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Course Catalog 2010-2011 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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

 
  

  • HIST 332 - Historical Memory in the United States


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS
    This seminar examines the ways American history is presented in monuments, films, museums, theme parks, products, and commemorations. We look at how representations of the past influence the construction of identity and shape political arguments about contemporary issues. Through study of diverse topics from the Alamo to civil rights memorials, students analyze how public representations of the past can become contested sites of political and racial struggle.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: R. Romano
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 333 - The Cold War


    Next Offered: Spring 2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Why the Cold War came about and what it means are the subjects of this colloquium. Emphasizing clashing historiographical interpretations, the course focuses on the period from the end of World War II to 1960. In addition to traditional great power policy issues, the course addresses ambiguities of the cultural Cold War and the paradoxes of race (domestically and internationally) and the Cold War.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: C. Koppes
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 337 - American Democracy


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    An examination of the American democratic experience taught in conjunction with partners at Al-Quds University and Tel Aviv University. We will analyze essential characteristics of the American democratic tradition, with particular emphasis on how that tradition has developed over time. To examine our subject from multiple perspectives, we will read widely in primary documents, undertake cross-cultural conversations, and apply the disciplinary methods of both history and political science.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: G. Kornblith, C. Lasser
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Primarily for History majors, juniors and well-qualified sophomores.

     
  

  • HIST 341 - Seminar: Defining Jewishness: Boundary Drawing in Jewish History


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD, WR
    Explores ways that lines defining Jewishness were drawn from late antiquity to modernity, and shifting definitions of Jewishness in different times and places. Examines group and individual cases; interaction between self-identification and boundary drawing by others about Jews. Cases include: early Jesus-followers; crytpo- and normative Jews under Inquisition persecution in medieval and early modern Europe; assimilating modern Jews; secular, ethnic, and nationalist Jewishness; conversion; Jews off the usual Jewish map: Africa, South America, Asia.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 341
  

  • HIST 345 - Social Movements in China, Late Imperial Times to the Present


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 3-4SS, CD, WR
    Social movements from the Qing Dynasty to the present will be analyzed using social science theories about social movements, while interrogating them in the Chinese context. Cases may include: the White Lotus Rebellion, the Taiping Revolt, the Boxer Uprising, the Communist-led Revolution, strike waves of the 1930’s and 1957, the Cultural Revolution, the 1989 protests, and the Falungong protests of 1999-2000. Students will write a theoretically-informed research paper on a social movement of their choice.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: D. Kelley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 353 - Transnational History in Northeast Asia


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Next Offered: Fall 2011
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course explores the history of China’s Northeast (‘Manchuria’) as a site for challenging the boundaries imposed by histories of the nation-state. The histories of Japan, the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia will be interwoven to examine the region’s transformation from sparsely populated Manchu homeland, to staging ground for Japanese imperialism, to scene of Mao Zedong’s triumph over the Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War of 1945-49.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: E. O’Dwyer
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 357 - Non-Violent Opposition to British Imperialism: M. Gandhi


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WR
    This colloquium concentrates on, but is not limited to, the life of Mohandas Gandhi. Parallel to our study of Gandhi’s life in India, England, and South Africa, we analyze indigenous Indian and European notions about issues like non-violent activism and moral and secular law. Students, through research papers, compare and contrast M. Gandhi’s conception and practice of non-violence with the strategies of other nationalists or social reformers.
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: M. Fisher
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 359 - On the Road in Mughal India


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD
    What was life actually like for Asian and European travelers in Mughal (16th-19th century) India? Original travel narratives by Indians, other Asians, and Europeans described the everyday experience of travel from the perspective of the particular author, her/his natal culture, and the travel narrative genre. In addition to readings about the theory and praxis of travel writing, each student undertakes a substantial research project on a select traveler and her/his narrative.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Fisher
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 360 - History of Vietnam


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-4 hours
    Attribute: 3-4SS, WR, CD
    A colloquium emphasizing reading and discussion. The course will examine the history of Vietnam from the beginnings to the present. A topical approach will be taken through a variety of readings structured chronologically. Topics will cover pre-colonial history and society, colonialism and nationalism, and Vietnam’s struggle for national independence and security, in both national and international contexts.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: D. Kelley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 367 - Narrating the Nation: Historical and Literary Approaches to Nationalism


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies
    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 2 HU, 2 SS, CD, WR
    This course offers an analysis of the narratives through which nationalisms acquire credibility and authority. This discussion-centered class will examine the nationalisms of Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Asia with particular reference to those of Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Haiti, and India. Narrative theories as deployed in and by the disciplines of History and English literary studies provide the overarching critical methodologies for interdisciplinary analysis. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: A. Needham, S. Volk
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ENG 386.
  

