Course Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Information
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This is a comprehensive listing of all active, credit-bearing courses offered by Oberlin College and Conservatory since Fall 2016. Courses listed this online catalog may not be offered every semester; for up to date information on which courses are offered in a given semester, please see PRESTO.
For the most part, courses offered by departments are offered within the principal division of the department. Many interdisciplinary departments and programs also offer courses within more than one division.
Individual courses may be counted simultaneously toward more than one General Course Requirement providing they carry the appropriate divisional attributes and/or designations.
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ECON 099 - Principles of Accounting Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
Accounting is the creation, reporting, and interpretation of financial information. The course will show how accounting data can be used by people outside an organization - for example, investors and regulators - to evaluate its financial performance. It will also show how accounting data can be used within an organization as a planning and management tool. The course will be particularly useful to those interested in careers in business, economics, arts and non-profit management, law, and government.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students cannot earn credit for 099 if they have taken Econ 109. This course counts as general SS credits but does not count toward the 8 full economics courses required for the economics major.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Summer 2021
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ECON 101 - Principles of Economics Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person, Remote
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course introduces the student to the economic problems of unemployment, inflation, the distribution of income and wealth, and the allocation of resources. The basic tools of analysis for studying these problems are developed and the role of public policy in securing economic objectives is explored. The course is designed to serve as a foundation for further work in economics and as a desirable complement to study in history, politics and sociology.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021
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ECON 204 - Game Theory for the Social Sciences Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
Game theory is a mathematical tool that has been developed for the purpose of understanding social phenomena. This course introduces game theory with an emphasis on applications, in economics, politics, business, military science, history, biology, theology and recreation. The required mathematical background is high school level algebra.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 and high school algebra.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Summer 2021
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ECON 206 - Principles of Finance Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course provides a thorough foundation in financial economics with applications to investment decisions and the management of business enterprises. Topics include capital budgeting, financial statement analysis, interest and risk calculations, principles of market valuation, the capital asset pricing model, financial funding decisions, dividend and cash flow analysis, and taxation.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021, Summer 2021
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ECON 207 - Urban Economics Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
How and why do cities form? How do economic forces shape the citys formation, location, size and function? We begin by looking at the economies and diseconomies of urban scale and the urban hierarchical network, as well as theories of land markets. We move to an economic and policy-centered analysis of the challenges of urban life, such as zoning, housing, transportation, suburbanization and the provision of public services.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or its equivalent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020
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ECON 209 - Economic Development Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course offers a survey of the different theories and the empirical evidence on the factors that determine economic performance in low and middle income countries. The first part broadly covers the meaning and measurement of development, such as indicators of poverty, inequality and demographic variables. The second part will introduce the student to the major theories that try to explain economic development. The final section will focus on policy issues, especially the dismal record of foreign aid.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or its equivalent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021
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ECON 211 - Money, the Financial System and the Economy Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
The course deals with the linkages between financial markets, financial institutions, monetary policy and the economy. Topics will include the function of money in the economy, the determination of interest rates and exchange rates, the origin and evolution of financial intermediation, and the role of the financial system in the transmission of monetary policy.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or its equivalent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021
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ECON 214 - Time Series Analysis
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
The objective of this course is to analyze observations that are collected over time. Statistical software will be utilized in order to analyze the behavior of a single dataset, and to observe the relationships among several time series datasets. Applications of time series analysis will focus on macroeconomics and finance. Topics include: intro to statistical software, univariate time series models, multiples times series modelling, and forecasting.
Prerequisites & Notes: Econ 255 or consent of the instructor. A completed course in intermediate macroeconomics (ECON 251) is highly recommended. ECON 206 and/or ECON 211 may also be helpful
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2020
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ECON 219 - Labor-Management Relations
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
An introduction to the problems of labor economics and industrial relations, primarily in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the growth of the labor force, wages, the increased importance of white-collar employment, the goals of labor and management, collective bargaining and major issues of public policy.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or its equivalent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2016
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ECON 220 - Economics of Labor Markets
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course provides an introduction to theoretical and empirical analysis of wage and employment determination. We will develop economic analyses of changes in labor markets, as well as labor market policies, and consider the empirical facts and evidence about work and pay, mostly in the United States. Topics include labor supply and demand, education, health, income inequality, intergenerational mobility, discrimination, and immigration.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or equivalent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2019
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ECON 226 - International Finance
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
An introduction to international finance with an emphasis on the nature of international financial transactions, financial interdependence, and determinants of exchange rates. This course will include the historical development and contemporary role of international institutions such as the IMF and IBRD.
Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or equivalent.
This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) : International Studies Concentration
Latin American Studies, Russian and East European Studies.
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ECON 227 - International Trade and Finance Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
An introduction to international economics with an emphasis on the economic analysis of international transactions, financial interdependence, and current trade conflicts, as well as discussions of the historical development and contemporary role of international institutions.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or equivalent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020
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ECON 229 - Open Economy Macroeconomics Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
Open Economy Macroeconomics studies how macro-economies are affected by trade and exchange rates. This course compares the effects of fiscal and monetary policy under fixed versus flexible exchange rates, and the macroeconomic effects of changes in currency values. For many emerging and small advanced economies, interest rates and exchange rates are largely determined by international factors, while policies in large advanced economies can influence these variables. Also examined are the implications of an emerging country’s integration into international financial markets. We will also study the economic and political integration of countries into the European Union and the European Monetary Union.
Prerequisites & Notes: Econ 101.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020
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ECON 231 - Environmental Economics Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
The course is an introduction to the theory and practice of environmental economics. Emphasis is placed on understanding how the basic tools of economic analysis are used to identify sources of environmental problems, value environmental resources, and design environmental policy within the framework of a market based economic system.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or its equivalent.
