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Course Catalog 2005-2006

Course Catalog 2005-2006 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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English
	ENGL 293 - Lyric Poetry Before 1700 4 HU, WR Second Semester. Intensive study of the various shorter forms of English poetry between the mythical Anglo-Saxon cowherd-singer Caedmon and the witty Parliamentarian Andrew Marvell. We will read alliterative elegies, troubadour and religious lyrics, songs, sonnets, more sonnets, still more sonnets, satires, odes, invitations, epitaphs, ballads, hymns, and other small gems of the medieval and Renaissance periods, attending to both aesthetic-formal and cultural-historical issues. There will be reading and reciting in Middle English, and several exams. British, Pre- 1700. P, EL. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: “For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 30. Ms. Bryan Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 295 - Forms of Folklore 2 HU, 2 SS, CD, WR Second Semester. Introduction to the study of folklore through genres: folk speech, myth, legend, folktale, ballad, riddle, jokes, superstition, custom, belief, folk clothing and foodways. Considerable attention to secondary criticism focusing on cultural meaning, race, ethnicity, feminist and gender concerns, collecting, and questions of stereotyping and social inequality. Most examples from certain cultures—especially Anglo-American, Black American, Native American, other ethnic groups in America; some attention to European and African materials as well as Asian and Indonesian. Diversity. This course is cross-referenced with ANTH 254. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 30. Ms. Gorfain Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 301 - Chaucer 3 HU, WR First Semester. Our focus will be on The Canterbury Tales in its historical, cultural, and literary contexts. Requirements include memorization, exams, and essays. British, Pre-1700. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Bryan Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 307 - Drama in the Age of Shakespeare: Staging Domestic Violence 4 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. Questioning how domestic violence is represented as a central element in a variety of plays during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, we study seven plays: Taming of the Shrew, A Woman Killed with Kindness, Arden of Feversham, The Changeling, The Duchess of Malfi, Othello, and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore. Additional readings will include social and family history, literary criticism, contemporary theory regarding violence and performance. British, Pre-1700. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Gorfain Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 309 - Paradise Lost: Milton, Blake, Shelley 3 HU, WR Second Semester. In Milton’s great poem about creation, temptation and fall, we witness a tragic world of mythic struggle. Paradise Lost profoundly affected two later Romantic writers, William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Songs of Innocence and Experience, and The Book of Job) and Mary Shelley (Frankenstein). Our concerns: the texts themselves, their interrelationships, and the way they represent and affect the concerns of their times—power, status, nature, gender, love and difference. British, Pre-1700. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Jones Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 312 - Advanced Topic in 18th-Century Literature Second Semester. Studies in selected British literature and culture of the period 1660-1800. British, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Staff Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 315 - Eighteenth-Century Fiction 4 HU, WR First Semester. An advanced course in selected British writers of the 18 ^th century, dealing with issues of the rise of the genre of the novel and its relationship to national identity and culture. Possible authors to be studied include: Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and Jane Austen. British, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Staff Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 316 - Early Victorian Fiction in Context 4 HU, WR First Semester. A survey of British fiction written in the first half of the 19th century, with special attention paid to historical and cultural context, serial publication and changing readerships, the emergence of a sophisticated aesthetic of fiction in critical periodicals, and the interplay between text and visual image in illustrated fiction. Selections of poetry and prose of thought from the 1830s and 1840s will also be read. Works will include fiction by Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, Gaskell, Emily Brontë, and Charlotte Brontë, and poetry by Tennyson and Browning. British, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Olmsted Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 317 - Late Victorian Fiction in Context 4 HU, WR Second Semester. Late Victorian novels such as George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, George Gissing’s The Odd Women, and Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure are considered in this course alongside selected poems and prose of the period as a basis for exploring the novel’s responsiveness to late Victorian debate over such topics as feminism, aestheticism, and democratization. British, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Linehan Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 320 - Documentary Production 4 HU, WR First and Second Semester. This course explores documentary structure in critical and creative ways. Students examine different ways to think about and understand documentaries (in terms of form, purpose, audience, etc.) and practice basic documentary production (camera, lighting, sound, non-linear editing). After engaging in various individual and small group exercises, students spend the balance of the semester working together to produce short documentary videos. This course is cross-referenced with CINE 320. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 12. Mr. Pingree Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 326 - Contemporary Irish Novel 4 HU, WR Second Semester. Selected short stories and novels by Samuel Beckett, Frank O’Connor, Mary Lavin, William Trevor, John McGahern, John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Neil Jordan, Patrick McCabe, Edna O’Brien, and Anne Enright. Major issues will be the tensions between literature and politics, innovation and the tradition, and nationalism and internationalism in the context of a rapidly modernizing Irish society. Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Hobbs Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 327 - Modern Drama: Ibsen to Pirandello 3 HU, WR Second Semester. This course explores the different ways in which “reality” was staged by playwrights including Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Shaw, and Pirandello. We will consider how modern theatrical movements such as realism, naturalism, expressionism, and metadrama sought to represent “reality,” focusing on evolving stagecraft. Emphasis will also be placed on the historical and cultural contexts surrounding the early stages of modern drama. Post-1900. D, WL. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: “For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Tufts Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 328 - Modern Drama II: Brecht to Pinter 3 HU, WR Second Semester. This course will study the development of drama from World War II to 1975 from both a literary and a theatrical point of view. Playwrights will include Brecht, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Churchill, Pinter, Fornes, and Adrienne Kennedy. Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Tufts Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 330 - Modernist Chicago: Urban Literature and Sociology 4 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. The story goes that literature grew up in Chicago—the city that developed so rapidly in the 19th century—striving for “democratic” representation of new urban experiences and (multi-classed, immigrant, and racial) identities, culminating in a renaissance from 1900-1930. Did Chicago continue to encourage a specific strain of American modernism? We will address this question through readings in urban sociology and authors such as Dreiser, Algren, Wright, Attaway, Walker, and Brooks. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Johns Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 331 - Modern Poetry I: The Emergence of the Modern 3 HU, WR First Semester. The development of poetry from 1880 to 1918. Consideration of poetry’s contribution to shifting accounts of history, identity, religion, and love. Inquiry into poetry’s nature not only as an art form, but as a form of thought (intended to change our beliefs about the world) and a form of work (intended to change the world itself). Readings from Walt Whitman through Marianne Moore. Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Harrison Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 333 - Modern Poetry III: Postwar and Postmodern Lyric 3 HU, WR Second Semester. Central themes and conflicts in poetry since World War II, with attention to poetry’s search for new forms and modes of expression in a world altered (often beyond recognition) by war, political unrest, and cultural upheaval. Lowell, Larkin, Roethke, Berryman, Plath, Rich, Ginsberg, Ashbery, O’Hara, Walcott, Heaney, Soyinka, Jay Wright, Charles Wright, Glück, Komunyakaa, Dove, Carson, Murray, Boland. Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Harrison Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 340 - Technology and Contemporary American Culture 4 HU, WR Second Semester. Innovation in technology is often seen as either a starry dream or a dystopian nightmare. This course seeks to move beyond such polarized judgments by looking closely at representations of technology in film, literature, visual art and electronic resources as well as critical and theoretical works on technology and aesthetic and social experience. This course is cross-referenced with CINE 340. American, Post-1900. F, AL. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: “For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Pence Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 353 - “To Write Like an American”: American Literature 1825-1865 4 HU, WR Second Semester. Melville’s phrase captures a major concern of American writers during the antebellum period: the creation of a distinctly American literature. Directly or indirectly, many writers of the era engaged with “writing like an American”—Melville, Emerson, Whitman, Douglass, Jacobs among them—while a few, notably Poe, repudiated the very idea. We’ll read work by the writers I’ve listed and by others as we consider what “writing like an American” entailed during the formative era in American culture and history. American, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Zagarell Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 354 - Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson 3 HU, WR Second Semester. A comparative study of America’s two most important 19th-century poets: Whitman, the exuberant poet-wanderer and Dickinson, the thoughtful soul who selected her own society. We will examine some of the key contexts in and against which they wrote, including Puritanism, Transcendentalism, and the Civil War. Texts will include cycles such as Dickinson’s bridal, riddle, definition, nature, prisoner, and beyond-the-grave groups and Whitman’s Children of Adam, Calamus, Leaves of Grass, and Songs of Insurrection. American, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Deppman Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 366 - Nature and Transcendentalism 4 HU, CD, WR First Semester. An examination of the writings of the American Transcendentalists of the 19th century with special attention to Emerson, Thoreau, and the concept of nature. We will study some of the early contributors to this school of thought, as well as more recent expositors. Students should be prepared to tackle difficult texts that pose challenging philosophical, political, and interpretive questions. American, 1700-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. McMillin Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 368 - Movies and Melodrama 4 HU, WR First Semester. This course explores the history, cultural contexts, and critical challenges of melodramatic narrative cinema. We’ll study the genre’s origins, the rise and fall of its prestige, its identification as a “feminine” form, its adaptation to different historical and cultural contexts, and its contemporary challenges to cultural analysis. American, Post-1900. This course is cross-referenced with CINE 368. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: ENGL 173/CINE 101 and a Cinema Studies Cinematic Traditions course (preferred), or for complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Pence Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 372 - Contemporary Literary Theory in American Culture 4 HU, WR First Semester. 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 Prerequisite: “For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Day Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 373 - American Literature and Culture in the 1930s 4 HU, WR Second Semester. This course focuses on American culture in the 1930s with particular reference to the relation between the novel and cinema, though other arts and media such as photography, painting, and music will also be addressed. We will consider not only the relation of these arts to each other but to the social crisis of the Great Depression. American, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: ENGL 173/CINE 101 and a Cinema Studies Cinematic Traditions course (preferred), or for complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. This course is cross-referenced with CINE 373. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Day Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 376 - Screening Spirituality 4 HU, CD, WR Second Semester. Cinema is perennially concerned with the challenge of representing extraordinary experiences. Filmmakers and critics return repeatedly to the medium’s capacity to evoke a profound sense of reality despite reason’s doubts regarding the status of the represented world. We’ll investigate selected treatments of the extraordinary and the challenges they present to critical theory and practice. American, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: ENGL 173/CINE 101 and a Cinema Studies Cinematic Traditions course (preferred), or for complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. This course is cross-referenced with CINE 376. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Pence Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 379 - Gender Formation in Asian American Literature 4 HU, CD, WR First Semester. This class will explore questions of gender and sexuality in the context of Asian American literature. The key issues driving the course will be: how do Asian American writers imagine and represent gender and sexuality? What are the specific pressures faced by writers of Asian descent when representing gender and sexuality, and how do those pressures shape creative production? Authors may include Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, Hisaye Yamamoto, R. Zamora Linmark, and Kimiko Hahn. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Liu Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 380 - (Dis)Locations of Race 3 HU, CD, WR First Semester. This course will investigate how racial masquerades codify and yet destabilize social fantasies and identities in literature and film. Texts may include works by Toni Morrison and David Wong Louie, various yellowface, blackface films, animation, performance art, and theatrical performances, as well as criticism and theory that consider aesthetic and political implications of racial “passing,” cultural appropriation, and the problematics of identity politics. American, Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Takada Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 383 - Selected Authors: Vladimir Nabokov 4 HU, WR First Semester. A close reading of short fiction, autobiography, and the major novels from Despair through Transparent Things by this great 