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Course Catalog 2006-2007 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Oberlin College Courses
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African American Studies |
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AAST 072 - Blues Aesthetic: Continuity and Transformation 3 HU, CD
First Semester. The emphasis of this course is upon the thesis that the Black or ‘Blues Aesthetic’ is a cultural perspective that emerges from within the experiences of Black people, facing the socio-political and economic conditions of modern and contemporary America. Our focus will be upon the traditions of African American music, literature, theater/film, and specifically the visual arts.
Prerequisites & Notes Identical to ARTS 072. Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 12.
Mr. Coleman
[Next Offered 2007-2008]
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 074 - Something From Something 3 HU, CD
First Semester. This course is a ‘hands on’ exploration of vernacular visual traditions existing within African American Culture. We will examine design choices/material processes used to define and describe the specificity of lived experience within African American culture. Our focus is upon elders within black communities and the stories that they tell through their work. These ‘folk artists’ function as influences upon contemporary African American artists ranging from Alison Saar, to Renee’ Stout. These vernacular traditions will serve as resources that extend our own working processes as we tell our own stories.
Prerequisites & Notes Identical to ARTS 056. Note: Counts as Visual Concepts and Processes for Art majors. Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 12.
Mr. Coleman
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 101 - Introduction to the Black Experience 3 SS, CD
First and Second Semester. An interdisciplinary exploration of key aspects of Black history, culture, and life in Africa and the Americas. The course attempts to provide students with a fundamental intellectual understanding of the universal Black experience as it has been described and interpreted by humanists and social scientists. Included in the course will be such topics as: the African American Studies movement, the African heritage of Afro-Americans, Pan-African relations, racism and sexism, the family, the role of religion in Black life, class structure and class relations, the political economy of African American life, and Black political power. Declared majors are given priority for this course.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 45.
Mr. Millette, Ms. Brooks
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 118 - Ritual and Performance I: The World According to the Yoruba and their Descendants in the New World 3 SS, CD, WR
First Semester. This course will explore religious phenomena, performance, and artistic “agency” of the Yoruba and their descendants.We will look at Yoruba syncretic beliefs in the New World as well as in the Old World in relation to ritual secrets and choices for artistic representation, in the performance “arena.” After reading and discussion of written and verbal expression on this subject by practitioners, artists, and intellectuals, students will use dance movement, artistic representation, and “nommo”—the word to represent their own construct of a ritual—to render their example of a specific “construct” of ritual.
Prerequisites & Notes Identical to AAST 118/DANC 118.
Enrollment Limit: 15, first-year students only.
Ms. Sharpley
[Next Offered 2007-2008]
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 120 - The Caribbean and the Wider World 3 SS, CD, WR
Second Semester: In 1493 the Caribbean did not exist in the imagination of Europe and the wider world. In 1494, it was “discovered” by Columbus, and from that time onwards became an integral part of the European imagination and of the Atlantic world. This course will examine the historical background to this transformation and some of the political, moral, and economic issues that confer significance on the changes that took place.
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 161 - Introduction to Capoeira Angola 3 HU, CD New Course added 07/24/2006
First Semester. Capoeira Angola is the African-Brazilian martial art that combines dance, music, and combat to create a game of strategy, style, and wit. This course will introduce students to the aspects of Capoeira Angola including the movement, music, philosophy, and history traced through great masters of the past to its African beginnings in the Bantu’s dance of N’golo. Each class will involve daily physical training and music lessons. Students will also engage in readings and discussions aimed at providing a historic context for contemporary styles and traditions.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 25. Identical to DANC 161
Mr. Emeka
Credits: 3 Credits |
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AAST 181 - Education in the Black Community 3 SS, CD, WR
First Semester. The philosophy of a Ghetto Scholar is the sole focus of this course. This highly creative and very original philosophy centers on a Ghetto Scholar’s use of education to pursue the concept of GGG (the greatest good, for the greatest number, for the greatest period). Students are required to think imaginatively, analytically, and independently as they examine critical issues facing Black and other oppressed peoples. Education is essential to the attainment of a world that is liberated, peaceful, and humane.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 20.
Mr. Peek
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 190 - West African Dance Forms in the Diaspora I 3 HU, CD
First Semester. his course will survey dance movement forms and technique from West Africa, to the New World through dance performance. A survey of dance performance using academic discourse as well as a movement vocabulary will be used. The influence of West African movements on the New World will include forms from Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti. This class will be taught from a traditional West African perspective and Pan-African world view.
