Course Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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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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Japanese |
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JAPN 984 - Kyoto & Visual Arts of Japan FC
4 credits
This course explores the visual arts of Japan from the prehistoric period to the nineteenth century, highlighting representative art works including sculptures, paintings, textiles, architecture, and gardens. Selected works will be studied in terms of their chronology, artistic medium, iconography, setting, and functions. We will examine such issues as the relationship of Japanese art to Chinese and Korean art, patronage, the ritual and visual functions of Buddhist icons, the translation of concepts into artistic forms, as well as the changing identities of sculptures and paintings. Drawing on Kyotos long history and tradition of magnificent visual arts, classes will be supplemented with organized field trips to museums and temples.
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JAPN 985 - World of Japanese Magna FC
4 credits
This course will examine manga (modern Japanese comic books that evolved before and after World War II). Manga are avidly read in Japan as a main component of Japanese popular culture. They have a huge influence on other media such as films and anime. The genre has greatly expanded its readership outside of Japan during the last decade. We will read, in English translation, a variety of manga aimed at people of different genders and age-groups. The texts will be interpreted as a means of understanding the worldviews of the Japanese and how Japanese society has evolved in recent decades.
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JAPN 986 - Japanese-English Translation FC
4 credits
This course is an introduction to the discipline of Japanese/English translation. The course comprises
two major components: a general overview of the Translation Studies, its history, theories, and
significance as an interdisciplinary entity; and hands-on practice in the craft of translation in the form of
weekly translation exercises and one independent final project. Students will engage in discussion and
peer-critique of the short weekly assignments of texts ranging from ad copy and newspapers to poetry
and pure literature. If available, published translators and professional interpreters will be invited to
meet with students to share their own experiences in the realm of translating and interpreting.
Nature in Chinese and Japanese Literature & Culture
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JAPN 995F - Private Reading - Full 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.
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JAPN 995H - Private Reading - Half 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.
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Jewish Studies |
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JWST 100 - Introduction to Jewish Studies: Sacred Spaces and Promised Lands FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course is an introduction to Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture, focusing on the question of where? By centering the spaces and places that Jews have constructed and inhabited - from synagogues to coffeehouses, from Jerusalem to Ohio - we will foreground questions of power, adaptation, and difference, within Jewish communities and in Jews’ interactions with their varied neighbors across history. Through the examination of diverse primary and secondary sources, we will see how “sacredness,” “promisedness,” and “Jewishness” are all complicated and contested.
This course is cross-listed with RELG 100
This course is appropriate for new students.
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JWST 101 - Elementary Modern Hebrew I FC ARHU CD
4 credits
First of a two-semester sequence focusing on fundamentals of grammar and vocabulary along with practice in comprehension of spoken Hebrew; speaking, reading, and writing, in class and in language lab, conversation group, and related activities outside of class. Interactive multi-media approach: literary; web-based texts; videos, movies; music, introduction to contemporary Hebrew culture. No previous Hebrew required; quick acquisition of alphabet proficiency expected. This course, its equivalent, or acceptable SAT II score, to be determined by Instructor, is a prerequisite for JWST102.
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JWST 102 - Elementary Modern Hebrew II FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Second of two-semester sequence to build proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing; continuing focus on vocabulary, grammar and usage; introduction to contemporary Hebrew culture. Interactive multi-media approach: literary; web-based texts; videos, movies; music; requires work in language lab, shulhan ivri and related activities beyond class time.
Prerequisites & Notes: Registration open but admission and placement determined by the instructor. JWST 101 or its equivalent, as determined by the Instructor, pre-required.
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JWST 103 - Shared Languages Program: Elementary Modern Hebrew I FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course, taught by Prof. Galit Golan at the Ohio State University, introduces students to the fundamentals of modern Hebrew. All students will meet via the video-conferencing platform, Zoom. Taught primarily in Hebrew.
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JWST 104 - Shared Program Languages: Elementary Modern Hebrew II FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course, taught by Prof. Galit Golan at the Ohio State University, continues to develop the fundamentals of modern Hebrew. All students will meet via the video-conferencing platform, Zoom. Taught primarily in Hebrew.
Prerequisites & Notes: Hebrew I or consent of the instructor.
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JWST 109 - Jerusalem: Negotiating Sacred Space FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
An introduction to the history of Jerusalem and to the many and varied religious groups within Judaism, Christianity and Islam that have laid claim to its sacredness. Students will explore notions of sacred space as they find expression in sequential historical periods within Jerusalem. Weekly study topics include sacred cartography, apocalypticism, pilgrimage, and the role of archaeology in ‘uncovering’ and bolstering religious land claims.
This course is cross-listed with RELG 109
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JWST 150 - Introduction to Judaism FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The field of Jewish Studies investigates a group that has been called Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews, and whose common bond has been characterized as a religion, race, nation, and culture. This course will present foundational narratives, ideas, and rituals in Judaism, along with pivotal events in Jewish history and identity formation. And yet students will also behold the immense diversity and variations of these elements across time and space. We will pay special attention to how traditional sources are reinterpreted over time, to shifting dynamics between Jewish thought and practice, and to relations between cultural memory and current events.
This course is cross-listed with RELG 250
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JWST 203 - The Garden of Eden in Literature, Art, and Film FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
The Garden of Eden is a story that is etched into our religious and cultural landscape. Most of us could immediately recognize its main characters and symbols: The Tree of Life, the forbidden fruit, Adam, Eve, and the snake. This course will examine the biblical story in its ancient Israelite context and in some early Jewish and Christian retellings. We will then study the role of Eden in select works of literature, art, and film.
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JWST 205 - Hebrew Bible in its Ancient Near Eastern Context FC ARHU CD
4 credits
An introduction to the literature, religion, and history of ancient Israel as contained within the Hebrew Bible and to the methods of interpretation used by modern scholars to understand this ancient text. Biblical writings will be studied within the context of other ancient Near Eastern texts. Thematic emphases include the emergence of monotheism, the conceptualization of the divine/human relationship, the mediation of priest, prophet and king, and issues of canon.
