Mar 29, 2024  
Course Catalog 2018-2019 
    
Course Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

College and Conservatory Courses (2018-19 and planned future offerings)


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  • EAST 221 - The Learning of East Asian Languages and Cultures


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD

    This course presents the process of learning an East Asian language as a performance of culture. Readings will draw from diverse disciplinary sources including linguistics, cognitive science, developmental psychology, and language pedagogy.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: X. Zhang

    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Linguistics Concetration
  
  • EAST 238 - Gender and Sexuality in East Asian Religions


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD

    What do femininity and masculinity look like in East Asia? How many genders are there according to East Asian religions? This course will examine these and other related questions to explore the meaning of gender and sexuality in East Asian religions. Using stories, traditions, and testimonies of gender transformation and fluid sexuality, along with their counterpoints of gender rigidity and restrictive sexuality, it will look at both historical and contemporary expressions of gender and sexuality across East Asia to show the variety of interpretations of women, men, and everything in-between that lie at the heart of East Asian religions.

    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: G. Gillson

    Cross List Information: Crosslisted with RELG 238
  
  • EAST 241 - Living with the Bomb: A Comparative Study of Gender, Race and Nationalism in Japan and The United States, 1945-Present


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD

    The explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima is one of the pivotal moments in 20th century United States and Japanese history. Controversies at the Smithsonian Institution, conflicts in Japan about survivors and nuclear technologies, and media coverage of the tensions between the U.S., North Korea, and Iraq testify to the continuing cultural and social impact of the bomb seventy years later. This course will focus on the moral, ideological and historical complexity of the atomic bomb during World War II, and subsequent cultural responses in both Japan and the United States as people learned to live with the bomb.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: A. Sherif

    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
  
  • EAST 248 - Postwar Japan through Music and Film


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, CD

    This course examines Japan’s postwar period (1945-2011) through the lens of popular music and film, including documentary film. From the reconstruction of the nation after defeat in 1945 into a post-imperial age marked by affluence and a national ethic of egalitarianism, through to the collapse of the financial bubble of the 1980s and subsequent “lost decades” of the 1990s and 2000s, this course maps how music and film responded to and shaped the course of postwar Japanese history. Specific themes include: politics of space and sound; globalization of popular music, war memory, anti-U.S. military movement in Okinawa, and anti-nuclear movement after Fukushima.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: E. O’Dwyer

    Cross List Information: Crosslisted with HIST 249
  
  • EAST 249 - Pine, Bamboo, Plum: Nature in Japan’s Arts and Literature


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    This course studies the ideas of cultured nature as expressed and conceptualized in the literature, arts, and aesthetics of Japan: the culture of four seasons, potent trees and flowers, poetic place names, landscapes, gardens. We use the approaches of environmental humanities to analyze the meanings and evolution of natural imagery and seasonal topics in Japan’s classical poetry, prose fiction, and performing arts, and ask how expressions of harmony with nature relate to environmental justice today.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: A. Sherif

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies
  
  • EAST 251 - Breaking the Waves: The Japanese and French New Wave Cinemas and Their Legacy


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD

    While the French and Japanese New Wave(s) existed as largely contemporaneous cinematic movements, rarely are they discussed together, instilling the impression of two parallel streams, never to converge or intersect.  This course will serve as an intervention into this perceived divide through close readings of these groundbreaking cinematic works and an examination of their revolutionary content. How do these films figure as a response to that of the previous generation and how do they revolutionize cinematic praxis?  What is the prevailing influence of the New Wave on Hollywood and global cinema and what aspects of the movement have been lost?

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: N. Heneghan

  
  • EAST 255 - Kurosawa’s Cinematic Histories


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Half Course
    Credits: 2 credits
    Attribute: 2SS, CD

    This second module course will explore the ways in which Director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) portrayed Japanese history on film. To understand Kurosawa’s approach of holding up a mirror to Japanese society-throughout the ages-and its quandaries, emphasis will be on both the films and their depiction of historical realities. Films under consideration span Kurosawa’s almost five-decade long-career and include The Men Who Step on the Tiger’s Tail, Ikiru, High and Low, Kagemusha, and Madadayo. 

    Note: Weekly film screenings.

    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: E. O’Dwyer

    Cross List Information: HIST 255

  
  • EAST 280 - Bros at War: Conflict in Korea


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, CD

    This course is designed to explore the cultural, social and political history of the Korean War in the context of Cold War ideology and US-Soviet- Chinese-Korean relationship as well as specific battles and key players.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Jager

    Cross List Information: Cross Listed with HIST 280
  
  • EAST 309 - Chinese Popular Cinema and Public Intellectualism


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    Does Chinese popular cinema function as public intellectualism? This course examines the history, genre, aesthetic, and politics of the post-reform Chinese fiction films and documentaries from 1982 to 2014. Studying the works of Zhang Yimou, Jia Zhangke, Wu Wenguang, Wong Kar-wai, Ann Hui, He Zhaoti, Wei Desheng and others, we examine the extent to which influential directors have become a new class or organic intellectuals who raise political questions to propel social change.

    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: H. Deppman

    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature
  
  • EAST 318 - Irreducible Distance: Japan-Korea Relations Through Literature and Visual Media


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD

    Beginning with the colonial period (1910-45) and ending with the current day, this course examines works of literature and visual media from both the Japan and Korea sides that address issues of intercultural relations and communication.  How do political developments and ongoing issues of war responsibility (comfort women, etc.) continue to dictate the state of Korea-Japan relations?  We will thus discuss how recent works (such as Assassination (2015) and Spirits’ Homecoming (2016)) constitute an effort to reexamine historical events and the legacy of Japanese imperialism and their relevance to an understanding of the present day. Previous coursework in Japanese or Korean history, film, or literature strongly encouraged.

