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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DANC 244 - Dance and the Camera FC ARHU WINT
4 credits
This critical inquiry course explores the relationship of the moving body to moving pictures. It provides a broad survey of dance on camera - since the invention of film, to its ubiquitous presence in modern day digital mediums. Through a combination of readings, viewings, discussions, writing assignments and creative exercises students will learn the affinities between the two mediums and be able to describe, interpret, critically analyze, evaluate and create dance on camera.
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DANC 247 - Dance Pedagogy FC ARHU
4 credits
Dance Pedagogy is designed for students with diverse dance backgrounds. Students will study current theories and science-based issues in dance education, while gaining practical skills in order to acquire a strong knowledge base and increase their effectiveness as teachers. Students are expected to actively engage in discussions, individual teaching exercises, student-designed activities, and to complete written assignments. During the second module, students will teach at various off campus locations.
Prerequisites & Notes: Intermediate level technique.
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DANC 252 - Somatic Skills of Resilience FC ARHU
4 credits
Individuals in the performing arts, and elsewhere, are frequently confronted with physical, emotional and energetic challenges during their schooling and careers. This experiential course will provide students the necessary tools to create a centering physical practice, while heightening their self-awareness. We will address emotional and social intelligence, and work on improving verbal and non-vebal communication. Utilizing principles and exercises from breathwork, Yoga, movement improvisation, somatic meditation, nonviolent communication, and kinesics, students will build their resilience and ability to center themselves physically and emotionally during the highs and lows they encounter as creatives, collaborators and performers.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is appropriate for new students.
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DANC 252OC - Somatic Skills of Resilience FC ARHU
4 credits
ndividuals in the performing arts, and elsewhere, are frequently confronted with physical, emotional and energetic challenges during their schooling and careers. This experiential course will provide students the necessary tools to create a centering physical practice, while heightening their self-awareness. We will address emotional and social intelligence, and work on improving verbal and non-vebal communication. Utilizing principles and exercises from breathwork, Yoga, movement improvisation, somatic meditation, nonviolent communication, and kinesics, students will build their resilience and ability to center themselves physically and emotionally during the highs and lows they encounter.
This course is part of the Resilience in the Performing Arts StudiOC Learning Community.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is appropriate for new students.
Community Based Learning
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DANC 262 - Capoeira Angola II FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This is a continuation in the study of Capoeira Angola. Students will continue to build strength, coordination, rhythm, and balance as well as learn to play rhythms on all the instruments of Capoeira Angola with special attention given to the berimbau. Readings and discussions will further explore the history and emergence of Capoeira Angola as a tool for African spirituality, liberation and cultural revolution within the new world. Throughout the semester students will engage in special events and performances that present our work to the campus community.
This course is cross-listed with AAST 262
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DANC 270 - Queer Gestures - Dance & Performance FC ARHU CD
4 credits
How can queerness be explored through the lens of movement and
performance? In this critical inquiry course, we will examine how the
intersections of creative practice, live performance, feminist, gender, and
sexuality studies, and postcolonial scholarship ask us to contend with competing notions of the body, environment, and performance. Students will engage with the material through a range of embodied reflections. The class structure will also include reading, watching, analyzing, and writing about live and mediated performance.
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 270
This course is appropriate for new students.
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DANC 295 - Dance Conditioning HC ARHU
2 credits
This course focuses on creating optimal physical conditioning for the intermediate and advanced dancer. Among other modalities, resistance training using Pilates-based exercises and physioball training will be explored. Focus will be on correcting inefficient alignment, balancing muscle usage, and improving range of motion.
Prerequisites & Notes: DANC 200 or DANC 212. Consent of instructor required. Students on the wait list must attend the first class meeting in order to be considered for any openings.
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DANC 300 - Contemporary Dance III - Advanced HC ARHU
2 credits
A continuation of dance technique for those who have successfully completed DANC 200 or the equivalent.
Prerequisites & Notes: May be repeated for credit. A placement (audition) class to determine eligibility for this course will be held during the first class meeting. Consented students will add the course during the add/drop registration period.
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DANC 302 - Repertoire FC ARHU
4 credits
Teaching/staging/creating repertoire of my pieces (or Vertigo Dance Company Repertoire) deepening the understanding of the movement and choreography’s inner logic, whilst focusing on the creative and observational tools used in our creative process and looking for an emotional-mental and senses-led connection to choreography, and vice versa, the connection between movement to emotions and full presence.
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DANC 303F - Oberlin Dance Company - Full FC ARHU
4 credits
This course involves the creation and performance of an original contemporary dance work to be performed at Hall Auditorium. Students will engage in a choreographic process that applies the creative tools and philosophical framework of modern dance to an eclectic movement language generated through collaboration. This course will focus on movement generation, rehearsal and performance. Students will be expected to both create and learn material quickly, collaborate with peers and take responsibility for expressively developing their own roles. Placement is by audition.
Prerequisites & Notes: May be repeated for credit.
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DANC 303H - Oberlin Dance Company - Half HC ARHU
2 credits
This course involves the creation and performance of an original contemporary dance work to be performed at Hall Auditorium. Students will engage in a choreographic process that applies the creative tools and philosophical framework of modern dance to an eclectic movement language generated through collaboration. This course will focus on movement generation, rehearsal and performance. Students will be expected to both create and learn material quickly, collaborate with peers and take responsibility for expressively developing their own roles. Placement is by audition.
Prerequisites & Notes: May be repeated for credit.
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DANC 307 - Improvisational Performance HC ARHU
2 credits
We will practice and refine the skill of honing improvisational structures and practices toward creating an improvised dance in performance. Students will contribute to an original score by the faculty director. The project will culminate in performance at the end of the semester. Placement by audition at the first class.