Prerequisites & Notes: Identical to RELG 205. No previous knowledge of the Hebrew Bible is assumed.
This course is cross-listed with RELG 205
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JWST 208 - New Testament and Christian Origins FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the literature and history of the New Testament in its Greco-Roman context. Students will engage in critical readings of the New Testament texts and some non-canonical early Christian and Jewish writings. Lectures will focus on the scholarly issues raised by the study of these primary texts and will introduce various methods of biblical studies currently employed by New Testament scholars. After completing this course, students will be familiar with the writings of the New Testament and with the critical debates concerning the life of Jesus and the emergence of the early church.
This course is cross-listed with RELG 208
This course is appropriate for new students.
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JWST 224 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict FC SSCI
4 credits
This course aims to familiarize students with the conclusions of current scholarly research on 1) the principal actors and watershed events in the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and 2) the internal conflicts and external relationships affecting Israeli and Palestinian societies that shape and constrain possibilities for a durable peace. Particular stress will be placed on understanding how wars affect states and political organizations and how the ideological and structural features of states and organizations complicate or enable the search for peace. Key features of the conflict will be interpreted as both a clash between competing political projects and a reflection of global political power struggles. Attention will be given toward the end of the course to the clash of contemporary social movements aimed at influencing U.S. policy towards Israel, and to alternative paradigms for a possible resolution to the conflict.
This course is cross-listed with POLT 224
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JWST 231 - The Nature of Suffering: The Book of Job and its History of Interpretation FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course will focus on the biblical book of Job as a piece of ancient religious literature that has fostered centuries of theological and existential questioning on the nature of divine justice and activity in the world, the meaning of suffering, and the existence of evil. The course will first consider the book of Job in its ancient Israelite context as it spoke to a conquered and exiled people of God. Secondarily, the course will introduce Jewish and Christian interpretations of the book as these interpretations evolved through history addressing different contexts of human alienation and suffering.
This course is cross-listed with RELG 202
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JWST 236 - Orientalism and the Jewish Question FC SSCI CD
4 credits
Orientalist discourses of the European age of imperialism were about Jews as well as Muslims. This course examines how Orientalism was intertwined with the Jewish Question in Western Europe and how European Jews responded to Christian characterizations of them as ?Asiatic others.? Running the gamut from outright rejection to the embrace of a romanticized, Eastern aesthetic, their reactions have much to tell us about the complexities of modern Jewish identity. Primary source materials include works of literature, philosophy, and architecture as well as representations of Jewishness in the Arts. Field trip required.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 236
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JWST 241 - Antisemitism & White Supremacy FC SSCI CD
4 credits
From ‘White Lives Matter’ to ‘Jews will not replace us,’ America has recently witnessed a resurgence of white supremacist and antisemitic political activity under the rubric of ‘white nationalism.’ This course offers a U.S.-focused, comparative exploration of anti-Jewish and white supremacist ideology and politics. It examines their shared roots in European Christian societies; the different ways they were transposed to North America through conquest, colonization, and slavery; and their subsequent evolutions, intersections, and organized manifestations.
This course is cross-listed with POLT 241
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JWST 253 - Pilgrimage, Travel, and Judaism FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
The desire to seek spiritual fulfillment in a far-away place is a hallmark of many religious traditions, including Judaism. In this course we will trace the ancient and medieval roots of pilgrimage and various Jewish pilgrimage practices that have emerged in the modern period, in Israel as well as in Europe, North Africa, and the United States. Together, we will ask, what has motivated Jewish travelers? Have they found what they were looking for? How have their travels shaped ‘and been shaped by ’ the histories of their places of origin and of destination?
This course is cross-listed with RELG 253
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JWST 257 - Judaism in the U.S.: State, Synagogue, and Beyond FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course will explore the relationship between Judaism and the category of “religion.” Focusing on the U.S. context, we will explore the privileged political and social status of “religion,” its limits in describing non-Protestant groups, and diverse approaches to its description. Topics will include Jews and “religious freedom”; the emergence of Jewish denominations and the role of the synagogue; the multiplicity and creativity of Jewish identity and practice; and the sacralization of “secular” Jewish culture and politics
This course is cross-listed with RELG 257
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JWST 274 - History of the Holocaust FC SSCI
4 credits
This course explores the historical contingencies that resulted in the murder of two out of three European Jews between 1933 and 1945. Geographically, it will focus on both Germany, where the Final Solution originated, and Eastern Europe, where most of its victims lived and died. We will look at the failure of German democracy, the rise and consolidation of the National Socialist state, and the centrality of antisemitism within Nazi ideology. We will also examine Jewish and non-Jewish experiences of persecution, resistance, and flight as well as survival and destruction within the camp systems.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 274
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JWST 277 - Israel/Palestine in Literature and Film FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course introduces students to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as represented in literature and film. We’ll proceed chronologically, beginning with the rise of Jewish and Palestinian nationalisms through the present day, focusing on the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 (otherwise known as the War of Independence to Israeli Jews and the Nakba to Palestinians), the Six-Day War or Naksa, and the first and second intifadas. In doing so, we’ll complicate the notion of dual narratives by considering the experiences of people of marginalized and hybrid identities. Each work of art we explore will be paired with historical and theoretical readings.
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 277
This course is appropriate for new students.
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JWST 278 - Jewish/Jew-ish Literatures FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course examines the subject of “Jewish literature,” broadly defined and historicized. Students will read selections from the Hebrew Bible/Tanakh and Rabbinic commentaries, as well as historiographies, memoirs, travel tales, medieval wine poems, missives from the Cairo Genizah, Holocaust literature, and more. In doing so, we’ll cross time, place, and language, concerning ourselves with the development of themes (e.g., Jewish humor, suffering, neurosis) from their early iterations to contemporary reimaginings. Key writers include Josephus, Glückel of Hameln, Sholem Aleichem, Franz Kafka, Primo Levi, and Philip Roth.
