Course Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
College and Conservatory Courses (2018-19 and planned future offerings)
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CINE 251 - New Zealand Film
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD
An overview of New Zealand film, tracing the development of a national cinema in New Zealand by analyzing the cinematic and cultural significance of key films and asking the question: How does film project a sense of national identity? We will begin by examining some of the abiding myths and images used to define New Zealand cinema, and then explore the representation of race and gender in key examples of contemporary New Zealand film - ultimately focusing on how New Zealand cinema attempts to reconcile the commercial imperatives of the international market with the cultural demands of the national audience.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: L. Vonderheide
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CINE 290 - Introduction to the Advanced Study of Cinema
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
This course teaches students to engage critically with cinema. They examine elements of film form, style, and technique and explore how these produce meaning. Through theoretical and critical readings they consider cinema as art, industry, technology, and politics. They study approaches to watching and assessing movies, concepts and contexts in cinema studies as a discipline, and film in relation to other media. And they pay special attention to writing about cinema.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: W. Day, J. Sperling
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CINE 295 - Cinematic Storytelling Workshop
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
This introductory screenwriting course explores the roles of narrative in cinema. To better understand what cinematic stories are and how they work, students will explore basic principles, methods, and techniques for composing them, paying special attention to character development and narrative structure. In addition to reading published screenplays and watching selected films, they will create their own original short screenplays.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: G. Pingree, J. Pence
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Recommended preparation: CINE 290
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CINE 298 - Video Production Workshop I
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
This course introduces students to the practical relationships among form, style and meaning in cinema through hands-on experience with the medium’s technical elements. Students will not only read about cinema but design, compose, and edit their own sequences using sound and image.
Enrollment Limit: 14
Instructor: E. Brown-Orso, J. Pence
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Recommended preparation: at least one General Interest Course (two are preferred). Instructor consent required.
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CINE 309 - Chinese Popular Cinema and Public Intellectualism
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT
Does Chinese popular cinema function as public intellectualism? This course examines the history, genre, aesthetic, and politics of the post-reform Chinese fiction films and documentaries from 1982 to 2014. Studying the works of Zhang Yimou, Jia Zhangke, Wu Wenguang, Wong Kar-wai, Ann Hui, He Zhaoti, Wei Desheng and others, we examine the extent to which influential directors have become a new class or organic intellectuals who raise political questions to propel social change.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: H. Deppman
Cross List Information: EAST 309
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CINE 313 - ANIMATION WORKSHOP : Stop Motion Animation from Analog to Digital
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
Animation is an ever-present element in the language of moving pictures and is applied in a broad spectrum of visual culture in our daily life. You find animation in news media, education, science and in all aspects of the global film industry. This hands-on course will introduce students to the history and practice of stop-motion animation. As a starting point, we work closely with the Media Archeology Collection in Mudd Library Special Collections to study examples of early sequential art technology, optical toys and magic lanterns. Student will learn a variety of approaches to create their own animations, which include creating flip-books, hand drawn/painted cell animation, claymation, model-making and collage, and will be exposed to a wide range of art materials. We will explore many analog techniques and incorporate the work into a digital workflow using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. Each student will create several original short animations to be screened publically. Prerequisite: CINE 298.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: E. Brown-Orso
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CINE 320 - Video Production Workshop II: Documentary Production
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
This course explores documentary work 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 festival-quality documentary film. Consent of instructor required by application.
Enrollment Limit: 14
Instructor: G. Pingree
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: CINE 290, CINE 298, and consent of instructor.
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CINE 321 - Contemporary World Auteurs
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
In the last twenty years, the rise of World Cinema, as a category, has gone hand in hand with the resurgence of auteurship and realism. In this course we will study the emerging canon of contemporary cinema through the work of its most significant auteurs, including Wong Kar Wai, Jia Zhangke, Lucrecia Martel, Jafar Panahi, Abderrahmane Sissako, and the Dardennes Brothers. How do these filmmakers engage with the local, the national and the global? What role do film festivals play in cultural exchange? Can we imagine a World Republic of Cinema?
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: J. Sperling
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CINE 322 - Experiments in Moving Image & Sound I
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
This is a hands-on advanced media production course that aims to activate and amplify students’ creativity, and to stir passion for time-based media that transcend mainstream conventions. Students will be introduced to both 16mm film and advanced HD video production techniques and post-production strategies. We will screen a wide range of works by independent film directors and artists and will examine closely cinematic strategies and experimental approaches to the medium that span from early cinema to present day. Each student will create a fully realized short film ready for film festivals or exhibition. Prerequisite & Notes: CINE 290, CINE 298, and consent of instructor.
Enrollment Limit: 13
Instructor: E. Brown-Orso
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CINE 323 - Theory and History of Global Cinema
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT
Not only is cinema the global mass medium of the twentieth century, but now globalization has come to be the defining characteristic of cinema in the twenty-first century. This course provides a critical context and mapping strategies for studying of contemporary global cinema and introduces students to theoretical debates about the categorization and global circulation of films, aesthetics, audiences, authorship, and concepts of the national, regional, and transnational. We will attend to the history of internationalism in cinema, the role of film festivals, and shifts in global popular cinema, drawing on traditions an
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: L. Vonderheide
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: CINE 290 or Consent of instructor
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CINE 324 - Video Production Workshop II: The Short Film
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
The short film is a distinct form, with its own limits and possibilities. Put another way, short films, whether fiction, non-fiction, or experimental, are not simply reduced versions of feature-length films. In this advanced production workshop, students will consider the Short in its historical, formal, and industrial contexts, but mostly they will practice the art of conceiving, producing, and exhibiting short films.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: G. Pingree
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: CINE 290, CINE 298, and consent of instructor.
