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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Comparative American Studies |
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CAST 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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Comparative Literature |
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CMPL 200 - Introduction to Comparative Literature FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
Comparative Literature is the study of literature, theory, and criticism across the boundaries of language, nation, culture, artistic medium and historical period. This course examines the nature and scope of the discipline, focusing both on its theoretical assumptions and its practical applications. Texts and topics reflect curricular strengths of the college and include literary theory, literature & the other arts, World Literature, European languages and literatures, and translation.
Prerequisites & Notes: An introductory literature course in any language. Identical to ENGL 275. Comparative Literature majors should take this course by the sophomore year.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 275
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CMPL 207 - Refugee Odysseys FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
What are the stakes of leaving home? What are the stakes of inviting someone into your home? What is a home, in any case? Drawing on literature, film and critical theory, this course explores the stories of travelers, migrants, and refugees around the Mediterranean Sea, a region long associated with mobility, wandering, and rootlessness. Beginning in the ancient Mediterranean world with Homer’s The Odyssey , we will then move to colonial and post-colonial works by Albert Camus, Hélène Cixous, Nina Bouraoui, Jacques Derrida, Michel Haneke, Ocean Vuong, and Abdelrazak Gurnah, among others. Issues addressed include cosmopolitanism, citizenship, and the contemporary Mediterranean refugee crisis.
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CMPL 208 - Queer Beginnings: 1990 FC ARHU CD
4 credits
1990 was a time of new beginnings for academics, novelists, and filmmakers who challenged the norms of heterosexuality, and who found –or invented– queer histories. After an examination of European precursors, Foucault, Fassbinder, and Almodovar, we will study Sedgwick, Butler, Crimp, and Bersani; fiction by Barnett, Winterson, and Gluck; and historical (or pseudo-historical) films from the New Queer Cinema movement, including Poison, Edward II, Orlando, Watermelon Woman, Looking for Langston. and Lilies.
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 208
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CMPL 210 - Music in Literature FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course explores how literature understands, represents, and imitates music. We will read poems about music, novels about musicians and composers, and novels structured like musical compositions (fugues, theme and variations). The course looks at eighteenth-century quarrels between Neoclassicists (les Anciens) and Moderns that led to the reversal of the poetic primacy of mimesis in favor of modern artistic expression. It examines music’s rise in favor from the least appreciated of the Sister Arts to the autonomous Romantic art par excellence. This aesthetic turn will inform our study of literature’s attempts to integrate music into its forms and themes.
This course is cross-listed with CMUS 210
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CMPL 220 - Travel and the Idea of Home FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
What are the stakes of leaving home? What are the stakes of inviting a stranger into your home? What is a home, in any case? Drawing on literature, film and critical theory, this course explores travel and hospitality around the Mediterranean Sea, a region long associated with mobility, wandering, and rootlessness. Beginning in the ancient Mediterranean world with The Odyssey, we will then move to colonial and post-colonial literature and film by Albert Camus, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Michel Haneke, and Fatih Akin, among others. Issues addressed include cosmopolitanism, globalization, citizenship, and the contemporary Mediterranean refugee crisis
This course is cross-listed with FREN 220
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CMPL 222 - Ovid in the Middle Ages FC ARHU
4 credits
We will read several of the central works of Ovid (in translation) in conjunction with medieval literature that imitates, invokes, or develops Ovid’s literary corpus. We will emphasize reading and imitation as modes of interpretation, and consider how scholars of the medieval period saw themselves as inheriting and continuing a distinct literary tradition. Texts include Ovid’s Amores, Heroides, and Metamorphses, various Chaucerian works, the Roman de la Rose, and the letters of Abelard and Heloise. British, Pre-1700.
This course is cross-listed with CLAS 222, ENGL 209
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CMPL 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 RUSS 225
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CMPL 230 - Introduction to Literature and the Visual Arts FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
In this course we will study the relationships between literature and the visual arts. When, why, and how do writers incorporate art objects such as paintings, statues, and photographs into their works? To understand these visual-verbal transactions we will read theoretical texts on ekphrasis, ways of seeing, visual pleasure, framing, and the gaze. Literary texts will be drawn from different traditions and genres, while artworks from the Oberlin art museum will provide our visual sources.
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CMPL 233 - The Literature of Decadence: The Art of Sensation FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The literature of decadence flourished in the waning decades of the nineteenth century as part of a widespread reaction to the decline of the West that gave rise to avant-garde movements across Europe. Rejecting associations with the beautiful and the good, it focused instead on decay and decline. We will examine the works of Russia’s decadent writers and the European authors that influenced and responded to them, focusing on the movement’s debts to nineteenth-century Russian literature, critical outrage to the movement across Europe, and the influence of decadence on other modernist movements, including the visual arts, theater, dance, and film.
This course is cross-listed with RUSS 233
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CMPL 234 - The Postcolonial Trajectories FC ARHU
4 credits
An introduction to anglophone literatures of the global south, this course addresses work by writers from the formerly colonized countries in Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean, including their diasporas in Britain and North America. Familiarizing students with some major “postcolonial” texts, as they trace the genealogy of postcolonial writing to the era of decolonization from post-World War II to the late 1960s, the course will also cover contemporary novels (by writers like Monica Ali, J.M. Coetzee, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, R.K. Narayan, and Salman Rushdie) that engage with various debates on: 1) gender and sexuality; 2) race and ethnicity; and 3) class and social mobility in postcolonial societies.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 234
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CMPL 235 - The Arabian Nights Beyond “East” and “West” FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course focuses on the cycle of tales known as the Arabian Nights and its various translations, rewritings, and adaptations (literary, visual, aural, and cinematic) from comparative, cross-cultural, and theoretical perspectives. In addition to the Nights , we will study its literary appropriations, and explore the visual, aural, and cinematic adaptations through the lens of critical theory by Benjamin, Said, Damrosch, Venuti, Schleiermacher, Jakobson, Warner, Nochlin, Irwin, Barthes, and Borges. Questions of cultural translation, representation, orientalism, discourses of difference, identity formation, and ethics will be inseparable from discussions of world literature, translation theory and practice, aesthetics, literary influence, and narrative technique. This course is accepted as a MENA minor course.