  • HIST 382 - Climate Change and Disaster in History


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies
    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Using both scientific and historical evidence, this seminar examines case studies of climate-related disasters around the world from ancient and modern times. We will look at why some societies collapsed in the face of natural climate changes and how others persevered, and consider whether historical examples hold any relevance as we confront global warming today.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: S. White
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 384 - Globalization and its Discontents in MENA History


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course explores different eras of “globalization” that the MENA region has experienced in its modern history. In addition, it explores different modes of subaltern and elite resistance against these “globalizations.” This course seeks to answer the following questions: Why the MENA region is an “underdeveloped” economy today? Is this due to spme “cultural exceptionalism” of this region? Or the region’s economic and social trajectories have been part of greater global transformations?
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: Z. Abul-Magd
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 386 - African and Diaspora Identities


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This class will give an interdisciplinary overview of the various schools of thought of what defines Modern African and Diaspora identity. Examples from the African continent, the Caribbean and the United States will be utilized as well as the various disciplines such as Sociology, Philosophy, Literature and History. Key themes include authenticity, “inventedness”, existence, migration and memory. A primary source based research component of this class is central in this weekly seminar.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: B. Yates
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Identical to AAST 302
    Cross List Information This course is crosslisted wlith AAST 302
  

  • HIST 395 - Method in Modern European History


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, WR
    An advanced historiographical colloquium exploring the paradigms underpinning the writing of European history since the 19th century. Particular varieties of history to be read include: ‘scientific,’ Romantic, and nationalist approaches to history; the Annales School; Marxist history; the evolution of “political” history; feminist history; and contemporary cultural history. Frequent presentations and short papers.
    Instructor: L. Smith
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HIST 102 or equivalent.

    Note: This course is designed for, but not limited to, junior history majors. 

     
  

  • HIST 396 - US Foreign Policy and MENA


    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: 4SS, CD
    American presence in the Middle East went through different stages from WWI until the present. The U.S had a controversial role the region during and after the Cold War, and there is a current debate on whether it is acting now as an empire. This course analyzes the U.S. strategic interests and its relation with the different regimes in MENA. It critically studies issues of oil, Israel-Palestine conflict, globalization, democratization, occupation, and terrorism.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: Z. Abul-Magd
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 397 - Revolutionary America and the Early Republic


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WR
    The transformation of American society, politics, and culture from ca. 1750 to 1820. Topics include the cultural diversity of late colonial society; imperial crisis and causes of the American Revolution; the construction of a federal government; race, class, and gender in the new nation; market expansion and the spread of slavery; deference, democracy, and capitalism in the formation of an “American character.”  Lecture/discussion format; independent research projects in primary sources.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: G. Kornblith
  

  • HIST 406 - Motion Picture Censorship


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS
    For a century American movies have operated within controversial systems that define the boundaries of cinematic expression. Whether censored by state and municipal governments, contained within Hollywood’s Production Code Administration, or rated by today’s industry ratings agency, movie makers maneuvered at the boundaries of cultural expression and economic ambition. We consider new theoretical approaches to censorship, then explores film makers’ responses, and the ambiguous and shifting results. Several landmark films are screened.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: C. Koppes
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 422 - Migration in 20th Century Europe


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS
    This course will explore migration in 20th century Europe. We will investigate a wide range of topics from European responses to asylum seekers, to the integration of former colonial subjects and labor migrants, and the responses of these migrants to European culture and society. Throughout we will be questioning the various meanings assigned to migration throughout this period as well as evolving notions of belonging in Europe.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: A. Sammartino
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 454 - International Relations Theory for Historians


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    This course concerns the curious disciplinary divide between political science and history, and considers how the two approaches can inform each other. In the first part of the course, we work our way as historians through the broad schools of international relations theory (IR). In the second half of the course, we examine recent works in “international history,” the successor to “diplomatic history,” and explore how historians draw intentionally or unintentionally from varieties of IR.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: L. Smith
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 455 - In the Name of Allah: Islam and Politics


    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: 4SS
    This historiography course examines different approaches to Islam and politics. It considers how Orientalist and current literature view the relation between religion and state in early Islamic history. It then considers analyses of Islamic reform movements under European colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Finally, it looks closely at research on Jihadi Islam in the 21st century, notably groups such as Hamas, Hizbullah, and al-Qaeda.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: Z. Abul-Magd
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 456 - The Politics of Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe


    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: 4SS, WR
    This colloquium has a two aims: to examine how medieval and early modern Europeans constructed and performed conceptual binaries such as male/female and mind/body, and also to consider the ways in which gender studies have transformed the doing of history. To this end we will analyze historians, work on the topics of sexuality, spirituality, the family, political authority, economic production and scientific enquiry for the period ranging from 1000 to 1700.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: E. Wurtzel
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 457 - U.S. Gay, Lesbian and Transgender History


    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: 4SS
    Reading and analysis of recent scholarship on American gay, lesbian, and transgender history since the 1890s. Historiography is emphasized.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: C. Koppes
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 458 - European Sexualities


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS, CD
    This historiographical colloquium examines the social, political, and cultural histories of human sexuality within a European context from the Victorian era to the present. We will investigate sexuality as both a discursive category and a lived reality. We will examine both how official institutions (lawmakers, medical professionals, and the religious establishment) regulated human sexuality and consider how different nationalities, races, religions, and classes lived their sexual identities.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: M. Dumancic
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    History 102 or AP
  

  • HIST 459 - Asian and African Encounters with Empire


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4
    Attribute: 4 SS, CD
    New course added 05.26.10.

