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Course Catalog 2010-2011 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Oberlin College Courses Offered in 2010-11 (and planned offerings in future years)

 
  

  • ECON 351 - Macroeconomic Theory


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Mathematics
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, QP-F
    This course explores theoretical and empirical issues of central importance to macroeconomic research and policy. The major topics covered in this course include economic growth, consumption and savings, investment, and business cycle fluctuations. The course also explores the relationship between monetary policy and output, and optimal monetary policy.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Ortiz Bolanos
    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.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: V. Saini
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ECON 253, MATH 231, and MATH 232, or consent of instructor required
  

  • ECON 355 - Advanced Econometrics


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    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.
    Enrollment Limit: 24
    Instructor: B. Craig, L. Fernandez
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ECON 255.
  

  • ECON 356 - Advanced Microeconometrics


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2SS, QP-F
    This course covers advanced estimation methods common in microeconomic applications such as first difference estimators, fixed and random effects, instrumental variables, simultaneous equations, limited dependent variables models (Logit, Probit, Tobit) and the estimation of treatment effect in experimental and quasi-experimental settings. It starts with a brief review of the identification problems commonly encountered in econometrics.
    Enrollment Limit: 24
    Instructor: T. Pfutze
    Prerequisites & Notes
    ECON 255, MATH 133, and ECON 253.
  

  • ECON 427 - Seminar: International Finance


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, QP-H
    New Course Added 02.01.11.

    This course offers students the opportunity to explore issues in international finance and open-economy macroeconomics through their own research. Students will choose topics and develop their interests in close cooperation with the professor. Ideally, the research will contain econometric applications or quantitative mathematical modeling. The process will develop research skills while familiarizing students with some of the current and on-going debates in the area. We will also introduce many of the basic building blocks of international finance at seminar meetings.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: O. Humpage
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Econ 251 and Econ 253 required; Econ 255 recommended.
  

  • ECON 431 - Seminar: Topics in Water Resource Economics


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Enviromental Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR
    This course is canceled, effective 06.14.2010.

    The seminar will cover issues related to the economics of water use, focusing on theory and policy implications.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: Staff
    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 438 - Market Failure in Financial Markets


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR
    This seminar uses the theoretical framework used by economists 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 and ECON 255 are required. Consent of instructor is needed if taking ECON 255 at the same time..
  

  • ECON 444 - Non-market valuation and environmental policy


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR
    This course is canceled effecetive 11.02.10.

    This seminar introduces non-market valuation methods used to value public goods and services which are not or cannot be correctly priced by markets. These methods are used to inform the allocation of resources to environmental services and for cost/benefit analysis of environmental projects, pollution or regulations. Students will apply techniques including hedonic models, recreation demand models and other contingent valuation methods.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: S. Bhattarchjee
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    231, 255, 253 or consent of instructor
  

  • ECON 447 - Privatization of Local Public Services


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This seminar examines an increasingly popular phenomenon in the local public sector. As budgets become tighter, cities and counties have been turning to private agents to provide many of our public services. We will read papers that investigate theoretically and empirically the effect that privatization has had on our concept of government. Topics covered include: comparing public and private sector efficiency; contracting out; homeowners’ associations, business improvement districts and ‘private governments’; public-private partnerships.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: R. Cheung
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: Prerequisite: Econ 253 and 255, or consent of instructor.
  

  • ECON 452 - Seminar on Financial Crises in the United States


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR
    Banking crises in the United States triggered legislative responses that shaped the regulatory structure of the financial system. This course will examine the major financial crises focusing on the underlying causes, the apparent mechanisms, and the regulatory remedies. The lessons from historical crises will be applied to recent financial events like the Panic of 2007 and the regulatory response to them.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: E. Tallman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    ECON 101, ECON 211. Recommended: ECON 251 and ECON 253.
  

  • 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.
    Instructor: A. Ortiz
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • 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.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: R. Cheung, B. Craig, H. Kasper, A. Ortiz Bolanos, T. Pfutze, V. Saini, J. Suter, E. Tallman
    Consent of the Instructor Required? A signed Private Reading Card must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office
  

  • EDUA 101 - Language Pedagogy: The Theory & Practice of Teaching and Learning Languages


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, CD
    What does it mean to know a language? And how do you teach languages effectively? Encouraging students to look at language in new and revealing ways, this course provides an introduction to the field of applied linguistics and language pedagogy. The course includes a practicum in which students work as teachers or tutors in the language(s) of their competency, including English. Spanish-speaking students will work in SITES. Open to all students, regardless of linguistic background.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: K. Faber
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • EDUA 102 - Spanish Teaching Practicum


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0-2
    Attribute: 0-2 HU, CD
    This practicum is offered for variable credits (0-2) to students who have successfully taken EDUA 101 and wish to continue in the SITES program. Every credit represents a weekly time commitment of approximately 3 hours (including 1 hour teaching). P/NP Grading only.
    Enrollment Limit: 65
    Instructor: K. Faber
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: EDUA 101. P/NP Grading only. May be repeated for credit, up to 5 credits total, after which zero-credit enrollment is possible.
  