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CMPL 236 - Cultural and Intellectual History of Istanbul FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course traces the representations of Istanbul, the “city of two continents,” in historical and literary texts, travel accounts, scholarship, cartography, documentary, visual and cinematic art, photography, and music. As an ancient and modern site of intersections of people, ideas, and cultures, Istanbul is a particularly apt setting to explore tensions of identity, influence, modernity, Europe-Middle East relations, globalization, cosmopolitanism, Islam, and “Turkishness.” By the end of the semester, you will have mastered key interpretive tools to make important interventions in debates concerning urban politics and city culture that continue to define debates in Turkey, Europe, Middle East, and beyond.
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CMPL 237 - The Art of Revolution FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
In 2011, a series of revolutions rocked the Middle East, beginning in Tunisia, then Egypt, then Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, Syria and beyond. These revolutions were accompanied by an outpouring of artistic expression-from popular slogans, revolutionary graffiti, and witty videos posted on Facebook, to novels, songs, poetry, and film. A decade later, with the exception of Tunisia, the Arab Spring revolutions are mostly considered a failure. Meanwhile, a wave of speculative and often dystopian literature and art has swept through Arab culture. This course will consider the relationship between art and revolution in the context of the Arab Spring. What is revolution, and how do we know if it’s successful? What role does art play in making revolution happen? What, ultimately, is the relationship between art and politics? Taught in English.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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CMPL 239 - Word and Image across Middle East and Asia FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
From comic books to Magritte’s “This is not a pipe,” there are numerous ways texts and images connect. Do images and texts “speak” differently, or can they be in sync? In this class, we turn to fifteenth- to seventeenth-century illustrations of a vast body of Asian literature, such as the Persian Book of Kings, the Japanese novel The Tale of Genji, and the epic story of Rama. Our discussions will focus on artistic media and translation: what happens when a literary work moves from book to picture, culture to culture, painting to sculpture?
Prerequisites & Notes: A 100-level course in art history or the consent of the instructor.
English, in literature, is recommended but not required.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is cross-listed with ARTH 239
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CMPL 240 - Gender, Power, and Desire in Middle Eastern and North African Literatures FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course will focus on contemporary literary texts from across the Middle East and North Africa that question normative expectations of gender and desire. In addition to novels, short fiction, poetry, and comics, we will read secondary materials to contextualize gender discourses in the region and to understand how social and political institutions govern gender and desire. Topics will include gender and its relationship to nationalism, colonialism, space, class, and education.
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CMPL 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.
This course is cross-listed with RUSS 242
This course is appropriate for new students.
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CMPL 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 GERM 246, RUSS 246
This course is appropriate for new students.
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CMPL 247OC - Shakespeare in the Colonies FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
What happens when Shakespeare travels from England to its former colonies in South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean? Framed by Shakespeare’s canonical position in cultural texts from these former colonies, this course will examine revisionary appropriations of his plays by contemporary Indian cinema and postcolonial literary texts. Our discussions will be informed by postcolonial scholarship on revision and translation as forms of transformation and subversion and theories of cinematic and literary adaptations. Assignments will include informal written and oral presentations and formal writing assignments on the literary, theoretical, and cinematic texts and film viewings. This course is required for the “From Bombay to Cairo: Cinema and Social Change” StudiOC Learning Community.
Prerequisites & Notes: This course requires students to also take HIST 247: Cinema, Social Movements and Revolution in Egypt. As a ‘globally connected course’ it is also connected with a course in Comparative Literature offered at the American University in Cairo (AUC): ‘Literature and Cinema: Writing Back/Filming Back.’
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 247OC
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CMPL 250 - Introduction to Literary Translation: Theory, History, Practice FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
The gateway to translation studies at Oberlin, this course is an introduction to the history and theory of literary translation. Focusing on culturally significant examples, students will examine linguistic, stylistic, political, economic, philosophical, and technological aspects of translation. Emphasis will be placed on the historical evolution of the roles of translators and translations and on how translation has shaped literary culture since the Renaissance. Topics will include genre and cross-genre translation (fiction, poetry, and drama), issues of translatability and translation strategy, and the impact of translations on untranslated writing.
This course is cross-listed with CRWR 250
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CMPL 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 GERM 251, RUSS 251
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CMPL 252 - Art as Witness in Eastern Europe and Russia FC ARHU CD
4 credits
In a journey through literature and film of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, the Czech Republic, and beyond, we will explore ways in which writers and filmmakers as well as ordinary people have borne witness to war, political repression, revolution, and ecological catastrophe. We will consider what bearing witness is and what it can do, and investigate the various strategies and choices entailed in giving expression to individual and collective experience under conditions of violence, upheaval, political repression, and censorship. In English.
This course is cross-listed with RUSS 252
This course is appropriate for new students.