    This course compares moments of encounter between modern Western empires and non-Western societies from the perspective of the latter. How did the peoples of Asia and Africa experience Western expansion? The answer to this question will lead to an exploration of the relation between Western expansion, modernity, imperialism, and identity.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: R. Adal
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    100 level course in Asian or African history
  

  • HIST 460 - Social History of Japanese Aesthetics


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS, CD
    New course added 05.26.10.

    This course will explore the contested meanings of the beautiful, the sublime, the attractive, and the desirable in Japan. It will use aesthetics as a lens through which to explore some of the central issues of modern Japanese society, from nationalism and fascism to modernity, counterculture, class, race, and gender.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: R. Adal
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 461 - The Mexican Revolution: Birth, Life, Death


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WR
    The Mexican Revolution is widely studied and thoroughly disputed. This seminar engages the argument by exploring the bloody origins, institutionalization, and (perhaps) demise of the Revolution. Whether or not the Revolution happened, it did produce a rich historiography, as well as epic cultural artifacts. Our analysis of the Revolution will follow the chronology of its historiographic and cultural products. Classes will be organized and discussions led by students.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: S. Volk
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 462 - Space and Place in Modern Japan


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS, CD
     

     

    New course added 05.26.10.

    This course will expose students to interdisciplinary history by using spatial perspectives from architecture, urban studies, geography, sociology, and other fields to study the human past. This course will examine the conceptualization and construction of several broadly defined types of space and place in Japan since 1600 including the home, the shrine, the city, and the frontier, and their role in shaping that nation’s religious, socio-cultural, and politico-economic landscapes.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: G. Washington
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 463 - Race and Religion in East Asia


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS
    New course added 06.03.10.

    As religious institutions and beliefs have crossed “ racial” boundaries and established new ones in East Asia, they have frequently influenced ideas about race. We will explore these connections through readings on the European Society of Jesus in the 16th and 17th centuries, American and German missionaries in the 19th century, Japanese Protestant and Shintō missionaries in the early 20th century, China’s Muslim minority, and other topics that demonstrate East Asian religious heterogeneity.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: G. Washington
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 500 - History Senior Projects


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-4 hours
    Attribute: 3-4SS
    For History majors in final year of study only. Guided work in seminar intended to support primary research and writing on a topic of student’s choosing to complete a 20-30 page paper. To apply, students submit work on topic previously completed in 300- or 400-level course with faculty recommendation. Students consult with relevant faculty during term, but project is supervised in seminar. Can be taken only once.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: C. Lasser
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Senior History Majors only.
  

  • HIST 501 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4SS
    The goal of the seminar is to provide a forum for discussing progress and problems in carrying out honors projects, and to establish a sense of shared enterprise among honors students. Discussions will include methodology, research methods, and progress reports on individual projects. Consent by department invitation.
    Instructor: C. Lasser
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 502 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4SS
    The goal of the seminar is to provide a forum for discussing progress and problems in carrying out honors projects, and to establish a sense of shared enterprise among honors students. Discussions will include methodology, research methods, and progress reports on individual projects. Consent by department invitation.
    Instructor: C. Lasser
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 900 - OCEAN: American History


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-4 hours
    The OCEAN American history course will develop an interpretive survey of American history from precolonization to the recent present. The course will introduce students to a variety of approaches to the study of history, and develop student capacities to read both primary and secondary materials. Essay writing skills will be developed, and classes will, when possible, be conducted as interactive discussion. Students will write at least one research paper.
    Instructor: Staff
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: Off campus concurrent enrollment equivalent to History 103 or 104.
  

  • HIST 950 - History of London


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2SS
    This course explores the history of London from its Roman origins to the present day and examines how royalty, trade, religion and transport have shaped the city’s pattern of growth over 2,000 years. Course work consists of weekly lectures, guided walks and discussions of readings from contemporary sources. Students are given an opportunity to investigate an aspect of London history of particular interest to them. Note: Taught in London. Prior application and acceptance to the Oberlin-in-London program required
    Instructor: Staff
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3SS
    Independent study of a subject beyond the range of catalog course offerings. Private readings and Honors information is on the History web site at www.oberlin.edu/history and the Registrar’s page at www.oberlin.edu/regist. Available faculty members are listed on these sites as well. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: Z. Abul-Magd, E. Estes, M. Fisher, H. Hogan, D. Kelley, C. Koppes, G. Kornblith, C. Lasser, S. Lee, S. Magnus, P. Mitchell, E. O’Dwyer, R. Romano, A. Sammartino, L. Smith, S. Volk, S. White
    Consent of the Instructor Required? RO
  

  • HPRF 111 - Historical Performance in Context: Music of France


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    First of a projected set of four courses designed to introduce students to a wide range of styles. Each course focuses on the music of a different country and will include an overview of the significant repertoire as well as the historical context (art, politics, and society). NB students who participate as performers earn 1 credit; non-performers who do only the academic work receive .5 credit.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of the instructor required. Limit: 30.
  

  • HPRF 112 - Historical Performance in Context: Music of England


    Next Offered: [2011-2012]
    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    One of a set of four courses designed to introduce students to a wide range of styles. Each course focuses on the music of a different country and will include an overview of the significant repertoire as well as the historical context (art, politics, and society).
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required. Limit 30.
  