  • EDUA 560 - OCEAN Graduate Workshop-College Writing


    Semester Offered: Summer 2010
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 EX
    This course helps teachers enhance content knowledge and explore effective college-level pedagogy including identifying appropriate materials for course preparation and student use, and appropriate grading standards. This section focuses on identifying key expectations for writing at the college level. It provides teachers with strategies to support and encourage college-level writing. Teachers use college-level writing textbooks, write essays about writing and teaching writing, and discuss writing and revision processes, and rubrics for grading college-level writing.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: A. Trubek
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to limited selection of graduate level students.
  

  • EDUA 561 - OCEAN Graduate Workshop-Shakespeare and Performance


    Semester Offered: Summer 2010
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 EX
    This course helps teachers enhance content knowledge and explore effective college-level pedagogy including identifying appropriate materials for course preparation and student use, and appropriate grading standards. This section explores one Shakespeare play in depth. Teachers read the play, scholarship on context, and selected criticism; view several performances of the work (usually on video; and participate in staging various scenes from within the work to learn how to teach Shakespeare using a participatory performance by students.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: P. Gorfain
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to a selected graduate audience only.
  

  • EDUA 570 - Graduate Workshop: Ohio and the Spanish Civil War


    Semester Offered: Summer 2010
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 EX
    The Spanish Civil War (1936-39), in which almost 3,000 Americans—including more than 100 Ohioans—joined the fight against fascism, is an outstanding pedagogical tool to introduce the major historical, political, and cultural issues that marked the evolution of twentieth-century history and culture, helping students understand the extent to which political ideas and ideals can shape people’s lives and move them to make difficult and sometimes dangerous choices.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: S. Faber
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to a selected graduate audience only.
  

  • EDUC 300 - Principles of Education


    Semester Offered: Second 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.
  

  • ENGL 107 - Shakespeare through Film


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    An introduction to studying Shakespeare through attention to the films that have been made of his plays for over a century, and that determine many of the meanings of his works for us today. This lecture course will balance an interest in the plays themselves with close reading of selected films, considered as works of art, as cultural documents, and as interpretations of Shakespeare.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: N. Jones
  

  • ENGL 112 - One Hundred Poems


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    An introduction to poetry in English, from Late Middle English to the present, giving particular attention to the ways in which lyric distinguishes itself from other genres, manifests both thought and feeling, relates to historical and cultural context, and rewards close, often excruciatingly close, reading. Students will be expected to demonstrate an intimate familiarity with the texts.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: D. Harrison
  

  • ENGL 142 - Highlights in the Black Novel


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    Many African American novelists have embedded what in 1903 W.E.B. Du Bois called “double consciousness” – or “two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings” – in their narrative forms and themes. But such hybrid texts combining residual black folklore and Western literary genres have shifted greatly over time, place, and convention and have been named and studied variously. This course thus constitutes a survey of representative works – or highlights – within the tradition from the 1850s into the 1970s.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: G. Johns
  

  • ENGL 225 - Victoria’s Secrets


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    Much as we associate the reign of Queen Victoria with prudishness and moral restraint, literature from this period frequently exposes the dark underside of the Victorians’ social psyche. What are some of the social, political, and psychological concerns and anxieties behind Victorian authors’ fascination with the sinister, the criminal, the vampiric? Authors include Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, R. L. Stevenson, and others. British, 1700-1900.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: N. Tessone
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.
  

  • ENGL 227 - “The Spirit of the Age”: Romantics and Their World


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, WR
    What were the “proper” subjects of literary consideration during the Romantic period and who was expected to address them? What were the roles of gender, social class, and nationality in deciding such issues? As we ponder such questions, we will pay close attention to the formal and generic attributes of a broad range of literary texts, from poetry to fiction to critical prose. Authors include Blake, Wordsworth, Walter Scott, Mary and Percy Shelley, Byron, and Keats. British, 1700-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: N. Tessone
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.
  

  • ENGL 228 - Modern British and Irish Fiction


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    Novels and short fiction by such major 20th-century writers as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, E. M. Forster, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Graham Greene. British, Post-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: D. Walker
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.
  

  • 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. Added to another module course, this counts toward the 200-level course requirement as well as Diversity, Post-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: J. Hobbs
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level courses.
  

  • ENGL 238 - Contemporary American Fiction


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This course selectively surveys contemporary American fiction. Thematic connections include the role of memory and the past in defining current literary practice. We’ll also focus on the nature of interpretation and its role in consolidating its object of study. The reading list is diverse in a number of ways – stylistic, generic and cultural – but always includes some very recently published work. Past authors have included Bechdel, Canin, Erdrich, Diaz, Lahiri, McCarthy, Pollack, Whitehead. American, Post-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: J. Pence
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.
  