This course is cross-listed with ENVS 231
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020
Sustainability
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ECON 243 - Economic History of the United States
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course examines United States economic history from the colonial period to the present. The goal of the course is to use economic methods to further our understanding of U.S. history. Topics covered include the development of U.S. legal and political institutions, industrialization and urbanization, financial history, the Civil War, the transportation revolution, and the Great Depression.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2019
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ECON 245 - Health Economics
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
Health care economics is the study of how resources are allocated to the production of health care and the distribution of that care. The course will look at the conflict between the provision of high-quality, universal health care and health care cost containment; the pros and cons of using markets to distribute health care; and the institutional features of the markets for health insurance, medical education, hospitals, ethical drugs, and medical innovation and technology.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2020
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ECON 246 - Chinese Economic History Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI CD QFR
4 credits
This course provides an introduction to the distinct characteristics of the Chinese economy, discussing its long-term development from 500 BCE to 1911 CE. In addition to learning historical facts, we will grapple with theories of economic development and use them to analyze Chinese economic history. We will cover topics on Chinese politics and culture in the latter half of the course, as these are tightly intertwined with the economy. The ultimate goal of this course is to help us form a deeper understanding of the China we see today.
Prerequisites & Notes: Econ 101.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Summer 2021
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ECON 251 - Intermediate Macroeconomics Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course provides a detailed overview of the basic macroeconomic theories used to analyze aggregate spending and production, economic growth and business cycles. Theories covered in the class will be applied to examples drawn from current events and contemporary policy debates.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 and sophomore standing or a 200-Level course in economics (ECON 211 being most helpful).
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021
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ECON 253 - Intermediate Microeconomics Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
An introduction to the art of building mathematical models of the behavior of individual economic agents. Topics include models of consumers, producers, their interaction with each other in different market forms and strategic situations, and the welfare implications of economic outcomes in the presence and absence of markets.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 and sophomore standing or a 200-Level course in economics and MATH 133. Proficiency in calculus at the level of Math 133 is essential.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021
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ECON 255 - Introduction to Econometrics Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person, Hybrid
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This is an introduction to the application of statistical methods to the estimation of economic models and the testing of economic hypotheses using non-experimental data. The central statistical tool is multivariate regression analysis. Topics covered include: the Gauss-Markov theorem, testing hypotheses, and correcting for heteroskedasticity, autocorrelation and simultaneous equation bias. In the weekly computer lab sessions econometric software is used to analyze real-world data.
Prerequisites & Notes: STAT 113, MATH 133, and ECON 253, or consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021
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ECON 309 - Advanced Development
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course explores the factors determining economic development from a microeconomic and macroeconomic perspective. In the first half of the course, topics covered include population growth and fertility, poverty traps and multiple equilibria, migration and remittances, foreign aid, the role of institutional factors and the institutions vs. geography debate . The second half of the course explores the theory and evidence of economic development from a macroeconomic perspective. Topics include economic growth macroeconomic policies, and international trade and finance. This is a team-taught course.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251; ECON 253; and MATH 133.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2018
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ECON 310 - Economic Development in Latin America Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI CD QFR
4 credits
This course examines why many Latin American countries started with levels of development similar to those of the U.S. and Canada but have diverged in the last two centuries. A significant portion of the course will involve discussion of the long-lasting impact of the historical policies driving this divergence. In particular, we will analyze the colonial and post-independence period to examine the roots of the weak institutional frameworks than could explain a low growth trajectory. Additionally, we will look at events in the past decade, comparing and contrasting the experience of different countries with respect to growth, poverty and inequality.
Prerequisites & Notes: Econ 101, Econ 253, and completed or currently enrolled in Econ 255.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020
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ECON 315 - Financial Markets Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
A microeconomics approach to the study of the functions of financial markets. Topics include the fundamentals of risk and return, the valuation of equity and fixed income securities, the term structure of interest rates, investment and security analysis, and questions of market efficiency.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 253 and ECON 206 or 211.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Summer 2021
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ECON 317 - Industrial Organization
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
Analysis of the modern theory and empirical evidence about the organization of firms and industries, why firms and industries take on particular forms, and what is the impact of that organization on market outcomes for consumers and producers. Specific topics include monopoly behavior, strategic firm behavior in markets with few firms, mergers, antitrust, governmental regulation, and consumer welfare.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 253 and MATH 133.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020 (canceled)
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ECON 321 - Poverty and Affluence
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course describes alternative theories of the functional distribution of income and examines the empirical evidence. It emphasizes the determinants of the personal distributioof income, and presents measures of income inequality to understand the causes and consequences of inequality. Factors of inequality such as schooling, labor force behavior, and discrimination are considered separately. It presents a thorough discussion and analysis of the roles of state-federal income maintenance programs to assist the poor, including the effects of the 1996 United States. welfare reforms. The distribution of personal wealth is also examined. Includes limited discussion of income equalities across countries.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 253 and MATH 133.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2016
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ECON 322 - Public Economics Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
We use tools of economic analysis to study the public sector, which plays a dominant role in our lives. We examine the foundation of welfare economics, developing rationales for the existence of government. We introduce major concepts of public finance: externalities, public goods, voting and redistribution. We supplement the theory with discussions on relevant policy issues (public education, health care reform, social security, etc.) and with examples of empirical research related to taxation and expenditure.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 253 or consent of the instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021
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ECON 325 - Economics of Education
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course examines the role of economics in the evaluation of individual education decisions as well as its use in the creation and assessment of education policy. Topics include human capital theory, peer effects, the market for elementary and secondary schooling, and school accountability. Students will be introduced to both the theory and empirical evidence related to these topics.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 253
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2015
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ECON 326 - International Trade Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course offers the advanced theory of international trade, focusing on the factors which determine trade patterns, the gains from trade, and the domestic and international distribution of the gains from trade. Trade restrictions in the form of tariffs and quotas will be analyzed as well to understand how government policies can alter both trade flows and the distribution of gains from trade.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 253 and MATH 133 or equivalent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021
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ECON 331 - Natural Resource Economics
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course applies microeconomic analysis to the allocation and management of natural resources and the environment. Economic modeling is used to analyze the optimal use of resources such as land, water, fisheries, forests, and fossil fuels. In addition, the economic aspects of policies related to climate change, urban sprawl, water conservation, biodiversity, and renewable energy will be explored.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 253 and MATH 133. ENVS 231 recommended.