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CMPL 265 - Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
An introduction to Anglophone literatures of Africa, South Asia and their diasporas, this course addresses (and historicizes) the politics of their production and reception, focusing particularly on their engagement with the politics of (i) gender and sexuality; (ii) regional and national socio-cultural formations and their ideologies; (iii) resistance and/or conformity with western canons of taste, styles/genres. Postcolonial and feminist theories regarding marginality/location, identity/experience, and alterity/difference constitute important analytic lenses for examining these literatures. This course can count towards GSFS
Prerequisites & Notes: Students should have completed a Writing Intensive course or gained Writing Certification in any course in the humanities. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 265
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CMPL 266 - Forgotten Orientalisms: Alternative Views of the East FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
Since the publication of Edward Said’s controversial book Orientalism (1978), scholars focused their attention on problems of Orientalist literature and art produced within the contexts of British and French imperialism. Orientalists from other languages and empires have been either less remembered and analyzed or gone entirely forgotten. What about the German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and American orientalisms? Is orientalism one or many? We will read critiques of discourses on alterity and domination (literary and cultural criticism, historiography, anthropology, psychoanalysis, feminist critique) in order to explore the literary, cultural, cinematic, and artistic expressions of cultural encounters across Europe and the Middle East. We will pay attention to how writers and artists practice cultural translation, content with, resist, and at times participate in the problems of Orientalism. By the end of the semester, you will become familiar with the aesthetics and politics of less known orientalisms and will have mastered key interpretive tools to make important interventions in debates concerning postcolonial experience, immigration, diasporic, exile and refugee conditions that continue to define debates across Europe, U.S. and the Middle East region today.
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CMPL 271 - Italian Lit in Translation FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course explores contemporary Italian literature in translation through the lens of literary phenomena such as the popularity of the crime thriller and the mystery novel; the negotiation of national, religious, and sexual identity in a recently multicultural society; and the revision of traditional notions of motherhood, femininity, and the family. Readings will be in English but a section in Italian may be available based on interest.
Prerequisites & Notes: One college literature course or the equivalent.
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CMPL 272 - Literature and Human Rights FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course examines the vital intersections between literature and human rights, from WWII to the present. We will trace literary and cultural engagements with issues of citizenship, the law, and human rights in various contexts of war, decolonization, violence, and oppression. Grounded in Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies, we will examine how the aftermaths of genocide or meditations on the Atlantic slave trade, for example, offer situated engagements with the capacity and limits of national histories and subjectivities. Readings will span genres of fiction, poetry, memoir, critical theory, political philosophy, and history.
This course is cross-listed with JWST 272
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CMPL 277 - Israel/Palestine in Literature and Film FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course introduces students to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as represented in literature and film. We’ll proceed chronologically, beginning with the rise of Jewish and Palestinian nationalisms through the present day, focusing on the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 (otherwise known as the War of Independence to Israeli Jews and the Nakba to Palestinians), the Six-Day War or Naksa, and the first and second intifadas. In doing so, we’ll complicate the notion of dual narratives by considering the experiences of people of marginalized and hybrid identities. Each work of art we explore will be paired with historical and theoretical readings.
This course is cross-listed with JWST 277
This course is appropriate for new students.
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CMPL 278 - Jewish/Jew-ish Literatures FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course examines the subject of “Jewish literature,” broadly defined and historicized. Students will read selections from the Hebrew Bible/Tanakh and Rabbinic commentaries, as well as historiographies, memoirs, travel tales, medieval wine poems, missives from the Cairo Genizah, Holocaust literature, and more. In doing so, we’ll cross time, place, and language, concerning ourselves with the development of themes (e.g., Jewish humor, suffering, neurosis) from their early iterations to contemporary reimaginings. Key writers include Josephus, Glückel of Hameln, Sholem Aleichem, Franz Kafka, Primo Levi, and Philip Roth.
This course is cross-listed with JWST 278
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CMPL 279 - Poetry and Political Activism FC ARHU CD
4 credits
In this course, we will consider the relationship between poetry and politics within modern and contemporary Anglophone literatures. What makes a poem or poet ?political?? When and how has poetry been mobilized as a tool of protest and resistance? How have poets of color, Jewish poets, and writers from other marginalized communities contributed to this body of writing? Key figures include Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, and Amiri Baraka.
This course is cross-listed with JWST 279
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CMPL 280 - World Gothic FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
The 18th-century Gothic genre which embraced the uncanny, the fantastic, and the supernatural, has had a prolific afterlife. This course traces the genre from its 18th-century beginnings in England to its prodigious dissemination across literary traditions and artistic mediums. We will consider the world of the Gothic by reading some of its prominent manifestations in non-Anglophone literatures. We will also consider how the world is represented in Gothic novels through their foreign, exotic, or international settings. Critical and theoretical texts, as well as artworks and film will accompany our exploration of the genre. All readings in English translation.
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CMPL 287 - “Bollywood“‘s India: An Introduction to Indian Cinema FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
A selective introduction to Indian cinema, this course will: (1) provide a brief history of its development; and (2) address subjects considered relevant to understanding its attractions: the cultural and aesthetic difference represented by its narrative/performative structures; its engagement with, and crafting of, issues relating to national identity, including those of gender, class and community; the state’s role in its development; its implication in and reflection of globalizing currents in economy, society and culture. Diversity, Post-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: This course may count towards the major in CINE, CMPL, EAST, and GSFS. This course is offered in conjunction with East Asian Studies 309: Chinese Popular Cinema and Public Intellectualism, with which it will share 4 class meetings and their accompanying film viewings.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 287
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CMPL 302 - Femmes Fatales: Narratives of Feminine Evil, Sexuality, and Perversity FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course examines representations of feminine evil, sexuality, and perversity in a range of literary, visual, and theoretical texts. We explore how the femme fatale emerges as a figure employed to demystify, regulate, and neutralize the threat posed by woman’s otherness. We consider questions of feminine creativity, desire, agency, and subjectivity, as well as representations of feminine transgression, excess, and bodily functions as modes of resistance and subversion. Visits to the Allen art museum and film screenings will accompany our readings.
