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Course Catalog 2010-2011 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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

 
  

  • AAST 072 - Blues Aesthetic: Continuity and Transformation


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    The emphasis of this course is upon the thesis that the Black or `Blues Aesthetic’ is a cultural perspective that emerges from within the experiences of Black people, facing the socio-political and economic conditions of modern and contemporary America. Our focus will be upon the traditions of African American music, literature, theater/film, and specifically the visual arts.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: J. Coleman
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • AAST 101 - Introduction to the Black Experience


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    An interdisciplinary exploration of key aspects of Black history, culture, and life in Africa and the Americas. The course attempts to provide students with a fundamental intellectual understanding of the universal Black experience as it has been described and interpreted by humanists and social scientists. Included in the course will be such topics as: the African American Studies movement, the African heritage of Afro-Americans, Pan-African relations, racism and sexism, the family, the role of religion in Black life, class structure and class relations, the political economy of African American life, and Black political power.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: C. Jackson-Smith
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Declared majors are given priority for this course
  

  • AAST 117 - Immigrant and Second-Generation American Literature


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    New Course added 05.05.10.

    This survey course treats the experiences of immigrants of color and their American-born children as central to United States literatures of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. We will learn about literary close reading and oral history by using those methods to examine themes of language, identity, place, and culture. Our texts will include novels, autobiographies, and semi-autobiographical writing about immigrant families from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: A. Ofori-Mensa
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CAST 117
  

  • AAST 118 - Ritual and Performance I: The World According to the Yoruba and their Descendants in the New World


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Spring Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD
    This course will construct and deconstruct popular art through ritual traditions of the Yoruba, KiKongo, and their descendants in the New World, with a specific focus on Hip-Hop. We will explore religious phenomena, performance, and artistic “agency” through the visual, oral, and written representations in like-performance arenas while comparing traditional royal courts and rap “dynasties;” paralleling Kongo Cosmograms to graffiti, political, and gang-related art; and traditional Old World styles to the popular style of today.
     
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes for upperclassmen
    Prerequisites & Notes
    First-year students only; upper classmen by consent.
  

  • AAST 121 - African Presence in the Atlantic World


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course is an introduction to the history of Africans in the Atlantic world from 1441, when the first African slaves were carried by ship from Africa to Portugal, until 1888 when Brazil became the last country to abolish slavery. It addresses such themes as the life of enslaved Africans and their various forms of resistance. Students will also be introduced to the continuities and transformations of African structures and belief systems in the Diaspora.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: G. Gill
  

  • AAST 131 - Traditional African Cosmology


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    How do Africans conceive the origin and nature of their universe? What is their view of God? How do they relate to natural phenomena and the dead? This course surveys traditional African cosmology through various avenues, including systems of believe, philosophy, cultural practices, and state formations. It also probes how African nationalists (e.g. Nkrumah, Nyerere, etc.) invoked such beliefs and practices in the independence struggles and incorporated them into their political philosophies.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Opoku
  

  • AAST 132 - Introduction to African Studies: Patterns, Issues and Controversies


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course introduces students to the study of Africa. It examines the often negative media representation of Africa as a continuation of a long pattern established by colonial anthropologists, officials and literary writers. It also examines the destabilizing impact of colonialism on pre-colonial African political institutions, social organizations, patterns of belief, etc. Africa?s current difficulties can more fully be understood within this context, which contemporary media portrayals of Africa often ignore.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Opoku
  

  • AAST 158 - Something from Something


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Arts
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course is a ‘hands on’ exploration of vernacular visual traditions existing within African American Culture. We will examine design choices/material processes used to define and describe the specificity of lived experience within African American culture. Our focus is upon elders within black communities and the stories that they tell through their work. These ‘folk artists’ function as influences upon contemporary African American artists ranging from Alison Saar, to Renee Stout. These vernacular traditions will serve as resources that extend our own working processes as we tell our own stories.



    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: J. Coleman
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Counts as Visual Concepts and Processes for Art majors.
  

  • AAST 161 - Introduction to Capoeira Angola


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Capoeira Angola is the African-Brazilian martial art that combines dance, music, and combat to create a game of strategy, style and wit. This course will introduce students to the aspects of Capoeira Angola including the movement, music, philosophy and history traced through great masters of the past to its African beginnings in the Bantu’s dance of N’golo. Each class will involve daily physical training and music lessons. Students will also engage in readings and discussions aimed at providing a historic context for contemporary styles and traditions.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Emeka
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with DANC 161. During registration, students should register for AAST 161; during add/drop, students may change to DANC 161 if they prefer.
  

  • AAST 181 - Education in the Black Community


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    The philosophy of a Ghetto Scholar is the sole focus of this course. This highly creative and very original philosophy centers on a Ghetto Scholar’s use of education to pursue the concept of GGG (the greatest good, for the greatest number, for the greatest period). Students are required to think imaginatively, analytically, and independently as they examine critical issues facing Black and other oppressed peoples. Education is essential to the attainment of a world that is liberated, peaceful, and humane.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: B. Peek
  

  • AAST 190 - West African Dance Forms in the Diaspora I: Survey


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course will survey dance movement forms and technique from West Africa to the New World through dance performance. A survey of dance performance using academic discourse as well as a movement vocabulary will be used. The influence of West African movements on the New World will include forms from Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti. This class will be taught from a traditional West African perspective and Pan-African world view.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: M. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with DANC 190.
  