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 278
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JWST 279 - Poetry and Political Activism FC ARHU CD
4 credits
In this course, we will consider the relationship between poetry and politics within modern and contemporary Anglophone literatures. What makes a poem or poet ‘political’? When and how has poetry been mobilized as a tool of protest and resistance? How have poets of color, Jewish poets, and writers from other marginalized communities contributed to this body of writing? Key figures include Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, and Amiri Baraka.
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 279
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JWST 281 - Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1914 FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course focuses on Jewish communities of the Near East and North Africa from the conquest of Constantinople to World War I. It examines the experiences of Jews as one of many minorities, with special attention to the permeability of social boundaries within a multiethnic, multi-religious, and multicultural empire. Emphasis will be placed on the history of Jewish-Muslim relations, specifically in contrast to the experiences of Jewish communities within Christendom.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 230
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JWST 291 - Antisemitism in European History and Literature FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course examines the origins, functions, and expressions of European anti-Jewish thought from early Christianity to the postwar period. Beginning with ancient intercultural conflicts, it then explores early Christian religious competition, medieval Judeophobia, and modern, racial antisemitism. Students are expected to gain an understanding of the structures and outcomes of specifically anti-Jewish prejudice as well as to make connections with the historical oppression of other minority groups.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 291
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JWST 292 - Jewish Emancipation in Modern Europe FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course examines the historical processes of Jewish civic emancipation in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. It explores the different paths taken in Britain, Western Europe, and Central Europe as they reflected varying discourses on the place of Jews within the modern nation-state. Topics include enlightenment, intellectual debate, revolution, reform, and antisemitic opposition.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 292
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JWST 306 - Biblical Biographies Told and Retold FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course will trace the midrashic and intertextual development of the biographies of three pairs of biblical men and women as their stories are translated, expanded and retold. We will first examine the primordial pair, Adam and Eve. We will then study the matriarch Rebekah and her less-favored son, Esau. Finally, we will read the unfolding biographies of the Moabite Ruth and her royal great grandson, King David. The textual traditions include the Masoretic Hebrew text, the Greek Septuagint, the Aramaic targums, the Pseudepigrapha, rabbinic midrash, and the New Testament. All readings will be in English translation.
This course is cross-listed with RELG 306
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JWST 310 - Zionisms FC SSCI CD WINT
4 credits
“Zionism” is a fiercely debated concept. For some, it evokes national liberation and rebirth, while for others it signifies oppression and inequality. Yet others, both Jewish and Christian, view the triumph of Zionism as the prelude to a messianic age. This course explores and compares a range of “Zionisms” and Zionism-adjacent political formations, from the many Jewish articulations of a Zionist vision to past and present Christian Zionisms, anti-Zionisms, post-Zionisms, and Black Zionisms.
This course is cross-listed with POLT 310
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JWST 326 - Synagogues, Churches and Mosques: Sacred Art of the Medieval Mediterranean FC ARHU
4 credits
The art and architecture of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Mediterranean from the first to the fifteenth century. We will study religious art typologically (for example, what roles did religious buildings play?), through important works (i.e. the Great Mosque of Cordoba), sites (i.e., Jerusalem, Damascus, Rome, Istanbul) and media (metalwork, textiles, and manuscripts). We will emphasize art’s contribution to contact, exchange and conflict between the three religions, with particular attention to Spain.
Prerequisites & Notes: An introductory course in Art History or Religion.
This course is cross-listed with ARTH 214
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JWST 335 - Seminar: Crusades: Contact & Conflict in the Mediterranean World FC SSCI CD WADV
4 credits
This research seminar examines the European Crusades that took place between 1050 and 1450 in the eastern Mediterranean, the Iberian peninsula, France and Germany. Using a wide range of sources from different religious, political, social and economic viewpoints, students will learn what was at stake for the various player involved, from high-born armed pilgrims to merchants and moneylenders, and how the Crusades shaped European identity for centuries to come.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 335
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JWST 358 - Religious Outsiders and the American State FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course explores the relationship between select outsider religions Native Americans, Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Mormons, and Buddhists and the American state from the beginnings of the United States until the present day. In a country that is premised on the separation of church and state but that also includes diverse religious communities, the place of religion in public life and of the government’s role in regulating and defining religion have long been contested. What do church-state relations look like if we focus on groups outside of the Protestant mainstream? What are the scope and limits of ‘religious freedom’?
This course is cross-listed with RELG 358
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JWST 365 - Love and Death: Jewish Literature and Culture of the Americas FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The iconic arrival at Ellis Island was contemporaneous with mass Jewish immigration throughout the Americas. Framing Jewish literature in multilingual, pan-American context, we will study the deep specificity of texts as well as major themes: alienation, sport, philosophy, comedy and love. Authors include Lispector, Pizarnik, Borges, Chejfec, Roth, Shteyngart, Chabon and more. Optional HISP 366-01 LxC section in Spanish.
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 365 and HISP 365
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JWST 366 - Love and Death: Jewish Literature and Culture of the Americas LxC HC ARHU CD
2 credits
The iconic arrival at Ellis Island was contemporaneous with mass Jewish immigration throughout the Americas. Framing Jewish literature in multilingual, pan-American context, we will study the deep specificity of texts as well as major themes: alienation, sport, philosophy, comedy and love. Authors include Lispector, Pizarnik, Borges, Chejfec, Roth, Shteyngart, Chabon and more. Taught in Spanish. Only for students enrolled in HISP 365-01.