Prerequisites & Notes: Consent of instructor required.
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DANC 310 - Practicum in Dance: Non-perfomance Based Individual Projects HC ARHU
2 credits
Practicum in Dance: Independent individual projects that are not performance-based, such as teaching or community service work. Students determine project details in conjunction with faculty sponsor.
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DANC 311 - Practicum in Dance HC ARHU
2 credits
Independent individual projects that are not performance-based, such as teaching or community service work. Students determine project details in conjunction with faculty sponsor.
Prerequisites & Notes: May be repeated for credit. Certain sections are for letter grade; others are graded P/NP.
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DANC 312 - Ballet III HC ARHU
2 credits
In this continuation of ballet technique, an advanced vocabulary is explored with particular attention given to further refinement of phrasing and musicality. Attendance at several dance performances is required.
Prerequisites & Notes: May be repeated for credit. A placement (audition) class to determine eligibility for this course will be held during the first class meeting. Consented students will add the course during the add/drop registration period.
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DANC 323 - Folkloric Foundations FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course is an introduction to the fundamental philosophies of folkloric foundations in art, music, dance, and history. We will explore and examine prominent elements within Second Line Culture, Ring Shout, Boot Dance, Dunham Technique, and Lindy Hop. These art forms will provide meaningful insight and reflection on how individuals of African Descent were able to utilize their creativity, energy, art and music as a means to cope with systematic racism, oppression, and discrimination.
This class will be taught from a Pan-African world view in the context of social, cultural, occupational, religious, and political functions within each genre. Field trips required.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is cross-listed with AAST 323
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DANC 332 - Varsity Contact FC ARHU
4 credits
Varsity Contact is both an advanced seminar, complete with group projects and reflective writing, and a team sport. Inspired by our readings in the history of the form and by our collaborations with various artists, we will create a community event to welcome contacters from around the region. The members of Varsity Contact will train to become highly articulate dancers and extraordinary ensemble improvisers. Together we will deal with the place of Contact Improvisation in the 21st Century and confront the inevitable contradictions between virtuosity and curiosity.
Prerequisites & Notes: DANC 132
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DANC 338 - Dance at Oberlin HC ARHU
2 credits
Dance at Oberlin is a second module course for any prospective or declared dance major. The class breaks down the requirements for the dance major, especially senior projects, creates a chance to get to know the dance community at Oberlin, and provides resources for future work in dance at Oberlin and beyond. The module offers a community-based framework to create digital tools to help students complete the dance major.
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DANC 340 - Arts Management II FC ARHU
4 credits
Students will be introduced to and develop an understanding of the critical areas that comprise Arts Management including; Organization Structure, Management Theory, Budgeting and Fiscal Theories, Marketing and Audience Development. They will also begin to develop the ability to understand and navigate the challenges of competing priorities in today?s world, specifically, reconciling aesthetic, managerial and economic considerations.
Prerequisites & Notes: DANC 240
This course is cross-listed with THEA 340
Community Based Learning
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DANC 350 - Contemporary Global Dance FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course asks what it means to dance ‘locally’ in a global world. Through close consideration of social and theatrical dance forms, it investigates how they animate the formation of national, racial, ethnic, and gendered (post)colonial identities, chart global migration patterns, form the basis of innovative fusion styles, and complicate facile understandings of cultural ‘authenticity’ and ‘originality.’ The course will place dance at the center of our inquiry, understanding it as a rich site of cultural negotiation, contestation, and exchange uniquely privileged to shed light on ongoing globalization processes and the persistence of colonial configurations.
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DANC 360 - Practice as Research/Research as Practice FC ARHU WADV
4 credits
This embodied critical inquiry course will attend to ideas and cultural meanings implicated in various movement practices and choreographies. We will also explore how an intellectual focus (such as freedom) or an artistic concern (such as line) can translate back into performed work. This upper level writing course is meant to prepare dance majors for work on their senior project, but it is also open to advanced students from any artistic discipline who want to reflect on their practice conceptually as well as physically.
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DANC 370 - Djapo Dance @ Oberlin FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Djapo is a Wolof word meaning together. This course is designed to bring individuals together to preserve traditional West African Dance and other African Diasporic forms by acknowledging the spirituality, philosophy, and diversity of African Culture and its global presence. Djapo Dance will function as a semi-professional company that will serve the Oberlin campus and greater Lorain County and the surrounding community through on and off campus performance venues. Djapo Dance is an off-spring to Dance Diaspora, which was formed to provide the Africana student community with the opportunity to develop their art and cultural performance skills using an interdisciplinary model.
Prerequisites & Notes: DANC/AAST 190 or 191. Faculty Directed Student, Community Performance Project - Costume Fee of $50
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DANC 394 - Collaborations: Dance, Music and Media FC ARHU
4 credits
This upper-level workshop will focus on methods, approaches and creative frameworks for developing collaborative artstic projects across dance, music, and media. The focus will be on doing and making, but will also include viewings, lectures, and discussions of exemplary interdisciplinary works and processes. Class will include workshops with professional guest artists and may require attendance at out of class events. Students will produce a final project realized by a collaborative team that integrates movement, music, and digital media.
Upper-level students in dance, film, Timara and music composition are all encouraged to enroll.
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DANC 395 - Social Choreography in the Digital FC ARHU
4 credits
What social impact can dance make in digital spaces? From creating dances with community partners to developing shared resource tool-kits, students will experiment with the creation of digital movement compositions and practices to consider questions of connection and care. This class will explore what choreographic choices we make in digital spaces, including social media, in order to interrogate the limits and potentials of what social change is and can be. A public digital exhibition will be made to showcase class work at the end of the term.