Prerequisites & Notes Identical to DANC 190.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Ms. Sharpley
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 191 - West African Dance Forms in the Diaspora II 2 HU, CD
Second Semester. This course will expand the dance movements, forms, and techniques from AAST 190 class. Extensive dance performance within a particular area (Brazil, Cuba and Haiti) will be examined. The dances will be explored in their total experience in context with costumes and music. This course is cross-referenced with DANC 191.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: AAST/DANC 190 or previous dance experience.
Credits: 2 hours |
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AAST 206 - History of the Caribbean to 1838 3 SS, CD New Course Added 08/18/2006
First Semester. Beginning with an examination of indigenous Caribbean societies, this course then studies how the various European colonial enterprises affected the region’s social and economic history. It examines such themes as trade, the evolution of labor systems, the establishment of the plantation enterprises, and political and social organizations. A central feature of this course is to understand the evolution of such concepts as class, gender, and ‘race’ in the context of the Caribbean.
Prerequisites & Notes Mr. Gill
Credits: 3 Credits |
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AAST 208 - Slavery and Freedom in the Western Hemisphere 3 SS, CD, WR
First Semester. This course examines the emergence of the African diaspora in the Western Hemisphere from the 15th century onward. It focuses on the African historical background; the European contacts with West Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean; the rise of the Atlantic socio-economic and cultural complex; the development of New World economies and societies; the origins and organization of the slave trade and slavery; slave resistance, emancipation and the establishment of freedom.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 35.
Mr. Millette
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 209 - Society and Politics in the Modern Caribbean, 1838-1970 3 SS, CD, WR
Second Semester. This course discusses the modern Caribbean from the emancipation of the slaves in the British West Indies to the independence and post-independence periods. It explores the post-emancipation social, economic and political problems; the introduction of East Indian indentureship; the later emancipations in the French and Spanish islands; political and economic modernization; the growth of the nationalist movements; independence and neo-colonialism.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 40.
Mr. Millette
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 210 - The African Presence in the Caribbean 3 SS, CD New Course Added 08/18/2006
First Semester. This course examines the African presence in the Caribbean and identifies some of the main features of the African cultural legacy in the region throughout the plantation and post- plantation eras. It seeks to explicate Caribbean thought and practice by examining how aspects of caribbean history, demography and cultural forms were influenced by the world views and customs of people from West and West-Central Africa.
Prerequisites & Notes Mr. Gill
Credits: 3 Credits |
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AAST 220 - Doin’ Time: A History of Black Incarceration 3 SS, CD
Spring Semester. This course considers how a system of imprisoning Black men and women in the U. S. has been sustained from colonial times to the present. Beginning with Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, and Davis’s Are Prisons Obsolete?, the course establishes a theoretical grounding upon which to understand early systems of surveillance and confinement. The course surveys institutions, justice systems, and incarcerated men’s and women’s crimes, punishments, and experiences negotiating what can arguably be termed 21
st-century re-enslavement.
Prerequisites & Notes Ms. Brooks
Credits: 3 |
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AAST 225 - Women in Caribbean History 3SS, CD New Course Added 10/15/2006
Second Semester. This course studies the economic, social, cultural and political activities of women in the Caribbean from the era of Pre-conquest to the dawn of political independence in the various colonies. It will therefore begin with an examination of the lives of indigenous Caribbean women and continue with an analysis of the historical setting and factors which affected the behavior of women of African, European, Chinese and Indian descent.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit 20
Mr. Gill
Credits: 3 Credits |
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AAST 230 - Contemporary Issues in Africa 3 SS, CD New Course Added 08/30/2006
First Semester. While Africa is a complex and diverse continent, there are some things common to African countries since their political independence. For example, most post-colonial African societies have grappled with the legacies of colonialism and the challenges of independence. This course will familiarize students with some of the major developmental issues facing contemporary Africans (e.g., economic and political instability and civil unrest, HIV/AIDS and health problems) and will examine key theoretical and ideological debates about socioeconomic and political developments in post- colonial Africa.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 20
Mr. Takyi
Credits: 3 Credits |
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AAST 235 - Government and Politics of Africa 3 SS, CD, WR
Second Semester. This course will provide a general overview of colonialism in Africa and its after-effects. More specifically it will deal with topics such as: the acquisition of African colonies by European powers; the slave trade; the colonial policies of the various European powers; “protonationalism;” constitutional developments on the Continent, particularly during the period from 1945 to 1960; African nationalism; the evolution of political parties and the struggle for independence.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 35
Mr. Saaka
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 244 - Modern African Literature 3 HU, CD, WR
First Semester. An examination of 20th and 21st century African literature in English with a focus on the political and economic realities of modern day Africa. Keeping in mind that being a writer in Africa is a political act, often punishable by imprisonment and even death, we will appreciate African literature as a platform for political and social critique, as well as the multiplicity of African lives and cultures. Some authors discussed: Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Ben Okri.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 25.
