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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RUSS 221 - Love in a Cold Climate: Literature and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Russia FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Newly westernized and neuroticized, educated Russians in the nineteenth century agonized in unusually creative ways over the nature of love and desire, gender roles and the position of women in society, marriage, sex, family life, adultery, etc. This course examines how these concerns were played out in rich and sometimes steamy detail in nineteenth-century Russian literature. Readings include poetry, novels (notably Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina), novellas, stories, memoirs, and letters by both women and men. Discussion format, short lectures. Taught in English.
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RUSS 222 - Russian Foodways FC ARHU CD
4 credits
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,” Brillat-Savarin pronounced in 1826. This course examines the vital role of food and drink in Russia and its borderlands (Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, Central Asia) from a historical, cultural, environmental, and culinary perspective. Topics include: the dual peasant and aristocratic (French) origins of Russian cuisine; food, drinking and national identity; food and memory; vegetarianism; foraging and hunting; feasts and famines; Russia’s kitchen- and dacha- gardening traditions; current trends (fast food, local food, farm-to- table). Sources include cookbooks, literary works, essays, films. Entails substantial kitchen time. No cooking experience required
This course is appropriate for new students.
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RUSS 225 - The Existentialist Imagination in Russia and Europe FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Responding to the major crises and anxieties of modernity, particularly the decline of religion and the rise of metaphysical skepticism, existentialism invites us to explore such themes as consciousness, death, the absurd, freedom, and responsibility. This course will examine the origins of the existentialist worldview in 19th and early 20th-century Russian literature (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy); discuss the classical texts of European existentialists (Kafka, Unamuno, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir) and look at the existentialist legacy in 20th and 21st-century Russian literature and film (Tarkovsky, Shalamov, Petrushevskaya, Litvinova). Readings, film subtitles, and discussion in English.
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 225
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RUSS 240 - Wild Russia FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Russia is still by many measures a wild place. Poised ambiguously between Europe and Asia, it boasts vast swaths of relatively untouched wilderness. It also has a unique and deeply layered tradition of engaging, depicting, and thinking about the natural world. Drawing on texts ranging from Turgenevs Notes of a Hunter to Pelevins The Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl, as well as films such as Tarkovskys Stalker, the course explores the complex and vexed ways in which Russians have negotiated the thin line between nature and culture over the past two hundred years. In English.
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RUSS 242 - From Pushkin to Pussy Riot: Literature Meets Music in Russia and Beyond FC ARHU CD
4 credits
What happens to a literary text when it becomes part of a musical piece? How does an “anti-opera” sound like? What makes music socialist, formalist, or post-modernist? From the classical texts by Pushkin and Gogol that inspired Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, to Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, to prison memoirs of feminist rockers who dared to perform a “punk prayer” in the major Moscow cathedral, this course explores the rich tradition of literary and musical encounters, leading to a broader discussion of the relationship between the written word and sound in a larger context of art, society, and politics.
Prerequisites & Notes: None
This course is appropriate for new students.
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RUSS 251 - Gone Writing: Travel and Literature FC ARHU CD
4 credits
“The one who travels has a story to tell,” so a German saying goes. But what exactly are those intrinsic ties between travel and storytelling? Seeking to answer this question, we will look at two incredibly rich literary and cinematic traditions: German and Russian, focusing on the depiction of travels in the 20th and 21st-century writings and films. What was Nabokov thinking while passing through Northern Ohio in an Oldsmobile? How Kafka’s fantastic vision of America inspired Russian postmodernist experiments? What features define a travelogue or a road movie? Is it possible to keep a balance between veracity and literariness while telling a travel story? Our journey will take us through space and time, from hashish trips to the Trans-Siberian railway, from Chicago slaughterhouses to Persian palaces…all roads are open! (Lectures, discussions and readings all in English.)
Prerequisites & Notes: None
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 251 and GERM 251
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RUSS 305 - Advanced Russian: Cross-cultural Communication I FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Developes a foundation for effective cross-cultural communication; refinement of writing, reading, speaking, and aural comprehension skills to facilitate interactions with Russians today. We will use art, music and literary texts to explore a distinctively Russian understanding of time, space, family, home, and history.
Prerequisites & Notes: RUSS 204 or equivalent or consent of the instructor.
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RUSS 306 - Advanced Russian: Cross-cultural Communication II FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Builds on the skills and concepts developed in 305. Further refinement of writing, reading, speaking, and aural comprehension in Russian. Continued focus on the cultural and linguistic implications of everyday communication.
Prerequisites & Notes: RUSS 204 or equivalent.
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RUSS 411 - Special Topics: Russian Animal Tales FC ARHU CD
4 credits
An exploration, in Russian, of Russia’s extraordinarily rich story-telling tradition involving animals, both wild and domestic, and the complex relationship between humans and animals. Readings will include folk and fairy tales involving classic Russian animal figures (bear, fox, wolf, crane, crow, owl, pike, sheep, rooster, goat, dog, cat), as well as short stories and povesti by Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Zinovieva-Annibal, Bulgakov, Zoshchenko, Babel, Iskander, Shalamov, Pelevin, and others. We will also look at and discuss a range of visual materials. Emphasis on building vocabulary and increasing reading speed and fluency. Short, structured writing and discussion assignments.
Prerequisites & Notes: RUSS 305 or 306 (or concurrent enrollment) or the equivalent.
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RUSS 446 - Senior Seminar: The Myth of Lenin in 20th-21st-Century Russian Culture FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
“Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live forever!” So proclaimed one of the most famous of all Soviet slogans, codifying the mythological status of the Communist leader. Conducted in Russian, this course explores the origins and afterlife of a myth that was so powerful that it survived the collapse of the state and ideology that Lenin created. We will uncover the mechanisms of political mythmaking and trace the development of the cult of Lenin through a variety of texts and media, from classical poems by Mayakovsky to children’s stories, folklore, conceptualist art, and Soviet and post-Soviet film.
