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Course Catalog 2006-2007 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Oberlin College Courses
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Cinema Studies |
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CINE 498 - Senior Tutorial
1-4 HU, WR
First and Second Semesters. Students should consult with the Director of the Program about arranging a Senior Tutorial.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Admission based on a completed application form (available at Program office). Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 9.
Ms. An, Mr. Day, Ms. Hamilton, Mr. Pence, Mr. Pingree
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
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CINE 499 - Honors Project
1-4 HU, WR
First and Second Semesters. Qualified students will be invited to submit an application in the spring of their junior year.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required.
Mr. Pence
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
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CINE 995 - Private Reading
0.5-3 HU
First and Second Semesters.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required.
Staff
Credits: .5 to 3 hours
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Classics |
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CLAS 101 - Homer’s Iliad and the Myths of Tragedy
3 HU, WR
First Semester. Critical study of Homer’s Iliad, the First example of the tragic perspective in western literature, selected tragic dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, and Shakespeare, and some modern films. Attention to how the view of human experience established in these works serves to reflect and comment upon recurring themes in western civilization. (Open to those who have taken Classics 100 or 206, but not both.) Lecture and discussion.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 60.
Mr. Van Nortwick
Credits: 3 hours
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CLAS 103 - History of Greece
3 SS
First Semester. An introduction to Greek history, from the prehistoric period to the rise of Rome. Special emphasis will be given to the study of the ancient sources, especially Herodotus and Thucydides, as we attempt to reconstruct the political, social, and constitutional history of this tremendously vital period. Offered in alternate years.
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: May count toward a history major.
Enrollment Limit: 55.
Mr. Wilburn
Credits: 3 hours
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CLAS 209 - The Ancient and Modern Novel
3 HU
Second Semester. This course will take as its point of departure the surviving novels of Greek and Roman antiquity. We will read a selection of Greek novels, as well as Petronius’ Satyricon and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. To these ancient works we will compare a series of modern novels, especially Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis and Kennedy’s Confederacy of Dunces. The course will also pursue critical and theoretical issues regarding the genre of the novel raised by Bakhtin, Lukacs,Winkler, and others. All works will be read in translation.
Prerequisites & Notes
Mr. Lee
Credits: 3 hours
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CLAS 216 - Ancient Rome: The Eternal City Built, Imagined, and Remembered
3 HU, WR
Second Semester. In Antiquity, Rome was not only a physical place; it was also a metaphor for Roman power and the Roman way of life. This course explores Rome as both a place and an idea in the ancient imagination. Also considered is the metaphorical role that ancient Rome has played in modern politics and cinema. Evidence examined includes archaeologcial remains, ancient texts, modern political writings and architecture, and popular films.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment limit: 25
Ms. Colantoni
Credits: 3
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CLAS 219 - Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
3 HU, WR
Second Semester. Study of the construction of gender and sexual identities in ancient Greece and Rome. Emphasis will be on primary texts that demonstrate notions of sexual practice and/or identity, such as Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousae, Plato’s Symposium, Lucian’s Dialogue of the Courtesans, Aeschines’ Against Timarchos, Catullus, Martial, Juvenal. We will also read modern critical theorists (Foucault, Halperin, Richlin, Rubin), and will interrogate the accuracy of their arguments.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 30.
Consent of instructor required.
Mr. Ormand
Credits: 3 hours
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CLAS 221 - Games, Festivals, Leisure in the Greco-Roman World
3 HU New Course added 05/16/2006
First Semester. In this course, we shall examine the institutions that provided a release from the cares of daily life, frequent warfare, and political turmoil in ancient Greece and Italy. We will consider how these diversions fit into a social and cultural context, and the structures and physical remains that they left behind. Students will develop a deeper appreciation of what entertained the ancients and why these institutions were important to all levels of society.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 45
Mr. Rupp
Credits: 3 Credits
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CLAS 501 - Senior Project
3-5 HU
First and Second Semester. Intensive work on a topic selected in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a presentation of a paper or other project.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: Senior major standing and invitation of the department.
Consent of instructor required.
Mr. Ormand
Credits: 3 to 5 hours
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CLAS 995 - Private Reading
.5-3HU
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required.
Credits: .5 to 3 hours
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GREK 101 - Elementary Greek
4 HU, CD
First Semester. The essentials of the classical Greek language, with emphasis on reading.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 25.
Mr. Wilburn
Credits: 4 hours
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GREK 102 - Elementary Greek II
4 HU, CD
Second Semester. Continuation of Elementary Greek, completing the study of basic Greek grammar and syntax. We will read selections from Plato’s Apology in the second half of the semester.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: GREK 101 or equivalent.
