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

 
  

  • CHIN 454 - Advanced Topics in Chinese II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Fifth-year Chinese. Continuation of CHIN 453. This advanced language course is designed for students who have completed 4th-year Chinese or the equivalent. It focuses particularly on reading and writing proficiency. Course materials are selected from classical and contemporary literature or historical/political essays with emphasis on deepening students’ comprehension of Chinese language, culture and society. Conducted in Chinese.
    Instructor: K. Li
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CHIN 453 or consent of instructor.
  

  • CHIN 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: H. Deppman, K. Li, F. Liu
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • CHIN 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU, CD
    Independent study of a Chinese subject beyond the range of catalog course offerings.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: H. Deppman, K. Li, F. Liu, Staff
    Consent of the Instructor Required? A signed Private Reading Card must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office
  

  • CINE 110 - What is Cinema?


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    This course considers the cinema as a particular media form and explores issues and methods in cinema studies. The class focuses on questions of film form and style (narrative, editing, sound, framing, mise-en-scene) and introduces students to concepts in film history and theory (industry, auteurism, spectatorship, the star system, ideology, genre). Students develop a basic critical vocabulary for examining the cinema as an art form, an industry, and a system of culturally meaningful representation.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 45
    Instructor: B. Doan
    Prerequisites & Notes
    CINE 110 has no prerequisites. Some spaces are reserved for first- and second-year students.
  

  • CINE 244 - Masters Of World Cinema: Focus On Fellini


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2HU
    A critical analysis and discussion of Federico Fellini’s most celebrated films from his earlier films associated with post-war Italian neorealism to his internationally acclaimed baroque film fantasies of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Special emphasis will be placed on Fellini’s ambiguous relationship to Italy’s political left and neorealism and to the critical controversies surrounding his later films. The evolution of his distinctive and influential film style will be traced out in La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits, Amarcord, and Intervista.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: D. Goulding
  

  • CINE 245 - Masters Of World Cinema: Focus On Kieslowski


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2HU
    One of the leading figures in East European cinema of the 1970s and 1980s, Krzysztof Kieslowski was closely associated with Poland’s Cinema of Moral Concern which helped give birth to the Solidarity movement and the collapse of Poland’s Communist regime. He later gained international critical acclaim for his 1990s French/Polish co-produced film trilogy White, Blue, and Red. Kieslowski’s films receiving close critical attention include Blind Chance, the monumental Decalogue, and the tricolor trilogy, White, Blue, and Red.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: D. Goulding
  

  • CINE 250 - French Cinema: National Traditions, Global Horizons


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
    This historical survey will expose students to the directors, movements, and periods that have represented French filmmaking since its beginning (ie. Lumiere, Melies, Surrealism, 1930s Poetic Realism, Occupation, New Wave, contemporary film). A study of the history of industrialization, cultural policy, and state regulation will also help show the conceptualization of French cinema as a “national cinema,” despite its international artistic heritage and audiences, and as a particular kind of interface representing Frenchness within and beyond France. Taught in English.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: G. An
    Prerequisites & Notes
    No prerequisite, but CINE 110 or another course in French is strongly recommended.

     
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with FREN 250.
  

  • CINE 270 - Comics, Animation and American Film Culture


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    English
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This class looks at the intersections of comics, animated films and live-action cinema in relationship to American film culture, and how all three forms offer their audiences a unique form of visual communication throughout the twentieth century. By thinking about these three forms in detail, we will also explore how what one artist has called ‘sequential literature’ challenges paradigms of reading, and by extension, writing, criticism and theory.



    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: B. Doan
  

  • CINE 298 - Form/Style/Meaning/Media


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    This course introduces students to form, style and meaning, the technical aspects of cinema, through intensive hands-on experience in designing, composing and editing sequences of sound and image. Students will also write about cinema in conjunction with technical exercises. This course establishes the twin focus of the Cinema Studies major on production and critical studies simultaneously, as it considers the cinema as a particular media form and explores issues and methods in cinema studies.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: E. Brown-Orso, G. Pingree, B. Kashmere
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course is required for Cinema Studies majors who declare after July, 2009. Students who are interested in majoring in Cinema Studies should take this course by the end of their sophomore year and before they declare the Cinema Studies major. It is recommended that CINE 298 and CINE 299 be taken in sequence as the gateway to the Cinema Studies Major.

    For consent, please email the instructor or download the application form from the Cinema Studies website.
  

  • CINE 299 - Persistence of Vision: Approaches to Cinema Studies


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This course will explore a variety of approaches to cinema studies as a discipline, including issues involving production. In addition to close discussion of a variety of movies, theoretical and critical readings will include works on aesthetics and the nature of cinema, the history of cinema as an art form and an industry, and cultural and social issues in cinema studies. We will also play close attention to the issue of writing about cinema.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: B. Doan
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Cinema 299 is required of all Cinema Studies majors. It is recommended that CINE 298 and CINE 299 be taken in sequence as the gateway to the Cinema Studies major. CINE 299 should be taken during the fourth or sixth semester at Oberlin (or the equivalent). It may not be taken in either of the final two semesters at Oberlin and still count toward the major.
  

  • CINE 320 - Documentary Production


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This course explores documentary form in both critical and creative ways. The class introduces students to various ways to think about and understand documentaries (in terms of structure, purpose, audience, etc.) and then gives them the opportunity to practice basic documentary production (camera, lighting, sound, non-linear editing). After engaging in various individual and small group exercises, students spend the balance of the semester working together to produce a short documentary video.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: G. Pingree
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent by instructor required by application.  For consent, please email the instructor or download the application form from the Cinema Studies website.
  