This course is cross-listed with ENVS 331
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2017
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ECON 332 - Energy Economics
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course examines energy markets and policies. It applies economic theory and uses empirical evidence to analyze oil, natural gas, and electricity markets. Understanding the structure of supply and demand in these industries is essential for designing effective energy policy. Emphasis will be placed on understanding energy’s interaction with climate change.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 253
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2019
Sustainability
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ECON 340 - Financial Derivatives
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course provides a thorough review of financial derivative contracts, ranging from forwards and futures to swaps, options, and credit derivatives. The emphasis is on how these instruments work, how they can be used to redistribute risk, and on principles and models of valuation. We conclude with some discussion of the role of derivatives in the financial meltdown of 2007-09. Note that this course will be taught remotely with real-time class meetings via videoconferencing technology.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 253, STAT 113, and consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2020
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ECON 351 - Macroeconomic Theory Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course examines central issues in macroeconomic research and policy. Building on basic models developed in ECON 251, the course develops more rigorous models to investigate economic growth, consumption and savings, investment, and business cycle fluctuations emphasizing the roles of monetary and fiscal policies, and their macroeconomic effects.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and MATH 133. ECON 255 is also recommended.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Summer 2021
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ECON 353 - Microeconomic Theory
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
Analysis of selected topics in microeconomic theory at a level consistent with a first-year graduate course. Topics include optimization, risk and uncertainty, economics of information, game theory, market design (auctions and contract theory), welfare economics, and general equilibrium.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 253 and MATH 231
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021 (canceled)
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ECON 355 - Advanced Econometrics Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
The course covers advanced topics in econometrics as a sequel to ECON 255. Topics covered include basic time series analysis, reduced form econometric estimation techniques in the presence of endogeneity, first difference estimators, fixed and random effects, instrumental variables, simultaneous equations, the estimation of treatment effects in experimental and quasi-experimental settings, and limited dependent variable models (Logit, Probit, and Tobit). Practical exercises will be conducted in Stata.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 255, MATH 133, and ECON 253.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021
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ECON 409 - Seminar: Institutions and Development
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
The seminar will review the most important literature in economic development from a micro perspective with an emphasis on the role that institutions, state capacity, and property rights have on development. Students will have to present the assigned papers and present a small research project.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2020
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ECON 413 - Seminar: Comparative Economic Development Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
This seminar explores the theories of comparative economic development through the reading of scientific papers and articles. The ultimate goal of the seminar is understanding the deep causal roots of historic and contemporary wealth inequality across societies. The seminar starts by addressing the role of history and persistence of historical patterns on the different levels of living standards. The discussion of different roles played by geographic factors are discussed next, followed by the study of the effects of culture and diversity on economic development. The seminar ends with the discussion about the relationship between institutions and economic performance.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020
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ECON 417 - Seminar: Research in Industrial Organization
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
Students read, discuss, produce, and present research on contemporary topics in industrial organization such as the economics of electronic marketplaces, consumer and firm behavior in online auctions, markets for goods with network effects, the dynamics of competition in high-tech industries, and so on.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021 (canceled)
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ECON 421 - Seminar: Human Capital during the Life Course
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
This seminar examines how investments in human capital starting at the beginning of life and continuing until mid-career affect health and labor market outcomes. We will start with the long-run effects of health investments that occur during the in utero period, also known as the fetal origins hypothesis. Then, we will examine educational investments occurring during primary and secondary school, as well as college enrollment decisions. Lastly, we will discuss the ways in which adult health interacts with income. To provide context, we will also discuss the evolution of health and human capital throughout American history.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2019
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ECON 425 - Economics of Education
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
This course examines the role of economics in the evaluation of individual education decisions as well as its use in the creation and assessment of education policy. This course is designed to familiarize students with the methodologies frequently used in the literature, as well as various topics related to the economics of education. Topics include human capital theory, signaling, peer effects, the market for elementary and secondary schooling, and school accountability. Students will be introduced to both the theory and empirical evidence related to these topics.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2016
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ECON 429 - Seminar: Behavioral Economics and the Environment
FC SSCI WADV
4 credits
Behavioral economics explores and attempts to explain systematic deviations from rational choice theory. This course will examine contemporary research in behavioral economics and consider the implications for environmental regulation at local and international scales and in the context of wealthy and impoverished populations.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2016
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ECON 430 - Economics of Poverty & Income Distribution
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
This seminar examines poverty and income distribution, mostly in the U.S. We will discuss how poverty rates and wage inequality have changed over time, factors that explain historical trends, consequences of poverty and inequality, intergenerational mobility, and how income differs by race and gender. We will also consider the main government policies and programs that affect poverty and inequality. Students will write and present an original research paper.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2019
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ECON 432 - Seminar in Energy and Environmental Economics
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
This seminar examines energy and environmental economics issues, mostly in the U.S. We will discuss carbon and sulfur dioxide emissions in the context of the electricity and automotive industries, as well as the transition to renewable energy. We will consider some of the main government programs that affect pollution, efficiency, and social welfare. Students will write and present an original economics research paper.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
This course is cross-listed with ENVS 432
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2020