    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: N. Heneghan

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  
  • EAST 323 - Globalization and East Asian Religions


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    Why is Christianity so popular in Korea and China? Why is it an international incident when the Japanese Prime Minister visits a particular shrine? This course will explore what globalization means for the religions of East Asia. Starting with the historical transmission of religions across East Asia, it will focus on the eras of colonialization and post-colonialization, and their accompanying global economic, cultural, and religious exchange within East Asia and its diaspora. It will discuss constructive aspects of religious globalization such as the explosion in new religious movements across Asia, as well as negative aspects like religious nationalism. Field trips required.

    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: G. Gillson

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with RELG 323
  
  • EAST 367 - Seminar: The Opening of Korea, 1876-1905


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WADV

    The Korean peninsula was at the center of the most dramatic upheavals of late nineteenth and early twentieth century East Asia. This seminar focuses on the diplomatic history of these years, including the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5 and the Russo-Japanese War 1904-5, as well as the repercussions of these international developments on Korean society, politics and culture.

    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: S. Jager

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes: One East Asian history course.
    Cross List Information: Cross-listed with HIST 367
  
  • EAST 401 - Honors Program


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, HONR

    Consent of program director required.

    Instructor: Staff

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes: Note: Registration limited to seniors. Admission to the Honors Program is subject to the approval of the East Asian Studies faculty during the student’s junior year.
  
  • EAST 500 - Capstone Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits: 0 credits
    Attribute: 0HU

    Normally completed in the senior year, the capstone project may be done in one of three ways: 1) as a research project in an upper-level seminar taught by an EAS faculty member, 2) as a project in a 400-level Chinese or Japanese language course, or 3) as a Winter Term project overseen by an EAS faculty member. Students must consult with their mentor before the start of the term. P/NP grading only.

    Enrollment Limit: 999
    Instructor: M. Blecher, B. Cheng, H. Deppman, S. Jager, D. Kelley, Q. Ma, E. O’Dwyer, A. Sherif, Staff

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes: Note: P/NP grading only.
  
  • EAST 995F - Private Reading - Full


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU

    Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via PRESTO. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.

    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: M. Blecher, B. Cheng, H. Deppman, S. Jager, D. Kelley, Q. Ma, E. O’Dwyer, A. Sherif, Staff

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to the Registrar’s Office
  
  • EAST 995H - Private Reading - Half


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Half Course
    Credits: 2 credits
    Attribute: 2HU

    Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via Banner Self Service. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.

    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: M. Blecher, B. Cheng, H. Deppman, S. Jager, D. Kelley, Q. Ma, E. O’Dwyer, A. Sherif, Staff

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to the Registrar’s Office
  
  • ECON 099 - Principles of Accounting


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    Accounting is the creation, reporting, and interpretation of financial information. The course will show how accounting data can be used by people outside an organization ‘for example, investors and regulators’ to evaluate its financial performance. It will also show how accounting data can be used within an organization as a planning and management tool. The course will be particularly useful to those interested in careers in business, economics, arts and non-profit management, law, and government.

    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: P. Pahoresky

    Prerequisites & Notes: Students cannot earn credit for 099 if they have taken Econ 109. This course counts as general SS credits but does not count toward the 8 full economics credits required for the economics major.
  
  • ECON 101 - Principles of Economics


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    This course introduces the student to the economic problems of unemployment, inflation, the distribution of income and wealth, and the allocation of resources. The basic tools of analysis for studying these problems are developed and the role of public policy in securing economic objectives is explored. The course is designed to serve as a foundation for further work in economics and as a desirable complement to study in history, politics and sociology.

    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: M. Brehm, P. Brehm, C. Cotter, E. Kresch, E. McKelvey

  
  • ECON 102 - Principles of Economics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    This course is equivalent to ECON 101. It covers the same substantive material but introduces students to the application of mathematical tools in economics.

    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: E. Kresch

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisite: MATH 133.
  
  • ECON 206 - Principles of Finance


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    This course provides a thorough foundation in financial economics with applications to investment decisions and the management of business enterprises. Topics include capital budgeting, financial statement analysis, interest and risk calculations, principles of market valuation, the capital asset pricing model, financial funding decisions, dividend and cash flow analysis, and taxation.

    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: C. Cotter

    Prerequisites & Notes: : ECON 101
  
  • ECON 207 - Urban Economics


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    How and why do cities form? How do economic forces shape the city?s formation, location, size and function? We begin by looking at the economies and diseconomies of urban scale and the urban hierarchical network, as well as theories of land markets. We move to an economic and policy-centered analysis of the challenges of urban life, such as zoning, housing, transportation, suburbanization and the provision of public services.

    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: R. Cheung

    Prerequisites & Notes: : ECON 101 or its equivalent.
  
  • ECON 211 - Money, the Financial System and the Economy


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    The course deals with the linkages between financial markets, financial institutions, monetary policy and the economy. Topics will include the function of money in the economy, the determination of interest rates and exchange rates, the origin and evolution of financial intermediation, and the role of the financial system in the transmission of monetary policy.

    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: J. Duca

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisite: ECON 101 or its equivalent.
  
  • ECON 220 - The Economics of Labor Markets


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    This course provides an introduction to theoretical and empirical analysis of wage and employment determination. We will develop economic analyses of changes in labor markets, as well as labor market policies, and consider the empirical facts and evidence about work and pay, mostly in the United States. Topics include labor supply and demand, education, health, income inequality, intergenerational mobility, discrimination, and immigration.