Prerequisites & Notes: May be repeated for credit.
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DANC 400 - Senior Project HC ARHU
2 credits
Independent individual projects that represent culminating work in the dance major. Projects are an outgrowth of work done in the area of Focused Study as defined by the student when declaring the major. Students determine project details in conjunction with their faculty sponsor.
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DANC 420F - Honors Project - Full FC ARHU
4 credits
Intensive independent work in dance on a research thesis or creative project to be decided upon in consultation with an advisor. Note: Admission to the Honors Program
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DANC 420H - Honors Project - Half HC ARHU
2 credits
Intensive independent work in dance on a research thesis or creative project to be decided upon in consultation with an advisor.
Prerequisites & Notes: Admission to the Honors Program.
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DANC 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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DANC 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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EAST 106 - Fantasy in Modern Japanese Literature and Film FC ARHU CD
4 credits
In this course we study fantasy novels and films in modern Japan. Together with stories about ghosts, metamorphosis, time travel, we also study historical and cultural contexts that enabled these fantastic imaginations.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 107 - Women and Literary Culture in Japan FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Women wrote Japan’s most significant fiction and poetry, from the classical The Tale of Genji & Pillow Book, through 1920s proletarian literature, feminist manifestos of the 1960s, and manga of today. The course focuses on close readings of literary texts and criticism, informed by key concepts of gender, power, sexuality, and voice, and histories of women in literary spheres of society. We interrogate how cultural forms (linked verse, the confession, graphic novels) co-mingle with writing personas (narrator, author, reader). The course is taught in English.
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EAST 110 - Japan on Stage & Screen: An Introduction to Kabuki, Noh, and Butoh FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This class introduces Japan’s most dynamic performing arts, including noh, kabuki, bunraku, avant garde but?, and plays on screen. We explore cultural, aesthetic, and historical contexts of Japanese theater from 8th century to today, as well as performance styles, staging, movement and music, costumes, gender, and audiences through lectures, readings, film screenings, and AMAM visits. A major theme is the ways these arts recast plots, structures & thematic elements of classical literary works such as the Tale of Genji , Heike , samurai stories, folk legends, and historical events.
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EAST 114 - Japan on Stage & Screen: An Introduction to Kabuki, Noh, and Butoh HC ARHU CD
2 credits
This class introduces Japan’s most dynamic performing arts, including noh, kabuki, bunraku, and buto. We explore cultural and historical contexts of Japanese theater from 8th century to today, performance styles, staging, movement and music, costumes, and audiences. Students will attend a live performance of Noh and screenings of kabuki, Bunraku puppet theater, avant-garde buto, and related oral story telling forms on screen. Readings include scripts and sources texts from Tales of Genji, Heike, samurai stories, folk legends, and historical events.
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EAST 117 - Modern Chinese History, 1600-present FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course covers the most recent 400+ years of China’s 4,000+ year history, from the late Ming and Qing dynasties to the Nationalist and Communist republics. Broadly speaking, this is a period marked by China’s steep decline and equally sharp rise. China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was at the height of its imperial power, but by the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries its very existence was in doubt. Now China’s fortunes have changed again, with the nation poised for superpower status on the one hand, while also facing considerable domestic and international challenges on the other. We will trace the many twists and turns of this path, learning how China struggled to survive foreign invasions and severe domestic rebellions, as well as bouts of ideological extremism and intense cultural critique, to emerge where it is today.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 117
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EAST 118 - Modern Japanese Literature and Film FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course is an introduction to influential literary and cinematic currents in Japan from the 19th century to the present, We may read literary works by Murakami, Ichiyo, Tanizaki, Soseki, Oe, and view films of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. We will explore issues of style, influence, and national literature/film against the backdrop of cultural and social history, and investigate the reception of these works in relation to gender, aesthetics, and nationalism. Taught in English.
Prerequisites & Notes: May count toward the major in CINE and CMPL.
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EAST 119 - Visualizing Japan: Introduction to Japanese Cinema FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course serves as an introduction to Japanese cinema (live action, animated) and an inquiry into notions of transnationalism, from prewar modernism to the postcolonial present. These films will be used to explore concepts of Japanese multiculturalism, sexuality, nationalism, colonial memory, and hybridity, among others. We will also analyze representations of marginalized groups to inquire into the possibility of a transnational or hybrid identity in the global era. How do these films ‘visualize’ Japanese-ness and transnational identity and are these visions seen as compatible? In what ways are these films engaged in a dialogue with concepts of postcoloniality and ethnicity?
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EAST 120 - Chinese Calligraphy FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course is an introduction to Chinese calligraphy, focusing on the mastery of the standard script kaishu. It will also cover the historical development and aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy.
Prerequisites & Notes: Some knowledge of Chinese characters.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 121 - Chinese Civilization FC SSCI CD
4 credits
An introduction to the history of China from the archaeological origins of Chinese civilization to the period of the mature imperial state in the 17th century. The diverse origins of China’s civilization are stressed as topics in political, social, and economic history are explored, as well as developments in religion and thought, language and literature, and art. This course is the normal introduction to further study of Chinese history and culture and, in particular, provides a valuable context for themes treated in Modern China.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 105
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 122 - Modern China FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This history of China from the founding of the Manchu Qing (Ch’ing) dynasty in 1644 takes a China-centered perspective. Along with political and institutional developments, long-term changes in the society and economy of China are stressed, and the indigenous bases for those changes are explored so that China’s 20th century revolutionary upheaval will be seen to be more than a ‘response to the Western impact’ or an ‘emergence into modernity.’