  • ENGL 239 - History and Structure of the English Language


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    Traces the development of English from its Anglo-Saxon beginnings to the present, focusing on lexical, morphological, syntactic, and phonological change, and emphasizing 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: R. Longsworth
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.
  

  • ENGL 245 - Beckett’s Plays


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Theater
    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2HU
    An examination of “Waiting for Godot,” “Endgame,” “Happy Days,” and “Krapp’s Last Tape” (with a selection of his later short plays and stories) in the contexts of Beckett’s revolutionary approach to the theater as the scene of existential tragicomedy. Added to another module course, this counts toward the 200-level course requirement as well as Diversity, Post-1900.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: J. Hobbs
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.

     
  

  • ENGL 255 - In Search of America: The Concept of Nature in Early American Writing


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, WR
    An exploration of different perspectives on the natural world in early American literature, this course also introduces students to research skills and information technology. Texts will include sermons, promotional tracts, descriptions of the land and its inhabitants, captivity narratives, American Indian responses to European encounters, poetry, autobiography, philosophical and political treatises, and fiction. By connecting today’s “information landscape” with the writings of early America, we will investigate the meaning of “nature” in the New World. American, 1700-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: T. S. McMillin
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.
  

  • ENGL 260 - Black Humor and Irony: Modern Literary Experiments


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    CMPL
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    African American humor has until recently received little academic study. But the many anthologies of folk humor and the visibility of stand-up comedy invite us to examine the presence and rhetorical role of humor, comedy, and irony in African American literature. This course thus centers on a representative group of modern black humorists and explores various approaches (functional, structural, and cultural) for interpreting their works. Authors will include Chesnutt, Hurston, Hughes, Ellison, and Reed. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: G. Johns
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.
  

  • ENGL 262 - Post-War British Fictions: Exiles and Angry Young Men


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    African American Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, WR, CD
    New course added 10.19.10.

    We will survey post-war British fiction by looking at two of its most productive and insightful elements: Black British and working class writers (the latter dubbed “angry young men” by the British press). This optic will frame our reading of both widely celebrated authors (such as Naipaul) and others who have built their oeuvres nearer the margins of literary culture (Ballard, Selvon, Sillitoe, the dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson). Diversity, Post-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: N. Robinette
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
  

  • ENGL 265 - Anglophone Literatures of the Third World


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    This class will examine literatures from the “Third World,” especially work by African, Caribbean, South Asian and diasporic writers. We will consider historical and social contexts as well as theoretical essays that will inform and challenge our interpretation of these varied literatures. Though the class will focus primarily on the novel, we will also read some poetry and drama. The bulk of our reading will be Anglophone, but some texts will be in translation. Diversity, Post-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: N. Robinette
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.

    Please note: This course does not count towards the major of GSFS in 2010-11.  Only when it is taught by A. Needham does it count towards the major in GSFS.

     
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CMPL 265.
  

  • ENGL 275 - Introduction to Comparative Literature


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    Comparative Literature is the study of literature, theory, and criticism across the boundaries of language, nation, culture, artistic medium and historical period. This course examines the nature and scope of the discipline, focusing both on its theoretical assumptions and its practical applications. Texts and topics reflect curricular strengths of the college and include literary theory, literature & the other arts, East-West studies, European languages and literatures, and translation. Diversity.



    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Comparative Literature majors should take this course by the sophomore year. Prerequisite: An introductory literature course in any language.
    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, CMPL
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, 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.  Diversity. 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both).
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: C. Tufts
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.
  

  • ENGL 290 - Shakespearean Comedy


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    A study of many of Shakespeare’s comedies, from the cross-dressed and festive to the darkly ironic. Themes include love, sex, gender, friendship, marriage, family, magic, transformation, transgression, ingenuity, cruelty, forgiveness, coming of age, and a good dose of wit. Probable plays: Comedy of Errors, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale. British, Pre-1700. 

     
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: W. Hyman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.
  

  • ENGL 299 - Introduction to the Advanced Study of Literature


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This course will introduce students to fundamental issues, approaches, and methods in the study of literature. We will consider the issues of form and aesthetics, literary history, and literature as a social activity and part of a larger cultural context. Throughout we will return to the basic questions: What do we study? How do we study it? Why do we study it?
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Harrison, W. P. Day, S. Zagarell
    Prerequisites & Notes
    NB. This course is required for English majors and minors who declare after July, 2009. This course is intended to prepare students for the English major and advanced work in literary study. Students who are interested in majoring or minoring in English should take this course by the end of their sophomore year and before they declare the English major. For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.
  