Mr. Wilburn
Credits: 4 hours
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GREK 201 - Homer’s Iliad
3 HU, CD
First Semester. Reading and translation of selections from Homer’s Iliad, with discussion of relevant critical issues and historical background.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: GREK 102 or equivalent.
Mr. Van Nortwick
Credits: 3 hours
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GREK 202 - Herodotus
3 HU, CD
Second Semester. Readings and discussion of selections from Herodotus’ Histories in Greek, supplemented by readings from the critical literature.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: GREK 201 or equivalent.
Mr. Ormand
Credits: 3 hours
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GREK 307 - Comedies of Aristophanes
3 HU, CD New Course Added 04/05/2006
First Semester. We will read one Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousae in Greek, and most of the other extant plays in English translation. We will also review recent scholarship on Aristophanes, with a particular focus on his comedies as political commentary, as literary criticism, and as evidence for social and sexual norms in Classical Athens.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: GREK 202 or the equivalent. Mr. Ormand
Credits: 3 hours
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GREK 312 - Plato’s Symposium
3HU
Second Semester. This course will study the Symposium, one of Plato’s dialogues on love and literature. We will read significant portions of the text in Greek with close attention to philosophical, rhetorical, and linguistic aspects of the work. We will contextualize Plato by studying some of his precursors and contemporaries in translation, as well as reading secondary literature concerning the dialogue. We will close with a survey of the dialogue’s afterlife, from Petronius’s Satyricon to the “re-birth” of Platonism in Renasissance Italy.
Prerequisites & Notes
Mr. Lee
Credits: 3
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GREK 501 - Senior Project
3-6 HU
First and Second Semester. Intensive work on a topic selected in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a presentation of a paper or other project.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: Senior major standing and invitation of the department. Consent of instructor required.
Mr. Ormand
Credits: 3 to 6 hours
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GREK 995 - Private Reading
.5-3 HU
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required.
Credits: .5 to 3 hours
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LATN 101 - Elementary Latin
4 HU, CD
First Semester. The essentials of the Latin language, with emphasis on reading. This course is intended for students with no previous training in Latin.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 25.
Staff
Credits: 4 hours
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LATN 102 - Introduction to Latin Prose
4 HU, CD
Second Semester. Continuation of LATN 101. Completion of the study of the essentials of Latin grammar and reading of a variety of Latin prose, such as the younger Pliny’s account of the eruption of Vesuvius, and selections from the letters of Abelhard and Heloise and the Carmina Burana.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LATN 101 or equivalent.
Mr. Lee
Credits: 4 hours
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LATN 201 - Introduction to Latin Literature: Vergil’s Aeneid
3 HU, CD
First Semester. A careful reading selected books of the Aeneid, with attention to stylistic and literary issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LATN 102 or equivalent.
Mr. Van Nortwick
Credits: 3 hours
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LATN 202 - Cicero in Speech and Letters
3 HU, CD
Second Semester. Introduction to the prose of Rome’s premier oratorical stylist, Cicero. We will read sections of Cicero’s defense of Caelius, before turning to a selection of his collected letters. Emphasis on reading Latin prose, with a review of advanced grammar. We will also study the historical background of the late Republic, and will read a few poems of Catullus in the context of the Pro Caelio.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LATN 201 or equivalent.
Ms. Colantoni
Credits: 3 hours
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LATN 307 - The Roman Historians
3 HU, CD
Second Semester. Study of Sallust and Tacitus, as well as other topics in Roman history or historiography. We will examine the artistic and philosophical elements of the text as products of the social and political history of the Late Republic and the Flavian period.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: LATN 202 or equivalent.
Mr. Wilburn
Credits: 3 hours
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LATN 310 - Latin Love Elegy
3HU, CDFirst Semester. Selections from the elegies of Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid, and Sulpicia, as well as relevant scholarly essays on and modern poetic interactions with these texts. Special attention to critical theory, particularly genre, gender, and the poet’s representation of subjectivity. Two exams, class presentation and a final paper.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: LATN 202 or equivalent.
Staff
Credits: 3
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LATN 501 - Senior Project
3-6 HU
First and Second Semester. Intensive work on a topic selected in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a presentation of a paper or other project.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: Senior major standing and invitation of the department. Consent of instructor required.
