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Course Catalog 2008-2009 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Oberlin College Courses

 
  

  • ECON 322 - Public Policy and Human Happiness


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    This course examines how economists evaluate government policies. We examine a number of methods for measuring the costs and benefits of government policies, including the Pareto principle, the compensation principle, compensating and equivalent variation, surplus, fairness, social welfare, and direct measures of happiness. We will then apply these methods to various policy problems, including tax efficiency, inter-generational equity, poverty abatement, social security, privatization, global warming, paternalism, traffic congestion, and national security policy. Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Instructor: J. Lipow
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ECON 253 or ECON 101 or MATH 133.
  

  • ECON 326 - International Trade


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    LATS, REES
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, QP-H

    This course offers the advanced theory of international trade, focusing on the factors which determine trade patterns, the gains from trade, and the domestic and international distribution of the gains from trade. Trade restrictions in the form of tariffs and quotas will be analyzed as well to understand how government policies can alter both trade flows and the distribution of gains from trade.
    Instructor: B. Craig
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ECON 253 and MATH 133 or equivalent.
  

  • ECON 327 - International Finance


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, QP-H

    Advanced theory and evidence of international finance. Topics include the pattern of global capital flows, the benefits of financial integration, the determinants of equilibrium real exchange rates, the choice of exchange rate regimes, the origins of currency crises, inflation stabilization policies, and sovereign debt and defaults. In addition, the course will offer an introduction to dynamic theories of international borrowing, lending, and direct investment. Enrollment limit: 30.
    Instructor: A. Ortiz Bolanos
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ECON 251 and 253 and MATH 133.
       
  

  • ECON 331 - Natural Resource Economics and Policy


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    ENVS, Law and Society
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: QP-H, 3SS

    This course applies microeconomic analysis to the allocation and management of natural resources and the environment. Economic modeling is used to analyze the optimal use of resources such as land, water fisheries, forests, and fossil fuels. In addition, the economic aspects of policies related to urban sprawl, water conservation, biodiversity, and renewable resource use will be explored. Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Instructor: J. Suter
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites:
    ECON 253 and MATH 133. ENVS 231 recommended.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with ENVS 331.
  

  • ECON 342 - Monetary Theory and Policy


    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: -
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, QP-H

    Advanced theory of the design and impact of monetary policy and formal theories of the role of money, credit and banking in market economies.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255.
  

  • ECON 343 - Financial Intermediation and Monetary Policy


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    The course begins by examining the primary role of commercial banks in financial intermediation and investigates the increasing importance of other markets and institutions in the intermediation process. The course also describes the key roles of central banks – providing liquidity to financial markets and performing their monetary policy functions. The course builds upon the institutional material to allow a concentrated analysis of the financial crisis of 2008. Enrollment limit: 20.
    Instructor: E. Tallman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: ECON 251
  

  • ECON 351 - Macroeconomic Theory


    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, QP-F

    Building on the basic theory introduced in ECON 251, this course provides a more rigorous development of macroeconomic theories pertaining to long-run growth and business cycles. The roles of monetary and fiscal policies, and their macroeconomic effects, will receive special attention.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ECON 251, ECON 253, and MATH 133.
    ECON 255 is also recommended.
  

  • ECON 353 - Microeconomic Theory


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, QP-F

    The course serves as a survey of microeconomic theory at a level consistent with a first-year graduate course. Topics include: the dual approach to consumer and producer theory, general equilibrium analysis, and welfare economics.
    Instructor: S. Mishra
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ECON 253, MATH 231, and MATH 232, or consent of instructor required
  

  • ECON 355 - Advanced Econometrics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, QP-F

    The course will cover advanced topics in econometrics as a sequel to ECON 255. Topics will include: linear algebraic analysis of the classic linear regression model; logit and probit analysis of binary dependent variables; and panel data estimation. Participants will apply each of these techniques to economic data using a variety of computer software.
    Instructor: B. Craig, L. Fernandez
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ECON 255.
  

  • ECON 431 - Seminar: Topics in Water Resource Economics


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    ENVS
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR

    The seminar will investigate issues related to the allocation and use of freshwater resources.  We will look specifically at water pricing and distribution schemes in water scare areas such as the American West and assess economic mechanisms that address issues related to water quality and incentives for water conservation.  Enrollment Limit: 10.
    Instructor: J. Suter
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ECON 253 and ECON 255 or consent of instructor. ECON/ENVS 231 or 331 recommended.  Note: Taught in alternate years.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with ENVS 431.
  

  • ECON 433 - Seminar: Price Discrimination


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    Price discrimination refers to the practice of charging different prices to different consumers for the same good or service. Examples include airline tickets, cell phone and broadband service, insurance contracts, credit card interest rates and health services. The seminar will examine the basic theory and empirical evidence on price discrimination as well as explore the economics of the markets for consumer information, such as access to databases of online purchase histories. The existence of these markets increases firms’ abilities to price discriminate.
    Instructor: S. Mishra
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ECON 253 and ECON 255 or consent of instructor.  Note: Taught in alternate years.
  