    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: M. Brehm

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites and notes: ECON 101 or equivalent.
  
  • ECON 227 - International Trade and Finance


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    An introduction to international economics with an emphasis on the economic analysis of international transactions, financial interdependence, and current trade conflicts, as well as discussions of the historical development and contemporary role of international institutions.

    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: B. Craig

    Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or equivalent.
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies, Russian and East European Studies
  
  • ECON 231 - Environmental Economics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    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: P. Brehm

    Prerequisites & Notes: : ECON 101 or its equivalent.
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies, Law and Society
  
  • ECON 243 - Economic History of the United States


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    This course examines United States economic history from the colonial period to the present. The goal of the course is to use economic methods to further our understanding of U.S. history. Topics covered include the development of U.S. legal and political institutions, industrialization and urbanization, financial history, the Civil War, the transportation revolution, and the Great Depression.

    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: C. Cotter

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites and notes: ECON 101.
  
  • ECON 245 - Health Economics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    Health care economics is the study of how resources are allocated to the production of health care and the distribution of that care. The course will look at the conflict between the provision of high-quality, universal health care and health care cost containment; the pros and cons of using markets to distribute health care; and the institutional features of the markets for health insurance, medical education, hospitals, ethical drugs, and medical innovation and technology.

    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: M. Saavedra

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites and notes: ECON 101.
  
  • ECON 251 - Intermediate Macroeconomics


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    This course provides a detailed overview of the basic macroeconomic theories used to analyze aggregate spending and production, economic growth and business cycles. Theories covered in the class will be applied to examples drawn from current events and contemporary policy debates.

    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: J. Duca

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites: ECON 101 and sophomore standing or a 200-level course in economics.
  
  • ECON 253 - Intermediate Microeconomics


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    An introduction to the art of building mathematical models of the behavior of individual economic agents. Topics include models of consumers, producers, their interaction with each other in different market forms and strategic situations, and the welfare implications of economic outcomes in the presence and absence of markets.

    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: V. Saini

    Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 and sophomore standing or a 200-level course in economics and MATH 133. Proficiency in calculus at the level of Math 133 is essential.
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
  
  • ECON 255 - Introduction to Econometrics


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    This is an introduction to the application of statistical methods to the estimation of economic models and the testing of economic hypotheses using non-experimental data. The central statistical tool is multivariate regression analysis. Topics covered include: the Gauss-Markov theorem, testing hypotheses, and correcting for heteroskedasticity, autocorrelation and simultaneous equation bias. In the weekly computer lab sessions econometric software is used to analyze real-world data.

    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: M. Brehm, M. Saavedra

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites: STAT 113, MATH 133, both ECON 251 and ECON 253, or consent of instructor.
  
  • ECON 309 - Advanced Development


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    This course explores the factors determining economic development from a microeconomic and macroeconomic perspective. In the first half of the course, topics covered include population growth and fertility, poverty traps and multiple equilibria, migration and remittances, foreign aid, the role of institutional factors and the institutions vs. geography debate . The second half of the course explores the theory and evidence of economic development from a macroeconomic perspective. Topics include economic growth macroeconomic policies, and international trade and finance. This is a team-taught course.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: E. Kresch

    Prerequisites & Notes: : ECON 251; ECON 253; and MATH 133.
  
  • ECON 315 - Financial Markets


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    A microeconomics approach to the study of the functions of financial markets. Topics include the fundamentals of risk and return, the valuation of equity and fixed income securities, the term structure of interest rates, investment and security analysis, and questions of market efficiency.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: C. Cotter

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites: ECON 253 and ECON 206 or 211.
  
  • ECON 317 - Industrial Organization


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    Analysis of the modern theory and empirical evidence about the organization of firms and industries, why firms and industries take on particular forms, and what is the impact of that organization on market outcomes for consumers and producers. Specific topics include monopoly behavior, strategic firm behavior in markets with few firms, mergers, antitrust, governmental regulation, and consumer welfare.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: V. Saini

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites & Note ECON 253 and MATH 133.
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
  
  • ECON 322 - Public Economics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    We use tools of economic analysis to study the public sector, which plays a dominant role in our lives. We examine the foundation of welfare economics, developing rationales for the existence of government. We introduce major concepts of public finance: externalities, public goods, voting and redistribution. We supplement the theory with discussions on relevant policy issues (public education, health care reform, social security, etc.) and with examples of empirical research related to taxation and expenditure.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: R. Cheung

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites & Notes: Econ 253 or consent of the instructor.
  
  • ECON 332 - Energy Economics


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    This course examines energy markets and policies. It applies economic theory and uses empirical evidence to analyze oil, natural gas, and electricity markets. Understanding the structure of supply and demand in these industries is essential for designing effective energy policy. Emphasis will be placed on understanding energy?s interaction with climate change. Prerequisite and notes: ECON 253.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: P. Brehm

    Cross List Information: Cross-listed with ENVS 332
  
  • ECON 340 - Financial Derivatives


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    This course provides a thorough review of financial derivative contracts and their extraordinary growth in recent decades, from forwards and futures, to options, swaps, and credit derivatives. While we pay some attention to the role of derivatives in the panic of 2008, the emphasis is on how these instruments work, how they can be used to redistribute risk, and on principles and models of valuation. Prerequisite & Notes ECON 253 and STAT 113 or consent of instructor.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: E. McKelvey

  
  • ECON 351 - Macroeconomic Theory


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    This course examines central issues in macroeconomic research and policy. Building on basic models developed in ECON 251, the course develops more rigorous models to investigate economic growth, consumption and savings, investment, and business cycle fluctuations emphasizing the roles of monetary and fiscal policies, and their macroeconomic effects.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: J. Duca

    Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and MATH 133. ECON 255 is also recommended.
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Mathematics
  
  • ECON 355 - Advanced Econometrics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR

    The course covers advanced topics in econometrics as a sequel to ECON 255. Topics covered include basic time series analysis, reduced form econometric estimation techniques in the presence of endogeneity, first difference estimators, fixed and random effects, instrumental variables, simultaneous equations, the estimation of treatment effects in experimental and quasi-experimental settings, and limited dependent variable models (Logit, Probit, and Tobit). Practical exercises will be conducted in Stata.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: B. Craig

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 255, MATH 133, and ECON 253.
  