  • AAST 191 - West African Dance Forms in the Diaspora II: Cuba


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course will expand the dance movements, forms, and techniques from AAST 190 class. Extensive dance performance within a particular area (Brazil, Cuba and Haiti) will be examined. The dances will be explored in their total experience in context with costumes and music.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: M. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: AAST/DANC 190 or previous dance experience.



    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with DANC 191.
  

  • AAST 192 - West African Dance Forms in the Diaspora III


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2HU, CD
    This course will expand the dance movements, forms and techniques from the 190 and 191 classes. Extensive dance performance in rituals of Haiti will be examined. The student will explore the dance and rhythms of the RADA and Petro traditions within Haiti, including costumes and music.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: M. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: AAST/DANC 190 or previous dance experience.

     
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with DANC 192
  

  • AAST 201 - African American History to 1865


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    A survey of the cultural, social and political development of African peoples in the United States from their pre-seventeenth century origins to the end of the Civil War. Coverage includes: African culture, the transatlantic slave trade, the slave and free communities, abolitionism and emancipation.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: G. Gill
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • AAST 203 - Pre-Modern African History


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This class will trace the development of human civilization in Africa from ‘Lucy’ to the European Age of Exploration in the 15th and 16th century. The Sahara desert will be used as a centerpiece for connecting not only West, East, and North African experiences, but also connecting these experiences with Mediterranean, Islamic and Indian Ocean regions. Key themes include the Agricultural Revolution, the Bantu Migration, the spread of Christianity and Islam, trade and state construction
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: B. Yates
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with Hist 125
  

  • AAST 204 - Modern African History


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD
    This course explores the historical roots of the present situation in the continent of Africa . Case studies include Ghana, Ethiopia and South Africa, countries representing some of varied African experiences with modernity. Themes encompass: Christianity, Islam, trade, empire building, colonialism, neocolonialism, ethnicity and race. The course provides a general understanding of modern African history that can be used as a foundation for further inquiry.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: B. Yates
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with HIST 141
  

  • AAST 206 - History of the Caribbean to 1838


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies; Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    Beginning with an examination of indigenous Caribbean societies, this course then studies how the various European colonial enterprises affected the region’s social and economic history. It examines such themes as trade, the evolution of labor systems, the establishment of the plantation enterprises, and political and social organizations. A central feature of this course is to understand the evolution of such concepts as class, gender, and ‘race’ in the context of the Caribbean.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: G. Gill
  

  • AAST 213 - Long Walk to Freedom: South Africa Since 1948


    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 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course provides students with a political and social history of South Africa’s struggle for true democracy. Beginning with the National Party’s launching of apartheid in 1948, the course also includes a discussion of the pre-1948 development of white supremacy, national liberation and new structures of governance, the 1996 National Constitution, and newer social and economic challenges to South African progress. A variety of sources, including cultural, will complement Leonard Thompson’s historical text.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: P. Brooks
  

  • AAST 219 - Freedom Movements: Civil Rights and Black Power


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD
    This course offers an analysis of the many singular and communal acts waged by Black people in the U.S. in pursuit of justice from 1955-1968 and beyond. It illuminates the philosophical, moral, political, and practical meanings of freedom as interpreted by communities, organizations and individuals. Using a host of personal testimonies, as well as important secondary works, this course considers questions of leadership, organization, tactics, goals, gender relations, politics, and the economic implications of such a critical moment in African American and U.S. history.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: P. Brooks
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • AAST 225 - Women in Caribbean History


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies; Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course studies the economic, social, cultural and political activities of women in the Caribbean from the era of Pre-conquest to the dawn of political independence in the various colonies. It will therefore begin with an examination of the lives of indigenous Caribbean women and continue with an analysis of the historical setting and factors which affected the behavior of women of African, European, Chinese and Indian descent.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: G. Gill
  

  • AAST 226 - Slave Revolts in Atlantic Wrld


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Open revolt was but one expression of resistance to slavery. Throughout the Atlantic World enslaved Africans and their progeny plotted revolts and in hundreds of cases were able to foment rebellions but only one was successful. This course provides an in-depth examination of these phenomena in the Atlantic World by analyzing their aims, planning and execution. It also seeks to understand why they failed and why the Haitian Revolution was the only successful slave revolt.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: G. Gill
  

  • AAST 228 - Katrina and the Black Freedom Struggle


    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): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course situates August 29, 2005 and the meaning of the Katrina disaster in the history of Black Struggle in Louisiana and the surrounding region. Using texts such as Adam Fairclough’s Race and Democracy, Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke, and Hartman and Squires’s There Is No Such Thing As A Natural Disaster, students examine the historical interplay of race, gender, poverty, and the politics of resistance in a unique area of the U. S. South.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: P. Brooks
  

  • AAST 235 - Government and Politics of Africa


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    This course examines pre-colonial African political and social systems and how these were weakened by the imposition of colonialism. It also considers the rise of leaders such as Nkrumah, Kenyatta and Nyerere, the liberation struggles and the wave of independence that swept through Africa in the 1960s. While acknowledging Africa’s development challenges, this course also highlights recent developments such as relative political stability, democratic deepening and the emergence of the African Union as constituting grounds for hope.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Opoku
  

  • AAST 236 - Politics and Society in Africa since the 1980s


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    Two momentous changes have occurred in Africa since the 1980s. The first was the shift to liberal economic reforms commonly called structural adjustment. The second was democratization. These changes, many argue, have vastly diminished the autonomy of the African state, and enabled external hegemonic powers to gain unprecedented influence in Africa since independence. This course examines the political, social and economic implications of these changes at both local and international levels.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Opoku
  

  • AAST 240 - How to Win a Beauty Pageant: Race, Gender, Culture, and U.S. National Identity


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    New Course added 05.05.10.