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CINE 342 - Experiments in Moving Image and Sound II
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
This is a hands-on advanced media production course for students who seek to work on large scale moving image and sound projects across genres and forms. We will study the work of international artists, performers and filmmakers, visit the Allen Memorial Art Museum, The Cleveland Cinematheque and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Designed for advanced students to deepen their creative media making skills and to create fully realized projects and collaborations. Projects can take many forms; animation, personal narrative, performance, video installation and multichannel projection with live musical accompaniment, etc. Field trips required. Prerequisites: CINE 298.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: E. Brown-Orso
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CINE 364 - Advanced Film Making Projects
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
This course is designed for students who have already take a 300 level course and want to pursue a project–a group designed or individual project- in film making. Students will submit a proposal and description of the project before enrolling in the course. Limited to 12 students
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: R. Brown-Orso
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisite: A previous 300 level production course
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CINE 372 - Contemporary Literary Theory: Post-Modernity and Imagination
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
This course is about developments in literary theory in the context of the last 35 years of American intellectual and artistic culture. Our concern will be understanding literary theories in their historical and institutional contexts as well as considering their value as ways of thinking about literature and art. We’ll pay particular attention to the impact of post-structuralism on American critics, the relation of literary criticism to cultural criticism, and various elaborations of the idea of post-modernity. American, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: W. Day
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: ENGL 275/CMPL 200, or ENGL 299, or any two 200-level English courses, or consent of the instructor.
Cross List Information: ENGL 372 and CMPL 372
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CINE 377 - Narratology and the Cinema
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
This advanced seminar studies the theory and craft of narrative in the cinema from a range of disciplinary approaches. Topics to be investigated include temporality, perspective, causality, affect, suspense, resolution and surprise. Our discussions will connect individual films with both practical and philosophical texts. Finally, we will consider the challenge presented to traditional narrative by the rise of interactive entertainment. Prerequisite: Cinema 290.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: J. Sperling
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CINE 381 - Hopeful Monsters: (Mixed-)Media Studies
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
This course looks at hybrid media forms across historical, national and aesthetic boundaries. What happens when generally distinct aesthetic forms and practices are merged? What do they reveal about the nature of the original media they are constructed from? How is interpretive activity challenged by such works? Our objects of study will include visual art, experimental poetry, innovative memoir, essay-films, narrative and documentary cinema, graphic and experimental fiction and more.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: J. Pence
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “Advanced Courses.” Also acceptable: Any 100- or 200-level Cinema Studies course.”
Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with ENGL 381.
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative Literature
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CINE 995F - Private Reading - Full
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via PRESTO. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.
Enrollment Limit: 5
Instructor: G. An, E. Brown-Orso, W. Day, J. Pence, G. Pingree, J. Sperling, Staff
Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to the Registrar’s Office
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CINE 995H - Private Reading - Half
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Half Course
Credits: 2 credits
Attribute: 2HU
Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via Banner Self Service. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.
Enrollment Limit: 5
Instructor: G. An, E. Brown-Orso, W. Day, J. Pence, G. Pingree, J. Sperling, Staff
Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to the Registrar’s Office
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CLAS 103 - History of Greece
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS, CD
Greece has been associated with the birth of Democracy, the stand of the 300 Spartans, and the conquests of Alexander the Great. This course surveys the history of the Greek speaking world from the Prehistoric period to the death of Cleopatra. Special attention will be paid to ancient documents, art, and architecture. In addition to military and political developments, the course will also analyze the Greek world through the eyes of women, slaves, and foreigners.
Enrollment Limit: 50
Instructor: A. Wilburn
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Law and Society, History
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CLAS 104 - History of Rome
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS, CD
Gladiators! Decadence! Empire! This course will survey the history of Rome, from its prehistoric origins to the collapse of the Western Empire in the fifth century CE. We will pay close attention to networks of social power, the impact of imperialism, and the unity and diversity of what it meant to be `Roman.’ The course will engage with military history, slavery, the rise of Christianity, indigenous or `pagan’ religious practices, and resistance. Readings from the ancient sources will provide the basis for discussions.
Enrollment Limit: 55
Instructor: Staff
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
History, Law and Society
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CLAS 111 - Greek and Roman Epic
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD
Love, betrayal, revenge, war, fidelity, homecoming, exile, and new beginnings. The earliest literature in the Western tradition arrived in the 8th centry BCE in the central Mediterranean, with the epic stories of Achilles, Agamemenon, Helen, Odysseus, Penelope, Aeneas, and Dido. In this course we will read the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid, and consider some of the literary and artistic works of the later Western tradition that they have inspired. We will also study the unique oral-poetic form of the early epics, and discuss the central issues of heroism, mortality, and identity that they invoke.This course will survey the epic poetry of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Homer, Hesiod, Vergil, and Ovid. All works wil be read in translation.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: K. Ormand
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CLAS 112 - Greek and Roman Drama in Translation
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD
Greek drama has cast a long shadow over theatrical history. This class examines the original plays and their reception from Aristophanes to Shakespeare. The first half of the semester is spent reading plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, highlighting the various ways the plays were understood in antiquity and today (from performance criticism to Freud and Lacan). In the second half of the semester we investigate
comedies by Aristophanes, Plautus, and Terence, before tackling the complex “theater of blood” of Seneca. We finish the semester exploring both the comic and tragic traditions as exemplified by select plays of Shakespeare.
Enrollment Limit: 55
Instructor: C. Trinacty
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CLAS 209 - The Ancient and Modern Novel
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
This course will take as its point of departure the surviving novels of Greek and Roman antiquity. We will read a selection of Greek novels, as well as Petronius’ Satyricon and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. To these ancient works we will compare a series of modern novels, especially Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis and Kennedy’s Confederacy of Dunces. The course will also pursue critical and theoretical issues regarding the genre of the novel raised by Bakhtin, Lukacs, Winkler and others. All works will be read in translation.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: B. Lee
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative Literature
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CLAS 210 - Greek and Roman Mythology
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD
Gods, monsters, heroines, and heroes! We will survey some of the major Greek and Roman myths, paying particular attention to the ways that “myths” – a set of commonly held stories within a culture – reflect and shape the societies that produce them. In addition to reading narratives from the primary sources, we will look at several modern theories of myth-interpretation, including anthropological, psychoanalytic, structuralist, and post-structuralist approaches.