  • ECON 438 - Seminar: Market Failure in Financial Markets


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, WR

    The seminar will examine the theoretical framework used by economist to understand many financial phenomena such as credit rationing, bank runs and panics, and solvency problems. Market failure, a situation where market equilibria fail to be Pareto optimal, often occurs when asymmetric information, market power, externalities, and/or public goods are present. Market failure explains why financial intermediaries exist and provides an economically defensible justification for financial markets regulation. Enrollment limit: 10.
    Instructor: A. Ortiz Bolanos
    Prerequisites & Notes
    ECON 253 (Intermediate Microeconomics) is required. ECON 211 (Money, the Financial System and the Economy) and/or ECON 313 (Games and Strategy in Economics) are also highly recommended.
  

  • ECON 441 - Seminar: Economics of Labor and Welfare Policy


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR

    Critical analysis of current policy issues, taken from journal literature, on the economic effects on wages of unions, discrimination, and schooling; examines recent changes in welfare policies and the effects on poverty. Enrollment Limit: 10.
    Instructor: H. Kasper
  

  • ECON 491 - Honors Program


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-7 hours
    Attribute: 1-7SS, WR

    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. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: L. Fernandez
  

  • ECON 901 - Economics of European Integration


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS

    The aim of the course is to provide a deeper understanding of the vicissitudes of European co-operation and integration.  Topics dealt with are:  the history of the EU, the economic theory of custom unions and common markets, the international market program, economic and monetary union in the EU, its agricultural policy and external economic relations.
    Instructor: B. Craig
  

  • ECON 902 - International Management


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS

    This course will focus on the (strategic) management of international firms, organizations acting in foreign markets.  It will consider the development of strategies with respect to choice of products and markets competitive behavior which orients components of internationalization and its evolution and the focus driving the dynamics of competition in international markets.  It will also study the requirements resulting from the globalization of industries and markets and national responsiveness and the possible strategic reactions, as well as the necessary conditions for their implementation.
    Instructor: B. Craig
  

  • ECON 903 - Intercultural Communication


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    Thir course is designed to make you aware of the variety of cultural values in today’s world and help you compare your own cultural background with that of various European cultures.  The course reveals how organizational cultures can be managed effectively and outlines ways of learning intercultural communication.
    Instructor: B. Craig
  

  • ECON 904 - European Culture: History and Art


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    This course will address cultural and political developments that have marked 19th and 20th-century Europe.  Most lectures will focus on highlights of European cultural history and artifacts will be used to illustrate the wide variety of social, cultural and political developments that have influenced European history.  Topics include cathedrals as political statements, the Enlightenment, the French revolution, Romanticism, and Nazi propaganda.
    Instructor: B. Craig
  

  • ECON 905 - Law and Politics: Current Topics in the European Union


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    The course will give an introduction to the process of the European integration.  The course will start with the history of the EU leading up to current topics.  Secondly, an introduction into the law of the European Commission and the EU will be given:  internal market, the four freedoms, the EMU, and the enlargement of the EU.  Thirdly, the links between the EU and the member states will be examined.
    Instructor: B. Craig
  

  • ECON 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3SS

    Signed permission of the instructor required.
    Instructor: B. Craig, L. Fernandez, H. Kasper, J. Lipow, S. Mishra, A. Ortiz, J. Suter, E. Tallman
  

  • EDEC 522 - Looking More Closely: Learning & Teaching in Schools I


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    How does being a keen observer help teachers think about learners and learning in deeper, more complex ways? In this first of three interrelated courses, we will engage in experiences, explorations, and readings that will encourage us to think about observation from a number of perspectives. A particular focus of the course will be engagements with the arts as aesthetic experiences and as tools that offer multiple entries into specific content pedagogies. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Jaffee
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDEC 524 - Language and Word Study in a Diverse Society


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Why do some children have difficulty learning to read, when speaking is such a natural act? Through readings, discussion, and fieldwork, students examine this question, investigate historical and contemporary perspectives/controversies, and explore strategies to advance all children’s word knowledge, including that of English language learners. Strategy topics include phonological awareness and phonics instruction in a comprehensive literacy program; solving and understanding complex words; and children’s spelling as a window for determining developmentally appropriate instruction. Consent of the instructor is required.
    Instructor: K. Ganske
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDEC 530 - Development & Psychology of Learners: Early Childhood


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Who are these young people–as individuals and as a group? Students examine influences of family, peers, school, and media on social and psychological development of children. Case study work, including observation and interpretation and reporting of data, is central to the course. Discussions of the studies help students understand the relationship between theory and data gathering and gain understanding of developmental stages of children and uses and limits of employing a developmental perspective/lens. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDEC 532 - Exploring the Hows and Whys: Learning and Teaching in Schools II


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    How can inquiry stimulate and deepen learning and teaching? Taking an inquiry stance, students learn to critique and adapt materials; explore specific content pedagogies; examine how ideas and methods fit within a school philosophy and tradition; tailor methods to specific children and their needs, keeping the student’s own philosophy in mind; create methods and materials; and articulate why they decide to use certain ideas, materials, and methods at a specific time. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: D. Roose
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDEC 534 - Understanding Complexities: Developing and Supporting Literacy


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    What does it mean to be literate? How does literacy change over time? Students explore these questions through readings, discussion, field placements, and an inquiry project. Other emphasized topics include theoretical frameworks; instructional strategies for advancing children’s fluency and comprehension; and enhancing literacy through technology and family involvement. Emphasis is placed on reading and writing as interrelated processes with the common goal of meaning making. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Gankse
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDEC 536 - Multiple Ways of Knowing: Reading Assessment and Next Steps