  • CINE 322 - Advanced Film and Video Production


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    The course aims to activate and amplify students’ creativity, and to stir passion for time-based media that transcend mainstream conventions. Students will be introduced to specialized production methods and techniques and post-production strategies; produce short experiments and exercises; and complete an individual studio project. Students will be exposed to a wide range of contemporary screen practices and hybrid forms, including the essay-film, auto-ethnography, abstract cinema, audiovisual collage, installation, speculative biography, animation, and experimental documentary.



    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: E. Brown-Orso
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • CINE 323 - Exhibition Practices in the Media Arts


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    This course will introduce students to the methods, procedures, and decision-making processes of media art exhibition, providing an overview of curatorial practice within the stricter context of independent, short-format film and video. This will include a consideration of the critical, conceptual, and logistical aspects of curating. Throughout the semester, students will be responsible for designing and programming a weekly micro-cinema in the Oberlin community. Exhibition and festival case studies will also be examined.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: B. Kashmere
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • CINE 326 - Remixing the Archive: Techniques of Appropriation


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    This course explores techniques of repurposing found sound and image footage in light of their particular histories and contemporary transformations in media economies and ownership. Lectures, screenings, workshops and presentations support student work on several video projects.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: B. Kashmere
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CINE 298.
  

  • CINE 327 - Avant-Garde Cinema: Theory and Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 HU
    New course added 11.12.10.

    This course examines the history, theory, and techniques of avant-garde cinema from a global perspective and seeks to expand the concept of cinematic practice beyond convention. Beyond developing a basic knowledge of avant-garde cinema through screenings, readings, lectures, discussions, and workshops, each student will—through a semester-long project—explore the notion of individual studio research, situated within the context of historical and contemporary experimental film and video production, and based in a commitment to personal expression.
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: B. Kashmere
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    CINE 110, 298, or 299 or consent of the instructor.

  

  • CINE 351 - Bardot, Deneuve, Moreau: Stardom, Sexuality, and Art


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    French cinema is often known for the male directors who shaped it throughout the 20th century, but star actresses such as Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve, and Jeanne Moreau gave it a memorably composite face with their celebrity, personas, talents, and bodies. A study of stars whose versatile yet unified screen presence can be discerned across multiple roles, and whose careers help illuminate the pleasures, politics, and poetics of cinema.  Taught in English.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: G. An
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: FREN/CINE 250 or CINE 298 or 299.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with FREN 351
  

  • CINE 358 - Cinema and Humanism


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This course traces the “humanist” impulse in cinema history and theory. Filmmakers will include Griffith, Capra, Renoir, Ozu, Kiarostami, Altman, and Wes Anderson, and genres like science fiction, the “social problem” film, noir, and cinema verite. What is a humanist cinema? How does it evolve over time? Why does the term fall into disrepute, and what might it mean to think about it in the age of YouTube? Can we envision a new humanist cinema?

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: B. Doan
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: CINE 110, 298, or 299 or consent of the instructor.
  

  • CINE 360 - Strange Cinema


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This course will explore the effect of “strangeness” in movies. What are the ways in which this effect is created? To what uses do filmmakers put the experience of strangeness? What baseline of “familiar” do we use to judge strange movies? We will explore strangeness as both a poetics and an aesthetic, and its relation to effects such as the uncanny, the fantastic, the marvelous, and the wonderful.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: W. P. Day
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CINE 110, 298, or 299 or consent of the instructor.
  

  • CINE 394 - Practicum in Media Literacy and Pedagogy I: Theory


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-3 hours
    Attribute: 2-3HU
    This workshop is the cornerstone of the new Cinema Studies Apollo Outreach Initiative (the educational component of the Apollo Theater project). Working with Cinema Studies faculty and local educators, students will examine instructional models from pedagogical luminaries such as Reggio Emilia, Montessori, and Steiner; study innovative media collectives such as Jacob Burns Media Center, Chiapas Media Project, Valencia 826, and ARtzReach; and create a media literacy curriculum for the Oberlin Public schools.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: G. Pingree
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CINE 298 and consent of the instructor by application.  For consent, please email the instructor or download the application form from the Cinema Studies website.
  

  • CINE 395 - Fall Practicum in Media Literacy and Pedagogy II: Practice


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3HU
    Students will be placed in the Oberlin Public Schools to teach a variety of media practices and theories to children in grades K-12.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: E. Brown-Orso
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    P/NP grading. Prerequisites: CINE 394 and consent of the instructor by application.  For consent, please email  the instructor or download the application form from the Cinema Studies website.
  

  • CINE 396 - Spring Practicum in Media Literacy and Pedagogy II: Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3HU
    Students will be placed in the Oberlin Public Schools to teach a variety of media practices and theories to children in grades K-12.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: R. Brown-Orso
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    P/NP grading. Prerequisite: CINE 394 and consent of the instructor by application.  For consent, please email the instructor or download the application form from the Cinema Studies website.
  

  • CINE 400 - The Senior Project I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4HU, WR
    Required of all Cinema Studies majors and exclusively for Cinema Studies majors, this year-long team-taught course combines student interests in production and critical studies. The first module is spent planning and preparing for an independent project; modules two and three are devoted to executing the project; module four is devoted to public exhibition or performance of the project.

     
    Instructor: E. Brown-Orso, G. Pingree
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: CINE 298, 299, at least one 300-level course, AND consent of instructor.  Admission based on a completed course proposal form, available from the Cinema Studies Program office (Rice 130) or downloaded from the Cinema Studies website.
  