  • ECON 409 - Seminar: Institutions and Development


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR, WADV

    The seminar will review the most important literature in economic development from a micro perspective with an emphasis on the role that institutions, state capacity, and property rights have on development. Students will have to present the assigned papers and present a small research project.

    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: E. Kresch

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes: : ECON 253 and ECON 255.
  
  • ECON 417 - Seminar: Research in Industrial Organization


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR, WADV

    Students read, discuss, produce, and present research on contemporary topics in industrial organization such as the economics of electronic marketplaces, consumer and firm behavior in online auctions, markets for goods with network effects, the dynamics of competition in high-tech industries, and so on. Prerequisite & Notes: Econ 253 and Econ 255 are required. Econ 317 is recommended.

    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: V. Saini

  
  • ECON 421 - Seminar: Human Capital during the Life Course


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR, WINT

    This seminar examines how investments in human capital starting at the beginning of life and continuing until mid-career affect health and labor market outcomes. We will start with the long-run effects of health investments that occur during the in utero period, also known as the fetal origins hypothesis. Then, we will examine educational investments occurring during primary and secondary school, as well as college enrollment decisions. Lastly, we will discuss the ways in which adult health interacts with income. To provide context, we will also discuss the evolution of health and human capital throughout American history.

    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: M. Saavedra

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites and notes: Econ 253 and 255.
  
  • ECON 430 - Economics of Poverty & Income Distribution


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, QFR, WINT

    This seminar examines poverty and income distribution, mostly in the U.S. We will discuss how poverty rates and wage inequality have changed over time, factors that explain historical trends, consequences of poverty and inequality, intergenerational mobility, and how income differs by race and gender. We will also consider the main government policies and programs that affect poverty and inequality. Students will write and present an original research paper. Prerequisite: Econ 253 and Econ 255.

    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: M. Brehm

  
  • ECON 449 - Seminar: Economics and Immigration


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, WINT

    This seminar examines the movement of people between countries from an economics perspective. We will discuss the incentives for immigration, the economic impact of immigrants arrival in a new country and on the country of origin. We will examine theoretical models drawn from macro, public, labor and international economics and consider both policies real and imagined and empirical evidence. Students will write, revise and present an original research paper related to this topic.

    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: B. Craig

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites and notes: ECON 251, 253, and 255.
  
  • ECON 491F - Honors Program–Full


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS, HONR, QFR, WADV

    This program is open by departmental invitation to major students whose general and departmental records indicate their ability to carry the program and the likelihood that they will profit from it. The program is two semesters and involves the independent preparation of a thesis, defense of the thesis, active participation with other Honors students and the department staff in a weekly seminar as well as written and oral examinations by an outside examiner. Prerequisite & Notes: Consent of instructor required.

    Instructor: E. McKelvey

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  
  • ECON 491H - Honors Program–Half


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Half Course
    Credits: 2 credits
    Attribute: 2SS, HONR, QFR

    This program is open by departmental invitation to major students whose general and departmental records indicate their ability to carry the program and the likelihood that they will profit from it. The program is two semesters and involves the independent preparation of a thesis, defense of the thesis, active participation with other Honors students and the department staff in a weekly seminar as well as written and oral examinations by an outside examiner.

    Instructor: E. McKelvey

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  
  • ECON 995F - Private Reading - Full


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS

    Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via PRESTO. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.

    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: M. Brehm, P. Brehm, R. Cheung, C. Cotter, B. Craig, J. Duca, E. Kresch, E. McKelvey, M. Saavedra, V. Saini

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to the Registrar’s Office
  
  • ECON 995H - Private Reading - Half


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Half Course
    Credits: 2 credits
    Attribute: 2SS

    Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via Banner Self Service. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.

    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: M. Brehm, P. Brehm, R. Cheung, C. Cotter, B. Craig, J. Duca, E. Kresch, E. McKelvey, M. Saavedra, V. Saini

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to the Registrar’s Office
  
  • EDPR 102 - SITES Spanish In The Elementary Schools” Language Teaching Practicum”


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits: 1-2 credits
    Attribute: CC

    This co-curricular Spanish teaching practicum is offered for variable credits (1-2) to students who have successfully completed EDUA 101 and are approved to continue teaching in the SITES program. Every credit represents a weekly time commitment of approximately 3 hours (including 1 hour of teaching).

    Enrollment Limit: 80
    Instructor: K. Tungseth-Faber

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisite & Notes: Completion of EDUA 101 and approval to continue in the SITES Program required.  EDPR 102 may be repeated with a maximum of 8 co-curricular credits counting towards the graduation requirement. P/NP Grading Only.
  
  • EDUA 301 - Language Pedagogy: The Theory & Practice of Teaching and Learning Languages


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD

    What does it mean to know a language? And how do you teach languages effectively? Encouraging students to look at language in new and revealing ways, this course provides an introduction to the field of applied linguistics and language pedagogy. The course includes a practicum in which students work as teachers or tutors in the language(s) of their competency, including English. Spanish-speaking students who are selected will work in SITES. No prerequisites. Open to all students, regardless of linguistic background.