  • 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: R. Longsworth
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • ENGL 309 - The Poetry of Love and Seduction in the Renaissance


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, WR
    From love sonnets to pornographic narratives, from carpe diem seductions to marriage odes, early modern poets employed a dazzling array of literary resources for writing about love, sex, gender, and desire – often disguising darker explorations of skepticism, political transgression, religious defiance, and death. This course will trace the development of erotic poetry in Renaissance England, with reference to these poems’ rich cultural, intellectual, and historical context. British, Pre-1700.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: W. Hyman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.

     
  

  • ENGL 315 - The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and Print Culture


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This course examines eighteenth-century “novels” as works of fiction with distinctive formal properties and as products of print culture – objects that were made, sold, distributed, and read. Six of our meetings will be “labs” in Mudd Special Collections. We will use eighteenth-century editions and other print culture artifacts to study: the making of books, the rise of the author, the growth of a reading public, books as commodities, the roles of booksellers, printers, and publishers.  British, 1700-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: L. Baudot
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • ENGL 327 - Home And Abroad: The Nineteenth-Century British Novel


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    The nineteenth-century British novel was crucial to the formation of the country’s imperial attitudes, just as the British Empire shaped the novelistic discourse at this time. We will examine the ways in which novels by Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and Sherlock Holmes imagined Britain as haunted by its far-off colonies. We will ask: how is the “home” in these novels affected, formed, transformed, even deformed by the looming presence of the colonies abroad? British, 1700-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: N. Tessone
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • ENGL 336 - History of the Printed Book in the West


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    The medium is the message. This course will consider the printed text as an aesthetic object, a technology, a shaper of literary discourse, an agent of intellectual and social change. Topics will include the influence of printing on the democratization of literacy, the scientific revolution, humanism, the Reformation, the rise of the novel, modern authorship, silent reading (literacy), and more. We will make extensive use of Oberlin’s special collections. British, Pre-1700.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: W. Hyman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • ENGL 348 - Modern Drama: Ibsen to Pirandello


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Theater, Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This course explores the different ways in which “reality” was staged by playwrights including Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Shaw, and Pirandello. We will consider how modern theatrical movements such as realism, naturalism, expressionism, and metadrama sought to represent “reality,” focusing on evolving stagecraft. Emphasis will also be placed on the historical and cultural contexts surrounding the early stages of modern drama. Diversity, 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both).
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: C. Tufts
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • ENGL 349 - Contemporary Drama: 1980 to the Present


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative American Studies, Theater
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    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, Maria Irene Fornes, Caryl Churchill, Edward Albee, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sarah Ruhl, and Yasmina Reza. Diversity, Post-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: C. Tufts
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • ENGL 350 - American Poets Since 1960


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    Close study of selected American poets from the past 50 years, probably including Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, Charles Wright, Linda Bierds, Mark Doty, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thomas Lux, Arthur Sze, C. D. Wright, and Franz Wright. American, Post-1900.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Walker
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

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


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    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.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Zagarell
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • ENGL 357 - Transatlantic Currents: 19th-Century American and British Literature


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative American Studies, Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    Debates about slavery, Abolition, race and nation; cross-pollination of literary genres (the novel); struggles about culture and class; such issues will frame exploration of ways in which American and British writing spoke in its home country and across the Atlantic. Transatlantic contexts–political, economic, cultural–will inform our discussion. Writers to be discussed include Blake, Prince, Douglass, Stowe, Dickens, Webb, Melville, James, Emerson, Whitman, Tennyson, both Brownings, Dunbar. American OR British (not both), Diversity, 1700-1900.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Zagarell
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • ENGL 359 - “Race-ing” Studies in Classic American Literature


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    Taking Lawrence’s Studies in Classic American Literature and Morrison’s Playing in the Dark as critical points of departure for exploring the American imagination “symptomatically,” this course considers how race has functioned as a provocative, tendentious literary figure – if also a social category – useful for investigating national anxieties (and pleasures!) in classic works of American fiction. In order to illuminate our close readings, the course will also take up contemporary theoretical explorations of “whiteness” and “blackness.” American, Diversity, 1700-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: G. Johns
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • ENGL 361 - Caliban Orders History: Colonialism and the Historical Novel


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR
    The historical novel has been a site in which to develop a unique awareness of time and society in motion. This genre does not just provide window-dressing and period details: it participates in a distinctly modern way of thinking about the world. The class will thus consider the historical novel as a discourse of modernity, giving special attention to how this literary form has been used to address problems of history and colonialism. Diversity, Post-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: N. Robinette
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.

     
  

  • ENGL 366 - Nature & Transcendentalism


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    An examination of the writings of the American Transcendentalists of the 19th century with special attention to Emerson, Thoreau, and the concept of nature. We will study some of the early contributors to this school of thought, as well as more recent expositors. Students should be prepared to tackle difficult texts that pose challenging philosophical, political, and interpretive questions. American, 1700-1900.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: T. S. McMillin
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.