  • CINE 401 - The Senior Project II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4HU, WR
    Required of all Cinema Studies majors and exclusively for Cinema Studies majors, this year-long team-taught course combines student interests in production and critical studies. The first module is spent planning and preparing for an independent project; modules two and three are devoted to executing the project; module four is devoted to public exhibition or performance of the project.

     
    Instructor: E. Brown-Orso, G. Pingree
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: CINE 400 AND consent of instructor
  

  • CINE 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU
    Signed permission of the instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: G. An, E. Brown-Orso, W. P. Day, B. Doan, B. Kashmere, J. Pence, G. Pingree
    Consent of the Instructor Required? A signed Private Reading Card must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Private Readings are available to students who have completed introductory coursework in the department.
  

  • CLAS 101 - Homer’s Iliad and the Myths of Tragedy


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    THEA
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, WR
    Critical study of Homer’s Iliad, the First example of the tragic perspective in western literature, selected tragic dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, and Shakespeare, and some modern films. Attention to how the view of human experience established in these works serves to reflect and comment upon recurring themes in western civilization. Lecture and discussion.
    Enrollment Limit: 55
    Instructor: T. Van Nortwick
  

  • CLAS 102 - The Odyssey and the Myths of Comedy


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    THEA
    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, WR
    Critical study of Homer’s Odyssey, the first example of the comic perspective in western literature, selected comic dramas by Euripides, Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence, and Shakespeare, and some modern films. Attention to how the view of human experience established in these works serves to reflect and comment upon recurring themes in western civilization. Lecture and discussion.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 60
    Instructor: T. Van Nortwick
  

  • CLAS 103 - History of Greece


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society, History
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    An introduction to Greek history, from the prehistoric period to the rise of Rome. Special emphasis will be given to the study of the ancient sources, especially Herodotus and Thucydides, as we attempt to reconstruct the political, social, and constitutional history of this tremendously vital period.
    Enrollment Limit: 55
    Instructor: A. Wilburn
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: May count toward a history major.
  

  • CLAS 104 - History of Rome


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    HIstory, Law and Society
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This course will provide a survey of the history of Rome, from its prehistoric origins to its ‘decline and fall’ in the fifth century A.D. Attention will be given to the evolution of Roman social and political structures, Roman imperialism, and the transition from paganism to Christianity. Readings from the ancient sources will provide the basis for lectures and discussions.
    Enrollment Limit: 55
    Instructor: J. Thomas
  

  • CLAS 201 - Magic & Mystery Ancient World


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This course surveys the evidence for magic and the occult in antiquity, focusing on the traditions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Topics covered include theoretical approaches to magic, practitioners (witches, sorcerers, and priests), magical objects (curse tablets, voodoo dolls, and amulets), magical words (spells and prayers), ancient mystery cults, and the interaction between early Christianity and magic. Special attention will be paid to how ancient individuals interacted with the unseen world in their daily lives, and when and how they employed the services of professional magicians. Readings of ancient sources in translation and classroom discussion.
    Enrollment Limit: 55
    Instructor: A. Wilburn
  

  • CLAS 210 - Greek and Roman Mythology


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
    Next Offered: 2011-12
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, WR
    Introduction to the major myths of ancient Greece and Rome and their adaptation by later Western culture. Study of the idea and function of myth, with introductions to some of the most important schools of interpretation: psychoanalysis, structuralism, and semiotics. Some attention to the representation of classical myth in the visual arts, including images of items in the collection at the Allen Art Museum.
    Enrollment Limit: 60
    Instructor: K. Ormand
  

  • CLAS 219 - Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome


    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: 3HU, WR

    Study of the construction of gender and sexual identities in ancient Greece and Rome. Emphasis will be on primary texts that demonstrate notions of sexual practice and/or identity, such as Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousae, Plato’s Symposium, Aeschines’ Against Timarchos, and poetry of Sappho, Catullus, Ovid, Martial, Juvenal. We will also read modern critical theorists of sexuality, and will interrogate the usefulness of their arguments for understanding ancient Greece and Rome.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: K. Ormand
  

  • CLAS 223 - Latin Literature and the Latin Literary Tradition


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course surveys a selection of the major literary genres of Latin literature (comedy, epic, lyric) with an eye towards their influence on later writers and thinkers (Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe). We will discuss the significance of the Roman authors in their literary, historical, and cultural contexts before analyzing the subsequent reception of these authors. All reading will be in translation.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: C. Trinacty
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • CLAS 315 - Critical Theory and Classical Lit


    Next Offered: 2011-12
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course will consider the questions both of what role critical theory has played in the reception of the Classics, and what role the Classics have played in critical theory. We will conclude by asking to what degree critical theory is desirable, necessary, or appropriate to any sufficient scholarly apparatus of reading ancient texts. Primary authors will include Plato, Euripides, and Apuleius; theorists will be Lacan, Derrida and Nietzsche; Classical scholars will include Willamowitz, Rohde, Winkler, and Gildersleeve.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: B. Lee
    Prerequisites & Notes
     Prerequisite: work at the 200 Level in Classics or other literature courses.
    Cross List Information Cross-listed with Comparative Literature 315
  

  • CLAS 501 - Senior Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-6 hours
    Attribute: 3-6HU
    Intensive work on a topic selected in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a presentation of a paper or other project.



    Instructor: K. Ormand
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Senior major standing and invitation of the department.
  

