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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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  • FREN 371 - Littérature Française I: Du moyen âge à la Révolution


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course explores the development of French literature, from the first literary texts written in French up to the age of Enlightenment and the eve of the Revolution.  We will employ tools of literary analysis and close reading, along with historical context, in our study of  various genres, among them:  the chanson de geste and lais of the Middle Ages; poetry of the Pléïade; the Renaissance tale; and fable, novel, fairy tale, and theatre of the Early Modern period. Taught in French.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: A. Warthesen
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FREN 301 or the equivalent.
  

  • FREN 372 - Litterature Francaise II:


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    To be announced.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FREN 301 or the equivalent.
  

  • FREN 373 - Introduction à la littérature francophone


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Entirely devoted to literary works by Francophone writers from North Africa, the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Vietnam, this course will also study the socio-historical context that gave rise to such literature. Readings will include poetry, fiction and drama from writers that express varied cultural backgrounds as well as the impact of French culture on them. Approaches to these literatures will be linguistic, thematic, and cultural.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: A. Yedes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: FREN 301 or the equivalent.
  

  • FREN 409 - Fiction and the Age of Enlightenment


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    The philosophes of the Enlightenment sought to revolutionize their century through intellectual and scientific discoveries. Above all, they wanted to enlighten their contemporaries by promoting scientific truths. Nonetheless, their most powerful writing tools were not their philosophical treaties but their works of fiction. This course will explore novels, plays, poems and short stories written by Voltaire, Diderot, Laclos, Rousseau to understand the appeal of using fiction in promoting philosophical ideas during the eighteenth-century.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: P. Leelah
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: Two 300-level French courses beyond 301.
  

  • FREN 410 - Fables et contes en évolution


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD
    This course examines the literary genres of the fable and fairy tale. Using critical theory, close reading skills, and historical context, we discuss texts from: medieval fabliaux, canonical collections by Perrault and La Fontaine under Louis XIV, meandering fairy-tale novellas from 18th century, new republican fables after the revolution, and cinematic adaptations from 20th century. Authors include La Fontaine, Perrault, d’Aulnoy, Villeneuve, LePrince de Beaumont, Houdar de la Motte, Anouilh, Debillons, Boisard.   Taught in French
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: A. Warthesen
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two 300-level course beyond 301
  

  • FREN 454 - Récits de vie


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    The recent availability of social technologies heightens our awareness of the increasingly mediatized, constructed, and public (if not exhibitionist) ways we experience ourselves and each other. This course on life narratives explores the fictions of selfhood through different genres–essay, memoir, historical novel, documentary, interview, etc.–which shed light on the relationships between public and private, biographical and autobiographical, life experiences and their representation, humans and time.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: G. An
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: Two 300-level beyond 301
  

  • FREN 505 - Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-6 hours
    Attribute: 2-6HU
    Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: G. An, E. Murphy, M. Senior, A. Yedes
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FREN 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU, CD
    Signed permission of the instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: G. An, P. Leelah, E. Murphy, M. Senior, Staff, A. Yedes
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 073 - Radical Reading & Writing: Imagination in the World


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

    Amidst seemingly irreconcilable pressures and demands, imagination becomes crucial: we must envision a different reality in order to create change. This seminar cultivates this capacity through reading and writing as radical practices that make a space for imagining what could be. Authors may include Cortázar, Chekhov, Blake, Borges, Lispector, Plato, Sartre, LeGuin and others.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: C. Solomon
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 074 - Race and Place: Reading the Rez, the Holler, and the Cul-de-Sac


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, WR
    This course explores how literary and cinematic narratives of American landscapes are marked by questions of race and identity. While we often focus on urban scenes to obtain a sense of how racial questions and tensions emerge and are worked out, other landscapes including the reservation, the backwoods, and the suburbs provide alternative spaces to consider these issues. We will survey these texts to discern how they represent American life.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: H. Suarez
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 075 - Hitler and Stalin: A Comparative Study


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS, WR
    This course examines the key similarities and distinctions between communist and fascist political systems under Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. The principal issues under investigation include: the biographies of Hitler and Stalin; the process by which Hitler and Stalin seized power; the revolutionizing of Soviet and German sociopolitical and economic structures; the genocidal campaigns under Stalin and Hitler; and the impact these two dictators had on world history.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: M. Dumancic
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 076 - The Privileged and the Marginalized: History and Culture of American Colleges and Universities


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS, WR
    This seminar will examine the American college experience in the context of history and culture with a particular emphasis on investigating the gap between privilege and marginalization. The course is comprised of reading and discussion on the overall history of American higher education, including actual college experiences of people from different backgrounds. This seminar will also view privilege and marginalization through different lenses, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, religion, and disability.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: S. Kawaguchi
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 077 - “Big History” and the Human Condition


