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Course Catalog 2006-2007

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Economics
	ECON 459 - Agent-based Computational Economics 3 SS, WR New Course Added 07/26/2006 Agent-based Computational Economics, the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents, is an emerging interdisciplinary methodology that embraces new technology and complex-systems thinking. We will study these models with a focus on individual decision-making. We will then collaboratively design competing firms in a simulated environment. A secondary goal of this class is to teach emerging intellectual collaboration technology: the class will be wiki-based and involve international collaboration with a group at TU Delft, the Netherlands. Programming experience is helpful but not necessary. Prerequisites & Notes Mr. Pape Credits: 3 Credits
	ECON 491 - Honors Program 1-7 SS, WR First and Second Semester. This program is open by departmental invitation near the end of the junior year to major students whose general and departmental records indicate their ability to carry the program and the likelihood that they will profit from it. The program extends through the senior year and involves the independent preparation of a thesis, defense of the thesis, active participation with other Honors students and the department staff in a weekly seminar meeting during the second semester, and both written and oral examinations by an outside examiner. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Ms. Craig Credits: 1 to 7 hours
	ECON 901 - International Business 4 SS Summer 2006. This course is designed to cover the basic principles of international business with particular emphasis on the regulatory and business environment of the European Union. Taught on site in France with visits to international companies and organizations in France and Switzerland. Prerequisites & Notes Mr. Cleeton Credits: 4 hours
	ECON 902 - International Financial Management 4 SS Summer 2006. Estonia is an excellent place to learn how European markets are working, what has transpired after the opening of Central and Eastern European economies, and what makes Baltic states special in economic terms. This is a chance to see, on the ground, a very successful transition economy and how it works today. Prerequisites & Notes Mr. Cleeton Credits: 4 hours
	ECON 995 - Private Reading .5-3 SS First and Second Semester. Projects sponsored by Mr. Cleeton, Ms. Craig, Mr. Fernandez, Ms. Gaudin, Mr. Kasper, Mr. Kuttner, Mr. Piron, and Mr. Zinser. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Credits: .5 to 3 hours
Education
	EDUA 010 - Spanish Teaching Practicum 0-2 HU New Course added 07/05/2006 First and Second Semester. Students work as Spanish instructors at the local elementary schools. Attendance of class meetings covering pedagogical and professional issues is required for first semester of enrollment. Amount of credit subject to number of hours taught and quantity of work submitted. Preference will be given to students who have at least intermediate Spanish proficiency and/or have studied in a Spanish-speaking country. Prior or concurrent enrollment in Linguistics for Language Students (HISP 311) is recommended. Prerequisites & Notes Formal application and consent of instructor required. CR/NE or P/NP grading. May be repeated for credit, up to 5 credits total, after which zero-credit enrollment is possible. Enrollment limit: 60 Ms. Tungseth-Faber Credits: 0-2
	EDUC 300 - Principles of Education WRi First Semester. Foundations of education with emphasis on examination of current educational issues in a historical context and identification of underlying philosophical assumptions. Counts as liberal arts course for Conservatory and Double-Degree students. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: Open to juniors and seniors only. Ms. Bennett Credits: 3 hours
English
	ENGL 141 - Rivers in American Literature 4 HU First Semester. An introduction to the different meanings of rivers in a variety of texts, genres, and formats. Through careful readings of short pieces (poems, films, songs, stories, essays), longer accounts (novels, history, travel writing, autobiography), and local waterways, we will examine some of the different meanings that Americans have attributed to rivers and attempt to imagine where our attitudes towards places, people, and flowing water might lead us. Student writing will include brief essays and exams. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment limit: 50. Mr. McMillin Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 142 - African American Novel 4 HU, CD Second Semester. Many African American novelists have embedded what W. E. B. Du Bois called “double consciousness” in their forms and themes. But hybrid narratives combining residual black folklore and Western literary genres have shifted over time and been named and studied variously. This course constitutes a survey of major representative novels, or highlights, within the tradition from the 1850s through the 1970s (written by authors from William Wells Brown to Toni Morrison). Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment limit: 50. Ms. Johns Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 156 - Beats and Breaks: American Poetry 1950-Present 4 HU First Semester. This course will examine a variety of innovative movements in American poetry, including (but not limited to) the Beats, the Black Mountain School, Black Arts Movement, Third World Liberation Front writing, LANGUAGE poetry, and new forms of performance poetry. We’ll be exploring the question of American poetry through a variety of lenses, with the ultimate goal of understanding how these poetic practices shape and re-shape our understanding of the very category of “American Poetry.” Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment limit: 50. Mr. Liu Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 173 - Form, Style, and Meaning in Cinema 4 HU First and Second Semesters. This course considers the cinema as a particular media form and explores issues and methods in cinema studies. The class focuses on questions of film form and style (narrative, editing, sound, framing, mise-en-scène) and introduces students to concepts in film history and theory (industry, auteurism, spectatorship, the star system, ideology, genre). Students develop a basic critical vocabulary for examining the cinema as an art form, an industry, and a system of culturally meaningful representation. Identical to CINE 101. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 60. Ms. An/Mr. Pence; Mr. Day/Mr. Doan Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 178 - Rewriting America: American Literature from the 1900s to the 1950s 4 HU Second Semester. How did the rise of the “modern,” the increase in immigration, and the unimaginable violence of the two World Wars change the conception of what America is (and what Americans are) and how to represent them? This course will explore how the “Jazz Age,” the Harlem Renaissance, the Lost Generation, the tenement slums, “Modern Art,” and the rise of cinema affected concepts of nation, citizenship, gender, race, and even the notion of a self. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment limit: 50. Ms. Takada Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 210 - Shakespeare in Dialogue 4 HU, WR First Semester. A comparative study of about ten plays, half by Shakespeare and half by other dramatists of the period, probably Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster. The aim is to portray the Early Modern theater as an ongoing conversation, in which plays acquire their meaning partly in relation to one another. British, Pre-1700. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. Pierce Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 218 - Shakespeare and the Limits of Genre 4 HU, WR Second Semester. An exploration of Shakespeare’s experiments with the idea of genre, considered in both thematic and formal terms. We will study seven plays in depth, concentrating on the so-called problem comedies and late romances, probably Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well, Cymbeline, and The Winter’s Tale. Attention will be paid to the plays both as literature and as texts for performance. British, Pre-1700. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. Walker Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 225 - The Literary History of Sexuality 4 HU, CD, WR First Semester. Scholars have suggested that the eighteenth century marked a crucial shift in our understandings of both “sexuality” and “literature” – yet the relationship between these spheres remains an open question. With the literature of the long eighteenth century as our particular focus, we will investigate the mutually shaping relationship between the sexual and the literary. Authors and theorists to be considered include Plato, Shakespeare, Milton, Richardson, Wordsworth, Freud, Foucault, and Sedgwick. British, Diversity, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. Kelleher Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 226 - Sympathy and Its Discontents 4 HU, WR Second Semester. This course investigates the cultural history of sentimentalism, from the eighteenth century to the present. Our particular focus will be the concept of “sympathy,” which signifies the various ways in which an individual witnesses and affectively responds to the spectacle of human suffering. Readings will include the work of Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Coetzee, and Sontag. British, 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both). Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. Kelleher Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 229 - Twentieth-Century Poetry 4 HU, WR Second Semester. An introduction to British and American lyric poetry, with attention to the complex relation between innovation and tradition, music and discord, pattern and disruption, as well as public discourse and intimate awareness. Specific emphasis on the challenges and opportunities that lyric poems present to writers of critical prose. Readings from Hardy, Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Eliot, Hughes, Moore, Lowell, Plath, Ashbery, Heaney, Graham, Komunyakaa. American, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. Harrison Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 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 CMPL 232. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment limit: 30. Mr. Hobbs Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 234 - The 19th-Century British Novel: Feeling, Form, and Function 4 WR New Course added 04/06/2006 First Semester. This course introduces the nineteenth-century novel, with an emphasis on how emotions generate and organize these narratives. Authors may include Austen, Dickens, Brontë, Shelley, Eliot, Hardy, and James. In addition, the screening of a few film adaptations will allow us to contrast two kinds of storytelling (visual and non-visual). Through detailed critical readings of these texts, and their affective structures, we will attempt to discern a poetics of feeling underlying the Victorian novel. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Ms. Geerken Credits: 4 Hours
	ENGL 238 - Contemporary American Fiction: Texts and Contexts 4 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. This course will focus on recently published American novels. We will attend to questions of style, authorship and interpretation against the backdrop of contemporary cultural and political history, and also explore how representations of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class inform and shape these contemporary texts. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. Liu Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 239 - History and Structure of the English Language 4 HU, WR Second Semester. The development of English from its Anglo-Saxon beginnings to the present, focusing on lexical, morphological, syntactic, and phonological change, with emphasis on the intersections between language, literature, and culture. British, Pre-1700. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Ms. Bryan Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 240 - Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett 4 HU, WR First Semester. A comparative study of poetry, fiction, and drama by three major 20th-century writers who all grew up in Ireland but were separated by their religions, social classes, and world-views. Major issues will be the tensions between literature and politics, innovation and tradition, elite arts and popular culture, and nationalism and internationalism. Working on poems, stories and plays, students will develop fundamental techniques of close reading informed by the historical context of revolutionary Ireland. Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. Hobbs Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 242 - Asian American Poetry 4 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. This course will provide both a historical overview and a disciplinary framework through which to understand the development of Asian American poetry. We’ll seek to understand the development of Asian American poetry in relation to larger questions of American identity and citizenship. We’ll also explore how Asian American poetry develops in conjunction with the larger body of both Asian American literature and American literature as a whole. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. Liu Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 254 - Birth of the American Nation: Texts and Contexts 4 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. This course begins with the belief that a nation’s alleged “origin” is always suspect, revealing more about a nation’s contemporary ideological needs than historical “truth.” We will dismantle the well-worn narrative of Puritan origin by looking at adventure narratives from early French, Spanish, and British explorers / empire-builders / entrepreneurs, Native American oral/written texts, Puritan sermons, captivity narratives, and revolutionary / post-revolutionary texts to explore how nation and national identities have been formed and re-formed. American, Diversity, Pre-1700 OR 1700-1900 (not both). Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment limit: 30. Ms. Takada Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 257 - Late 19th-Century American Literature: The Re-Making of “America” 4 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. The literature of this era reflected and participated in debates about the nature of “America” and “Americans” in the decades after civil war. Moreover, the understanding of “literature” and the circumstances of its production, distribution, and reception were also in flux. Such issues will frame this course. Reading will include narratives and essays by Howells, James, Jewett, Freeman, Chesnutt, Hopkins, Twain, Garland, Dunbar, Nelson, Sui Sin Far, Zitkala Sa, others. American, Diversity, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Ms. Zagarell Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 260 - African American Fiction: Humor and Irony 4 HU, CD, WR First Semester. African American humor has historically received little academic study. But the many anthologies of oral humor and the visibility of stand-up comedy invite us to examine the presence and role of humor and irony in African American literature. This course thus centers on a concentrated group of black literary humorists and explores various theories and methods (functional, structural, and cultural) for interpreting their works. Authors we will read include Chesnutt, Hurston, Hughes, Ellison, and Reed. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Ms. Johns Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 262 - Contemporary Asian American Fiction 4 HU, CD, WR First Semester. This course addresses two borders: the boundaries of Asian American representation, and the shifting parameters of the Asian American canon. Readings may include Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, Joy Kogawa, David Wong Louie, David Henry Hwang, Karen Yamashita, Jessica Hagedorn, as well as canonical Asian American criticism and theory addressing how stereotypes, history, and cultural and personal memories collide in the contentious relationships between gender, sexuality, and national/diasporic identity. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Ms. Takada Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 264 - Coming to America 4HU, CD, WR First Semester. Through literature and films, this course will explore what it considers exemplary immigrant (Asian, Afro-Caribbean, European) experiences, examining diverse reactions to immigration to the U.S. It will consider the subject formation of immigrants as well as questions of identity – individual, group, national – that arise in the context of emigration and immigration, taking into account the cultural and historical differences shaping different immigrant groups. It will also consider legal and economic issues surrounding immigration to the U.S. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment limit: 30. Ms. Needham Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 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 CMPL 265. Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Ms. Needham Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 272 - American Cinema: The Possibilities of Art in the Entertainment Business 4 HU, WR Second Semester. This course deals with how the art of American cinema is shaped by demands of business and technology. We will also explore how filmmakers used strong genres and stars, focusing on two eras of American cinema, 1939-42 and 1966-73. American, Post-1900. Identical to CINE 272. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. It is preferred that students also have taken ENGL 173/CINE 101. Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. Day Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 275 - Introduction to Comparative Literature 4 HU, CD, WR First and Second Semesters. 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. Diversity. Identical to CMPL 200. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Silverman Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 282 - Shifting Scenes: Drama Survey 4 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. This course will study the development of drama from the ancient Greeks to the present with the aim of promoting understanding and analysis of dramatic texts. By studying the major forms of drama – tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy – within their historical and cultural contexts, we will explore the elements common to all dramatic works, as well as the way in which those elements vary and evolve from one time and place to another. Diversity. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Ms. Tufts Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 293 - Medieval and Renaissance Lyric 4 HU, WR First Semester. We will study the lyric tradition in English from the later Middle Ages to the Restoration: from popular songs to elaborate formal sonnets, from irreverent seduction poems to holy hymns and meditations. We will explore how the intimate world of the lyric is shaped by public events (e.g. Reformation, Civil War) and cultural histories of gender, sexuality, education, belief, and aesthetics. Authors may include Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, and Anonymous. British, Pre-1700. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Ms. Bryan Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 294 - The Lyric in English From Donne to Yeats 4 HU, WR First Semester. An opportunity to consider major currents and counter-currents in English poetry from 1630 to 1939. In addition to love, death, and the changing of the seasons, topics will include form, disorder, time, war, dream, intimacy, violence, reparation, alienation, reflection, the senses, and human and non-human life. British, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. Harrison Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 301 - Chaucer 4 HU, WR First Semester. Our focus will be on The Canterbury Tales in its historical, cultural, and literary contexts. Requirements include memorization, exams, and essays. British, Pre-1700. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Bryan Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 305 - Authority and Subversion in Shakespearean Drama 4 HU, WR Second Semester. Authority and challenges to it create tensions on many levels in Shakespeare’s plays. Whether authority derives from institutions such as the Church or monarchy, from patriarchal family structures or social norms, from gender expectations or sexual roles, or from literary genres and conventions – disobedience, subversion, or critique motivate character, action, language, form, and stage interpretations in Shakespearean drama. We will study six to seven plays within histories of order and disorder in early modern England. British, Pre-1700. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Gorfain Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 310 - Early Medieval Literature: from Epic to Romance 4 HU, WR Second Semester. This course traces the rise of European literatures in the post-Roman world. Topics will include the Christian rejection of classical learning, the clash of monastic and heroic ideals in the age of epic, the twelfth-century renaissance, the new emphasis on love and the individual, and the birth of a flamboyant secular literary culture in French and Anglo-Norman courts. Authors may include Virgil, Augustine, Boethius, the Beowulf poet, Abelard, Heloise, Marie de France, and Chretien de Troyes. All texts in English translation. Pre-1700. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Bryan Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 315 - Eighteenth-Century Fiction 4 HU, WR First Semester. An intensive survey of the eighteenth-century British novel. We will take our critical bearings from Locke’s famous description of the mind as “white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas.” Experience thus makes us who we are – a notion that bequeathed to the eighteenth century both an unprecedented freedom and danger. Accordingly, we will study the pleasures and perils of human experience in novels by, among others, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Austen. British, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Kelleher Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 331 - Modern Poetry 4 HU, WR First Semester. The development of poetry from 1880 to World War II. Consideration of poetry’s contribution to shifting accounts of history, identity, religion, and love. Inquiry into poetry’s nature not only as an art form, but as a form of thought (intended to change our beliefs about the world) and a form of work (intended to change the world itself). Readings from Walt Whitman through Marianne Moore. American OR British (not both), Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Harrison Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 333 - Poetry Since 1945 4 HU, WR Second Semester. Central themes and conflicts in poetry since World War II, with attention to poetry’s search for new forms and modes of expression in a world altered (often beyond recognition) by war, political unrest, and cultural upheaval. Lowell, Larkin, Roethke, Berryman, Plath, Rich, Ginsberg, Ashbery, O’Hara, Walcott, Heaney, Soyinka, Jay Wright, Charles Wright, Gluck, Komunyakaa, Dove, Carson, Murray, Boland. American OR British (not both), Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Harrison Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 334 - Narrative Regret 4 HU, WR New Course added 04/06/2006 Second Semester. We will investigate three kinds of literary regret: Martial (regret over killing), Marital (regret over marrying), and Mortal (regret over dying). In each case, a close reading of an exemplary nineteenth-century British novel (Lord Jim, Middlemarch, Wuthering Heights) is read alongside theoretical and philosophical elaborations on regret. We also examine classic and contemporary versions of regret, including Greek and Renaissance tragedy and current poetry and film. Our aim is to generate a poetics of regret. British, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 30. Ms. Geerken Credits: 4 Hours