Enrollment Limit: 40
Instructor: Staff
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Comparative Literature
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CLAS 219 - Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD
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 (Foucault, Halperin, Richlin, Winkler), and will interrogate the accuracy of their arguments.
Enrollment Limit: 35
Instructor: K. Ormand
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
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CLAS 306 - Egypt after the Pharaohs
Next Offered: Offered in a Future Term
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: 4SS, CD
From 323 BCE until the seventh century Arab conquest, the Macedonian Ptolemies and subsequently, the Romans ruled Egypt. During this colonial period, Egypt was inhabited by a multitude of ethnic groups, including Persians, Jews, Greeks, Egyptians and Romans. Yet, Egyptian culture and heritage, particularly in the realm of religion and art, remained vibrant. Through thematic topics rather than a strict chronological approach, this course surveys the social, political and cultural history of Greco-Roman Egypt.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: D. Wilburn
Consent of the Instructor Required: No
Prerequisites & Notes: 100- or 200 - level course in Classics Dept.
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CLAS 315 - Critical Theory and Classical Lit
Next Offered: Offered in a Future Term
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits: 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
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CLAS 317 - Age of Nero: History and Culture
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WADV
This course uses the controversial emperor Nero as a focal point to investigate how ancient history is written and reputations are cemented. Our investigation will incorporate ancient authors (including Petronius, Seneca, Lucan, and Tacitus) in translation, modern scholarship, and evidence from architecture, art, and archaeology. Topics include decadence & style in literature, art, and politics; women and youth in power; sensational resistance to the emperor; and Nero’s reputation from Lucan to Looney Tunes.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: K. Ormnd
Prerequisites & Notes: Any 200-level course in CLAS or LATN
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CLAS 401F - Honors - Full
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, HONR
Honors. Enrollment by submission of a proposal and approval by the department.
Enrollment Limit: 5
Instructor: B. Lee, K. Ormand, C. Trinacty, A. Wilburn
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CLAS 401H - Honors - Half
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Half Course
Credits: 2 credits
Attribute: 2HU, HONR
Honors. Enrollment by submission of a proposal and approval by the department.
Enrollment Limit: 5
Instructor: B. Lee, K. Ormand, C. Trinacty, A. Wilburn
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CLAS 995F - Private Reading - Full
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via Banner Self Service. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.
Enrollment Limit: 5
Instructor: B. Lee, K. Ormand, C. Trinacty, A. Wilburn
Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to the Registrar’s Office
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CLAS 995H - Private Reading - Half
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Half Course
Credits: 2 credits
Attribute: 2HU
Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via Banner Self Service. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.
Enrollment Limit: 5
Instructor: B. Lee, K. Ormand, C. Trinacty, A. Wilburn
Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to the Registrar’s Office
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CMPL 200 - Introduction to Comparative Literature
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT
Comparative Literature is the study of literature, theory, and criticism across the boundaries of language, nation, culture, artistic medium and historical period. This course examines the nature and scope of the discipline, focusing both on its theoretical assumptions and its practical applications. Texts and topics reflect curricular strengths of the college and include literary theory, literature & the other arts, East-West studies, European languages and literatures, and translation. Diversity.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: S. Milkova, P. O’Connor
Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisite: An introductory literature course in any language. Identical to ENGL 275. Note: Comparative Literature majors should take this course by the sophomore year.
Cross List Information: This course is cross listed with ENGL 275.
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CMPL 210 - Music in Literature
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT
This course explores how literature understands, represents, and imitates music. We will read poems about music, novels about musicians and composers, and novels structured like musical compositions (fugues, theme and variations). The course looks at eighteenth-century quarrels between Neoclassicists (les Anciens) and Moderns that led to the reversal of the poetic primacy of mimesis in favor of modern artistic expression. It examines music’s rise in favor from the least appreciated of the Sister Arts to the autonomous Romantic art par excellence. This aesthetic turn will inform our study of literature’s attempts to integrate music into its forms and themes.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: J. D’Aoust
Cross List Information: CMUS 210
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CMPL 238 - Topics & Forms: Plot and Structure
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT
Through analysis of and creative response to diverse, international modern and contemporary novels and short stories, students will gain an understanding of the historical and logical basis of plot and narrative structure. Simultaneously, students will learn to question established rules about managing plot and action, and to think deeply about structuring their own creative narratives. This course will require in-depth reading, weekly reading responses (some critical, some creative), and regular, timely submission of students’ own fiction for consideration in workshop, as well as a substantial end-of-semester portfolio.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: E. Barton
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Any 100 or 200-level CRWR course, or equivalent experience with instructor permission.
Cross List Information: Crosslisted with CRWR 238
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CMPL 240 - Gender, Power, and Desire in Middle Eastern and North African Literatures
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT
This course will focus on contemporary literary texts from across the Middle East and North Africa that question normative expectations of gender and desire. In addition to novels, short fiction, poetry, and comics, we will read secondary materials to contextualize gender discourses in the region and to understand how social and political institutions govern gender and desire. Topics will include gender and its relationship to nationalism, colonialism, space, class, and education.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: A. Al-Raba’a
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CMPL 250 - Introduction to Literary Translation: Theory, History, Practice
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT
The gateway to translation studies at Oberlin, this course is an introduction to the history and theory of literary translation. Focusing on culturally significant examples, students will examine linguistic, stylistic, political, economic, philosophical, and technological aspects of translation. Emphasis will be placed on the historical evolution of the roles of translators and translations and on how translation has shaped literary culture since the Renaissance. Topics will include genre and cross-genre translation (fiction, poetry, and drama), issues of translatability and translation strategy, and the impact of translations on untranslated writing. No prerequisites.