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS, WR
    This seminar introduces the new field of “big history”—the effort to narrate history in the widest possible perspective, from the Big Bang to the present—and how it might help us understand the human experience. Throughout the class, we will discuss controversial theories by recent authors that attempt to understand human history as a whole through novel approaches such as evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, and game theory.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: S. White
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 078 - Atomic Histories and Nuclear Nightmares


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This course will look at competing narratives in the debate on nuclear technology–from its use in weapons manufacture to its touting as a source of renewable energy. Readings will include news stories, memoir, anime, speculative fiction, and graphic narratives. Assignments will include reading responses, weekly creative exercises and two longer narratives (one fiction, the other nonfiction).
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 079 - Conversations with Chekhov


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, WR, CD
    Through a careful but open-ended reading of his stories, novellas, plays, letters, and non-fiction, this course will reflect on the ways that Chekhov (1860-1904) can still serve as a subtly subversive model for thinking about the complexities of modern life and the human condition. We will explore what makes Chekhov specifically Russian, and will look to his works for insight into how to write in precise, supple, and interesting way.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: T. Newlin
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 080 - The 2012 Campaign and Election


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    This seminar will look at American campaigns and elections, with particular focus on the 2012 Presidential and Congressional elections. We will study current trends and developments in electoral politics. Our sources will include academic and popular literature, as well as media and film. This class will require several writing assignments, group projects, and active engagement with the 2012 elections.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: M. Krislov
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 082 - Sex, Gender, and Power


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS, WR
    New course added 08.03.12.

    This course is an introduction to the history and practice of the study of sexuality in the U.S. We will turn to literature, science, and the humanities to gain exposure to various theories of human sexuality and the processes that shape the sexual culture and people’s understanding of their place within it. We will explore sexuality as having political implications, as well as being fundamental to human rights and personal agency.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: K. Schreck
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 086 - Contemporary East Asian Cinema


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, WP, CD
    This course compares the emergence of “New Cinema” in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea since the 1980s. We will examine the major cultural and socio-political contexts in which each cinematic movement is produced, and pay attention to the specific issues raised in individual films.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: H.C. Deppman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 087 - Psychological Mythbusters: What do we believe, why do we believe it, and is it true?


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    Common beliefs about human nature and behavior (opposites attract; Freudian slips reveal unconscious desires) will be explored in this seminar. We will be psychological mythbusters, investigating which beliefs have scientific merit and which appear to be false. We will address the bases of our beliefs, scientific means of evaluating them, mental processes proposed to explain the human behaviors involved, and the implications of popular beliefs on our society.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: J. Hanna
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 092 - Foodways and Foodscapes: Cultural Knowledge Through Culinary Practices


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    Food nourishes the body and the spirit. Though food consumption is universal, what we eat, how we eat, where we eat, with whom, when, and to what end, define the politics and poetics of food in a community. Interdisciplinary readings, films and directed field projects will help explore the experiential and expressive ways in which food is imagined, yearned for, held, remembered, voiced, lived, and contested.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: A. Cara
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 093 - Disability


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This seminar examines conceptual and historical models of disability, studying how, by whom, and under what circumstances any given definition of disability emerges. Natural science, social science, and the humanities all have different ways of understanding disability. We will analyze these approaches, paying close attention to authorship and agency. How do stories of disability change when people with disabilities hold the pen, the paintbrush, the microphone, or the senate floor?
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: E. Hamilton
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 094 - Das Kapital


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    FYSP 094 is a close reading of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. This classic of political economy, sociology, history and indeed literature is worth reading at any time for what it can teach us about capitalism and also about the dialectical method. Since Das Kapital is a theory of the crisis tendencies of capitalism, it may be all the more pertinent now that existing economic models and theories have failed.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: M. Blecher
  

  • FYSP 098 - Automatons: From Moving Statues to Dreaming Androids


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This class will examine literary instances of inanimate objects–moving statues, talking brass heads, dreaming androids, velveteen rabbits, animated dolls, alchemical homunculi, robots–coming uncannily to life. Readings will be drawn from Ovid, Shakespeare, Hoffman, Freud, Shelley, Haraway, Philip Dick, and many more. Our goal will be to think metapoetically about the great creative desire to vivify matter, alongside philosophical, historical, cultural, and gendered implications of such fantasies of animation.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: W. Hyman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 103 - Bridging the Body/Mind Divide


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    GSFS, DANC
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    Before Rene Descartes arrived at his famous statement, ‘I think therefore I am,’ he systematically cut himself off from all his embodied senses of sight, smell, sound, touch, and taste. This allowed him “to be” without “being-in-the-world.” This course will team philosophical inquiry (thinking and writing) with somatic exercises (developing our bodily knowledge) in order to ask: How can we learn from our bodies? and, How do we learn with our bodies?
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: A. Albright
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 105 - Staying Sane in a Crazy World


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    War, terrorism, and natural disasters create inhuman life conditions. Yet we know that people do survive these conditions and may even go on to flourish. This course asks: What is the human response to problems of global proportions? How do people cope in a hostile, unpredictable world that may lack the basic necessities for life? We will examine the scientific literature and personal accounts to understand how people stay sane in the face of unbearable circumstances.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: K. Sutton
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 108 - The Uses of Literature