    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: K. Tungseth-Faber

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Application & interview required for consent.
  
  • EDUA 995F - Private Reading - Full


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU

    Full Private Reading

    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: K. Tungseth-Faber

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to Registrar’s Office
  
  • EDUA 995H - Private Reading - Half


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Half Course
    Credits: 2 credits
    Attribute: 2HU

    Half Private Reading

    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: K. Tungseth-Faber

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to Registrar’s Office
  
  • EDUC 300 - Principles of Education


    Next Offered: Spring Semester
    (Offered S19 with SutdiOC)


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 Credits
    Attribute: CNDP, DDHU, WRi

    Students will explore the complex world of education from historical, philosophical, sociological and political perspectives and assumptions, while also investigating why different models of schools function as they do. Educational theory, policy, and curriculum will be addressed, specifically current issues and research dealing with students’ readiness to learn, assessment and evaluation, funding, teacher assessment, and educational standards. Traditional and alternative pedagogies, their impact on teaching-learning partnerships, and models for teacher reflective praxis will be included in course readings, discussions, and written reflections. While the course focuses on the American educational system at large, students will practice applying key educational concepts to subject areas of their own interest.
     

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: J. Kerchner

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes: Counts as liberal arts course for Conservatory and Double-Degree students. Open to juniors and seniors only.
     
    Cross List Information: Cross-Listed PACE 300. (PACE 300 Previously listed as MUED 519)
  
  • ENGL 104 - Supervidere: Surveillance Cultures of the American Canon


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU

    These days someone is probably watching you: followers on social media, operators of security cameras, that pesky elf on a shelf. But was it always so? This survey course considers how surveillance is essential to the development of American literature, culture, and society from the colonial period to the present. The word “survey” itself comes from the Latin “supervidere,” meaning to oversee or supervise. As we survey American literature ranging from colonial-era captivity narratives to Edgar Allen Poe’s nineteenth-century gothic and Thomas Pynchon’s twentieth-century postmodernism, we will consider why watching and being watched are common themes in the American canon.

    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: D. Skeehan

    Prerequisites & Notes: Students may count one 100-level course toward the English major. This course may also be of interest to CAST majors.
  
  • ENGL 140 - Arthurian Fictions


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU

    Stories about King Arthur and his knights have been popular favorites from the Middle Ages to our own day. The legend has been represented across the arts, in dozens of languages, in high and pop culture, as comedy and as tragedy. Rather than attempting to cover this vast and diverse tradition, the course will introduce a variety of key texts and genres (e.g. medieval romance, poetry, children’s lit, film) and methods of analysis. Not writing-intensive.

    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: J. Bryan

    Prerequisites & Notes: Students may count one 100-level course toward the English major.
  
  • ENGL 203 - Early British Literature: Points of Departure


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    How does English literature begin? This course will introduce some of the most influential texts of the British tradition before 1700, texts that survived the centuries to become touchstones for writers around the globe. Authors will include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Donne. Medieval texts will be read in modern translation. British, Pre-1700.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Bryan

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
  
  • ENGL 207 - Lovers, Philosophers, and Revolutionaries: A Survey of Renaissance Literature


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    The Protestant reformation, the scientific revolution, the rise of capitalism, the transvestite theater, the “discovery” of America, the plague: the English Renaissance was a time of daring innovation as well as classical revival. This course will survey the authors writing during this extraordinary time, including Marlowe, Webster, Wyatt, Surrey, Montaigne, Erasmus, Sidney, Queen Elizabeth, Donne, Herbert, Milton, and Spenser. Our focus will be on the relationship between radical cultural and intellectual change and literary expression. British, Pre-1700.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: W. Hyman

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature and Theater
  
  • ENGL 213 - Desire and Literature


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    Erotic desire is one of literature’s great and perennial themes. This course will explore some of its permutations in texts from the classical to the contemporary: from Ovid to Junot Diaz, from Shakespeare to Zora Neale Hurston, from vampires to Marilyn Monroe. We will pay special attention to the role of desire in self-construction. How are selves imagined in relation to loss, absence, and otherness? How do our articulations of desire locate us in time, space, genders, bodies, and communities? What do the literatures of desire tell us about who we are and who we want to be? This course is required for the Arts of Desire StudiOC Learning Community. 

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: J. Bryan

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes: Field Trip(s) Required. 
  
  • ENGL 218 - Shakespeare and the Limits of Genre: Problem Comedy and Romance


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    This class will study Shakespeare’s most inscrutable plays: the disturbing “problem comedies” All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, and Merchant of Venice; and the dazzling “romances” Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter’s Tale. In both tragicomic modes, Shakespeare experiments with the limits of genre: crafting “happy endings” to plays that resist them, and thereby speculating on the nature of dramatic representation and fiction-making itself.  British, Pre-1700.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: W. Hyman

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200 Level Courses.”
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Theater and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
  
  • ENGL 219 - Persona and Impersonation


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    A close look at how pattern, allusion, borrowing, theft, and invention collude in the work of major poets from the Renaissance to the present. Written work will consist of imitation of the assigned poems, and will require extensive revision, collaboration, and responsiveness to peers. Designed to benefit both critical and creative writers, this course seeks to hone skills of observation, listening, and description, as well as to cultivate mastery of the formal and rhetorical vocabularies necessary for careful reading and writing of poetry.