This course is cross-listed with HIST 106
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 125 - Hong Kong Cinema FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course surveys Hong Kong cinema from the post-war period to the present. We explore the themes, styles, genres, directors, the star system, and audiences of films and discuss how Hong Kong cinema, as one of the largest and most dynamic motion picture industries in the world, expresses the region’s complex, hybrid, and fluid cultural identity in the context of coloniality, globalization, and transnationalism. We also investigate the interactions between the Hong Kong film industries, Hollywood, and other East Asian regions.
This course is cross-listed with CINE 125
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 128 - Love in Premodern China FC ARHU CD
4 credits
What was love in China before the 20th century? How did the definition of love ask a premodern individual to behave and understand themselves? As Confucius says, a good person devotes to one’s parents, defers to one’s friends, and loves one’s community. In a culture structured by familial duty and patriarchy, how does popular culture create a different self from “the proper way”? This course explores the ways individuals negotiate with social obligations and personal desires in premodern literature. We think through topics on various forms of love, such as filiality, fraternity, marriage, chivalry, friendship, and community.
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EAST 131 - Japan: Earliest Times to 1868 FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course examines the origins of Japanese civilization and surveys the classical, medieval, and early modern periods. From the emergence of a court-centered state through the rise and fall of a warrior-dominated society, Japan’s pre-modern history is explored by focusing on political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments. Early interactions with Asia and the West will be considered as a means of questioning the “opening” of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 159
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EAST 132 - Modern Japan FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course surveys Japan’s modern transformation from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to the present. It examines how political, social, and economic modernization were simultaneous projects while considering their impact on the lives of citizens at home and imperial subjects abroad. We focus on how economic volatility, popular struggles for representative democracy, war, and colonization represent aspects of Japan’s twentieth century experience as well as widely shared dilemmas of modernity.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 160
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 133 - Haunted Archipelago: Ghosts, Spirits, and the Occult in Japanese Religion FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Plagued by vengeful spirits, pursued by demon hordes, and possessed by foxes-such were the experiences of many throughout Japanese history. This course explores the diversity of otherworldly encounters and religious responses to them in Japan from ancient times until today. Readings include popular tales, illustrated scrolls, ritual texts, doctor’s notes, Jesuit accounts, and gothic short stories. We also consider the late nineteenth century emergence of modern academic disciplines meant to defang the weird (minzokugaku , psychiatry, monsterology) against a changing technological landscape of-as rumor had it-electric lines fueled by human oil, hospitals staffed with vampiric physicians, and ghost trains.
This course is cross-listed with RELG 233
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 134 - Masterworks of Classical Chinese Literature FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course explores some of the best-known works of the classical Chinese tradition in translation: from the early lyric poetry of the Book of Odes to the philosophy of Confucius in the Analects ; from the profound musings of the Daoist mystic Zhuangzi to the biting repartee of the medieval courtiers; from the raucous and romantic tales of the Tang dynasty to the endlessly inventive essays of the Southern Song. We shall ask what connects the many works of this vast cultural and literary tradition, with possible answers sought in cosmology and religion, love and kinship, and notions of language, empire, and identity.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 137 - Introduction to Religion: Buddhism in East Asia FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course offers a broad introduction to Buddhist traditions in East Asia, focusing on China, Korea, and Japan in pre-modern periods. The interplay between doctrine and practice that animated the historical development of these traditions will be explored through a wide range of textual and visual genres, including sutras, cave paintings, miracle tales, stones inscriptions, images and icons, and hagiography. Topics covered include the doctrines of no-self and emptiness, the place of women and gender, monasticism and its impact on family structures, varieties of Buddhist awakening, and cosmology from the hells to the pure lands.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 143 - Approaches to Chinese and Japanese Art FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This combined introduction to the Arts of China and Japan will follow a rough chronology from ancient to modern. We will focus on smaller contexts, including temples, tombs, and artistic circles and examine a range of media (e.g. painting, sculpture, prints). Primary themes will include how socio-political circumstances inform artistic production, the spatial or social networks of art, cultural exchange, and tensions between court-sponsored traditions and other artistic practices.
This course is cross-listed with ARTH 152
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 153 - Religious Rituals in East Asia FC ARHU CD
4 credits
Ritual has always played a central role in the religions of East Asia. In this course, we conduct case studies of ritual practices representative of each major tradition (Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Shinto), as well as several that defy neat categorization. We will study ritual as compelling practices through which religious actors have sought to transform self, society, and cosmos. Orthopraxy, performance, affect, and the body are some the key themes we’ll consider in our engagements with textual primary sources as well as video and audio recordings of rituals as performed and recreated in contemporary settings.
This course is cross-listed with RELG 229
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 154 - Religious Objects in East Asia FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course examines East Asian religions through case studies of material objects. In the histories of Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Shinto, physical things have participated in the making of religious identities by serving ceremonial and practical purposes, giving shape to doctrine, and mediating exchanges between religious communities and society. These diverse roles will be assessed in the study of a wide range of objects, including statues, silk, aromatics, scrolls, hair, robes, portraits, and relics. We seek to enliven textual accounts with perspectives from material culture and the senses, and along the way engage issues of materiality, representation, and agency.
