor, comedy, and irony in African American literature. This course thus centers on a representative group of modern black humorists and explores various approaches (functional, structural, and cultural) for interpreting their works. Authors will include Chesnutt, Hurston, Hughes, Ellison, and Reed. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: G. Johns
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 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, and 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 – including, not least, gender and sexuality – is effective. Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: A. Needham
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-level Courses.’
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CMPL 265.
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ENGL 269 - Bristling with Images: Learning to Read Illustrated Texts
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, WR
New Course added 06.07.12.
Though recent editions often omit them, illustrations and other visual cues contributed to the meanings of many 19th- and 20th-century texts, including those of Dickens, Blake, Tennyson, Carroll, Rossetti, Wilde, James, Woolf, West, and Barnes. We will attempt to restore the full complexity of these texts as we read them alongside multiple theories and histories of illustration and incorporate the resources of the AMAM and the letter press studio. British, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: J. Emery-Peck
Consent of the Instructor Required: No
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 275 - Introduction to Comparative Literature
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 CMPL 200.
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ENGL 277 - American Drama
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative American Studies, Theater
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
Selected works of major American playwrights. Emphasis will be placed on close reading, as well as on the significance of each play in regard to political and social movements of the time and the evolution of the American theater. Among the playwrights to be considered: Odets, O’Neill, Williams, Hellman, Albee, Shepard, Baraka, Bullins, Fornes, Kushner. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: C. Tufts
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-Level Courses.’ Please note: Not open to students who have taken ENGL 365.
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ENGL 282 - Shifting Scenes: Drama Survey
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative Literature, Theater
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
This course will study the development of drama from the ancient Greeks to the present with the aim of promoting understanding and analysis of dramatic texts. By studying the major forms of drama – tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy – within their historical and cultural contexts, we will explore the elements common to all dramatic works, as well as the way in which those elements vary and evolve from one time and place to another. Diversity. 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both).
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: C. Tufts
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 285 - History of Science Fiction
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, WR
New course added 10.23.12.
Why Science Fiction? What does this genre uniquely allow us to say? How does it enable us to think and imagine differently? This course surveys the history of SF beginning in the nineteenth century and in the context of developments in science, technology, imperialism, and capitalism that influenced its emergence and evolution. Authors will include Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, Philip K. Dick, and Ursula K. LeGuin. British.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: J. Kuskey
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 286 - 19th-Century British Fiction: Engines, Evolution, Empire
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, WR
New course added 10.23.12.
This course will cover a broad range of fiction that aimed to represent, critique, or intervene in the period’s major historical events and social concerns: the expanding British Empire (King Solomon’s Mines and The Moonstone); industrialization and urbanization (North and South); gender roles (Jane Eyre); detectives and investigation (Sherlock Holmes stories); class mobility and what it means to be a gentleman (Great Expectations); and the intersection between science and sexuality (Tess of the d’Urbervilles). British, 1700-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: J. Kuskey
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 299 - Introduction to the Advanced Study of Literature
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
This course will introduce students to fundamental issues, approaches, and methods in the study of literature. We will consider the issues of form and aesthetics, literary history, and literature as a social activity and part of a larger cultural context. Throughout we will return to the basic questions: What do we study? How do we study it? Why do we study it? NB. This course is required for English majors and minors who declare after July, 2009. This course is intended to prepare students for the English major and advanced work in literary study. Students who are interested in majoring or minoring in English should take this course by the end of their sophomore year and before they declare the English major.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: J. Bryan, W. P. Day, L. Baudot
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-Level Courses.’
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ENGL 301 - Chaucer
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
The Canterbury Tales is not only a great compilation of medieval genres, from knightly romance to bawdy farce to beast fable. It is also a sustained investigation into the theory and practice of storytelling, and the role fictions play in a larger cultural context. No previous experience with Middle English is required. British, Pre-1700.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Bryan
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 309 - The Poetry of Love and Seduction in the Renaissance
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
From love sonnets to pornographic narratives, from carpe diem seductions to marriage odes, early modern poets employed a dazzling array of literary resources for writing about love, sex, gender, and desire – often disguising darker explorations of skepticism, political transgression, religious defiance, and death. This course will trace the development of erotic poetry in Renaissance England, with reference to these poems’ rich cultural, intellectual, and historical context. British, Pre-1700.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: W. Hyman
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 312 - Milton
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
Paradise Lost (1667), John Milton’s great epic poem about the fall of humankind, is at the core of this course: we will study it from a number of approaches including its reinterpretation of classical epic and Biblical narrative; its influence on later writers, especially the Romantics; and its relation to the artistic movement of the Baroque. We will also read other works of Milton, including Lycidas, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. British, Pre-1700.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: N. Jones
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 324 - Six Poets: 1945-Present
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
This course will pay close attention to poetry’s efforts to find new forms and modes of expression in a world overshadowed by unthinkable acts and unspeakable experience. How have lyric poets undertaken to employ their art to give voice to what appears to be, by definition, unutterable? Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Heaney, Ashbery, Graham. American OR British (not both), Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: D. Harrison
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 326 - Victorian “Others”
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4 HU, WR, CD
New course added 07.08.12.