Ms. Gadsby
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 248 - Resistance and Voice: Literature of the African Diaspora 3 SS, CD, WR
First Semester. This course is a comparative examination of literature written by peoples of African descent internationally. The course will examine the literary expression of peoples of African descent and Africans in the Americas, Europe, South and Central America. Using Paule Marshall’s discussion of “taking [one’s] mouth and [making] a gun,” we will look at the ways in which peoples of African descent write resistance into their literature in creative ways. We will read the work of several authors including, Paule Marshall, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Ama Ata Aidoo, Dorothea Smartt, Kwame Dawes, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Amiri Baraka, Suheir Hammad, and Earl Lovelace.
Prerequisites & Notes Ms. Gadsby
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 262 - Intermediate/Advanced Capoeira Angola 3 HU, CD New Course Added 07/24/2006
Second Semester. This is a continuation in the study of Capoeira Angola. Students will continue to build strength, coordination, rhythm, and balance as well as learn to play rhythms on all the instruments of Capoeira Angola with special attention given to the berimbau. Readings and discussions will further explore the history and emergence of Capoeira Angola as a tool for African spirituality, liberation and cultural revolution within the new world. Throughout the semester students will engage in special events and performances that present our work to the campus community.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: AAST/DANC 161 or consent of instructor.
Enrollment Limit: 25. Identical to DANC 262.
Mr. Emeka
Credits: 3 Credits |
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AAST 275 - African-American Performance Theater 3 HU, CD New Course Added 07/24/2006
Second Semester. This course is a workshop for creating performance art including drama, spoken word, dance, and musical performance that explores the legacy of the African-American Experience in form or content. From Africa through the Middle Passage and into America, students will read essays, stories, poems, and plays—while discussing the legacy and aesthetic of the African tradition within the Diaspora. Students will gain academic information as well as develop their own artistic responses to the material. All will read, write, and perform. A workshop performance will be presented using the work of the class.
Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12. Identical to THEA 275.
Mr. Emeka
Credits: 3 Credits |
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AAST 281 - Practicum in Tutoring 1-3 SS, CD
First and Second Semester. Tutors offer academic help to children in schools, homes, etc. Focus is on academically weak children generally, and on Black children specifically. By critiquing the instructor’s tutorial demonstrations, tutors develop an appreciation and understanding of the Master Tutor Concept. TB test required. Obtain and return questionnaires before tutoring.
Prerequisites & Notes Notes: Repeatable up to eight hours
CR/NE or P/NP grading
Enrollment Limit: 50
Mr. Peek
Credits: 1 to 3 hours |
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AAST 321 - Seminar: Black Feminist Thought: A Historical Perspective 4 SS, CD, WR
Second Semester. This seminar course will explore and analyze the evolution of intellectual discourse among African-American women from slavery to the present. Particular attention will be given to the interplay of ideas about race and gender and the social and economic position of black women at various time periods. Sources will include autobiographies, novels, historical documents, sociological studies, and modern feminist social critiques.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: AAST 220 or consent of instructor. Enrollment Limit: 15.
Ms. Brooks
Credits: 4 hours |
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AAST 343 - Langston Hughes and the Black Aesthetic 2 HU, CD, WR This course is changed from a full semester to second module course, 10.10.2006
Second Module, Second Semester: Focusing in selected poetry, prose, and autobiography, this course will examine the international dimensions of Langston Hughes as writer and cultural critic. As a bridge between the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movements, we will discuss his significant contributions to African Diasporic Literatures and to the development of an African Diasporic literary aesthetic.