This course is cross-listed with RELG 240
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EAST 163 - Korea and East Asia: From Ancient Times to the Present FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course is designed to introduce students to a broad survey of Korea’s history, both ancient and modern. It will examine various interpretive approaches to the political, social, cultural, and diplomatic history of Korea. We will also investigate contemporary nationalist theories of Korean development, including Japanese imperial legacies of colonial conquest, and how they have informed Koreans’ view of their ancient past as well as influenced current debates about the two Koreas’ reunified future.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 181
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 203 - Modernism and World Literature FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course studies various expressions of literary modernism in European, North American, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literature. Studying literary works from the West and East Asia, we examine their themes, prominent features and techniques, and historical contexts to understand what modernity means to these geopolitical locations. In comparing these works, we investigate the influences of Euro-American literary traditions on the East Asian literary culture and the colonial relations between China, Japan, and Korea.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 206 - Modern Chinese Literature and Film: The Art of Adaptation FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course studies Chinese film-fiction adaptation from 1984-2012 both as an aesthetic interaction between the literary and the cinematic and as a political negotiation between artists and the state. Authors and directors to include are Eileen Chang, Su Tong, Mo Yan, Stanley Kwan, Zhang Yimou, Hou Xiaoxian and others.
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EAST 208 - Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Culture and Society FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
With a brief review of traditional gender and sexuality, the course surveys related topics such as female chastity, manhood, New Woman, and same sex desire in modern media culture from the greater China. We try to answer these questions: After the western sexology and LGBTQ activism were introduced to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in the 20th century, how has gender and sexual tradition changed with modern social mores? How do new gender and sexual norms support nationhood? What type of feminism has emerged and developed? Does “queer” mean the same thing as the homosexuality practiced since 600 B.C.E.?
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EAST 218 - Ways of Seeing in Classical Chinese Poetry FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course will explore the rich canon of classical Chinese poetry, not merely as chronological literary history, but as a tradition that teaches us new ways of seeing. We shall learn the particular movements of attention and awareness developed by the classical Chinese poets over centuries, allowing us to apprehend vivid scenes of nature, beauty, and love, but also war, loss, and frustration, to catch sight of a world long passed away and perhaps get a new view of our own. Poets considered include Du Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, and Su Shi. Knowledge of Chinese language neither assumed nor required.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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EAST 225 - Pleasure and Design in Confinement: Japanese Prints in and after Edo FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
Colorful ukiyo-e, pictures of courtesans, kabuki actors reenacting samurai epics, and landscapes of Mt. Fuji, are among the most recognizable images of Japanese art. This course explores how woodblock prints developed in the 17-18th centuries alongside the growth of Edo (modern Tokyo) and during a period of isolationism. We will track innovations in woodblock technology and how features of prints were creative responses of artists to constraints imposed by the ruling shogunate. We will begin with key social and cultural changes, examine select thematic topics and artists (e.g. Utamaro, Hokusai) and conclude with modern prints.
Prerequisites & Notes: A 100-level course in art history or East Asian Studies is strongly encouraged. This course counts towards the Japan field in the East Asian Studies major. This course counts towards the Book Studies Concentration.
This course is cross-listed with ARTH 225
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EAST 229 - Bodies in Japanese Literature & Culture 1945 to 2020 FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course introduces Japan’s postwar literature and arts through images and tropes of the body. Experiences of the war and radical social change after Japan’s defeat in 1945 were often “embodied” in literary and critical texts and on screens. Japan’s changing place in the global order often became visible and tangible through the display and interpretation of bodies. Through examining tropes constructed around bodies in literary works and related media, we explore the body as the site of cultural transitions and struggles.
This course is cross-listed with GSFS 229
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EAST 233 - The Long War in Modern China FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
This course explores the ways in which warfare shaped China as a modern nation-state that we know today; it examines a variety of military and ideological conflicts - including the Opium War, Taiping Rebellion, Sino-Japanese Wars, Chinese Civil War, and the Korean War - between individuals, peoples, organizations, empires, and nation-states from the 19th century to the present. In addition, this course investigates people’s life experiences, such as suffering, displacement, and death during wartime. It also pays attention to how warfare shaped gender concepts, environment and ecology, popular culture, and everydayness.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 233
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EAST 235 - China on the Global Stage FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course examines how Chinese empires became the People’s Republic of China through the lens of global interactions. This course stretches from the 19th century to the present day, placing China alongside its major regional and global interlocutors of each era. The course explores how the Qing and its modern successors’ relations to other parts of Asia and the world shaped the contemporary Chinese political system, culture, and nationalism. Topics include encounters between empires; international law and system; modernity; Chinese diaspora; revolutions and warfare; the U.S. in China and East Asia; “China Dream” in the 21st century.
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EAST 241 - Living with the Bomb: A Comparative Study of Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Japan and the U.S. FC ARHU CD
4 credits
The explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima is one of the pivotal moments in 20th century United States and Japanese history. Controversies at the Smithsonian Institution, conflicts in Japan about survivors and nuclear technologies, and media coverage of the tensions between the U.S., North Korea, and Iraq testify to the continuing cultural and social impact of the bomb seventy years later. This course will focus on the moral, ideological and historical complexity of the atomic bomb during World War II, and subsequent cultural responses in both Japan and the United States as people learned to live with the bomb.
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EAST 248 - Postwar Japan through Music and Film FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course examines Japan’s postwar period (1945-2011) through the lens of popular music and film, including documentary film. From the reconstruction of the nation after defeat in 1945 into a post-imperial age marked by affluence and a national ethic of egalitarianism, through to the collapse of the financial bubble of the 1980s and subsequent “lost decades” of the 1990s and 2000s, this course maps how music and film responded to and shaped the course of postwar Japanese history. Specific themes include: politics of space and sound; globalization of popular music, war memory, anti-U.S. military movement in Okinawa, and anti-nuclear movement after Fukushima.