    This course examines US beauty pageants from the 1920s to the present. Our aim will be to analyze pageantry as a unique site for the interplay of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation. We will learn about cultural studies methodology, including close reading, cultural history, critical discourse analysis, and ethnography, and use those methods to understand the changing identity of the US over time. This course includes a field visit to a pageant in Ohio.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: A. Ofori-Mensa
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CAST 240
  

  • AAST 244 - Modern African Literature


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    An examination of 20th and 21st century African literature in English with a focus on the political and economic realities of modern day Africa. Keeping in mind that being a writer in Africa is a political act, often punishable by imprisonment and even death, we will appreciate African literature as a platform for political and social critique, as well as the multiplicity of African lives and cultures. Some authors discussed: Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo and Ben Okri.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: M. Gadsby
  

  • AAST 247 - Black Popular Literature


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD, WR
    This Course will examine the emergence of African American popular literature, or literature that exists outside of the widely accepeted canon and will examine the methods used by authors such as Zane, J California Cooper, and Omar Tyree to discuss issues such as sexuality, eroticism, incarceration, poverty, and violence. We will also deal with the politics of canonicity.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: M. Gadsby
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    AAST 141 or AAST 101
  

  • AAST 258 - Talking Book


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Arts
    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This class is a hands on exploration of spoken/written narrative within African American visual tradition(s). We will view works by Carrie Mae Weems, Faith Ringgold, David Hammons, Lil’ Willie, Glen Ligon, and many more. These artists will serve as models for the layering of voices gathered and conjured within class projects. Students will be required to write, perform, compose (visually, and/or sonically) tapestries of voices carried within themselves. Projects will range from portraits of self, to portraits of place and time. Sound equipment will be made available to students enrolled (no previous experience necessary)

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: J. Coleman
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Counts as Visual Concepts and Processes for Art Majors.
  

  • AAST 261 - Framing Blackness: African Americans and Film In The United States, 1915 to the Present


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Cinema Studies
    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    Through an interrogation of Hollywood’s construction of Black images and the development of African American independent cinema, this class will examine the multifaceted relationship of African American people to the powerful medium of film. Drawing its title from Ed Guerrero’s book of the same name, ‘Framing Blackness’ will draw on historical and critical readings as well as film viewing. The course will also track the rise of independent Black voice in film and the development of a distinctively Afrocentric aesthetic. Discussions and paper will be used for evaluation.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: C. Jackson-Smith
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • AAST 262 - Capoeira Angola II


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Dance
    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This is a continuation in the study of Capoeira Angola. Students will continue to build strength, coordination, rhythm, and balance as well as learn to play rhythms on all the instruments of Capoeira Angola with special attention given to the berimbau. Readings and discussions will further explore the history and emergence of Capoeira Angola as a tool for African spirituality, liberation and Cultural Revolution within the new world. Throughout the semester students will engage in special events and performances that present our work to the campus community.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Emeka
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: AAST/DANC 161 or consent of instructor.

     
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with DANC 262.

  

  • AAST 264 - African American Drama


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This class surveys plays written by Black Americans from the post-slavery period through the late 20th century. An overview of the history of African-American performance is followed by reading and discussion of current criticism and a wide selection of plays by writers such as James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Adrienne Kennedy, Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, August Wilson, and George Wolfe. Requirements include papers, journals and scene work.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: C. Jackson-Smith
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with THEA 264.
  

  • AAST 268 - Black Arts Workshop


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD
    The Black Arts Workshop combines theory and performance in African American cultural styles. Readings and discussions encompass  Afrocentric philosophy, history, religion and aesthetics, dance, music, visual arts and drama. Classroom exercises focus on meditation, movement, dance and acting skills. In the latter part of the semester there is a focus on Black theater including scene work. Written work is required. Final projects are to be creative in nature.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: C. Jackson-Smith
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with THEA 268.
  

  • AAST 272 - Great Musical Thinkers in the African American Tradition


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course is and in-depth exploration into the musical life expressions and cultural aesthetics of John Coltrane, Eric Doplhy, Yusef Lateef, Ornette Coleman and other great contributors to the continuum of the African-American improvisational tradition. Each are multi-instrumentalists who have created specialized music. Focus will be on their regions of origin, migrations, communal interactions, their inspirations and influences of those who helped shape their musical philosophies.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: R. Jones
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • AAST 281 - Practicum in Tutoring


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3SS, CD
    Tutors offer academic help to children in schools, homes, etc. Focus is on academically weak children generally, and on Black children specifically. By critiquing the instructor’s tutorial demonstrations, tutors develop an appreciation and understanding of the Master Tutor Concept.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: B. Peek
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: Repeatable up to eight hours. P/NP or CR/NE grading. TB test required. Obtain and return questionnaires before tutoring.
  