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    How can we discover and cultivate every child’s potential when children differ? This course emphasizes the use of ongoing assessment and evaluation as tools for making informed instructional decisions. Students extend their understanding of reading difficulty; administer and interpret various informal assessments; plan interventions and adapt curricula; work with children in the classroom to practice assessment and instructional techniques, and develop and present a case study of a challenged reader. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Gankse
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDEC 542 - Creating Possibilities: Learning and Teaching in Schools III


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3
    What does it mean to be an imaginative and innovative teacher? Students continue the exploration of issues related to teaching and focus on the creation, implementation and evaluation of curriculum units. Particular emphasis is given to development of multi-week thematic or subject-driven units of study with an emphasis on development of the students’ own styles and strengths as teachers. Students teach, in their assigned classrooms, small and large group lessons designed during this course. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: D. Roose
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDEC 544 - Reading the World: Literature for Children and Adolescents


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    How do we make fiction and nonfiction books for young people central to the curriculum? Students explore possibilities through extensive readings of adolescent and children’s literature, including literature with multicultural and international perspectives, and through readings and discussions of various topics: Selecting and critically evaluating books, understanding literary elements and genres, fostering engagement in books and reading, developing responsive readers, creating literature-based classrooms and thematic units, and weaving literature across the curriculum. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Gankse
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDMC 522 - Looking More closely: Learning & Teaching in Schools I


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    How does being a keen observer help teachers think about learners and learning in deeper, more complex ways? In this first of three interrelated courses, we will engage in experiences, explorations, and readings that will encourage us to think about observation from a number of perspectives. A particular focus of the course will be engagements with the arts as aesthetic experiences and as tools that offer multiple entries into specific content pedagogies. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Jaffee
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDMC 524 - Language and Word Study in a Diverse Society


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Why do some children have difficulty learning to read, when speaking is such a natural act? Through readings, discussion, and fieldwork, students examine this question, investigate historical and contemporary perspectives/controversies, and explore strategies to advance all children’s word knowledge, including that of English language learners. Strategy topics include phonological awareness and phonics instruction in a comprehensive literacy program; solving and understanding complex words; and children’s spelling as a window for determining developmentally appropriate instruction. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Ganske
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDMC 530 - Development & Psychology of Learners: Middle Childhood


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Who are these young people–as individuals and as a group? Students examine influences of family, peers, school, and media on social and psychological development of children. Case study work, including observation and interpretation and reporting of data, is central to the course. Discussions of the studies help students understand the relationship between theory and data gathering and gain understanding of developmental stages of children and uses and limits of employing a developmental perspective/lens.  Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes

    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDMC 532 - Exploring the Hows and Whys: Learning and Teaching in Schools II


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    How can inquiry stimulate and deepen learning and teaching? Taking an inquiry stance, students learn to critique and adapt materials; explore specific content pedagogies; examine how ideas and methods fit within a school philosophy and tradition; tailor methods to specific children and their needs, keeping the student’s own philosophy in mind; create methods and materials; and articulate why they decide to use certain ideas, materials, and methods at a specific time. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: D. Roose
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDMC 534 - Understanding Complexities: Developing and Supporting Literacy


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    What does it mean to be literate? How does literacy change over time? Students explore these questions through readings, discussion, field placements, and an inquiry project. Other emphasized topics include theoretical frameworks; instructional strategies for advancing children’s fluency and comprehension; and enhancing literacy through technology and family involvement. Emphasis is placed on reading and writing as interrelated processes with the common goal of meaning making. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Ganske
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDMC 536 - Multiple Ways of Knowing: Reading Assessment and Next Steps


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    How can we discover and cultivate every child’s potential when children differ? This course emphasizes the use of ongoing assessment and evaluation as tools for making informed instructional decisions. Students extend their understanding of reading difficulty; administer and interpret various informal assessments; plan interventions and adapt curricula; work with children in the classroom to practice assessment and instructional techniques, and develop and present a case study of a challenged reader. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Gankse
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDMC 542 - Creating Possibilities: Learning and Teaching in Schools III


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    What does it mean to be an imaginative and innovative teacher? Students continue the exploration of issues related to teaching and focus on the creation, implementation and evaluation of curriculum units. Particular emphasis is given to development of multi-week thematic or subject-driven units of study with an emphasis on development of the students’ own styles and strengths as teachers. Students teach, in their assigned classrooms, small and large group lessons designed during this course. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: D. Roose
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDMC 544 - Reading the World: Literature for Children and Adolescents


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    How do we make fiction and nonfiction books for young people central to the curriculum? Students explore possibilities through extensive readings of adolescent and children’s literature, including literature with multicultural and international perspectives, and through readings and discussions of various topics: Selecting and critically evaluating books, understanding literary elements and genres, fostering engagement in books and reading, developing responsive readers, creating literature-based classrooms and thematic units, and weaving literature across the curriculum. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Ganske
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDUA 010 - Spanish Teaching Practicum


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0 to 3 Hours
    Attribute: 0 to 3 HU

    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. Enrollment limit: 60.

    For the second semester 2009, this course will be taught on a P/NP basis only.
    Instructor: K. Tungseth-Faber
    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.
    Prior or concurrent enrollment in Linguistics for Language Students (HISP 311) is recommended.
  