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EAST 249 - Green Japan FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course studies the ideas of cultured nature as expressed and conceptualized in the literature, arts, and aesthetics of Japan: the culture of four seasons, potent trees and flowers, poetic place names, landscapes, gardens. We use the approaches of environmental humanities to analyze the meanings and evolution of natural imagery and seasonal topics in Japans classical poetry, prose fiction, and performing arts, and ask how expressions of harmony with nature relate to environmental justice today.
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EAST 251 - Breaking the Waves: The Japanese and French New Wave Cinemas and Their Legacy FC ARHU CD
4 credits
While the French and Japanese New Wave(s) existed as largely contemporaneous cinematic movements, rarely are they discussed together, instilling the impression of two parallel streams, never to converge or intersect. This course will serve as an intervention into this perceived divide through close readings of these groundbreaking cinematic works and an examination of their revolutionary content. How do these films figure as a response to that of the previous generation and how do they revolutionize cinematic praxis? What is the prevailing influence of the New Wave on Hollywood and global cinema and what aspects of the movement have been lost?
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EAST 261 - On the Edges of China FC SSCI CD
4 credits
Modern China’s culture and politics are shaped by its relations to border areas and beyond, and vice versa. This course explores the modern histories of the places where China meets Central, South, Northeast, and Southeast Asia. We will revisit the conception of the modern Chinese nation-state by placing places such as Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Manchuria at the center of discussion. Topics include environment, war legacy, ethnicity, colonialism, nation-building, and societal transformation.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 261
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EAST 272 - East Asian Book and Literary Cultures FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
This course explores East Asian literary classics as texts, as material objects, as social objects, as part of visual culture. What material forms did texts and images take? Who were the readers? What is an author? Who made the books and how? Why were they circulated, bought and sold, preserved and burned? As we study Chinese, Japanese, and Korean books in Mudd Library and the Art Museum, well do close readings of classical prose and poetry.
Prerequisites & Notes: Previous coursework in literature, book history, East Asian history, art or religion is strongly encouraged.
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EAST 280 - Brothers at War: The Unending Korean War FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This course is designed to explore the cultural, social, and political history of the Korean War in the context of Cold War ideology and U.S.-Soviet-Chinese-Korean relations as well as specific battles and key players.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 280
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EAST 295 - Chinese Earth and Environment FC SSCI CD
4 credits
From the Great Wall to the Three Gorges Dam, China has seen many of history?s most audacious projects to transform the environment to fit human needs, not least of which the formation of the enduring cultural and ecological space of China itself. At the same time, critics within the tradition have produced trenchant critiques of human autonomy and environmental utilitarianism. This environmental history course will introduce students to historical human ecology in continental East Asia. Topics will include: hydraulic civilization and its discontents, ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ frontiers, ecological imperialism, the politics of landscape, and the green revolution in ‘Red’ China.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 295
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EAST 307 - Occupied Japan, 1945-52 FC SSCI CD WADV
4 credits
This course examines the transition from war to peace following Japan’s cataclysmic defeat in World War II. The emphasis is on the rebuilding of political institutions and the transformation of society processes that took place under the watchful eye of the Allied Occupation which lasted for seven years. While considering the many ruptures with the past occasioned by Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of surrender on August 15, 1945, the course will also examine the political, social, economic, and cultural continuities that spanned the wartime/postwar divide.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 307
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EAST 309 - Chinese Popular Cinema and Public Intellectualism FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
Does Chinese popular cinema function as public intellectualism? This course examines the history, genre, aesthetic, and politics of the post-reform Chinese fiction films and documentaries from 1982 to 2014. Studying the works of Zhang Yimou, Jia Zhangke, Wu Wenguang, Wong Kar-wai, Ann Hui, He Zhaoti, Wei Desheng and others, we examine the extent to which influential directors have become a new class or organic intellectuals who raise political questions to propel social change.
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EAST 322 - Avant Garde in Japanese Literature, Art and Film FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
This course explores the avant-garde in Japan’s literary and visual cultures (19th century to the present). What was considered aesthetic and ideological innovation in cultural production in times of radical change and of relative stability? We will also examine the role of avant-garde art and political activism in elite, mid-brow, and mass culture, and in nation building. This class uses cultural theory and comparative analyses of gender and class. Taught in English.
Prerequisites & Notes: Previous course work in literature, cinema, art, history, or East Asian Studies is strongly encouraged.
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EAST 324 - Chinese Queer Cinema FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
This seminar surveys Chinese-language queer cinema since the 1960s up to the contemporary period in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It investigates the visual representation of gay, lesbian, and transgender desires within different historical and cultural contexts. While studying the historical development of queer in each region and the mutual influences across the regions, the course particularly discusses the way cinema mobilizes the notion of queer as a trope for socio-political discourses, and the way the representation of queer negotiates with mainstream ideologies.
This course is cross-listed with CINE 329
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EAST 326 - Labor in Japanese Literature and Film from the 1920s to 2010s FC ARHU CD
4 credits
This course examines modern Japanese literature and film, with a focus on the representation of labor. Over the course of the 20th century, the social structure of Japanese society underwent multiple changes. We will examine the various descriptions of labor in literature and film in order to spur conversation around the idea of work. What kind of relation is born around labor? What activity counts as work? Who does what kind of work? Materials may include literary and filmic works by Yokomitsu Riichi, Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman , Kawabata Yasunari, Kirino Natsuo, and proletarian literature.