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    An investigation of the nature of literature and its role in a liberal arts education. The seminar is organized around three questions: What is literature? How is it best “used” or studied? Why should literature be studied? Students will read a variety of literary works while confronting issues in interpretation. One objective of the course is to determine how literary study might contribute to other fields of inquiry.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: T.S. McMillin
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 109 - Odysseys and Identities


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR

    Students will read Homer’s Odyssey and several narratives that evoke and reinterpret that work, including the Cohen brothers’ O Brother Where Art Thou, Atwood’s The Penelopiad, and Martel’s The Life of Pi. We will consider the idea of the journey home as a typical structure for narratives of identity, and we will analyze the problem of unreliable narrators in these stories. Students will work extensively on their composition skills. 
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: K. Ormand
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 113 - Re-envisioning Russia


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Russian
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR, CD
    What role have filmmakers played in reshaping Russian culture over the past two decades? How did they transform Soviet myths to shape new visions for the Yeltsin nineties and the Putin aughts? To what extent did they draw from classic Russian literature by Gogol, Tolstoy or Chekhov? The films and texts we will study focus on such topics as violence and crime, youth culture. Chechnya, the super rich, rural Russia, and the Soviet past.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: A. Forman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    P/NP grading only.
  

  • FYSP 118 - Through the Looking Glass: The Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Social Class in Contemporary America


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WR
    In order to better understand the relationship among social statuses (race, ethnicity, gender), social class, and everyday life experiences, this course will focus on social demography and theories of identity formation and group interaction. We will employ current data to investigate the demographic and social portraits of the United States. Emphasis will be placed on how demographic and social factors are entwined and how they interact to affect individual lives and identities.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: C. White
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 129 - Coming of Age in African Literature


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    This course focuses on African writing, examining a non-western body of work from a non-western perspective. A major theme is the challenges facing youth in colonial and postcolonial Africa: the struggle to balance tradition and change; the quest for education; the development of political awareness. Several books offer an African approach to what in the west is called a ‘Bildungsroman,’ or novel of youth’s coming of age. Texts include Laye’s L’Enfant Noir, Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, and Okri’s Flowers and Shadows.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: L. Podis
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 131 - How Early Jews and Christians Rewrote the Bible


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Jewish Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    The first Jewish interpreters of the Bible (including the first Christians) did not just passively read the biblical text, they rewrote it, filling in its narrative gaps with fanciful subplots and using difficult passages as jumping-off points for leaps of poetic and philosophical fancy. We will study these interpretations in early Rabbinic and Christian writings, the Talmud, the New Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Apocrypha, Josephus, and elsewhere, together with the underlying principles of such creative close reading (called midrash in the Jewish tradition).
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: A. Socher
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 134 - Crossing Borders: The Mysteries of Identity


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    In Western cultures, identity has tended to be defined in binary terms: an individual is either black or white, male or female, straight or gay, and so on. This seminar will seek to explore the nature of identity by focusing on fiction, essays, and films in which categories of identity - specifically those of race, gender and sexuality - are represented as fluid and ambiguous rather than as fixed and polarized.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: D. Walker
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 136 - Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    Is seeing believing? What do you see? How do hoaxes work? We’ll take up such questions by exploring the literal and metaphoric perspectives we bring to creative work and how such work projects or plays with perspective and ‘truth.’ We’ll examine fiction by O’ Connor, Morrison, Kay, Cather, Nemirovksy, others; essays on identity and hoax; the graphic narrative Maus, The Wizard of Oz ( print and film), Orson Wells’s “F for Fake;” selected works of visual art.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: S. Zagarell
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 139 - Political Leadership


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    You will learn to write better, by recognizing and eliminating bad writing; you will learn to think more insightfully, by abandoning the mindless repetition of hackneyed phrases; you will gain the intellectual power to see though and reject the unclarifiable blather of politicians and political commentators; and you will learn to think politically, by understanding how leaders attempt to cope with the demands of the American public and the constraints of the American political system.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: P. Dawson
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 140 - Pakistan: A New Nation’s Identities


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    History
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WR
    Emerging from nationalist struggles against British imperialism, in 1947 Pakistan became a “new nation-state” by and for Muslims. Yet, the identities of the women and men of Pakistan and their state itself have been continually reframed. Reading works of history, literature, politics, and religion, gender, and environmental studies by and about Pakistanis, we explore how people conceived their country from its origins to the present. Short cumulative papers and one term paper required.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: M. Fisher
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 141 - Manga Genji


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    This course explores cultural applications of the great literary classic, The Tale of Genji. Throughout Japanese history, the tale has been embraced by new audiences, reinterpreting it through a contemporary lens. Graphic novel versions are our era’s contribution to this cultural history. Earlier literary and dramatic variations of the tale as well as print and illustrated scroll versions will also be introduced. By exploring these variations, we will come to appreciate this classic’s malleability and inspirational durability.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: S. Gay
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 143 - Deconstructing Technology