  • HPRF 113 - Historical Performance in Context: Music of Italy


    Next Offered: [2011-2012]
    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    One of a set of four courses designed to introduce students to a wide range of styles. Each course focuses on the music of a different country and will include an overview of the significant repertoire as well as the historical context (art, politics, and society). The course will be team-taught by members of the HP program and guests.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required. Limit 30.
  

  • HPRF 114 - Historical Performance in Context: Music of Germany


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    One of a set of four courses designed to introduce students to a wide range of styles. Each course focuses on the music of a different country and will include an overview of the significant repertoire as well as the historical context (art, politics, and society). The course will be team-taught by members of the HP program and guests.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of the instructor required. Limit: 30

     
  

  • HPRF 302 - Introduction to Historical Performance


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: DDHU
    What does a score tell us? What does it not tell us? And what is expected of the performer? A study of changing performance styles in music from the 19th century to the Middle Ages. Topics include the evolution of instruments, ensembles, and orchestras; and conventions of rhythm, tempo, articulation, phrasing, and ornamentation. Students will compare editions and prepare an edition themselves. Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites and Notes

    Prerequisites: MHST 101, and one 200-level Music History course, or consent of the instructor.

     

     
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with MHST 302. Also see HPRF 502.
  

  • HPRF 303 - Seminar in Performance Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    For students specializing in Historical Performance. Close reading of historical treatises, and the application of precepts found in the treatises to actual performance, workshop-style, in class.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HPRF 302 (or MHST 302).
    Enrollment Limit: 10
  

  • HPRF 312 - Special Topics in Performance Practice


    Next Offered: TBD
    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Topic: TBA

    One group meeting and one individual meeting per week, schedule TBD.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HPRF 302 (or MHST 302). Also see HPRF 512.
    Note: May be repeated for credit if the topic changes
    Consent of instructor required
    Enrollment Limit: 30
  

  • HPRF 312B - Special Topics in Performance Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Topic: TBA
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HPRF 302 (or MHST 302). Also see HPRF 512B.
    Note: May be repeated for credit if the topic changes
    Consent of instructor required
    Enrollment Limit: 30
  

  • HPRF 502 - Introduction to Historical Performance


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: DDHU
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Cross List Information This course is cross referenced with HPRF 302 but with additional assignments for graduate students.
  

  • HPRF 503 - Seminar in Performance Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Topic TBA
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 10.

     
    Cross List Information This course is cross-referenced with HPRF 303, but with additional assignments for graduate students.
  

  • HPRF 512 - Special Topics in Performance Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Topic TBA
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HPRF 302/502 or MHST 302.

    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-referenced with HPRF 312 but with additional assignments for graduate students.
  

  • HPRF 512B - Special Topics in Performance Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Special Topics in Performance Practice
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HPRF 302/502 or MHST 302.

    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-referenced with HPRF 312B but with additional assignments for graduate students.
  

  • HPRF 521 - Graduate Studies in Historical Performance


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 to 2 Hours
    This course constitutes an extension to ‘Historical Performance in Context’ (HPRF 111, 112, 113, 114), which is to be taken concurrently. Students will undertake one or two independent research projects relating to the performance practice of national repertoires, to be designed in collaboration with their applied teacher. Two (2) hours of HPRF 521 will be required of each Historical Performance graduate student.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment limit: 30. 

    For graduate students in the Historical Performance program.
  

  • HPRF 521B - Graduate Studies in Historical Performance


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 to 2 Hours
    This course constitutes an extension to ‘Historical Performance in Context’ (HPRF 111, 112, 113, 114), which is to be taken concurrently. Students will undertake one or two independent research projects relating to the performance practice of national repertoires, to be designed in collaboration with their applied teacher. Two (2) hours of HPRF 521 will be required of each Historical Performance graduate student.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
  

  • INDV 000 - Interdivisional Courses


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0

    For a complete listing of courses available in this area, please see:catalog.oberlin.edu/content.php
  

  • ITAL 101 - Beginning Italian I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    Acquisition of the fundamentals of grammar and pronunciation with an emphasis on elements of grammar. The course is designed for students with no previous experience or study of Italian.
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: I. Di Siena
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Eleven spaces in the course are reserved for Conservatory students.
  

  • ITAL 102 - Beginning Italian II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    Continuation of ITAL 101 completing coverage of grammar with an emphasis on reading, writing, conversation, and general oral skills.
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: I. Di Siena
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: ITAL 101 or consent of instructor or appropriate score on placement test. Eleven spaces are reserved for Conservatory Students.
  