     
  

  • ENGL 368 - Three African Writers


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    African American Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, WR, CD
    New course added 10.19.10.

    Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Nuruddin Farah are three of the most prominent Anglophone African writers. Focusing on their novels and plays, we will consider how they have discovered forms, mediums and audiences for their work. While interested in their political struggles and intellectual debates, the class will also approach Soyinka, Ngugi and Farah as writers of significant literary merit. Diversity, Post-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: N. Robinette
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • ENGL 370 - Itineraries of Postmodernism


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    This hybrid course examines the roots of literary modernism and postmodernism in continental philosophy. We will read theoretical texts by Nietzsche, Derrida, Rorty, Vattimo, Lyotard, Jameson, Irigaray, and Spivak; fiction by Woolf, Ford, Borges, Chu T’ien-wen, Carter, Duras, and Garcia-Marquez. 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


    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
    Prerequisites: ENGL 275/CMPL 200, or ENGL 299, or any two 200-level English courses, or consent of the instructor.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CMPL 372.

  

  • ENGL 378 - Contemporary British and Irish Drama


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Theater
    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, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Brian Friel, Alan Bennett, Martin McDonagh, 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
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • ENGL 381 - Hopeful Monsters: (Mixed-)Media Studies


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Cinema Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This course looks at hybrid media forms across historical, national and aesthetic boundaries. What happens when generally distinct aesthetic forms and practices are merged? What do they reveal about the nature of the original media they are constructed from? How is interpretive activity challenged by such works? Our objects of study will include visual art, experimental poetry, innovative memoir, essay-films, narrative and documentary cinema, graphic and experimental fiction and more. American, Post-1900. 

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Pence
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • ENGL 385 - Yeats and Friends


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    In his old age Yeats wrote that “my glory was I had such friends,” especially his lover Maud Gonne, but also his artist father, his wife George, and his fellow playwrights Lady Gregory and John Synge. Following his lead, we will explore his poetry, plays, and autobiographical writings in the literary and political contexts of this influential circle of friends in early twentieth-century Ireland. Diversity, Post-1900.



    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Hobbs
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Advanced Courses.
  

  • 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. 

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: L. Podis, L. H. McMillin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    CR/NE or P/NP grading. 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.
    Enrollment Limit: 9
    Instructor: G. Johns, L. Baudot, T. S. McMillin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Senior Tutorials and Seminars.  Admission based on a completed application form.
  

  • ENGL 405 - Senior Seminar: Shakespeare Re-mediated


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This seminar will study selected theatrical works of Shakespeare through their manifestations in other media, such as film, opera, musical theater, ballet, symphonic music, novelizations, paintings and prints, graphic novels, and other adaptations. Students will write an extended term paper on a related subject of their own choosing. Open by application, first to senior English majors, then to others as space allows, with interest in exploring literature through its relationship to other arts. British, Pre-1700.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: N. Jones
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Senior Tutorials and Seminars 

     
  

  • ENGL 408 - Senior Seminar: Modern Realism


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR
    Guided by recurring questions, students will examine realism as a fundamental intention in the modern novel: What is most essential in realism as a cognitive and literary approach? How does realism relate to politics and the larger social milieu? What about realism as writing (i.e., realism after structuralism and post-structuralism)?  How does realism change over time and as it circulates beyond its European origins? The class will raise provocative questions about art, society and reality. Diversity, Post-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: N. Robinette
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Senior Tutorials and Seminars.
  

  • ENGL 437 - Poetics


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    What does it mean to make a poem? What does it mean to make art in any form? What does it mean to make sense of art? What methods and presuppositions shape and influence interpretive work? Poetic, critical, and theoretical texts will make up the readings. Written work will emphasize scrupulous planning and exacting revision. 1700-1900 OR Post-1900 (not both).

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Harrison
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Senior Tutorials and Seminars.
  

  • ENGL 450 - Honors Seminar


    Semester Offered: First 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. During the Fall semester, Honors students will meet in a seminar to discuss their projects and common issues in literary criticism and theory.
    Instructor: W. P. Day
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    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.
    Instructor: W. P. Day
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled Honors and Private Readings.
  

  • ENGL 900 - OCEAN: Shakespeare & Performance


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1.5-3 hours
    The course will study three or four Shakespeare plays in depth, emphasizing their status as texts for performance. Students will study the plays using rehearsal techniques, workshops, and attending and analyzing actual performances, live as available and on film and videotape.

     

     
    Instructor: Staff
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Strong performance in previous English courses.
    Notes: Off campus concurrent enrollment equivalent to English courses at the 100-level.
     