Prerequisites & Notes Ms. Gadsby
Credits: 2 hours |
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AAST 368 - Black Arts Workshop II: African Diasporan Culture in Perfomance from Blues to Hip Hop 4 HU, CD
First Semester. This course continues the inquiry begun in AAST/THEA 268 focusing on the Western Hemispheric inheritance from traditional African cultures. This course will focus on performance in sacred and secular cultures of the African diaspora in the mid-to-late 20th century. The class will hone performance skills through in-class exercises and assignments, and intellectual and critical skills through reading, discussions, presentations, journals and critical papers examining aesthetic and cultural performance theories. The course will culminate in a final performance.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: AAST/THEA 268 or other AAST Fine Arts classes taught by
Professors Coleman, Sharpley and/or Logan.
Enrollment Limit: 20. Consent of Instructor Required.
Ms. Jackson Smith
Credits: 4 hours |
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AAST 385 - Black Pedagogy 3 SS, CD, WR
Second Semester. Black children possess the inherent ability to score 1400 plus on the SATs and obtain As in school. This course examines the philosophy and practices of Honors Teachers. Students explore analytically and pragmatically a pedagogy designed to help ghetto children attain excellence in reading, writing, and arithmetic in spite of racism, poverty, etc.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 20.
Mr. Peek
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 390 - Essence Dance Class 1-3 HU, CD
Second Semester. This course is designed to promote and develop creativity in dance performance through the Black experience. A variety of dance forms will be used such as: modern, Afro-forms, and Black urban vernacular dances. Students are expected to purchase costumes.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: AAST 101, AAST 190, or AAST/DANC 191
Note: This class may be repeated for a maximum of four accumulated hours
CR/NE or P/NP grading
Consent of instructor required
Identical to DANC 390
Enrollment Limit: 15
Ms. Sharpley
Credits: 1 to 3 hours |
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AAST 391 - Dance Diaspora 2-3 HU, CD
First Semester. Faculty directed performance project. Auditions are held during each semester before enrollment.
Prerequisites & Notes Note: This class may be taken for four accumulated hours
African American Studies majors will have first priority
Consent of instructor required
Identical to DANC 391
Enrollment Limit: 15
Ms. Sharpley
Credits: 2 - 3 hours |
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AAST 392 - Ritual and Performance III: The World According to Yoruba and their Descendants in the New World 3 SS,CD, WR
Second Semester. The course will further explore the religious phenomena discussed in AAST 290 in performance and artistic “agency” of the Yoruba and Kongo as their descendants develop the New World African classical music and dance, “Jazz”. The traditional memory dictates the codes and signals used and thechoice of artistic expression within the performance arena. The course will explore Jazz’s ongoing artistic and musical traditions that include Carnaval, Mardi Gras, band parade community functions, as well as club performance venues and improvisational styles.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites are AAST 118 (Ritual and Perf. I) and AAST 290 (Ritual and Perf. II) or by consent of the instructor.
Ms. Sharpley
Credits: 3 |
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AAST 450 - Senior Seminar 4 SS, CD, WR
Second Semester. This course will cover aspects of philosophy, history, methodology and research methods in the discipline. This is a required course for all African American Studies majors during the senior year.
Prerequisites & Notes Note: Juniors who are majors will be accepted only with consent of instructor or department chair.
Consent of instructor required
Mr. Millette
Credits: 4 hours |
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AAST 500 - Junior Honors Project 3 SS, CD, WR
First and Second Semester. Specialized readings pertaining to a well-defined Honors project. Students must be supervised by a member of the department to identify research sources.
Prerequisites & Notes Note: Honors Program is by departmental invitation.
Consent of chair required.
Credits: 3 hours |
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AAST 501 - Senior Honors 3-6 SS, CD, WR
The preparation of Honors theses under the supervision of faculty supervisors.
Prerequisites & Notes Note: Honors Program is by departmental invitation
Consent of chair required.
Credits: 3-6 hours |
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AAST 502 - Senior Honors 6 SS, CD, WR
The preparation of Honors theses under the supervision of faculty supervisors.
Prerequisites & Notes Note: Honors Program is by departmental invitation
Consent of chair required.
Credits: 6 hours |
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Anthropology |
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ANTH 101 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 3 SS, CD
First and Second Semester. An introduction to the nature of cultural anthropology through an examination of basic concepts, methods, and theories that anthropologists employ in order to understand the unity and diversity of human thought and action cross-culturally. Language and culture, kinship and the family, politics and conflict, religion and belief, and the impact of social change and globalization on traditional institutions are some of the topics to be considered in a range of ethnographic contexts
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 40.