     

    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Harrison

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Cross List Information: Crosslisted with CRWR 219

  
  • ENGL 223 - Meaning and Being: Nature in 19th-Century American Narrative


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    A survey of prominent literary works of the 1800s, emphasizing close reading and giving special attention to the concept of “Nature.” The reading list will be centered around Moby-Dick, which appeared in the middle of the century and features tangled relations between meaning and being, self and other. American, 1700-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: T.S. McMillin

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Enviromental Studies
  
  • ENGL 227 - Romantic Revolutions


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    This course focuses on Romantics’ responses to the most pressing issues of their day: the French Revolution, massive social and gender inequality, the abolition of the slave trade, the industrial revolution and its ecological disasters, to name a few. Such engagements allowed Romantic authors to explore their own anxieties of authorship as they strove to gauge the rewards and perils of full participation in the “Republic of Letters.” As we ponder these and similar issues, we will pay close attention to the formal and generic attributes of a broad range of literary texts, from poetry to fiction to critical prose. British, 1700-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: N. Tessone

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
  
  • ENGL 233 - Women of Color in the Avant-Garde


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD

    Historically, the American avant-garde canon has privileged the work of white male authors, neglecting the vital contributions of women of color. This class will offer a different vantage point on the history of experimental literature and art in the U.S. Our course will begin with the modernist period and end in the present moment, traversing a century of transgressive literary and visual culture-making. We will explore texts across genre and medium, including prose, poetry, drama, performance art, and film, and consider theoretical and scholarly writing alongside creative work. American, Diversity, Post-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: R. Carroll

  
  • ENGL 249 - Introduction to Book Studies


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    This course introduces students to key approaches and concepts in the discipline of Book Studies. Book Studies encompasses printed and handwritten paper objects, but also ancient clay tablets and contemporary electronic media. This interdisciplinary course lays the groundwork for students to study the social and cultural history of books as historical, aesthetic, religious, and visual artifacts in Book Studies courses throughout Oberlin’s curriculum. Students will have hands-on experience in the Letterpress Studio, Art Museum, College Library and Conservatory collections with text-and-image-objects from the West, East Asia and the Islamic world. British OR American (not both), Pre-1700 OR 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (one period only). This course is required for the Book Studies Concentration and prepares students for Book Studies courses throughout the College and Conservatory.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Zagarell

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    The Book Studies Concentration
  
  • ENGL 253 - Pens and Needles: Gender and Media in Early America


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    This course will explore the complex relationship between gender, race, and media in the Americas before 1865. Our syllabus takes as its starting point expansive understandings of the term “media.” We will read the written word alongside lives and experiences recorded through media such as quilts, samplers, Native American quill work, songs, and recipes. Examining the different authorial roles available to early Americans, we will consider how gender, race, and ethnicity structure one’s relationship to alphabetic letters, and explore the diverse ways in which people used various media to carve out identities for themselves and to enter public discourse. American, Diversity, 1700-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Skeehan

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies; Comparative American Studies; The Book Studies Concentration
  
  • ENGL 254 - Nineteenth-Century New York: Writing the Modern City


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    When and more importantly where did we become what we might call “modern”? This seminar takes New York City as its focal point, exploring how authors wrote about profound changes taking place in the nineteenth century. Global immigration, industrialization, changes in domestic ideology, urbanization, the rise of consumer culture, and re-definitions of political subjecthood had a critical impact on how people inhabited their various subject positions as well as their city. Authors may include: Washington Irving, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Jacobs, Israel Zangwill, Fanny Fern, William Apess, and Abraham Cahan. American, 1700-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Skeehan

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section, “200-Level Courses.”
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative American Studies
  
  • ENGL 255 - In Search of America: The Concept of Nature in Early American Literature


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    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: 25
    Instructor: T.S. McMillin

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies
  
  • ENGL 258 - August Wilson: The Century Cycle


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    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. Field trips required.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: G. Johns

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
    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
  
  • ENGL 265 - Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    An introduction to Anglophone literatures of Africa, South Asia and their diasporas, this course addresses (and historicizes) the politics of their production and reception, focusing particularly on their engagement with the politics of (i) gender and sexuality; (ii) regional and national socio-cultural formations and their ideologies; (iii) resistance and/or conformity with western canons of taste, styles/genres. Postcolonial and feminist theories regarding “marginality”/”location,” “identity”/”experience,” and “alterity”/”difference” constitute important analytic lenses for examining these literatures. Diversity, Post-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    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.
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
  
  • ENGL 271 - Imagining America: Experimental Contemporary Ethnic American Literature


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    How do contemporary authors of color use literary form to investigate, explore, subvert, or re-imagine the mythos of “America” and what it means to be American? In this course, we will be reading texts in African American, Asian American, Chicanx, Iranian American, and Latinx literatures. We will consider how these authors experiment with form in order to engage with issues including transatlantic slavery, migration, diaspora, home, war, and citizenship, among other topics. While each text may be differently experimental, they all use experimental forms to “imagine” the project of America and issues related to national . American, Diversity, Post-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: R. Carroll

    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, refer to the English Program section titled, “200-Level Courses”.
  
  • ENGL 275 - Introduction to Comparative Literature


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    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: S. Milkova, P. O’Connor

    Prerequisites & Notes: 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.
  
  • ENGL 282 - Shifting Scenes: Drama Survey


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    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. Pre-1700 OR 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (one period only).

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: C. Tufts

    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 THEA 282.
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
  
  • ENGL 299 - Introduction to the Advanced Study of Literature


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    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?

    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: G. Johns, A. Needham, W. Hyman, N. Tessone

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.” This course is required for English majors, and is intended to prepare students for the English major and advanced work in literary study. Students who are interested in majoring in English should take this course by the end of their sophomore year and before they declare the English major.
  