Mr. Ormand
Credits: 3 to 6 hours
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LATN 995 - Private Reading
.5-3 HU
Credits: .5 to 3 hours
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Comparative American Studies |
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CAST 201 - Latinas/os in Comparative Perspective
3 SS, CD, WR
Prerequisites & Notes
Next Offered 2007-2008
Ms. Pérez
Credits: 3 hours
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CAST 202 - Latino Cultural Activism in Theory and Practice
1.5 HU, 1.5 SS, CD, WR New Course Added 10/10/2006
Second Semester. This course will examine how a wide range of Latino activist/artist/intellectuals have used performance, visual art, film and writing to provoke, inspire and critique multiple dimensions of racial, gendered and sexualized identities in the US. Students will be responsible for an individual or small group final activist art project incorporating one or more of the modes we study.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment limit: 25
Ms. Hall
Credits: 3 Credits
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CAST 211 - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Identities
1.5 HU, 1.5 SS, CD, WR
Second Semester. This course examines the production of lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender and queer identities in the United States as
they intersect with important social markers such as race, class,
gender, and nation. Situating specific case studies in historical,
social, and comparative context, we explore issues such as the
intersection of racial and sexual sciences, processes of community
formation, the politics of embodiment, social justice movements, and
queer cultural productions.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 30
Ms. Raimondo
Credits: 3 hours
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CAST 215 - Race, Body, and the Construction of Beauty
3SS, CD, WR New Course Added 08/18/2006
What is beauty and who defines it? To what extent are our individual conceptions of beauty determined by our society? In exploring these questions, this class takes a close look at the meaning of beauty and the importance of human body in 20th-century American culture. We will examine not only how people understand and practice different norms of beauty, but more portantly, how race, gender, sexuality, and class intersect in the construction of beauty and bodily transformation.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit 25
Ms. Li
Credits: 3 Credits
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CAST 218 - Middle Class Ideology in the U.S.
1.5 HU, 1.5 SS, CD, WR New Course Added 10/10/2006
“Middle class” is one of the most commonly shared terms among conservatives, liberals, and radicals in the U.S. Why do we need this concept? Who has been defining it? How has it been defined? This course will examine the making of the middle class ideology in the U.S. We will also explore how race, gender, sexuality, and globalization of capitalism are
complicating and challenging this ideology.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit 25
Ms. Li
Credits: 3 Credits
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CAST 220 - Native American Identities in Comparative Context
3SS, CD, WR
First Semester. This course examines Native American experience and culture by reviewing U.S. Indian policies from the Removal Period, Allotment and Assimilation Eras, Indian Treaty Making and Boarding School Eras, as well as Indian peoples’ stories of resistance, revitalization, and decolonization. Our objective is to better understand the native stories and histories of independent sovereign nations who have persevered through genocide and 500+ years of colonization, assimilation, and in some cases the absolute destruction of their culture.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 25
Ms. Portillo
Credits: 3 Hours
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CAST 300 - Situated Research
3 SS, CD, Wri
First Semester. This field-based methods course integrates
classroom-based discussion of methodologies and theory with field
research drawn from weekly fieldwork in an internship or placement of
the student’s choice. Students will present, discuss, and engage with
methodological, theoretical, and ethical questions arising from field
research and work with the instructor in writing a work-based
ethnography.
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: Must be taken with CAST 301
Enrollment Limit: 12
Ms. Raimondo
Credits: 3 hours
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CAST 301 - Situated Research Practicum
1-2 SS
First Semester. Students will choose a field site and use this work as the basis of weekly written assignments in the form of field journals.
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: Must be taken with CAST 300
Ms. Raimondo
Credits: 1 to 2 hours
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CAST 310 - Comparative Racialization in the United States
2 HU, 2 SS, CD, WR This course is cancelled for First Semester, effective 09/11/2006
First Semester. This course will explore the contemporary constructions of various racialized groups within the United States in relation to overlapping histories of enslavement, immigration and colonization. We will examine the prevalence and persistence of a binary black and white framework within a nation that has been multiracial from its earliest days. We will pay particular attention to how ideas about “race” have functioned to erase the special status of indigenous people in the US.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite CAST 100 or consent of instructor. Enrollment limit: 20
Ms. Hall
Credits: 4
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CAST 311 - Militarization of American Daily Life
4 SS, CD, WR
Prerequisites & Notes
Next offered 2007-2008
Ms. Pérez
Credits: 4 hours
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CAST 321 - Transnational Sexualities: National Borders, Global Desires
2 HU, 2 SS, CD, WR
First Semester. How does the globalization of sexuality shape the
study of sex in national contexts? This interdisciplinary course uses
the United States as a starting point to consider sexual identities and
practices in a transnational perspective, addressing topics such as
reproduction, migration, AIDS, sex work, tourism, and militarization.