  • CLAS 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU
    Signed permission of the instructor is required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: B. Lee, K. Ormand, T. Van Nortwick, A. Wilburn
  

  • CMPL 200 - Introduction to Comparative Literature


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

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Comparative Literature majors should take this course by the sophomore year. Prerequisite: An introductory literature course in any language.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ENGL 275.
  

  • CMPL 265 - Anglophone Literatures of the Third World


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    The class will introduce students to texts that are significant to postcolonial literary studies and the respective literatures (South Asian, African, Caribbean) that it draws on, by writers such as Rushdie, Farah, Kincaid, Walcott, Desai, Dangarembga, and lesser known authors. Working through thematic units, we will discuss the consequences of nationalism in the former colonies and the challenges of transnational feminism. Class readings, discussions and lectures will fill in key historical and sociological contexts. 
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: N. Robinette
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.
    Cross List Information Cross-listed with ENGL 265.
  

  • CMPL 327 - Surrealism Narrative from Center to Margins


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course will begin with manifestoes and non-fictional texts by Breton and Aragon, and film, paintings, and collage-novels by Bunuel, Dali and Ernst, and move to two “margins of Europe” where Surrealism was particularly strong, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Texts by Bombal, Rulfo, Felisberto Hernandez, Cortazar, early Garcia Marquez, Walser, Schulz, and Gombrowicz; paintings and films by Varo, Kahlo, Carrington, Svankmajer, and the Quay Brothers. Taught in English.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: P. O’Connor
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with HISP 327
  

  • CMPL 350 - Translation Workshop


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    Work by modern and contemporary world poets–and some classical examples–will be studied in the original languages and translated into American English. The first half of the course will focus on translation exercises and readings in translation theory which will help students to design the projects on which they will be working during the second half.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: MK. Ali
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course has no prerequisites, but some knowledge of a foreign language and some experience in writing poetry are required. Admission is based on a completed application form and writing sample (due in Program office by 5:00 p.m. the last day of semester classes).

     

     
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CRWR 350.
  

  • CMPL 370 - Itineraries of Postmodernism


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    This hybrid course examines the roots of literary modernism and postmodernism in continental philosophy.  We will read theoretical texts by Nietzsche, Derrida, Rorty, Vattimo, Lyotard, Jameson, Irigarary, and Spivak; fiction by Woolf, Ford, Borges, Chu T’ien-wen, Carter, Duras, and Garcia-Marquez.  
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: P. O’Connor
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prequisites:  A literature course in any language. 
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ENGL 370.
  

  • CMPL 372 - Contemporary Literary Theory


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    This course is about developments in literary theory in the context of the last 35 years of American intellectual and artistic culture. Our concern will be understanding literary theories in their historical and institutional contexts as well as considering their value as ways of thinking about literature and art. We’ll pay particular attention to the impact of post-structuralism on American critics, the relation of literary criticism to cultural criticism, and various elaborations of the idea of post-modernity.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: W. P. Day
    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 275/CMPL 200, or ENGL 299, or any two 200-level English courses, or consent of the instructor.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with ENGL 372
  

  • CMPL 400 - Senior Capstone Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    Senior capstone project.
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • CMPL 410 - Tango: The Politics and Poetics of a National Icon


    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: 3HU, CD
    This course examines the social, political, and aesthetic dimensions of tango. By looking at dance, music, lyrics and other tango manifestations, students will explore how communities encode their traditional values in expressive forms, how these forms operate subversively in popular culture, and how they officially represent the nation. Films, recordings, and printed documents complement the readings in this course, as will guest speakers. Taught in Spanish.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: A. Cara
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with HISP 410
  

  • CMPL 474 - China and Japan in the French Imaginary


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    In this course students will examine French representations of East Asia from the late 19th century to the present. Through close readings of films, paintings, comic books, and literary texts, students will expand their sense of the visual/verbal literacy with which one ‘reads culture’ through these different literary and artistic media. Topics addressed will include ‘chinoiseries’ and ‘japonisme,’ literary exoticism, French Maoism, travel literature, war documentaries, and the challenges of cross-cultural exchange. Taught in French.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: G. An
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites and Notes Two courses at the 300-level beyond 301
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with FREN 419
  

  • CMPL 501 - Honors Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    Consent of Program Director required.
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • CMPL 502 - Honors Project


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    Consent of Program Director required.
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • CMPL 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-3 hours
    Attribute: 1-3HU
    Independent study of a subject beyond the range of catalog course offerings. Signed permission of the instructor is required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: J. Deppman
    Consent of the Instructor Required? A signed Private Reading Card must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office
  

  • CMUS 100 - Introduction to Western Art Music


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU
    A survey of Western music of the last 1000 years, with emphasis on new music and on concert life today. Focus throughout the course is twofold: on cultural context, past and present, that lends music its vitality; and on the development of various listening strategies. Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Instructor: A. Kalyn
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course (or MHST 101) is a prerequisite for all Music History survey courses (226, 235, 245, 255, 275).

    No previous musical training is required.

    Open to College of Arts and Sciences students only.
  

  • CMUS 103 - Introduction to Musics of the World


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD
    This course examines music as an inherently social act, illustrating how music is informed by - and conversely informs - historical, political, cultural, and economic processes. Using selected case studies from around the world, we will examine music in both historical and contemporary contexts and encounter musical styles ranging from indigenous practices to classical traditions and pop genres. We will pay particular attention to the transformation of sounds and their meaning resulting from colonialism, nationalism, technological innovations, and/or the expansion of trans-national music markets. The course material will also address issues of cultural representation; how recordings, articles, web, and video material frame the discussion or presentation of music. At the same time, we will explore the variety of ways these musics are structured and develop critical listening skills. In some cases, we will learn to perform the practices we are studying. Enrollment Limit: 45
    Instructor: K. Meizel
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course does not presume prior knowledge of music.
    (See ETHN 100 as a comparable course for the musically experienced.)
  