Prerequisites & Notes: A literature course in any language.
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 302
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CMPL 304 - Shakespeare and Metamorphosis FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course will examine several Shakespeare plays in conversation with classical myths and their major themes of transformation, sexuality, suffering, artistic creation, coming of age, wisdom, love, loss. Shakespearean works include “Venus and Adonis,” Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline, and The Winter’s Tale, paired with myths by Apuleius, Plato, and Ovid; retellings by Rilke, Auden, Zimmerman, and Bidart; and works of visual art. We will also explore theoretical approaches to myth-making, and myths’ relationship to other “fictional” literary forms. British, Pre-1800.
Prerequisites & Notes: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section “Advanced Courses.”
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 304
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CMPL 305 - The Global Phenomenon of Elena Ferrante FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
In this course we will study how Elena Ferrante developed into a global figure by writing about the ‘local’ culture of Naples, Italy. Drawing upon feminist theory, psychoanalysis, art history, classical mythology, and anthropology, we will read Ferrante’s major works alongside such key influences as Walter Benjamin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, and Christa Wolf. Related LxC option available: CMPL 405.
This course is cross-listed with ITAL 305
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CMPL 306 - Literature and the Scientific Revolution FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
What is our relationship to the natural world, to knowledge, to imagination, and to discovery? During the early modern era, emerging scientific practices offered a dazzling array of new strategies for discovering truth – challenging, and in turn being challenged by – the imaginative works of Renaissance authors such as Donne, Milton, Sidney, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Cavendish. We will study the history of science during its ‘revolution,’ through its relationship with poetry, drama, and rhetoric. Pre-1800
Prerequisites & Notes: Field trips required. This course may also count towards the major in CMPL. For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled `Advanced Courses.’
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 306
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CMPL 308 - Visuality, Materiality, and Renaissance Literature FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course will consider the relationship between the verbal, visual, and material in early modern culture and literature. Renaissance printed books, portraits, jewelry, perspective paintings, automatons, anatomy theaters, machines, maps, stage sets, costumes and more will be read alongside the works of authors like Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Ralegh, Milton, Jonson, Webster, Carew, Middleton, and Wroth, incorporating a range of theoretical perspectives. Class will include regular visits to Special Collections and the AMAM. Pre-1800. Field trips required.
Prerequisites & Notes: ENGL 299 or two 200-Level courses. Requirements can be waived with instructor consent.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 308
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CMPL 319 - Charting Globalization in Diaspora Films and Novels FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
Identifying the origins of present-day globalization in the colonial era, this course will engage with literary and cinematic texts that explore the connection between globalization and diaspora to discuss the broader phenomenon of nation formation, geopolitical conflict, migration and shifting everyday human interactions across race, class and gender. In addition to discussing novels by Amitav Ghosh, Tahmina Anam, and Sahar Mustafah, we will also view films by Mira Nair, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Jon M. Chu. Our discussions will be framed by the critical work of Arjun Appadurai, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Gayatri Spivak.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 319
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CMPL 320 - Guest, Host, Stranger: Hospitality in the Mediterranean World FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
What are the stakes of welcoming (or not) a stranger into one’s home? Drawing on critical theory as well as fiction, film, and poetry, this course explores hospitality around the Mediterranean, a region long associated with travel, mobility, wandering, and rootlessness. Beginning in the ancient Mediterranean world with Homer’s The Odyssey , we will progress through colonial and post-colonial literature and film by Albert Camus, Assia Djebar, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Michel Haneke, alongside theoretical work by Kant, Simmel, and Derrida, among others. Issues addressed include cosmopolitanism, citizenship, the idea of home, and the contemporary Mediterranean refugee crisis.
Prerequisites & Notes: CMPL 200 or consent of instructor.
This course is cross-listed with FREN 322
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CMPL 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 Buel, Daland 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 HISP 327
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CMPL 342 - Religion and Disenchantment in 20th-century Literature FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
How is religion imagined in modern literature? In what ways has literature itself become a species of religious thought? This course explores how 20th-century literature reflects a crisis of meaning in modern religious thought, on the one hand, and how it sustains the religious through attachment to form, to loss, and to belief without meaning, on the other. We will read writers (Baldwin, Morrison, O’Connor, Endo, Camus, amongst others) with both direct and oblique relationships to religious discourses and institutions. We will examine notions of forgiveness, martyrdom, apostasy, idolatry, and love together with social themes of race, class, and gender.
This course is cross-listed with RELG 342
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CMPL 347 - Sophistications: Queer Postwar New York-Paris Connections FC ARHU CD
4 credits
While we correctly remember the ‘50s and early ‘60s in America as an era of Cold War, conformism, and consumption, some elements of U.S. culture in New York kept this world at bay by invoking bohemian Paris. Whether in highbrow forms like painting, auteur cinema, or experimental drama, or in the almost clandestine world of underground gay culture, Paris was a queer password. In this course we will focus on the era’s libertines and gender traitors, while also critically examining the concept of “sophistication,” a knowingness that does not at times rule out acts-and art-of reckless folly.
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 347
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CMPL 350 - Advanced Translation Workshop: Poetry FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
In this course we will study literary translation of poetry at the advanced level. Students will translate a body of work by a single author. While the course will focus on workshopping translations, we will also read some theory and craft essays by translators of poetry.
Prerequisites & Notes: Four semesters of language or equivalent, and CMPL/CRWR 250 or equivalent.