Mr. Glazier and Staff
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 102 - Human Origins (Lecture Only) 3 SS, CD
Second Semester. This course focuses on paleoanthropology and is an introduction to the evolutionary development of humans. We will examine biological relationships between humans and other primates, primate behavior and classification, and the fossil evidence for human evolution. Emphasis will be placed on the methods used in the study of prehistoric human biological and cultural development.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 40.
Staff
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 103 - Introduction to Archeology 3 SS, CD
First and Second Semester. An introduction to the subfield of anthropology concerned with past human cultures. A basic objective is to acquaint students with both the methods and techniques that archeologists employ in the study and reconstruction of prehistoric societies. Examples will be drawn from a variety of archeological situations ranging from simple hunting and gathering societies to complex chiefdoms and states. Matters of contemporary debate in the area of archeology and the public will also be considered.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 40.
Ms. Margaris
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 112 - Human Origins (Laboratory only) 1 SS
Next offered 2007-2008
Credits: 1 hour |
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ANTH 113 - Introduction to Archeology (Laboratory only) 1 SS
Next offered 2007-2008
Credits: 1 hour |
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ANTH 210 - Indigenous Peoples of Latin America 3 SS
Prerequisites & Notes Next Offered: 2007-2008
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 215 - Art, Language and Society 3 SS
Next offered 2007-2008
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 251 - Language in Culture and Society 3 SS, CD New Course Added 07/06/2006
First Semester. This course examines the relationships between language, culture, and society across a variety of different speech communities. We will consider how people use language to understand the world in culturally specific ways (linguistic relativity theory, ethnosemantics, metaphor) and how people use language to establish identities and negotiate social interactions (sociolinguistics, language socialization, code-switching, gender, power). We will also learn about and practice the methods linguistic anthropologists use in their research.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 30
Ms. Haugh
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 278 - Human Rights, Universalism, and Cultural Relativism 3 SS, CD
Second Semester. Through an examination of the ways in which people in different societies identify and define ethical and social standards, this course will examine the concept of universal human rights. This course will consider the tension between universal claims and cultural relativism. We will also document and analyze the development of international efforts to apply universal rights. The course will focus on ethnographic case studies from a wide variety of societies that demonstrate the cultural challenges involved in defining, establishing, and implementing a set of global and universal human rights.
Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 35.
Mr. Pineda
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 286 - Culture, Symbol and Meaning 3 SS, CD, WR
Prerequisites & Notes Next Offered: 2007-2008
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 288 - Immigrant America: Then and Now 3 SS, CD, WR
Second Semester. The beginning and end of the twentieth century mark two periods of large-scale immigration to the United States, each bringing profound changes to the character of the nation. From 1900 until 1924, millions of newcomers from southern and eastern Europe arrived. Immigration since 1965 has drawn people mostly from Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. This course examines the history of immigration to the United States and then compares the two periods of immigration in terms of social, economic, and cultural consequences, assimilation and cultural persistence, linguistic and environmental implications, immigration advocacy and resistance, welfare and entrepreneurship, and immigrant communities in relationship to the rest of the nation, particularly to African Americans.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: Anth 101 or prior work in American History or Sociology
Enrollment Limit: 30
Mr. Glazier
Credits: 3 |
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ANTH 292 - Museum Anthropology 3 SS, CD, WR
Prerequisites & Notes Next Offered: 2007-2008
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 304 - Language, Gender and Sexual Identities 3 SS
Prerequisites & Notes Next Offered: 2007-2008
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 353 - Culture Theory 3 SS, CD, WR
First Semester. A critical examination of major issues in the study of culture over the past century and a quarter through a discussion of such theoretical topics as cultural evolution and neo-evolution, materialism and cultural ecology, functionalism and ecosystems theory, interpretive and symbolic anthropology, structuralism, and political economy. The role of ethnography, the scientific and humanistic dimensions of anthropology, and the relationships between various theories are also considered. Recent multicultural and postmodernist efforts at cultural explanation on the part of anthropologists and other scholars will be examined.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: Junior- or senior-level standing, ANTH 101, and one additional course in anthropology.
Enrollment Limit: 25.
Mr. Glazier
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 391 - Practicum in Anthropology 1-3 SS
First and Second Semester. Junior or senior majors in the department may receive up to three hours of credit for applied fieldwork in anthropology. The work should be carried out in connection with a systematic course of reading and the writing of a paper on the topic of the project. The purpose of the paper is to tie the field experience to relevant anthropological principles. The program should be worked out in advance with a department faculty sponsor.
Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required.
