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Course Catalog 2022-2023 [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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Geosciences |
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GEOS 501H - Research in Geology - Half HC NSMA
2 credits
Independent or faculty-sponsored research. Students should select a topic and make other necessary arrangements in consultation with an individual faculty member. Consent of instructor required.
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GEOS 503F - Honors - Full FC NSMA
4 credits
Honors by permission of the department.
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GEOS 503H - Honors - Half HC NSMA
2 credits
Honors by permission of the department.
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GEOS 995F - Private Reading - Full FC NSMA
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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GEOS 995H - Private Reading - Half HC NSMA
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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GERM 101 - Elementary German FC ARHU CD
4 credits
German 101 comprises the first half of a two semester Elementary German course of study. Acquisition of the fundamentals of grammar along with practice in speaking and writing. Early introduction of spoken German, with reading and discussion of graded literary texts. Use of language laboratory encouraged.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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GERM 102 - Elementary German FC ARHU CD
4 credits
German 102 comprises the second half of a two semester Elementary German course of study. Acquisition of the fundamentals of grammar along with practice in speaking and writing. Increased emphasis on spoken German, with reading and discussion of graded literary texts. Taught chiefly in German. Use of language laboratory encouraged.
Prerequisites & Notes: GERM 101 or qualification by placement test.
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GERM 203 - Intermediate German FC ARHU CD
4 credits
German 203 comprises the first half of a two-semester Intermediate German course. Increasing mastery of the basic skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) and a selective grammar review. Readings of narrative prose, drama, and poetry by mainly contemporary authors, along with cultural/historical texts from the 20th century. Completion of Intermediate German will enable students to read a broad range of literary and non-literary texts and to conduct research in their major fields.
Prerequisites & Notes: GERM 102 or qualification by placement test.
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GERM 204 - Intermediate German FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Increasing mastery of the basic skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing). Readings of narrative prose, drama, and poetry by mainly contemporary authors, along with cultural/historical texts from the 20th and 21st centuries. Completion of Intermediate German will enable students to read a broad range of literary and non-literary texts and to conduct research in their major fields.
Prerequisites & Notes: GERM 203 or qualification by placement test.
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GERM 205 - Intermediate Intensive German FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course provides a systematic review of German grammar along with continued attention to idiomatic spoken German. In addition, participants will expand their reading skills, focusing during the first half of the semester on short stories, and in the second half on an influential novel. Prerequisite: First-year college-level German or the equivalent and successful completion of the department’s placement exam. This course is not intended for students who have taken German 203 and 204.
Prerequisites & Notes: GERM 101 and 102 or equivalent, and GERM placement exam.
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GERM 232 - Writing the City: The Urban Experience from Expressionism to New Objectivity FC ARHU CD
4 credits
A city in the times of crisis: how can it be represented in literature, art, and film? To answer this question, we will focus on Berlin of the Weimar era (1918-33). This was a period of political upheavals and drastic social changes that began with the emergence of the new democracy and ended with the rise of national socialism. We will explore literary and artistic reflections of the most topical aspects of life in the modern metropolis: from the everyday absurdities and anxieties to the fight against the historical inequalities. Class readings and discussions will cover works of different genres: writings by Benjamin, Brecht, Kafka, and others; films, music, and visual artworks. Please note: this course meets at the same time as GERM 332. Students who have studied German before on the intermediate level or above should enroll in GERM 332. (Prerequisites: German 203/204 or placement test.) All other students should enroll in GERM 232 (Prerequisites: None.) Class readings will have two options: German or English. Other class activities will include discussions in English and group work in German (for GERM 332) or English (for GERM 232).
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GERM 246 - Sex under Socialism: Narratives of Sexuality and Ideology FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course aims at exploring the unlikely combination of sexuality, ideology, and art in Socialist states. Focusing on literary, cinematic, and musical narratives from the Soviet Union and East Germany, we will look beyond the obvious flaws of the political systems infamous for their authoritarianism and total control. We will discuss sexual liberation and reproductive rights, shifts in gender roles and the family structure, and the development of the feminist movement and LGBTQ culture. While investigating the artistic representation of these topics, we will consider how artworks of different genres depict human experiences on the edge between the private and the ideological. Readings, subtitles, and discussion in English.