  • EDUC 300 - Principles of Education


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: WRi

    Foundations of education with emphasis on examination of current educational issues in a historical context and identification of underlying philosophical assumptions. Enrollment Limit: Open to juniors and seniors only.
    Instructor: P. Bennett
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Counts as liberal arts course for Conservatory and Double-Degree students.
  

  • EDUC 510 - Education, Learners and Teachers: Introduction and Interrelationships


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    What is the relationship between schooling, learning, and teaching? Students examine critical historical and contemporary issues from a variety of perspectives as they examine their own beliefs about how people learn, articulating a personal philosophical framework. Set in dialogue with educational issues and exploration of self as learner/teacher, students also explore the dynamics of the teaching/learning process, including examining latest studies in brain research and major characteristics of developmental stages and individual differences within stages. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: D. Roose
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDUC 513 - Honoring and Negotiating Differences: Teaching Children with Special Needs


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    How do the different ways children learn affect teaching? This course examines the question through several lenses, including the latest findings in brain research concerning students’ learning styles, differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, gender differences, children’s social interactions, and cultural and family influences. Students are introduced to various exceptionalities, examine legislation pertaining to special needs, and explore institutional practices for accommodating students with exceptionalities. Classroom practice and organization are emphasized. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDUC 538 - Teaching as a Profession: Seminar I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    What kinds of environments encourage learning that lasts? Readings, dialogues, and case studies frame this seminar in which participants discuss classroom management and the creation of learning environments responsive to the needs of children and those members of the community who are so integral to the learning process. As part of an ongoing reflective process, students will maintain field experience journals and begin the yearlong process of compiling a teaching portfolio. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Jaffee
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDUC 548 - Teaching as a Profession: Seminar II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    What does it mean to learn to teach? Students reflect on questions and discuss strategies that address issues and situations arising directly out of their student teaching practice. Students continue to discuss strategies for communicating with parents and other members of the community, and explore ways of taking part in the larger professional community. This seminar will address the final development of the teaching portfolio that illustrates the linkages between theory, research, and practice. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Jaffee
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDUC 555 - Student Teaching Experience


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 6 Hours
    Teacher candidates will spend 18 weeks student teaching in a classroom appropriate to their area of licensure during the spring semester of the program. Working closely with the mentor teacher and site coordinator, student teachers become acquainted with the routines and practices of the school and the culture of the classroom. They gradually become responsible for planning and organizing instruction, teaching lessons, assessing & evaluating student learning, and maintaining an effective learning environment. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Jaffee
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • EDUC 559 - Taking the Lead in Inquiry and Reflection: Capstone Experience


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    What worked? What didn’t? What are my strengths and my next steps? In this course students look closely at their teaching and children’s learning to discover ways to further refine their craft and improve their teaching effectiveness. They investigate a teaching or learning challenge through classroom inquiry, and as a culmination to the program, critically reflect on their experiences in order to develop a plan for continued personal and professional growth. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: K. Ganske
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment is limited to Graduate Teachers Education Program students.
  

  • ENGL 203 - Medieval and Renaissance Literature


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

    An introduction to issues in English literary history between the 12th and 17th centuries. We will be particularly interested in how drama, lyric, and romance change across what we now consider a major period boundary. What happens to textual representation under the pressure of dramatic historical shifts? How does literary entertainment reflect the differences between “pre-modern” (medieval) and “early modern” (Renaissance)? Authors will include the Gawain-poet, Malory, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, and Donne. Papers and exams. Nature of Text. British, Pre-1700. Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: J. Bryan
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English.”
  

  • ENGL 204 - Issues in Shakespeare


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

    Focused study of Shakespeare plays with attention to contemporary critical methods and theories. British, Pre-1700. Enrollment llimit: 30.
    Instructor: M. Booth
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”.
  

  • ENGL 212 - Wit, Rakes, Madmen, & Jane: A Survey of Eighteenth-Century Literature


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

    This course will introduce students to the various modes of literary production in eighteenth-century Britain, including the periodical essay, the novel, neoclassical and lyric poetry, satire, and drama. We will read these forms of literary expression with a view toward understanding how they illuminate large-scale historical transformations, such as the rise of commodity capitalism, the consolidation of the middle class, and the formation of feminist consciousness. Nature of Text. British, 1700-1900.  Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: L. Baudot
    Prerequisites & Notes
     Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. 
  

  • ENGL 220 - Romantic Literature


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

    An interdisciplinary study of ‘romanticism’ in England and Scotland between 1789 and 1832, treating works by poets, essay writers, novelists, painters and urban architects. Among works to be considered will be poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Byron, essays by Burke, De Quincey, Coleridge, and Hazlitt, and fiction by Mary Shelley. Painters to be considered will include Girtin, Constable, and Turner. We will investigate the Prince Regent’s attempts, working with John Nash and others, to transform London into an imperial city. Nature of Text. British, 1700-1900. Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: J. Olmsted
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English.”
  

  • ENGL 237 - Joyce’s Ulysses


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2HU

    An in-depth yet reader-friendly experience of one of the most important and challenging 20th-century novels. We will view it in the contexts of Homer’s Odyssey, Joyce’s biography, Irish nationalism, music, post-structuralist narrative theory, and recent film adaptations.  Enrollment limit: 30.
    Instructor: J. Hobbs
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Elective course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”.
  