    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: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 2NS, 2SS, WR
    This seminar will explore the people, science, and industries involved in the making of electronic devices. The impacts of these technologies on the environment and society at large will also be addressed. The underlying materials science will be developed as needed through readings, internet resources, and in-class workshops. Students will write and present a series of papers.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: Y. Ijiri
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 146 - HIV/AIDS in America


    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: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    What is the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States? Why has HIV infection disproportionately affected particular groups and localities? What is the role of the United States in the global AIDS pandemic? This interdisciplinary course answers these questions by considering perspectives from the sciences, social sciences, public policy, education, medical care, media and the arts, and activism.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: M. Raimondo
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 149 - International and Domestic Non-profits and Democratic Movements


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    We will explore the explosion of both domestic and international non-profits since the 1980s and the consequences of the ubiquitous presence of these organizations for governments, citizens, and movements for democracy.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: E. Sandberg
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 153 - Worldview and History: Approaches to the History of the World


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WR
    This course critically examines approaches to world history and narratives of the rise of the West, European expansion, the discovery of the New World, and the like. What unexamined metageographical conceptions are implicated in Eurocentric assumptions about world historical developments? Readings include critical works suggesting new approaches, so that we may develop a critical perspective on material and cultural exchange and diffusion from a global perspective. Shows how “globalization” has been a relevant term for over 500 years.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: D. Kelley
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 154 - Freud’s Vienna: Artists, Intellectuals, and Anti-Semites at the Fin de Siecle


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; History
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    The Vienna where Freud penned the founding texts of psychoanalysis was the site of unprecedented intellectual and cultural ferment. It was also the birthplace of modern anti-Semitism and the home of the dictator who would destroy much of Europe: Adolf Hitler. How do we connect this political turmoil and intellectual and artistic creativity? In this class, we will explore the politics, culture, and intellectual life of this extraordinary city at this extraordinary moment in history.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: A. Sammartino
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 158 - Daoism


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WRi

    An exploration of Daoist themes and motifs based on its philosophical classics and religious traditions. The philosophical texts include the Daodejing (Laozi), the Zhuangzi, and the Liezi. In addition, Daoism’s extensive mythology, complex pantheon, ideal of personal transformation, array of physical and religious practices, and distinctive life-style will be explored in their cultural and historical context.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: J. Dobbins
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 162 - Cold War in Asia


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WR
    The collapse of the Soviet Union brought the Cold War to an abrupt end. This course investigates the cultural, social, and political history of the Cold War in Asia. While we will be examining the ideological and security dimensions of U.S.-Soviet relations in detail, the emphasis will also be to explore the political, economic and ideological impact of the Cold War on Asian societies, with a particular focus on China, Japan, and the two Koreas.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: S. Jager
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 165 - Feeding the World


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS, QP-H, WR
    This course examines issues of population and food production. World population structure, the history of agriculture, global impacts of the green revolution, and genetically modified foods will be discussed. The intent of the class is to raise profound issues that we will study while practicing skills associated with research including interpreting and manipulating data. The results of these projects will be presented to the class through papers and organized discussions.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: M. Laskowski
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 172 - Religious Thought of Mohandas Gandhi


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    Mohandas Gandhi was among the most radical religious and social thinkers in the twentieth century. His non-violent resistance to colonial rule, as well as his commitment to asceticism, truth and self-reliant egalitarian communities, won him many admirers and many critics. The course begins with a close look at his own writings from his autobiography and his newspaper articles. The second part of the course assesses his intellectual frameworks and strategies for non-violent non-cooperation from religious, historical, psychological, and political perspectives.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: P. Richman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 173 - The French Revolution and the Making of the Modern World


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    The French Revolution will be studied as a means of understanding the political, social, and cultural origins of modernity. Topics include revolutionary ideology, charismatic leadership, and mass mobilization through appeals to national identity, class, race, and gender. Particular attention will be paid to primary sources and individual research projects. Students should expect to do frequent short presentations, and short papers (written and rewritten).
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: L. Smith
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 182 - The Body in Health and Disease


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS, WR
    Examining the structure and function of the human body in health and disease, this seminar asks whether a universal conception of the body exists. Discussion and readings consider contrasts between females and males, as well as between perceptions of the body in Western and Chinese medicine. Topics range from the major organ systems to mental health and the biology of love and satiety. Instruction includes Cambridge-Oxford-style tutorials, meeting once a week at times to be arranged.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: T. Allen
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 183 - Literature of War, Resistance, and Reconciliation


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    War and its aftermath have been subjects of literature throughout the ages. Students will read literature – from classical to contemporary – that portrays the experience of, resistance to, and recovery from violent human conflict. Examples are will be drawn from fiction, poetry, drama, and non-ficiton, such as the Illiad, Regeneration, Maus, The Things They Carried, The Fifth Book of Peace, and A Long Way Gone.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: N. Boutilier
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 187 - Ars Moriendi: Death and the Art of Dying