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 246, RUSS 246
This course is appropriate for new students.
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GERM 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.)
This course is cross-listed with CMPL 251, RUSS 251
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GERM 305 - Conversation and Composition FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
Expansion and refinement of speaking, writing, and listening skills through a variety of in-class activities (including films and writing). Readings and discussions will cover topics of current social, political, and cultural interest in the German-language countries as reflected in the media and in essays and articles by creative writers.
Prerequisites & Notes: GERM 204 or qualification by placement test.
Sustainability
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GERM 311 - Enlightenment to Classicism FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
A study of major movements, problems, and oeuvres in the literature from the 18th to the mid-19th century (Enlightenment through Romanticism). This course will explore the culturally productive tension between nascent nationalism and Goethean cosmopolitanism. Prose, drama, and poetry by Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, and others. This course is intended for students who have not yet done 400-level work in German literature.
Prerequisites & Notes: GERM 204 or qualification by placement test.
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GERM 312 - German Literature: Young Germany to Modernism FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
Provides a foundation for literary studies through 19th and 20th century drama, prose and poetry. Features works by Büchner, Grillparzer, Droste-Hülshoff, Thomas Mann, Lasker-Schüler, Kafka and Brecht. This course is intended for students who have not yet done 400-level work in German.
Prerequisites & Notes: GERM 204 or qualification by placement test.
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GERM 313 - Live and Work in Germany: Business German FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The course deals with business-specific topics that give students an insight into the German economy. the focus is on expanding the topic-specific vocabulary and dealing with relevant grammatical phenomena. In addition, students will be prepared for the job application process in Germany. Students will create application documents, conduct job interviews and learn about culture-specific rules of conduct in business. Various means of communication, such as letter writing, professional emails, and telephone conversations will be covered in class.
Prerequisites & Notes: GERM 204 or equivalent.
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GERM 315 - Max Kade German Writer-in Residence HC ARHU CD
2 credits
Reading and discussion of selected writings of the 2015 Max Kade German Writer-in-Residence. Taught in German.
Prerequisites & Notes: One 300-Level course or equivalent knowledge of German.
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GERM 327 - *teuta > þeoda > diutsch > Deutsch: A History of the German Language FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Beginning with its Indo-European ancestry, this course will uncover the sound changes that brought us the Germanic language family. We will then identify the shifts that German underwent to distinguish itself from its Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, and Gothic relatives to provide the earliest record of the German language, known as Old High German. We will then trace its development through the medieval period of Middle High German, Martin Luther’s Early New German, and finally to New High German. Particular attention will be paid to Middle High German later in the course as we dive into some of the stories of knights-errant and courtly poetry. Course taught in English.
Prerequisites & Notes: 1 year of German or equivalent
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GERM 332 - Writing the City: The Urban Experience from Expressionism to New Objectivity FC ARHU CD
4 credits
A city in the times of crisis: how can it be represented in literature, art, and film? To answer this question, we will focus on Berlin of the Weimar era (1918-33). This was a period of political upheavals and drastic social changes that began with the emergence of the new democracy and ended with the rise of national socialism. We will explore literary and artistic reflections of the most topical aspects of life in the modern metropolis: from the everyday absurdities and anxieties to the fight against the historical inequalities. Class readings and discussions will cover works of different genres: writings by Benjamin, Brecht, Kafka, and others; films, music, and visual artworks.
Prerequisites & Notes: Please note: this course meets at the same time as GERM 332. Students who have studied German before on the intermediate level or above should enroll in GERM 332. (Prerequisites: German 203/204 or placement test.) All other students should enroll in GERM 232 (Prerequisites: None.) Class readings will have two options: German or English. Other class activities will include discussions in English and group work in German (for GERM 332) or English (for GERM 232).