  • CMUS 400 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU
    TBA
    Instructor: Staff
  

  • CMUS 401 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU
    TBA
    Instructor: Staff
  

  • CNST 130 - Phys Wellnss Musician’s Life


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    The musician’s body and its state of physical health has a strong influence on his or her ability to play or sing. This course will emphasize physical restructuring, as well as practical methods for maintaining balanced physical health. Students will develop an increased understanding of the body’s physical and muscular structures and its movement principles. Their everyday postural habits will be evaluated and corrective patterns explored. This is a practical course, with daily lab components which will allow the information to be integrated into their bodies, setting the foundation for physical health, and decreasing the possibility of injuries. Enrollment Limit 15
    Instructor: D. Vogel
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: P/NP or CR/NE only.
    Students on the wait list must attend the first class meeting to be considered for any openings.
  

  • CNST 150 - Introduction Piano Technology


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Introductory course in equal temperament tuning theory and application, piano nomenclature, basic piano repairs and modern action regulation. Introduction oto piano building materials and an overview of modern piano construction. Combination of lectures and hands-on shop training. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 8
    Instructor: J. Cavanaugh
  

  • CNST 151 - Intermediate Piano Technology


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3
    The class starts with a week-long review of equal temperament and action regulation/repair review. Students then focus on developing their  tuning skills, with respect to accuracy and speed, and turning the action regulation theory they were taught in the Intro course into practical skills as action technicians in the workshop. As the course nears its end, students will be introduced to the art of building and regulating tone in Steinway hammers.
    Instructor: J. Cavanaugh
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CNST 150
    Limit 8
    Consent of Intructor required.
  

  • CNST 160 - Digital Audio Skills


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    This course educates student musicians about the practical aspects of recording, editing, and distributing their music. 
    Students who complete the course will acquire the following skills:
     • choosing microphones appropriate to their instrument(s)
     • operating an audio recording device of CD-quality
     • transferring their recording to computer
     • editing their recording with computer software
     • saving their finished recording in a format for distribution (CD and/or MP3 file)
    Students will learn primarily through hands-on experience.  Each component of the course will include a technical
    introduction with written materials and practical experience with hands-on exercises.
    Instructor: P. Bloland
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of Instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 18
  

  • CNST 161 - Music Notation Software


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    The two most popular programs for music notation are currently Finale and Sibelius.  They are both very powerful,
    complex, and require a substantial learning curve.  This course provides a directed learning experience with both
    programs.  Students who complete the course will acquire the following skills in both Finale and Sibelius:
     • formatting staves for solo instruments, voice, and small and large ensembles
     • formatting notation for use by performers and as study scores
     • utilizing musical symbols for traditional and non-traditional notation
     • extracting instrumental parts from a score
     • saving their finished recording in a format for distribution (printed and PDF)
    Students will learn primarily through hands-on experience.  Each component of the course will include a introduction
    with score materials and practical experience with hands-on exercises.
    Instructor: P. Bloland
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of Instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 18
  

  • CNST 200 - Prof Development for the Freelance Artist


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    A semester-long course that will examine the many aspects of a freelance artist’s career. The purpose of this course is to introduce the techniques necessary to survive in the business of hte Arts. Skills such as: marketing, negotiating, entrepreneurship, writing, networking and business skills will be studied. Specialists in the various fields will be invited to the class to speak about their own professional experience. Each student will conduct an informational interview, present a press book or portfolio and set up a personal Web page.
    Instructor: K. Chastain
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 25.
  

  • CNST 201 - Touring for Musicians


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1
    Overview of musical and business condsiderations in planning a tour, including repertoire selection, age-appropriate presentation techniques, audience development, contracts, travel arrangements, insurance communication and publicity.
    Instructor: G. Kim
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 25
  

  • CNST 202 - Presentation Skills for Outreach and Performance


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1
    Students will design and implement outreach components and learn how to give successful presentations to children, adults and peers. The class incorporates reading and discussion, and offers opportunities for students to hone their presenttation skills.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: M. Alegant
  

  • COMP 101 - Composition Workshop


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    N/A
    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: CNDP
    This workshop provides young composers with practical technical training in composition through direct work with Oberlin Composition Faculty, outstanding performers, and highly qualified student assistants.  Participants will receive: daily private study, workshops in idiomatic writing for a chosen group of instruments, study and discussion of works representing significant trends in contemporary music, master class experience with Oberlin Faculty composers, and a concert by our resident players of works composed during the workshop.  The concert of participant works will consist of the completed pieces that will have been worked on intensively during the session.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: L. Nielson & J. Levine
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Pass/No Pass

    20 Hrs/1 Wk
  

  • COMP 201 - Composition Class I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A course designed for composition majors, composition minors, or College music majors with composition emphasis. Units include study of notation, techniques of composition, improvisation, free composition.
    Instructor: L. Nielson
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Composition major, composition minor, or a College music major with emphasis in composition required.
  

  • COMP 202 - Composition Class II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A course designed for composition majors, composition minors, or College music majors with composition emphasis. Units include study of notation, techniques of composition, improvisation, free composition.
    Instructor: J. Levine
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Composition major, composition minor, or a College music major with emphasis in composition required.
    Prerequisite: COMP 201
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
  

  • COMP 203 - Orchestration


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    The purpose is to develop facility in writing for various instrumental combinations. The study includes: comparison of techniques of orchestration (18th-20th centuries), practice writing and arranging for the different choirs of the modern orchestra, orchestrating complete compositions; the graphic aspect of and notational problems in more recent music.
    Instructor: A. Helgeson
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Prerequisites: MUTH 232; COMP 202

    Junior status as a composition major or minor (or College music major, composition emphasis).