Mr. Glazier, Ms. Grimm, Mr. Pineda
Credits: 1 to 3 hours |
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ANTH 408 - Seminar on Current Issues in Anthropology: Postmodernism 3 SS, CD, WR
Prerequisites & Notes Next Offered: 2007-2008
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 415 - Internships in Teaching 1-2 SS
First and Second Semester. Qualified seniors who wish to assist in the teaching of specific courses may, upon consent of the instructor, achieve one or two credits for their work in such courses. Assistance with laboratory sessions, data analysis, and the research concerns of students in the class compose the major activities of the teaching internships.
Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required.
Mr. Glazier and Mr. Pineda
Credits: 1 to 2 hours |
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ANTH 432 - Anthropology and Ethics
3SS, CD
Second Semester. This course examines the moral duties of anthropologists engaged in research, publication, and teaching. Anthropologists bear personal and professional responsibilities to the discipline, to humanity, and to other species integral to anthropological research. This course focuses on codes of professional conduct that anthropologists have developed to govern the ethical pursuit of knowledge in cultural, archeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology. We will be particularly concerned with specific case studies of ethical breaches, conflicts and dilemmas.
Prerequisites & Notes Consent of Instructor Required.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Mr. Glazier
Credits: 3 |
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ANTH 450 - Seminar on Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective 3 SS
Next Offered: 2007-2008
Credits: 3 hours |
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ANTH 471 - Seminar: Language Ideologies 3SS New Course Added 05/26/2006
First Semester. This course examines how scholars, policymakers, and other people interpret the relationships between language, culture, and society in ideologies of language. The study of language ideologies highlights issues of power and politics, identity and interaction, and positionality and consciousness in understandings of language. We will discuss scholarly models of language, national language policies, and language attitudes, and we will consider how language ideologies influence linguistic change and social relations.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Consent from Instructor. Enrollment Limit: 10
Ms. Haugh
Credits: 3 Hours |
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ANTH 490 - Junior Year Honors 2-3 SS
Sections will be offered by Mr. Glazier and Mr. Pineda.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Open only to second semester junior majors.
Consent of instructor required.
Credits: 2 to 3 hours |
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ANTH 491 - Senior Year Honors 2-6 SS
Sections will be offered by Mr. Glazier and Mr. Pineda.
Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required.
Credits: 2 hours to 6 hours |
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ANTH 995 - Private Reading .5-3 SS
Sections will be offered by Mr. Glazier and Mr. Pineda.
Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required.
Credits: .5 to 3 hours |
Applied Studies |
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APST 110 - Piano Class First Semester. A basic one-year course (should be taken in the
freshman year) including technique, sight reading, harmonization,
improvisation, accompaniment, and piano repertoire. Section numbers
below (last two digits) relate to placement levels.
Prerequisites & Notes Admission by placement/audition.
Open only to Conservatory students who must complete a piano requirement.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 12.
Ms. Kennedy, Ms. McAlister
Credits: 2 hours |
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APST 111 - Piano Class Second Semester. A basic one-year course (should be taken in the
freshman year) including technique, sight reading, harmonization,
improvisation, accompaniment, and piano repertoire. Section numbers
below (last two digits) relate to placement levels.
Prerequisites & Notes Admission by placement/audition.
Open only to Conservatory students who must complete a piano requirement.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 12.
Ms. Kennedy, Ms. McAlister
Credits: 2 hours |
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APST 112 - Keyboard Accompanying (Vocal) First and Second Semester. Following a brief placement audition, pianists are paired with singers according to the needs of the voice department. Students may also make arrangements to accompany specific singers, subject to accompanying faculty’s approval. Accompanying projects are supervised by the voice teacher and accompanying faculty. Five hours of weekly contact time are expected, including rehearsals, voice lessons, coachings with accompanying faculty, but not practice time.
Prerequisites & Notes Note: May be repeated for credit.
Open to all keyboard players.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 25.
Mr. Highfill
Credits: 1 hour |
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APST 113 - Keyboard Accompanying (Instrumental) First and Second Semester. Assignments will be made from repertoire requests submitted by the applied faculty. Students are encouraged to make arrangements to accompany specific instrumentalists, subject to accompanying faculty’s approval. Accompanying projects will be supervised by the instrumental teacher and accompanying faculty. Five hours of weekly contact time are expected, including weekly master classes with accompanying faculty, rehearsals, lessons, coachings, but not individual practice time.
Prerequisites & Notes Notes: May be repeated for credit.