Prerequisites & Notes: Russian 411 or consent of the instructor. Note: May be repeated for credit.
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RUSS 505F - Russian Honors - Full FC ARHU
4 credits
Honors
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RUSS 505H - Russian Honors - Half HC ARHU
2 credits
Honors
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RUSS 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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RUSS 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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SOCI 050 - Cleveland Immersion Program HC SSCI
2 credits
This module course connects students to Northeast Ohio through its community and business leaders, regional organizations, and local alumni. It is offered M-W during the mid-semester recess with evening meetings in the weeks before and after. You will learn about the history, challenges, and opportunities of Greater Cleveland in six themes: social justice, sustainability, entrepreneurship, economic development, arts and culture, and community leadership. You will practice networking skills, gain professional and academic contacts, conduct site visits, and research a project of your choice. Field trips required.
This course is cross-listed with CAST 050
Community Based Learning
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SOCI 110 - Introduction to Sociology: Social Structure, Inequality, and Behavior FC SSCI
4 credits
This course will provide you with a way to think about and understand the social world and your place within it. We will examine theoretical concepts and methodologies with a wide variety of classic and contemporary empirical studies. This course addresses questions such as: How do we know which direction to face in an elevator? What are the causes and consequences of social inequality? How do some behaviors become designated ‘deviant’ and others ‘normal’?
This course is appropriate for new students.
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SOCI 112 - Introduction to Sociology: You’re Not the Boss of You FC SSCI CD
4 credits
Learn the methods and theories that sociologists use to understand our mass society that emerged out of 19th -century industrial and political revolutions. This young science?s insights will help us understand contemporary controversies around inequality, social change, gender, race and power. This course will familiarize you with the relationship between sociology and other disciplines, techniques for reading original research articles, basic sociological writing skills, and mostly importantly, the social origin of individual thought and action.
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SOCI 122 - Introduction to Sociology: Principles of Sociological Thinking FC SSCI
4 credits
This course is an introduction to the discipline that will acquaint students with sociological concepts and methodology. Emphasis is placed on analyzing the components of society: from institutions to individuals, in keeping with Mills’ “sociological imagination”. Important issues addressed include the relationship between economy and institutions, stratification, and gender/racial-ethnic/class divisions. Current sociological literature is used to both introduce concepts and help students interpret scholarly writing. Emphasis will be placed on understanding social inequality and the link between the individual and social structure.
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SOCI 124 - Introduction to Sociology: Classics of Sociology FC SSCI
4 credits
Modern sociology was born in the context of transition from traditional to modern societies in the West. This dramatic transformation opened a whole new series of social problems which have defined the modern era. We will explore the ways in which some of the most important figures of sociology explained the contrast between traditional and modern societies, and the mechanism of transition from one to the other. We will focus on problems related to the growth of the division of labor and individualism, class conflict, the disintegration of community, and estrangement. Throughout the course students will be encouraged to analyze their personal experiences and problems of contemporary society in terms of sociological concepts.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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SOCI 125 - Introduction to Sociology: An Analysis of Society FC SSCI
4 credits
A survey course to introduce students to the sociological way of looking at our world. This examination requires an exploration of the concepts, theories and research findings related to the social organization of our world. Areas to be examined: concepts, culture, socialization, deviance and social control, social stratification, intergroup relations, the family, religion, politics, economics and social movements.
Prerequisites & Notes: Limited to first and second-year students.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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SOCI 130 - Introduction to Sociology: Social Problems FC SSCI
4 credits
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts, theoretical perspectives, and social themes in contemporary sociology. Topics of discussion and research include stratification, ascriptive processes and the social construction of public problems. We will consider what is distinctive about a sociological perspective on the world and discuss the nature of sociological description and explanation.
This course is appropriate for new students.
Community Based Learning
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SOCI 143 - Introduction to Sociology: Understanding American Society from a Global Perspective FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course is designed to give students a broader understanding of individual actions in the social context, using what sociologist C. Wright Mills calls a sociological imagination. Throughout the semester, students will learn to apply their sociological imagination by setting aside preconceived ideas about social relationships, and analyze how external social factors, like class, race and ethnicity, gender, education, and community, shape peoples lives. This course highlights the role of transnational/global flows of people, capital, culture and economy, and encourages students to reimagine our everyday lives in American society by connecting global forces to local contexts.
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SOCI 144 - Introduction to Sociology: Organizations and Social Change FC SSCI
4 credits
This introductory course examines the sociological study of society with a focus on the relationship between individuals and society and the role of social institutions in societal transformation. Major theoretical and concepts will be explored drawing on a variety of classic and contemporary perspectives to analyze norms and cultural values, social inequalities, and forms of social relationships and interactions.
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SOCI 145 - Introduction to Sociology: Social Inquiry between Past and Present FC SSCI
4 credits
Sociology emerged as intellectuals sought to understand what Max Weber called the great cultural problems of the modern era. From the development of capitalism to the expansion of European imperialism across the globe, the novel social forms and practices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries sparked questions that approached the world in new ways. This course introduces students to the craft of social inquiry. By navigating our way through exemplary sociological accounts of capitalism, democratic politics and what Du Bois termed the problem of the color-line, we will seek to craft research questions to shed new light on contemporary phenomena.
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SOCI 200 - Honorary Whites or Forever Foreigners?: The Contemporary Asian-American Experience FC SSCI CD
4 credits
How do race and culture determine who belongs in a nation? And how can ethnic minorities be perceived simultaneously as model minorities or honorary Whites given a higher economic and educational status, while still seen as forever foreigners? We will seek out answers to these questions by investigating how Asian Americans have strived for social inclusion in the U.S., while being ethnic, by highlighting the intersection of race, glass and gender. Major themes include assimilation debates; media portrayals; family and interracial marriage; transnational and transracial adoption; interracial conflict; pan-Asian identity; transnational connections; and ethnic business and consumption.