Enrollment Limit: 22
Instructor: S. Milkova
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with CRWR 250
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
English
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CMPL 265 - Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT
An introduction to Anglophone literatures of Africa, South Asia and their diasporas, this course addresses (and historicizes) the politics of their production and reception, focusing particularly on their engagement with the politics of (i) gender and sexuality; (ii) regional and national socio-cultural formations and their ideologies; (iii) resistance and/or conformity with western canons of taste, styles/genres. Postcolonial and feminist theories regarding ?marginality?/?location,? ?identity?/?experience, ?and ?alterity?/?difference? constitute important analytic lenses for examining these literatures.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: A. Needham
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: : For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-level courses.? Cross-listed with ENGL 265.
Cross List Information: This course is crosslisted with ENGL 265.
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Gender, Sexuality, Feminist Studies
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CMPL 271 - Italian Lit in Translation
Next Offered: 2017-2018
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT
This course explores contemporary Italian literature in translation through the lens of literary phenomena such as the popularity of the crime thriller and the mystery novel; the negotiation of national, religious, and sexual identity in a recently multicultural society; and the revision of traditional notions of motherhood, femininity, and the family. Readings will be in English but a section in Italian may be available based on interest.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: S. Milkova
Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisite: one college literature course or the equivalent.
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
English
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CMPL 305 - The Global Phenomenon of Elena Ferrante
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
In this course we will study how Elena Ferrante developed into a global figure by writing about the “local” culture of Naples, Italy. Drawing upon feminist theory, psychoanalysis, art history, classical mythology, and anthropology, we will read Ferrante?s major works alongside such key influences as Walter Benjamin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, and Christa Wolf. Related LxC option available: CMPL 405.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: S. Milkova
Cross List Information: ITAL 305
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CMPL 333 - Comparative Diasporas
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT
This course is a comparative approach to diaspora theory and literature. The majority of the course will be a comparative approach to diasporic Jewish, Black, and South Asian cultural production. Through engagements with feminist and queer theory, we will explore modes of comparison, affiliation, and coalition between nonequivalent histories of gendered racialization, violence, colonialism, and oppression. We will end with an in-depth exploration of queer diaspora theory, which approaches queer diasporic communities and cultural production in opposition to the political logic of the nation.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: S. Talve-Goodman
Cross List Information: JWST 333
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CMPL 342 - Religion and Disenchantment in 20th-century Literature
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
How is religion imagined in modern literature? In what ways has literature itself become a species of religious thought? This course explores how 20th-century literature reflects a crisis of meaning in modern religious thought, on the one hand, and how it sustains the religious through attachment to form, to loss, and to belief without meaning, on the other. We will read writers (Baldwin, Morrison, O’Connor, Endo, Camus, amongst others) with both direct and oblique relationships to religious discourses and institutions. We will examine notions of forgiveness, martyrdom, apostasy, idolatry, and love together with social themes of race, class, and gender.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: Staff
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Cross List Information: Cross listed with RELG 342
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CMPL 350 - Advanced Translation Workshop: Poetry
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WADV
In this course we will study literary translation of poetry at the advanced level. Students will translate a body of work by a single author. While the course will focus on workshopping translations, we will also read some theory and craft essays by translators of poetry.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: M. Ali
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Four semesters of language or equivalent, and CMPL/CRWR 250.
Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with CRWR 350.
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CMPL 351 - Advanced Translation Workshop: Prose and Drama
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WADV
In this course we will study literary translation of prose and drama at the advanced level. Students will translate a body of work by a single author. While the course will focus on workshopping translations, we will also read some theory and craft essays by translators of prose and drama.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: J. Deppman
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: CMPL/CRWR 250; four semesters of language study or equivalent.
Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with CRWR 351
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CMPL 367 - The French Joyce
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
James Joyce wrote mainly in English but drew great inspiration from French writers: Dujardin, Laforgue, Balzac, Flaubert, Verlaine, and many more. This course examines both the influence of French authors on Joyce and of Joyce on subsequent French literary culture. Taught in English with extra sessions in French. Diversity, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Deppman
Prerequisites & Notes: A literature course in any language. Identical to CMPL 367.
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CMPL 368 - French Joyce LxC
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Half Course
Credits: 2 credits
Attribute: 2HU, CD, WINT
This course is designed to accompany CMPL 367 and enable students to read and discuss original works by the French authors who inspired, and were inspired by, James Joyce. We will begin with authors Joyce read - Flaubert, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Stendhal, Dujardin, and Bédier - and then turn to those who read Joyce: Kristeva, Cixous, and Derrida. Finally, we will compare and contrast the two authorized French translations of Ulysses by Morel (1927) and Samoyault (2004). Taught in French. Concurrent enrollment in CMPL 367 recommended but not required.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: J. Deppman
Prerequisites & Notes: Four semesters of French or equivalent.
Cross List Information: FREN 368
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CMPL 372 - Contemporary Literary Theory: Post-Modernity and Imagination
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
This course is about developments in literary theory in the context of the last 35 years of American intellectual and artistic culture. Our concern will be understanding literary theories in their historical and institutional contexts as well as considering their value as ways of thinking about literature and art. We’ll pay particular attention to the impact of post-structuralism on American critics, the relation of literary criticism to cultural criticism, and various elaborations of the idea of post-modernity. American, Post-1900.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: W. Day
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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 and CINE 372
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CMPL 377 - Jewish Modernism and the Body
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WADV
This course explores foundational works of Jewish modernism - written mainly in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English - through the critical lens of “the body” within the larger web of 19th-20th century aesthetic movements known as global modernism. We will examine these texts within larger frameworks of Jewish history and culture, drawing from approaches to Jewish and global modernism through disability studies, trauma studies, and critical theories of race, gender, and sexuality. We will also trace issues of Jewishness and the body into the present, focusing on issues of power and identity in the US and Israel-Palestine.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: S. Talve-Goodman
Cross List Information: Cross-listed with JWST 377
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CMPL 400 - Senior Capstone Project
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
Senior capstone project.