    Primarily for composition majors.
  

  • COMP 204 - New Music Workshop


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A workshop for performers and composers centered around continuing collaborations. Topics will include conventional and extended instrumental techniques, scoring, notation, performance, and compositional issues. Composers will be given regular writing assignments ranging in degrees of constraint in terms of scope and instrumentation. There will be numerous opportunities for contact between faculty and student. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: A. Helgeson
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: COMP 203

    Note: The course may be repeated for credit up to a maximum of eight credits
    It may be taken once in place of  TECH 350
  

  • COMP 350 - Composition Seminar


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A one-semester course designed for composition students. The semester is divided into two units of six (or seven) weeks. A variety of activities germane to the development of composers are included, such as the analysis and discussion of music by guest composers; open rehearsal-discussions; score-reading sessions; visitors from other creative arts areas on campus; outside readings in criticism and aesthetics.
    Instructor: J. Levine, L. Nielson
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: COMP 204.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Note: May be repeated for credit.
  

  • CRWR 110 - Technique and Form in Poetry


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    Extensive reading of published poetry from a creative writing perspective. Writing includes weekly exercises aimed at exploring the various techniques of poetry used in the assigned reading. In-class discussion of both assigned reading and student exercises. Upper division students may be considered during add/drop.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: B. Matambo
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Contact: Suzanne Overstreet, the program coordinator, to be placed on the waitlist. Primarily for first years. Upper division students may be considered during add/drop.
  

  • CRWR 120 - Technique and Form in Fiction


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    Extensive reading of published fiction from a creative writing perspective. Writing includes weekly exercises aimed at exploring the various techniques of fiction used in the assigned reading.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: C. Johnson
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Primarily for first years. Upper division students may be considered during add/drop. Contact: Suzanne Overstreet, the program coordinator, to be placed on the waitlist.
  

  • CRWR 201 - Poetry/Prose Workshop


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    The reading and writing of poetry and short fiction. Prereqisite: Instructor consent, a completed application form and a sample of recent work, preferably in two genres.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Chaon, C. Johnson, B. Matambo, S.Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor consent, a completed application form and a sample of recent work, preferably in two genres. See the program website for deadlines and to download forms. Not open to seniors or to first-semester first-years.
  

  • CRWR 247 - Performance, Collaboration, and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Poetry


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This class will focus on alternative approaches to poetry including visual art, performance, music, electronic media and collaboration. We will read and discuss poetry, primarily from 1955 and onward from various schools and modes and develop new approaches to the writing, performance and transmission of poetry.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: K. Ali
  

  • CRWR 255 - Graphic Narrative


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    This course will examine the emerging art of the graphic novel and related forms such as the comic book, comic strip, and manga, with particular attention to the ways in which the structure, rhetoric and methods of the form relate to the other narrative form, such as fiction and drama.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: D. Chaon
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to non-majors
  

  • CRWR 272 - Beyond Genre: Fabulism, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction.


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    Establishing a home base in literary fiction and its emphasis on complex characters and human pathos and conflict, this class will borrow tools from multiple genres–realism, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, postmodernism–to push beyond the familiar limitations and stereotypes of so-called ‘genre fiction.’ The course will be be reading intensive, with writing assignments that explore the concepts and techniques therein. Authors will include Jorge Luis Borges, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami, Joanna Russ, and others.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: C. Johnson
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • CRWR 310 - Poetry Workshop


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    The writing of poetry. Intensive discussion of student work, accompanied by assigned reading. 
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: MK. Ali
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor consent, CrWr 201. Admission based on a completed application form and a writing sample of six to eight poems. See the program website for deadlines and to download forms.
  

  • CRWR 320 - Fiction Workshop


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    Focus on short fiction. Intensive reading assignments and weekly creative exercises. 
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: B. Matambo, D. Chaon
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CrWr 201, instructor consent. Admission based on a completed application form and a writing sample of at least 12 pages of fiction. See the program website for deadlines and to download forms.
  

  • CRWR 330 - Playwriting Workshop


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Theater
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    A workshop focused on discussion of student work and on selected examples from modern and contemporary drama, working toward a staged reading of an original one-act play. The course presupposes considerable knowledge of drama. 
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Walker
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission based on a completed application form and writing sample. See the program website for due dates and to download forms.
  

  • CRWR 331 - Playwriting Lab


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1HU
    For actors who are available to students in the playwriting class; to try out work in progress and be available for any productions that result.
    Instructor: D. Walker
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: CR/NE or P/NP grading. See CRWR 330 for application information.
  

  • CRWR 340 - Nonfiction Workshop


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, WR
    The writing of personal narratives which employ the techniques of both the traditional essay and fiction, with an emphasis on nonfiction as a literary art form. Students will read work by modern and contemporary authors with an eye toward understanding the variety of modes which come under the current heading ‘creative nonfiction’ (memoir, meditation, travel, cultural critique, etc.), and will be asked to employ a number of these methods and approaches in their own work.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: L. Powell
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Recommended: CRWR 201. Admission based on a completed application and writing sample .See the program website for deadlines and to download forms.
  