This course is cross-listed with CRWR 350
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CMPL 351 - Advanced Translation Workshop: Prose and Drama FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
In this course we will study literary translation of prose and drama at the advanced level. Students will translate a body of work by a single author and write a critical introduction to their translation. While the course will focus on workshopping translations, we will also read theory and essays by translators of prose and drama.
Prerequisites & Notes: Four semesters of language or the equivalent.
This course is cross-listed with CRWR 351
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CMPL 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 HISP 356
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CMPL 364 - Orhan Pamuk and the Politics of World Literature FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course turns to Orhan Pamuk’s writings to examine transformations in Turkish history, identity, and culture. We will read key narratives by Pamuk to trace this writer’s emergence on the Turkish literary scene and his transformation from a local to a global Literatur. His writings will help us understand his role as a mediator between the Ottoman past, the Turkish national tradition, and an international canon represented by works and film adaptations from Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Eco among others. Questions of secularism, Islam, memory, and translation will be inseparable from our discussions of modernity, historiography, intertextuality, orientalism, metafiction, and postcoloniality.
Prerequisites & Notes: CMPL 200 or approval of the instructor
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CMPL 365 - Love and Death: Jewish Literature and Culture of the Americas FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The iconic arrival at Ellis Island was contemporaneous with mass Jewish immigration throughout the Americas. Framing Jewish literature in multilingual, pan-American context, we will study the deep specificity of texts as well as major themes: alienation, sport, philosophy, comedy and love. Authors include Lispector, Pizarnik, Borges, Chejfec, Roth, Shteyngart, Chabon and more. Optional HISP 366-01 LxC section in Spanish.
This course is cross-listed with HISP 365, JWST 365
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CMPL 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.
This course is cross-listed with HISP 366, JWST 366
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CMPL 367 - The French Joyce FC ARHU
4 credits
James Joyce wrote mainly in English but drew great inspiration from French writers: Dujardin, Laforgue, Balzac, Flaubert, Verlaine, and many more. This course examines both the influence of French authors on Joyce and of Joyce on subsequent French literary culture. Taught in English with extra sessions in French. Diversity, Post-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: A literature course in any language. Identical to CMPL 367.
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CMPL 368 - French Joyce LxC HC ARHU CD WINT
2 credits
This course is designed to accompany CMPL 367 and enable students to read and discuss original works by the French authors who inspired, and were inspired by, James Joyce. We will begin with authors Joyce read - Flaubert, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Stendhal, Dujardin, and Bédier - and then turn to those who read Joyce: Kristeva, Cixous, and Derrida. Finally, we will compare and contrast the two authorized French translations of Ulysses by Morel (1927) and Samoyault (2004). Taught in French. Concurrent enrollment in CMPL 367 recommended but not required.
Prerequisites & Notes: Four semesters of French or equivalent.
This course is cross-listed with FREN 368
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CMPL 372 - Contemporary Literary Theory: Post-Modernity and Imagination FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This course is about developments in literary theory in the context of the last 35 years of American intellectual and artistic culture. Our concern will be understanding literary theories in their historical and institutional contexts as well as considering their value as ways of thinking about literature and art. We’ll pay particular attention to the impact of post-structuralism on American critics, the relation of literary criticism to cultural criticism, and various elaborations of the idea of post-modernity. American, Post-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: Prerequisites & Notes: CINE 290, ENGL 275/CMPL 200, or ENGL 299, or any two 200-Level English courses, or consent of the instructor.
This course is cross-listed with CINE 372, ENGL 372
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CMPL 375 - Franco-Arab Encounters FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course examines the history of contact between France and the Arab world in literature, visual art, and film. Beginning in the 18th century and progressing to the postcolonial era, we will investigate such topics as Antoine Galland’s translations of 1,001 Nights, Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt, the Algerian War of Independence, and the experience of “beur” communities in contemporary France. Key to the course is Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism, which we will both unpack and complicate. Figures of study include Eugène Delacroix, Albert Camus, Kemal Daoud, Assia Djebar, Leïla Sebbar, Gillo Pontecorvo, and Riad Sattouf. Readings/discussions in English.
Prerequisites & Notes: CMPL 200 or approval of instructor.
This course is cross-listed with FREN 375
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CMPL 376 - Realism, 1800 to the Present: The Mirror Up to Nature FC ARHU WADV
4 credits
Realism, though not the radical project it was, remains a significant part of contemporary culture. The tension between accurate reproduction of ‘reality’ and the creation of meaningful aesthetic form gives Realism its dynamic quality. Realism negotiates between the possibilities and limitations of representation in media such as the novel, drama, painting, photography, cinema, and television. The course will explore what realism was and its legacy, drawing from American, British, Irish, French, Italian, and Russian traditions.
Prerequisites & Notes: ENGL 275/CMPL 200, or CINE 290, or ENGL 299, or any two 200-Level English courses, or consent of the instructor. Cross-listed with CINE 375 and ENGL 375.
This course is cross-listed with CINE 375, ENGL 375
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CMPL 377 - Migrant Subjects and the Postcolonial Novel FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
The experiences of migrant subjects from former colonies has been central to the anglophone postcolonial novel. ?Migrants,? says Rushdie, ?impose their needs on the new earth, bringing their own coherence to the newfound land, imagining it afresh.? But migrants also simultaneously negotiate the ideological needs and values of the host. This course will address such negotiations through work by diasporic writers like Aslam, Cliff, Ishiguro, Kanafani, Manto, Rushdie, and others. Invoking theoretical frameworks elaborated by scholars like Bhabha, Hall, and Said, we will explore migrants? desire to incorporate, challenge, resist, or redefine the host via recourse to their migrant identities.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 376
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CMPL 380 - Middle Eastern Prison Literature FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course explores modern and contemporary Middle Eastern literary works-plays, poems, long & short fiction, and memoirs-produced in and associated with prisons. We’ll begin by laying theoretical and historical foundations for understanding the modern prison as a site of social control and dehumanization, which has paradoxically given rise to the powerful literary traditions and motifs we will proceed to survey. Arabic and Hebrew texts comprise the majority of the course materials; however, they will be placed in dialogue with European and other Western writing. All readings will be in English translation.