This course is cross-listed with HISP 366 and CMPL 366
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JWST 380 - Middle Eastern Prison Literature FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course explores modern and contemporary Middle Eastern literary works-plays, poems, long & short fiction, and memoirs-produced in and associated with prisons. We’ll begin by laying theoretical and historical foundations for understanding the modern prison as a site of social control and dehumanization, which has paradoxically given rise to the powerful literary traditions and motifs we will proceed to survey. Arabic and Hebrew texts comprise the majority of the course materials; however, they will be placed in dialogue with European and other Western writing. All readings will be in English translation.
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 380
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JWST 400 - Senior Capstone in Jewish Studies FC ARHU
4 credits
The Senior Capstone in Jewish Studies is completed through registering for and passing the capstone course of a JWST-affiliated department (ENG, CMPL, HIST, RELG). Concomitantly, the senior Jewish Studies major will enroll in JWST 400 and receive guidance and supervision on the capstone from a Jewish Studies faculty member.
Prerequisites & Notes: Majors must meet with the Jewish Studies chair to determine which affiliated department’s capstone course will count for the JWST major, and which JWST faculty member will serve as the advisor.
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JWST 500 - Honors FC ARHU
4 credits
Details about JWST Honors are in the front matter of this catalog and on the JWST website. Consent of the Program chair and instructor is required.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students wishing to do Honors in Jewish Studies during their final year should consult their Major Advisor and/or JWST Program Chair, submitting a Proposal by the established deadline in the year prior to proposed Honors work.
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JWST 995F - Private Reading - Full 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.
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JWST 995H - Private Reading - Half 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.
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HISP 101 - Elementary Spanish I FC ARHU CD
4 credits
An engaging flipped classroom set-up with a strong emphasis on communicative tasks encourages students to actively use their emerging Spanish in real-life situations. Grammar, vocabulary, and culture are studied independently prior to each class and then woven into dynamic oral and written classroom activities. Daily writing assignments and weekly meetings with writing tutors. This course is conducted in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students with any previous knowledge of Spanish other than from Oberlin College must first take the placement exam before enrolling in this course
This course is appropriate for new students.
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HISP 102 - Elementary Spanish II FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course is a continuation of HISP 101. An engaging flipped classroom set-up with a strong emphasis on communicative tasks encourages students to actively use their emerging Spanish in real-life situations. Grammar, vocabulary, and culture are studied independently prior to each class and then woven into dynamic oral and written classroom activities. Daily writing assignments and weekly meetings with writing tutors. This course is taught in Spanish.
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HISP 157 - Approaches to the Art of the Americas FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course provides an introduction to the art of the Americas following a rough chronology from ancient through the present. Through a close analysis of each context, we will consider a range of art practices including architecture, city planning, land art, ceramics, fiber arts, printmaking, painting, and sculpture. Students will explore themes including networks of cultural exchange and migration, empire and expansion, decolonial and post-colonial methodologies, spirituality and art, nation building, modernization, and universalism.
This course is cross-listed with ARTH 157
This course is appropriate for new students.
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HISP 200 - Music of Latin America FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course focuses on folk and popular music of Latin America, with emphasis on theories of cosmopolitanism, appropriation, circulation, and reception. In this class students explore musical styles as they change in response to global and technological forces. Additionally, students explore the ways that Latin American musicians adapt to and challenge the dynamism of globalization, finding outlets in diasporic communities as inequitable political systems affect cultural creativity.
This course is cross-listed with ETHN 200
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HISP 202 - Intermediate Spanish I FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course is the first intermediate level Spanish course. It surveys, reviews, and solidifies essential grammatical structures in the indicative and subjunctive mood through the integration of grammar, oral and written practice in exercises, conversation and readings which evolve within a cultural context. Students have to attend one weekly mandatory conversation class led by a Program Assistant, time TBA. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 102 or Placement Exam
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HISP 203 - Intermediate Spanish II FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course is a continuation of HISP 202. It adopts a format integrating grammar, oral and written practice in exercises, conversation and readings which evolve within a cultural context. Students have to attend one mandatory conversation class on Tuesdays or Thursdays for one hour, time TBA.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 202 or consent of instructor.
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HISP 204 - Intensive Intermediate Spanish FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course is a continuation of first-year Spanish that covers all of the material of HISP 202 and 203 in a single semester, and presumes a greater commitment from the student. The course adopts a format integrating grammar, oral and written practice in in-class exercises, conversations, and readings, which evolve within a cultural context. Besides class time, students will attend conversation sections and other online enhancement activities. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 102 or placement.
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HISP 253 - Latinx Art: Past and Futures FC ARHU CD
4 credits
In the past thirty years, Latinx art has emerged as a distinct field of study within Art History, absorbing a diverse group of artists working across styles into one category. This survey pairs an overview of Latinx art from 1945 through the present with the theories and arguments that serve as the foundation for the field. Guiding questions are: what are the possibilities and limitations of Latinx art? What role does aesthetics play? What is the future of the field? In particular, we will explore the role of Queer, Black, Indigenous, and feminist histories in the development of Latinx art. Field trips required for this course.
Prerequisites & Notes: 100-level course in art history recommended but not required.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is cross-listed with ARTH 253
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HISP 294 - The Arts of Conquest and Resistance in 17th century Europe and Latin America FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
Much art and architecture produced in Europe and Latin America was closely intertwined in the seventeenth century, from Mexico City to Naples, Cuzco to Antwerp, Quito to Madrid. We will investigate how European powers used visual strategies to exercise political domination across the world, and how locals resisted these efforts by refashioning art and architecture designed to control them. This course examines a wide range of artistic production, from images made of shimmering feathers toprocessional sculptures to urban design to ephemeral art for civic performances. Field trips required.
Prerequisites & Notes: A 100-level course in art history recommended but not required.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is cross-listed with ARTH 294
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HISP 303 - Conversation and Communication in Spanish FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The goal of this course is to prepare non-native speakers for the rigors and the rewards of conversing with Spanish-speakers about topics of shared interest. Reading, writing, listening and speaking skills will be emphasized as we study works in art collections, practice digital storytelling, discuss current events in the Spanish-speaking world, and pursue student-directed personal learning projects. Highly recommended for students returning from or preparing to study abroad.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 203 or equivalent.