     

     
  

  • ENGL 901 - Forms of Desire in Medieval and Renaissance Literature


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 6 Hours
    Attribute: 6 HU, WR
    Medieval and Renaissance literature is often associated with “romance” in the high, tragic mode—think of Tristan and Isolde, Lancelot and Guenevere, or Romeo and Juliet. But while love, sex, and desire were favorite themes for literary exploration during this period, those explorations were remarkably varied. We will consider questions of identity, madness, gender-bending, homoeroticism, holy eroticism, triangulation, and theatricality in texts ranging from chivalric romance to bawdy farce, and from devotional meditations to Shakespeare’s sonnets. British, Pre-1700.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: J. Bryan
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Taught in London; admission to the London Program is required.
  

  • ENGL 902 - Re-envisioning the Past: Romantic Medievalism in 19th-Century Britain


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 6 Hours
    Attribute: 6 HU, WR
    In the first century of British industrialization, waves of nostalgia for “the medieval” swept through the arts. The fashion for all things ruined, “romantic,” “gothic,” and Arthurian affected music, painting, architecture, poetry, design, scholarship, even bookmaking. This interdisciplinary course will explore the ways in which 19th-century British people imagined and sought to “revive” the pre-modern past and in doing so re-imagined the relations between reason and passion, nature and society, the individual and the imagination. British, 1700-1900.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Bryan, C. McGuire
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission to the London Program required.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with Music History 902
  

  • ENGL 918 - The London Stage


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course aims to expose students to contemporary British theatre in all its variety. It will encourage critical thinking about different ways that drama may present human beings in significant action and about different ways that live performance may generate imaginative responses. At its heart will be discussion of productions in the current London repertory, with plays ranging from classical to contemporary, and venues including subsidized, commercial and fringe theatres. Note: Taught in London. Prior application and acceptance to the Oberlin-in-London program required.
    Instructor: D. Vinter
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • 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.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: L. Baudot, J. Bryan, J. Cooper, W. P. Day, J. Deppman, D. Harrison, J. Hobbs, W. Hyman, G. Johns, N. Jones, T. S. McMillin, A. Needham, J. Pence, L. Podis, N. Tessone, A. Trubek, C. Tufts, D. Walker, S. Zagarell
    Consent of the Instructor Required? A signed Private Reading Card must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office
  

  • 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
  

  • ENTR 201 - The Promotional Short: The Art and Craft of Online Video


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-3 Hours
    Attribute: 2 - 3 EX
    Offered through the Creativity & Leadership project, this production workshop is about preparation and practice in a medium that has very few limitations and is in growing demand–video on the internet. This class provides students with the opportunity to develop their portfolios and prepare to work in this lucrative field by directing creative and compelling promotional video. Each student will produce two high-quality short videos to be featured on the oberlin website; videos produced during the class will also be eligible to be entered into a short film festival at the end of the year and students will be eligible to apply for positions in Media Production through Oberlin’s Office of Communications.
     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Schloss
    Prerequisites & Notes
    CINEMA 298 Form/Style/Meaning in Media
  

  • 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: 44
    Instructor: J. Fiskio, M. Shammin, C. Washington-Ottombre
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Open to first and second year students. Upper classmen may be added only by consent during add/drop.
  

  • ENVS 201 - Nature Culture Interpretation


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course develops students’ capacity to understand how humans conceptualize, interpret, value, and engage with the non-human world. We examine the ways narratives, aesthetic modes, and philosophical systems inform humans’ understanding of the nonhuman world. We engage in close readings of literary, religious, philosophical, visual, and cinematic texts as well as examining current environmental issues from an interdisciplinary humanities perspective. (Course previously listed as ENVS 213).



    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: J. Fiskio
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: ENVS 101.
  

  • ENVS 208 - Environmental Policy


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This course introduces students to the foundations, evolution, actors, content, goals and future of environmental policies in the U.S. We will contrast federal policies with initiatives in local communities, at the State level, in other countries, and at the international level. By navigating through various levels of governance, this course builds a typology of environmental policies highlighting distinct assumptions, interests, approaches and agendas of key players in the development and implementation of policy.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: C. Washington-Ottombre
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Restricted to ENVS and POLT majors.

     
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with POLT 208.
  

  • ENVS 219 - Climate Change


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course is canceled effective 10.15.10.

    This course engages with the ethical dilemmas posed by climate change. We utilize the disciplines of the humanities to approach questions of ethics and equity in light of the long-term horizon of human impacts on the environment. We will also critically examine the rhetoric and narratives used to talk about climate change. The course culminates with small group projects and presentations designed for a public venue.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Fiskio
    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENVS 101 or ENVS 201 (Nature, Culture, Interpretation) or consent of instructor.
  

  • 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: 20
    Instructor: M. Shammin
  

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


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    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: 20
    Instructor: M. Shammin
  

  • ENVS 231 - Environmental Economics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, QP-H
    This course is canceled effective 11.02.10.
    Enrollment Limit: 42
    Instructor: S. Bhattacharjee
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: ECON 101.