We will examine the production of gendered, raced, and classed bodies
and explore the significance of transnational analysis of sexuality to
social justice work.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 20.
Ms. Raimondo
Credits: 4 hours
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CAST 330 - Chicana/o and Native American Literature and Culture
4HU, CD
Second Semester. This course will introduce students to major literary works by Native American and Chicana/o writers. We will look at how deterritorialization, linguistic alienation and forced assimilation contribute to identity formation and cultural representation within these works. Our readings of fiction, poetry, autobiography and oral histories will focus on the categories of race, gender, class and nationality. We will also explore issues of social justice and discuss how these communities are writing themselves back into history.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 25
Ms. Portillo
Credits: 4
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CAST 332 - Chinatowns, Ghettos, and Barrios as Urban America
4SS, CD, WR New Course Added 08/18/2006
Using Boston, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles as case studies, this course examines racialized spaces in urban America. We will challenge the view that treats such spaces as alien to American life and detrimental to American society. We will explore these spaces as integral parts of modern America, comparing the ways they have been used to mark the boundaries of American/non-American, healthy/sick, normal/abnormal, and legal/illegal.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit 12
Ms. Li
Credits: 4 Credits
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CAST 401 - Capstone Seminar: Queer Geographies
2 HU, 2 SS, CD, WR
Prerequisites & Notes
Next offered 2007-2008
Ms. Raimondo
Credits: 4 hours
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CAST 402 - Capstone Seminar: Rethinking Barrios and Ghettoes
4 SS, CD, Wri
Prerequisites & Notes
Next Offered: 2007-2008
Ms. Pérez
Credits: 4 hours
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CAST 411 - Identities and Practices: Some Different Roots of Contemporary LGBT Communities of Color
2-4SS, CD, WR
First Semester. This course will discuss the contemporary identities and intellectual work of US LGBT people of color in the context of very different yet intertwined histories of racial oppression, changing discursive constructs, and ongoing disputation about the relationships between acts and identities. We will pay particular attention to the legacies of slavery and colonization and their ongoing impact on sexuality and identity.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required
Enrollment Limit: 12
Ms. Hall
Credits: 2-4 Hours
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CAST 412 - Identity and Difference in American Popular Culture
2HU, 2SS,
CD, WR
Second Semester. This course analyzes the production and reception of popular cultural
forms
in order to study issues of identity, power, agency, and social
change.
Students will examine particular case studies in media such
as television,
film, comics, music, and performance in historical,
social, economic and
political context, with particular attention to
issues of race, gender,
class, and sexuality. This course provides
theoretical and methodological
tools to consider the relationship of
cultural production, consumer culture,
and marginalization.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of Instructor Required
Enrollment Limit: 12
Ms. Raimondo
Credits: 4
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CAST 500 - Honors
3-4 HU
Students wishing to do Honors in Comparative American Studies in their senior year should consult with their major advisor and the program director. Students should submit a proposal by April 15th of their junior year.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of program director required.
Credits: 3 to 4 hours
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CAST 501 - Honors
3-4 HU
Students wishing to do Honors in Comparative American Studies in their senior year should consult with their major advisor and the program director. Students should submit a proposal by April 15th of their junior year.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of program director required.
Credits: 3 to 4 hours
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CAST 995 - Private Reading
.5-3 HU
Independent study of a subject beyond the range of catalog course offerings. Consent of instructor required. Members of the Comparative American Studies Program Committee will sponsor private readings.
Credits: .5 to 3 hours
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CMPL 200 - Introduction to Comparative Literature
4 HU, CD, WR
First and Second Semester. What kinds of theoretical models are valid for grounding literary comparisons across history, place, language, nation, culture, genre, and medium? Texts from several literary traditions will be used to answer that question and explore topics in theory, translation, East-West comparison, and literature and the other arts. Identical to ENGL 275.
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: Comparative Literature majors should take this course by the junior year. Enrollment limit: 25.
Ms. Silverman
Credits: 4 hours
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CMPL 232 - Traditions of Metamorphosis
4 HU, WR
Second semester The theme of metamorphosis in literature from Ovid to Kafka – including Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Julio Cortazar – and in cinema and music. Our approach will be comparative, involving lecturers from various departments and programs, in addition to discussion classes. Identical to ENGL 232.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment limit: 30.