This course will explore some of the many ways 19th-century British culture defined the “self” and “Other.” Topics covered include Orientalism; savagism/civilization; the British Empire; phrenology and other forms of scientific racism; opium-eaters; “freaks” like the “Hottentot Venus” and “Ape Woman”; the “Jewish Question” and proto-Zionism; and anthropological investigations into London’s squalid East End. Texts will be generically diverse, including adventure novel, detective fiction, high realism, abolitionist poetry, travel writing, biography, and photo-journalism. British, 1700-1900, Diversity.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Kuskey
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 348 - Modern Drama: Ibsen to Pirandello
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative Literature, Theater
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
This course explores the different ways in which “reality” was staged by playwrights including Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Shaw, and Pirandello. We will consider how modern theatrical movements such as realism, naturalism, expressionism, and metadrama sought to represent “reality,” focusing on evolving stagecraft. Emphasis will also be placed on the historical and cultural contexts surrounding the early stages of modern drama. Diversity, 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both).
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: C. Tufts
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 359 - “Race-ing” Studies in Classic American Literature
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
African American Studies, Comparative American Studies, Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
This course begins with Lawrence’s Studies in Classic American Literature and Morrison’s Playing in the Dark as literary-critical points of departure for exploring the American imagination “symptomatically”; next, we take up contemporary theoretical (critical race) studies of “whiteness” and “blackness.” Throughout, then, we will consider how race has discursively functioned as a provocative, tendentious literary figure – if also a persistent socio-historical category – useful for investigating national anxieties (but also pleasures!) in landmark works of fiction. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: G. Johns
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 366 - Nature and Transcendentalism
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Environmental Studies
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
An examination of the writings of the American Transcendentalists of the 19th century with special attention to Emerson, Thoreau, and the concept of nature. We will study some of the early contributors to this school of thought, as well as more recent expositors. Students should be prepared to tackle difficult texts that pose challenging philosophical, political, and interpretive questions. American, 1700-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: T. S. McMillin
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 367 - The French Joyce
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
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. Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Deppman
Prerequisites & Notes
A literature course in any language.
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CMPL 367.
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ENGL 369 - Looking Across & Thinking Between: Juxtaposing Theoretical Approaches to Visual & Literary
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4 HU, WR
New course added 10.23.12.
We’ll read words and images through a range of theoretical approaches and consider how representation works across a variety of media and genres. We’ll push across boundaries, think outside frames, and read across margins. We’ll consider how visual theory can be productively combined with genre theory, work on book history and print culture, theories of gender and sexuality, and media theory. We’ll be learning how to read across and between. British OR American (not both), Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Emery-Peck
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 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, Irigaray, and Spivak; fiction by Woolf, Ford, Borges, Chu T’ien-wen, Carter, Duras, and Garcia-Marquez. Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Deppman
Prerequisites & Notes
A literature course in any language.
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CMPL 370.
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ENGL 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. American, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: W. P. Day
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 CMPL 372.
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ENGL 373 - American Literature, Movies, and Culture in the 1930s: Art and Social Value
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
This course focuses on American culture in the 1930s with particular reference to the relation between the novel and cinema, though other arts and media such as photography, painting, and music will also be addressed. We will consider not only the relation of these arts to each other but to the social crisis of the Great Depression. American, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: W. P. Day
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Advanced Courses’. Also acceptable: CINE 110 or CINE 111 and a Cinematic Traditions Course OR CINE 299.
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CINE 373.
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ENGL 377 - Victorian Literature and Science
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4 HU, WR
New course added 10.23.12.
Victorian society was rocked by science. Darwinism, dinosaur bones, and the discovery that the sun is dying all produced alarming crises of faith. This course will introduce you to interdisciplinary approaches to literature and science, and will cover scientific topics ranging from physics and evolution, to hypnotism and mesmerism. We will read poetry by Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and Matthew Arnold, and novels by Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot. British, 1700-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Kuskey
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 379 - Welfare Queens and Tiger Moms: Reading Transgressive Motherhood
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative American Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR
New course added 10.23.12
What do mothers owe their families, and what do children owe their mothers? What pleasure and power is there in the maternal? What is a bad mother? How do narratives of race, class, migration, gender, and sexuality structure representations of the maternal in ethnic American literature? In this course, we will consider the aesthetics and politics of motherhood, thinking both about mothers in the proper sense and various metaphors of motherhood. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: H. Suarez
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 381 - Hopeful Monsters: (Mixed-)Media Studies
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
This course looks at hybrid media forms across historical, national and aesthetic boundaries. What happens when generally distinct aesthetic forms and practices are merged? What do they reveal about the nature of the original media they are constructed from? How is interpretive activity challenged by such works? Our objects of study will include visual art, experimental poetry, innovative memoir, essay-films, narrative and documentary cinema, graphic and experimental fiction and more. American, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Pence
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `Advanced Courses.’ Also acceptable: CINE 110 or CINE 111 and a Cinematic Traditions Course, OR CINE 299.