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SOCI 203 - Sociology of Sexuality FC SSCI CD
4 credits
Sociologists study the social origins of sexuality: how shared beliefs shape what we desire, what is taboo or what shames us. Historical and cross-cultural research illuminates the way modern sexuality transformed systems of dating, marriage, homosexuality, government, economics and racial classification. Following Freud, Foucault, feminist and queer theorists, learn why sociologists are skeptical of essentialist explanations that rely on biology and favor theories that recognize sexuality as a diverse, ever-changing function of cultural institutions.
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 203
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SOCI 214 - Social Movements FC SSCI CD
4 credits
Social movements are collective attempts to change the way people live their lives, how governments govern, and how economic systems produce and distribute goods. This course focuses on theoretical domains in the sociological study of social movements and general social processes rather than on specific movements. Substantive work on specific movements is used to explain issues such as mobilization, tactics, ideology, as well as how the social context in which a movement takes place matters.
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SOCI 215 - Race, Immigration, and the Asian American Experience FC SSCI CD
4 credits
How do race and culture define who belongs to the nation? For instance, how can ethnic minorities at times be ‘out whiting whites but still be denied full citizenship? We answer these questions by examining Asian Americans efforts for belonging and social justice. Topics include generational change, the war on terror, media, trans-nationalism, multi-racials, pan ethnicity, identity, and much more, and will be addressed from an intersectional approach. Readings come from many disciplines, with stress on sociology.
Prerequisites & Notes: One course in sociology.
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SOCI 216 - Medical Sociology FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course introduces students to key concepts and theories in the subfield of medical sociology. Topics covered include: social determinants of health; medical racism; health disparities; stress; health behaviors; the profession of medicine; mental health; medicalization; the framing of sickness as deviance; illness narratives; and landmark healthcare legislation in the United States. Particular attention is paid to social inequality in health and medicine, highlighting how a person’s ability to prioritize wellness, survive illness, and find success in prominent healthcare professions reflects privilege and imbalanced distributions of power along lines of race, socioeconomic status, and gender.
Prerequisites & Notes: An introduction to Sociology course.
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SOCI 218 - Consumer Society and Culture: From Global to Local FC SSCI
4 credits
Shopping and buying are significant social actions, and we use them to analyze various aspects of contemporary society. Our daily lives as consumers shape how we identify ourselves, yet at the same time our choices are shaped by market politics, class, gender, and race. This course examines links between the global and local levels to understand how global flows of economy, culture and people have changed our choices of goods and services in the U.S. Topics include the global commodity chain, commodity fetishism, corporate responsibility for labor, consuming ethnicity, and global consumer movements.
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SOCI 222 - Social Psychology: A Sociological Approach FC SSCI
4 credits
This is a course which examines the nature of social behavior stemming from an individuals participation in social groups, interaction with others, and the effects of the culture and social structure on the individual. Primarily a sociological focus, topics include perspectives and theories in social psychology, socialization, self and identity, attitudes and attitude change, social perception, language, social communication and group processes.
Prerequisites & Notes: One introductory course in Sociology.
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SOCI 224 - Sociology of Sport FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course will focus on sport as a social institution and cultural phenomenon. Using an intersectional framework, students will learn to critically assess sport in the areas of identity, education, the body; fandom and economy. The goals of the course are to understand sport as an institution, develop critical analytical skills by examining issues relevant to sport and to understand how sport is an area where inequality and power can be examined.
Prerequisites & Notes: One introductory sociology course.
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SOCI 230 - Social Change and Political Transformation in Eastern Europe FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course focuses on Eastern Europe as the first relatively backward region in the world capitalist system. We will begin with some major theories of social change and a historical introduction to the region. Next, we will turn to communist revolutions, Stalinism, reform communism, the rise of dissent and the revolutions of 1989. Much of the course will be devoted to the post-communist era, attempts to build democracy and capitalism, and the rise of nationalism.
This course is cross-listed with POLT 214
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SOCI 239 - The Urban Experience in the U.S. FC SSCI
4 credits
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 80.7% of the U.S. population lived in urban areas in 2010. Cities are thus prime research sites to analyze everyday 21st-century American life, as many of Americans identities and daily lives are strongly tied to urban spaces and shaped by their economic, social and cultural power. This course connects macro-level social processes, including global forces, politics and the economy to micro-level daily life among city dwellers. This course particularly focuses on contemporary urban issues in American cities, such as suburbanization, white flight, racial segregation, fiscal crises, urban branding, tourism in global cities, and gentrification.
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SOCI 241 - American Urbanism FC SSCI CD
4 credits
Explore a century of American hopes and fears about cities through the archetypes of Chicago and Los Angeles. Learn to see cities as built environments, ways of life, sources of community, and political economies. These paradigms ground our discussions of forces that shape cities and define American culture, including: race and residential segregation, technology, suburbanization, immigration, and gentrification. Central to this course are documentary films, field trips and curiosity about the cities you know.
Prerequisites & Notes: One course in sociology.
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SOCI 250 - Sociology of Popular Culture FC SSCI
4 credits
This course focuses on the relationship between popular culture, media, and society, and provides an overview of social structure, content, audiences and effects. Culture is discussed in relation to its institutional, economic, and social contexts. The course examines a variety of popular cultural forms (e.g., music, film, and sports) and looks closely at media production and consumption as cultural practices. We will also explore recent debates about the relationship between culture and society.
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SOCI 252 - Morals and Markets: Economic Sociology FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This is an introductory course to the sociological study of the capitalist economy and the social processes that comprise the market system. Neo-classical economics commonly assert that there are fundamental tensions between, on one hand, markets, profit-seeking and efficiency and, on another, social relations, personal ties, and systems of social and moral regulation. Economic sociologists challenge and revise these understandings, showing instead that economic institutions and behaviors are shaped by the same social structures that shape, e.g., political, religious and familial behavior. This course will explore a number of these supposed tensions, as well as how and why the embeddedness of markets within social structures matters.