Instructor: J. Deppman, S. Milkova
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CMPL 405 - Elena Ferrante LxC
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Half Course
Credits: 2 credits
Attribute: 2HU, CD
This is the LxC section for CMPL305. In this course we will study how Elena Ferrante developed into a global figure by writing about the “local” culture of Naples, Italy. Drawing upon feminist theory, psychoanalysis, art history, classical mythology, and anthropology, we will read, discuss, and write about Ferrante’s major works. Taught in Italian.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: S. Milkova
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Cross List Information: ITAL 405
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CMPL 419 - Big Old Funny Books: Cervantes, Rabelais, Sterne
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD
The early modern European novel revels in what the classical epic shunned: learned wit, bodily functions, and something like a comic philosophy of life. This course will read in careful detail (albeit in translation) Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-34), Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605-15), and Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759-67). We will examine theories of the novel by Lukacs and Bakhtin; theories of the comic from Aristotle to Freud; and collateral texts by Borges, Foucault, and Kundera. Bring your own windmills. Taught in English.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: P. O’Connor
Cross List Information: HISP 419
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CMPL 420 - Advanced Theory Workshop
Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
Half Course
Credits: 2 credits
Attribute: 2HU, CD, WADV
This course is intended for senior majors to study theory and criticism applicable to a larger project such as a capstone or honors thesis. Readings will be selected according to student interests.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: J. Deppman
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Comparative Literature Major
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CMPL 474 - La Chine et le Japon dans l’imaginaire français
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: 4HU, 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
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CMPL 501 - Honors Project
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, HONR
Students who wish to pursue Honors should apply by April 15 of the junior year. Please consult the course catalog section titled ‘Honors’ in the Comparative Literature Program for further details.
Instructor: J. Deppman, S. Milkova
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: :
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CMPL 502 - Honors Project
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, HONR, WADV
Students wishing to pursue Honors should apply by April 15 of the junior year. Please consult the course catalog section titled ‘Honors’ in the Comparative Literature Program for further details.
Instructor: J. Deppman, S. Milkova
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CMPL 995F - Private Reading - Full
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via Banner Self Service. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.
Enrollment Limit: 5
Instructor: J. Deppman, S. Milkova
Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to the Registrar’s Office
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CMPL 995H - Private Reading - Half
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Half Course
Credits: 2 credits
Attribute: 2HU
Private readings are offered as either a half or full academic course and require the faculty member’s approval. Students who wish to pursue a topic not covered in the regular curriculum may register for a private reading. This one-to-one tutorial is normally at the advanced level in a specific field and is arranged with a member of the faculty who has agreed to supervise the student. Unlike other courses, a student cannot register for a private reading via Banner Self Service. To register for a private reading, obtain a card from the Registrar’s Office, complete the required information, obtain the faculty member’s approval for the reading, and return the card to the Registrar’s Office.
Enrollment Limit: 5
Instructor: J. Deppman, S. Milkova
Consent of the Instructor Required: Submit Private Reading Card to the Registrar’s Office
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CMUS 100 - Introduction to Western Art Music
Next Offered: Spring Semester
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: ARHU
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. Cox
Consent of the Instructor Required: No
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.
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CMUS 103 - Introduction to the Anthropology of Music: Case Studies from around the World
Next Offered: Fall Semester
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: ARHU, CD, WINT
This course explores the study of musical practices around the world from an anthropological perspective. This means that the emphasis is on exploring the meanings, uses, and power of music, including the way music is used to heighten and ensure spiritual efficacy, to comment on and contribute to political movements, and to make sense of “natural” disasters. The class is organized around a series of themes - for example, Music and Ecology, Music and Spirituality, Music and Politics, and Ethics and Representation - rather than geographical areas. The course gives you critical tools and frames to apply to your own case studies in order to understand the power of music. After exploring the methodologies of ethnomusicology, you learn to use them yourself by designing your own research project on some aspect of musical practice in Oberlin. The course is designed to challenge the ways you think about and listen to music.
N.B. This class is designed for students without prior musical experience. As such it places the emphasis on understanding music in its cultural, political, religious, economic, historical, and ecological contexts rather than exploring the musical structures in much depth or teaching you about the theory of music. ETHN 100: Introduction to Musics of the World in the spring is a comparable class that gets into the nuts and bolts of music in more depth. for ETHN 100, considerable musical experience, a good ear, and the ability to read notation are ideal; you are asked to do more critical listening exercises and musical analysis.
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| CMUS 103 |
ETHN 100 |
| No prior musical knowledge necessary |
Prior musical knowledge necessary |
| Emphasis on music as a social act |
Balance between musical analysis and music as a social act |
| Very little about nuts & bolts of musical structures |
Deep exploration of the way music is structured |
| Organized around thematic units |
Organized around areas and themes |
| Goal is to think critically about the role of music and to focus on the meanings and uses of music |
Goal is to think critically about the role of music and learn to listen critically |
| Evaluation exercises will ask you to write and speak |
Evaluation exercises will ask you to listen, map out music, write, and speak |
| Not a gateway course to the Musical Studies Major |
A gateway course to the Musical Studies Major |
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: J. Fraser
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: This class is designed for students without prior musical experience. See ETHN 100 for a comparable class that requires experience.
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CMUS 130 - General Music Theory
Next Offered: Fall and Spring Semesters
Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: CNDP, ARHU
This course is for students who are majoring in something other than music. The central focus is on Western classical and vernacular traditions, although much of the approach applies to other traditions as well. We will examine the objective musical materials (scales, chords, rhythms, and so forth) as well as some of the perceptual and conceptual processes and cultural contexts that make music meaningful. students will thus learn many of the basics that music majors learn, along with some important features of human cognition that connect music with the other arts and with experience generally. Please contact the instructor for additional information.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: L. Liu
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: For non-music majors.