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CINE 381.
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ENGL 383 - Selected Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
A close reading of short fiction, autobiography, and the major novels from Despair through Transparent Things by this great 20th-century master. American, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: D. Walker
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 390 - Selected Authors: William Faulkner
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
An intensive study of major works by William Faulkner (1897-1962). Readings include Flags in the Dust, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, The Unvanquished and Absalom, Absalom!, and a selection of poetry, short stories, essays, and speeches. American, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Olmsted
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `Advanced Courses.’
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ENGL 399 - Teaching & Tutoring Writing Across the Disciplines
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, WRi
A course in which students will tutor at the writing center or assist one of the writing-intensive courses offered in various disciplines while studying composition theory and pedagogy. In the process of helping to educate others, students work toward a fuller understanding of their own educational experiences, particularly in writing.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: L. McMillin, L. Podis
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
Experienced students of all majors who write well are encouraged to apply. Closed to first-years and to seniors in their final semester. Students enrolling in RHET 401/ENGL 399 should also enroll in RHET 402, Tutoring Lab.
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with RHET 401.
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ENGL 400 - Senior Tutorial
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Credits (Range): 2-4 hours
Attribute: 2-4HU, WR
For English majors in either semester of their final year only, involving close work in a small group on an individual project, leading to a substantial paper.
Enrollment Limit: 9
Instructor: L. Baudot, T. S. McMillin, J. Pence
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Senior Tutorials and Seminars.
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ENGL 437 - Senior Seminar: Poetics
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
What does it mean to make a poem? What does it mean to make art in any form? What does it mean to make sense of art? What methods and presuppositions shape and influence interpretive work? Poetic, critical, and theoretical texts will make up the readings. Written work will emphasize scrupulous planning and exacting revision. 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both).
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: D. Harrison
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Senior Tutorials and Seminars.’
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ENGL 448 - Senior Seminar: Words and Things
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, WR
An exploration of the philosophy, theory, and intellectual history of literary/aesthetic representation. What is the relationship between creative ideas – even consciousness itself – and expressive language? Sounds and written symbols? Signifier and Signified? Words and Things? Probable theorists include Aristotle, Plato, Auerbach, Bacon, Sidney, Wittgenstein, Eco, Ong, Saussure, Foucault, Derrida, Latour, and a selection of rich literary works that are attentive to poetic and linguistic making as such. Students will be guided through substantive research papers.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: W. Hyman
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Senior Tutorials and Seminars.’
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ENGL 450 - Honors Seminar
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
Attribute: 1-4HU, WR
Intensive year-long work on a topic developed in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a substantial paper and a defense of that paper. During the Fall semester, Honors students will meet in a seminar to discuss their projects and common issues in literary criticism and theory.
Instructor: A. Needham
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Honors and Private Readings.’
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ENGL 451 - Honors Project
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
Attribute: 1-4HU, WR
Intensive year-long work on a topic developed in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a substantial paper and a defense of that paper.
Instructor: A. Needham
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Honors and Private Readings.’
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ENGL 900 - OCEAN: Shakespeare & Performance
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Credits (Range): 1.5-3 hours
Attribute: 1.5-3 HU
A study of three or four Shakespeare plays in depth, emphasizing their status as texts for performance. Students study the plays using rehearsal techniques, workshops, and attending and analyzing actual performances on video and live as available.
Instructor: Staff
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
Strong performance in previous English courses. Notes: Off campus concurrent enrollment equivalent to English courses at the 100-level. High School concurrent enrollment only.
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ENGL 918 - The London Stage
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU
This course aims to expose students to contemporary British theatre in all its variety. At its heart will be discussion of productions in the current London repertory, with plays ranging from classical to contemporary, and venues including subsidized, commercial, and fringe theatres.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: D. Vintner
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: Taught in London. This course is taught in London as part the of the Danenberg Oberlin-in-London program. Enrollment is conditional on acceptance into the program.