  • AAST 285 - African American Women’s Hist


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: CD, 3SS, WR
    A general survey of the history of Black women from colonial times to the present. This course will examine the uniqueness of the Black female experience through the lens of the intersection of race, class and sex in American society. This course studies the lives of Black women from slavery through reconstruction, northern migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, and on to the development of a contemporary Black feminism. The course includes literature and political commentary from Black women writers and activists.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: P. Brooks
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • AAST 290 - Ritual & Performance II


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Dance
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    This course will further explore the religious phenomenon discussed in AAST 118 in performance and artistic agency of the Yoruba and Kongo as their descendants develop the secular Blues’ dance and music. This course will also explore the Blues’ on-going artistic and musical tradition that includes the greater Mali Empire’s tradition of the Griot and the codes and signals used in Blues that are the choices of its artistic expression and its uses in the performance arena.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • AAST 302 - 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: 20
    Instructor: B. Yates
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with HIST 386
  

  • AAST 321 - Seminar: Black Feminist Thought: A Historical Perspective


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD,WR
    This seminar course will explore and analyze the evolution of intellectual discourse among African-American women from slavery to the present. Particular attention will be given to the interplay of ideas about race and gender and the social and economic position of black women at various time periods. Sources will include autobiographies, novels, historical documents, sociological studies and modern feminist social critiques.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: P. Brooks
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: AAST 220 or consent of instructor.
  

  • AAST 337 - African Capitalists and African Development: Seminar


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    POLT
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    The World Bank, backed by the West, has been leading efforts to stimulate capitalism and development in Africa. African capitalists have been conceived as the linchpin of this project, but their ability to spearhead economic growth has been disappointing. This course examines why this is the case, highlighting the political and institutional barriers to the rise of African capitalists, and their implications for development.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: D. Opoku
  

  • AAST 347 - Culture, History, and Identity: Caribbean Literature and the Politics of Survival


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latrin American Studies, Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course serves as introduction to Caribbean Literature. Students will examine a wide range of texts that exemplify the beginning and evolution of a literary tradition that is located on a continuum of African Diasporic Literatures. Our discussion will engage the historical, political, and cultural contexts out of which Caribbean Literature has emerged, particularly struggles against colonialism, neocolonialism, sexism, and global capitalism. Some authors discussed are Michelle Cliff, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, and Nalo Hopkinson.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: M. Gadsby
  

  • AAST 350 - Intermediate Seminar: Research and Practice in African American Studies


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD
    Students enrolled in this course will engage in focused study and analysis of African American Studies methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to the field as foundation for the advanced research pursued in the Senior Seminar. Students will explore interdisciplinarity in an African American Studies context, what disciplines inform African American Studies methodologies, and examine the circumstances that led to the establishment of Black/African American/Africana Studies Departments and Programs in the United States.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: M. Gadsby
  

  • AAST 363 - Capoeira Angola III


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Dance
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 1HU, 1SS, CD
    Students will refine previous skills and focus on developing individual creativity and confidence while continuing to build balance, rhythm, and strength. Students will be expected to achieve and demonstrate a high level of proficiency in all aspects of Capoeira Angola including singing songs, creating unique combinations, and playing all instruments with special attention given to the Berimbau. Students will engage in readings that explore contemporary issues and struggles within Capoeira Angola. Throughout the semester students will engage in special events and performances that present Capoeira Angola to the campus community.
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: J. Emeka
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: AAST 161
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with Dance 363
  

  • AAST 368 - Black Arts Workshop II: African Diasporan Culture in Perfomance from Blues to Hip Hop


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    This course continues the inquiry begun in AAST/THEA 268 focusing on the Western Hemispheric inheritance from traditional African cultures. This course will focus on performance in sacred and secular cultures of the African diaspora in the mid-to-late 20th century. The class will hone performance skills through in-class exercises and assignments, and intellectual and critical skills through reading, discussions, presentations, journals and critical papers examining aesthetic and cultural performance theories. The course will culminate in a final performance.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: C. Jackson-Smith
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: AAST/THEA 268 or other AAST Fine Arts classes taught by Professors Coleman, Sharpley and/or Logan.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with THEA 368
  

  • AAST 390 - Essence Dance Class


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3HU, CD
    This course is designed to promote and develop creativity in dance performance through the Black experience. A variety of dance forms will be used such as: modern, Afro-forms, and Black urban vernacular dances. Students are expected to purchase costumes.



    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: AAST 101, AAST 190, or AAST/DANC 191.

    P/NP grading. Note:

    This class may be repeated for a maximum of four accumulated hours.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with DANC 390.
  

  • AAST 391 - Dance Diaspora


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-3 hours
    Attribute: 2-3HU, CD
    Faculty directed performance project. Auditions are held during each semester before enrollment.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: May be repeated for a maximum of four accumulated hours. Auditions are held in spring semester for fall enrollment. African American Studies majors and Dance majors will have first priority.



    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with DANC 391.
  

  • AAST 450 - Senior Seminar


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WR
    This course will cover aspects of philosophy, history, methodology and research methods in the discipline.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: P. Brooks
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Juniors who are majors will be accepted only with consent of instructor or department chair. This is a required course for all African American Studies majors during the senior year.
  

  • AAST 500 - Junior Honors Project


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    Specialized readings pertaining to a well-defined Honors project. Students must be supervised by a member of the department to identify research sources.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: M. Gadsby
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Honors Program is by departmental invitation.
  

  • AAST 501 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-6 hours
    Attribute: 3-6SS, CD, WR
    The preparation of Honors theses under the supervision of faculty supervisors. Consent of chair required.
    Instructor: P. Brooks, J. Coleman, M. Gadsby, G. Gill, C. Jackson Smith, A. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Honors Program is by departmental invitation
  

  • AAST 502 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-6 hours
    Attribute: 3-6SS, CD, WR
    The preparation of Honors theses under the supervision of faculty supervisors. Consent of chair required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: P. Brooks, J. Coleman, M. Gadsby, G. Gill, C. Jackson Smith, A. Sharpley
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Honors Program is by departmental invitation.
  