  • ENGL 238 - Contemporary American Fiction


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

    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. Likely authors to include Dorothy Allison, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, E. L. Doctorow, Charles Johnson, Jayne Anne Phillips, Richard Powers, Sherman Alexie, Michael Chabon. Nature of Interpretation. American, Post-1900. Enrollment limit: 30.
    Instructor: J. Pence
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English.”
  

  • ENGL 239 - History and Structure of the English Language


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

    This course traces the development of English from its Anglo-Saxon beginnings to the present, focusing on lexical, morphological, syntactic, and phonological change, and emphasizing on the intersections between language, literature, and culture. The course requires a consistent level of commitment; students should expect weekly assignments and numerous exams. British, Pre-1700. Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: J. Bryan
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Elective course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English.”
  

  • ENGL 250 - Writing America: Comparative Immigrant Narratives


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

    New Course Added 05.26.08.

    Who are you, where are you from, and how did you get here? This course compares 20th and 21st century stories of uprooting, passage, and arrival to America. Emphasis will be placed on the ways immigrants from around the world negotiate race, gender, sexuality, language, and cultural history as they construct images of themselves and the U.S. Attention will be given to illegal immigration, citizenship, and the criminalization of immigrants. Authors may include Leo Rosten, Gish Jen, Eva Hoffman, Bharati Mukherjee, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.  Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: J. Pas
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CMPL 250
  

  • ENGL 256 - American Literary Culture in the 19th Century


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

    This course will explore the emergence of literary culture in American in the 19th century.  We’ll examine the interaction of the American literary scene with its broader social and cultural context and its interaction with foreign literatures.  Writers we consider may include  Poe, Emerson, Stowe, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Hawthorne, Douglass, James, Twain, Jewett, Howells, Chopin, and Chesnutt. We’ll approach the readings in the contexts of the emergence and development of American literary culture while recognizing our positions as 21st-century readers. Emphasis will be given to reading historically and interpretively. Nature of Interpretation. American, 1700-1900. Enrollment limit: 30.
    Instructor: T. Jaudan
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English.”
  

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


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    CAST
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR

    The literature of this era reflected and participated in debates about the nature of “America” and “Americans” in the decades after the 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. Readings will include narratives and essays by Howells, James, Sinclair, Jewett, Freeman, Chesnutt, Hopkins, Twain, Dunbar, Sui Sin Far, Zitkala Sa, others. Nature of Interpretation. American, Diversity, 1700-1900.  Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: T. Jaudon
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English.”
  

  • ENGL 261 - Constructing the Subject: African American Women and the Autotext


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    CAST, AAST, GSFS
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR

    Self-discovery and -report has been foundational to the African-American intellectual and literary tradition, and this course focuses particularly on ways in which African-American women have re-conceptualized both autobiographical and disciplinary norms and boundaries as well as their own subjectivity (e.g., as actors, thinkers, and citizens) in now-classic “genre-bending” autotexts. Authors will include Jacobs, Wells, Hurston, Brooks, Angelou, Lorde, Williams, and Souljah; we will also read genre studies exploring common and uncommon features of autobiographical writing. Nature of Text. American, Diversity, Post-1900.  Enrollment limit: 30.
    Instructor: G. Johns
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English.”
  

  • ENGL 275 - Introduction to Comparative Literature


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

    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. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: Staff, R Watkins
    Prerequisites & Notes

    Note:  Comparative Literature majors should take this course by the junior year. 

    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English.”

     
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CMPL 200.

  

  • ENGL 282 - Shifting Scenes: Drama Survey


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    THEA
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR

    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. Nature of Text. Diversity. 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both). Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English.”
  

  • ENGL 284 - Contemporary Irish Fiction


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

    Selected short stories and novels by Samuel Beckett, Frank O’Connor, Mary Lavin, William Trevor, John McGahern, Roddy Doyle, Neil Jordan, Patrick McCabe, Edna O’Brien, and Anne Enright. Major issues will be the tensions between innovation and tradition, nationalism and internationalism, the country and the city in the context of the rapid modernization of Irish society. Recent film adaptations will also be shown. Nature of Text. Diversity, Post-1900. Enrollment limit: 30.
    Instructor: J. Hobbs
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites for this Introductory Gateway course, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English.”
  

  • ENGL 301 - Chaucer


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

    We will study Chaucer’s great narrative anthology, The Canterbury Tales, in Middle English. No previous experience with the language is required. Papers and exams. British, Pre-1700. Enrollment limit: 25.
    Instructor: J. Bryan
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 303 - Shakespeare’s Comedies


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    THEA
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, WR

    New course added 10.28.08

    This course will focus on Shakespeare’s comedies, along with some of the closely related “problem plays” and “romances.” Plays will include The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida and Cymbeline among others. We will consider Shakespeare’s imaginative development, as well as the tastes, assumptions and expectations of his original audience. British, Pre-1700. Enrollment Limit: 25.

     
    Instructor: M. Booth
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 305 - The Age of Discovery


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

    New course added 10.28.08

    This course observes Elizabethan minds at work on themselves, their past, and the wider world they were beginning to encounter. We will investigate: the referential and expressive range of 16th- and 17th-century English; the political context and conceptual backgrounds of Elizabethan writing; major changes in English society, language and thought; the consequences of English expansion for peoples encountered or colonized. British, Pre-1700.  Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: M. Booth
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 306 - Poetry and the Mind: Verse Forms in the English Renaissance and Afterward


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

    New course added 10.28.2008.