Mr. Hobbs
Credits: 4 hours
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CMPL 265 - Third World Literatures in English
4 HU, CD, WR
Second Semester. Through theoretical essays and novels, we will
examine the problems of definition and evaluation that attend our
interpretation of works from the “Third World.” We will consider
whether or not: 1) “Third World” or “Post-colonial” are appropriate
designations; 2) notions of “marginality,” “difference,” and “alterity,” so often deployed to characterize these works, are useful
interpretive tools; 3) the perception that these works are always
enactments of resistance against dominant ideologies is effective.
Identical to ENGL 265.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 30.
Ms. Needham
Credits: 4 hours
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CMPL 270 - Literature and Culture in Prague: Kafka, Kundera, and Beyond
3 HU New Course added 05/12/2006
First Semester. This course will examine Prague’s unique role bridging Eastern and Western Europe, as well as its shared heritage of Czech, German and Jewish cultures. Beginning with Kafka and the Austro-Hungarian period, we will follow the city’s literary tradition from the interwar period to the present day, particularly focusing on the short-lived rebirth of a vibrant cultural scene around 1968. We will also consider art, architecture and music, as well as films from the 1960s “Czech New Wave.”
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 25
Mr. Sabatos
Credits: 3 credits
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CMPL 350 - Translation Workshop
3 HU, CD
First Semester. Major writers in modern and contemporary poetry and some classical examples studied by translating them into effective American English. Exercises and assignments in the first half will help students focus on a project of their own design in the second half. Guest appearances by local and visiting writers. This course has no prerequisites, but some knowledge of a foreign language and some experience in writing poetry are required. Admission is based on a completed application form and writing sample (due in Program office by Friday, June 9, 2006). Identical to CRWR 350.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 16.
Mr. Young
Credits: 3 hours
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CMPL 367 - Poetics of Performance/Performing Poetics
4 HU, WR, CD New Course Added 07/24/2006
Second Semester. What is meant by “performativity,” and why has it taken on a certain urgency in recent theory and criticism? This seminar examines the current trend of writing about the other arts in literary studies to consider ways that performance has become a metaphor for literature, especially the genre of poetry. We will read a variety of theoretical, literary, and poetic texts, as well as analyzing their performative interpretations, from opera and chamber music to theater and dance.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 25
Ms. Silverman
Credits: 4 Credits
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CMPL 369 - Contemporary Central and East European Novel
3HU New Course Added 10/25/2006
Second Semester. This course examines novels of the former “Eastern Bloc” from the late 1980s into the period of post-Communist transition after 1989. It covers the nations of the expanded EU (including the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, and Poland, as well as new members Bulgaria and Romania), and Turkey, another potential member struggling with “European” identity. In addition to such novelists as Kundera and Pamuk, we will read Western, as well as Central/East European, theorists such as Lukacs and Bakhtin.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment limit: 25
Mr. Sabatos
Credits: 3 Credits
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CMPL 501 - Honors Project
3 HU
First Semester.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of Program Director required.
Staff
Credits: 3 hours
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CMPL 502 - Honors Project
3 HU
Second Semester.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of Program Director required.
Staff
Credits: 3 hours
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COMP 100 - The Craft of Composition
First and Second Semester. A course designed for students not majoring
in composition. The purpose of the course is to provide those with
limited prior background in composition the opportunity to experience
musical structure and coherence through writing. The class meets as a
group but the compositional problems of each individual will receive
attention as needed.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: MUTH 232 Note: May be repeated for credit
Consent of instructor required
Enrollment Limit: 10
Mr. Coleman, Staff
Credits: 2 hours
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COMP 102 - Composition Class I
First (102A; 102B) Semester. A course designed for composition
majors, composition minors, or College music majors with composition
emphasis. Each semester is divided into two modules, each taught by a
different member of the staff. Units include study of notation,
techniques of composition, improvisation, free composition.
Prerequisites & Notes
Composition major, composition minor, or a College music major with emphasis in composition required.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Mr. Feller, Mr. Nielson
Credits: 3 hours
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COMP 103 - Composition Class II
Second (103A; 103B) Semester. A course designed for composition majors,
composition minors, or College music majors with composition emphasis.
Each semester is divided into two modules, each taught by a different
member of the staff. Units include study of notation, techniques of
composition, improvisation, free composition.