  • AAST 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3SS, CD
    Open to any student who is interested in undertaking a Private Reading course with a member of the department. Signature of the instructor is required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: P. Brooks, J. Coleman, J. Emeka, M. Gadsby, G. Gill, C. Jackson-Smith, D. Opoku, B. Peek, M. Sharpley, B. Yates
    Consent of the Instructor Required? A Private Reading Card must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office
  

  • ACHS 200 - Archeological Field Course


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS
    A four week summer course in field archaeology offered in conjunction with the Sangro Valley Project, a joint archaeological project of Oberlin College and Oxford University (www.sangro.org) at the Samnite/Roman site of Monte Pallano in the Abruzzo, Italy. Participants will learn theoretical and practical aspects of excavation. There will also be field trips, lectures on the history of the region, and discussions of the current problems facing professionals in the field of heritage resource management. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 6.
    Instructor: S. Kane
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ARTS 413.
  

  • ACHS 210 - Readings on the Techniques of Archaeological Excavation


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 SS
    This course is highly recommended for students planning to enroll in ARTS 413/ACHS 200 Archaeological Field Course and will consist of directed readings on archaeological field work techniques and methods.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     
    Instructor: S. Kane
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
       
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ARTS 403
  

  • ACHS 250 - Advanced Archeological Field Course


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 5 Hours
    Attribute: 5 SS
    A four week summer course for students with previous fieldwork experience who wish to further their training in archaeological field methods and research. Offered in conjunction with the Sangro Valley Project in the Abruzzo, Italy (www.sangro.org). The seven week course will include pre-season training; four weeks of excavation; and post-excavation analysis. Students taking this course will serve as trench supervisors and/or laboratory/technical assistants under the supervision of the senior personnel; they will also collaborate with professional staff in their ongoing research projects. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 6.
    Instructor: S. Kane
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ARTS 423.
  

  • ACHS 300 - Senior Project


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 to 3 hours
    Attribute: 1 to 3 SS
    Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: S. Kane
  

  • ACHS 400 - Honors


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 to 5 Hours
    Attribute: 2 to 5 EX
    Honors. Archeological Studies majors may undertake Honors research during their senior year under the supervision of a faculty advisor who is normally a member of the Curricular Committee on Archeology. An Honors Project normally consists of a written thesis or other creative project based on original library, laboratory, or field research, or some combination thereof. The final project is submitted in the spring semester of the senior year and followed by a public presentation. Consent of instructor required.
     

     

    Instructor: S. Kane
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Students who qualify for Honors and are interested in the program should consult with the program director by the beginning of the second semester in his or her junior year. Honors proposals are due on or about April 15.
     
  

  • ACHS 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): .5 to 3 Hours
    Attribute: .5 to 3 EX
    Signature of the instructor is required.
    Instructor: S. Kane
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Instructor and department chair signature is required.
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note:  Available as extra-divisional credit only.  To register for a private reading, the student must obtain the signatures of the instructor and department chair on a private reading card and turn the card in to the Office of the Registrar.
  

  • ANTH 101 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    An introduction to cultural anthropology through an examination of basic concepts, methods, and theories that anthropologists employ in order to understand the unity and diversity of human thought and action cross-culturally. Language and culture, kinship and the family, politics and conflict, religion and belief, and the impact of social change and globalization on traditional institutions are some of the topics to be considered in a range of ethnographic contexts.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: J. Glazier, J. Haugen, B. Pineda
  

  • ANTH 102 - Human Origins


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course focuses on paleoanthropology and is an introduction to the evolutionary development of humans. We will examine biological relationships between humans and other primates, primate behavior and classification, and the fossil evidence for human evolution. Emphasis will be placed on the methods used in the study of prehistoric human biological and cultural development.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: A. Margaris
  

  • ANTH 103 - Introduction to Archeology


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    An introduction to the subfield of anthropology concerned with past human cultures. A basic objective is to acquaint students with both the methods and techniques that archeologists employ in the study and reconstruction of prehistoric societies. Examples will be drawn from a variety of archeological situations ranging from simple hunting and gathering societies to complex chiefdoms and states. Matters of contemporary debate in the area of archeology and the public will also be considered.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: A. Margaris
  

  • ANTH 204 - Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course is an introduction to the subfield of linguistic anthropology. Topics include surveys of theories of language and culture and theories of linguistic diversity (including contributions of such seminal figures as Boas, Sapir, and Whorf), ethnographic methods (including conceptions of speech communities, practices of observing, interviewing, and recording, and discussion of ethics), methods of transcription, and contemporary approaches to understanding language and meaning and language as social action.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: E. Hoffmann-Dilloway
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: One introductory course. The course is intended as a prerequisite for more advanced courses in Linguistic Anthropology and in related areas. No prior coursework in language and culture is required.
  

  • ANTH 210 - Indigenous Peoples of Latin America


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Hispanic Studies, Latin American Studies
    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    The purpose of this course is to introduce students to modern historical, ethnohistorical and anthropological approaches to the indigenous populations of Latin America. The course will focus on the ongoing process of conflict and accommodation that has characterized the relationship between the native peoples of the New World and those of the Old World. We will study indigenous social movements dealing with issues such as land claims, natural resources, economic development, cultural recognition and human rights. 

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: ANTH 101.
  