This course is cross-listed with JWST 380
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CMPL 385 - Women in/and “Bollywood” FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course will examine how gender and sexuality, especially as they relate to women, are represented in “Bollywood” cinema. Focusing on individual films, it will analyze: 1) their cinematic techniques and narrative forms for representing women and addressing issues of gender and sexuality (which identities are privileged, which marginalized? what values structure the film’s diegetic world?); and (2) spectatorial address (what sort of gendered, classed, and caste-marked viewer constitutes the film’s desired audience?). Anglo-American and Indian film scholarship, some deriving from feminist and queer studies, and scholarship relevant to the films’ historical and cultural contexts will inform our discussion. Diversity, Post-1900.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 385, GSFS 385
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CMPL 391 - European Modernism and the World FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
Between 1880 and 1930, Europe was convulsed by wars, technological advances, and social transformations. Writers and artists responded by creating revolutionary new forms, techniques, and movements ‘such as Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism’ and their innovations carried philosophical, political, and aesthetic models across the 20th-century world. We will study why and how certain non-European authors received, rejected, and/or recombined central aspects of European Modernism. Diversity, Post-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes: ENGL 275/CMPL 200 or ENGL 299, or any two 200-Level English courses.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 391
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CMPL 400 - Senior Capstone Project FC ARHU WADV
4 credits
Senior capstone project.
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CMPL 415 - Surréalisme et francophonie FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course will analyze surrealism in the Francophone world. We will examine 1) the characteristics of surrealist poetics and aesthetics; 2) the relationship between surrealism and politics, specifically with regard to imperialism and colonialism; and 3) the evolutions and transformations of surrealism in the work of Francophone authors and artists. We will ask: In what ways does surrealism resist and/or advance colonialist interests? In what ways do Black and Brown Francophone artists change surrealism to make it their own? And finally, what is surrealism? Is it a historical movement that appeared in Paris in the 1920s, or is it something else-a mode of existing in the world, even a kind of ethics? Taught in French.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two 300-level French courses beyond 301.
This course is cross-listed with FREN 415
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CMPL 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) Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-34), Cervantes’s Don Quixot e (1605-15), and Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759-67). We will examine theories of the novel by Lukacs and Bakhtin; theories of the comic from Aristotle to Freud; and collateral texts by Borges, Foucault, and Kundera. Bring your own windmills. Taught in English.
This course is cross-listed with HISP 419
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CMPL 430 - Literature and Music of Heartbreak FC ARHU CD
4 credits
There’s a Yiddish saying that there’s nothing more whole than a broken heart. Everyone experiences it, yet it’s singularly difficult to represent. We will explore heartbreak’s double-edge as a formal problem that is simultaneously existential. The seminar centers on close reading and active listening as complementary practices in many genres, while highlighting contemporary female-identified writers and composers. Works by Aridjis, Beyoncé, Bielawa, Blake, Borges, Cusk, Davis, García Márquez, Gulliksen, Ladin, Lispector, Lorca, Schubert & more. Taught in English.
Prerequisites & Notes: By consent of instructor
This course is cross-listed with HISP 430
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CMPL 440 - Music, Orality & Literature FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course explores the long-standing relationship between verbal art and music in high art, popular, and folk traditions. We will consider: how musical paradigms shape literary aesthetics, song and identity, improvisation in music and verbal art, Romanticism and the dissonance of Modernity in literature and music, the relationship between popular song and poetry, tradition and innovation in oraliture, models of performance in literature and music. Examples drawn from Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latino/a traditions. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites & Notes: A 300 level course in Spanish beyond HISP 304.
This course is cross-listed with HISP 440
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CMPL 441 - Plague Narratives: Narratology and Immunology FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This interdisciplinary course examines chronicles of the Black Death, the Great Plague of 1665, and modern plagues from the perspectives of science and literature. For each period, medical and religious beliefs of the time will be examined in parallel with modern germ theory, immunology, and an understanding of infectious diseases such as cholera, bubonic plague, and COVID-19. Humans die like any other species during a pandemic, without respect for rank. Does the recording of the catastrophe preserve human dignity and distinction? At the conclusion of the course, in response to the present pandemic, students will write their own plague narratives. Taught in English.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two 300-level courses beyond 301.
This course is cross-listed with FREN 441
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CMPL 460 - Repeating Islands: Literatures of the Caribbean FC ARHU WADV
4 credits
Cuban writer Antonio Benítez Rojo held that within the apparent historical, linguistic, and ethnic heterogeneity of the Caribbean, one could identify an “island that repeats itself”, a core experience which, despite being impossible to access, offers a series of indexes or tropes which bridge the Antilles with North and South America, India, Gambia, etcetera. Motivated by Benítez Rojo, this course engages with a series of Caribbean writers not only to offer a survey of the literature of the region, but also as an inquiry into the possibility or impossibility of a label such as “Caribbean literature”. We will read works by Alejo Carpentier, Mayra Santos Febres, Raquel Salas Rivera, Rita Indiana, VS Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Edouard Glissant, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Dionne Brandt, and Aimé Césaire. Taught in English.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two HISP 300-level courses or CMPL 200.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is cross-listed with HISP 460
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CMPL 471 - Medicine, Literature, Biopower LXC HC ARHU CD
2 credits
This optional half course allows students enrolled in FREN 472 Medicine, Literature, Biopower to read, discuss, and write about primary and secondary material in French. Meets for an hour discussion section.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two FREN courses at the 300 level beyond 301.