	ENGL 340 - Technology and the Subject 4 HU, WR New Course Description and Instructor 07/26/2006 First Semester: This course explores how technologies of the image have been imagined in relation to the human subject. We will examine a wide range of visual and written texts in order to think about how various technologies have altered our relationship to the world at specific historical moments: the invention of photography (1830), the beginnings of cinema (1900), the rise of television (the 1950s), and the proliferation of digital media (1990s). Identical to CINE 340. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: CINE 101 and a Cinematic Traditions course (preferred), or see headnote above, or consent of the instructor. Enrollment limit: 25. Ms. Takahashi Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 349 - Contemporary Drama: 1980-Present 4 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. This course will study the developments mainly in British and American drama during the last ten to fifteen years. Plays will be discussed from both a literary and theatrical point of view, with attention to their historical, cultural, and political context. Among the playwrights we will be reading, a tentative list might include Tony Kushner, David Henry Huang, Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka, Maria Irene Fornes, Elaine Jackson, Emily Mann, Caryl Churchill, and Brian Friel. Classes will be conducted primarily through discussion supplemented by lectures. Written work will include two papers: one short (4-6 pages) and one long (8-10 pages). In addition, each student will be responsible for a performance in class of a scene from one of the plays we are reading. Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Tufts Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 353 - American Literature 1825-65: To Write Like an “American” 4 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. Melville’s phrase captures a major concern of American writers during the antebellum period: the creation of a distinctly American literature. Directly or indirectly, many writers of the era engaged with “writing like an American” – Melville, Emerson, Whitman, Douglass, Jacobs among them – while a few, notably Poe, repudiated the very idea. We’ll read work by the writers I’ve listed and by others as we consider what “writing like an American” entailed during the formative era in American culture and history. American, Diversity, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Zagarell Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 356 - Postbellum U.S. Regionalism: New Orleans, New England 4 HU, CD, WR First Semester. How did these very different places and their cultures take shape as “regions” in the heyday of U.S. regionalism? Focusing on their histories, demographies, literature, artistic and musical cultures, we’ll consider what has been distinctive about each and how each has been enmeshed in the national life. Readings will cover regional/national history and cultural landscapes, regional/national geographies of race and class, literature by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, George Washington Cable, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, others. American, Diversity, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Zagarell Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 360 - Experimental Poetry: Form and Practice 4 HU, CD, WR First Semester. The course will focus on questions of experiment and its worth: What is “experimental poetry,” exactly, and why would anyone want to write it? Along with readings that will roughly describe a historical arc of experimental American poetry in the 20th century, we’ll also be engaging these poets on a more creative level, as well, responding to their work both in critical terms and creative projects. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Liu Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 364 - Memory, History, Trauma 4 HU, CD, WR First Semester. How to represent the unspeakable? How to convey trauma without merely producing pleasurable spectacle? This course compares contemporary fiction, graphic novels, film, documentary, and performance art that represent historical events triggered by perceived racial difference – the Holocaust, American slavery, the Japanese American internment. We will discuss how affect is represented and racial differences (re)staged, and explore the psychic and social implications of narrative/visual pleasure and pain. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Takada Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 366 - Nature and Transcendentalism 4 HU, WR Second Semester. An examination of the writings of the American Transcendentalists of the 19th century with special attention to Emerson, Thoreau, and the concept of nature. We will study some of the early contributors to this school of thought, as well as more recent expositors. Students should be prepared to tackle difficult texts that pose challenging philosophical, political, and interpretive questions. American, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. McMillin Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 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. Identical to CMPL 367. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 25 Ms. Silverman Credits: 4 Credits
	ENGL 369 - Folklore and the Body 2 SS, 2 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. The body may seem natural, but bodylore treats it as a cultural artifact inflected by ethnicity, class, gender, so on. Folklore of the body treats the body – dead and alive – as a site where we inscribe notions about identity and society. We will study many forms of bodylore concerning reproduction, initiation, health, beauty, gesture, etiquette, hair, body parts, beliefs, and dress by utilizing various disciplinary approaches and examples from different cultures and periods. Diversity. Counts toward the Anthropology major. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Gorfain Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 372 - Contemporary Literary Theory in American Culture 4 HU, WR First Semester. This course is about developments in literary theory in the context of the last 35 years of American intellectual and artistic culture. Our concern will be understanding literary theories in their historical and institutional contexts as well as considering their value as ways of thinking about literature and art. We’ll pay particular attention to the impact of post-structuralism on American critics, the relation of literary criticism to cultural criticism, and various elaborations of the idea of post-modernity. American, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Day Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 377 - Contemporary British and Irish Fiction 4 HU, WR Second Semester. Novels and short fiction by such recent and living writers as Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, John Banville, Ian McEwen, Doris Lessing, Martin Amis, and Patrick McCabe. Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Hobbs Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 378 - Contemporary British and Irish Drama 4 HU, WR First Semester. This course focuses on major playwrights of England and Ireland from post-World War II to the present. Authors may include Samuel Beckett, John Osborne, Edward Bond, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Brian Friel, Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, Mark Ravenhill, and Sarah Kane. Students will be expected to attend productions and participate in scene performances. British, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Walker Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 382 - “Post-Everything”: Fiction and Theory 4 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. It’s been several decades since Barthes proclaimed the “death of the author,” yet authors persist. This course will focus on (relatively) recently published American novels, paying special attention to the relationship between fiction and literary theory. We’ll examine American fiction’s relationship to a variety of “post-isms,” including post-structuralism, -modernism, and -colonialism. We’ll also pay special attention to the question of representation, be it in terms of race, ethnicity, class, gender, or sexuality. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Liu Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 384 - Slave Narrative and the Novel 4 HU, CD, WR First Semester. This course focuses on one of the first genres African American writers used to represent their perspectives – the slave narrative – and examines how it can serve as a foundation for narrative and authorship into the twentieth century. We will consider the narratives’ use of realism, rhetorical methods by which authors position themselves as witnesses to history and claim moral authority, the phenomena of memory and self-reflexivity, and relations among literacy, oral culture, and freedom. And we will examine how modern writers re-visit social and philosophical problems left in tension in the literature of slavery. American, Diversity, 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both). Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Johns Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 389 - Selected Authors: J. M. Coetzee 4 HU, WR Second Semester. The substantive focus of this course is to read – closely, carefully, assiduously – novels and essays/critical exegeses by arguably one of the most important contemporary “postcolonial” writers, J. M. Coetzee. This focus will include sustained attention to contexts – of historical moment, location (geographical and epistemological), ideological investments – through which his work becomes, or is made, meaningful. Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Needham Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 392 - Selected Directors: Almodovar, Egoyan, von Trier 4 HU, WR Second Semester. This course will explore cinematic authorship by focusing on directors who have defined a distinctive style despite emerging from vastly different cultural contexts. While their films reward examination in relation to these contexts and to the body of work of each director, their films also share a common domain, the contemporary international cinema of quality. In all these registers, we will examine the value and limitation of a concept of cinematic authorship. Post-1900. Identical to CINE 392. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: CINE 101 and a Cinematic Traditions course (preferred), or see headnote above, or consent of the instructor. Enrollment limit: 25. Mr. Pence Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 394 - Selected Authors: Jane Austen 4 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. An in-depth investigation into the work of Jane Austen. In addition to reading all of Austen’s novels, we will study her juvenilia as well as the work of her contemporaries (including Radcliffe and Burney). We will also consider recent Hollywood contributions to Jane Mania, including largely straightforward adaptations (the recent Emma and Pride and Prejudice) and sublime “translations” of Regency England (Clueless). British, Diversity, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Kelleher Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 395 - Poetry Workshop 3 HU, WR First and Second Semesters. For description, please see “Creative Writing” in this catalog. Identical to CRWR 310. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12. Ms. Estes; Ms. Alexander Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 396 - Nonfiction Workshop 4 HU, WRi Second Semester. For description, please see “Creative Writing” in this catalog. Identical to CRWR 340. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12. Ms. Watanabe Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 397 - Fiction Workshop 4 HU, WR First and Second Semesters. For description, please see “Creative Writing” in this catalog. Identical to CRWR 320. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12. Ms. Watanabe; Mr. Chaon Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 398 - Playwriting Workshop 4 HU, WR Second semester. For description, please see “Creative Writing” in this catalog. Admission based on a completed application form and a writing sample. Identical to CRWR 330. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12. Mr. Walker Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 399 - Teaching and Tutoring Writing Across the Disciplines 3 HU, Wri First and Second Semesters. For description, please see “Rhetoric and Composition” in this catalog. Identical to RHET 481. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12. Mr. Podis; Ms. McMillin Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 400 - Senior Tutorial 2-4 HU, WR First and Second Semesters. For English majors in either semester of their final year only, involving close work in a small group on an individual project, leading to a substantial paper. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 9. Ms. Gorfain, Ms. Needham; Ms. Johns, Mr. McMillin, Mr. Pence Credits: 2 to 4 hours
	ENGL 433 - Seminar: Imagining History in Film 4 HU, WR First Semester. This course will explore the ways history and our relation to it is defined and represented in film, in short, how history is imagined. The emphasis will be primarily, but not exclusively, on American cinema. We will be equally concerned with what films do with history and what focusing on the subject of history reveals about film as art. American, Post-1900. Identical to CINE 433. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12. Mr. Day Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 437 - Seminar: Ars Poetica: Poetry, Art, Thought 4 HU, WR Second Semester. What are poems for? What good do they serve? How do poets describe, explain, or justify their art? The questions will guide us in a broader inquiry into poetry and its place among other arts. Poets will include Horace, Shakespeare, Pope, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Stevens, Bishop, Ashbery, Graham. Critics will include Lu Chi, Plato, Coleridge, Jakobson, Vendler, Bloom, Grossman. 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both). Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12. Mr. Harrison Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 450 - Honors Project 2-4 HU, WR First Semester. Intensive year-long work on a topic developed in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a substantial paper and a defense of that paper. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Consent of instructor required. Mr. McMillin Credits: 2 to 4 hours
	ENGL 451 - Honors Project 1-4 HU, WR Second Semester. Intensive year-long work on a topic developed in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a substantial paper and a defense of that paper. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Consent of instructor required. Mr. McMillin Credits: 1 to 4 hours
	ENGL 995 - Private Reading .5-3 HU First and Second Semesters. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Credits: .5 to 3 hours
Environmental Studies