    We’ll consider the interrelationship between verse (an art of rhythmic sound patterns) and poetry (an art of strange or intense meaning). We will read early modern poets and critics, to understand how the experiences of writing and of reading poetry were understood in the days when poetry was verse. Then we will read work from more recent times. We will also consider poetry in relation to what recent cognitive researchers call “conceptual blending.” Pre-1700 OR Post-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: M. Booth
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 315 - Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Rise of the Novel


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

    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. Enrollment limit: 25.
    Instructor: L. Baudot
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 323 - Six Poets: 1855-1955


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

    An inquiry into the affinities and tensions between Romanticism, Late Romanticism, and Modernism. What constitutes the new? What is our relationship to tradition? Does art bind us to or divide us from the objects of our passion, love, and belief? Whitman, Yeats, Frost, Eliot, Moore, Stevens. American OR British (not both), 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both). Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Harrison
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 328 - Mod Drama II: Brecht to Pinter


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    THEA
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR

    This course will study the development of drama from World War II to 1975 from both a literary and a theatrical point of view. Playwrights will include Brecht, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Churchill, Pinter, Fornes, and Adrienne Kennedy. Post-1900. Enrollment limit: 25.
    Instructor: C. Tufts
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 329 - Contemporary Irish Poetry


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

    Selected poems by Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, John Montague, Paul Durcan, Medbh McGuckian, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Contexts: poetry and nationalist politics in the North, tradition and modernization, country and city in the South; feminism, the Irish language, Celtic mythology, and postmodernism. Diversity, Post-1900. Enrollment limit: 25.
    Instructor: J. Hobbs
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 330 - Modernist Chicago: Urban Literature and Sociology


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    CAST
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR

    This course focuses on literature associated with the social, literary, and academic scene of Chicago from 1900 to 1959. Reading multi-ethnic articulations of patterns of identity and lifestyle emerging due to rapid industrialization, migration, and class differentiation, we will consider both social and formal features of this strain of modernism (in works by Dreiser, Anderson, Farrell, Wright, Himes, and Hansberry, among others); we will also examine select sociological studies and reflections on Chicago’s intellectual culture.  American, Diversity, Post-1900.  Enrollment Limit:  25.
    Instructor: G. Johns
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites:  Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 338 - Modern Fiction and Sexual Difference


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    GSFS
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR

    This course will study the representation of gay and lesbian experience in selected British and American fiction, both modern and contemporary. We will begin with early 20th-century figures (Cather, James, Wilde, Forster, Woolf, Larsen), and proceed to short fiction and novels written after 1960 by such writers as James Baldwin, Andrew Holleran, Michael Chabon, Alan Hollinghurst, Jeanette Winterson, and Michael Cunningham. British OR American (not both), Diversity, Post-1900. Enrollment limit: 25.
    Instructor: D. Walker
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite:  Two 200-level  courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 342 - The Rise of the Novel in the Americas: Seduction, Revolution, Rights


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    CAST
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR

    New course added 10.28.2008.

    This course focuses on the development of the novel in the 18th- and 19th-century Americas. We will attend to relations of literary, aesthetic, and political influence between Europe and the Americas. While some of our texts have been studied for decades, we will also read several novels recently recovered through archival work. Of particular interest will be these novels’ adaptations of earlier narratives of seduction and romance to political and social conditions in the Americas. American, Diversity, 1700-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: T. Jaudon
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 343 - The Nineteenth-Century U.S. Novel: Feeling National


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    CAST
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR

    New courses added 10.28.08

    This course offers an intensive study of the U.S. novel in the nineteenth century. We will explore the influence of the 19th-century novel’s myriad forms—from Charles Brockden Brown’s experiments with the gothic to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s reinvention of the jeremiad—on the “American” in American literature. Reading contemporary literary criticism and theory, we will examine how the literary incitement to feel intense emotion shaped and constrained the development of a national literary tradition. American, Diversity, 1700-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: T. Jaudon
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 344 - Power Eroticized: Five Dramatists


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    CMPL, GSFS, THEA
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR

    New course added 10.28.2008

    This course brings together a group of 20th-century dramatists – August Strindberg, Tennessee Williams, Jean Genet, Sarah Kane and Suzan-Lori Parks – who share a concern and a fascination for the effects of social power on the individual. Each play examined is paired with a theoretical reading that attempts to explain the human tendency to eroticize power and such acts’ possible social ramifications. Theorists include Frantz Fanon, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler. Diversity, Post-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: P. Mustamaki
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 347 - Contemporary Women of Color Dramatists


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    AAST, CAST, GSFS, THEA
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR

    New course added 10.28.2008.