This course is cross-listed with FREN 471
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CMPL 472 - Medicine, Literature, Biopower FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course examines the history of medicine from the Renaissance to the present and focuses on the effects of medical discoveries and representations of the body in philosophy, politics, and art, as sovereign states became increasingly invested in fostering and controlling the health of their citizens. The course will include readings in the theory of biopower and bare life by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and others. Taught in English, with French option. For French option, register also for FREN 471 LxC.
Prerequisites & Notes: Two 200-Level or above courses in the Humanities or Social Sciences.
This course is cross-listed with FREN 472
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CMPL 501 - Honors Project FC ARHU
4 credits
Students who wish to pursue Honors should apply by April 15 of the junior year. Please consult the course catalog section titled ‘Honors’ in the Comparative Literature Program for further details.
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CMPL 502 - Honors Project FC ARHU WADV
4 credits
Students wishing to pursue Honors should apply by April 15 of the junior year. Please consult the course catalog section titled ‘Honors’ in the Comparative Literature Program for further details.
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CMPL 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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CMPL 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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COMP 101 - Composition for Non-Majors FC CNDP
4 credits
A course designed for students not majoring in composition. The purpose of the course is to provide those with limited prior background in composition the opportunity to experience musical structure and coherence through writing. The class meets as a group but the compositional problems of each individual will receive attention as needed.
Prerequisites & Notes: Completion of, or concurrent enrollment in MUTH 101/120, or 131, or instructor consent. May be repeated once for credit.
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COMP 102 - Composition for Non-Majors II FC CNDP
4 credits
Continuation of Composition for Non-Majors I (COMP 101). A course designed for students not majoring in composition. The purpose of the course is to provide those with limited prior background in composition the opportunity to experience musical structure and coherence through writing. The class meets as a group but the compositional problems of each individual will receive attention as needed.
Prerequisites & Notes: Completion of Composition for Non-Majors I, or instructor consent.
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COMP 201 - Composition Class I HC CNDP
2 credits
The structure of this course will entail once-per-week half-hour one-on-one meetings with assigned Composition faculty. Further, Composition Practicum (AKA Composition Studio Class) will be required of all composition majors enrolled in COMP 201, 201, 301, 302, as well as those enrolled in Primary Private Study.Prerequisites: Composition major, composition minor, or a College music major with emphasis in composition required.
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COMP 202 - Composition Class II HC CNDP
2 credits
Continuation of Composition I. Composition of shorter-form pieces, with regular in-class performances of student work. Study and class discussion of assigned scores and recordings.
Prerequisites & Notes: Sophomore status as a composition major required.
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COMP 211 - Instrumentation FC CNDP
4 credits
Introduction to the principles of instrumentation; ranges, notation, techniques, timbres; transpositions or orchestral instruments; beginning exercises in orchestration. Concurrent enrollment in COMP 201 required.
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COMP 212 - Instrumentation HC CNDP
2 credits
Introduction to the principles of instrumentation; ranges, notation, techniques, timbres; transpositions or orchestral instruments; beginning exercises in orchestration.Prerequisite: Successful completion of COMP 201.
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COMP 222 - Counterpoint I FC CNDP
4 credits
Counterpoint I
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COMP 251 - Composition Seminar I HC CNDP
2 credits
Considerations of the creative process, compositional working methods. Study and discussion of selected works relevant to concurrent student projects. The essentials of proper score and part preparation.
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COMP 252 - Composition Seminar II HC CNDP
2 credits
A continuation of COMP 251 with an emphasis on developmental techniques, in particular studying and discussing a broad selection of variations sets. Pre-requisitesand notes: COMP 251.
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COMP 301 - Composition Class III HC CNDP
2 credits
The structure of this course will entail once-per-week half-hour one-on-one meetings with assigned Composition faculty. Further, Composition Practicum (AKA Composition Studio Class) will be required of all composition majors enrolled in COMP 201, 201, 301, 302, as well as those enrolled in Primary Private Study.
Prerequisites & Notes: Successful completion of COMP 202.
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COMP 302 - Composition Class IV HC CNDP
2 credits
Composition Class IV
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COMP 311 - Orchestration FC CNDP
4 credits
The purpose is to develop facility in writing for various instrumental combinations. The study includes: comparison of techniques of orchestration (18th-20th centuries), practice writing and arranging for the different choirs of the modern orchestra, orchestrating complete compositions; score and part notation and preparation.Prerequisite: Successful completion of COMP 212 or by consent.
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COMP 332 - Survey of Compositional Forms and Structures FC CNDP
4 credits
A historical survey of both small and large musical forms and structures used in Western art music through the examination of a broad selection of repertoire; (a) text-based forms, (b) dance-based forms, © rhetorical forms, (d) non-rhetorical forms. Classwork involves student analytical presentations and compositional projects.Prerequisite: COMP 222 or instructor consent.
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COMP 350 - Special Topics in Composition FC CNDP
4 credits
Seminar for composition majors that addresses aesthetic, technical, and analytical issues from a composer’s perspective. Topics to be announced.COMP 302 or by permission. May be repeated for credit.
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COMP 351 - Composition Seminar III HC CNDP
2 credits
Continuation of COMP 252 looking at larger one-movement forms. Analysis and discussion of post-tonal harmonic systems, controlled aleatoricism, microtonality. Prerequisites and notes: COMP 252.