20th-century master. American, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: “For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Walker Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 385 - Coetzee, Greene, and Rushdie: Structures of Belief in J.M. Graham 4 HU, CD, WR First Semester. It seems perverse to examine J. M. Coetzee’s and Salman Rushdie’s work through the prism of belief, given their deconstructive procedures, which systematically undermine if not belief altogether, then the source of belief as so ideologically determined as to be suspect. It seems even more perverse to read these two alongside Graham Greene, who converted to Catholicism at a young age. Yet, this course will do precisely that—examine belief by (re)marking on those utopian moments that while not transcending doubt are also not amenable to categorical deconstruction in their work. Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: “For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Ms. Needham Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 390 - Selected Authors: William Faulkner 4 HU, WR Second Semester. An intensive study of major works by William Faulkner (1897-1962). Readings include Flags in the Dust, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, The Unvanquished and Absalom, Absalom!, and a selection of poetry, short stories, essays, and speeches. American, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: “For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Olmsted Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 395 - Poetry Workshop 3 HU, WR First and Second Semester. The writing of poetry. Intensive discussion of student work, accompanied by assigned reading. Admission based on a completed application form and a writing sample of six to eight poems (due in Program office by Friday, June 10, 2005 for first semester, and Friday, January 13, 2006 for second semester). This course is cross-referenced with CRWR 310. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 12. Ms. Collins, Ms. Alexander Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 396 - Nonfiction Workshop 4 HU, WR Second Semester. The writing of personal narratives which employ the techniques of both the traditional essay and fiction, with an emphasis on nonfiction as a literary art form. Students will read work by modern and contemporary authors with an eye toward understanding the variety of modes which come under the current heading “creative nonfiction” (memoir, meditation, travel, cultural critique, etc.), and will be asked to employ a number of these methods and approaches in their own work. Admission based on a completed application and writing sample (due in Program office by Friday, January 13, 2006). This course is cross-referenced with CRWR 340. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 12. Mr. Chaon Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 397 - Fiction Workshop 4 HU, WR First and Second Semester. The writing of short fiction. Admission based on a completed application form and a writing sample of at least 12 pages of fiction, made up of at least two separate pieces (due in Program office by Friday, June 10, 2005 for first semester, and Friday, January 13, 2006 for second semester). This course is cross-referenced with CRWR 320. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 12. Mr. Chaon, Ms. Watanabe Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 398 - Playwriting Workshop 4 HU, WR Second Semester. A workshop focused on discussion of student work and on selected examples from modern and contemporary drama, working toward a staged reading of an original one-act play. The course presupposes considerable knowledge of drama. Admission based on a completed application form and writing sample (due in Program office by Friday, January 13, 2006). This course is cross-referenced with CRWR 330. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 12. Mr. Walker Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 399 - Teaching and Tutoring Writing Across the Disciplines 3 HU, Wri First and Second Semester. A course in which students will tutor at the writing center or assist one of the writing-intensive courses offered in various disciplines while studying composition theory and pedagogy. In the process of helping to educate others, students work toward a fuller understanding of their own educational experiences, particularly in writing. Juniors or seniors who write well, regardless of major, are encouraged to apply. This course is cross-referenced with RHET 481. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 12. Mr. Podis, Ms. Trubek Credits: 3 hours
	ENGL 400 - Senior Tutorial 2-4 HU, WR First and Second Semester. For English majors in either semester of their final year only, involving close work in a small group on an individual project, leading to a substantial paper. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Admission based on a completed application form (available at the department office). Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 9. Mr. Day, Ms. Johns, Mr. McMillin, Ms. Needham, Mr. Pence Credits: 2 to 4 hours
	ENGL 409 - Seminar: Arthurian Identities 3 HU, WR First Semester. The rich body of Arthurian fiction has been providing diverse and powerful myths of British identity since shortly after the Norman Conquest. We will study the legend’s medieval developments in both British and Continental contexts, attending particularly to its evolving narratives of gender, rank, and nationality. We will also trace some of the myth’s post-medieval resurfacings in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Requirements include a long final paper. British, Pre-1700. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Admission based on a completed application form (available at the department office). Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12. Ms. Bryan Credits: 3