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ECON 436 - Seminar: Valuation of Environmental Amenities
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
This seminar-style course will serve as an introduction to economic research in Environmental Economics, with an emphasis on non-market valuation of environmental amenities. This course will discuss the importance of evaluating environmental amenities in policy-making. It will use research papers to help students learn the economic theories, econometric models, and empirical evidence used in the process of such valuations. Meetings will be discussion-based, and students are expected to arrive prepared to engage with the discussions. Each student will work on a proposal of an original research idea, a research paper, and a presentation of their work to the class.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
This course is cross-listed with ENVS 436
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021
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ECON 440 - Seminar: US Monetary Policy Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
What does monetary policy do? What should it do? This seminar addresses these questions in the context of the extraordinary measures undertaken by the Federal Reserve in response to the financial crisis of 2007-09. Topics will include the formulation, implementation, and transmission of policy, with an emphasis on using empirical methods to evaluate its impact on the economy and financial markets.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021
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ECON 448 - Seminar: Economics of Housing and Real Estate Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
This seminar explores various aspects of real estate and the housing market through reading of micreconomic literature. Students will be expected to conduct and present an original piece of research. Topics may include: location choice; residential development; hedonic pricing and the valuation of housing; land use regulations and local government; the subprime mortgage crisis and its aftermath.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020
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ECON 449 - Seminar: Economics and Immigration Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI WINT
4 credits
This seminar examines the movement of people between countries from an economics perspective. We will discuss the incentives for immigration, the economic impact of immigrants arrival in a new country and on the country of origin. We will examine theoretical models drawn from macro, public, labor and international economics and consider both policies real and imagined and empirical evidence. Students will write, revise and present an original research paper related to this topic.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021
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ECON 452 - Seminar on Financial Crises in the United States Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
Banking crises in the United States triggered legislative responses that shaped the regulatory structure of the financial system. This course will examine the major financial crises focusing on the underlying causes, the apparent mechanisms, and the regulatory remedies. The lessons from historical crises will be applied to recent financial events like the Panic of 2007 and the regulatory response to them.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 251, ECON 253, and ECON 255, or consent of instructor.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021
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ECON 491 - Honors Program
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
This program is open by departmental invitation to major students whose general and departmental records indicate their ability to carry the program and the likelihood that they will profit from it. The program is two semesters and involves the independent preparation of a thesis, defense of the thesis, active participation with other Honors students and the department staff in a weekly seminar as well as written and oral examinations by an outside examiner.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2016
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ECON 491F - Honors Program–Full Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC SSCI QFR WADV
4 credits
This program is open by departmental invitation to major students whose general and departmental records indicate their ability to carry the program and the likelihood that they will profit from it. The program is two semesters and involves the independent preparation of a thesis, defense of the thesis, active participation with other Honors students and the department staff in a weekly seminar as well as written and oral examinations by an outside examiner.
Prerequisites & Notes: Consent of instructor required.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Spring 2021
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ECON 491H - Honors Program–Half Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
HC SSCI QFR
2 credits
This program is open by departmental invitation to major students whose general and departmental records indicate their ability to carry the program and the likelihood that they will profit from it. The program is two semesters and involves the independent preparation of a thesis, defense of the thesis, active participation with other Honors students and the department staff in a weekly seminar as well as written and oral examinations by an outside examiner.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Spring 2021
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ECON 995F - Private Reading - Full
FC SSCI
4 credits
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.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021
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ECON 995H - Private Reading - Half
HC SSCI
2 credits
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.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Summer 2021
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EDPR 102 - SITES Spanish In The Elementary Schools “Language Teaching Practicum” Mode(s) of Instruction: Hybrid
CC
1 or 2 credits
This co-curricular Spanish teaching practicum is offered for variable credits (1-2) to students who have successfully completed EDUA 301 and are approved to continue teaching in the SITES program. Every credit represents a weekly time commitment of approximately 3 hours (including 1 hour of teaching).
Prerequisites & Notes: Completion of EDUA 301 and approval to continue in the SITES Program required. EDPR 102 may be repeated with a maximum of 8 co-curricular credits counting towards the graduation requirement. P/NP Grading Only.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Community Based Learning
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EDUA 101 - Language Pedagogy
FC ARHU CD
4 credits
What does it mean to know a language? And how do you teach languages effectively? Encouraging students to look at language in new and revealing ways, this course provides an introduction to the field of applied linguistics and language pedagogy. The course includes a practicum in which students work as teachers or tutors in the language(s) of their competency, including English. Spanish-speaking students who are selected will work in SITES. Open to all students, regardless of linguistic background.
Prerequisites & Notes: Application and interview required prior to consent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2017
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EDUA 301 - Language Pedagogy: The Theory & Practice of Teaching and Learning Languages Mode(s) of Instruction: Hybrid
FC ARHU CD
4 credits
What does it mean to know a language? And how do you teach languages effectively? Encouraging students to look at language in new and revealing ways, this course provides an introduction to the field of applied linguistics and language pedagogy. The course includes a practicum in which students work as teachers or tutors in the language(s) of their competency, including English. Spanish-speaking students who are selected will work in SITES. Open to all students, regardless of linguistic background.
Prerequisites & Notes: Application and interview required prior to consent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Community Based Learning
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EDUA 312 - Alternative Pedagogies: Theory and Application
FC ARHU
4 credits
What are alternative pedagogies? What do they look like? How are they different from and similar to “traditional” ways of teaching and learning? Through readings, discussions, field trips, structured observations and student-facilitated classes, we will explore the theory and application of alternative pedagogies and what supports and constrains their use.