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ENGL 995 - Private Reading
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
Attribute: 0.5-3HU
Signed permission of the instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 5
Instructor: L. Baudot, J. Bryan, J. Cooper, W. P. Day, J. Deppman, D. Harrison, W. Hyman, G. Johns, N. Jones, T. S. McMillin, A. Needham, J. Pence, L. Podis, H, Suarez, N. Tessone, A. Trubek, C. Tufts, D. Walker, S. Zagarell
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ENTR 100 - Introduction to Entreprenuership and Leadership
Semester Offered: First and Second Semester, First Module
Credits (Range): 1
Attribute: 1 EX
Through a series of case studies, this course introduces students to entrepreneurship in its social and historical contexts. Students explore the role of mission and vision; pressures exerted by economic constraints, ethical issues as they relate to entrepreneurship, and factors that contribute to successful entrepreneurial endeavor. The course will also survey the resources available at Oberlin to students interested in launching their own ventures. Open to all students.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: A. Kalyn
Consent of the Instructor Required: No
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ENTR 101 - Business Model Innovation
Semester Offered: Fall Semester, Second Module
Credits (Range): 0-1
Attribute: CNDP, EX
Students will create a business model for a venture they are interested in starting. Topics include: developing a compelling value proposition; key required partnerships, resources, and activities to realize the value proposition; distribution channels; types of customer relationships; sustainability.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: D. Mills-Scofield
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ENTR 110 - Fundamentals of Finance
Semester Offered: First & Second Semester, First & Second Module
Credits (Range): 0-1 hours
Attribute: 0-1 EX
Fundamentals of Finance gives students a solid understanding of the fundamental theoretical contructs of finance and accounting to enable them to make informed financial decisions at all stages of their lives. The course further explains how these same constructs can help them analyze and discuss important issues in the world around them, including the financial crisis and foreclosures, bank behavior, sovereign debt issues, student loan levels and repayment, and investment decisions.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: B. Tallman
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ENVS 101 - Environment and Society
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS
An introduction to social, economic, technological, and political aspects of environmental problems with emphasis on major theorists and ideas that have influenced the environmental movement. Different schools of thought on the relationship between humankind and nature will be discussed with the aim of providing students with a broad understanding of issues, causes, and possible solutions to the array of environmental problems.
Enrollment Limit: 40
Instructor: M. Maniates, M. Shammin
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: Open to first and second year students. Upper classmen may be added only by consent during add/drop.
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ENVS 201 - Nature Culture Interpretation (Humanities)
Next Offered: 2013-2014
Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU
This course develops students’ capacity to understand how humans conceptualize, interpret, value, and engage with the non-human world. We examine the ways narratives, aesthetic modes, and philosophical systems inform humans’ understanding of the nonhuman world. We engage in close readings of literary, religious, philosophical, visual, and cinematic texts as well as examining current environmental issues from an interdisciplinary humanities perspective. (ENVS202 is similar but places greater emphasis on social science perspectives).
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Fiskio
Prerequisites & Notes
ENVS 101
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ENVS 202 - Nature Culture Interpretation (Social Science)
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS
This course develops students’ capacity to understand how humans conceptualize, interpret, value, and engage with the non-human world. We examine the ways narratives, aesthetic modes, and philosophical systems inform humans’ understanding of the nonhuman world. We engage in the analysis of literary, religious, philosophical, visual, and cinematic texts as well as examining current environmental issues from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. (ENVS201 is similar but places greater emphasis on humanities perspectives).
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: C. Washington-Ottombre
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite & Notes: ENVS 101
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ENVS 208 - Environmental Policy
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Politics
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS
This course introduces students to the foundations, evolution, actors, content, goals and future of environmental policies in the U.S. We will contrast federal policies with initiatives in local communities, at the State level, in other countries, and at the international level. By navigating through various levels of governance, this course builds a typology of environmental policies highlighting distinct assumptions , interests, approaches and agendas of key players in the development and implementation of policy. Note:
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: M. Maniates
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: Restricted to ENVS and POLT majors.
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with POLT 208.
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ENVS 219 - Climate Change
Next Offered: 2013-2014
Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU
This course engages with the ethical dilemmas posed by climate change. We utilize the disciplines of the humanities to approach questions of ethics and equity in light of the long-term horizon of human impacts on the environment. We will also critically examine the rhetoric and narratives used to talk about climate change. The course culminates with small group projects and presentations designed for a public venue.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Fiskio
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ENVS 220 - Environmental Analysis in Social Science
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS
This course focuses on quantitative analytical techniques and social science research methods in environmental studies for students from various disciplines and provides basic training on environmental impact assessment and environmental management systems. Specific topics include environmental degradation, resource sustainability, end use analysis, economic analysis, stocks and flows in nature, population dynamics, and indirect effects. Students will analyze contemporary environmental issues with special attention to environmental justice and fairness.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: M. Shammin
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ENVS 222 - Local vs. Global: Environmental Issues Beyond Borders
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS, CD
Global environmental issues often cut across national boundaries. Forging effective solutions to these problems requires consideration of the cultural, socio-economic, and political processes that influence the relationship between humans and the natural environment in different parts of the world. This course uses case studies, critical thinking exercises, and projects for the students to develop an understanding of international environmental issues and discover ways in which their personal choices can improve the environment.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: M. Shammin
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ENVS 231 - Environmental Economics
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Economics
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS, QP-H
The course is an introduction to the theory and practice of environmental economics. Emphasis is placed on understanding how the basic tools of economic analysis are used to identify sources of environmental problems, value environmental resources, and design environmental policy within the framework of a market based economic system.