  • ITAL 203 - Italiano intermedio accellerato


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    This is a one-semester intensive course equivalent to 2 semesters of intermediate Italian. Review of grammar and vocabulary, development of reading skills, oral skills and writing within a rich cultural context. In addition to 3 classes per week, students have to attend one mandatory conversation class for one hour, time TBA.
    Enrollment Limit: 18
    Instructor: I. Di Siena
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ITAL 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU, CD
    Signed permission of the instructor is required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: I. Di Siena
  

  • JAPN 101 - Elementary Japanese I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    First-year Japanese. An introduction to basic grammar, sentence patterns and vocabulary of the modern language. Attention to the written component of modern Japanese will include the hiragana and katakana syllabaries, as well as kanji. This course is designed for students with no previous knowledge of Japanese. No auditors. See instructor for correct placement.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: K. Ichikawa, A. Sukegawa
  

  • JAPN 102 - Elementary Japanese II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    First-year Japanese. Contiinuation of JAPN 101. An introduction to basic grammar, sentence patterns, and vocabulary of the modern language. Attention to the written component of modern Japanese will include the hiragana and katakana syllabaries, as well as kanji. No auditors. See instructor for correct placement. 6th hour of lab required. Time TBA.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: J. Herlands, K. Ichikawa


    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 101 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 201 - Intermediate Japanese I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    Second-year Japanese. Primary emphasis on the development of oral skills and secondary emphasis on reading skills. Students will continue to learn basic grammatical patterns, expand vocabulary and improve communicative skills in modern Japanese through oral-aural drills and exercises.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: J. Herlands, K. Ichikawa
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN l02 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 202 - Intermediate Japanese II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    Second-year Japanese. Continuation of JAPN 201. Emphasis on the development of oral and reading skills. Students will continue to learn basic grammatical patterns, expand vocabulary, and improve communicative skills in modern Japanese through oral-aural drills and exercises.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: K. Ichikawa, S. Koizumi


    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 201 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 301 - Japanese Reading and Conversation I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    Third-year Japanese. This course seeks to reinforce the vocabulary and grammatical patterns learned in the first two years and to improve speaking and reading skills through task-oriented conversational practices, reading practices and group discussion. Conducted in Japanese. Fourth hour of lab required. Time TBA.
    Instructor: S. Koizumi
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 202 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 302 - Japanese Reading and Conversation II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Third-year Japanese. Continution of JAPN 301. This course seeks to reinforce the vocabulary and grammatical patterns learned in the first two years and to improve speaking and reading skills through task-oriented conversational practices, reading practices, and group discussion. Conducted in Japanese.
    Instructor: A. Sherif

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 301 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 401 - Advanced Japanese I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Fourth-year Japanese. This course is intended primarily for students who have completed a period of study in Japan. It seeks to further improve speaking, reading, and writing skills through the use of authentic reading materials, group discussion, and writing exercises. Materials are taken from modern literary works. Conducted in Japanese.
    Instructor: A. Sherif
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 302 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 402 - Advanced Japanese II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Fourth-year Japanese. This course is intended primarily for students who have completed a period of study in Japan. It seeks to further improve speaking, reading, and writing skills throught the use of authentic reading materials, group discussions, and writing exercises. Readings are taken newspapers, magazines, and other media. Conducted in Japanese.
    Instructor: A. Sukegawa

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 401 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 451 - Readings in Japanese Sources I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Fifth-year Japanese. This course is designed for students who have completed four levels of Japanese language or the equivalent. Conducted in Japanese.
    Instructor: S. Koizumi
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 402 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 452 - Readings in Japanese Sources II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Fifth-year Japanese. This course is intended primarily for students who have completed a period of study in Japan. It seeks to further improve speaking, reading, and writing skills throught the use of authentic reading materials, group discussions, and writing exercises. Materials are taken from modern literary works. Conducted in Japanese. Prerequisite: JAPN 401 or consent of instructor.
    Instructor: A. Sukegawa

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAPN 451 or consent of instructor.
  

  • JAPN 500 - Capstone Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0 hours
    Attribute: 0HU
    Normally completed in the senior year, the capstone project may be done in one of three ways: 1) as a research project in an upper-level seminar taught by an EAS faculty member, 2) as a project in a 400-level Chinese or Japanese language course, or 3) as a Winter Term project overseen by an EAS faculty member. Students must consult with their mentor before the start of the term.
    Instructor: S. Koizumi, A. Sherif, A. Sukegawa

    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP or CR/NE grading only.
  

  • JAPN 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU, CD
    Independent study of a Japanese subject beyond the range of catalog course offerings. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: S. Koizumi, A. Sherif, A. Sukegawa
  

  • JAZZ 100 - Jazz Aural Skills


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A one-semester course in aural perception devoted to the study of rhythm, scales, melody, harmony, and forms idiomatic to jazz, through sight singing, dictation, and programmed instruction. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: R. Ferrazza
    Prerequisites & Notes
    May be taken concurrently with MUTH 101 (Aural Skills I)
  

  • JAZZ 110 - Jazz Keyboard


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Designed for musicians whose major instrument is other than piano. Content includes chord symbol interpretation, cycles, sequences, turnarounds, and elementary improvisational concepts. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 8.
    Instructor: D. Wall
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: piano proficiency, which may be satisfied either by successful completion of two semesters of APST 110-111 (Piano Class) or by audition for waiver.
  