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SOCI 254 - Political Sociology FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course is intended as an introduction to a major subfield of sociology, the sociology of politics. We will begin with basic concepts (power, types of authority, the state, representation, citizenship rights). We will proceed to explore the social conditions of democracy, class conflict, bureaucratization, the elitist critique of democracy, the weakness of American socialism, the nature of class/elite power in the United States, and the rise of fascism in interwar Europe.
Prerequisites & Notes: One introductory course in Sociology or Politics or by consent of the instructor.
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SOCI 255 - Bureaucrats, Classes and Democracy: Political Sociology in Three Acts FC SSCI
4 credits
If modern democratic politics is a theatrical production writ large, it typically features three sets of social actors: state officials, classes bound by their economic interests, and the diverse civic groups and parties that characterize associational life in a democracy. This course aims to introduce students to the sociological study of politics by way of this trinity of social actors as well as the historically defined institutional settings of the political stage. Students will learn and become familiar with sociological theories of bureaucracy, state autonomy and pluralism. We will also investigate the significance of law in modern politics and statecraft.
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SOCI 262 - Making Race & Ethnicity in the United States FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course examines the social construction of ethnic/racial groups and their relations in the context of the United States. We examine different conceptualizations of and theoretical approaches to the making of ethnicity and race, including the role of attitudes, behavior, institutions, and government policies. Major historical developments such as territorial settlement, slavery, immigration, and civil rights receive due attention, along with contemporary patterns of boundary-making, power, and inequality across a range of social domains.
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SOCI 267 - War and Peace? FC SSCI CD
4 credits
What happens when wars end? This course is divided into three parts that focus on institutions, social movements, and ideas. We will examine how new states transform with the expansion of schools, health care, as well as issues of race, gender, and sexuality. In the first section, we examine the transformation of states. During reconstruction periods, states often expand in capacity (Theda Skocpol, Andreas Wimmer). Next, we examine how war transforms people into veterans, refugees, and citizens. Third, we examine how war shapes ideas. The end of war has brought about the rise of mass education, attention to mental health (from shell shock to PTSD), and economic changes around military bases.
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SOCI 270 - Comparative Race & Ethnicity in Latin America and the US FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course offers a comparative and historical perspective on the social meaning and consequences of ethnicity and race in the Americas. Countries across the Americas were forged in a colonial crucible that brought people of African, indigenous, and European origins into enduring relation with one another. From this common background there has emerged important similarities and differences in the social significance of skin color, culture, and descent. Using historical and contemporary material from a range of country cases, this course examines these similarities and differences, including their consequences for the making of groups and inequality. Countries examined will include Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.
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SOCI 275 - Enacting the Law FC SSCI CD
4 credits
Where does law come from? Law and society studies how law is the product of cultural meanings rather than merely their cause. Using examples from sociology, political science, anthropology and history, we study how everyday understandings underpin and conflict with legal institutions when defining crime, marriage and law itself. Assignments include conducting interviews about disputes, analyzing legal changes, and observing legal proceedings: the formal and informal ways law gets enacted every day.
Prerequisites & Notes: Introduction to Sociology recommended.
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SOCI 277 - Race and Ethnic Relations FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course introduces and reviews the nature of relations between racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. We examine concepts, perspectives, and research on these relations, including the role of racism, prejudice, and discrimination. Furthermore, we explore the nature and the impact of immigration and institutionalized racism in the United States.
Prerequisites & Notes: None
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SOCI 281 - Can Corporations Do Good? On the Perils and Promises of Ideals in For- and Non-Profit Organizations FC SSCI
4 credits
Can corporations do good? Or are they the sources of social problems? This course aims to answer a dilemma that lies at the heart of organizational attempts to do good. Because of the rationalized nature of firms, non-profits and governmental agencies, their staff encounter competing imperatives: on the one hand, they are to maintain fidelity to their organizations ideals; on the other, they are compelled to protect the interests of the organization as well as those of its incumbents. This course investigates this tension between idealism and realism through the phenomena of corporate social responsibility, white-collar crime and religious activism.
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SOCI 284 - Environmental Sociology FC SSCI
4 credits
This course introduces students to the growing intellectual and pragmatic focus on the relationship between people and the environment. Throughout the semester, we will investigate the ways in which people and the environment interact with one another, examine how those interactions are influenced by socio-cultural processes such as political power and social inequality, and explore various responses to environmental issues, including individual behaviors, social movements, and policies that legislate human interactions with the natural world.
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SOCI 288 - American Inqualities: Class, Race, Gender, and Sexuality FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course serves as an introduction to social inequality in the contemporary United States. We will investigate sociological explanations of who gets what and why in varying social contexts. The course is divided into two broad sections. First, the course will cover classic and contemporary theoretical perspectives of social inequality. Second, the course will cover the various dimensions of inequality and how they are experienced and maintained (i.e., class, race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, privilege, and oppression). We will consider the ways in which systems of inequality are maintained through education, labor markets, public policy, and the criminal justice system.
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SOCI 301 - Social Research Methods FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course introduces students to the analytical logic and skills required for research in sociology. Emphasis is placed on teaching and executing the research process. Information literacy goals are addressed, such as evaluating the appropriateness, reliability and accuracy of different types of information; developing familiarity with sources of available data; generating new data; and interpreting empirical information within a theoretical framework. As groups, students work on research projects throughout the semester.
Prerequisites & Notes: One introductory course in Sociology. Priority given to Sociology Majors. Students must register also for SOCI 302.
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SOCI 302 - Social Research Methods Lab HC SSCI
2 credits
This course introduces students to the analytical logic and skills required for research in sociology. Emphasis is placed on teaching and executing the research process. Information literacy goals are addressed, such as evaluating the appropriateness, reliability and accuracy of different types of information; developing familiarity with sources of available data; generating new data; and interpreting empirical information within a theoretical framework. As groups, students work on research projects throughout the semester.