	ENVS 101 - Environment and Society 3 SS First and Second Semester. An introduction to social, economic, technological, and political aspects of environmental problems with emphasis on major theorists and ideas that have influenced the environmental movement. Different schools of thought on the relationship between humankind and nature will be discussed with the aim of providing students with a broad understanding of issues, causes, and possible solutions to the array of environmental problems. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 50. Note: Open to first- and second-year students, including consent seats. Ms. Janda, Mr. Peterson, Mr. Wisner Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 208 - Environmental Policy 3 SS First Semester. Humans modify natural and built environments. Environmental policy is the attempt to regulate the consequences and scope of such changes. From antiquity rules governed land use and resource exploitation. Today elaborate institutions function as the place where political and economic power intersects with environmental science and the public interest. Our focus will be this intersection in the U.S. in the context globalization of all four of these elements: politics, economics, science, and public interest. Identical to POLT 208. Prerequisites & Notes Note: Restricted to ENVS and POLT majors. Enrollment Limit: 20 Mr. Wisner Mr. Wisner Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 212 - Making Solar Music: Electronic and Unplugged 0 -2 HU First semester, second module. This course invites students to explore the use of sound and music in articulating environmental phenomena. Using physical principles, solar energy, and data from the Adam Joseph Lewis Center, interdisciplinary teams of students will choose particular outdoor spaces (e.g., a courtyard or plaza) and design structures or systems that express the patterns and power of the sun through the medium of sound. Prerequisites & Notes Grading is CR/NE and P/NP only. Open to students who are currently in (or have already taken) PHYS 054, ENVS 360, ENVS 316, or TECH 350; or by consent of instructors. Enrollment Limit: 20. Ms. Janda, Mr. Lopez, with participation from Mr. Petersen and Mr. Richards Credits: 0-2 hours
	ENVS 216 - Water and Social Power 3 SS New Course Added 01/24/2007 Second Semester. This course examines the social, political and economic dimensions of water-supply development. The course introduces students to hydrologic science, but focuses on the intersection of water development and the social relations of power that mediate access to this contentious resource, including recent privatization efforts. The course introduces water as a physical and social phenomenon, discusses management frameworks and then applies these concepts to the US and internationally. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: ENVS 101 and at least sophomore standing. Mr. Birkenholz Credits: 3 Credits
	ENVS 231 - Environmental Economics 3 SS, QPh Second Semester. Identical to ECON 231. For description, please see “Economics” in this catalog. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 40. Ms. Gaudin Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 291 - Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture 3 SS Second Semester. A conversation on farms, farming and the agrarian foundations of civilization, with special attention to the interaction between philosophy, policy, and practice. This course includes discussion of different schools of thought about agriculture, culture, and rural life including Thomas Jefferson, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Albert Howard, Louis Bromfield, Wendell Berry, and Wes Jackson. The course includes visits to farms in central Ohio. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 25. Note: Restricted to juniors, seriors and fifth-year students. Mr. Orr Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 310 - Ecological Design 3 SS Second Semester. An upper-division seminar for seniors on ecological design, i.e. the intersection of human intentions with the ecologies of particular places. This course will include a broad survey of ecological design strategies from different cultures along with special emphasis on recent work in architecture, community design, energy systems, landscape management, and ecological engineering and the work of Carol Franklin, John Lyle, William McDonough, Sim van der Ryn, and John Todd. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 12. Note: Restricted to ENVS majors. Mr. Orr Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 316 - Systems Ecology 4NS First Semester. The ecosystem concept provides a framework for understanding complex interactions between life and the physical environment and the role of humans as dominant agents of biogeochemical change. We will apply systems concepts governing flows of material and energy to compare the structure and function of a variety of natural and human controlled ecosystems. Students will explore primary literature, will learn field and laboratory methods for analyzing local ecosystems, and will propose, execute and analyze group research projects. Credit can be counted towards either biology or environmental studies majors. Students taking 316 in 2006 are encouraged to consider registering for ENVS212 which will provide opportunities for combined research projects. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: Biology 120 and either Chemistry 101, 102, 103 or 151 Enrollment Limit: 13 Mr. Petersen Credits: 4 hours
	ENVS 319 - Global Environmental Issues: Challenges of an Urbanizing World 3SS First Semester. More than half of humanity lives in cities. This seminar explores the political ecology of urban life. Are cities parasitic, mostly dangerous and destructive of regional ecologies, cultures and social life? Are they potentially green central places where education and technology may uplift people while protecting biodiversity? Reading will illuminate these seeming contradictory views. Participants will develop individual research work on a city of their choice and pool, share, and debate within a common framework. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15 Mr. Wisner Credits: 3
	ENVS 322 - Energy and Society 3 SS First Semester. Energy issues are often characterized as problems we can “supply” our way out of by changing the resources we rely on. Less frequently, energy issues are treated as a problem of consumption. This course adopts a sociotechnical perspective, regarding energy as an issue shaped by both technical factors and social patterns. The first part of this course explores physical, political, and economic aspects of energy supply through the examination of different energy sources (biomass, fossil fuels, electricity, renewables, nuclear). The second part of the course addresses social and political aspects of energy consumption in the industrial, commercial, residential, and transportation sectors. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: ENVS 101. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Janda Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 331 - Natural Resource Economics 3 SS, QPh Second Semester. Identical to ECON 331. For description, please see “Economics” in this catalog. Prerequisites & Notes This course is cross-listed with ECON 331. Enrollment Limit: 20. Ms. Gaudin Credits: 3 credits
	ENVS 340 - Systems Modeling 3NS Second Semester. Computer simulation models are powerful tools for organizing information, gaining insight into underlying dynamics, and predicting the behavior of complex systems. Students will design and construct models as a means of building understanding of a variety of biological and environmental phenomena. Models developed will cover topics ranging from physiology to community dynamics to large-scale flows of material and energy. These examples will provide students with systems-thinking skills and a library of analogies that can be broadly applied to problems in the natural and social sciences. Credit can be counted towards either biology or environmental studies majors. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: Biology 120, at least one college chemistry course, comfort using algebraic equations. Enrollment Limit: 16 Mr. Petersen Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 360 - Dynamics of Consumption 3SS First Semester. This course examines the (in)visibility of consumption with respect to energy use, material choices, and human behavior. Using data on local spaces and ECOTECT software, students will experiment with different forms of analysis and presentation to explore the relationship between sense and understanding. In 2006, the course will focus on using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic techniques to teach solar movement. Students taking 360 in 2006 are asked to register for ENVS 212, which will provide opportunities for combined research projects with students from PHYS 054, ENVS 316, and TECH 350. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: ENVS 101, and any one of the following: ENVS 324, ENVS 310, or consent of instructor. Enrollment Limit: 15 Ms. Janda Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 490 - Introduction to the Black RiverWatershed 2 EX First Semester. An interdisciplinary examination of the local Black River Watershed, through a combination of lectures, field trips, and discussions. Principles of place-based, interdisciplinary watershed education will be introduced, and students will work with a teacher in the local public schools. Notes: This course is required for enrollment in ENVS 491. Restricted to juniors and seniors. Preference given to Environmental Studies majors. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 24. Ms. Wolfe-Cragin Credits: 2 hours