  • JAZZ 120 - Jazz Theory


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Designed to acquaint students with rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and structural aspects of improvised music, including chord/scale relationships, common chord progressions, chord voicing and harmonization, chord substitution and reharmonizations, melodic transformation, and modal mixture and chromaticism. Emphasis will be placed on the development of analytical and writing skills within the context of such forms as the blues and song forms. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: R. Ferrazza
  

  • JAZZ 121 - Jazz Theory


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Designed to acquaint students with rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and structural aspects of improvised music, including chord/scale relationships, common chord progressions, chord voicing and harmonization, chord substitution and reharmonizations, melodic transformation, and modal mixture and chromaticism. Emphasis will be placed on the development of analytical and writing skills within the context of such forms as the blues and song forms. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: R. Ferrazza
  

  • JAZZ 130 - Basic Arranging/Composition Techniques


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Designed to develop writing and arranging skills for various instrumental/vocal combinations. The course will include jazz chord symbology and terminology and basic voicings and scoring methods for brass, reeds, and rhythm instruments. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: J. Warren
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 132. JAZZ 130 is prerequisite to JAZZ 131.

    Not intended for Jazz Composition majors.

    Alternates with JAZZ 160, 161.
  

  • JAZZ 131 - Basic Arranging/Composition Techniques


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Designed to develop writing and arranging skills for various instrumental/vocal combinations. The course will include jazz chord symbology and terminology, basic voicings and scoring methods for brass, reeds, and rhythm instruments. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: J. Warren
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Not intended for Jazz Composition majors
    Prerequisite: MUTH 132. JAZZ 130 is prerequisite to JAZZ 131
  

  • JAZZ 150 - Jazz Improvisation I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A course in the technique and performance practice of jazz improvisation, covering the period 1935-60. The course includes historical investigation, transcriptions, aural analysis, rhythmic, harmonic and melodic technical studies and repertoire development. Additional outside listening is required. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: P. Dominguez
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Proficiency on a musical instrument; knowledge of scales, key signatures, intervals, and chords.
    Admission by audition.
    Required ensemble affiliation.
  

  • JAZZ 151 - Jazz Improvisation II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A course in the technique and performance practice of jazz improvisation, covering the period 1935-60. The course includes historical investigation, transcriptions, aural analysis, rhythmic, harmonic and melodic technical studies, and repertoire development. Additional outside listening is required. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: P. Dominguez
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Proficiency on a musical instrument; knowledge of scales, key signatures, intervals, and chords.
    Admission by audition.
    Required ensemble affiliation.
  

  • JAZZ 250 - Advanced Jazz Improvisation III


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A continuation of concepts introduced in JAZZ 150, 151 (Jazz Improvisation) and an introduction to more recent improvisational concepts such as absence of a pulse, panmeter and polymeter. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: D. Wall
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAZZ 150, 151 (Jazz Improvisation.)
  

  • JAZZ 251 - Advanced Jazz Improvisation IV


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A continuation of concepts introduced in JAZZ 150, 151 (Jazz Improvisation) and an introduction to more recent improvisational concepts such as absence of a pulse, panmeter and polymeter. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: D. Wall
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JAZZ 150, 151 (Jazz Improvisation).
  

  • JAZZ 290 - Introduction to African American Music


    Next Offered: [2011-2012]
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: CD
    The first semester of a one-year survey of musical styles and forms cultivated by African Americans. First semester includes West African music and West African continuity in the American, early African American instrumental-vocal forms, and the social implications of African American music. Second semester includes later instrumental and vocal music (jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, soul, etc.) and important composers and performers of works in extended forms. Enrollment Limit: 50.
    Instructor: Staff

    Prerequisites & Notes

    Offered alternate years.




    Cross List Information Cross-listed with AAST 171 and MHST 290.
  

  • JAZZ 291 - Introduction to African American Music


    Next Offered: [2011-2012]
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    The second semester of a one-year survey of musical styles and forms cultivated by African Americans. First semester includes West African music and West African continuity in the American, early African American instrumental-vocal forms, and the social implications of African American music. Second semester includes later instrumental and vocal music (jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, soul, etc.) and important composers and performers of works in extended forms. Enrollment Limit: 50.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes

    Offered alternate years.
    Cross List Information Cross-listed with AAST 172 and MHST 291.
  

  • JAZZ 380 - Special Topic: The Business of Jazz


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 to 3 hours
    Attribute: CNDP
    An overview of the Global Jazz Business, this course will provide insights into key music business components and their relationship to Jazz.  Students will explore a variety of careers in the Jazz business, examine the current issues in the music business, compare latest technology opportunities and create an action plan for their Jazz career.

    Several guest speakers will be included in the course.  Experts in the fields of publishing, entertainment law, booking and touring, independent marketing and sales will provide insight through lectures and discussions.  Class project will include creating, producing, marketing and performing in an event at an area Jazz club.
     
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: M. Ashby
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes

    Prerequisite: JAZZ 291. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
  

  • JAZZ 700 - Jazz Ensemble—Large Group


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    The ensemble performs a variety of large ensemble literature ranging from the music of Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington to the master composers of the present. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 22.
    Instructor: D. Reynolds
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission by audition.
  

  • JAZZ 803 - Jazz Ensemble—Small Group


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Groups of 4-9 players. Emphasis will be placed on the performance of a variety of literature and may include writing transcriptions, arrangements and compositions. Attendance at the Jazz Forums and 2 one-hour rehearsals (one with the faculty instructor) a week are required. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Recommended to be taken concurrently with JAZZ 150, 151.
  