Prerequisites & Notes
Composition major, composition minor, or a College music major with emphasis in composition required.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Staff
Credits: 3 hours
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COMP 202 - Composition Class III
First (202A; 202B) Semester. A course designed for those who have
completed Composition 103 (A&B). Each semester is divided into two
modules. The units include study of homophonic vocal writing, the
application of vocal writing for solo voice with homophonic
accompaniment, polyphonic instrumental writing for small ensembles, and
the application of instrumental polyphonic writing in free composition.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required
Sophomore status as a composition major required
Enrollment Limit: 12
Mr. Feller, Mr. Nielson
Credits: 3 hours
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COMP 203 - Composition Class IV
Second (203A; 203B) Semester. A course designed for those who have
completed Composition 103 (A&B). Each semester is divided into two
modules. The units include study of homophonic vocal writing, the
application of vocal writing for solo voice with homophonic
accompaniment, polyphonic instrumental writing for small ensembles, and
the application of instrumental polyphonic writing in free composition.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required
Sophomore status as a composition major required
Enrollment Limit: 12
Staff
Credits: 3 hours
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COMP 210 - Composition Seminar
First and Second Semester. A one-semester course designed for
composition students. The semester is divided into two units of six (or
seven) weeks. A variety of activities germane to the development of
composers are included, such as the analysis and discussion of music by
guest composers; open rehearsal-discussions; score-reading sessions;
visitors from other creative arts areas on campus; outside readings in
criticism and aesthetics.
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: May be repeated for credit
Consent of instructor required
Enrollment Limit: 12
Mr. Coleman, Staff
Credits: 3 hours
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COMP 300 - Orchestration
First and Second Semester. Primarily for composition majors. The purpose is to develop facility in writing for various instrumental combinations. The study includes: comparison of techniques of orchestration (18th-20th centuries), practice writing and arranging for the different choirs of the modern orchestra, orchestrating complete compositions; the graphic aspect of and notational problems in more recent music.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: MUTH 232. Junior status as a composition major or minor (or College music major, composition emphasis)
Consent of instructor required
Enrollment Limit: 12
Ms. Kaplan
Credits: 2 hours
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COMP 301 - Orchestration
First and Second Semester. Primarily for composition majors. The
purpose is to develop facility in writing for various instrumental
combinations. The study includes: comparison of techniques of
orchestration (18th-20th centuries), practice writing and arranging for
the different choirs of the modern orchestra, orchestrating complete
compositions; the graphic aspect of and notational problems in more
recent music.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: MUTH 232. Junior status as a composition major or minor (or College music major, composition emphasis)
Consent of instructor required
Enrollment Limit: 12
Staff
Credits: 2 Hours
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CSCI 100 - The Internet and Beyond
3 NS
First and Second Semester. A hands-on course in Internet web site development. Primary emphasis is on each person building a complex web site focused on some area of academic interest and competence using (a) the HTML mark-up language, (b) programs supportive of web site construction (e.g. PhotoShop, Dreamweaver), and (c) the Javascript scripting language, with strong emphasis on the latter. About one-half the course deals with Javascript.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 24.
Mr. Kuperman.
Credits: 3 hours
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CSCI 140 - Introduction to Computer Programming
3 NS, QPf
First Semester. This course provides an introduction to programming and algorithmic thinking. It is aimed at students with little or no prior programming experience who would like to know how software is developed or who would like to be able to write short programs for data manipulation. It is also useful as preparation for students with no programming experience who want to take the CSCI 150,151 sequence.
Prerequisites & Notes
Mr. Geitz
Credits: 3 hours
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CSCI 141 - Scientific Computing
3 NS, QPf
Second Semester. This course introduces students to mathematical modeling and numerical methods. The course will include mathematical basics of numerical analysis, application of numerical methods to various scientific and mathematical problems, and programming and graphic visualization using MATLAB. Topics include major areas of numerical methods such as root location, linear algebraic equations, curve fitting, and numerical integration. Students learn programming techniques of plotting and develop skills of presenting mathematical and scientific material using graphics. The mathematical prerequisite for this course is college algebra.
Prerequisites & Notes
Mr. Salter.
Credits: 3
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CSCI 142 - Computational and Agent-based Modeling
3 NS, QPf New Course Added 10/30/2006
Second Semester. Techniques for creating computer models in the sciences and social sciences. The first half considers mathematical modeling, numerical methods and visualization using MATLAB. The second half considers agent-based modeling in scientific and social systems. Students obtain hands-on experience using NetLogo. Common themes (e.g. diffusion and contagion) are explored across disciplines and modeling paradigms. The course will be enhanced by visitors from the Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop of the University of Michigan, who will participate in sessions that develop student model-building skills.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: One of the following: Math 113, 114, 133 (or higher); CS 150 (or higher); or consent of the instructor.