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HISP 304 - Advanced Grammar and Composition FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This thematically organized course offers an in-depth review of Spanish grammar and the opportunity for students to improve develop their writing, reading, speaking, and listening skills through a broad range of assignments.
Prerequisites & Notes: This course fulfills prerequisites for upper-division literature courses and may be counted for the major or minor.
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HISP 306 - Introduction to Literary Analysis FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
Studying poems, short stories, essays, and visual arts from the Hispanic tradition (Spanish, Latin American, and Latinx) together with modern trends in literary theory, we will engage with the politics and uses of theory and critique and consider the uses of the literary in contemporary society. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 309 - Survey of Spanish Literature I: Historias Sentimentales FC ARHU CD
4 credits
How did people feel in the past? What could literature express of their feelings? This course provides an introduction to early modern Spanish literature and culture (including visual culture) with a focus on excitement and fear, pride and shame and religious awe, as well as the ‘literary’ emotions of courtly love and philosophical melancholy. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP 310 - Survey of Spanish Literature II: The Struggle for Modernity FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
Progressive Spanish writers and intellectuals have consistently felt out of place in Spain, whose traditional power structures for centuries resisted the advent of modernity. Still, Spaniards managed to produce texts, images, and films of astounding quality and innovation. This course studies a selection of outstanding Spanish plays, novelas, poems, and short stories from the late 18th century to the present. Authors studied include Garcia Lorca, Sender, Becquer, Moratin, Perez Galdos, Rosalia de Castro, Gomez de Avellaneda, Unamuno, Larra, Garcia Morales, and others. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or the equivalent
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HISP 313 - Advanced Conversation and Communication in Spanish FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course advances and solidifies heritage and non-native speakers conversational skills and continues HISP 303 Conversational and Communication in Spanishs emphasis on developing listening and speaking skills. Oral skills (including pronunciation) will be practiced and developed through the discussion of current events from the Spanish-speaking world. Highly recommended for students returning from study abroad and for Heritage Speakers.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 315 - Crossing the Line: Early Modern Spain and Spanish America FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The Spanish Empire in Europe and America was built not only through the rule of kings, conquistadors, and missionaries, but also by subjects that often crossed the boundaries of lineage, gender, and religion, challenging established norms and categories. Focusing on a cast of deviant characters–including adventurers, tricksters and cross-dressers–this course provides an introduction to early modern Spanish American literature and culture. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisite: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 316 - Surrealistas en M HC ARHU CD
2 credits
Besides reading the Mexican texts for CMPL 327 in the original (Paz, Rulfo, Garc Mquez’s Mexican years), we will examine in greater detail the world of the European Surrealists as cultural tourists (Breton, Artaud) or exiles (Varo, Carrington) in Mexico, and follow the Mexican response to this movement in poetry and art from the First Surrealist Exposition in Mexico City in 1940 through to the mad Chilean-Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 317 - Survey of Latin American Literature I: Encuentros y Desencuentros FC ARHU CD
4 credits
We no longer call 1492 the “discovery of America” but rather the “encounter” between two continents; yet the literature of the first four centuries of the Americas is also full of misencounters, as perspectives are often creatively misunderstood to slowly create a conflictive modern Latin America. Texts (and films about the period) will include: pre-Columbian writings; conquistadors’ tales; the colonial intellectuals Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, el Inca Garcilaso, and Guaman Poma; Simón Bolivar; and a post-independence world of Romantic poets, rebels, and statesmen. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or the equivalent
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HISP 318 - Survey of Latin American Literature II: Sociedad y Cultura FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This Latin American Literature survey course covers the 19th and 20th Centuries. Students will be introduced to a variety of authors (novelists, poets, essayists, etc.) and their contribution to the canon. We’ll learn how to read and understand literary works as cultural artifacts that represent the social, political and cultural realities of their societies. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or the equivalent.
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HISP 319 - Grandes Novelas Chicas: The Latin American Novella FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Halfway between the claustrophobic story and the tradition-laden novel, the novella is a laboratory for great writers experiments, and often a turning point for their aesthetic projects. The story of Latin America, its promises and tragedies, will be presented in works by Bombal, F. Herndez, Cortar, Garc Mquez, Fuentes, Donoso, Lispector, Bola, and Aira. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or the equivalent.
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HISP 325 - Caos y Destrucción: Literatura Transatlántica de Ciencia Ficción FC ARHU CD
4 credits
In this course, we will analyze literary works that imagine human existence in a futuristic setting. In the selected works, contemporary social and political conflicts manifest as pretexts to reflect upon and examine socio-economical and political systems that engender extreme violence and foster acute apathy within Spanish and Latin American society. Each text presents a fantastical narrative of the nation, or of events that prompt a critical interrogation of the national imaginary and identity. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 327 - Surrealism Narrative from Center to Margins FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course will begin with manifestoes and non-fictional texts by Breton and Aragon, and film, paintings, and collage-novels by Buñuel, Dalí, and Ernst, and move to two margins of Europe where Surrealism was particularly strong, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Texts by Bombal, Rulfo, Felisberto Hernández, Cortázar, early García Márquez, Walser, Schulz, and Gombrowicz; paintings and films by Varo, Kahlo, Carrington, Svankmajer, and the Quay Brothers. Taught in English.