Prerequisites & Notes: Sophomore standing or above and work with children in an educational setting.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2016
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EDUA 320 - Children and Society: Is There Still a Childhood?
FC ARHU
4 credits
Through the lenses of children’s literature, developmental psychology and sociological and historical research we will explore the historical role of children and childhood and then examine some of the social, educational and economic issues affecting children and childhood in U.S. society today. Individual and group research will include interviews and library work. The last third of the course will be seminar-based with students sharing research. Field trip(s) required.:
Prerequisites & Notes: Sophomore level or higher.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2017
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EDUA 995F - Private Reading - Full Mode(s) of Instruction: Remote
FC ARHU
4 credits
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.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Spring 2021
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EDUA 995H - Private Reading - Half Mode(s) of Instruction: Remote
HC ARHU
2 credits
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.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020, Spring 2021
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EDUC 300 - Principles of Education
FC DDHU
4 credits
Students will explore the complex world of education from historical, philosophical, sociological and political perspectives and assumptions, while also investigating why different models of schools function as they do. Educational theory, policy, and curriculum will be addressed, specifically current issues and research dealing with students’ readiness to learn, assessment and evaluation, funding, teacher assessment, and educational standards. Traditional and alternative pedagogies, their impact on teaching-learning partnerships, and models for teacher reflective praxis will be included in course readings, discussions, and written reflections. While the course focuses on the American educational system at large, students will practice applying key educational concepts to subject areas of their own interest.
Prerequisites & Notes: Counts as liberal arts course for Conservatory and Double-Degree students.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2019
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ENGL 104 - Supervidere: Surveillance Cultures of the American Canon Mode(s) of Instruction: Hybrid
FC ARHU
4 credits
These days someone is probably watching you: followers on social media, operators of security cameras, that pesky elf on a shelf. But was it always so? This survey course considers how surveillance is essential to the development of American literature, culture, and society from the colonial period to the present. The word “survey” itself comes from the Latin “supervidere,” meaning to oversee or supervise. As we survey American literature ranging from colonial-era captivity narratives to Edgar Allen Poe’s nineteenth-century gothic and Thomas Pynchon’s twentieth-century postmodernism, we will consider why watching and being watched are common themes in the American canon.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students may count one 100-Level course toward the English major. This course may also be of interest to CAST majors.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020
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ENGL 110 - A History of the English Language Mode(s) of Instruction: Hybrid
FC ARHU
4 credits
We will trace the development of the language from its Indo-European prehistory to ca. 1900, emphasizing the intersections between language, literature, history, and culture. We will also study changing attitudes toward language, including such issues as correctness, dialect, dictionaries, and change itself. Students should expect frequent assignments and exams.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021
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ENGL 112 - One Hundred Poems
FC ARHU
4 credits
An introduction to poetry in English, from Late Middle English to the present, giving particular attention to the ways in which lyric distinguishes itself from other genres, manifests both thought and feeling, relates to historical and cultural context, and rewards close, often excruciatingly close, reading. Students will be expected to demonstrate an intimate familiarity with the texts.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2020
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ENGL 123 - Introduction to Shakespeare
FC ARHU
4 credits
An interactive lecture course surveying Shakespeare’s sonnets and plays, intended for non-English majors and anyone with more curiosity than experience. Likely plays: Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merchant of Venice, Henry IV part 1, Henry V, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth. Occasional screenings.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2019
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ENGL 140 - Arthurian Fictions
FC ARHU
4 credits
Stories about King Arthur and his knights have been popular favorites from the Middle Ages to our own day. The legend has been represented across the arts, in dozens of languages, in high and pop culture, as comedy and as tragedy. Rather than attempting to cover this vast and diverse tradition, the course will introduce a variety of key texts and genres (e.g. medieval romance, poetry, children’s lit, film) and methods of analysis. Not writing-intensive.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students may count one 100-Level course toward the English major.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2019
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ENGL 141 - Rivers in American Literature
FC ARHU
4 credits
An introduction to the different meanings of rivers in a variety of texts, genres, and formats. Through careful readings of short pieces (poems, films, songs, stories, essays), longer accounts (novels, history, travel writing, autobiography), and local waterways, we will examine some of the different meanings that Americans have attributed to rivers and attempt to imagine where our attitudes towards places, people, and flowing water might lead us. Student writing will include brief essays and exams.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2015
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ENGL 167 - Thirteen Ways of Looking at Sports
FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Sports is perhaps the most popular pastime around the world today. And the images, metaphors, narratives, and values that spring up around sports weave themselves into the stories we tell about ourselves and our world, even when we don’t think we’re talking about sports. In this course, we’ll use tools from philosophy, literary and cultural study, sociology, economics, and the sciences to look at sports and its accompanying cultural forms and practices. We’ll be looking at what they tell us about how we think about such things as play, beauty, goodness, violence, money, sex, gender, race, and nations.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2017
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ENGL 190 - Percival Everett: Sampling Dialogic Contemporary Fiction(s)
HC ARHU CD
2 credits