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GERM 336 - Jews and Other Germans FC ARHU
4 credits
Explores the highly productive Jewish response to modernity from 1750 to 1939 in Central Europe, which engendered lasting transformations in European and American Jewish life in particular, and in European culture and society, more generally. We will consider literary, artistic, political, and scientific achievements of German Jews, and discuss the relationship between their work and their Jewish background. Readings drawn from central German-Jewish figures including Moses Mendelssohn, Herzl, Heine, Auerbach, Schnitzler, and Kafka. In English.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is cross-listed with JWST 336
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GERM 352 - Underrepresented Voices of German Literature FC ARHU CD
4 credits
by continuing the long Oberlin tradition of introducing students to the Alright, so you know who Goethe is, and you’ve read some Schiller and some Kafka and lots of other famous German poetry and prose, but what’s missing? This course is designed to start filling in some of the gaps by continuing the long Oberlin tradition of introducing students to the incredible diversity represented in German literature. We will broaden the scope with Turkish-German and Afro-German writers, along with other POC-and specifically WOC-who have contributed greatly to the German written word and continue to do so. Course is taught in German.
Prerequisites & Notes: German 312/311 or equivalent
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GERM 411 - German Today: Seminar in Advanced Grammar and Composition FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
The seminar is intended for students with advanced skills in German who wish to expand their competency in grammar, writing and vocabulary. Increased fluency in selected grammar topics will enable students to analyze and compose in a variety of writing styles. Utilizing a diverse array of media (e.g., newspapers, film and broadcast news), thematic content will encompass such areas as culture, literature, politics, economics, and science. Along with regular written assignments and grammar tests, active class participation is required.
Prerequisites & Notes: 300-Level Course in German.
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GERM 433 - Senior Seminar: Twentieth-Century German Poetry FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
Analysis of continuities and disruptions in lyrical forms during a century of political and social upheaval. Poets include Hofmannsthal, Rilke, George, Trakl, Lasker-Schüler, Brecht, Benn, Celan and a variety of post-war lyricists.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two 300-level courses in German or instructor consent.
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GERM 505F - German Honors - Full FC ARHU
4 credits
Honors.
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GERM 505H - German Honors - Half HC ARHU
2 credits
Honors.
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GERM 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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GERM 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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GREK 101 - Elementary Greek FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Learn to read ancient Greek! Greek is the language of Homer, Socrates, Alexander the Great, and the writers of the New Testament. In the first semester, we cover roughly two-thirds of basic Greek grammar, reading ancient Greek passages from day one. By the end of the semester, students will fully understand the Greek syntactical system, and will be reading passages adapted from the fifth-century BCE historians Herodotus and Thucydides.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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GREK 102 - Elementary Greek II FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Keep learning to read ancient Greek! We will complete the study of basic Greek language and syntax. By the end of the semester, students will read selections from Lysias’s On the Murder of Eratosthenes, a defense speech from fifth-century Athens, in which the speaker claims justification for the killing of his wife’s adulterous lover.
Prerequisites & Notes: GREK 101 or equivalent.
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GREK 201 - Intermediate Greek I: Homer FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The year, 1083 BCE. The place, Troy. At issue, the recovery of Helen, Menelaos’ wife and the most beautiful woman in the world, who was abducted by (or ran away with) Paris, a notoriously charming Trojan. Students will learn the fundamentals of Homeric Greek and the principles of oral poetic composition by reading significant passages from the Iliad, the first written literature of the West.
Prerequisites & Notes: GREK 102 or equivalent.
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GREK 206 - Homer’s Odyssey I FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The Odyssey is widely considered one of the most beautiful poems ever created, and we will read it in the original Greek! Course will include introduction to the Homeric Dialect, scholarship on Homer, and a research project.
Course meets concurrently with GREK 306. Intermediate students should enroll in GREK 206; advanced students should enroll in GREK 306. Course requirements will differ according to level.
Prerequisites & Notes: GREK 102 or equivalent
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GREK 211 - Euripides I FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This class will translate one of the plays of Euripides with an eye to its dramaturgy, political ramifications, and literary significance.
Course meets concurrently with GREK 211. Intermediate students should enroll in GREK 211; advanced students should enroll in GREK 311. Course requirements will differ according to level.
Prerequisites & Notes: Greek 102 or Equivalent
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GREK 219 - Apologies of Socrates I FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Who was Socrates? In this course we will consider the Greek texts of Socrates’ pupils, Plato and Xenophon, and attempt to interpret this enigmatic cultural, philosophical and political figure of Classical Athens. In addition to the primary texts, we will consider other accounts of Socrates, such as are found in Aristophanes’ Clouds , as well as secondary scholarship on Socrates and his place in Athenian (and our own) culture. Course meets concurrently with GREK 319. Intermediate students should enroll in GREK 219; advanced students should enroll in GREK 319. Course requirements will differ according to level.