Prerequisites & Notes: One introductory course in Sociology. Preference given to Sociology majors. Students must register also for SOCI 301.
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SOCI 303 - Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory FC SSCI WADV
4 credits
Classical sociology arose in response to social problems opened up by the advent of industrial society, from the disintegration of community and the decline of religion to class conflict and the rationalization of social life. The founding fathers of modern sociology-Durkheim, Marx, and Weber-formulated their theories in response to these problems and established three distinct traditions in sociological theory. This course explores continuities between classical and contemporary sociology in each of these three traditions.
Prerequisites & Notes: Priority given to Sociology majors. Introduction to Sociology is strongly recommended.
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SOCI 305 - Feminist Research Methodologies SSCI
This course traces the historical and dialectical impact of feminist epistemologies on disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. We will explore feminist approaches to research practices including oral history, case studies, archival research, visual and literary criticism, survey/content analysis, and fieldwork. Throughout the semester, each student works on an individual research proposal that incorporates interdisciplinary methods and includes a literature review.
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SOCI 314 - Unequal Educations FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course focuses on education as a social institution and the inequalities structured within it. Using theory and empirical evidence, education in the United States will be examined from pre-school through post-secondary levels. The intersections of education and other institutions, (e.g. political, economic and familial) are analyzed and include discussions of race/ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality. Further, the role of education in social reproduction and social control will be examined.
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SOCI 321 - Racializing the City: the Political Economy of Equality & Exclusion in the U.S. Urban Context FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course offers a historical and contemporary look at racial inequality in the United States through the lens of the city. As large-scale, concentrated spaces of wealth accumulation, poverty, habitation, education, social control, and, periodically, counter-hegemonic social mobilization, cities are and have been major sites of inequality generation and amelioration. With an abiding focus on how the state and the market combine to determine who gets what, how, when, and why, this course takes a political economy approach to race-making in urban America. Topics explored include social processes and policies related to housing, education, employment, urban redevelopment, and policing.
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SOCI 322 - Cities, Culture, and Society FC SSCI WADV
4 credits
Cities are complex social, cultural, political, and economic entities. This course explores urban theories and empirical sociological research through readings in urban sociology, community studies, and cultural aspects of urban life. Important topics including urbanization and suburbanization, segregation, urban enclaves, gentrification, and global cities will be discussed in light of macro-level social processes such as major political upheavals, economic shifts, forces of globalization and their impacts on urban life and culture. A field trip to Cleveland is required.
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SOCI 326 - Autoethnography and the Life Course FC SSCI CD
4 credits
What can individuals’ narratives reveal about the blueprints for society and mechanisms of social change? This course provides a comprehensive examination of life course sociology, including its major theoretical bases, key concepts, and complementary modes of inquiry such as autoethnography and life story interviewing. Contemplating how the meaning of ‘growing up’ and the experience of ‘aging’ changes with time, students will consider how age is a social construct that acts as a demographic characteristic of individuals, a guidepost for the timing of normative life events, and a stratifying feature of society that shapes unequal distributions of resources in later life.
Prerequisites & Notes: An introduction to Sociology course.
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SOCI 332 - Sociology of Organizations FC SSCI
4 credits
This course will explore theories of organizational behavior and state power with a focus on the relationship between individuals and institutions. Students will engage with major conceptual frameworks, debates, and the role of organizations in shaping collective behavior and social change. We will examine organizational structures and objectives as well as interactions among members and across different types of organizations.
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SOCI 338 - Prostitution and Social Control: Governing Loose Women FC SSCI CD WADV
4 credits
Prostitution is a site of easy truths and inevitable conflict because of cultural ambiguities about sexuality, gender, ethnicity and citizenship. We probe these intersecting meanings by reviewing the wide range of empirical meanings attributed to prostitution and the ways modern forces have transformed them, especially the state. Taking cues from Michel Foucault, we analyze why recent legal solutions cannot fulfill expectations and discuss how the social control of prostitution might actually cause it.
Prerequisites & Notes: Related intermediate course in these departments. Restrictions: Closed to first year students.
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 339
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SOCI 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 HISP 340
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SOCI 345 - Gender, Work, and Labor in a Transnational Context FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course serves as an introduction to social inequality in the contemporary United States. We will investigate sociological explanations of who gets what and why in varying social contexts. The course is divided into two broad sections. First, the course will cover classic and contemporary theoretical perspectives of social inequality. Second, the course will cover the various dimensions of inequality and how they are experienced and maintained (i.e., class, race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, privilege, and oppression). We will consider the ways in which systems of inequality are maintained through education, labor markets, public policy, and the criminal justice system.
Prerequisites & Notes: 100-Level Sociology course or two social sciences courses.
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SOCI 348 - Constructing Immigrant Communities FC SSCI
4 credits
Why do people migrate? What kinds of jobs do they attain, and with what impact on other groups? Why and when do they maintain transnational communities or choose to assimilate? How does the second generation make sense of its experiences? Taking a comparative ethnic approach, we will examine immigrants? adaptation to better understand the nation and global processes generally. We will examine how race, ethnicity, gender, class, trans-nationalism, and sexuality shape these processes.
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SOCI 350 - School and Punishment FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course examines two important social institutions: schools and prisons. Schools and prisons have both been designed to cure social ills. Both have been key sites for activists, reformers, and policy. In understanding waves of reform in education and penal reform, we explore how the broader socio-political context that is, political opportunity structures and social movements shape the possibilities for social change in these institutions. Finally, this class will devote substantial time to contemporary education and prison reform in international-comparative perspective.
Prerequisites & Notes: One Sociology course
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SOCI 351 - Protest, Resist, Change!: Collective Behavior and Social Movements FC SSCI
4 credits
Why do people protest? What makes a social movement? Why do some people decide to join? Why do others decide not to? What makes a movement last? What is the relationship between social movements and culture, media, policing? This course is designed to explore some of these questions. Using sociological concepts we examine a variety of movements in the United States and beyond and explore the ways in which social movements are discussed and understood in sociological literature.