Open to all keyboard players.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 40.
Mr. Howsmon
Credits: 1 hour |
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APST 130 - Viola Class First and Second Semester. A one-semester course required of all
students whose principal applied study is violin. The course is
designed to familiarize the student with viola technique and clef
reading.
Prerequisites & Notes Note: This course may be waived by examination.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 10.
Ms. Ritscher
Credits: 1 hour |
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APST 140 - Global Standard Time: Internalizing Rhythms First and Second Semester. A workshop for instrumentalists and
vocalists that focuses on the student’s ability to internalize and
comprehend a range of rhythms that originate in multiple cultures. The
teaching emphasizes speaking rhythm and then performing the lessons on
the frame drum. The course materials are based upon a contemporary
application of old-world teaching methods from North Africa, the
Mid-east, and South India. The rhythms are poly-rhythmical an cyclical
in nature. The playing techniques implemented are basic hand and finger
techniques adapted from South Indian drumming and can be applied to a
variety of percussion instruments.
Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Mr. Haddad
Credits: 1 |
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APST 204 - Interpretation of Art Song First and Second Semester. Individual coaching sessions for singer/accompanist duos on musical style, interpretation, ensemble, languages, and presentation. Students who begin coaching first semester for a second semester recital will receive a deferred grade pending completion of the recital. Piano majors may substitute this course for one of the required keyboard accompanying credits.
Prerequisites & Notes Note: Accompanists may repeat the course for credit once.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 8.
Open to seniors and artist diploma candidates preparing degree recitals, and to their accompanists.
Mr. Highfill
Credits: 1 hour |
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APST 208 - Guided Piano Pedagogy Project First and Second Semester. An independent study course for prospective
and declared piano pedagogy minors. Students must propose and complete
a significant written research project in the field of piano pedagogy
and present their work in a public lecture-demonstration. Topics may be
drawn from the piano teaching literature, current pedagogical trends,
or historical pedagogy.
Prerequisites & Notes Open to declared piano pedagogy minors only.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 5.
Ms. McAlister
Credits: 1 hour |
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APST 209 - Guided Teaching Observation First and Second Semester. A student will observe a series of
individual and group lessons to become familiar with a variety of
teaching styles and pedagogical approaches.
Prerequisites & Notes Requirements will include a portfolio of observation reports and regular consultation with the instructor.
Open to piano pedagogy minors or those intending to pursue the minor.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 5.
Ms. McAlister
Credits: 1 hour |
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APST 210 - Intermediate Piano Pedagogy Second Semester. General introduction for pianists to pedagogical
principles, teaching repertoire, and learning materials and technology,
with focus on teaching intermediate level students. Students will
engage in lecture-discussions, critically respond to assigned readings,
examine current teaching materials, and contribute regularly to a
web-based discussion group.
Prerequisites & Notes Observation and practice teaching of private and group lessons is required.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 13.
Ms. McAlister
Credits: 2 hours |
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APST 211 - Elementary Piano Pedagogy First Semester. A one-semester introduction to the teaching of beginning piano and musicianship skills to young students in group and private settings. The course covers philosophical and developmental issues; as well as a thorough review of methods, materials, resources, and techniques for teaching at the elementary level. Weekly one-hour lecture; regular supervised group and private teaching experiences.
Prerequisites & Notes Open to piano majors or principals.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 8.
Ms. McAlister
Credits: 2 hours |
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APST 212 - Advanced Piano Class First Semester. A continuation of APST 110, 111 Piano Class, including
advanced work in technique, sight reading, harmonization,
improvisation, accompaniment, and piano repertoire.
Prerequisites & Notes Open only to Conservatory students.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 12.
Ms. McAlister
Credits: 2 hours |
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APST 213 - Advanced Piano Class Second Semester. A continuation of APST 110, 111 Piano Class,
including advanced work in technique, sight reading, harmonization,
improvisation, accompaniment, and piano repertoire.
Prerequisites & Notes Open only to Conservatory students.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 12.
Ms. McAlister
Credits: 2 hours |
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APST 214 - Keyboard Skills I First Semester. Intensive practical experience in functional keyboard
skills including keyboard harmony, sight reading, transposition,
improvisation, score reading, continuo playing.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: MUTH 132, APST 214 (or the waiver exam) is prerequisite to APST 215.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 8.