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CMUS 300 - Musical Studies Senior Seminar
Next Offered: Spring Semester
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: ARHU
The Senior Seminar is required of all Musical Studies majors and includes a capstone project appropriate to each student’s concentration within the major.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: B. Geyer
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CMUS 400 - Senior Honors
Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: ARHU
Senior Honors.
Enrollment Limit: 5
Instructor: Staff
Consent of the Instructor Required: Deans Consent
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CMUS 401 - Senior Honors
Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: ARHU
Senior Honors.
Enrollment Limit: 5
Instructor: Staff
Consent of the Instructor Required: Deans Consent
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CMUS 800 - Oberlin Arts & Sciences Chamber Music
Next Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters
Semester Offered: First & Second Semesters
HC
Credits: 2 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
This performance class provides students enrolled in the College with the opportunity to learn chamber works in small ensembles, receive coachings, and perform in public as part of a credit-bearing class. Class meets weekly for a two-hour session in which student groups play for the entire class and are coached by the instructor. Students may audition either as individuals or in pre-formed groups; individuals will be placed in groups at the discretion of the instructor. All instruments will be considered, although placement is contingent on the availability of repertoire and instrumental composition of the group of students auditioning in a given semester. The semester concludes with a public performance in which all groups must perform at least one movement selected from the works they have prepared over the course of the semester.
Enrollment Limit: 18
Instructor: C. Jenkins
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: For students enrolled in the College.
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COGS 101 - Mind, Brain, and Behavior: An Introduction to Cognitive Sciences
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: 4NS
Cognitive Science is the interdisciplinary study of the mental structures and processes involved in sensation, perception, consciousness, attention, memory, problem solving, reasoning, and language. We will draw on the fields of philosophy, psychology, computer science, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology in consideration of the types of questions and methodology that comprise cognitive science. Further, we will consider the many real world applications in the fields of engineering, computer science, marketing, education, medicine, and the law.
Enrollment Limit: 30
Instructor: P. deWinstanley
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
The Cognitive Sciences Concentration
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COMP 101 - Composition for Non-Majors I
Next Offered: Fall 2016
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
A course designed for students not majoring in composition. The purpose of the course is to provide those with limited prior background in composition the opportunity to experience musical structure and coherence through writing. The class meets as a group but the compositional problems of each individual will receive attention as needed.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: J. Jones
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Completion of, or concurrent enrollment in MUTH 101/131, CMUS 130, or instructor consent.
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COMP 102 - Composition for Non-Majors II
Next Offered: Spring 2017
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
Continuation of Composition for Non-Majors I (COMP 101). A course designed for students not majoring in composition. The purpose of the course is to provide those with limited prior background in composition the opportunity to experience musical structure and coherence through writing. The class meets as a group but the compositional problems of each individual will receive attention as needed.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: E. Ogonek
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Completion of Composition for Non-Majors I or instructor consent.
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COMP 201 - Composition Class I
Next Offered: Fall Semester
Semester Offered: First Semester
HC
Credits: 2 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
“The structure of this course will entail once-per-week half-hour one-on-one meetings with assigned Composition faculty. Further, Composition Practicum (AKA Composition Studio Class) will be required of all composition majors enrolled in COMP 201, 202, 301, 302, as well as those enrolled in Primary Private Study.”
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: Con Staff
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Composition major, composition minor, or a College music major with emphasis in composition required.
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COMP 202 - Composition Class II
Next Offered: Spring Semester
Semester Offered: Second Semester
HC
Credits: 2 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
“The structure of this course will entail once-per-week half-hour one-on-one meetings with assigned Composition faculty. Further, Composition Practicum (AKA Composition Studio Class) will be required of all composition majors enrolled in COMP 201, 202, 301, 302, as well as those enrolled in Primary Private Study.”
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: Con Staff
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: COMP 201. Composition major, composition minor, or a College music major with emphasis in composition required.
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COMP 211 - Instrumentation
Next Offered: Fall Semester
Semester Offered: First Semester
FC
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
Introduction to the principles of instrumentation; ranges, notation, techniques, timbres; transpositions or orchestral instruments; beginning exercises in orchestration.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: S. Hartke
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Concurrent enrollment in COMP 201.
(Previously offered as COMP 212.)
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COMP 222 - Counterpoint I
Next Offered: Spring Semester
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
Studies in tonal counterpoint; two-, three-, and four-part counterpoint in 18th century style; polyphonic variations; inventions.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: J. Jones
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Successful completion of MUTH 101/131 and COMP 201.
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COMP 251 - Composition Seminar I
Next Offered: Fall Semester
Semester Offered: First Semester
HC
Credits: 2 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
Considerations of the creative process, compositional working methods. Study and discussion of selected works relevant to concurrent student projects. The essentials of proper score and part preparation.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: E. Ogonek
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: By departmental consent.
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COMP 252 - Composition Seminar II
Next Offered: Spring Semester
Semester Offered: Second Semester
HC
Credits: 2 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
A continuation of COMP 251 with an emphasis on developmental techniques, in particular studying and discussing a broad selection of variations sets.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: E. Ogonek
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Comp 251.
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COMP 301 - Composition Class III
Next Offered: Fall Semester
Semester Offered: First Semester
HC
Credits: 2 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
“The structure of this course will entail once-per-week half-hour one-on-one meetings with assigned Composition faculty. Further, Composition Practicum (AKA Composition Studio Class) will be required of all composition majors enrolled in COMP 201, 202, 301, 302, as well as those enrolled in Primary Private Study.”
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: Con Staff
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Successful completion of COMP 202.