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COMP 352 - Composition Seminar IV HC CNDP
2 credits
Continuation of COMP 351 with an emphasis on writing for orchestra. Prerequisites: COMP 351.
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COMP 421 - Counterpoint II FC CNDP
4 credits
The study of the techniques of modal counterpoint; exercises in two-, three-, and four-part writing in 16th century style. Considerations of post-tonal counterpoint.
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COMP 995F - Private Reading - Full FC CNDP
4 credits
Private Reading - Full
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COMP 995H - Private Reading - Half HC CNDP
2 credits
Private Reading - Half
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CSCI 144 - Introduction to Data Science FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
The growth and use of data is increasingly vital for many disciplines, from the natural sciences to the social sciences, and from business to the humanities. This course introduces students to data science and informatics that study how to collect, manage, process, analyze, and visualize data from a computational perspective. Topics include computational thinking, understanding different types of data, database techniques, and a variety of data analysis approaches. Focus will be on gaining a breadth of knowledge and the exploration of applications of data science and informatics.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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CSCI 150 - Introduction to Computer Science FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
Introduction to algorithmic thinking and problem solving by way of computer programming. The course covers fundamentals of computer programming including data types, variables, expressions, statements, control structures, arrays, and recursion. It also introduces object-oriented concepts including classes, methods, inheritance, and polymorphism. Labs highlight applications in graphics, music, mathematics, biology, and physics.
Prerequisites & Notes: No programming experience required.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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CSCI 151 - Data Structures FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
This course builds upon the principles introduced in CSCI 150 and provides a general background for further study in Computer Science. The course will cover object-oriented programming concepts; the design and implementation of data structures (linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, heaps, hash tables and graphs) and related algorithmic techniques (searching, sorting, recursion); and algorithm analysis. Students will be expected to complete a number of programming projects illustrating the concepts presented.
Prerequisites & Notes: CSCI 150 or consent of the instructor. Students considering a computer science major are strongly encouraged to take either CSCI 150 and/or CSCI151 in their first year.
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CSCI 210 - Introduction to Computer Architecture FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
An introduction to computer architecture and assembly language programming. This course describes the organization of computers at the digital logic, register transfer, and instruction set architecture levels. Emphasis is placed on the design of a CPU and on the role of the CPU within a computer system. This course will teach an assembly language using the computer laboratory facilities.
Prerequisites & Notes: CSCI 241.
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CSCI 241 - Systems Programming FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
This course will consider the C programming language and its relationship to the Unix operating system. Students will be introduced to various Unix tools and shell scripting. Some Unix system programming issues will also be included. The course will require a significant amount of programming.
Prerequisites & Notes: CSCI 151
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CSCI 275 - Programming Abstractions FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
Programming language fundamentals are studied as abstract concepts using the programming language Scheme. Included are the notions of closures, first-class data structures, procedure and data abstraction, object-oriented programming, continuations, compilation and interpretation, and syntactic extension. Some advanced control structures such as coroutines and asynchronous interrupts may also be included.
Prerequisites & Notes: CSCI 151 or consent of the instructor.
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CSCI 280 - Algorithms FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
Students will be introduced to algorithm design and analysis, with an emphasis on applications to real-life problems arising in computing applications. Students will study the basic design techniques of the field from a theoretical perspective and learn how to apply these techniques to solve problems in simple, efficient ways. Computational complexity focusing on NP-completeness, and algorithmic techniques for intractable problems are also covered. Knowledge of discrete mathematics is necessary.
Prerequisites & Notes: CSCI 151 and MATH 220
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CSCI 311 - Database Systems FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
This course examines the logical design of databases using the entity-relationship, relational, and object-oriented models; and database application programming using SQL, JDBC, and PHP. Other topics include security and integrity, concurrency control and distributed database systems.
Prerequisites & Notes: CSCI 241
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CSCI 313 - Human Computer Interface FC NSMA
4 credits
This course will look at how humans interact with computers, and how computers mediate our interactions with the world. Topics covered will include interface design, user studies, accessibility, and ubiquitous computing. We will read current research papers in this area, and students will be expected to complete a programming project exploring some aspect of human-computer interaction.
Prerequisites & Notes: CSCI 151 and 241
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CSCI 317 - People-Powered Procedures FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
People are everywhere in computation. The first, and perhaps only, people we think of are software engineers and end users. However, people may be involved in many other parts of the computational process. In this course, we will explore these more niche roles and how they are explored in computer science research. Students should expect to complete independent projects aimed at building and evaluating computational systems in which such roles occur.
Prerequisites & Notes: CSCI 241
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CSCI 327 - Inclusive Technology Design FC NSMA
4 credits
As technologists and designers, we aspire to make products as inclusive and useful as possible. However, many tools are not designed with disability and accessibility in mind, leaving out many important stakeholders. The goal of this course is to center the experiences of people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities to re-imagine user interfaces. Readings will draw from Human-Computer Interaction, Disability Studies, and Design Justice. Students will engage in discussions and project-based assignments exploring accessibility of technologies for work, communication, learning, and play. Students will then conduct research and/or build prototypes to improve accessibility in a particular social context.
Prerequisites & Notes: CSCI 241 or consent of the instructor
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CSCI 341 - Operating Systems FC NSMA QFR
4 credits
The theory of operating system design and implementation. Concepts and techniques of concurrent programming are covered, relevant to the design of operating system kernels. Such functions as process control, memory management, file management, and device management are included.
Prerequisites & Notes: CSCI 210 and CSCI 241 or consent of instructor.
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