Enrollment Limit: 40
Instructor: J. Suter
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: ECON 101.
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ECON 231.
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ENVS 302 - American Agricultures
Next Offered: 2013-2014
Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU
This course surveys cultural, religious, and philosophical perspectives on agriculture through essays, literature, film, and field trips. We explore the ways ideas about agriculture are institutionalized through events such as colonization, industrial agriculture, the Dust Bowl, and the Green Revolution. Themes include domestication, pastoralism, and the interplay of agrarian philosophy and democratic theory in the United States. The course closes with contemporary movements in sustainable agriculture, such as urban farming, farmworker’s rights, and local foods.
Enrollment Limit: 13
Instructor: J. Fiskio
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ENVS 303 - Governing the Commons: a seminar in water resources
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS
This course investigates the management of a common pool resource: water. As concerns over water scarcity and quality increase, water management at the international, regional, and local levels constitutes a crucial issue. This course will address this issue by looking at the institutions around the world that regulate water use. Student projects will investiage the details of water management in the Great Lakes region.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: C. Washington-Ottombre
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite & Notes: ENVS 101 AND either ENVS 208, ENVS 231, or instructor consent.
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ENVS 305 - Vulnerability and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS
This course investigates the dynamics of social-ecological systems (SESs) by focusing on how systems respond to global environmental change (GEC). We will study how societies mitigate and adapt to those changes by examining the literature on risks, hazards, and resilience. In particular, we will address how communities around the world respond to GEC in spite of of physical and economic constraints.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: C. Washington-Ottombre
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite & Notes: ENVS 101 AND either ENVS 208, ENVS 231, or instructor consent.
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ENVS 310 - Ecological Design
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS
An upper-division seminar for seniors on ecological design, i.e. the intersection of human intentions with the ecologies of particular places. This course will include a broad survey of ecological design strategies from different cultures along with special emphasis on recent work in architecture, community design, energy systems, landscape management, and ecological engineering and the work of Carol Franklin, John Lyle, William McDonough, Sim van der Ryn, and John Todd.
Enrollment Limit: 17
Instructor: D. Orr
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
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ENVS 315 - Seminar: Confronting Consumption
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS
As both a cultural norm and a driver of economic prosperity, consumerism is thought to be incompatible with environmental sustainability. Drawing on an eclectic range of scholarly and activist work, this seminar explores the emergence and spread of consumerism, interrogates the ?overconsumption? it is thought to create, and considers the politics and policy requirements of material sacrifice in service of environmental sustainability. The seminar requires close reading of text, analytic writing, and engaged discussion.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: M. Maniates
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite & Notes: ENVS 101 or Consent
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ENVS 316 - Systems Ecology
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Biology
Next Offered: 2013-2014
Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4NS
The ecosystem concept provides a framework for understanding complex interactions between life and the physical environment and the role of humans as dominant agents of biogeochemical change. We will apply systems concepts to understand the flows of energy, cycles of matter and control mechanisms that operate in ecosystems and will compare the structure and function of a variety of natural and human dominated ecosystems. Students will explore primary literature, will learn field and laboratory methods for analyzing local ecosystems, and will propose, execute and analyze group research projects.
Enrollment Limit: 14
Instructor: J. Petersen
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: BIOL 120 or BIOL 102 and either CHEM 101, 102, 103 or 151.
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ENVS 322 - Energy and Society
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS
Energy issues are often characterized as problems we can ‘supply’ our way out of by changing the resources we rely on. Less frequently, energy issues are treated as a problem of consumption. This course adopts a sociotechnical perspective, regarding energy as an issue shaped by both technical factors and social patterns. The first part of this course explores physical, political, and economic aspects of energy supply through the examination of different energy sources (biomass, fossil fuels, electricity, renewables, nuclear). The second part of the course addresses social and political aspects of energy consumption in the industrial, commercial, residential and transportation sectors.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: M. Shammin
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: ENVS 101.
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ENVS 331 - Natural Resource Economics
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Economics
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS, QP-H
For description, please see ‘Economics’ in this catalog.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: J. Suter
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: ECON 253 and MATH 133. ENVS 231 recommended.
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ECON 331.
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ENVS 340 - Systems Modeling
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Biology
Next Offered: 2013-2014
Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3NS
Computer simulation models are powerful tools for organizing information, gaining insight into underlying dynamics, and predicting the behavior of complex systems. Students will design and construct models as a means of building understanding of a variety of biological, physical, social and environmental phenomena. Models developed will cover topics ranging from physiology to community dynamics to large-scale flows of material and energy. These examples will provide students with systems-thinking skills and a library of analogies that can be broadly applied to problems in the natural and social sciences. Credit can be counted towards either biology or environmental studies majors.