  • ENGL 300 - Race and Visual Culture in the 20th and 21st Centuries


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD

    How does American culture visualize race? How is racial meaning produced, explored, and circulated in visual culture? This course will explore how race is “seen” in American literature and culture from the early twentieth century into our contemporary moment. We will examine a broad range of literary and visual texts, including novels, poetry, plays, paintings, performance art, and popular culture. We will consider concepts such as racial classification, stereotype, representation, fetish, abstraction, and social and political transformation. We will ask, why is race so strongly associated with the visual? How does the visual narrow or expand cultural understandings of race?

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: R. Carroll

  
  • ENGL 301 - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    Twenty-nine pilgrims set off down the road to Canterbury. To pass the time, they devise a storytelling contest. This is The Canterbury Tales: at once a great compilation of genres – from chivalric romance to bawdy farce to beast fable – and a sustained exploration of how stories work and how they function in society. It is about pleasure and interpretation, writers and readers, sex, chickens, and the meaning of life. Readings will be in Middle English. British, Pre-1700.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: J. Bryan

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Advanced Courses.”
  
  • ENGL 304 - Shakespeare and Metamorphosis


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    This course will examine several Shakespeare plays in conversation with classical myths and their major themes of transformation, sexuality, suffering, artistic creation, coming of age, wisdom, love, loss. Shakespearean works include “Venus and Adonis,” Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline, and The Winter’s Tale, paired with myths by Apuleius, Plato, and Ovid; retellings by Rilke, Auden, Zimmerman, and Bidart; and works of visual art. We will also explore theoretical approaches to myth-making, and myths’ relationship to other “fictional” literary forms. British, Pre-1700.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: W. Hyman

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section, “Advanced Courses.”
    Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with CMPL 304.
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Classics and Theater
  
  • ENGL 318 - History and Theory of the Novel


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    By marking the historical stages by which the novel developed from its beginnings as an “upstart” genre in the late seventeenth century to its modernist incarnations and post-modernist and post-colonial reconfigurations, this course will demonstrate how a genre develops in response to most prominent developments in literary history. This genre has helped shape modern consciousness: What distinguishes the novel from other literary forms, and why did this genre arise when it did? Under what grounds do novels claim the authority and power to teach, to question, and to accommodate changing definitions of nation, class, family, and personal and political identity? British, Diversity, 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both).

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: N. Tessone

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled, “Advanced Courses.”
  
  • ENGL 320 - From Frankenstein to Dracula: At the Margins of 19th-Century Britain


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WADV

    Nineteenth-century novels strive to recreate what one critic called “knowable” communities. In this course, we’ll study texts that explore that which is situated at the very edges of culture, at the limits of knowable and, often, at the borders of the human. Our course will be rooted in the nineteenth century, the age not just of Frankenstein’s monster and the blood-thirsty Dracula, but also of Darwinian evolution. We’ll think about how authors from this period conceive of identity and difference, self and other, and we’ll ask just how they define what is “normal” and what lies outside of it. British, Diversity, 1700-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: N. Tessone

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled, “Advanced Courses.”
  
  • ENGL 328 - Modern Drama II: Brecht to Pinter


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    This course will study the development of drama from World War II to 1975 from both a literary and a theatrical point of view. Playwrights will include Brecht, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Churchill, Pinter, Fornes, and Adrienne Kennedy. Post-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: C. Tufts

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Advanced Courses.”
    Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with THEA 316.
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
  
  • ENGL 330 - Modernist Chicago: Urban Literature and Sociology


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    This course focuses on literature associated with the social, literary, and academic scene of Chicago from 1900 to 1959. Reading multi-ethnic articulations of patterns of identity and lifestyle emerging due to rapid industrialization, migration, and class differentiation, we will consider both social and formal features of this strain of modernism (in works by Dreiser, Anderson, Farrell, Wright, Himes, and Hansberry, among others); we will also examine select sociological studies and reflections on Chicago’s intellectual culture. American, Diversity, Post-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: G. Johns

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Advanced Courses.”
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    African American Studies; Comparative American Studies; Comparative Literature
  
  • ENGL 343 - American Gothic


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    What was haunting early America? This course will examine the forms, preoccupations, and uses of the gothic in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Gothic literature stages the deepest anxieties in a culture and exposes our fears of dissolving or transgressed boundaries between the known and the unknown, self and other, sanity and madness, civilization and savagery, and good and evil. American, 1700-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: D. Skeehan

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Advanced Courses.”
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative American Studies
  
  • ENGL 366 - Nature and Transcendentalism


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    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: 20
    Instructor: T.S. McMillin

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Advanced Courses.”
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies
  
  • ENGL 367 - The French Joyce


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    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, especially his major works, and of Joyce on subsequent French literary culture. Taught in English. 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.
  
  • ENGL 371 - Politics and Pleasure


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    Is pleasure political? Can politics be pleasurable? This course will explore theoretical and creative approaches to thinking through the, perhaps unexpected, entanglement of pleasure and politics. We wil consider happiness, sexuality, humor, and cuteness, among other pleasurable concepts. Our readings will come from affect theory, queer theory, critical race theory, aesthetic theory, and Marxist theory, alongside selected literary and visual texts. Our goal will be to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the role of pleasure in topics including identity politics, social movements, fetishism and exploitation, oppression and injustice and the fights against these things. Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites refer to the English Program section titled, “Advanced Courses”.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: R. Carroll

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


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    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: 20
    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 CINE 372 and CMPL 372.
  