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 327
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HISP 328 - Historias de Mujeres Argentinas FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Though often only recognized belatedly, women of Argentina and Uruguay have made major contributions to their nations, as poets, critics, movie stars, film-makers, and narrators. After some attention to early writers, we will focus on women since World War II: the Peronist era (Eva Per, Ocampo, diGiorgio); writers during the dictatorships (Gorodischer, Valenzuela, Peri Rossi, Sarlo); old and young film-makers (Bemberg, Martel); transnational authors (Shua, Negroni); and recent authors in Cristina Kirchner’s Argentina. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 334 - Spanish for Heritage Speakers FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Were you raised speaking Spanish but never studied it formally? This class is designed for you. The course addresses all four skills of language mastery: understanding, speaking, reading and writing but aims especially to expand vocabulary, correct common grammatical mistakes, and give students writing proficiency. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: No instructor consent required but you must be a ‘heritage’ speaker. This course fulfills prerequisites for upper-division literature courses and may be counted for the major or minor.
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HISP 335 - Melodrama and Cultural Anxiety in Latin America FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Civilization and Barbarism. Immigration. Drug Wars. Eugenics. Prostitution. We will examine how melodrama has been a genre of choice for thematizing current events in relation to deep cultural metanarratives, from the 19th century novela mico-social to the contemporary telenovela. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 337 - Cien Años de Soledad FC ARHU CD
4 credits
A close reading of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garc Mquez’s bestselling novel is the springboard for investigating Latin American history and politics. Bonus! Includes 100 facts you need to know to understand the book and deconstruct magical realism. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 340 - Nationalism, Culture & Politics Under & After Dictatorship: Spain and Yugoslavia in the 20th Century FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The 20th century histories of Spain and Yugoslavia run surprisingly parallel but have resulted in widely different outcomes. Why? This course analyzes the interaction among nationalism, culture, and politics in both countries through sociological, historical, literary, and visual materials. Special attention is paid to late state-building, the rise of competing nationalisms, civil wars, and their legacies, dictatorship, collective memories, democratic transition (Spain), and state collapse (Yugoslavia.)
Prerequisites & Notes: Taught in English.
This course is cross-listed with SOCI 340
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HISP 341 - Inquisitorial Practices: Heretics, Torture & Fear FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Archival dust may cover Inquisition records, but inquisitorial practices that punish deviant behavior are still very much current. This course studies how the Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834) faced social disruptions in Spain and the Americas, and the ways people resisted. We will analyze the roles of torture, fear, and surveillance in early modern and contemporary times through literary, visual and archival materials. One third of the class will take place at the AMAM. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 342 - Spain and Yugoslavia in the 20th Century LxC HC ARHU CD
2 credits
This is the Spanish-taught discussion section to accompany the team-taught, cross-listed courses HISP/SOCI 340. Only open to students enrolled in the main course with intermediate or higher competency in Spanish. Readings will include novels, short stories, and other primary texts in Spanish.
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HISP 354 - FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course studies both the history and the practice of journalism in the Spanish-speaking world and analyzes issues relating to censorship, ethics, politics and entertainment. We will engage a wide-range of journalistic writing including the popular nota roja, sports journalism, the long interview, the political expos and the literary-oriented crica. A portion of the course will be dedicated to journalistic writing. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 356 - Latin America in Verse: Poetry, Voice and History FC ARHU CD
4 credits
An exploration of poetry from Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx U.S.. This course will offer a thematic survey of 20th century classics (like César Vallejo, Gabriela Mistral, and Vicente Huidrobo) and contemporary poetics (Mayra Santos Fébres, Frank Báez, Karen Peñate, Aracelis Girmay), and will engage with topics such as the relationship between poetry and politics, poetry and race, indigenous poetry, poetry and music, and the uses of history in the poetic imagination. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or the equivalent.
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 356
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HISP 357 - Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course explores how historiography, fiction, and photography have shaped historical memory in Spain. How has democratic Spain dealt with the legacy of the civil war, the Franco dictatorship, and the Transition? And how have academics, writers, filmmakers, photographers, and journalists engaged with a collective process that is central to the countrys future as a unified, functioning democracy? These questions have unleashed a spirited series of battles in the Spanish public sphere, particularly since the emergence around the year 2000 of the memory movementa grassroots phenomenon that helped prepare the ground for the convulsive changes that have reshaped the countrys political landscape. Taught in English, with optional half-course in Spanish (HISP 358).
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HISP 358 - Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography LxC HC ARHU CD WINT
2 credits
This Spanish-taught full-semester half course accompanies HISP 357. Open to students enrolled in HISP 357 who have passed HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 359 - Mexican-U.S. American Border Stories FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course examines the different representations of the Mexican-U.S. American border and border subjects in literature, film, music and other artistic expressions from both sides of the border. The course will be organized historically, from the Mexican-American War to contemporary times, and will address issues of nation, politics, identity and binational navigation. Works by Rodolfo Corky Gonzales, Gloria Anzald, Carlos Fuentes, Los Tigres del Norte, and Reyna Grande, among others. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 365 - Love and Death: Jewish Literature and Culture of the Americas FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The iconic arrival at Ellis Island was contemporaneous with mass Jewish immigration throughout the Americas. Framing Jewish literature in multilingual, pan-American context, we will study the deep specificity of texts as well as major themes: alienation, sport, philosophy, comedy and love. Authors include Lispector, Pizarnik, Borges, Chejfec, Roth, Shteyngart, Chabon and more. Optional HISP 366-01 LxC section in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: One course in Literature.
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 365 and JWST 365
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HISP 366 - Love and Death: Jewish Literature and Culture of the Americas LxC HC ARHU CD
2 credits
The iconic arrival at Ellis Island was contemporaneous with mass Jewish immigration throughout the Americas. Framing Jewish literature in multilingual, pan-American context, we will study the deep specificity of texts as well as major themes: alienation, sport, philosophy, comedy and love. Authors include Lispector, Pizarnik, Borges, Chejfec, Roth, Shteyngart, Chabon and more. Taught in Spanish. Only for students enrolled in HISP 365-01.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 402 - Avant-Garde in América: Golems, Anarchists & Dreamgirls of Popular Theater FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Avant-garde theater and political movements intersected as immigration, labor rights, folklore, and current events were dramatized on stages from New York to Buenos Aires in the 1930s. Cross-cultural characters and storylines of the Depression later made their way into musicals and cinema, and are making a comeback in the Global Recession.