Enrollment Limit: 16
Instructor: J. Petersen
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: BIOL 120 or BIOL 102, at least one college chemistry course, comfort using algebraic equations.
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ENVS 352 - Practicum in Ecological Communication
Next Offered: 2013-2014
Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
Credits (Range): 1-2 Hours
Attribute: 1-2 SS
This seminar will provide students with the opportunity to apply their creative tallents towards further developing communication technology that engages, educates, motivates and empowers Oberlin citizens and students to conserve resources. Students will propose, implement and assess projects that build on water and electricity monitoring and display technology that includes digital signage in the Slow Train and on campus, “environmental orbs”, the environmental dashboard website and resource-use reduction competitions.
Enrollment Limit: 8
Instructor: J. Petersen
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of the instructor.
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ENVS 353 - Practicum in Ecological Communication Part II
Next Offered: 2013-2014
Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
Credits (Range): 1-2 Hours
Attribute: 1-2 SS
This practicum is an extension of Ecolological Communication (ENVS352). It will provide students with the opportunity to apply their creative talents towards further developing communication technology that engages, educates, motivates and empowers Oberlin citizens and students to conserve resources. Students will propose, implement and assess projects that build on water and electricity monitoring and display technology that includes digital signage in the Slow Train and on campus, “environmental orbs”, the environmental dashboard website and resource-use reduction competitions.
Enrollment Limit: 8
Instructor: J. Petersen
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ENVS 354 - Practicum in Ecological Communication & Oberlin Project
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 1-3 Hours
Attribute: 1-3 SS
Students will apply communication theory and techniques to develop public messaging to promote environmental sustainability that will be deployed in the City and College. Working with community partners that include the Oberlin Project, Oberlin Public Schools, the City and Mainstreet/Chamber, students will propose, implement and assess projects that integrate content into the “Dashboard” digital displays and website. Collaboration with students in Oberlin Public Schools is likely to be one theme of the 2012 practicum.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: J. Petersen
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ENVS 390 - Sustainable Cities: Theory, Analysis and Design
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS
Humans are now an urban species with more people living in cities than in rural areas. This course will examine the economic, social and environmental causes and implications of this transition. We will consider the opportunities and design challenges of urban sustainability, concepts and techniques of urban and regional analysis, and contemporary approaches to sustainable urban planning and design in a global and cross-cultural context.
Enrollment Limit: 24
Instructor: M. Shammin
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
ENVS 101 and consent.
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ENVS 501 - Research in Environmental Studies (ARHU)
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
Attribute: 1-5HU
Research for HU Credit.
Instructor: J. Christensen, J. Fiskio, M. Maniates, B. Masi, T. S. McMillin, T. Newlin, C. Washington-Ottombre
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ENVS 502 - Research in Environmental Studies (ARHU)
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
Attribute: 1-5HU
Research for HU Credit.
Instructor: J. Christensen, J. Fiskio, T. S. McMillin, T. Newlin, C. Washington-Ottombre
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ENVS 503 - Research in Environmental Studies (NSCI)
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
Attribute: 1-5NS
Research: NSCI Credit.
Instructor: M. Elrod, M. Garvin, D. Hubbard, R. Laushman, M. Maniates, B. Masi, C. McDaniel, J. Petersen, C. Washington-Ottombre
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ENVS 504 - Research in Environmental Studies (NSCI)
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
Attribute: 1-5NS
Research for NSCI Credit.
Instructor: M. Elrod, M. Garvin, D. Hubbard, R. Laushman, C. McDaniel, J. Petersen, C. Washington-Ottombre
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ENVS 505 - Research in Environmental Studies (SSCI)
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
Attribute: 1-5SS
Research for SS Credit.
Instructor: J. Christensen, J. Fiskio, C. Frantz, M. Maniates, B. Masi, C. McDaniel, D. Orr, J. Petersen, M. Shammin, J. Suter, C. Washington-Ottombre, S. White, H. Wilson
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ENVS 506 - Research in Environmental Studies (SSCI)
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
Attribute: 1-5SS
Research for SSCI Credit.