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COMP 302 - Composition Class IV
Next Offered: Spring Semester
Semester Offered: Second Semester
HC
Credits: 2 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
“The structure of this course will entail once-per-week half-hour one-on-one meetings with assigned Composition faculty. Further, Composition Practicum (AKA Composition Studio Class) will be required of all composition majors enrolled in COMP 201, 202, 301, 302, as well as those enrolled in Primary Private Study.”
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: Con Staff
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Successful completion of COMP 301 & COMP 311.
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COMP 311 - Orchestration
Next Offered: Fall 2016
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
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; score and part notation and preparation.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: S. Hartke
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Successful completion of COMP 212 or by consent.
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COMP 332 - Survey of Compositional Forms and Structures
Next Offered: Spring 2017
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
A historical survey of both small and large musical forms and structures used in Western art music through the examination of a broad selection of repertoire; (a) text-based forms, (b) dance-based forms, © rhetorical forms, (d) non-rhetorical forms. Classwork involves student analytical presentations and compositional projects.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: S. Hartke
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: COMP 222 or instructor consent.
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COMP 350 - Special Topics in Composition
Next Offered: Spring Semester
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
Seminar for composition majors that addresses aesthetic, technical, and analytical issues from a composer’s perspective. Topics to be announced.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: J. Jones
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: COMP 302 or by permission. May be repeated for credit.
(Previously Offered as Composition Seminar)
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COMP 351 - Composition Seminar III
Next Offered: Fall Semester
Semester Offered: First Semester
HC
Credits: 2 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
Continuation of COMP 252 looking at larger one-movement forms. Analysis and discussion of post-tonal harmonic systems, controlled aleatoricism, microtonality.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: J. Jones
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: COMP 252.
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COMP 352 - Composition Seminar IV
Next Offered: Spring Semester
Semester Offered: Second Semester
HC
Credits: 2 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
Continuation of COMP 351 with an emphasis on writing for orchestra.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: S. Hartke
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: COMP 351.
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COMP 421 - Counterpoint II
Next Offered: Beginning Fall 2017
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: CNDP
The study of the techniques of modal counterpoint; exercises in two-, three-, and four-part writing in 16th century style. Considerations of post-tonal counterpoint.
Enrollment Limit: 10
Instructor: E. Ogonek
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Successful completion of COMP 222 or consent of instructor.
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CRWR 110 - Introduction to Writing Poetry
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
This introductory course features the extensive reading and discussion of poetry from a creative writing perspective. In the weekly writing exercises students will be given the opportunity to apply the techniques they have learned from the assigned readings. Later in the term there will be workshops of student work.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: M. Ali, A. Feldman
Prerequisites & Notes: This course is primarily for first years. Second year students may be considered during add/drop. Contact: Suzanne Overstreet, CRWR program coordinator, to be placed on the waitlist.
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CRWR 120 - Introduction to Writing Fiction
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
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: S. Watanabe, A. Chung
Prerequisites & Notes: Primarily for first years. Upper division students may be considered during add/drop. Contact: Suzanne Overstreet, CRWR program coordinator, to be placed on the waitlist.
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CRWR 201 - Poetry/Prose Workshop
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
The weekly reading and writing assignments in this intensive workshop will focus on poetry and short fiction. By the end of the term students will be expected to produce a substantial portfolio which will include work in both genres.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: A. Feldman, S. Watanabe
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Course will be enrolled by consent. Please contact Professor Sylvia Watanabe for details.
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CRWR 210 - Fiction Workshop
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
An intermediate writing workshop, focused on the craft of fiction. Extensive reading of published short fiction and essays on the craft of writing. Student work will be new, original stories produced for peer review, as well as regular, shorter writing exercises that explore craft and technique. At the end of the term, students will submit a final portfolio.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: T. Hopkins
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
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CRWR 212 - Word & Image: Poetry in Dialogue with Visual Art
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4 HU
This class will explore various ways poets both employ poetic images and are inspired by visual images, including those made by artists. Our texts for discussion will be a wide range of traditional and contemporary poems written in dialogue with visual art. Weekly writing assignments will engage imaginatively with visual art, including works at the Allen Art Museum.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: L. Powell
Prerequisites & Notes: This course has no prerequisite except an interest in both art forms.
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CRWR 218 - The Art of the Monologue: One-Person Plays and Other Solo Non(Fiction)
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, QFR
A writing workshop on the first-person voice, whether the text is intended for the page or the stage. From performed autobiography (or autobiographical fictions) to solo-performer journalistic inquiries to the inner narratives of Modern (and Postmodern) fiction to Moth-style storytelling, we will examine great monologues across multiple genres. Student work will be new, original responses to writing exercises, working toward a staged reading of an original one-act monologue. Possible readings may include Samuel Beckett, Whoopi Goldberg, Wallace Shawn, Anna Deveare Smith, Edgar Allen Poe, John Leguizamo, and EM Lewis, among others.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: T. Hopkins
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CRWR 219 - Persona and Impersonation
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
A close look at how pattern, allusion, borrowing, theft, and invention collude in the work of major poets from the Renaissance to the present. Written work will consist of imitation of the assigned poems, and will require extensive revision, collaboration, and responsiveness to peers. Designed to benefit both critical and creative writers, this course seeks to hone skills of observation, listening, and description, as well as to cultivate mastery of the formal and rhetorical vocabularies necessary for careful reading and writing of poetry.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: D. Harrison
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Cross List Information: Crosslisted with ENGL 219
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CRWR 230 - Form and Flexibility
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WADV
This course will examine a variety of traditional poetic forms and the flexible ways contemporary writers employ them. Students will be expected to read closely and intensively from a writer’s point of view, write a poem each week exploring the form discussed, and participate constructively in workshops.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: L. Powell
Prerequisites & Notes: Open to non-majors; no application required.