  • ANTH 212 - Ecological Perspectives on Small-Scale Societies


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    Popular conceptions regard forager societies as primitive and naive or as prescient conservationists. In this course we will use an ecological framework to explore diversity in forager cultures, and the complex relationships that exist between small-scale societies and their environments. We will also consider the relevance of contemporary foragers to the study of the prehistoric past, and the futures of these groups as they are increasingly drawn into the global economic market.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: A. Margaris
  

  • ANTH 243 - Language and the Body: Embodied Communication in Cross-cultural Perspective


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course introduces students to anthropological perspectives on embodied communication, including natural and experimental studies of primate communication, and cross-cultural studies of body language, gesture, and sign languages in human societies. Our approach to these topics will draw on biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropological perspectives. Students will conduct research projects that they will present to the class in the form of a paper, a poster project, or a video project. One introductory course (100 level) in Anthropology or the equivalent.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: E. Hoffmann-Dilloway
  

  • ANTH 246 - The Nature of Human Language


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course approaches language as fundamental to the study of human nature itself. Questions addressed include: What properties of language inform our understanding of ourselves as a species? How might human language be fundamentally different from other animal communication systems? How did language evolve? Did the capacity for linguistic complexity emerge gradually over time, or relatively suddenly? Is there a Universal Grammar shared by all humans? How is language instantiated in the human mind/brain?
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Haugen
  

  • ANTH 271 - Ethnomedicine in South America


    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): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    How are worldview, illness, medical choice, curing, and political economy intertwined? This course introduces students to the anthropological study of traditional medicine in South America. Through an examination of case studies that span lowland and highland environments, we will explore the cultural dynamics of Indigenous medical beliefs and practices, attending to the ways gender, age, class, and local ecology shape people?s experience of sickness, health, and healing in the context of rapid global change.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: M. Callahan
  

  • ANTH 278 - Human Rights, Universalism and Cultural Relativism


    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: 3SS, CD
    Through an examination of the ways in which people in different societies identify and define ethical and social standards, this course will examine the concept of universal human rights. This course will consider the tension between universal claims and cultural relativism. We will also document and analyze the development of international efforts to apply universal rights.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: B. Pineda
  

  • ANTH 306 - Literacies in Social Context


    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 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This class argues that literacies must be understood in the socio-cultural and historical contexts in which they are used, as we examine the ways in which they are linked to social relationships, technologies, talk, and actions. In particular, we will address questions of authority and dominance, through an exploration of the role of literacy, nationalism, and education in class stratification and the formation of gender, racial, and ethnic identities. We will also consider the significance of emerging and alternative literacies.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: E. Hoffmann-Dilloway
  

  • ANTH 353 - Culture Theory


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    A critical examination of major issues in the study of culture since the late nineteenth century through a discussion of cultural evolution and neo-evolution, materialism and cultural ecology, functionalism and ecosystems theory, interpretive and symbolic anthropology, structuralism and political economy. Ethnography, science and humanism, and the relationships between various theories are also considered. Recent multicultural and postmodernist efforts at cultural explanation on the part of anthropologists and other scholars will be examined.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Glazier
  

  • ANTH 376 - Language and Prehistory


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course examines what anthropologists can glean from the prehistoric human past through the study of language relatedness, linguistic reconstruction, and language change. The major theoretical approaches to and methodologies of historical linguistics will be introduced and then applied to specific case studies from around the world. Major issues to be addressed will include prehistoric population contacts and movements, as well as the reconstruction of protolanguages and protocultures.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: J. Haugen
  

  • ANTH 391 - Practicum in Anthropology


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3SS
    Junior or senior majors in the department may receive up to three hours of credit for applied fieldwork in anthropology. The work should be carried out in connection with a systematic course of reading and the writing of a paper on the topic of the project. The purpose of the paper is to tie the field experience to relevant anthropological principles. The program should be worked out in advance with a department faculty sponsor.
    Instructor: J. Glazier, E. Hoffmann-Dilloway, A. Margaris, B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ANTH 413 - From Comanches to Aztecs


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course explores the changing lifeways of one historically related group, the Uto-Aztecans, who over millennia developed radically different social systems: state-level societies with major urban centers (Aztecs), agriculturalists living in small towns (Hopis) or small dispersed groups (Yaquis), and bands of hunter-gatherers (Comanches). We will examine their major differences at the time of European contact, ways colonialism differently transformed their cultures, and how and where the original population may have originated and dispersed.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: J. Haugen
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ANTH 415 - Internships in Teaching


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-2 hours
    Attribute: 1-2SS
    Qualified seniors who wish to assist in the teaching of specific courses may, upon consent of the instructor, achieve one or two hours for their work in such courses. Assistance with laboratory sessions, data analysis, and the research concerns of students in the class compose the major activities of the teaching internships.
    Instructor: J. Glazier, E. Hoffmann-Dilloway, A. Margaris, B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ANTH 416 - Race, Racism, and Human Variation in Global Perspective


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    The belief that the inborn characteristics of groups of people are responsible for differences in achievement, among other things, between them is present in one form or another in every society. In this seminar we will use a four-fields approach (biological and cultural) to examine both the underlying patterns of human biological variation as well as the varied manifestations of race and racism today. Case studies will be drawn from across the globe.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ANTH 456 - Seminar in Culture Contact and Colonialism