     
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ECON 231.
  

  • ENVS 302 - American Agricultures


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course surveys cultural, religious, and philosophical perspectives on agriculture through essays, literature, film, and field trips. We explore the ways ideas about agriculture are institutionalized through events such as colonization, industrial agriculture, the Dust Bowl, and the Green Revolution. Themes include domestication, pastoralism, and the interplay of agrarian philosophy and democratic theory in the United States. The course closes with contemporary movements in sustainable agriculture, such as urban farming, farmworker’s rights, and local foods.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Fiskio
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ENVS 304 - Seminar: Environmental Justice Literature


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course examines the history, literature, and contemporary work of the Environmental Justice (EJ) movement, with a particular focus on the local knowledge that people gain from living in situations of environmental injustice. The class emphasizes the place-based character of EJ knowledge. Alongside critical and theoretical texts, we will read poems, autobiographical accounts, and novels, concentrating on the epistemological and theoretical contributions of EJ communities to environmental questions.
    Enrollment Limit: 13
    Instructor: J. Fiskio
    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENVS 101 or at least one 200 or 300 level English course or consent of instructor.
  

  • ENVS 310 - Ecological Design


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

     
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: D. Orr
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Restricted to ENVS senior majors and instructor consent required.
  

  • ENVS 313 - Ecophenomenology: The Experience of Nature


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    Starting from our embodied experiences, ecophenomenology aims to rediscover dimensions of nature’s meaning and value that are obscured by our entrenched habits of thought. After exploring philosophical foundations in Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida, we will evaluate the contributions of ecophenomenologists to understanding the place of humans in nature, the role of scientific explanation, aesthetic experiences of the natural and built environment, the “world” of the non-human animal, and the effects of modern technology.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: T. Toadvine
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Junior or Senior Status
  

  • ENVS 316 - Systems Ecology


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS
    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 to understand the flows of energy, cycles of matter and control mechanisms that operate in ecosystems and will compare the structure and function of a variety of natural and human dominated 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.



    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: J. Petersen
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Systems Ecology counts toward Biology and Environmental Studies major requirements. Prerequisites: BIOL 120 or BIOL 102 and either CHEM 101, 102, 103 or 151.
  

  • ENVS 322 - Energy and Society


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    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.
    Enrollment Limit: 24
    Instructor: M. Shammin
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: ENVS 101.
  

  • ENVS 340 - Systems Modeling


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    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, physical, social 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.



    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: J. Petersen
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Credit can be counted towards either biology or environmental studies majors. Prerequisites: BIOL 120 or BIOL 102, at least one college chemistry course, comfort using algebraic equations.
  

  • ENVS 341 - Systems Modeling Workshop


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1NS
    This mini-course will take place in conjunction with ENVS 340, Systems Modeling.  A nationally recognized expert in simulation modeling will lead a multi-day workshop. Students will gain a greater appreciation for the diversity of ways in which simulation modeling can be used as a tool for scientific research and management.
    Instructor: J. Petersen
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Concurrent or prior registration in ENVS 340, and consent of the instructor
  

  • ENVS 380 - Seminar on Leadership


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This course will focus on understanding the difference between leadership and management; development of vision, and styles and practice of leadership. Emphasis will be given to leadership in environmental affairs across a variety of fields including science, advocacy, policy, value change, business, and organizational transformation. The course will include conversations with leaders drawn from local and national organizations. Student will develop one case study and initiate a project of their own choosing.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Orr
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites and Notes Senior Status
  

  • ENVS 390 - Sustainable Cities: Theory, Analysis and Design


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Humans are now an urban species with more people living in cities than in rural areas. This course will examine the economic, social and environmental causes and implications of this transition. We will consider the opportunities and design challenges of urban sustainability, concepts and techniques of urban and regional analysis, and contemporary approaches to sustainable urban planning and design in a global and cross-cultural context.



    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: M. Shammin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prereq: ENVS 101 and consent of the instructor.
  

  • ENVS 490 - Introduction to the Black River Watershed


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2EX
    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.



    Enrollment Limit: 24
    Instructor: C. Wolfe-Cragin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: This course is required for enrollment in ENVS 491. Restricted to juniors and seniors. Preference given to Environmental Studies majors.
  

  • ENVS 491 - Practicum in Environmental Education


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-2 hours
    Attribute: 1-2EX
    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.



    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: C. Wolfe-Cragin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: ENVS 490 or equivalent. Note: P/NP grading.
  