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CRWR 234 - Intermediate Fiction: Research & Imagination
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
Through readings, exercises, and workshop and revision of students’ own fiction, this intermediate-level creative writing workshop will equip students with the skills to research their own projects as writers, as well as to push the limits of their imaginations in creating fictive worlds. Students will be encouraged to engage with styles and subjects beyond the purview of their usual interests, and to revise and reimagine their work as suits their projects.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: E. Barton
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: 100-level CRWR course
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CRWR 238 - Topics & Forms: Plot and Structure
Semester Offered: Spring Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT
Through analysis of and creative response to diverse, international modern and contemporary novels and short stories, students will gain an understanding of the historical and logical basis of plot and narrative structure. Simultaneously, students will learn to question established rules about managing plot and action, and to think deeply about structuring their own creative narratives. This course will require in-depth reading, weekly reading responses (some critical, some creative), and regular, timely submission of students’ own fiction for consideration in workshop, as well as a substantial end-of-semester portfolio.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: E. Barton
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Any 100 or 200-level CRWR course, or equivalent experience with instructor permission.
Cross List Information: Crosslisted with CMPL 238
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CRWR 250 - Introduction to Literary Translation: Theory, History, Practice
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT
The gateway to translation studies at Oberlin, this course is an introduction to the history and theory of literary translation. Focusing on culturally significant examples, students will examine linguistic, stylistic, political, economic, philosophical, and technological aspects of translation. Emphasis will be placed on the historical evolution of the roles of translators and translations and on how translation has shaped literary culture since the Renaissance. Topics will include genre and cross-genre translation (fiction, poetry, and drama), issues of translatability and translation strategy, and the impact of translations on untranslated writing. No prerequisites.
Enrollment Limit: 22
Instructor: S. Milkova
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with CMPL 250
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
English
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CRWR 272 - Speculative Fiction
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
The course will explore various traditions within the mode of the speculative and the fantastic, including: Western science fiction, magical realism, Afrofuturism, fairy tales, slipstream, and visionary fiction. As craftspeople working to hone our skills, we will examine the concepts of escapism, world-building, cognitive estrangement and the grotesque in our readings and imaginative practice. Class requires intensive creative output but is NOT primarly a workshop. Possible readings: Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Stephen Graham Jones, Ken Liu, Sofia Samatar, Helen Oyeyemi, and Ted Chiang.
Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: A. Chung
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CRWR 294 - The Writer in the World
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WINT
Through lecture, class discussions, and creative responses this course will focus on the contemporary cultural, historical, and political contexts which inform a writer’s imaginative life.
Enrollment Limit: 18
Instructor: A. Chung
Prerequisites & Notes: It is recommended, though not required, that interested students should have taken at least one creative writing or literature course. OPEN TO NON-MAJORS.
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CRWR 310 - Poetry Workshop
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WADV
This workshop, which focuses on the writing of poetry, features intensive discussion of student work and the assigned reading. Students will be expected to write at least one new poem every week.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: M. Ali, A. Feldman
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Normally, successful completion of CRWR 201 is a prerequisite for application to this course. In special circumstances individual instructors can accept students without this prerequisite. Please note that CRWR 201 is still required for completion of the Creative Writing major. An application with appropriate work sample are required for admission to this course. Applications should be submitted to the the CrWr Program Office by 12 noon on the last day of classes. Check Blackboard for details.
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CRWR 311 - Advanced Poetry Workshop 2: Special Topics in Poetry
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WADV
Topics may include: advanced approaches to prosody, new and traditional poetic forms, the structure and strategy of poetic sequences and book-length poems, and poetry in new media and hybrid/cross-genre forms.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: A. Feldman
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Normally, successful completion of CRWR 201 is a prerequisite for application to this course. In special circumstances individual instructors can accept students without this prerequisite. An application with appropriate work sample are required for admission to this course. Applications should be submitted to the the CrWr Program Office by 12 noon on the last day of classes. Check BlackBoard for details.
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CRWR 320 - Advanced Fiction Workshop
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU
This workshop on the writing of short fiction will include intensive discussion of student work and of the assigned reading. Students will be expected to turn in weekly responses to the readings and to the creative prompts. A substantial portfolio of completed work will be due at the end of term.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: E. Barton
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Normally, successful completion of CRWR 201 is a prerequisite for application to this course. In special circumstances individual instructors can accept students without this prerequisite. Admission based on a completed application and a writing sample, due in the Program Office on the last day of classes of the previous semester. See Blackboard for deadlines and to download forms. Please note that CRWR 201 is still required for completion of the Creative Writing major.
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CRWR 340 - Nonfiction Workshop
Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WADV
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: S. Watanabe, L. Powell
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Normally, successful completion of CRWR 201 is a prerequisite for application to this course. In special circumstances individual instructors can accept students without this prerequisite. Please note that CRWR 201 is still required for completion of the Creative Writing major. Admission based on a completed application and a writing sample, due in the Program Office on the last day of classes of the previous semester. See Blackboard for deadlines and to download forms. Please note that CrWr 201 is still required for the completion of the major.
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CRWR 350 - Advanced Translation Workshop: Poetry
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WADV
In this course we will study literary translation of poetry at the advanced level. Students will translate a body of work by a single author. While the course will focus on workshopping translations, we will also read some theory and craft essays by translators of poetry.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: D. Harrison
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Four semesters of language or equivalent, and CMPL/CRWR 250.
Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with CMPL 350.
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CRWR 351 - Advanced Translation Workshop: Prose and Drama
Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WADV
In this course we will study literary translation of prose and drama at the advanced level. Students will translate a body of work by a single author. While the course will focus on workshopping translations, we will also read some theory and craft essays by translators of prose and drama.
Enrollment Limit: 12
Instructor: J. Deppman
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: Four semesters of language or equivalent, and CMPL/CRWR 250.
Cross List Information: This course is cross-listed with CMPL 351.
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