Prerequisites & Notes: Taught in English (an accompanying Spanish LxC half-course, HISP 403, is also available).
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HISP 404 - Autonomy and Economics in Literature of the Américas FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
Self-determination has been the paradoxical crux of American national identities since the continent was named for an Italian financier. We will use autonomy and economy as a conceptual tension framing literatures struggle with inequality and freedom, which in turn invigorates movements that declare capitalism incompatible with democracy. Authors may include Arlt, Echeverr, Deleuze, Dreiser, Hughes, Kant, Leguin, Marcos, Negri, Pauls, Piketty, Sitrin, Spinoza, Steinbeck, Stiglitz, Virno.
Prerequisites & Notes: One advanced course in the study of literature.
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 404
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HISP 408 - Bad Education: Female Instruction in Ibero-America FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course explores the history of women’s access to education in the Spanish-speaking world from the sixteenth-century to the present. Although patriarchal and Catholic mandates of domesticity and submissiveness historically structured hegemonic female instruction, alternative models always found a way of guaranteeing female access to knowledge, orthodox and unorthodox. We will study key figures who, through religion, politics, or culture, impacted the formal and informal education of women. This class will benefit from visits to the Special Collection and the AMAM. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: 300-Level Literature or Culture course in Spanish.
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 408
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HISP 415 - Roberto Bola FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The greatest Latin American novelist of his generation, Roberto Bolao was born in Chile, spent his adolescence in Mico, then wandered throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Everyone he met was a poet, and he turned his friends’ unruly lives into poetic prose. Besides reading his masterpiece Los detectives salvajes, we will read the great Latin American writers who inspired him and a few who enraged him, Borges, Maples Arce, Vallejo, Lihn, Dalton, Zurita, and Paz. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: 300-Level Literature or Culture course in Spanish.
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HISP 416 - Constructs of Machismo and Marianismo in the Mexican Literary Canon FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course explores the representation of Machismo (hyper-masculinity) and its counterpart Marianismo (the saintly, maternal and abnegated female) in the Mexican literary canon. We will read works by pioneering female writers Rosario Castellanos, Elena Garro, and Brianda Domecq, as well as contemporary authors Vivian Abenshushan, Guadalupe Nettel, and Ana Clavel. We will analyze how these novelists reformulate stereotypical gender representations and envision alternative conceptualizations of self. We will also examine their interrogations and explorations of the sociohistorical processes of socialization and self-determination. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two Spanish-taught 300-Level Courses.
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HISP 417 - Saints, Sinners and Other Cursed Women FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Between the 16th and 17th centuries, Early Modern Spain and the Spanish Americas increased the regulatory measures that defined women?s behavior regarding virtue and deviance. This seminar studies the tensions between these categories, and the extent to which they determined the ways women in both sides of the Atlantic negotiated, manipulated and circumvented mechanisms of control. Our inquiry will benefit from discussions with students in FREN 455 and visits to the Allen Art Museum. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equaivalent.
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HISP 419 - Big Old Funny Books: Cervantes, Rabelais, Sterne FC ARHU CD
4 credits
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) Rabelaiss Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-34), Cervantess Don Quixote (1605-15), and Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy (1759-67). We will examine theories of the novel by Luks 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.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or the equivalent.
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HISP 420 - Don Quijote en Espa HC ARHU CD
2 credits
In this half-course conducted in Spanish, we spend the entire semester reading Don Quijote. Attention will be paid to its context in the Spain of its era, and in translations (including adaptations) of the work. Simultaneous enrollment in the English-language course (HISP 419) is preferred but not required.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or the equivalent.
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HISP 421 - Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Julio Cortazar’s 1963 magnum opus, Rayuela, like Don Quixote and Ulysses, is a game-changer. It is an experimental hypertext, a love story, and a novel about being far from home and not wanting to grow up. Neruda said that anybody who didn’t read Cortazar was doomed. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: 304 or equivalent
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HISP 422 - Literature and Politics of Central America FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
This course presents cultural and literary responses to Central America’s neocolonial status since 1898, including the CIA-sponsored Guatemalan coup in 1954, the Nicaraguan Sandinista Movement in the 1980s, guerrilla war in El Salvador and Guatemala, post-war indigenous struggles, and the narco wars. Readings will include Asturias, Cardenal, Cortazar, Belli, Castellanos Moya, and Rigoberta Menchu and the controversy around the genre of the testimonio. Taught in English.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 426 - Latin American Literature and the Narrative of the Queer and the Perverse FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course offers a critical look at the narratives that helped define abnormal sexuality in Latin America. We begin with Freud, Foucault, and Manuel Puig. Then we read about criminalized sexuality in 20th c. Mexico; narratives by F.Hernández, Pizarnik, and Peri Rossi riffing off Freudian essays on fetishism and lesbianism; and the Latin trans experience, featured prominently in essayists, novelists (Donoso, Lemebel, R.Indiana Hernández, Cabezón Cámara), graphic novelists (G.Hernandez), contemporary anthropology, and documentaries. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or the equivalent.
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 426
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HISP 430 -
Literature and Music of Heartbreak FC ARHU CD
4 credits
There’s a Yiddish saying that there’s nothing more whole than a broken heart. Everyone experiences it, yet it’s singularly difficult to represent. We will explore heartbreak’s double-edge as a formal problem that is simultaneously existential. The seminar centers on close reading and active listening as complementary practices in many genres, while highlighting contemporary female-identified writers and composers. Works by Aridjis, Beyoncé, Bielawa, Blake, Borges, Cusk, Davis, García Márquez, Gulliksen, Ladin, Lispector, Lorca, Schubert & more. Taught in English.