Prerequisites & Notes: GREK 102 or equivalent
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GREK 220 - Courtroom Drama in Athens! I FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Legal intrigue, perjury, witness tampering, and bribery may be some of the most lasting contributions of Greek culture to the contemporary world. In this course, students will read a courtroom cases and legal speeches from ancient Athens in the original Greek language, focusing on the authors Lysias and Demosthenes. The course also will explore ancient rhetoric and the legal structure of Athenian Democracy through secondary readings. Course meets concurrently with GREK 320. Intermediate students should enroll in GREK 220; advanced students should enroll in GREK 320. Course requirements will differ according to level.
Prerequisites & Notes: GREK 201 or equivalent.
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GREK 304 - Greek Lyric Poetry FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The writers of Greek Lyric introduced a highly personal sensibility to the world of poetry. Selections include passages from Archilochus, Anacreon, Bacchylides, Simonides, and Solon. The course pays special attention to Sappho, the pre-eminent writer of erotic verse from archaic Greece, and the first woman poet in the West. We will consider the development of a lyric genre or genres, with attention to erotic, political, and satiric themes. Secondary readings on individual authors and their influence.
Prerequisites & Notes: GREK 202 or equivalent.
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GREK 305 - Sophocles FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
Readings and discussion of tragedy of Sophocles, with particular attention to the social and political context of fifth century Athens. Close analysis of one of his plays, likely the Trachiniae , and a survey of the criticism and scholarship dealing with Sophocles.
Prerequisites & Notes: GREK 202 or the equivalent.
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GREK 306 - Homer’s Odyssey II FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The Odyssey is widely considered one of the most beautiful poems ever created, and we will read it in the original Greek! Course will include introduction to the Homeric Dialect, scholarship on Homer, and a research project.
Course meets concurrently with GREK 206. Intermediate students should enroll in GREK 206; advanced students should enroll in GREK 306. Course requirements will differ according to level.
Prerequisites & Notes: GREK 202 or equivalent
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GREK 319 - Apologies of Socrates II FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Who was Socrates? In this course we will consider the Greek texts of Socrates’ pupils, Plato and Xenophon, and attempt to interpret this enigmatic cultural, philosophical and political figure of Classical Athens. In addition to the primary texts, we will consider other accounts of Socrates, such as are found in Aristophanes’Clouds , as well as secondary scholarship on Socrates and his place in Athenian (and our own) culture. Course meets concurrently withGREK219. Intermediate students should enroll inGREK219; advanced students should enroll inGREK319. Course requirements will differ according to level.
Prerequisites & Notes: GREK 202 or equivalent
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GREK 320 - Courtroom Drama in Athens! II FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Legal intrigue, perjury, witness tampering, and bribery may be some of the most lasting contributions of Greek culture to the contemporary world. In this course, students will read a courtroom cases and legal speeches from ancient Athens in the original Greek language, focusing on the authors Lysias and Demosthenes. The course also will explore ancient rhetoric and the legal structure of Athenian Democracy through secondary readings. Course meets concurrently with GREK 220. Intermediate students should enroll in GREK 220; advanced students should enroll in GREK 320. Course requirements will differ according to level.
Prerequisites & Notes: GREK 202 or equivalent. Course meets concurrently with GREK 220.
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GREK 321 - Advanced Greek: Herodotus FC ARHU CD
4 credits
In this course, we will read selections from the first historian in the western tradition, Herodotus of Halicarnassus. Herodotus is a crucial source for our understanding of the rise of Greece as a world power in the fifth century BCE, as well as our understanding of the classical Persian empire. Sometimes known as “the father of lies,” Herodotus is also a problematic figure as the instigator of history as a mode of inquiry.
Course meets concurently with GREK 221. Intermediate students should enroll in GREK 221; advanced students should enroll in GREK 321. Course requirements will differ according to level – Advanced students will present reports on Greek grammar and syntax, as well as scholarly articles on Herodotus and fifth-century Greek history.