  • CRWR 350 - Translation Workshop


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    Work by modern and contemporary world poets–and some classical examples–will be studied in the original languages and translated into American English. The first half of the course will focus on translation exercises and readings in translation theory which will help students to design the projects on which they will be working during the second half.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: MK. Ali
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor consent, some knowledge of a foreign language and some experience in writing poetry.  Admission is based on a completed application form and writing sample. See the program website for deadlines and to download forms.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CMPL 350.
  

  • CRWR 360 - Screenwriting Workshop


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Cinema Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    Students will examine the art and craft of film scripting from a writer’s perspective, focusing on both adaptation and original work. Prerequisite: Instructor consent, a completed application and writing sample.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Chaon
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Instructor consent, a completed application and writing sample. Recommended preparation: CRWR 201. See the program website for deadlines and to download forms.
  

  • CRWR 370 - Special Topics: the Novella


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    Extensive reading in and discussion of the novella as a literary genre. By the end of term, students will have completed a 50-150 page draft.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites & notes: Prerequisite: Instructor consent, CrWr 201; at least one other 300-level workshop.
  

  • CRWR 450 - Teaching Imaginative Writing


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU
    A course for poets and fiction writers who want to learn how to take their art into the elementary and secondary classroom. In the first half of the semester, students will examine issues of poetics (Why do we write? Why does it matter?), community engagement (Why care about the creative life of a community?), and pedagogy (How can one teach in ways that are motivating and meaningful?), and they will workshop their own original lesson plans. In the second half of the semester, they will participate in residencies at Langston Middle School.
    Enrollment Limit: 8
    Instructor: L. Powell
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: 3rd year status; one 300-level workshop
  

  • CRWR 470 - Advanced Writing Project I


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4HU
    Advanced students will work individually with an instructor. Majors should have completed two of their required 300-level workshops before applying. Please see the program website for deadlines and to download application forms.
    Instructor: P. Alexander, MK. Ali, D. Chaon, J. Grim, D. Harrison, C. Jackson-Smith, C. Johnson, B. Matambo, P. Moser, L. Podis, T. Van Nortwick, D. Walker, S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor consent. Majors should have completed two of their required 300-level workshops before applying. Please see the program website for deadlines and to download application forms.
  

  • CRWR 475 - Reading for Writing


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-2 hours
    Attribute: 1-2HU

    This course may be taken in conjunction with an advanced project, but it may not be used toward the textual studies requirement and it is not a private reading. Upon consulting with a faculty sponsor, students will select a reading list and will complete a project related to the readings. Projects might include creative imitation of techniques in the readings, short essays responding to specific technical elements of the readings, or other craft-oriented analyses of texts. All projects must include at least 10 pages of written work (or the equivalent) per credit hour.
    Instructor: P. Alexander, K. Ali, D. Chaon, J. Grim, D. Harrison, C. Jackson-Smith, C. Johnson, B. Matambo, P. Moser, L. Podis, T. Van Nortwick, D. Walker, S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Major status, insrtuctor consent.
  

  • CRWR 480 - Advanced Writing Project II


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4HU, WR
    Individualized writing projects.
    Instructor: MK. Ali, D. Chaon, J. Grim, D. Harrison, C. Jackson-Smith, C. Johnson, B. Matambo, P. Moser, T. Scholl, T. Van Nortwick, D. Walker, S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Completion of 470 and consent of instructor required. Please see the program website for deadlines and to download application forms
  

  • CRWR 485 - Practicum


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-2 hours
    Attribute: 1-2HU
    This course is open to students who are interested in acquiring practical, writing-related skills by working on a literary journal, organizing a reading series, editing a student anthology, assisting with introductory Creative Writing courses, organizing community- or campus-based workshops, helping out with the Creative Writing Student Co-op, or working on other program approved projects. Students can earn a maximum of four credit hours toward the major.
    Instructor: P. Alexander, MK. Ali, D. Chaon, C. Johnson, B. Matambo, L. Powell, S. Watanabe
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Instructor consent.
  

  • CSCI 100 - The Internet and Beyond


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    A hands-on course on web page authoring and website development. This course is aimed at students with little to no background in web technologies. Topics covered include how the world wide web works, the HTML and CSS languages for web pages, programs supportive of website construction, some advanced layout techniques, and an introduction to the JavaScript language. Students will develop and publish a complex website focused on some area of academic interest or expertise.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: B. Kuperman
  

  • CSCI 140 - Introduction to Computer Programming


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    This is a beginning course in programming using the language Python. The course is aimed at students with little or no prior programming experience who would like to know how software is developed or who would like to be able to write short programs for data manipulation. This course is also useful as preparation for students with no programming experience who want to take the CSCI 150,151 sequence.
    Enrollment Limit: 47
    Instructor: R. Geitz
  

  • CSCI 150 - Principles of Computer Science I


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Semester, Second Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS, QP-F
    Introduction to algorithm design and problem solving in an object- oriented programming language. The course will cover fundamentals of computer programming including data types, variables, expressions, statements, control structures, arrays, and recursion. It will also introduce object- oriented concepts including classes, methods, inheritance, and polymorphism.
    Enrollment Limit: 68
    Instructor: J. Donaldson, T. Wexler
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 68 in the fall and 48 in the spring. No programming experience required. Lab required in addition to the course, either 150-02; 150-03 or 150-04
  

  • CSCI 151 - Principles of Computer Science II


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4 NS, QP-F
    This course builds upon the principles introduced in CSCI 150 and provides a general background for further study in Computer Science. The course will cover object-oriented programming concepts; the design and implementation of data structures (linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, heaps, and hash tables) and related algorithmic techniques (searching, sorting, recursion); and algorithm analysis. Students will be expected to complete a number of programming projects illustrating the concepts presented.
    Enrollment Limit: 48
    Instructor: J. Donaldson, B. Kuperman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 150 or consent of the instructor. Notes: Students considering a computer science major are strongly encouraged to take either CSCI 150-151 or CSCI 140-150 in their first year. Students may not receive credit for both CSCI 151 and CSCI 160.  Lab required. Students must also select 151-02 or 151-03.  Enrollment of 24 in Fall and 48 in Spring.