	ENVS 491 - Practicum in Environmental Education 1-2 EX Second Semester. Students will apply what they learned in ENVS 490 by working intensively with a selected teacher in one of the local schools to develop curricula centered on the local watershed. Students will continue to learn about the dynamics of the Black River Watershed as they gain first-hand teaching experience. Discussion group format. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: ENVS 490 or equivalent. Note: CR/NE or P/NP grading. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 16. Ms. Wolfe-Cragin Credits: 1 to 2 hours
	ENVS 501 - Research in Environmental Studies 1-5HU Research sponsored by Mr. McMillin and Mr. Newlin. Credits: 1 to 5 hours
	ENVS 502 - Research in Environmental Studies 1-5HU Research sponsored by Mr. McMillin and Mr. Newlin Credits: 1 to 5 horus
	ENVS 503 - Research in Environmental Studies 1-5NS Research sponsored by Ms. Garvin, Ms. Hubbard, Mr. Hubbard, Ms. Janda, Mr. Laushman, Ms. Moore, and Mr. Petersen. Credits: 1 to 5 hours
	ENVS 504 - Research in Environmental Studies 1-5NS Research sponsored by Ms. Garvin, Ms. Hubbard, Mr. Hubbard, Ms. Janda, Mr. Laushman, Ms. Moore, and Mr. Petersen. Credits: 1 to 5 hours
	ENVS 505 - Research in Environmental Studies 1-5SS Research sponsored by Ms. Janda, Mr. Petersen, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Wilson, and Ms. Wolfe-Cragin. Credits: 1 to 5 hours
	ENVS 506 - Research in Environmental Studies 1-5SS Research sponsored by Ms. Gaudin, Ms. Janda, Mr. Orr, Mr. Petersen, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Wilson, and Ms. Wolfe-Cragin. Credits: 1 to 5 hours
	ENVS 995 - Private Reading .5-3EX Consent of instructor required. Credits: .5 to 3 hours
Ethnomusicology
	ETHN 100 - Introduction to Musics of the World CD Second Semester. This course, for students with a basic knowledge of Western music theory, explores five areas drawn from the following: Africa, India, Indonesia, Japan, Europe, Native America, North America, South America. A dual focus on sociology (the musicians, their roles, their audience) and musicology (the instruments, elements of style, and compositional principles) is pursued through a field project, aural analysis, transcription, and in-class performance. For a similar course assuming no music knowledge see CMUS 103. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 40. Mr. R. Knight Credits: 3 hours
	ETHN 205 - Music of Indonesia 3 CD Second Semester. This course focuses on the music of Java and Bali while including the related traditions of Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines and selected traditions from Australia and the Pacific Islands. The opportunity to perform Javanese Gamelan music is a component of this course. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. R. Knight Credits: 3 hours
	ETHN 217 - African Music Selected Theories First Semester. This course will focus on the theoretical systems of certain African musics that have been extensively researched. The objective will be to understand tuning systems, scales, temporal features, ans performance practices through reading, listening, and in-class performance. Prerequisites & Notes MUTH 120 or equivalent. Enrollment Limit: 15 Consent of instructor required. Mr. R. Knight Credits: 3
	ETHN 301 - Research Methods in Ethnomusicology CD Second Semester. This is a seminar and practicum devoted to three topics: historical contributions to ethnomusicological research, methods of conducting field work (both the social and technical aspects), and laboratory methods (transcription and analysis of recordings, song texts, field notes). Students will conduct a field work project locally as part of the course. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: One course in ethnomusicology. Consent of the instructor required. Enrollment limit: 6 Mr. Knight Credits: 3
First Year Seminar Program
	FYSP 104 - Sonic Revolutions, Sonic Revelations 4HU, WRi First Semester. We often hear but we rarely listen. The aim of this seminar is to develop the skill of “deep listening”—a mode of attending to sound that is so absorbed and immersed that time seems to stop. Students will listen critically and actively to contemporary compositions and write about their experiences. Note: students do not need prior musical experience or the ability to read music. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Alegant Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 105 - Staying Sane in a Crazy World 4SS, WR First Semester. War, terrorism, and natural disasters create inhuman life conditions. Yet we know that people do survive these conditions and may even go on to flourish. This course asks: What is the human response to problems of global proportions? How do people cope in a hostile, unpredictable world that may lack the basic necessities for life? We will examine the scientific literature and personal accounts to understand how people stay sane in the face of unbearable circumstances. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14 Ms. Sutton Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 106 - Animal Minds and Human Morals: Current Debates in Animal Ethics 4HU, WRi First Semester. An interdisciplinary examination of the ethical status of non-human animals. Because they are sentient, animals seem to matter more than chairs or vegetables: they seem to have interests in the sense that things can go well or badly for them. What, precisely, are the psychological capacities of animals? Do the psychological capacities of animals make them appropriate objects of ethical concern? Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Ganson Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 107 - Making Sense of Science 2NS, 2SS, WRi First Semester. Few would dispute the importance of science in contemporary society. Yet there are differing ideas about what science is, what it can do and whether it can be trusted. This course will discuss the following questions: What is science? How does it progress/evolve/work? How is science similar to and/or different from other disciplines? What is the origin and extent of the intellectual divide between the science community and humanities? (And does it matter?). Prerequisites & Notes P/NP only. Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Matlin Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 109 - Odysseys of Identity 4HU, WRi First Semester. Students will read Homer’s Odyssey and study series of works that evoke and reinterpret that work, including the Cohen brothers’ O Brother Where Art Thou, Atwood’s The Penelopiad, and Martel’s The Life of Pi. We will interrogate the notion of the journey home as a structuring principle for narratives of identity, as well as the recurring problem of unreliable narrators in these works. Students will work extensively on their critical and composition skills. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Ormand Credits: 4 hours