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SOCI 361 - Law and Culture in Global Perspective FC SSCI CD WADV
4 credits
This course aims to introduce students to theoretical debates about the nature of modern law, and to establish a comparative, empirical understanding of how law relates to culture in a global perspective. The course is divided into two parts. Part 1 outlines the ways that scholars from various disciplines have answered the question, What is law? Building on this theoretical foundation, we will then examine how the cultural aspects of law-in-action i) shape individuals legal consciousness, ii) structure organizational forms and practices, and iii) constitute unequal relations of power within and between societies across the globe.
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SOCI 378 - Sociology of African-American Community FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course shifts through many of the perspectives and empirical research relating to the condition of the African-American community. This will be aided by our exploration into various cultural, religious, historical, educational, economic, and political indicators of these conditions. We will also critically examine the nature and applicability of various sociological and ‘alternative’ theoretical paradigms and discuss the implications of our finding for social policy. Prerequisites: One course in Sociology or African-American Studies or consent of the instructor.
Prerequisites & Notes: One course in Sociology or African-American Studies or consent of the instructor.
This course is cross-listed with AAST 378
Community Based Learning
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SOCI 386 - Nightlife: Place, Identity and Feeling Alive FC SSCI
4 credits
What does it mean to feel truly alive only at certain times and places? In this course, we consider the geographic places and cultural practices of nightlife. We will explore the ways nightlifes risks and rewards are produced, distributed, and regulated to understand their seeming paradoxes: the same physical location can be hedonistic and someones daily grind, carnivalesque and tightly scripted, liminal and big business, criminal and completely quotidian. Nightlife shapes our identities and reproduces social inequalities, but these fleeting experiences also circumscribe the places we spend most of our timework and home. Fieldtrips required.
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 386
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SOCI 390 - Practicum In Community Learning HC SSCI
2 credits
This practicum explores academic concepts studied in the Sports, Culture and Society learning community by students participating in a series of service and research initiatives across campus and in the Oberlin Public Schools. These activities, informed by the academic study of sports as a cultural form and social institution, will examine the role sports already plays in the lives of youth and college students. In particular, activities will support integration of the physical, intellectual, and emotional well-being of the students in the learning community, and in the broader community they will serve.
Prerequisites & Notes: Enrollment in FYSP 054: Sports: Contested Contests.
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SOCI 391H - Practicum - Half HC SSCI
2 credits
This course combines individual internships and private readings on a subject matter related to the internship-for example, an internship in a social service agency and readings and discussion on poverty and welfare issues.
Prerequisites & Notes: See individual faculty. Note: At the discretion of the instructor, grading for this course may be P/NP only Prerequisites: Two courses in Sociology
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SOCI 403 - Seminar in Social Psychology: African-American Personality FC SSCI CD WADV
4 credits
This seminar critically examines the theoretical and research literature on the study of African American in psychology. Specific attention is given to; the various theoretical debates on African American psychology; discussions on African American self-concept; the impact of family and education on African American psychology; and issues of minority personality assessment.
Prerequisites & Notes: Three courses in sociology or African American Studies or consent of instructor. Preference is given to senior sociology and AAST majors.
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SOCI 420 - Social Inequalities: Class, Race, and Gender FC SSCI CD WADV
4 credits
This course will explore contemporary sociological approaches in the study of social inequality. The enduring structure and reproduction of inequalities along axes of class, race and gender are core problems of sociology. This seminar will examine these issues by first considering various theoretical issues utilized by scholars in the field. We will then examine how different thinkers have implemented of these theories and concepts in a variety of innovative case studies.
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SOCI 422 - Seminar: Racism & Inequality in the United States: Alernative Perspectives FC SSCI CD
4 credits
As measured in a wide variety of ways, socio-economic inequality between non-Hispanic Whites on the one hand and African Americans and Latina/os on the other, is vast. This seminar will critically assess a range of works that employ different methodological approaches (e.g., qualitative, quantitative, longitudinal) and analytical emphases (e.g., economic, political, cultural) in order to understand this inequality. Some older but still indispensable works will be examined, but recent research will be the focus.
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SOCI 426 - Alcohol and Culture: Social Control Under the Influence FC SSCI CD WADV
4 credits
Alcohol lubricates memorable celebrations yet also causes disease, tragedy and the loss of self-control. This course explores how the meanings of alcohol are as powerful as its chemistry. We examine communities where alcoholism is rare to those where is rampant and the social movements that have shifted norms and legislation. At bottom, the sociology of alcohol highlights our assumptions about free will, social control, and rewarding social relations. Participants will produce original empirical research.
Prerequisites & Notes: This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) : LAWS
Restrictions: Closed to first and second year students, instructor consent required. Pre-reqs: Social research methods or equivalent
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SOCI 428 - Beyond the Schoolhouse Gate: Schools, Rights, and Education Policy FC SSCI CD
4 credits
Journalists, pundits, and politicians often suggest that schools can remedy a host of problems from economic inequality, racial and gender discrimination, and promote civic inclusion. In short, when the U.S. seeks to address a social problem, schools are often charged with the solution. Yet, schools are also the site of many struggles. The school to prison pipeline, rising racial segregation, teacher evaluations and unions, charter schools, local control of school boards are all pressing concerns. This course examines education policy and practice through a sociological lens.
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SOCI 431 - Communism and Intellectuals: From Utopia to Disillusionment FC SSCI
4 credits
This seminar explores the development of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe through historiography, literature and film. The main part of the course is devoted to early revolutionary dilemmas, the relationship of intellectuals to the revolution in Soviet Russia and the West, and the rise of Stalinism. With novels by Gladkov, Silone, Koestler, Solzhenitsyn and Milosz, and films by Beaty, Bertolucci, Mikhalkov and Makavejev.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two courses in Sociology or consent of instructor.