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EAST 327 - Mapping China and East Asia FC ARHU CD
4 credits
What can maps tell us about the connected history of China and East Asia? This course explores East Asian cartographic traditions, ideas, and practices. We will draw on selected maps from the pre-modern era to the 20th century as primary sources for lectures and discussions. We will also have the chance to use the maps in Oberlin’s Shansi Archive Collection and learn to locate maps and related visual materials in other databases for research projects. Topics include geographic imaginations and spatial concepts in East Asia; cartographic practices and knowledge flowing between Europe, China, and East Asia; mapping borderlands.
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EAST 328 - The Great War and Asia, 1914-1925 FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
This course will explore Asia’s involvement and experiences in the First World War and the revolutionary changes it wrought on these societies. It aims to bring the Great War more fully into Asian history and the peoples of Asia (including Russia) into the international history of the war.
Prerequisites & Notes: 100 or 200 level EAS course.
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EAST 329 - Cultural Property? Art, Heritage, Ownership FC ARHU CD WADV
4 credits
This course considers the issues and stakes that underlie antiquities and their export to disparate contexts to explore the larger question: who owns the past? We will examine positions on ‘cultural property’ from the perspective of archaeologists, art historians, collectors and museums, and explore issues of nationalism and national heritage, (illicit) trade and forgery, the preservation of world monuments, and recent legal cases. Students will research case studies and argue positions in the debate. This course was previously taught as ARTS 466.
Prerequisites & Notes: A 200-Level course in art history or the consent of the instructor.
Does this course require off campus field trips? Yes
This course is cross-listed with ARTH 329
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EAST 332 - Discrimination in Modern Japan FC SSCI CD
4 credits
This seminar examines the exploitation, discrimination, and marginalization of Japan’s main minority groups’ the Ainu, Okinawans, Koreans and burakumin’ from the 1870s to the present. Construction of discriminatory views and processes of ostracism are major themes. Other topics include: community formation, anti-establishmentarian minority movements, state policies of assimilation and control, inter-minority relations, and the politics of minority identity. Discrimination against non-ethnic and non-racial minorities ’such as victims of atomic bombings and environmental pollution’ will also be discussed.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 482
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EAST 335 - Buddhism, Healing, and the Body in East Asia FC ARHU CD WINT
4 credits
The links between Buddhism and healing are as old as the religion itself, and proved especially pivotal in the transmission of the religion to East Asia. How have Buddhists historically imagined the body, disease, and healing? How was this therapeutic imagination in turn shaped by morality, monasticism, ritual practice, and demonology? This course brings these questions to an examination of the rich history of Buddhist healing. Throughout, we also emphasize the intersections of Buddhist healing with other traditions known and practiced in China, Korea, and Japan, including Ayurveda, Daoism, and varieties of classical and popular medicine.
This course is cross-listed with RELG 335
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EAST 338 - Critical Questions in Japan’s Modern Literature FC ARHU CD
4 credits
What makes literary works valuable? Should art be politically committed? Or should art be detached from the politics?Together with critical & literary essays and theoretical writings from Japan, students will interrogate the globally shared contexts and debates around these questions. Course is taught in English. Previous coursework in literature, comparative Literature, literary theory, art, EAS, or English strongly encouraged.
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EAST 367 - The Other Great Game, 1860-1905 FC SSCI CD WADV
4 credits
The Korean peninsula was at the center of the most dramatic upheavals of the late 19th century and early 20th century East Asia. This was a period that witnessed the rise of Japan and the decline of China and the Sinocentric world order that had dominated the region for over a millennia. Imperial Russia was also making inroads into Asia. This seminar is focused on the diplomatic, political, and military history of these years, concentrating on Korean, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, European, and American history.
Prerequisites & Notes: One East Asian history course.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 367
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EAST 390 - Big Government: A Legal and Cultural History of Bureaucracy in China FC SSCI CD WADV
4 credits
When does government become too big? Imperial China saw the largest corps of officials in the world for the first nineteen centuries CE. Did Chinese administration represent a marvel of rationality, as 18th century European observers suggested? Or did it resemble popular depictions of hell, where rulers of the underworld were depicted behind desks overflowing with files. In this legal history course, we read broadly from exemplary scholarship, theories of law and society, and sources legal, literary and visual. Topics include: the birth of the file, moral legislation and illicit sex, the law of the underworld, and examination meritocracy and nightmare.
This course is cross-listed with HIST 420
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EAST 401 - Honors Program FC ARHU
4 credits
Consent of program director required.
Prerequisites & Notes: Registration limited to seniors. Admission to the Honors Program is subject to the approval of the East Asian Studies faculty during the student’s junior year.
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EAST 500 - Capstone Project ARHU
0 credits
Normally completed in the senior year, the capstone project may be done in one of three ways: 1) as a research project in an upper-level seminar taught by an EAS faculty member, 2) as a project in a 400-level Chinese or Japanese language course, or 3) as a Winter Term project overseen by an EAS faculty member. Students must consult with their mentor before the start of the term. P/NP grading only.
Prerequisites & Notes: P/NP grading only.
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EAST 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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EAST 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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ECON 099 - Principles of Accounting FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
Accounting is the creation, reporting, and interpretation of financial information. The course will show how accounting data can be used by people outside an organization - for example, investors and regulators - to evaluate its financial performance. It will also show how accounting data can be used within an organization as a planning and management tool. The course will be particularly useful to those interested in careers in business, economics, arts and non-profit management, law, and government.
Prerequisites & Notes: Students cannot earn credit for 099 if they have taken Econ 109. This course counts as general SS credits but does not count toward the 8 full economics courses required for the economics major.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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ECON 101 - Principles of Economics FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course introduces the student to the economic problems of unemployment, inflation, the distribution of income and wealth, and the allocation of resources. The basic tools of analysis for studying these problems are developed and the role of public policy in securing economic objectives is explored. The course is designed to serve as a foundation for further work in economics and as a desirable complement to study in history, politics and sociology.