    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
    If death is not upon us now, thinks Hamlet, then it will come later, and if not later, then now. The readiness is all, but what is readiness? Is there an ars moriendi, an art to dying well? Can our understanding of death change the way we live? We will use fiction, poetry, philosophy, music, and visual art to answer these questions, and then test and extend our classroom perspectives with partners in the community.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 190 - Rationality, Objectivity and Truth in Science


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    Science is often hailed as a paragon of rational and objective inquiry, a rigorous way of seeking knowledge which can overcome the potentially distorting influence of social, political, and moral values and help us get closer to truly comprehending the hidden operations of nature. In this course we will examine the extent to which this idealization offers an appropriate interpretation of scientific practice.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: D. Ganson
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • FYSP 199 - Designer Babies and Other Possibilities


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 2HU, 2NS, WR
    The advent and sustained proliferation of techniques in molecular biology and biotechnology have generated unprecedented possibilities for genetically manipulating not only cells, but entire organisms. As a result, what used to be solely within the confines of science fiction are, today, possibilities–realities, even!–with exciting but sometimes troubling implications. This seminar explores biotechnological advances as they apply to medicine and agriculture and will concentrate on cloning and genetic manipulation of animals and plants.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: Y. Cruz
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • GEOL 111 - Glaciology, Ice Ages and Climate Change


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-H
    Changing climate causes glaciers to grow or shrink. Advancing ice sculpts Earth’s surface, whereas retreating ice deposits rock debris. Moreover, the ice in glaciers contains a detailed record of climate changes. This course uses glacier dynamics and glacial geology to examine the factors that control climate change, to determine how climate changed in the past, and to analyze natural and anthropogenic causes of climate change. To earn quantitative proficiency, students must complete six problems sets.
    Enrollment Limit: 60
    Instructor: S. Wojtal
  

  • GEOL 117 - Meteorite Impacts in Space and Time


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2NS
    Enormous amounts of energy are released when meteorites, asteroids, comets, and planets impact one another at ‘cosmic velocities.’ This course examines where and why impacts take place and what happens when they do. Topics include: Did an asteroid impact kill all the dinosaurs? Was our Moon formed by a huge impact? Have impacts transferred Martian microbes to Earth? Could a large impact end human civilization?
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: B. Simonson
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ASTR 117.
  

  • GEOL 120 - Earth’s Environments


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS
    A survey of Earth’s internal and external features, emphasizing the unifying theory of plate tectonics as well as the study of geologic hazards and Earth resources. Labs and field trips explore Earth materials. local field sites, landforms, and interactions between humans and Earth’s surface. The course is intended for both non-majors and prospective geology majors. All students must enroll in the lecture section plus one lab section in the same semester.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: B. Simonson, F. Page
    Prerequisites & Notes
    No prerequisites, but high-school chemistry recommended.
  

  • GEOL 152 - Soils and Society


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    Soils are the basis for the formation of our societies - we need soil to grow crops and to have land for our animals to graze. However, our activities greatly alter the soils that we rely on, reducing our ability to productively use the land we live on. Through the use of case studies from regions around the world, students will learn the basics of soil science, hillslope geomorphology, and anthropogenic effects on these systems.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: A. Schmidt
  

  • GEOL 161 - Marine Science


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    An investigation of geological, physical, chemical and biological processes operating in the oceans and ocean basins, emphasizing interactions among them. We examine marine geology, plate tectonics, ocean circulation, sea water chemistry, waves, tides and coastal processes in the modern oceans. We also explore the geologic history of ocean basins. The final third of the course covers marine life, including plankton, coral reefs, deep sea life, and marine mammals, and explores human interactions with the oceans.
    Enrollment Limit: 60
    Instructor: K. Hubbard, S. Wojtal
  

  • GEOL 164 - Introduction to the Geological Construction of Africa


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

    The Geology of Africa is an introductory level course that covers the geologic history, tectonic evolution, and implications of African history and tectonics to oil, gas, and mineral resources in the continent. Additional topics to be covered in this course are geologic hazards and mining related environmental problems. The format of the course will be lecture and discussion. The course reveals the complexity of the earth systems on the geological time scale. There is no prerequisite for this course.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Assante
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
  

  • GEOL 199 - Independent Study in Geology


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-2 hours
    Attribute: 1-2NS
    An opportunity for students to pursue a geological interest not covered by formal courses. Students must consult with a member of the department before registering.
    Instructor: D. Hubbard, K. Hubbard, F. Page, A. Schmidt, B. Simonson, S. Wojtal
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • GEOL 201 - Mineralogy & Optical Crystallography


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS, QP-F
    Most of our planet is made of minerals, the physical properties of which play important roles in geologic processes from the plate-tectonic to the nano- scales. This course examines the relationships between the structure, chemistry, physical and optical properties of minerals, their occurrence, and their relevance to the various branches of earth science. We will explore these concepts through laboratory exercises on crystal morphology and symmetry, optical mineralogy, x-ray diffraction, and electron microscopy.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: F. Page
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Geology 120.
  