Enrollment limit: 35
Mr. Salter
Credits: 3 Credits
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CSCI 151 - Principles of Computer Science
4 NS, QPf
First and Second Semester. These courses introduce students to algorithm design and problem solving using a computer. Students are introduced to the fundamental concepts of programming and the object-oriented programming methodology using the Java programming language. Topics in CSCI 150 include basic data types and their operators, classes, control structures, recursion, exception handling, and input/output. Topics in CSCI 151 include object-oriented problem solving, elementary data structures and mathematical properties of program solutions.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: CSCI 150. Notes: Students considering a computer science major are strongly encouraged to take either CSCI 150-151 or CSCI 140-150 in their first year. Students may not receive credit for both CSCI 151 and CSCI 160.
Enrollment Limit: 48.
Mr. Bonakadrian, Mr. Kuperman.
Credits: 4 hours
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CSCI 241 - Systems Programming (C/C++ Programming)
3 NS, QPf
First Semester. This course will consider the C programming language and its relationship to the Unix operating system. It will also introduce the C++ language and focus on differences between the Java and C++ applications. Some Unix system programming issues will also be included. The course will require a significant amount of programming.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: CSCI 151 or CSCI 210.
Mr. Bonakdarian
Credits: 3 hours
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CSCI 275 - Programming Abstractions
4 NS, QPf
First Semester. Programming language fundamentals are studied as abstract concepts using the programming language Scheme. Included are the notions of closures, first-class data structures, procedure and data abstraction, object-oriented programming, continuations, compilation and interpretation, and syntactic extension. Some advanced control structures such as coroutines and asynchronous interrupts may also be included.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: CSCI 151 or consent of the instructor. Co-requisite: MATH 220.
Enrollment Limit: 48.
Mr. Salter
Credits: 4 hours
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CSCI 280 - Introduction to Algorithms
3 NS, QPf
Second Semester. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of data structure and algorithm analysis and development, with an emphasis on applications to real-life problems. Students will both study the basic techniques of the field from a theoretical perspective and study how to adopt those techniques in order to solve real problems in simple, efficient ways. Knowledge of discrete mathematics is necessary; knowledge of the C++ programming language is strongly recommended.
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: CSCI 280 no longer includes instruction in the C programming language. For this see CSCI 241. Prerequisite: CSCI 275. Co-requisite: MATH 220.
Enrollment Limit: 48.
Mr. Geitz.
Credits: 3 hours
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CSCI 341 - Operating Systems
3 NS
First Semester. The theory of operating system fundamentals and a survey of operating system functions. Concepts and techniques of concurrent programming are covered, relevant to the design of operating system kernels. Such functions as memory management, processor allocation, and device management are included. The Unix operating system serves as a case study.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: CSCI 210 and knowledge of C, or consent of the instructor. CSCI 280 is recommended but not required.
Mr. Donaldson
Credits: 3 hours
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CSCI 342 - Computer Networks
3 NS, QPf
Second Semester. Networks are a central part of any modern computing system. This course will first consider the design of contemporary local and wide-area networks in terms of their abstract layers (i.e. the TCP/IP and OSI reference models) and then focus on actual implementations of those layers. The course will include a study of the protocols used in the Internet.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: CSCI 210 and CSCI 280, or consent of the instructor.
Mr. Donaldson
Credits: 3 hours
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CSCI 343 - Computer and Information Security
3 NS New Course added 05/22/2006
First Semester. This class will introduce students to fundamental concepts in computer and information security. Topics that may be covered include: threats and vulnerabilities, malicious software, defensive programming techniques, basic cryptography, models of security, auditing, intrusion detection, basic database security, digital rights management, and issues of laws and ethics related to information security. This course is designed to present a broad survey of the field rather than an in depth study of a particular portion.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: CS 210; 341 is recommended as a pre- or co-requisite.
Mr. Kuperman
Credits: 3 Credits
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CSCI 359 - Digital Animation
3 NS
This is a programming-based introduction to the theory and practice of 3D digital modeling and computer animation. Topics will include traditional animation techniques such as storyboarding, keyframing and tweening, as well as digital techniques for modeling, lighting, tracking and simulation.
Prerequisites & Notes
MATH 232 and CSCI 151, or consent of the instructor. CSCI 272 and 280 are helpful but not required. Taught in alternate years only.