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course focuses on anthropological approaches to culture contact and colonialism. We will trace the development of theoretical models relating to gender and ethnicity, acculturation, frontiers and boundaries, and World-Systems theory. Through case studies and student-facilitated discussion we will explore how anthropologists attempt to construct explanatory frameworks for culture contact that have wide applicability, while acknowledging the uniqueness of individual cultures and the historical paths they have traveled.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: A. Margaris
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ANTH 475 - Seminar in Anthropology and Multiculturalism


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD, WR
    Modern anthropology defines itself through the concept of culture, a methodology for its study, and theories explaining cultural phenomena. Multiculturalism articulates ostensibly similar concerns yet remains largely indifferent to anthropology. Through extensive readings in anthropology and multiculturalism, we will closely examine modern anthropological understandings of culture, multiculturalism’s goals and its limited appropriation of the culture concept, and the political and historical basis both for these developments and for the separate tracks of anthropology and multiculturalism. 
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: J. Glazier
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    ANTH 101 and one additional course in anthropology. Junior or Senior standing.
  

  • ANTH 490 - Junior Year Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-3 hours
    Attribute: 2-3SS
    Junior honors. Requires consent of the instructor.
    Instructor: J. Glazier, E. Hoffmann-Dilloway, A. Margaris, B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Open only to second semester junior majors.
  

  • ANTH 491 - Senior Year Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-6 hours
    Attribute: 2-6SS
    Senior year honors. Requires consent of the instructor.
    Instructor: J. Glazier, E. Hoffmann-Dilloway, A. Margaris, B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • ANTH 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3SS
    Private readings with a faculty member from the department. The signature of the instructor is required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: J. Glazier, J. Haugen, E. Hoffmann-Dilloway, A. Margaris, B. Pineda
    Consent of the Instructor Required? A signed Private Reading card must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office
  

  • APST 110 - Piano Class


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A basic one-year course (should be taken in the freshman year) including technique, sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, accompaniment, and piano repertoire. Section numbers  (last two digits) relate to placement levels.
    Instructor: L. Kennedy, S. Pierce
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission by placement/audition. Open only to Conservatory students who must complete a piano requirement.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 12.
  

  • APST 111 - Piano Class


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A basic one-year course (should be taken in the freshman year) including technique, sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, accompaniment and piano repertoire. Section numbers (last two digits) relate to placement levels.
    Instructor: L. Kennedy, S. Pierce
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission by placement/audition.
    Open only to Conservatory students who must complete a piano requirement.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 12.
  

  • APST 112 - Keyboard Accompanying (Vocal)


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Following a brief placement audition, pianists are paired with singers according to the needs of the voice department. Students may also make arrangements to accompany specific singers, subject to accompanying faculty’s approval. Accompanying projects are supervised by the voice teacher and accompanying faculty. Five hours of weekly contact time are expected, including rehearsals, voice lessons, coachings with accompanying faculty, but not practice time.
    Instructor: P. Highfill
    Prerequisites & Notes
    May be repeated for credit. Open to all keyboard players.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 25.
  

  • APST 113 - Keyboard Accomp (Instrumental)


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Assignments will be made from repertoire requests submitted by the applied faculty. Students are encouraged to make arrangements to accompany specific instrumentalists, subject to accompanying faculty?s approval. Accompanying projects will be supervised by the instrumental teacher and accompanying faculty. Five hours of weekly contact time are expected, including weekly master classes with accompanying faculty, rehearsals, lessons, coachings, but not individual practice time.
    Instructor: J. Howsmon
    Prerequisites & Notes
    May be repeated for credit.
    Open to all keyboard players.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 40.
  

  • APST 120A; 120B - Time Travel for Pianists


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester; First Module & Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1
    Attribute: CNDP
    A one-module course. Historical keyboard instruments (various fortepianos and clavichords) are used as experimental tools for learning about style. Students will be expected to bring pieces they are studying or have studied (Bach through Liszt) to a weekly meeting with the instructor, and will be expected to make a presentation in class, at the end of the module. May be repeated for credit with permission of the instructor.

    Instructor’s consent with the permission of the principal teacher.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 4
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Pass/No Pass Grading only
  

  • APST 130 - Viola Class


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    A one-semester course required of all students whose principal applied study is violin. The course is designed to familiarize the student with viola technique and clef reading.
    Instructor: K. Ritscher
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course may be waived by examination.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 6. 
  

  • APST 140 - Internalizing Rhythms


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    A workshop for instrumentalists and vocalists that focuses on the student’s ability to internalize and comprehend a range of rhythms that originate in multiple cultures. The teaching emphasizes speaking rhythm and then performing the lessons on the frame drum. The course materials are based upon a contemporary application of old-world teaching methods from North Africa, the Mid-east, and South India. The rhythms are poly-rhythmical an cyclical in nature. The playing techniques implemented are basic hand and finger techniques adapted from South Indian drumming and can be applied to a variety of percussion instruments.
    Instructor: J. Haddad
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
  

  • APST 141 - Internalizing Rhythms II


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Continues work on the concepts of levels of rhythms and the ways to view them. The effect of these lessons is meant to give the student a greater sense of the mystical power of something simply done in a clear profound fashion. The class will explore how the split finger drum technique can be applied to other drums and percussion instruments, and watch and hear audio examples of a variety of indigenous musicians  from around the world and discuss the aspects that transcend style on a global music basis. Applying the concepts shared in class, students will start to create some pieces using the frame drum and a family of other percussion instruments that the instructor will provide. Class assignments will include original short basic compositions or adaptations of known songs that show a level of mastery of the concepts presented in class.
    Instructor: J. Haddad
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of the instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
  