Percival Everett, with over twenty published books, is one of Americas most prolific contemporary novelists. His work is sometimes controversial in that it speaks back to expectations of him as an African American author. This course will focus on four works, including interviews and critical essays, in order to register some of Everetts multivalent literary styles and discourses. The half course is preparation for a visit by the author during second module. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2016
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ENGL 202 - Medieval British Literature
FC ARHU
4 credits
What did medieval English people read, watch, sing, and dream? In the two centuries before the printing press, English went from being the language of illiterate peasants to being the language of a flourishing and diverse literary tradition. We will survey festive community drama, lyric, Arthurian romance, story, and dream-vision, paying particular attention to the competing demands of entertainment and instruction, and to tensions between sacred and secular, popular and courtly. British, Pre-1700.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2015
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ENGL 203 - Early British Literature: Points of Departure
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
How does English literature begin? This course will introduce some of the most influential texts of the British tradition before 1700, texts that survived the centuries to become touchstones for writers around the globe. Authors will include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Donne. Medieval texts will be read in modern translation. British, Pre-1700.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2018
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ENGL 206 - Shakespearean Tragedy
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
Intrigue, heartache, existential despair, violence, madness, guilt, shame, grief, jealousy, revenge, murder: the themes of England’s great playwright, writing at the peak of his artistic achievement. Through a careful reading of the plays, we will discover Shakespeare’s remarkable achievements as a tragedian; the course will also provide a sense of the vital world of early modern England, and theoretical considerations of Tragedy as a genre. British, Pre-1700.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.” This course may count towards the major in THEA.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2020
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ENGL 207 - Lovers, Philosophers, and Revolutionaries: A Survey of Renaissance Literature
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
The Protestant reformation, the scientific revolution, the rise of capitalism, the transvestite theater, the “discovery” of America, the plague: the English Renaissance was a time of daring innovation as well as classical revival. This course will survey the authors writing during this extraordinary time, including Marlowe, Webster, Wyatt, Surrey, Montaigne, Erasmus, Sidney, Queen Elizabeth, Donne, Herbert, Milton, and Spenser. Our focus will be on the relationship between radical cultural and intellectual change and literary expression. British, Pre-1700.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2018
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ENGL 209 - Ovid in the Middle Ages
FC ARHU
4 credits
We will read several of the central works of Ovid (in translation) in conjunction with medieval literature that imitates, invokes, or develops Ovid’s literary corpus. We will emphasize reading and imitation as modes of interpretation, and consider how scholars of the medieval period saw themselves as inheriting and continuing a distinct literary tradition. Texts include Ovid’s Amores, Heroides, and Metamorphses, various Chaucerian works, the Roman de la Rose, and the letters of Abelard and Heloise. Pre-1800.
This course is cross-listed with CLAS 222 and CMPL 222
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2020
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ENGL 210 - Shakespeare
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
The Renaissance is remembered as an age of humanism, a time when man became the measure of all things. But the early modern imagination was also populated by a variety of inhuman or not-quite-human creatures, including monsters, ghosts, devils, fairies, and spirits of all kinds. We will survey the disputed boundaries of the human in a wide selection of Shakespeares poetry and plays. How does fiction shape our definitions of humanity? What can we learn from Renaissance inhumanism? British, Pre-1700.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-Level Courses.’
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2016
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ENGL 213 - Desire and Literature
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
Erotic desire is one of literature’s great and perennial themes. This course will explore some of its permutations in texts from the classical to the contemporary: from Ovid to Junot Diaz, from Shakespeare to Zora Neale Hurston, from vampires to Marilyn Monroe. We will pay special attention to the role of desire in self-construction. How are selves imagined in relation to loss, absence, and otherness? How do our articulations of desire locate us in time, space, genders, bodies, and communities? What do the literatures of desire tell us about who we are and who we want to be? This course is required for the Arts of Desire StudiOC Learning Community.
Prerequisites & Notes: Field Trip(s) Required.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2019
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ENGL 214 - Image and Enlightenment
FC ARHU
4 credits
Image and Enlightenment explores the centrality of images for the eighteenth-century cultural project known as the Enlightenment. We examine physically embodied images that circulated in eighteenth-century print culture as illustrations in philosophical treatises, scientific voyages of discovery, and the novel. We also study theories of the image as developed in Enlightenment debates about the nature of the imagination. Students in this course will examine Enlightenment images, material and immaterial, across genres, from the Encyclopedie, to the illustrated novel, to landscape treatises. Labs in Mudd Special Collections afford hands-on knowledge of the variety and uses of images in the Enlightenment. 1700-1900. Required course for Graphic Accounts: Telling Through Pictures StudiOC Learning Community.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled, “200-Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2018
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ENGL 218 - Shakespeare and the Limits of Genre: Problem Comedy and Romance
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This class will study Shakespeare’s most inscrutable plays: the disturbing “problem comedies” - All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, and Merchant of Venice ; and the dazzling “romances” Pericles, Cymbeline , and The Winter’s Tale. In both tragicomic modes, Shakespeare experiments with the limits of genre: crafting “happy endings” to plays that resist them, and thereby speculating on the nature of dramatic representation and fiction-making itself. British, Pre-1700.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200 Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2019
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ENGL 219 - Persona and Impersonation
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
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.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students should have completed a Writing Intensive course or gained Writing Certification in any course in the humanities. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent.