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Oberlin College Courses

ECON 459 - Agent-based Computational Economics

ECON 491 - Honors Program

ECON 901 - International Business

ECON 902 - International Financial Management

ECON 995 - Private Reading

EDUA 010 - Spanish Teaching Practicum

EDUC 300 - Principles of Education

ENGL 141 - Rivers in American Literature

ENGL 142 - African American Novel

ENGL 156 - Beats and Breaks: American Poetry 1950-Present

ENGL 173 - Form, Style, and Meaning in Cinema

ENGL 178 - Rewriting America: American Literature from the 1900s to the 1950s

ENGL 210 - Shakespeare in Dialogue

ENGL 218 - Shakespeare and the Limits of Genre

ENGL 225 - The Literary History of Sexuality

ENGL 226 - Sympathy and Its Discontents

ENGL 229 - Twentieth-Century Poetry

ENGL 232 - Traditions of Metamorphosis

ENGL 234 - The 19th-Century British Novel: Feeling, Form, and Function

ENGL 238 - Contemporary American Fiction: Texts and Contexts

ENGL 239 - History and Structure of the English Language

ENGL 240 - Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett

ENGL 242 - Asian American Poetry

ENGL 254 - Birth of the American Nation: Texts and Contexts

ENGL 257 - Late 19th-Century American Literature: The Re-Making of “America”

ENGL 260 - African American Fiction: Humor and Irony

ENGL 262 - Contemporary Asian American Fiction

ENGL 264 - Coming to America

ENGL 265 - Third World Literatures in English

ENGL 272 - American Cinema: The Possibilities of Art in the Entertainment Business

ENGL 275 - Introduction to Comparative Literature

ENGL 282 - Shifting Scenes: Drama Survey

ENGL 293 - Medieval and Renaissance Lyric

ENGL 294 - The Lyric in English From Donne to Yeats

ENGL 301 - Chaucer

ENGL 305 - Authority and Subversion in Shakespearean Drama

ENGL 310 - Early Medieval Literature: from Epic to Romance

ENGL 315 - Eighteenth-Century Fiction

ENGL 331 - Modern Poetry

ENGL 333 - Poetry Since 1945

ENGL 334 - Narrative Regret

ENGL 340 - Technology and the Subject

ENGL 349 - Contemporary Drama: 1980-Present

ENGL 353 - American Literature 1825-65: To Write Like an “American”

ENGL 356 - Postbellum U.S. Regionalism: New Orleans, New England

ENGL 360 - Experimental Poetry: Form and Practice

ENGL 364 - Memory, History, Trauma

ENGL 366 - Nature and Transcendentalism

ENGL 367 - Poetics of Performance/Performing Poetics

ENGL 369 - Folklore and the Body

ENGL 372 - Contemporary Literary Theory in American Culture

ENGL 377 - Contemporary British and Irish Fiction

ENGL 378 - Contemporary British and Irish Drama

ENGL 382 - “Post-Everything”: Fiction and Theory

ENGL 384 - Slave Narrative and the Novel

ENGL 389 - Selected Authors: J. M. Coetzee

ENGL 392 - Selected Directors: Almodovar, Egoyan, von Trier

ENGL 394 - Selected Authors: Jane Austen

ENGL 395 - Poetry Workshop

ENGL 396 - Nonfiction Workshop

ENGL 397 - Fiction Workshop

ENGL 398 - Playwriting Workshop

ENGL 399 - Teaching and Tutoring Writing Across the Disciplines

ENGL 400 - Senior Tutorial

ENGL 433 - Seminar: Imagining History in Film

ENGL 437 - Seminar: Ars Poetica: Poetry, Art, Thought

ENGL 450 - Honors Project

ENGL 451 - Honors Project

ENGL 995 - Private Reading

ENVS 101 - Environment and Society

ENVS 208 - Environmental Policy

ENVS 212 - Making Solar Music: Electronic and Unplugged

ENVS 216 - Water and Social Power

ENVS 231 - Environmental Economics

ENVS 291 - Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture

ENVS 310 - Ecological Design

ENVS 316 - Systems Ecology

ENVS 319 - Global Environmental Issues: Challenges of an Urbanizing World

ENVS 322 - Energy and Society