  • JWST 101 - Elementary Modern Hebrew I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    First of two-semester sequence focusing on fundamentals of grammar and vocabulary along with practice in comprehension of spoken Hebrew; speaking, reading, and writing, in class and in language lab, shulhan ivri, and related activities outside of class. Interactive multi-media approach: literary; web-based texts; videos, movies; music, introduction to contemporary Hebrew culture. No previous Hebrew required; quick acquisition of alphabet proficiency expected. This course, its equivalent, or acceptable SAT II score, to be determined by Instructor, is a prerequisite for JWST102.
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: K. Rubinstein
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Registration open but admission and placement determined by the instructor.
  

  • JWST 102 - Elementary Modern Hebrew II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    Second of two-semester sequence to build proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing; continuing focus on vocabulary, grammar and usage; introduction to contemporary Hebrew culture. Interactive multi-media approach: literary; web-based texts; videos, movies; music; requires work in language lab, shulhan ivri and related activities beyond class time. JWST101 or its equivalent, as determined by the Instructor, required.
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: K. Rubinstein
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: Registration open but admission and placement determined by the instructor. JWST101 or its equivalent, as determined by the Instructor, required.
  

  • JWST 131 - Jewish History from Biblical Antiquity to 1492


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Classics
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD
    Jewish history from biblical antiquity through the medieval period in the Middle East and Christian and Islamic Europe. Topics include: Biblical society, ideas and literature; Jews under Hellenistic and Roman rule in Judea; Jewish sects of the Second Temple period, including Jesus-followers; emergence and development of rabbinic Judaism; Jewish attitudes and policies to non-Jews and State authorities, both Jewish and Gentile; attitudes about sovereignty, its loss, and exile; Christianity, Islam and the Jews; women, family and community; theological and popular Jew-hatred and Jewish responses to contempt and persecution.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with HIST 131.
  

  • JWST 132 - Jewish History II: Spanish Expulsion to the Present


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD
    Jewish modernity in Europe, the US, and Middle East, 1492-present. Topics include the breakup of traditional society and emerging expressions of modernity in the experience of Marranos, mystics, messiahs, religious reformers and secular Jews; the struggle for legal equality, economic betterment and social acceptance; family and community; acculturation, assimilation and cultural revival; modern Jew-hatred and Jewish responses; Zionism; Jewish socialism; the Shoah; founding of Israel.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information The course is cross-listed with HIST 132.

  

  • JWST 150 - Introduction to Judaism


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    A  theoretical introduction to Judaism as a religious system. Special attention will be paid to the historical development of the religion through interpretation of traditional texts and ritual practices.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: G. Claussen
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with RELG 250.
  

  • JWST 151 - Modern Jewish Thought


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    The course is canceled effective 11.01.10.

    Beginning with Spinoza in the 17th century, this course will examine intellectual and philosophical responses to the changing situation of Judaism in modernity. We will read thinkers-including Mendelssohn, Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Heschel, Kaplan, Plaskow, and Eisen-who addressed such questions as: How should Jews understand received tradition in the modern age? How should Jews relate to their non-Jewish neighbors? What is the role of ethics in Judaism? No prerequisites.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: Staff
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with RELG 251
  

  • JWST 175 - Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 SS
    A study of the Zohar. the central work of Spanish Kabbalah, and a comprehensive and daring recasting of Judaism in the medieval period. At once a “narrative” recounting the spiritual adventures of wandering heroes and a mystical “midrash” on Torah, the Zohar is written in a fluid and evocative language. Our study will focus on historical placement, the riddle of its authorship. Finally, each session will highlight ways of reading/decoding the Zohar. This course meets: 27 Feb 2-4 & 7-9pm; 28 Feb 7-9pm; 6 Mar 2-4 & 7-9pm; 7 Mar 7-9pm
    Instructor: A Socher
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • JWST 201 - Intermediate Modern Hebrew I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Intermediate Hebrew will deepen and expand student’s oral, aural, reading and writing skills in modern conversational Hebrew, through maximum student participation. The course will combine grammar, video, and theatrical classroom activities, making extensive use of content and culture to develop language skills. At the end of the course, students will be able to hold a conversation with native speakers, read newspapers and graded prose, and understand Israeli media (television and film).
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: A. Ofengenden
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    JWST102 or its equivalent, to be determined by the Instructor, pre-requisite.
  

  • JWST 202 - Intermediate Modern Hebrew II


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Middle East and North Africa Minor
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Intermediate Hebrew II will deepen and expand student’s oral, aural, reading and writing skills in modern conversational Hebrew, through maximum student participation. The course will combine grammar, video, and theatrical classroom activities, making extensive use of content and culture to develop language skills. At the end of the course, students will be able to hold a conversation with native speakers, read newspapers and graded prose, and understand Israeli media (television and film).
    Enrollment Limit: 22
    Instructor: A. Ofengenden
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: JWST 201 or equivalent
  

  • JWST 205 - Hebrew Bible in its Ancient Near Eastern Context


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    An introduction to the literature, religion, and history of ancient Israel as contained within the Hebrew Bible and to the methods of interpretation used by modern scholars to understand this ancient text. Biblical writings will be studied within the context of other ancient Near Eastern texts. Thematic emphases include the emergence of monotheism, the conceptualization the divine/human relationship, the mediation of priest, prophet and king, and issues of canon. No previous knowledge of the Hebrew Bible is assumed.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: C. Chapman
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with RELG 205.
  