This course is cross-listed with CRWR 219
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2019
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ENGL 220 - British Romantic Literature in England
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
English Romantic writers considered the early 19th century to be as exciting and as dangerous as the new force of electricity. This course studies Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, and others as prophets in this age of crisis, asking such questions as: what does it mean to be human? how do we change? what do we desire? how do we relate to the natural world? why does writing matter, and to whom? British, 1700-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2015
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ENGL 223 - Meaning and Being: Nature in 19th-Century American Narrative
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
A survey of prominent literary works of the 1800s, emphasizing close reading and giving special attention to the concept of ‘Nature.’ The reading list will be centered around Moby-Dick, which appeared in the middle of the century and features tangled relations between meaning and being, self and other. American, 1700-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students should have completed a Writing Intensive course or gained Writing Certification in any course in the humanities. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2020
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ENGL 225 - Victoria’s Secrets
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
Much as we associate the reign of Queen Victoria with prudishness and moral restraint, literature from this period frequently exposes the dark underside of the Victorians’ social psyche. What are some of the social, political, and psychological concerns and anxieties behind Victorian authors’ fascination with the sinister, the criminal, the vampiric? Authors include Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, R. L. Stevenson, and others. British, 1700-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2018
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ENGL 226 - Victorian Crime, Mystery, and Detective Fiction
FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course explores Victorian fiction featuring criminals, mysteries, police, and detectives. In addition to issues of genre and character, these texts will allow us to analyze representations of race, space, class, gender, sexuality, empire, and disability through specific themes including sexuality and queer detectives; misogyny, mermaids, and female insanity; scientific racism, anthropometrics, and racial profiling; fears of mutiny and reverse colonization; Jews, Indians, and Street Arabs; servants, disability, and the Victorian home; slumming, social transvestism, and the London Underworld. Well read Sherlock Holmes stories, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dickenss The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and lots more. British, 1700-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section, “200-Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2016
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ENGL 227 - Jane Austen and Company: Romantic Revolutions Mode(s) of Instruction: Remote
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course focuses on Romantics’ responses to the most pressing issues of their day: the French Revolution, massive social and gender inequality, the abolition of the slave trade, the industrial revolution and its ecological disasters, to name a few. Such engagements allowed Romantic authors to explore their own anxieties of authorship as they strove to gauge the rewards and perils of full participation in the “Republic of Letters.” As we ponder these and similar issues, we will pay close attention to the formal and generic attributes of a broad range of literary texts, from poetry to fiction to critical prose. British, 1700-1900. Pre-1800.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020
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ENGL 228 - Modern British and Irish Fiction
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
Novels and short fiction by such major 20th-century writers as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, E. M. Forster, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Graham Greene.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students should have completed a Writing Intensive course or gained Writing Certification in any course in the humanities. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2019
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ENGL 229 - The Poets’ Bible
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
In what ways can we consider the English Bible to be a poetic text? How has the English Bible influenced poetry in English? With these primary questions in mind, we’ll read biblical texts (e.g. Genesis, Isaiah, Ecclesiastes, Job, Ruth, Esther, Luke, John, Pauline Epistles, Revelation) and the works of such poets as Donne, Herbert, Milton, Traherne, Crashaw, Watts, Wordsworth, Whitman, Tennyson, Rossetti, Eliot, Stevens, and Hill. American OR British (not both), 1700-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2018
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ENGL 231 - Sports Literature and Cultural Fantasy
FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
We will study how sports appears in fictional, non-fictional, and poetic literary texts from around the world. In addition to exploring the various functions served by sports within different literary forms, we will examine how sports literature functions within broader social and cultural contexts. What fantasies of individual and collective identity does sports literature feed, or reveal? How does the specificity of sports, as portrayed in literary texts, shape the ways we experience and think about bodies, the differences we perceive between them, and the social categories and power structures associated with those differences?
Prerequisites & Notes: Students should have completed a Writing Intensive course or gained Writing Certification in any course in the humanities. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2018
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ENGL 233 - Women of Color in the Avant-Garde
FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Historically, the American avant-garde canon has privileged the work of white male authors, neglecting the vital contributions of women of color. This class will offer a different vantage point on the history of experimental literature and art in the U.S. Our course will begin with the modernist period and end in the present moment, traversing a century of transgressive literary and visual culture-making. We will explore texts across genre and medium, including prose, poetry, drama, performance art, and film, and consider theoretical and scholarly writing alongside creative work. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2019
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ENGL 238 - Contemporary American Fiction
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course selectively surveys contemporary American fiction. Thematic connections include the role of memory and the past in defining current literary practice. We’ll also focus on the nature of interpretation and its role in consolidating its object of study. The reading list is diverse in a number of ways - stylistic, generic and cultural - but always includes some very recently published work. Recent authors have included Beatty, Erdrich, Ozeki, Moshfegh, Ngyuen, Pollack, Whitehead and others.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200 level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2017
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ENGL 242 - Asian American Literature at the Crossroads
FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
A critical mass of Asian American literature has arrived; that presence, while valuable, also comes with many responsibilities. How does Asian American literature represent its increasingly global constituencies? What narrative forms and literary devices do writers and artists use to give figure to culture? This course explores the aesthetics, theories, and politics of Asian American literature and culture. It will focus especially on questions of diaspora, gender and sexuality, and cultural critique.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students should have completed a Writing Intensive course or gained Writing Certification in any course in the humanities. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent.
This course is cross-listed with CAST 242
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2020
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ENGL 243 - Promise and Peril: Race and Multicultural America
FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course investigates the intellectual history of race in American literature and culture. It asks students to consider the stakes in constructing racial difference, that is, the political, ideological, economic, and cultural contexts within which discourses of race circulate. It will look at a variety of textual forms, including short and long fiction, poetry and verse, memoir, natural history, and legal documents. The course requires us to take a long view on race – how its lifespan precedes and exceeds any one of us – a discussion that is crucial, if indirect, for addressing the issues we face today. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled, “200-Level Courses.”