  • GEOL 204 - Evolution of the Earth


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS
    This course examines major events and processes of Earth history, including the growth of continents, mountain belts and ocean basins, terrane accretion, sea level changes, and climatic changes in the context of plate tectonics. We also explore the evolution of life as an integral part of the history of Earth. Lectures and labs emphasize principles and techniques used to reconstruct Earth history. One field trip is required.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: K. Hubbard
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GEOL 120.
  

  • GEOL 206 - Earth’s Interior: Its Character, Dynamics and Development


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS
    Processes operating deep inside Earth control the shape of Earth’s surface and affect the composition and dynamics of continents, oceans and atmosphere. This course examines geologic and geophysical data pertaining to the character and dynamics of Earth?s interior. We analyze evidence relating mantle convection to plate tectonics and study the character and evolution of geologic provinces to assess whether Earth’s interior changed over time and how it might change in the future.
    Enrollment Limit: 24
    Instructor: S. Wojtal
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Geology 120.
  

  • GEOL 212 - Earth Surface Processes


    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: 4NS
    An examination of the evolution of Earth’s surface focusing on the processes that shape the landscape we see today. We will discuss the tectonic, erosional, and climatic forces that give rise to mountains, river valleys, glacial landscapes, and coastlines as well as the surficial processes that continually shape Earth including weathering, dissolution, sediment transport, mass wasting, glaciation, and wave action. Lectures, laboratories and field trips emphasize integration of descriptive, quantitative, and interpretive aspects of geomorphology.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: A. Schmidt
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GEOL 120 or consent of the instructor.
  

  • GEOL 235 - Applied GIS


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS, QP-H
    Geographic information systems (GIS) are used widely in the sciences, business, and other disciplines to examine data that have spatial distribution. This course will introduce students to the methods for collecting spatial data and analyzing those data using GIS, mainly through hands-on use of the industry standard ESRI ArcGIS software. Through lecture and laboratory, students will learn to collect, manage, visualize, and analyze geographic data. Students will create their own GIS based research project.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: J. Asante
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Geology 120 or consent of the instructor.
  

  • GEOL 240 - Environmental Geology


    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: 4NS
    This course examines recent environmental change and the processes that are responsible. While examples will focus on geological controls, we will also consider biological, chemical and socio-political factors at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. The class will utilize traditional lectures, labs, field trips, discussions and contemporary case studies to better understand linkages of environmental change to increasing exploitation and the conflicts between scientific realities and socio-political perceptions.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: D. Hubbard
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: GEOL 120
  

  • GEOL 242 - Groundwater Hydrogeology


    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: 4NS
    An introduction to groundwater movement and quality emphasizing its use and abuse by humans. Topics covered include predicting groundwater flow patterns, interactions with surface water, well drilling and pumping, groundwater contamination and remediation, and distribution of groundwater resources throughout the United States. Lab activities include a pump test on water wells at the Jones farm and a weekend field trip to Niagara Falls.
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Geology 120 or consent of instructor.
  

  • GEOL 264 - Geology of Africa


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2 NS
    New course added 08.31.12

    The Geology of Africa is an upper level course that covers the geologic history, tectonic evolution, and implications of African history and tectonics to oil, gas, and mineral resources in the continent. Additional topics to be covered in this course are geologic hazards and mining related environmental problems. The format of the course will be lecture and seminar style. The course reveals the complexity of the earth systems on the geological time scale.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: Asante
    Prerequisites & Notes
    GEOL 120
  

  • GEOL 310 - Sedimentary Rocks in Thin Section


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2NS
    Sedimentary deposits provide most of the energy, water, and mineral resources used by humans and are the principal archive of Earth and life history. This course is a hands-on introduction to the wealth of information one can extract from sandstones, limestones, etc. about these subjects by making simple observations with a polarizing microscope.
    Enrollment Limit: 11
    Instructor: B. Simonson
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Any 200-level Geology course.
  

  • GEOL 320 - Paleontology


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS
    A comprehensive examination of the history of life, presented within the context of evolutionary theory with an emphasis on invertebrate organisms. Topics include evolutionary pattern and process, taphonomy, functional morphology, paleoecology, biostratigraphy, biogeography, and extinction. Laboratory exercises explore the morphology and systematics of the major invertebrate fossil groups and the use of paleontological data in solving paleoecologic and geologic problems. Weekend field trip required.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: K. Hubbard
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Any 200-level geology course or consent of instructor.
  

  • GEOL 330 - Sedimentology and Stratigraphy


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies
    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS
    This course examines modern sedimentary processes and environments, and compares them to their ancient counterparts – at scales of grains to basins. We also consider what the stratigraphic record tells us about the patterns of environmental change, the rise and fall of sea level and other factors that have shaped Earth’s depositional history. Strong emphasis is placed on practical, hands-on approaches that integrate lessons from other courses in both lab and the field
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: D. Hubbard
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Any 200-level Geology course; GEOL 204 is recommended.
  