     
  

  • CSCI 190 - How to Model It


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, second module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hours
    Attribute: 1NS
    Have you ever built a model explicitly so that others can understand it?  This couse will introduce “modeling” as a discipline. Learning to model is bound up with learning to solve problems and to think imaginatively and purposefully.  The course is about how to develop methods for improving the way you model.  You wil learn modeling by doing it, by reflecting on what you have done, and by discussing or comparing approaches and solutions with others. This course will meet from April 4-22, 2011.

    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: T. Starfield
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: High School Math
  

  • CSCI 210 - Computer Organization


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    An introduction to computer architecture and assembly language programming. This course describes the organization of computers at the digital logic, register transfer, and instruction set architecture levels. Emphasis is placed on the design of a CPU and on the role of the CPU within a computer system. This course will teach an assembly language using the computer laboratory facilities.
    Instructor: R. Salter
    Prerequisites & Notes
    CSCI 150; CSCI 151 is recommended.
  

  • CSCI 215 - Cryptology


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    A study of secret codes and their relationship to computers. Principally, the mathematics underlying codes and codebreaking (cryptanalysis), and the impact of computers that has resulted in the need for more complex techniques. A historical survey will consider such topics as the deciphering of the Enigma code during World War II. Also considered is the fundamental role of encoding in the principals of computing. Students will write small programs demonstrating deciphering techniques, and use software especially designed for this course.
    Instructor: R. Salter
    Prerequisites & Notes
    High-school mathematics or consent of the instructor.
  

  • CSCI 241 - Systems Programming


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    This course will consider the C programming language and its relationship to the Unix operating system. It will also introduce the C++ language and focus on differences between the Java and C++. Some Unix system programming issues will also be included. The course will require a significant amount of programming.
    Instructor: B. Kuperman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 151 or CSCI 210.
  

  • CSCI 259 - Computer Animation


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    This is an introduction to the theory and practice of 3D digital modeling and computer animation. Topics will include traditional animation techniques such as storyboarding, keyframing and tweening, as well as digital techniques for modeling, lighting, tracking and simulation.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: R. Geitz
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 140 or CSCI 150 or consent of instructor
  

  • CSCI 261 - Introduction to Game Design


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    A project based course in which students analyze, design and develop fully functional computer games in small groups.  Topics include graphics, artificial intelligence, user interfaces, setting and storytelling and game balance.  Projects are created in C# using XNA.  Students are expected to pick up both C# and XNA independently.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: T. Wexler
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite:  CSCI 151 or consent.
  

  • CSCI 275 - Programming Abstractions


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    Programming language fundamentals are studied as abstract concepts using the programming language Scheme. Included are the notions of closures, first-class data structures, procedure and data abstraction, object-oriented programming, continuations, compilation and interpretation, and syntactic extension. Some advanced control structures such as coroutines and asynchronous interrupts may also be included.
    Instructor: R. Salter
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 151 or consent of the instructor. Co-requisite: MATH 220.
  

  • CSCI 280 - Introduction to Algorithms


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    Students will be introduced to algorithm design and analysis, with an emphasis on applications to real-life problems arising in computing applications. Students will study the basic design techniques of the field from a theoretical perspective and learn how to apply these techniques to solve problems in simple, efficient ways. Computational complexity focusing on NP-completeness, and algorithmic techniques for intractable problems are also covered. Knowledge of discrete mathematics is necessary.
    Enrollment Limit: 48
    Instructor: T. Wexler
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 151 and Math 220.
  

  • CSCI 290 - Studies in Computation and Modeling


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    A case-studies course considering applications of computation and modeling across natural and social scientific disciplines. Students will learn the modeling techniques used in these fields and apply them in some cases to solve problems. The course features the participation of faculty from several Oberlin departments as well as internationally known modeling expert guests.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: R. Salter
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Pre-requsite: Math 133.
  

  • CSCI 299 - Seminar: Mind and Machine


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Neuroscience
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3 NS
    An interdisciplinary exploration of how we think and how machines ‘think’. Contributions to our understanding of the mind from artificial intelligence, neural networks, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, linguistics, and neuroscience will be covered. The course will be focused around three questions: How do we study the mind? How can the mind be modeled? Do machines have a mind? No background in computer use, programming or neuroscience is required. However, students with a background in any or all of these areas will find this course useful and are encouraged to enroll.
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: A. Borroni, A. Starfield
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Open to students from all departments and programs at all class levels.
  

  • CSCI 307 - Programming Languages


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    This course will address advanced topics in programming languages. It will focus on foundational concepts such as lambda calculus, combinatorial logic, programming language semantics and the theory of types. The course will include significant hands-on experimentation (i.e. programming) to illustrate theoretical concepts.
    Instructor: R. Salter
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    CSCI 275 or consent of the instructor.
  

  • CSCI 311 - Database Systems


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-F
    This course examines the logical organization of databases: the entity-relationship, network, relational, and object-oriented models, and their languages. Other topics include security and integrity, concurrency control, and distributed database systems.
    Instructor: J. Donaldson
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: CSCI 275
 

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