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SOCI 432 - How Places Make Us: Sociology of Place and Space FC SSCI WADV
4 credits
This seminar draws on disciplinary and interdisciplinary sources to engage with different aspects of place-making as a social, cultural, and political process. We start by reading some foundational texts about space and place in sociology and beyond. Based on these readings and while reviewing sociological literature on how we make places, we will also engage with the question of ?how places make us.? A variety of sociological topics, such as identity, community, power relations, and social change will be discussed through a spatial lens. Taught for letter grading only.
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SOCI 438 - Seminar: Coal, Communities and Culture FC SSCI
4 credits
This seminar focuses on coal and its impact on people and the environment. Throughout the semester, we will investigate the human and environmental impact of each phase of the lifespan of coal, including extraction, processing, transport, and burning. We will also discuss alternatives to coal power. The course incorporates academic research, documentary films, guest speakers, and an examination of the ways in which Oberlin College and the surrounding community are working to reach carbon neutrality.
Prerequisites & Notes: Introduction to Sociology
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SOCI 451 - Imperial Control and its Transformations: the New Sociology of Empire and Colonialism FC SSCI CD WADV
4 credits
The renascence of the sociology of colonialism and empire has called attention to the need to re-think the foundational concepts and institutional configurations of the contemporary world. Rather than viewing the postwar status quo of independent nation-states as a given in social analysis, sociologists have turned to question how the institutional structures of empire and colonialism were formed and to identify the consequences of these forms of domination and control for (post)colonial states and societies. By navigating through this emergent body of scholarship, students will develop research projects of their own that question the construction of modern states and societies.
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SOCI 458 - The Specter of Sovereignty: the Perplexities of Rule and Rights FC SSCI
4 credits
To adapt the opening lines of the Communist Manifesto for the present, a specter is haunting the globalized world the specter of sovereignty. We live in puzzling times, as citizens and politicians simultaneously lament the loss of national sovereignty and criticize the surfeit of governmental powers. This course aims to make sense of such perplexities by exploring sovereignty as concept and social reality. By examining film and literary representations of sovereign control in relation to how theorists like Hobbes, Weber and Arendt have understood the relationship between sovereign and subject, we will develop the outlines of the sociology of sovereignty.
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SOCI 461 - Seminar: Reimagining Immigrant/Ethnic Enclaves in an Era of Globalization FC SSCI CD
4 credits
Some sociologists understand immigrant/ethnic enclaves as temporary platforms for assimilation, based on ethnic solidarity, while others argue that ethnic solidarity is a myth. Such debates have historically dominated sociological understanding of ethnic neighborhoods/enclaves. But more recently many sociologists and urban scholars have highlighted the emergence of new ethnic enclaves, and their global and transnational circuits of culture and capital and direct and indirect ties to motherland. This course is designed to understand and reimagine immigrant/ethnic communities by locating these enclaves in global/transnational/cosmopolitan/multicultural contexts; and to explore how and why diverse ethnic groups have maintained distinctive cultures within their community.
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SOCI 491F - Senior Honors - Full FC SSCI
4 credits
Senior Honors
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SOCI 491H - Senior Honors - Half HC SSCI
2 credits
Senior Honors.
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SOCI 499 - Advanced Research Methods FC ARHU
4 credits
This is a required seminar for students accepted into the sociology honors program. Students will submit IRB applications, obtain datasets, or negotiate fieldsite access as applicable.
Prerequisites & Notes: SOCI 301 and SOCI 302
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 499
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SOCI 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.
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SOCI 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.
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STAT 113 - Introduction to Statistics FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
A standard introduction to statistics for students with a good background in mathematics. Topics covered include exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics, probability, sampling, estimation, and statistical inference. A broad spectrum of examples is employed. Statistical software is introduced, but no prior computer experience is assumed.
Prerequisites & Notes: STAT 113 and 114 assume no prior knowledge of statistics and cover the same material, though STAT 114 emphasizes biological examples. A self-diagnostic exam (to check your comfort level with algebra and numerical manipulation) is available on the Mathematics Department’s “Resources” website (or contact an instructor). If you scored a 3 or higher on the AP Statistics exam, if you are somewhat comfortable with introductory statistics, or if you have a strong mathematical background (even with no statistics background), you should instead take STAT 205.
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STAT 114 - Introduction to Biostatistics FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
A standard introduction to statistics for students with a good background in mathematics. Topics covered include exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics, probability, sampling, estimation, and statistical inference. Biological and medical examples are emphasized. Statistical software is introduced, but no prior computer experience is assumed.
Prerequisites & Notes: STAT 113 and 114 assume no prior knowledge of statistics and cover the same material, though STAT 114 emphasizes biological examples. A self-diagnostic exam (to check your comfort level with algebra and numerical manipulation) is available on the Mathematics Department’s “Resources” website (or contact an instructor). If you scored a 3 or higher on the AP Statistics exam, if you are somewhat comfortable with introductory statistics, or if you have a strong mathematical background (even with no statistics background), you should instead take STAT 205.
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STAT 205 - Statistics and Modeling FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
An introduction to statistics and, in particular, linear models for students with some background in statistics and a good background in mathematics. Topics covered include exploratory data analysis, probability, sampling, estimation, statistical inference, multiple regression, one-factor and multi-factor analysis of variance, and analysis of categorical data via logistic regression. Statistical software is used heavily. Formerly offered as STAT 215.
Prerequisites & Notes: A score of 3 or higher on the Statistics AP Exam, some comfort with introductory statistics, or a strong mathematical background (even with no statistics background). This class reviews everything from the AP Statistics curriculum, before continuing to more advanced topics. Takes the place of the STAT 113, STAT 213 sequence.
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STAT 209 - Data Computing and Visualization FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
An introduction to the principles and practice of creating informative and effective data visualizations to summarize and describe patterns in potentially large and complex datasets. In the service of effective and reproducible visualization, principles and tools for automating data manipulation (for example, scraping data from the web, merging data from multiple sources, and cleaning, filtering, and transforming data) will also be covered. Selected topics from machine learning, such as dimensionality reduction and clustering, approached from an applied perspective, may be included in this latter category.