Instructor: J. Christensen, J. Fiskio, C. Frantz, C. McDaniel, D. Orr, J. Petersen, M. Shammin, J. Suter, S. White, H. Wilson
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ENVS 995 - Private Reading
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
Attribute: 0.5-3EX
Signed permission of the instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: M. Blissman, J. Christensen, M. Elrod, J. Fiskio, C. Frantz, M. Garvin, D. Hubbard, R. Laushman, M. Maniates, B. Masi, C. McDaniel, T. S. McMillin, T. Newlin, D. Orr, M. Shammin, J. Suter, C. Washington-Ottombre, H. Wilson, M. Blissman, J. ChristensenM. ElrodJ. FiskioC. FrantzM. GarvinD. HubbardR. LaushmanC. McDanielT. NewlinD. OrrJ. PetersenM. ShamminJ. SuterC. Washington-OttombreS. WhiteH. Wilson
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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ETHN 100 - Introduction to Musics of the World
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: CD, CNDP, DDHU
As musicians, we often think weknow what defines the subject of our study: “music.” Using selected case studies from around the world, this course will challenge the ways you think about music, how it is structured, and what it means to the people who make and otherwise engage with it. We will examine music in both historical and contrmporary contexts and encounter musical styles ranging from indigenous practices to classical traditions and pop genres. Through interactive performance activities, critical listening, and musical analysis, we closely examine the diverse ways people think abourt and sttructure music, building a sophisticated vocabulary of musical concepts relating to melody,rhythm, texture, timbre, and form as we go. We will also examine music as an inherently social act, illustrating how music is informed by - and conversely informs - historical, political, cultural, and economic processes, and how these processes result in the transformation of sounds and their meanings. Finally, we will explore the variety of ways people make music, taking into account not only performance context, but also who gets to make music. Enrollment Limit: 40.
Enrollment Limit: 45
Instructor: J. Fraser
Consent of the Instructor Required: No, See Pre-Requisites
Prerequisites & Notes
This course presumes considerable prior knowledge of muisic and the ability to read staff notation.
See CMUS 103 for a comparable course that does not presume this knowledge.
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ETHN 209 - Music of the Balkans and Middle East
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3
Attribute: CNDP, 3HU, CD
Situated at the juncture of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the Balkan region is a fascinating place to explore the confluence of musical styles. This course begins with an introduction to the Middle Eastern practices (especially Turkish) most influential in the Balkans, including Islamic genres and practices; rhythmic and melodic modes; and instruments. We will then move on to a survey of the musical practices of Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, and Bulgaria in historical and contemporary contexts, tracing out importnat changes to social and aesthetic dimensions in the last century.Students will master the dominant musical characteristics that stress musical unity of the region and explore themes pervasive throughout the area, including ways musical practice have been impacted by socialism, ethnic nationalism, war, gender, repressive policies against ethnic and religious minorities (including the “gypsies”), democratization, and orientalism.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: J. Fraser
Consent of the Instructor Required: No
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ETHN 301 - Research Methods in Ethnomusic
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: CNDP/DDHU
This class is an advanced seminar grounding students in the major theoretical and methodological paradigms that have informed ethnomusicology since its inception as comparative musicology in the late 19th century. We will explore what constitutes ethnomusicology, along with how its definitions, interests, and questions have changed over time. Methodological concerns include an examination of fieldwork (including an exploration of what constitutes “the field”), issues of interpretation and representation in ethnographic writing and other ethnomusicological products (recordings, films, websites etc.), and analytical paradigms.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: J. Fraser
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: CMUS 103 or ETHN 100 plus one 200-level ethnomusicology course.,
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FREN 101 - Français élémentaire I
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 5 hours
Attribute: 5HU, CD
This first semester of a year-long sequence is to build proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing, with special emphasis on meaning and the functional use of language and on understanding French-speaking cultures. The interactive multi-media approach requires extensive work in the language lab and one hour of small group work beyond the five hours of regular class time.
Enrollment Limit: 22
Instructor: B. Beroud
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: No previous French is expected for FREN 101. FREN 101 or the equivalent is prerequisite for FREN 102. Students with previous study of French must present an SAT II score or take the departmental placement test.
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FREN 102 - Français élémentaire II
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 5 hours
Attribute: 5HU, CD
This is the second semester of a year-long sequence is to build proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, with special emphasis on meaning and the functional use of language and on understanding French-speaking cultures. The interactive multi-media approach requires extensive work in the language lab and two hours of small group work beyond the five hours of regular class time.
Enrollment Limit: 22
Instructor: B. Beroud
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: FREN 101 or the equivalent is prerequisite for FREN 102. Students with previous study of French must present an SAT II score or take the departmental placement test.
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FREN 103 - Français élémentaire accéléré
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD
New course added 06.07.12.
Designed for students with previous work in French not yet qualified for FREN 203 or FREN 205, this intensive course covers all basic grammatical concepts and vocabulary while building skills in listening comprehension, speaking, writing, and reading. To reinforce both class and individual work, students will participate in two hours per week of small group oral practice.
Enrollment Limit: 18
Instructor: A. Warthesen
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Some previous French with an SAT II score under 550 or appropriate score on placement test. Successful completion of FREN 103 qualifies students for FREN 203 and FREN 205. Credit can be earned for either 101 and 102 or 103 but not French 101, 102 and 103.
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FREN 203 - Français intermédiaire accéléré
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD
This is a one-semester intensive course equivalent to FREN 205, 206. Review of the essentials of French grammar. Continued development of reading using a variety of texts, practice in composition, and speaking. In addition to the three hours per week of class, students are required to attend two hours in small group practice.
Enrollment Limit: 18
Instructor: P. Leelah
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: Appropriate SAT II score (550-625), appropriate score on placement test, FREN 102 or 103 or the equivalent.