  • APST 204 - Interpretation of Art Song


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Individual coaching sessions for singer/accompanist duos on musical style, interpretation, ensemble, languages, and presentation. Students who begin coaching first semester for a second semester recital will receive a deferred grade pending completion of the recital. Piano majors may substitute this course for one of the required keyboard accompanying credits. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 8. Prerequisites and Notes Note: Accompanists may repeat the course for credit once. Open to seniors and artist diploma candidates preparing degree recitals, and to their accompanists.
    Instructor: P. Highfill
  

  • APST 208 - Guided Piano Pedagogy Proj


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    An independent study course for prospective and declared piano pedagogy minors. Students must propose and complete a significant written research project in the field of piano pedagogy and present their work in a public lecture-demonstration. Topics may be drawn from the piano teaching literature, current pedagogical trends, or historical pedagogy.
    Instructor: S. Pierce
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to declared piano pedagogy minors only.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 5.
  

  • APST 209 - Guided Teaching Observation


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    A student will observe a series of individual and group lessons to become familiar with a variety of teaching styles and pedagogical approaches.
    Instructor: S. Pierce
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Requirements will include a portfolio of observation reports and regular consultation with the instructor.
    Open to piano pedagogy minors or those intending to pursue the minor.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 5.
  

  • APST 210 - Intermediate Piano Pedagogy


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    General introduction for pianists to pedagogical principles, teaching repertoire, and learning materials and technology, with focus on teaching intermediate level students. Students will engage in lecture-discussions, critically respond to assigned readings, examine current teaching materials, and contribute regularly to a web-based discussion group.
    Instructor: S. Pierce
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Observation and practice teaching of private and group lessons is required.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 13.
  

  • APST 211 - Elementary Piano Pedagogy


    Next Offered: [2009 - 2010]
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A one-semester introduction to the teaching of beginning piano and musicianship skills to young students in group and private settings. The course covers philosophical and developmental issues; as well as a thorough review of methods, materials, resources, and techniques for teaching at the elementary level. Weekly one-hour lecture; regular supervised group and private teaching experiences.
    Instructor: A. McAlister
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 8.
    Prerequisites and Notes Open to piano majors or principals.
  

  • APST 212 - Advanced Piano Class


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A continuation of APST 110, 111 Piano Class, including advanced work in technique, sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, accompaniment, and piano repertoire.
    Instructor: S. Pierce
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open only to Conservatory students.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 12.
  

  • APST 213 - Advanced Piano Class


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    A continuation of APST 110, 111 Piano Class, including advanced work in technique, sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, accompaniment and piano repertoire.
    Instructor: S. Pierce
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open only to Conservatory students.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 12.
  

  • APST 214 - Keyboard Skills I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Intensive practical experience in functional keyboard skills including keyboard harmony, sight reading, transposition, improvisation, score reading, continuo playing.
    Instructor: D. Breitman, W. Wiggins, J. Mitchener
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUTH 132, APST 214 (or the waiver exam) is prerequisite to APST 215.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 8.
  

  • APST 215 - Keyboard Skills II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Intensive practical experience in functional keyboard skills including keyboard harmony, sight reading, transposition, improvisation, score reading, continuo playing.
    Instructor: D. Breitman, W. Wiggins, J. Mitchener
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUTH 132, APST 214 (or the waiver exam) is prerequisite to APST 215.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 8.
  

  • APST 221 - Sacred Music Skills


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    First semester of a one-year course having an emphasis on skills necessary to become a successful church/synagogue musician. Units include historical and modern church music history, the role of the organist in the modern synagogue, hymnology, liturgy and worship styles, creative hymn playing, chant, accompanying, sight-reading, transposition, basic skills in improvisation, conducting from the console, rehearsal techniques, basic sacred choral repertoire, and church music administration.
    Instructor: J. Mitchener
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to organ majors.
    Offered in alternate years.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
  

  • APST 222 - Sacred Music Skills


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Second semester of a one-year course having an emphasis on skills necessary to become a successful church/synagogue musician. Units include historical and modern church music history, the role of the organist in the modern synagogue, hymnology, liturgy and worship styles, creative hymn playing, chant, accompanying, sight-reading, transposition, basic skills in improvisation, conducting from the console, rehearsal techniques, basic sacred choral repertoire, and church music administration.
    Instructor: J. Mitchener
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to organ majors.
    Offered in alternate years.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
  

  • APST 230 - The Teaching of Singing


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    The first part of the course is designed as an introduction to aspects of physiology, acoustics, and phonetics of the singing instrument, relating them directly to comparative vocal techniques and to the materials of teaching. It presents practical application of systematic vocal technique to the teaching of singing. The Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center will be heavily relied upon as a resource for the course. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: L. Manz
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Significant vocal study.
    Junior or senior status required.
  

  • APST 234 - Flute Pedagogy


    Next Offered: TBD
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    A one-semester course examining the various teaching techniques and methods for beginning through college level flutists. The course will include lectures and teaching observed by the class to be followed by discussion sessions. Participants will also teach supervised private lessons on a pay basis. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 6.
    Instructor: K. Chastain
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to flute performance majors.
  

  • APST 235 - Percussion Instruments


    Next Offered: TBD
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Designed to give students knowledge of the pedagogy of percussion instruments, materials and method books, and methods for building percussion sections of school ensembles. All percussion instruments are demonstrated and basic techniques taught, each student being required to develop basic playing ability. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: M. Rosen
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Primarily for music education majors.
 

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