  • GEOL 340 - Structural Geology


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS, QP-F
    The measurable deformation that occurs within Earth produces a variety of rock structures. Lectures examine rock structures, analyze the factors that control how rocks deform, discuss the role of rock deformation in tectonics, and discuss interpretations of the deformation patterns in the context of plate tectonics. Labs and problem sets emphasize techniques for observing, analyzing, and interpreting map patterns, outcrops, hand samples, and thin sections of deformed rocks.
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: S. Wojtal
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Any 200-level geology course or consent of instructor.
  

  • GEOL 361 - Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS
    Petrology is the study of the origins of rocks. Emphasis will be placed on the relationships between lithology, geochemistry, and tectonic setting. Topics will include: classification of igneous and metamorphic rocks, thermodynamics and phase equilibria, the origins and differentiation of magmas, and spatial and temporal development of igneous and metamorphic terranes. Laboratory projects will focus on the use of the petrographic microscope for the determination of minerals and the interpretation of rock textures.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: F. Page
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Geology 201
  

  • GEOL 501 - Research in Geology


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4NS
    Independent or faculty-sponsored research. Students should select a topic and make other necessary arrangements in consultation with an individual faculty member.
    Instructor: J. Assante, D. Hubbard, K. Hubbard, F. Page, A. Schmidt, B. Simonson, S. Wojtal
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • GEOL 503 - Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-5 hours
    Attribute: 2-5NS
    Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: D. Hubbard, K. Hubbard, F. Page, A. Schmidt, B. Simonson, S. Wojtal
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • GEOL 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3NS
    Signed consent of the instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: D. Hubbard, K. Hubbard, F. Page, A. Schmidt, B. Simonson, S. Wojtal
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • GERM 101 - Elementary German


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    German 101 comprises the first half of a two semester Elementary German course of study. Acquisition of the fundamentals of grammar along with practice in speaking and writing. Early introduction of spoken German, with reading and discussion of graded literary texts. Use of language laboratory encouraged.
    Instructor: E. Hamilton, S. Huff, M. Jones
  

  • GERM 102 - Elementary German


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    German 102 comprises the second half of a two semester Elementary German course of study. Acquisition of the fundamentals of grammar along with practice in speaking and writing. Early introduction of spoken German, with reading and discussion of graded literary texts. Taught chiefly in German. Use of language laboratory encouraged.
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: E. Hamilton, S. Jones
    Prerequisites & Notes
    GERM 101 or qualification by placement test.
  

  • GERM 203 - Intermediate German


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    German 203 comprises the first half of a two-semester Intermediate German course. Increasing mastery of the basic skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) and a selective grammar review. Readings of narrative prose, drama, and poetry by mainly contemporary authors, along with cultural/historical texts from the 20th century. Completion of Intermediate German will enable students to read a broad range of literary and non-literary texts and to conduct research in their major fields.
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: S. Boos
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GERM 102 or qualification by placement test.
  

  • GERM 204 - Intermediate German


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Increasing mastery of the basic skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing). Readings of narrative prose, drama, and poetry by mainly contemporary authors, along with cultural/historical texts from the 19th and 20th centuries. Completion of Intermediate German will enable students to read a broad range of literary and non-literary texts and to conduct research in their major fields.
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: S. Boos, S. Huff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    GERM 203 or qualification by placement test.
  

  • GERM 305 - Conversation and Conversation


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Expansion and refinement of speaking, writing, and listening skills through a variety of in-class activities (including films and writing). Readings and discussions will cover topics of current social, political, and cultural interest in the German-language countries as reflected in the media and in essays and articles by creative writers.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: M. Jones
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GERM 204 or equivalent.
  

  • GERM 311 - Introduction to German Literature I


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Theater, Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    A study of major movements, problems, and oeuvres in the literature from the 18th to the mid-19th century (Enlightenment through Romanticism). Prose, drama, and poetry by Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and others. This course is intended for students who have not yet done 400-level work in German literature.
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: S. Huff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GERM 204 or qualification by placement test.
  

  • GERM 312 - Introduction to German Literature II


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Theater, Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Masterpieces of drama, narrative prose, and poetry from the mid-19th century to the modern period, including works by Buchner, Grillparzer, Thomas Mann, Kafka, and Brecht. This course is intended for students who have not yet done 400-level work in German literature.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: E. Hamilton
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GERM 204 or qualification by placement test.
  

  • GERM 315 - Max Kade German Writer-in Residence


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 hours
    Attribute: 1HU, CD
    Reading and discussion of selected writings of the 2012 Max Kade German Writer-in-Residence. Taught in German.
    Instructor: P. Wawerzinek
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: One 300-level course or equivalent knowledge of German.
  