    This course examines plays by American women of color since the cultural turmoil of the mid-60s. We will trace changes in the perceptions of identity in plays by African American, Asian American and Latina women up to the 21st-century view of identities as commodified. Playwrights include Adrienne Kennedy, Lorraine Hansberry, Wakako Yamauchi, Maria Irene Fornes, Anna Deavere Smith, Migdalia Cruz, Alice Tuan. Secondary readings by for example bell hooks, Cherrie Moraga, Grace Hong. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: P. Mustamaki
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 349 - American Drama in the 1990s


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    CAST, THEA
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR

    The 1990s was a great decade for American Drama: the postmodern tolerance of plurality enabled new voices in playwriting to rise to prominence, brought social issues to the forefront and challenged the reign of American realism. Our reading list reflects this cultural and formal diversity and consists of both experimental works as well as more traditional approaches. Playwrights include John Guare, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, August Wilson, David Mamet, Jose Rivera, Naomi Wallace. American, Post-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: P. Mustamaki
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite:  Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 353 - American Literature 1825-65: “To write like an American”


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

    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 works by a variety of  writers as we consider what “writing like an American” entailed during this formative era in American culture and history. American, 1700-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: T. Jaudan

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 358 - Literature and Philosophy


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

    This course is cancelled effective 11.06.08.

    Ever since Plato, one branch of philosophy has scorned literary writing as too ornamental or irrational while another has admired its narrative, descriptive, and figural powers. Creative writers have similarly treated philosophers as inferior or superior ‘others.’ Why does each need the other as a necessary foil? This course surveys key positions, interpretations, and constructions on both sides of this contested relationship and emphasizes contemporary possibilities for collaboration and conversation. Post-1900. Enrollment limit: 25.
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prequisite:  Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CMPL 358.
  

  • ENGL 370 - Itineraries of Postmodernism


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

    This course explores the roots of postmodernism in European literature and philosophy. Theorists include Derrida on poststructuralism, Nancy on myth, Barthes and Foucault on authorial agency, Vattimo on the transparent society, and Spivak on the subaltern. Literary texts have been chosen for their importance in the modernist-postmodernist trajectory, and their complex responsiveness, both formal and thematic, to defining issues of postmodernism. Authors may include Kafka, Duras, O’Brien, Bataille. Diversity, Post-1900. Enrollment limit: 25.
    Instructor: P. O’Connor
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: A literature course in any language.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CMPL 370.
  

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


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR

    This course is about developments in literary theory in the context of the last 35 years of American intellectual and artistic culture. Our concern will be understanding literary theories in their historical and institutional contexts as well as considering their value as ways of thinking about literature and art. We’ll pay particular attention to the impact of post-structuralism on American critics, the relation of literary criticism to cultural criticism, and various elaborations of the idea of post-modernity. American, Post-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: W. P. Day
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CMPL 372.
  

  • ENGL 378 - Contemporary British & Irish Drama


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    THEA
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR

    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. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: D. Walker
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 381 - European Modernism & The World


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

    This course is canceled effective 08.26.08.

    Between 1880 and 1930, Europe was convulsed by wars, technological advances, and social transformations of all kinds. Writers and artists responded by creating revolutionary new forms, techniques, and movements like Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Strains of Modernism then carried philosophical, political, and aesthetic models across the 20th-century world. We will study why and how non-European authors received, rejected, and/or recombined central aspects of European Modernism. Diversity, Post-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CMPL 381.
  

  • ENGL 388 - Selected Authors: Salman Rushdie


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    GSFS
    Next Offered:

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

    This course will focus on the fictional and non-fictional oeuvre of one of the most prominent Anglophone writers of our time – Salman Rushdie. Class discussions will seek to contextualize (and be contextualized by) a host of theoretical/cultural concepts deriving from postcolonial studies – like hybridity, mongrelization, migration, cosmopolitanism, national allegory– with which Rushdie’s work is associated or seen as exemplifying in particularly accurate and cogent ways. The course will be reading intensive and require significant student engagement. British, Diversity, Post-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: A. Needham
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite:  Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 390 - Selected Authors: William Faulkner


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

    An intensive study of major works by William Faulkner (1897-1962). Readings include Flags in the Dust, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, The Unvanquished and Absalom, Absalom!, and a selection of poetry, short stories, essays, and speeches. American, Post-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: J. Olmsted
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.
  

  • ENGL 395 - Poetry Workshop


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

    The writing of poetry. Intensive discussion of student work, accompanied by assigned reading. Admission based on a completed application form and a writing sample of six to eight poems . Prerequisite: CRWR 201. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12.
    Instructor: M. K. Ali, P. Alexander
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission based on a completed application form and a writing sample. Consent of instructor required.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CRWR 310.
  

  • ENGL 396 - Nonfiction Workshop


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

    The writing of personal narratives which employ the techniques of both the traditional essay and fiction, with an emphasis on nonfiction as a literary art form. Extensive reading in a variety of nonfiction genres.  Admission based on a completed application and writing sample.  Recommended preparation: CRWR 201. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12.
    Instructor: B. Matambo
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission based on a completed application form and a writing sample.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CRWR 340.
  

  • ENGL 397 - Fiction Workshop


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

    The writing of short fiction. Admission based on a completed application form and a writing sample of at least 12 pages of fiction, made up of at least two separate pieces.  Prerequisite: CRWR 201. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12.
    Instructor: C. Johnson
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission based on a completed application form and a writing sample.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CRWR 320.
  

  • ENGL 398 - Playwriting Workshop


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

    A workshop focused on discussion of student work and on selected examples from modern and contemporary drama, working toward a staged reading of an original one-act play. The course presupposes considerable knowledge of drama. Admission based on a completed application form and writing sample.  Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12.
    Instructor: D. Walker
    Prerequisites & Notes
     Admission based on a completed application form and a writing sample.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CRWR 330.
  