This course is appropriate for new students.
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ECON 102 - Principles of Economics FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course is equivalent to ECON 101. It covers the same substantive material but introduces students to the application of mathematical tools in economics.
Prerequisites & Notes: MATH 133
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ECON 204 - Game Theory for the Social Sciences FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
Game theory is a mathematical tool that has been developed for the purpose of understanding social phenomena. This course introduces game theory with an emphasis on applications, in economics, politics, business, military science, history, biology, theology and recreation. The required mathematical background is high school level algebra.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 and high school algebra.
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ECON 206 - Principles of Finance FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course provides a thorough foundation in financial economics with applications to investment decisions and the management of business enterprises. Topics include capital budgeting, financial statement analysis, interest and risk calculations, principles of market valuation, the capital asset pricing model, financial funding decisions, dividend and cash flow analysis, and taxation.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101
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ECON 207 - Urban Economics FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
How and why do cities form? How do economic forces shape the citys formation, location, size and function? We begin by looking at the economies and diseconomies of urban scale and the urban hierarchical network, as well as theories of land markets. We move to an economic and policy-centered analysis of the challenges of urban life, such as zoning, housing, transportation, suburbanization and the provision of public services.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or its equivalent.
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ECON 209 - Economic Development FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course offers a survey of the different theories and the empirical evidence on the factors that determine economic performance in low and middle income countries. The first part broadly covers the meaning and measurement of development, such as indicators of poverty, inequality and demographic variables. The second part will introduce the student to the major theories that try to explain economic development. The final section will focus on policy issues, especially the dismal record of foreign aid.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or its equivalent.
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ECON 211 - Money, the Financial System and the Economy FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
The course deals with the linkages between financial markets, financial institutions, monetary policy and the economy. Topics will include the function of money in the economy, the determination of interest rates and exchange rates, the origin and evolution of financial intermediation, and the role of the financial system in the transmission of monetary policy.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or its equivalent.
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ECON 214 - Time Series Analysis FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
The objective of this course is to analyze observations that are collected over time. Statistical software will be utilized in order to analyze the behavior of a single dataset, and to observe the relationships among several time series datasets. Applications of time series analysis will focus on macroeconomics and finance. Topics include: intro to statistical software, univariate time series models, multiples times series modelling, and forecasting.
Prerequisites & Notes: Econ 255 or consent of the instructor. A completed course in intermediate macroeconomics (ECON 251) is highly recommended. ECON 206 and/or ECON 211 may also be helpful
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ECON 220 - Economics of Labor Markets FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course provides an introduction to theoretical and empirical analysis of wage and employment determination. We will develop economic analyses of changes in labor markets, as well as labor market policies, and consider the empirical facts and evidence about work and pay, mostly in the United States. Topics include labor supply and demand, education, health, income inequality, intergenerational mobility, discrimination, and immigration.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or equivalent.
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ECON 227 - International Trade and Finance FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
An introduction to international economics with an emphasis on the economic analysis of international transactions, financial interdependence, and current trade conflicts, as well as discussions of the historical development and contemporary role of international institutions.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or equivalent.
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ECON 231 - Environmental Economics FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
The course is an introduction to the theory and practice of environmental economics. Emphasis is placed on understanding how the basic tools of economic analysis are used to identify sources of environmental problems, value environmental resources, and design environmental policy within the framework of a market based economic system.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 or its equivalent.
This course is cross-listed with ENVS 231
Sustainability
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ECON 243 - Economic History of the United States FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course examines United States economic history from the colonial period to the present. The goal of the course is to use economic methods to further our understanding of U.S. history. Topics covered include the development of U.S. legal and political institutions, industrialization and urbanization, financial history, the Civil War, the transportation revolution, and the Great Depression.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101
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ECON 245 - Health Economics FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
Health care economics is the study of how resources are allocated to the production of health care and the distribution of that care. The course will look at the conflict between the provision of high-quality, universal health care and health care cost containment; the pros and cons of using markets to distribute health care; and the institutional features of the markets for health insurance, medical education, hospitals, ethical drugs, and medical innovation and technology.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101
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ECON 251 - Intermediate Macroeconomics FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This course provides a detailed overview of the basic macroeconomic theories used to analyze aggregate spending and production, economic growth and business cycles. Theories covered in the class will be applied to examples drawn from current events and contemporary policy debates.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 and sophomore standing or a 200-Level course in economics (ECON 211 being most helpful).
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ECON 253 - Intermediate Microeconomics FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
An introduction to the art of building mathematical models of the behavior of individual economic agents. Topics include models of consumers, producers, their interaction with each other in different market forms and strategic situations, and the welfare implications of economic outcomes in the presence and absence of markets.
Prerequisites & Notes: ECON 101 and sophomore standing or a 200-Level course in economics and MATH 133. Proficiency in calculus at the level of Math 133 is essential.
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ECON 255 - Introduction to Econometrics FC SSCI QFR
4 credits
This is an introduction to the application of statistical methods to the estimation of economic models and the testing of economic hypotheses using non-experimental data. The central statistical tool is multivariate regression analysis. Topics covered include: the Gauss-Markov theorem, testing hypotheses, and correcting for heteroskedasticity, autocorrelation and simultaneous equation bias. In the weekly computer lab sessions econometric software is used to analyze real-world data.
Prerequisites & Notes: STAT 113, MATH 133, and ECON 253, or consent of instructor.
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