  • GERM 325 - New German Cinema: The Representation of Terror


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    Is violence a legitimate tool for bringing about political change? Who defines terrorist activity? How do the media impact terrorism and counter-terrorism? Is representation of controversial images itself a form of terror? This course examines shifting relationships among terrorists, media and public consciousness in the past forty years of German cinema. We will first examine left-wing terrorism in Germany since 1968 and its representation in New German Cinema and contemporary films. We will then compare extremism of the German radical left to current and global experiences of and approaches to terror. Taught in English.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: S. Boos
  

  • GERM 415 - Twentieth Century German Poetry


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Analysis of continuities and disruptions in lyrical forms during a century of political and social upheaval. Poets include Hofmannfthal, Rilke, George, Trakl, Lasker-Schuler, Brecht, Benn, Celan and a variety of post-war lyricists.
    Instructor: S. Huff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Two 300-level courses in German.
  

  • GERM 433 - The Literature and Culture of the Weimar Republic: Aesthetic and Politics of the Avantgarde


    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, CD
    This course traces the aesthetic and political significance of various media (photography, poetry, film, theater, feuilleton, advertising, cabaret) and artistic movements (Expressionism, DADA, Bauhaus, Neue Sachlichkeit) in Weimar Germany to shed light on the ways in which new technologies of reproduction came to reconfigure the relation between media and literature, politics and aesthetic practice, mass culture and ‘high art.’
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: S. Boos
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: Note: Required for German and German Studies Major. Prerequisite: German 311 and 312.
  

  • GERM 505 - Honors in German


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-6 hours
    Attribute: 1-6HU
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: E. Hamilton, S. Huff
    Consent of the Instructor Required: YES
  

  • GERM 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU, CD
    Signed permissionof the instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: E. Hamilton, S. Huff
    Consent of the Instructor Required: YES
  

  • GREK 101 - Elementary Greek


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    The essentials of the classical Greek language, with emphasis on reading.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Wilburn
  

  • GREK 102 - Elementary Greek II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    Continuation of Elementary Greek, completing the study of basic Greek grammar and syntax. We will read selections from Plato?s Apology in the second half of the semester.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: K. Ormand
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GREK 101 or equivalent.
  

  • GREK 201 - Homer’s Iliad


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Reading and translation of selections from Homer’s Iliad, with discussion of relevant critical issues and historical background.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: T. Van Nortwick
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GREK 102 or equivalent.
  

  • GREK 202 - Herodotus


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Readings and discussion of selections from Herodotus’ Histories in Greek, supplemented by readings from the critical literature.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: K. Ormand
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GREK 201 or equivalent.
  

  • GREK 304 - Greek Lyric Poetry


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Reading of the major Greek Lyric poets, including Archilochus, Anacreon, Bacchylides, Simonides, and Solon. Particular attention to the works of Sappho, in their literary and social context. We will study the development of a lyric genre or genres, with attention to erotic, political, and satiric themes. Secondary readings on individual authors and their influence.
    Instructor: K. Ormand
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GREK 202 or equivalent.
  

  • GREK 305 - Sophocles


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Readings, discussion, and papers on the tragedy of Sophocles. Close analysis of Oedipus Tyrannus and a survey of the criticism and scholarship dealing with Sophocles.
    Instructor: T. Van Nortwick
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GREK 202 or the equivalent.
  

  • GREK 306 - Homer’s Odyssey


    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Careful reading of selections from the Odyssey, with a survey of the criticism and scholarship on the poem. Special attention to issues of heroism and gender.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: T. Van Nortwick
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GREK 202 or equivalent.
  

  • GREK 307 - Comedies of Aristophanes


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    We will read one Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousae in Greek, and most of the other extant plays in English translation. We will also review recent scholarship on Aristophanes, with a particular focus on his comedies as political commentary, as literary criticism, and as evidence for social and sexual norms in Classical Athens.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: K. Ormand
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GREK 202 or the equivalent.
  

  • GREK 313 - Greek Legal Speeches


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
    Next Offered: 2014-15
    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    A study of greek law, with emphasis on social and family law, through the reading of Greek legal speeches by Lysias, Aeschines, and/or Demosthenes. Particular emphasis on disputes regarding inheritance, marriage, legitimacy and prostitution. Primary texts will be read in ancient Greek.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: K. Ormand
  

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

  • GREK 502 - Senior Honors


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

  • GREK 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: B. Lee, K. Ormand, T. Van Nortwick, A. Wilburn
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • GSFS 205 - Queer Beginnings: 1990


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, cd
    1990 was a time of new beginnings for artists, academics and activists who challenged the norms of heterosexuality, and for finding –or inventing– queer histories. A close reading of Foucault, then the early work of Sedgwick, Butler, Crimp, and Bersani. Fiction by Hollinghurst, Barnett, Winterson, and Gluck; historical or pseudo-historical films from the New Queer Cinema movement, including: Poison; Edward II; Orlando; Watermelon Woman; Looking for Langston; My Own Private Idaho; and Lilies.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: P. O’Connor
 

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