Mr. Boe, Mr. Breitman, Mr. Wiggins
Credits: 2 hours |
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APST 215 - Keyboard Skills II Second Semester. Intensive practical experience in functional
keyboard skills including keyboard harmony, sight reading,
transposition, improvisation, score reading, continuo playing.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: MUTH 132, APST 214 (or the waiver exam) is prerequisite to APST 215.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 8.
Mr. Boe, Mr. Breitman, Mr. Wiggins
Credits: 2 hours |
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APST 216 - Improvisation at the Organ Second Semester. A course designed to help students acquire the technical and mental disciplines necessary to improvise in different classical styles. The course is devoted primarily to learning how to apply keyboard harmony in improvising short pieces and to developing simple contrapuntal techniques. Cantus firmus treatment in two-, three-, and four-part textures will be explored along with more extended free forms.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: APST 214.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 5.
Staff
Credits: 2 hours |
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APST 230 - The Teaching of Singing Second Semester. The first part of the course is designed as an introduction to aspects of physiology, acoustics, and phonetics of the singing instrument, relating them directly to comparative vocal techniques and to the materials of teaching. It presents practical application of systematic vocal technique to the teaching of singing. The Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center will be heavily relied upon as a resource for the course.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Significant vocal study.
Junior or senior status required.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 30.
Ms. Manz
Credits: 3 hours |
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APST 233 - Woodwind Performance Pedagogy First Semester. A one-semester course examining various aspects of
teaching of all levels of all of the instruments of the woodwind
family. This course will include master classes with discussion
sessions following. Some writing will be involved. We will have
discussions on subjects concerning teaching etiquette, breathing,
psychology, etc. The students will give lessons to students invited to
the class. Discussions will follow.
Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 10.
Ms. Chastain
Credits: 1 hour |
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APST 234 - Flute Pedagogy Second Semester. A one-semester course examining the various teaching
techniques and methods for beginning through college level flutists.
The course will include lectures and teaching observed by the class to
be followed by discussion sessions. Participants will also teach
supervised private lessons on a pay basis.
Prerequisites & Notes Open to flute performance majors.
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 6.
Ms. Chastain
[Next offered 2007 - 2008]
Credits: 1 hour |
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APST 235 - Percussion Instruments Second Semester. Primarily for music education majors. Designed to give students knowledge of the pedagogy of percussion instruments, materials and method books, and methods for building percussion sections of school ensembles. All percussion instruments are demonstrated and basic techniques taught, each student being required to develop basic playing ability.
Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 12.
Mr. Rosen
Credits: 1 hour |
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APST 236 - Workshop in Writing for Percussion First Semester. A workshop for composition majors only, concentrating on the problems of writing for percussion instruments and including studies of the characteristics and performance problems of all percussion instruments, notational systems, set-up problems, and orchestrational possibilities.
Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 6.
Mr. Rosen
Credits: 2 hours |
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APST 240 - Continuo Realization at the Keyboard First Semester. A course in the technique and practice of realizing
continuo parts in the music of the Baroque. Designed primarily for
harpsichord, organ, piano, and music history majors.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: MUTH 132 and APST 214.
Enrollment Limit: 5.
Mr. Wiggins
Credits: 2 hours |
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APST 241 - Introduction to Historical Keyboard Instruments for Pianists First and Second Semester. A team-taught, hands-on introduction to the
fortepiano, harpsichord, and organ. Three weeks of small-group meetings
will be devoted to each of the instruments, and in the final portion of
the semester each student will receive individual instruction on one of
them. Students wil be expected to prepare excerpts from a variety of
repertory. Related readings will also be asigned.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: MHST 215 (first semester of Keyboard Literature).
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 4 per section.
Mr. Boe, Mr. Breitman, Mr. Wiggins
Credits: 2 hours |
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APST 242 - Baroque Violin for Violinists First Semester. A one-semester course designed to acquaint violinists with the technique, style, and literature of the violin before 1750. Period instruments and bows will be used.
Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 8.
Ms. McDonald
Credits: 1 hour |
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APST 243 - Advanced Continuo Realization at the Keyboard Second Semester. A sequel to APST 240 (Continuo Realization at the Keyboard). May substitute for two hours of APST 340 (Continuo Accompanying) for harpsichord majors.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: APST 240
Enrollment Limit: 5
Mr. Wiggins
Credits: 2 |
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APST 244 - Advanced Baroque Violin for Violinists First and Second Semester. A continuation of the introductory course with an emphasis on the solo repertoire.
Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 8.
Ms. McDonald
Credits: 1 hour |
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