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FREN 205 - Français intermédiaire I
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD
This first semester of a year-long sequence includes review of the essentials of grammar, continued development of reading skills using both literary and cultural texts, and practice in composition and speaking. In addition to the three hours per week of class, students are required to attend one hour of small group practice.
Enrollment Limit: 22
Instructor: P. Leelah, A. Yedes
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: Appropriate SAT II score (550-625), appropriate score on placement test, FREN 102 or 103 or the equivalent. FREN 205 is prerequisite for FREN 206.
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FREN 206 - Français intermédiaire II
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD
This second semester of a year-long sequence includes review of the essentials of grammar, continued development of reading skills using both literary and cultural texts, and practice in composition and speaking. In addition to the three hours per week of class, students are required to attend one hour in small group practice.
Enrollment Limit: 22
Instructor: S. Spaulding
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: FREN 205 is prerequisite for FREN 206.
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FREN 250 - French Cinema: National Traditions, Global Horizons
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
This historical survey will expose students to the directors, movements, and periods that have represented French filmmaking since its beginning (ie. Lumiere, Melies, Surrealism, 1930s Poetic Realism, Occupation, New Wave, contemporary film). A study of the history of industrialization, cultural policy, and state regulation will also help show the conceptualization of French cinema as a “national cinema,” despite its international artistic heritage and audiences, and as a particular kind of interface representing Frenchness within and beyond France. Taught in English.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: G. An
Prerequisites & Notes
No prerequisite, but CINE 110 or another course in French is strongly recommended.
Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CINE 250.
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FREN 301 - Expression orale et écrite
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD
In this course students develop their skills in textual and cultural analysis while increasing their confidence and effectiveness as oral and written communicators. Students follow a process approach to writing involving peer editing, multiple revisions, and practice in effective dictionary use. Through discussions of films and readings students develop skills in expressing and supporting their ideas and engaging with the ideas of others. One hour of weekly oral expression practice also required.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: G. An, Staff
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: Appropriate SAT II score (625-675), appropriate score on placement test, FREN 203 or FREN 206 or the equivalent.
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FREN 309 - Plaisir de lire
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD
This course is designed to help students enjoy reading comfortably in French. We will read from a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts: newspaper articles, travel guides, web pages, bandes dessinees, and detective novels. Presentations and exams will solidify reading comprehension and vocabulary enrichment. Frequent and varied writing assignments–pastiches, creative writing, and personal responses–will be submitted as journal entries.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: P. Leelah
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: FREN 301 or the equivalent.
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FREN 321 - Pratiques de l’écrit
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3-4 hours
Attribute: 3-4HU, CD
This course focuses on the relationship between writing and reading, and on ways to improve one through the other. Topics include: analysis of stylistic models; comparison of French and American text building; techniques of contraction and expansion; recognition and correction of mistakes; differences between English and French modes of expression. Taught in French.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: B. Beroud
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Appropriate SAT II score (675-800), appropriate score on placement test, FREN 301 or the equivalent. FREN 321 is prerequisite for FREN 441. Note: Fourth credit available only for remedial work.
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FREN 352 - The Cinema and Culture of Stardom in France
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 hours
Attribute: 4HU, CD
Stars are recognized for exceptional performance in their fields while personifying the values and contradictions of their times for publics who imagine themselves through them. This course primarily addresses French cinema, but also popular music, public intellectualism, and politics. Issues include the public reception and consumption of these diversified careers of the self, the star-making process specific to each category, qualities of performance over time, and narratives that stars and celebrities tell of themselves.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: G. An
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite & Notes: Prerequisite: CINE 299, FREN/CINE 250, or the equivalent. This 300-level course will be counted towards the French major if written work is completed in French.
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FREN 360 - Colloquium: Le théâtre français et ses héros
Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD, COLQ
Theater is different from other literary genres in that it uses live performers to present the work of a playwright to a live audience. Within this framework, what are the characteristics that the hero needs to display? From the semi-divine and noble heroes depicted by Racine or Corneille, to Sartre’s more humble characters, this course studies the psychological, philosophical and sociological attributes of some of the most well-known heroes in French Theater.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: P. Leelah
Prerequisites & Notes
Appropriate SAT II score (650-800) or AP score (4 or 5), appropriate score on placement test, FREN 301 the equivalent.
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FREN 361 - Colloquium: Paris Rêvé, Paris Réel: the Modern City in Literature and Film
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD
This course approaches French cultural and intellectual history (1850-present) through the prism of France’s capital city. From Haussmann’s urban design to new forms of mobility (Métro; Vélib), Paris has repeatedly redefined modern urban culture. Moving between the history of Paris and its representation in literature and film, we explore the dialogue between city life and culture. Conducted in English. Opportunities for using relevant language skills will be offered.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: S. Spaulding
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: FREN 301 or the equivalent.
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