  • JWST 208 - New Testament and Christian Origins


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    An introduction to the academic study of the New Testament in its ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts. This course explores early Christian writings as Jewish sectarian literature and as early Christian foundational scripture. Thematic emphases include: the diversity of early Christian writings, Christianity within first century Judaisms, the evolution of the Jesus narrative, and the rise of institutional Christianity. No previous knowledge of the New Testament is assumed.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: Staff
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with RELG 208
  

  • JWST 228 - Representing the Arab-Israeli Conflict


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    After presenting basic background to this conflict, this course will focus on the ways it is mediated through culture. Issues of collective and personal memory, trauma, masculinity and women’s resistance or participation in the conflict will receive special attention through study of novels and short stories by Emile Habibi, Amos Oz, David Grossman and Orly Castel-Bloom, and the films Avanti Popolo, The Syrian Bride, The Band’s Visit and Waltz with Bashir.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: A. Ofengenden
  

  • JWST 231 - The Book of Job and its History of Interpretation


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    The Book of Job has fostered centuries of theological and existential questioning on the nature of divine justice, the meaning of suffering, and the existence of evil. The course will consider the book of Job in its ancient Israelite context as it spoke to a conquered and exiled “people of God.” It will also examine Jewish and Christian interpretations of Job that address different contexts of human alienation and suffering.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: C. Chapman
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with Religion 202
  

  • JWST 233 - Jewish Memoirs and Memory: Writing the Self in Jewish Society


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 to 4 Hours
    Attribute: 3 to 4 SS, CD, WR
    Explores the focus on group memory in traditional Jewish culture and the emergence of writing about the self and individual Jewish experience in modernity. Selected memoirs from Europe and the US from early modernity to the present, studying motivation for writing, intended and actual audience, gender and class in memory and writing, the relationship between personal and group experience, and memoirs as sources of history. No prior background required.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with HIST 233
  

  • JWST 234 - Good and Evil: Ethics and Decision Making in the Holocaust


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: CD, 3SS, WR
    Focuses on the role of ethics in decision making in five groups during the Nazi era: German civilians; Jews; allies; churches; rescuers, and bystanders; on the often unconscious value judgments that we bring to historical study of this subject; expectations that individuals, groups, or governments behave ethically in extreme situations, and factors influencing and determining actual behavior during the Shoah. Aside from readings, films and possible lectures by outside specialists required. Background in Holocaust history is recommended.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with HIST 234.
  

  • JWST 235 - East European Jewry, 1772-1939


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR. CD
    This course explores the transformation of East European Jewry from the partitions of Poland through the rise of the Soviet Union and the facsist regimes of interwar Poland. Studies include: the Musar and Jewish enlightenment movements; government Jewry policies and Jewish responses; economic and demographic change; Jewish nationalism, Jewish socialism; Jewish political parties and strategies; the birth of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature; massive emigration; and Jewish strategies under overtly anti-Jewish regimes in the interwar period.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with HIST 235.
  

  • JWST 237 - Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Society, Antiquity to Modernity


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD
    Topics in Jewish women’s history and the construction of gender in Jewish society from Graeco-Roman antiquity to the present. Studies ‘normative’ constructions of women’s roles, idealized constructions of Jewish maleness and femaleness, and realities of gendered behavior. Using rabbinic and communal materials, women’s letters, memoirs and rituals, explores family and power relations between women and men; women’s economic functions and power; gender and religion; transformation of roles in modernity; gendered responses to persecution; feminism.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with HIST 237.
  

  • JWST 253 - God and Holocaust in Jewish Theology


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU
    This course critically examines several influential paradigms regarding God, faith and Judaism after the Shoah (Holocaust) through the works of theologians, survivors, novelists and artists (e.g., Rubinstein, Bak, Fackenheim, Dawidowicz, Wiesel and Primo Levi). Special attention will be paid to the way in which theological concepts are at play in discourse about the Holocaust even when they are not explicit.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: Z. Raviv

    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
     

     
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with RELG 253
  

  • JWST 254 - Jewish Ethics


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    New course added 10.25.10.

    This course will explore traditional and contemporary Jewish approaches to ethics. Central topics will include questions regarding love and justice, sin and repentance, and the relationship between ethics and law. We will also examine how understandings of Jewish ethics have been shaped by modernity, and we will consider how classical Jewish sources might speak to a range of contemporary moral and political issues.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: G. Claussen
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with RELG 254
  

  • JWST 276 - The Fantastic, the Fictional and the Real in Jewish literature


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    English
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    New course added 10.15.20.

    When do Jewish writers invoke the supernatural? What are the borders of reality and how are they transgressed or transcended? This course will look at the way the surface of reality is perturbed by Golems, Dybbuks and Human Insects, by the unconscious down below and by the law up above. We will answer these questions by reading classic works of Jewish fiction by Kafka, Singer, Agnon, Anski, Pertz and others.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: A. Ofengenden
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
 

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