Prerequisites & Notes: By consent of instructor
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 430
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HISP 439 - Spread the Word: Letters, Newspapers and Pasquines FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
Much like with todays social media, in the early modern world, metropolitan and colonial subjects sought to share everything from scientific discoveries to petty rumors. This seminar explores the circulation and suppression of knowledge in Spain and the Americas. It considers how people navigated the intricacies of censorship, exploring concepts of literacy, privacy and publicity. Texts include travel narratives, correspondence, newspaper articles, pasquines, and materials from Mudds Special Collections and the AMAM. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: 300-Level Literature or Culture course in Spanish.
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HISP 441 - The Spanish Revolution, 80 Years Later FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
A 1936 military coup in Spain unleashed what some consider a civil waror the beginning of World War IIbut many prefer to call a revolution. With half of Spain controlled by the right-wing rebels, workers and peasants in the other half took over land and factories in what according one author came closer to realizing the ideal of the free stateless society on a vast scale than any other revolution in history. What happened? How has the story been told by historians, novelists, artists, politicians, and participants? What can the Spanish revolution teach us today? Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two Spanish-taught 300-Level Courses.
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HISP 445 - Crime, Sex and Ghosts of the Past: Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
Spain’s transition to democracy following Franco’s death in 1975 was characterized by two contradictory phenomena: a sudden moral, sexual, and political liberation, and a collective “pact of oblivion” that indefinitely postponed any reckoning with the dictatorial past. This course studies the film and fiction of post-Franco Spain, rife with sex and crime but also haunted by the ghosts of history. Includes works by Martín Gaite, Vázquez Montalban, Llamazares, Almodóvar, Medem, and Saura. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two Spanish taught 300- level courses.
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HISP 447 - Luis Bu FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
Three-and-a-half decades after his death, the work of Spanish-Mexican director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983), founder of surrealist cinema, remains as puzzling and disturbing as ever. Screening a large part of his filmography–including his lesser-known Mexican work–we will attempt to understand Bunuel as situated at the crossroads of major debates, movements, and tensions of twentieth-century cultural and political history: modernism, surrealism, and realism; communism, anti-communism and the Popular Front; commerce, politics, and artistic integrity. We’ll also assess the legacy he left in Spanish, Mexican, Hollywood, and world cinema. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two 300-Level courses taught in Spanish beyond 304.
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HISP 450 - Puerto Rico Post-Mortem: Nation, Identity, and Language in a Non-Sovereign Territory FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
What are nations? Do they matter? Is there such a thing as national identity? Can we do away with both? Asking these questions in Puerto Rico, a non-sovereign territory of the USA with an extensive diaspora, is different than in most contexts. Ideas of nationhood and identity, after all, structure historical claims for the islands independence and decolonization. This course engages with relevant debates in recent Puerto Rican intellectual history. Prior coursework related to Latin America/Latinx USA strongly recommended. Taught in English.
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HISP 451 - Puerto Rico Post-Mortem: Nation, Identity, and Language in a Non-Sovereign Territory LxC HC ARHU CD
2 credits
This two-credit course, in Spanish, will expand and complement the discussions in HISP 450 by focusing on classic culturalist interpretations of Puerto Rican identity and the islands political conundrum from the 1930s to the 1990s. We will read texts by Antonio Pedreira, Isabelo Zen, JosLuis Gonzez, and Juan Flores, among others. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 455 - Women on the Move: Migrant Women’s Voices at the Mexican-U.S. American Border FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Even though over half of all migrants to the United States are women, their experiences and contributions are usually not given much attention. This seminar seeks to bring these experiences to light, identify the reasons why women migrate to the United States, and examine the impacts of migration on their families and communities. We will also interrogate how current official discourses on migration create patterns for inclusion and exclusion. Topics will include migration trends, transnationalism, gendered violence, border imperialism, among others. Works by Rosario Sanmiguel, María Amparo Escandón, Reyna Grande, Yuri Herrera, and more. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or the equivalent.
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HISP 456 - Minor Literature, World Literature, and the Limits of Translation FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
The theory of Minor Literature recognizes a paradox of minority self-expression: to be legible to dominant culture, writers must revolutionize its language. World Literature refers to books self-fashioned for translation in the Global North. Reading widely from historical regionalism to contemporary flash fiction, we consider to what extent the authentic is always a matter of translation. Works by Abreu, Arguedas, Arlt, Benavides, Gerchunoff, Kornberg, Shua, and more. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: 304 and another 300-level courses in HISP or equivalent.
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HISP 458 - Borges to Cortázar: Fantasy and Violence in Argentine Literature 1930-1955 FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
In an Argentina first of dictatorships and then of a populist autocrat, the middle-aged Borges and the young Cortar discover their radically new approaches to fantastic literature. Even authors who abhor violence in real life are drawn to lurid portraits of universal infamy, and genres as disparate as socialist painting, tango lyrics, womens autobiography, and anarchist theater are affected. We will also examine the writings associated with that Argentine magnet of fantasy and violence, Eva Per. Taught in Spanish.
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HISP 461 - Wild Laboratories: Political Experiments in 19th Century Latin America FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
19th century Latin America was a politico-cultural laboratory. Within the future republics, myriads of political experiments sought to put into practice many of the Enlightenments hypotheses. Despite their outcomes, these experiments attest to the audacity of thought in an age characterized by equal measures of political innovation and political failure. A variety of materialsfrom speeches and legislation to historiography and essayswill inform our exploration of the discourses that constituted and continue to determine the Latin American republics. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two Spanish-taught 300-Level courses.
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HISP 501 - Capstone HC ARHU CD WADV
2 credits
This course allows senior Hispanic Studies majors to expand the final project of a 400-level HISP seminar into a 15-20 page research paper (in Spanish) and a 15-minute oral presentation given at the end of the semester. Weekly 1.5-hour group meetings allow students to share their research and drafts with each other and the instructor. Required for HISP majors in their senior year who declared their major in Fall 2015 or later. More details are available at the HISP website.
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HISP 505F - Honors - Full FC ARHU
4 credits
Honors - Full
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