Prerequisites & Notes: Greek 202 or equivalent
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GREK 324 - Hellenistic Poetry FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
This course will focus on the poetry of Alexandria, including the writings of Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius. Students will translate these Greek poets and investigate their relationship to Archaic and Classical predecessors (Homer, Hesiod, Pindar) as well as look forward to their strong influence on Roman poets of the 1st C. BCE (Horace, Vergil).
Prerequisites & Notes: Students should have an advanced knowledge of Greek. GREK 200 or equivalent is required.
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GREK 401F - Honors - Full FC ARHU
4 credits
Honors.
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GREK 401H - Honors - Half HC ARHU
2 credits
Honors.
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GREK 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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GREK 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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Health and Wellness |
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WELL 110 - Introduction to Body Mapping HC CNDP
2 credits
This course gives specific information about practical anatomy and movement in regards to artistic performance. Students will gain ease in performing and learn how improved coordination enables them to avoid fatigue, technical limitation and injury. Course objectives are as follows: to explore the principles of Body Mapping; to examine and correct errors in individual body maps; to identify and eliminate habitual patterns of tension; and to explore the effects of Body Mapping principles on musical performance.
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Health Careers |
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HLTH 032 - Topics in Medicine and Health Care CC
1 credit
Course focuses on readings and discussions related to current issues in medicine and allied health fields. Course is intended for juniors and seniors planning to pursue such areas in the future.
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HLTH 995H - Private Reading Half HC SSCI
2 credits
Private Reading Half
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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 - 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 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 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 - Inverted Utopias: The Latin American Avant-Garde FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
The course covers the innovative contributions of Latin American writers from Modernism to the Boom’s Magical Realism, giving close and thoughtful attention to cutting-edge avant-garde movements like Futurism, Fauvism, Surrealism, and Constructivism. Our objective will be to understand how the Eurocentric view of Latin America as an exotic New World is turned upside down by the writers under study. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or 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 349 - History and Present of the Spanish Language FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course presents Spanish as a living language that has changed and adapted throughout the years. The first part of the course serves as an overview of the diachronic evolution of the Spanish language from its Latin roots, covering topics such as the development of Vulgar Latin and Proto-Romance, the morphology, syntax and phonology of Medieval Castilian, the evolution of the Spanish alphabet, etc. The second part offers a synchronic study of the major regional dialects of Spanish spoken today, and discusses the social factors that determined their distribution. Particular attention will be paid to Peninsular, Caribbean, Andean, Rioplatense, and U.S. Spanish. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 350 - Qué flow: Music, Culture, and Politics in Latin America FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course offers a survey of the main trends in 20th and 21st Latin American popular music through an engagement with its cultural and political life. We will study the sexual politics of the bolero (Daniel Santos, La Lupe, Luis Miguel), the relationship between nueva trova (new folk) and the revolutionary politics of the mid-20th century (Silvio Rodríguez, Mercedes Sosa), the diasporic origin of salsa (Celia Cruz, Héctor Lavoe), the emergence and comercialization of “rock en español” (Soda Stereo, Cafe Tauba Aterciopelados), the politics of the “Latin Explosion” of 1999 that offered the “crossover” as global trope (Ricky Martin, Shakira), the emergence of reggaetón (Daddy Yankee, Ivy Queen, Tego Calderón), the recent return to folklore and roots (Natalia Lafourcade), and the linguistic politics of contemporary trap (Bad Bunny, J Balvin). This course is taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent.
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HISP 354 - ¡Stop the Presses! Journalism in the Spanish-Speaking World FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course will explore the history and practice of journalism in Latin America as it explores a panoply of issues relating to the continent’s contemporary lived experience. In the process of our inquiry, we will engage questions of the journalist’s neutrality and politicization, matters of censorship and violence, and the ethics of representation. Students will also produce and workshop journalistic writing 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, 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 a 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, Dropkin, Moscona, Roth, and more. This will be a multi-lingual LxC discussion section, looking at texts from the main course in the original languages together with facing English translation in Spanish, Portuguese, Yiddish and Ladino. Only for students concurrently enrolled in HISP 365, CMPL 365, or JWST 365.
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HISP 402 - Avant-Garde in América: Golems, Anarchists, and 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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