This course is cross-listed with CAST 243
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2017
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ENGL 244 - Supervidere: Surveillance Cultures of the American Canon
FC ARHU
4 credits
This course considers American surveillance cultures in historical contexts. Focusing on five sites of surveillance - colony, plantation, factory, prison, city - we explore how surveillance has shaped American culture and society from the colonial period through the nineteenth-century. We will ask how literature represents acts of surveillance and also how writing serves as an early surveillance technology. Readings include: Salem witch trial transcripts, captivity narratives, slave narratives, gothic tales, prison literature. We will pay particular attention to how this literary history has shaped the uneven power relations of the present. This course must be taken in conjunction with CAST 312.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2020
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ENGL 247OC - Shakespeare in the Colonies Mode(s) of Instruction: Hybrid
FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
What happens when Shakespeare travels from England to its former colonies in South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean? Framed by Shakespeare?s canonical position in cultural texts from these former colonies, this course will examine revisionary appropriations of his plays by contemporary Indian cinema and postcolonial literary texts. Our discussions will be informed by postcolonial scholarship on revision and translation as forms of transformation and subversion and theories of cinematic and literary adaptations. Assignments will include informal written and oral presentations and formal writing assignments on the literary, theoretical, and cinematic texts and film viewings. This course is required for the From Bombay to Cairo: Cinema and Social Change StudiOC Learning Community. Pre-1800.
Prerequisites & Notes: This course requires students to also take HIST 247: Cinema, Social Movements and Revolution in Egypt. As a ‘globally connected course’ it is also connected with a course in Comparative Literature offered at the American University in Cairo (AUC): ‘Literature and Cinema: Writing Back/Filming Back.’
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 247OC
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020
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ENGL 249 - Introduction to Book Studies Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course introduces students to key approaches and concepts in the discipline of Book Studies. Book Studies encompasses printed and handwritten paper objects, but also ancient clay tablets and contemporary electronic media. This interdisciplinary course lays the groundwork for students to study the social and cultural history of books as historical, aesthetic, religious, and visual artifacts in Book Studies courses throughout Oberlin?s curriculum. Students will have hands-on experience in the Letterpress Studio, Art Museum, College Library and Conservatory collections with text-and-image-objects from the West, East Asia and the Islamic world. This course is required for the Book Studies Concentration and prepares students for Book Studies courses throughout the College and Conservatory.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students should have completed a Writing Intensive course or gained Writing Certification in any course in the humanities. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Summer 2021
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ENGL 250 - What was a book? What is a book?
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
Books have always been more than pages with words bound within covers. Well combine literary and book studies to consider the history of print and printed material and the various relationships among literary works, legal rights to intellectual/creative property, and the technologies of creation, production, circulation and reading. Literary work, mainly 19th century, may include Hard Times, Leaves of Grass, poetry by Dickinson, The Conjure Woman, 20th-21st century print and electronic books/narratives. American, Diversity, 1700-1900.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2015
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ENGL 251 - Coquettes & Confidence Men in Early America
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
How, in a socially and geographically mobile society, do you know someone is who or what they say they are? From the view of early American authors, North America appears to be a place almost exclusively populated by tricksters, con men, and painted ladies. This course explores representations of confidence men and coquettes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature as they develop alongside fundamental social, political, and economic changes that threaten traditional values, hierarchies, and ways of knowing. Authors may include: Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockden Brown, Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, Stephen Burroughs, Herman Melville, and William Wells Brown. American, 1700-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled 200-Level Courses.’
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2016
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ENGL 253 - Pens and Needles: Gender and Media in Early America Mode(s) of Instruction: In-person
FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course will explore the complex relationship between gender, race, and media in the Americas before 1865. Our syllabus takes as its starting point expansive understandings of the term ‘media.’ We will read the written word alongside lives and experiences recorded through media such as quilts, samplers, Native American quill work, songs, and recipes. Examining the different authorial roles available to early Americans, we will consider how gender, race, and ethnicity structure one’s relationship to alphabetic letters, and explore the diverse ways in which people used various media to carve out identities for themselves and to enter public discourse. Pre-1800.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students should have completed a Writing Intensive course or gained Writing Certification in any course in the humanitites. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent.
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 253
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2020
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ENGL 254 - Nineteenth-Century New York: Writing the Modern City
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
When and more importantly where did we become what we might call “modern”? This seminar takes New York City as its focal point, exploring how authors wrote about profound changes taking place in the nineteenth century. Global immigration, industrialization, changes in domestic ideology, urbanization, the rise of consumer culture, and re-definitions of political subjecthood had a critical impact on how people inhabited their various subject positions as well as their city. Authors may include: Washington Irving, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Jacobs, Israel Zangwill, Fanny Fern, William Apess, and Abraham Cahan. American, 1700-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section, “200-Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Fall 2018
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ENGL 255 - In Search of America: The Concept of Nature in Early American Literature
FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
An exploration of different perspectives on the natural world in early American literature, this course also introduces students to research skills and information technology. Texts will include sermons, promotional tracts, descriptions of the land and its inhabitants, captivity narratives, American Indian responses to European encounters, poetry, autobiography, philosophical and political treatises, and fiction. By connecting today’s “information landscape’” with the writings of early America, we will investigate the meaning of “nature” in the New World. American, 1700-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2019
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ENGL 258 - August Wilson: The Century Cycle
FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
August Wilson’s cycle of plays set in each decade of the 20th century is the most ambitious dramatic project depicting the African American experience, and this course surveys the cycle with a critically “syncretic” approach. We will supplement readings of the plays with (self-identified) primary influences on Wilson’s work – Baraka, Blues, Borges, Bearden – in order to describe the unique sense of form and ritual he brings to the collective project of representing the black experience. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Field trips required.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level Courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2019
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ENGL 260 - Black Humor and Irony: Modern Literary Experiments Mode(s) of Instruction: Hybrid
FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
African American humor has until recently received little academic study. But the many anthologies of folk humor and the visibility of stand-up comedy invite us to examine the presence and rhetorical role of humor, comedy, and irony in African American literature. This course thus centers on a representative group of modern black humorists and explores various approaches (functional, structural, and cultural) for interpreting their works. Authors will include Chesnutt, Hurston, Hughes, Ellison, and Reed. American.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “200-Level courses.”
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2021
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