  • ENGL 399 - Teaching & Tutoring Writing Across the Disciplines


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, WR

    A course in which students will tutor at the writing center or assist one of the writing-intensive courses offered in various disciplines while studying composition theory and pedagogy. In the process of helping to educate others, students work toward a fuller understanding of their own educational experiences, particularly in writing. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: L. Podis, A. Trubek
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes Prior journalism instruction (including RHET 106) is not necessary for this course. Juniors or seniors who write well, regardless of major, are encouraged to apply. Note: Students enrolling in RHET 401 or ENGL 399 should also enroll in RHET 402, Tutoring Lab.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with RHET 401.
  

  • ENGL 400 - Senior Tutorial


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-4 hours
    Attribute: 2-4HU, WR

    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. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 9.
    Instructor: D. Harrison, A. Needham, G. Johns, J. Pence
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Senior Tutorials and Seminars.”
  

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


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

    What are poems for? What good do they serve? How do poets describe, explain, or justify their art? These questions will guide us in a broad inquiry into poetry and its place among the other arts. Readings will include poets, critics, and poet-critics: Horace, Shakespeare, Pope, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Stevens, Ashbery, Graham, Plato, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Kristeva, Vendler, Bloom, Grossman, Stewart. 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both).  Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: D. Harrison
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Senior Tutorials and Seminars.”
  

  • ENGL 450 - Honors Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-4 hours
    Attribute: 2-4HU, WR

    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. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: W. P. Day
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Honors and Private Readings.”
  

  • ENGL 451 - Honors Project


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4HU, WR

    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. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: W. P. Day
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Honors and Private Readings.”
  

  • ENGL 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU

    Signed permission of the instructor required.
    Instructor: L. Baudot, J. Bryan, J. Cooper, W. P. Day, D. Harrison, J. Hobbs, G. Johns, T.S. McMillin, A. Needham, J. Pence, L. Podis, C. Tufts, A. Trubek, D. Walker, S. Zagarell
  

  • ENTR 100 - Introduction to Entreprenuership and Leadership


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1
    Attribute: 1 EX

    Through a series of case studies, this course introduces students to entrepreneurship in its social and historical contexts. Students explore the role of mission and vision; pressures exerted by economic constraints, ethical issues as they relate to entrepreneurship, and factors that contribute to successful entrepreneurial endeavor. The course will also survey the resources available at Oberlin to students interested in launching their own ventures. Open to all students.
    Instructor: A. Kalyn
  

  • ENVS 101 - Environment and Society


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    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. Enrollment Limit: 50.
    Instructor: C. Fortwangler, J. Petersen, M. R. Shammin
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Open to first- and second-year students, including consent seats.
  

  • ENVS 208 - Environmental Policy


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    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 United States in the context globalization of all four of these elements: politics, economics, science, and public interest. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: C. Fortwangler
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Restricted to ENVS and POLT majors.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with POLT 208.
  

  • ENVS 213 - Nature, Culture and Interpretation


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    This course develops students’ capacity to understand how humans conceptualize, interpret, value, and engage with “Nature” and their environment. We examine the ways historical and environmental circumstances, societal relations and cultural identities, (especially through literature, philosophy, religion, and art) reflect and inform humans’ understanding of their living and non-living surroundings. We will also provide a context for understanding the ways we might address pressing issues such as climate change and loss of bio-cultural diversity. Enrollment limit: 14.
    Instructor: C. Fortwanger
    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENVS 101 plus at least one upper level course in ENVS.
  

  • ENVS 220 - Environmental Analysis in Social Science


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    This course focuses on quantitative analytical techniques and social science research methods in environmental studies for students from various disciplines and provides basic training on environmental impact assessment and environmental management systems. Specific topics include environmental degradation, resource sustainability, end use analysis, economic analysis, stocks and flows in nature, population dynamics, and indirect effects. Students will analyze contemporary environmental issues with special attention to environmental justice and fairness. Enrollment Limit 25.
    Instructor: M. Shammin
  

  • ENVS 222 - Local vs. Global: Environmental Issues Beyond Borders


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: CD, 3SS

    This course is canceled effective 11.09.2008.

    Global environmental issues often cut across national boundaries. Forging effective solutions to these problems requires consideration of the cultural, socio-economic, and political processes that influence the relationship between humans and the natural environment in different parts of the world. This course uses case studies, critical thinking exercises, and projects for the students to develop an understanding of international environmental issues and discover ways in which their personal choices can improve the environment. Enrollment Limit 25.
    Instructor: M. Shammin
  

  • ENVS 231 - Environmental Economics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: QP-H, 3SS

    For description, please see ‘Economics’ in this catalog.
    Instructor: J. Suter
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: ECON 101.
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with ECON 231.
  

  • ENVS 291 - Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture


    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    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. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: D. Orr
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Restricted to juniors, seniors and fifth-year students.
  

  • ENVS 294 - Community Food Systems


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 EX

    New Course added 10.28.2008.

    This course will examine the local foods movement nationally and locally. The course will examine collaboration across boundaries of urban/rural, ethnic backgrounds, and income levels. the course will emphasize the role of urban centers in local food economies. topics include public health, environment, community development, economics, and food policy. The course will include discussion with, grassroots activists, academics, and government officials and will focus on developing a food policy for Oberlin. Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Instructor: B. Masi
    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENVS 101 or BIO 102
 

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