  • ENGL 381 - Hopeful Monsters: (Mixed-)Media Studies


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WINT

    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: 20
    Instructor: J. Pence

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Advanced Courses.” Also acceptable: Any 100- or 200-level Cinema Studies course.”
    Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with CINE 381.
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
  
  • ENGL 385 - Women in/and “Bollywood”


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    This course will examine how gender and sexuality, especially as they relate to women, are represented in “Bollywood” cinema. Focusing on individual films, it will analyze: 1) their cinematic techniques and narrative forms for representing women and addressing issues of gender and sexuality (which identities are privileged, which marginalized? what values structure the film’s diegetic world?); and (2) spectatorial address (what sort of gendered, classed, and caste-marked viewer constitutes the film’s desired audience?). Anglo-American and Indian film scholarship, some deriving from feminist and queer studies, and scholarship relevant to the films’ historical and cultural contexts will inform our discussion. Diversity, Post-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Needham

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Advanced Courses.”
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
  
  • ENGL 387 - “Bollywood“‘s India: An Introduction to Indian Cinema


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

    A selective introduction to Indian cinema, this course will: (1) provide a brief history of its development; and (2) address subjects considered relevant to understanding its attractions: the cultural and aesthetic difference represented by its narrative/performative structures; its engagement with, and crafting of, issues relating to national identity, including those of gender, class and community; the state’s role in its development; its implication in and reflection of globalizing currents in economy, society and culture. Diversity, Post-1900.

    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Needham

    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Advanced Courses.”
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
  
  • ENGL 398 - Applied Literary Studies


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU

    A project-based course that allows students to identify and explore potential applications of literary study and the humanities in general. Projects can investigate possible careers for English majors, research on literature, English education, advanced writing practices, preparation for capstone courses.

    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: T.S. McMillin

    Prerequisites & Notes: Any two 200-level English courses, or consent of the instructor.
  
  • ENGL 399 - Teaching & Tutoring Writing Across the Disciplines


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WADV

    In this course, students study composition theory and pedagogy and at the same time learn to work with their peers on writing in either the writing center or in a writing-intensive/writing-advanced course offered in various disciplines. 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, J. Cooper

    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 must apply to take this course before early registration; applications are linked from the Writing Associates Program’s webpages.
    Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with RHET 401.
  
  • ENGL 400 - Senior Tutorial


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WADV

    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: N. Tessone, D. Skeehan

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘Senior Tutorials and Seminars.’
  
  • ENGL 437 - Seminar: Ars Poetica


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WADV

    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? Central texts will include poetry, criticism, theory, and visual works. 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.’
  
  • ENGL 448 - Senior Seminar: Words and Things


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, WADV

    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.’
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
  
  • ENGL 452 - Honors Project I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, HONR, WADV

    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: J. Pence

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled, ‘Honors and Private Readings.’
  
  • ENGL 453 - Honors Project II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU, HONR, WADV

    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: J. Pence

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled, ‘Honors and Private Readings.’
  
  • ENGL 995F - Private Reading - Full


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU

    Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via Banner Self Service. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.

    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: L. Baudot, J. Bryan, W. Day, J. Deppman, D. Harrison, W. Hyman, G. Johns, T. McMillin, A. Needham, J. Pence, D. Skeehan, Staff, H. Suarez, N. Tessone, D. Walker, S. Zagarell, C. Tufts

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to the Registrar’s Office
  
  • ENGL 995H - Private Reading - Half


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Half Course
    Credits: 2 credits
    Attribute: 2HU

    Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via Banner Self Service. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.

    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: L. Baudot, J. Bryan, W. Day, J. Deppman, D. Harrison, W. Hyman, G. Johns, T. McMillin, A. Needham, J. Pence, D. Skeehan, Staff, H. Suarez, N. Tessone, D. Walker, S. Zagarell, C. Tufts

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to the Registrar’s Office
  
  • ENTR 100 - Introduction to Entreprenuership and Leadership


    Next Offered: Fall & Spring

    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester, First Module
    Credits: 1 Credit
    Attribute: CNDP, XD

    With hands-on project-based learning, experience what it means to be an entrepreneur (for-profit, nonprofit, social entrepreneur).  Students learn what it means to work as a team, to identify a problem, ideate and test solutions, design a rough prototype and develop a sustainable financial model for execution.  Each team identifies as a “company”, and pitches their idea to an audience in the final class.

    Along with weekly readings and videos, supplemented by self-sourced blog posts on any startup interest a student has; students are guided through the Design Thinking method and the Business Model Canvas providing a framework to develop an effective venture startup opportunity. 

    Students are encouraged to source and write Blog posts on any area of startup they find interesting.  See what they are writing: https://oberlinentrepreneurship.wordpress.com/

    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: B. Oney (Watts)

    Consent of the Instructor Required: No

  
  • ENVS 101 - Environment and Society


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS

    An interdisciplinary exploration of environmental challenges, causes, solutions and underlying power dynamics. This course provides an introduction to social, economic, and ecological perspectives on relationships between humans and the rest of the natural world. The course emphasizes design options to transition communities towards sustainability and resilience with respect to food, energy and shelter in the face of local and global change. ENVS 101 provides an introduction for non-majors and a foundation for Environmental Studies majors.

    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: K. Offen, M. Shammin, J. Petersen

    Prerequisites & Notes: Open to first and second year students. Upper classmen may be added only by consent during add/drop.
  
  • ENVS 201 - Introduction to Environmental Humanities


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4HU

    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.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Fiskio

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisite: ENVS 101
  
  • ENVS 208 - Environmental Policy


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Full Course
    Credits: 4 credits
    Attribute: 4SS

    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.

    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Pathak

    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisite: ENVS 101, Note: Restricted to ENVS and POLT majors.
    Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with POLT 208.
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Politics
 

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