[Next offered 2007-2008]
Credits: 3 hours
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CSCI 364 - Artificial Intelligence
3 NS
Second Semester. A study of the techniques currently being used in programs that mimic intelligent or human behavior. Topics include production systems, search strategies, resolution theorem proving, rule-based deduction and plan-generating systems, and knowledgerepresentation techniques. Advanced programming techniques will be taught, but elementary experience with LISP or Scheme languages is required.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: CSCI 275 or consent of the instructor. Note: Taught in alternate years only.
Mr. Bonakdarian.
Credits: 3 hours
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CSCI 383 - Theory of Computer Science
3 NS, QPf
Second Semester. A study of computability, enumerability, and
decidability from a machine approach (finite state automata, push-down
automata, Turing machines), a language approach (regular grammars,
context-free grammars, unrestricted rewrite systems, the Chomsky
hierarchy), and the recursive function approach. In the final weeks of
the semester, the theory of NP-Completeness will be discussed, along
with the notion of reductions and Cook’s theorem.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: MATH 220 or consent of the instructor.
Mr. Geitz
Credits: 3 hours
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CSCI 401 - Honors
2-4 NS
Honors sponsored by Mr. Bonakdarian, Mr. Borroni, Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Geitz, and Mr. Salter.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required.
Credits: 2 to 4 hours
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CSCI 995 - Private Reading
.5-3 NS
Private readings sponsored by Mr. Bonakdarian, Mr. Borroni, Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Geitz, and Mr. Salter.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required.
Credits: .5 to 3 hours
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CNST 130 - Physical Wellness for the Musician’s Life
First and Second Semester. The musician’s body and its state of
physical health has a strong influence on his or her ability to play or
sing. This course will emphasize physical restructuring, as well as
practical methods for maintaining balanced physical health. Students
will develop an increased understanding of the body’s physical and
muscular structures and its movement principles. Their everyday
postural habits will be evaluated and corrective patterns explored.
This is a practical course, with daily lab components which will allow
the information to be integrated into their bodies, setting the
foundation for physical health, and decreasing the possibility of
injuries.
Prerequisites & Notes
Offered for CR/NE or P/NP only.
Enrollment Limit 15
Ms. Vogel
Credits: 1
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CNST 150 - Introduction Piano Technology
Introductory course in equal temperament tuning theory and
application, piano nomenclature, basic piano repairs and modern action
regulation. Introduction oto piano building materials and an overview
of modern piano construction. Combination of lectures and hands-on shop
training.
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required.
Mr. Cavanaugh
Credits: 3
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CNST 160 - Lost Highway - Intensive Special Performance
Second Semester. First Module. Performance in the U.S. permierre performances of Olga Neuwirth’s “Lost Highway”. The project begins with rehearsals during winter term and concludes with the final performance on February 24, 2007.
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading. Consent of the Associate Deans’ office required.
Mr. Weiss
Credits: 1
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CNST 170 - Graduate Review Aural Skills
Second Semester. First Module. A review of sight-singing, dictation, listening without score, and other items that are routinely asked on aural skills placement exams at leading graduate schools.
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading.
This course is intended for graduating seniors in the Conservatory of Music.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Ms. Miyake
Credits: .5
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CNST 171 - Graduate Review Theory
Second Semester. Second Module. A review of part-writing fundamentals, chromatic harmony, sequences, tonal forms (binary, sonata, and rondo forms), and any other pertinent items frequently found on graduate school placement exams.
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading.
This course is intended for graduating seniors in the Conservatory of Music.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Mr. Alegant
Credits: .5
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CNST 200 - Professional Development for Musicians
First and Second Semester. The purpose of this course is to introduce
music students to the various aspects of designing and planning a
professional career. Topics to be covered include: using the tools of
the Conservatory Career Resources Center and the Career Services
Center, defining careers, career research and understanding job
requirements, developing promotional materials, networking,
interviewing and auditioning techniques, the role of internships and
summer study/jobs, and grant writing.
Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 25
Consent of instructor required.
Ms. Chastain
Credits: 1 hour
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CNTP 310 - New Music Workshop
First Semester. A workshop for performers and composers centered around
continuing collaborations. Topics will include conventional and
extended instrumental techniques, scoring, notation, performance, and
compositional issues. Composers will be given regular writing
assignments ranging in degrees of constraint in terms of scope and
instrumentation. There will be numerous opportunities for contact
between faculty and student.
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: The course may be repeated for credit up to a maximum of eight credits
It may be taken once in place of TECH 350
Consent of instructor required
Enrollment Limit: 30
Mr. Nielson
Credits: 3 hours
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