  • ENVS 501 - Research in Environmental Studies (ARHU)


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
    Attribute: 1-5HU
    Research for HU Credit.
    Instructor: J. Fiskio, T. McMillin, T. Newlin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ENVS 502 - Research in Environmental Studies (ARHU)


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
    Attribute: 1-5HU
    Research for HU Credit.
    Instructor: T. McMillin, T. Newlin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ENVS 503 - Research in Environmental Studies (NSCI)


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
    Attribute: 1-5NS
    Research: NSCI Credit.
    Instructor: M. Elrod, M. Garvin, D. Hubbard, R. Laushman, C. McDaniel, J. Petersen, C. Wolfe-Cragin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ENVS 504 - Research in Environmental Studies (NSCI)


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
    Attribute: 1-5NS
    Research for NSCI Credit.
    Instructor: M. Elrod, M. Garvin, D. Hubbard, R. Laushman, C. McDaniel, J. Petersen, C. Wolfe-Cragin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ENVS 505 - Research in Environmental Studies (SSCI)


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
    Attribute: 1-5SS
    Research for SS Credit.
    Instructor: C. Frantz, C. McDaniel, D. Orr, J. Petersen, M. Shammin, J. Suter, S. White, H. Wilson, C. Wolfe-Cragin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ENVS 506 - Research in Environmental Studies (SSCI)


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-5 hours
    Attribute: 1-5SS
    Research for SSCI Credit.
    Instructor: C. Frantz, C. McDaniel, D. Orr, J. Petersen, M. Shammin, J. Suter, S. White, H. Wilson, C. Wolfe-Cragin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ENVS 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3EX
    Signed permission of the instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: M. Blissman, M. Elrod, C. Frantz, M. Garvin, D. Hubbard, R. Laushman, B. Masi, C. McDaniel, T. McMillin, T. Newlin, D. Orr, J. Petersen, M. Shammin, Staff, J. Suter, S. White, H. Wilson, C. Wolfe-Cragin
    Consent of the Instructor Required? A signed Private Reading Card must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office
  

  • ETHN 100 - Introduction to Musics of the World


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: CD
    As musicians, we often think weknow what defines the subject of our study: “music.” Using selected case studies from around the world, this course will challenge the ways you think about music, how it is structured, and what it means to the people who make and otherwise engage with it. We will examine music in both historical and contrmporary contexts and encounter musical styles ranging from indigenous practices to classical traditions and pop genres. Through interactive performance activities, critical listening, and musical analysis, we closely examine the diverse ways people think abourt and sttructure music, building a sophisticated vocabulary of musical concepts relating to melody,rhythm, texture, timbre, and form as we go. We will also examine music as an inherently social act, illustrating how music is informed by - and conversely informs - historical, political, cultural, and economic processes, and how these processes result in the transformation of sounds and their meanings. Finally, we will explore the variety of ways people make music, taking into account not only performance context, but also who gets to make music. Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course presumes considerable prior knowledge of muisic and the ability to read staff notation.
    See CMUS 103 for a comparable course that does not presume this knowledge.
  

  • ETHN 200 - Music of the Americas


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    CD
    The course focuses on folk traditions of North and South America and the Caribbean, plus Native American and Amerindian traditions.
    Instructor: K. Meizel
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For non-music students, CMUS 103 or a basic knowledge of western music theory is recommended.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
  

  • ETHN 210 - Music and the Politics of Identity


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3
    Attribute: CNDP, CD
    This class examines music as a poweerful means for the construction and articulation of identity around the world. We will explore how individuals and groups negotiate and project who they  are (and what matters to them) through music and related arts - as a strategy for both unification and differentiation, along wih the ways these identities are regulated, mediated, and framed by others. A series of case studies in both historical and contemporary contexts will take into account the ways gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nation, class, and community - and their intersections - become inscribed and ecoded within musical practice. We will also examine the ways these articulations are read and interpreted by others, i.e. discourses of racism, sexism etc. Topics considered will include the forging of musical styles as articulations of emergent identities; music as resistance to hegemonic policies; music in diasporic communities; and the politics of representation (e.g. minorities in multicultural/postcolonial states).
    Instructor: K. Meizel
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • FREN 101 - Français élémentaire I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    This first semester of a year-long sequence is to build proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing, with special emphasis on meaning and the functional use of language and on understanding French-speaking cultures. The interactive multi-media approach requires extensive work in the language lab and one hour of small group work beyond the five hours of regular class time.
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: L. Thommeret, A. Warthesen
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: No previous French is expected for FREN 101. FREN 101 or the equivalent is prerequisite for FREN 102. Students with previous study of French must present an SAT II score or take the departmental placement test.
  

  • FREN 102 - Français élémentaire II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    This is the second semester of a year-long sequence is to build proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, with special emphasis on meaning and the functional use of language and on understanding French-speaking cultures. The interactive multi-media approach requires extensive work in the language lab and two hours of small group work beyond the five hours of regular class time.
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: A. Warthesen
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FREN 101 or the equivalent is prerequisite for FREN 102. Students with previous study of French must present an SAT II score or take the departmental placement test.
 

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