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STAT 213 - Statistical Modeling FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
A second course in statistics with an emphasis on creating, fitting, evaluating, and using statistical models of data. Topics include linear models of continuous data with continuous and categorical predictors (multiple regression, analysis of variance and analysis of covariance), models of categorical data, such as logistic regression, and techniques for selecting among competing models, such as cross-validation.
Prerequisites & Notes: STAT 113, STAT 114, or consent of the instructor.
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STAT 237 - Bayesian Computation FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
An introduction to Bayesian statistical methods, which will be contrasted with standard, frequentist statistical inference. Conjugate prior distributions will be studied, but computational methods will be developed to allow for arbitrary prior distributions.
Prerequisites & Notes: MATH 133 or consent of the instructor. Notes: Given in alternate years only.
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STAT 336 - Mathematical Statistics FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
The theory of probability is applied to problems of statistics. Topics include sampling theory, point and interval estimation, tests of statistical hypotheses, regression, and analysis of variance.
Prerequisites & Notes: MATH 232 and MATH 335 335. Note: Given in alternate years only.
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STAT 339 - Probabilistic Modeling and Machine Learning FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
n overview of statistical models and algorithms used in machine learning for classification, prediction, clustering, hidden variable modeling, and sequence learning. Fundamentals of probability, Bayesian inference and decision theory, model selection, and stochastic optimization. Modeling approaches include directed and undirected graphs, parametric, nonparametric and semi-parametric mixture models, Hidden Markov Models, and selected non-probabilistic techniques such as Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks. Emphasis throughout is on probabilistic reasoning from data. Applications selected from a variety of domains, based on student interest.
Prerequisites & Notes: MATH 231, CSCI 150 and at least some additional experience with linear algebra and/or probability would be helpful.
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THEA 100 - Acting 1: Fundamentals FC ARHU
4 credits
The focus of this class is on developing specific techniques basic to American acting traditions (conversational reality; executing activities; playing intentions) and applying these skills in contemporary scene work. Admission by audition ONLY. Candidates for the course must prepare a contemporary monologue no longer than two minutes. Auditions for fall section will take place during orientation week for fall semester. Auditions for spring semester sections will take place during the week preceding registration for spring semester.
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THEA 101 - Introduction to Theater FC ARHU
4 credits
This course introduces and explores theater from the page to the stage. Topics include the relationship between theater and society, dramatic structure, and the forms and styles of theater. We will be engaging with new American plays and Western European classic works.
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THEA 114 - Speaking Shakespeare’s Texts HC ARHU
2 credits
This course will enhance students’ abilities to recite or read aloud Shakespeare’s texts (and other complex and heightened language). Students will be introduced to a sequential methodology based upon clarity, poetry and dramatic action. Assignments will include both detailed textual analysis and solo performance of sonnets and monologues. This class isspecifically intended for students who have not been enrolled in the Theater Department’s acting sequence.
Prerequisites & Notes: Note from instructor:
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THEA 141 - Emergency Preparedness for Performing Arts Organizations HC ARHU
2 credits
This class will address why emergency preparedness is critical to protect your arts organization from internal and external risks. We will examine the typical process and contents of an emergency response plan; including planning strategies and basic business recovery procedures.
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THEA 172 - Production: Scenery FC ARHU
4 credits
Discuss and study current and historical practices with regards to the creation of scenery starting from the designer’s elevations through the generation of working drawings, building, budgeting, technical and dress rehearsals, opening night and strike. Develop an awareness and vocabulary of the Stage, the equipment and the processes involved in bringing the physical production, specifically scenery, into reality.
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THEA 173 - Production: Costumes FC ARHU
4 credits
This course is an introduction to costume production. Some of the topics covered are: shop safety, tools and equipment, costume design, understructures, fabrics, pattern making and construction techniques.
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THEA 174 - Lighting Technology and Design FC ARHU
4 credits
An introduction to lighting technology, terminology and technique. Lectures cover lighting history, equipment, manual and computer controlled lighting systems, distribution systems, electricity, lamps, reflectors, lenses, projection equipment and moving lights. Beginning design processes will also be covered. Students hang and focus lights for actual shows and participate in a crew for a theater, dance or opera production during the semester.
Prerequisites & Notes: In case of schedule conflicts a project may be substituted for the run crew.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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THEA 184 - Introduction to Vectorworks Spotlight HC ARHU
2 credits
This course will introduce the student to the commonly used tools and workflows in Vectorworks Spotlight for entertainment design, including the overall user interface, mouse interaction, document organization including key concepts ranging from the uses for classes and layers, and the basic use of tools and commands in the software. Students will apply skills in various class projects leading including creation of a venue, lighting plot, and export of information into Lightwright.
Prerequisites & Notes: Lab/Equipment Requirements: Students taking this course will need their own laptop computer which must meet the following minimum requirements:
Operating Systems:
macOS 10.15 (Catalina), macOS 10.14 (Mojave), macOS 10.13 (High Sierra), macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
Windows 10 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, Windows 7 SP1 64-bit
Minimum Hardware Profile:
Processor:
64-bit Intel Core i5 (or AMD equivalent) or better
RAM:
4GB or more
Graphics Card:
OpenGL 2.1 compatible graphics card with 1GB of VRAM or more. Some integrated graphics cards such as Intel Iris graphics are acceptable for simple models/drawings, but a dedicated graphics card is preferable.
The full Vectorworks software package is provided FREE to all students.
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THEA 199 - Production Crew ARHU
0 credit
Each enrolled student will serve on one technical/administrative crew for one of the theater, dance or productions during the semester: scenery, lighting, sound, or costumes.
Prerequisites & Notes: Mandatory one-time class meeting on the second Thursday of the semester; 4:30-6:00 p.m.
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