	ENGL 421 - Seminar: Modern Irish Literature 4 HU, WR Second Semester. Our seminar will study texts by the Irish modernists Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett as well as texts by such contemporary Irish writers as Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, and Brian Friel. We will consider them in the historical contexts of the Irish nationalist struggle for independence and the later transformation of Ireland into a modern, secular, European state. Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Admission based on a completed application form (available at the department office). Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12. Mr. Hobbs Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 425 - Seminar: Feminist Shakespeare: Gender, Race, and Empire 4 HU, CD, WR First Semester. Studying four plays representing history, tragedy, comedy, and late romance, and featuring any plays performed locally, the seminar examines how current feminist criticism and theory considers the intersections of gender with histories of race and empire. Student scene presentations and critical papers serve as the basis for group and independent advanced work. Likely plays: Merchant of Venice, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest. British, Diversity, Pre-1700. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Admission based on a completed application form (available at the department office). Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12. Ms. Gorfain Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 433 - Seminar: Imagining History in American Film 4 HU, WR First Semester. This course will explore the ways history and our relation to it are defined and represented in film, in short, how history is imagined. The emphasis will be primarily, but not exclusively, on American cinema. We will be equally concerned with what films do with history and what focusing on the subject of history reveals about film as art. American, Post-1900. This course is cross-referenced with CINE 433. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Admission based on a completed application form (available at the department office). Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12. Mr. Day Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 441 - Seminar: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf 4 HU, WR Second Semester. This course will use historical, stylistic, and feminist perspectives to explore the content and development of works by these two eminent British women writers. Texts to be read: Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch or Daniel Deronda; Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves. Supplementary reading will include one or two essays by each writer and some recent criticism. British, Diversity, Post-1900. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Admission based on a completed application form (available at the department office). Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12. Ms. Linehan Credits: 4 hours
	ENGL 450 - Honors Project 2-4 HU, WR First Semester. Intensive year-long work on a topic developed in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a substantial paper and a defense of that paper. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Senior major standing and invitation of the department. Consent of instructor required. Staff Credits: 2 to 4 hours
	ENGL 451 - Honors Project 2-4 HU, WR Second Semester. Intensive year-long work on a topic developed in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a substantial paper and a defense of that paper. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: Senior major standing and invitation of the department. Consent of instructor required. Staff Credits: 2 to 4 hours
	ENGL 995 - Private Reading .5-3 HU First and Second Semester. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Credits: .5 to 3 hours
Environmental Studies
	ENVS 101 - Environment and Society 3 SS First and Second Semester. An introduction to social, economic, technological, and political aspects of environmental problems with emphasis on major theorists and ideas that have influenced the environmental movement. Different schools of thought on the relationship between humankind and nature will be discussed with the aim of providing students with a broad understanding of issues, causes, and possible solutions to the array of environmental problems. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 50. Note: Open to first- and second-year students, including consent seats. Mr. Orr, Staff Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 208 - Environmental Policy 3 SS First Semester. An introduction to national environmental policy with emphasis on major issues of climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and the issues of growth. This course includes discussion of regulatory policies, taxes, market solutions, and other policy options applied to energy policy, transportation policy, endangered species, and materials use. Recommended Preparation: One course in politics or environmental studies. Identical to POLT 208. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Orr Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 231 - Environmental Economics 3 SS, QPh First Semester. Identical to ECON 231. For description, please see “Economics” in this catalog. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 40. Ms. Gaudin Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 291 - Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture 3 SS Second Semester. A conversation on farms, farming and the agrarian foundations of civilization, with special attention to the interaction between philosophy, policy, and practice. This course includes discussion of different schools of thought about agriculture, culture, and rural life including Thomas Jefferson, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Albert Howard, Louis Bromfield, Wendell Berry, and Wes Jackson. The course includes visits to farms in central Ohio. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 25. Mr. Orr Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 310 - Ecological Design 3 SS Second Semester. An upper-division seminar for seniors on ecological design, i.e. the intersection of human intentions with the ecologies of particular places. This course will include a broad survey of ecological design strategies from different cultures along with special emphasis on recent work in architecture, community design, energy systems, landscape management, and ecological engineering and the work of Carol Franklin, John Lyle, William McDonough, Sim van der Ryn, and John Todd. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 12. Mr. Orr Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 316 - Systems Ecology 4 NS Prerequisites & Notes Next offered 2006-2007. Credits: 4 hours
	ENVS 318 - Global Environmental Issues: Food Security 3SS First Semester. This seminar explores the world food system—asking about distributive justice, security, sustainability, and human health. We look at U.S. food, in this context, inquiring into the causes of hunger. Environmental questions: potential for GM foods to reduce malnutrition, erosion of natural biodiversity, misuse of land and water resources. Social issues: land distribution and the landless movement worldwide, employment and income, how micro-credit might stabilize household income. Consent of instructor required. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Wisner Credits: 3 Hours
	ENVS 320 - Gender, Nature and Culture 4 SS Second Semester. This interdisciplinary course draws upon a variety of materials and offers the opportunity to reflect critically upon how culture, gender and nature in Western society have been and continue to be shaped. The starting point will focus on ecosocial context, then students will explore the complex role of humans as dominant agents of biogenetic and ecosocial transformation. Students will immediately apply theory via academically-based community service (ABCS) projects. Recommended Preparation: Background in Women’s Studies, African American Studies, Religion, Sociology, or Environmental Studies. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15. Ms. Blissman Credits: 4 hours
	ENVS 322 - Energy and Society 3 SS Prerequisites & Notes Next offered 2006-2007. Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 324 - Fundamentals of Building Performance 3 SS Prerequisites & Notes Next offered 2006-2007. Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 331 - Advanced Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics 3 SS, QPh Second Semester. This course applies microeconomic analysis to the allocation and management of natural resources and the environment. Economic modeling is used to analyze the optimal use of resources such as land, water, and fossil fuels. Issues of land use and urban sprawl, efficient pricing for water and power, species extinction, optimal extraction of a mineral over time, and the reliance on natural resources in the context of growing populations will be explored. Prerequisites & Notes This course is cross-referenced with ECON 331. Enrollment Limit: 20. Ms. Gaudin Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 340 - Environmental Systems Modeling NS Prerequisites & Notes Next offered 2006-2007. Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 350 - Practicum in Ecological Design of the Adam J. Lewis Center 1.5 NS, 1.5 SS Prerequisites & Notes Next offered 2006-2007. Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 360 - Dynamics of Consumption 3 SS Prerequisites & Notes Next offered 2006-2007. Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 431 - Seminar: Topics in Water Resource Economics 3 SS Second Semester. The seminar will cover issues related to the economics of water use, focusing on theory and policy implications. . Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisites: ECON 253 and ECON 255 or consent of instructor. ECON/ENVS 231 or 331 recommended This course is cross-referenced with ECON 431. Enrollment Limit: 10. Ms. Gaudin Credits: 3 hours
	ENVS 490 - Introduction to the Black RiverWatershed 2 EX First Semester. An interdisciplinary examination of the local Black River Watershed, through a combination of lectures, field trips, and discussions. Principles of place-based, interdisciplinary watershed education will be introduced, and students will work with a teacher in the local public schools. Notes: This course is required for enrollment in ENVS 491. Restricted to juniors and seniors. Preference given to Environmental Studies majors. Prerequisites & Notes Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 24. Ms. Wolfe-Cragin Credits: 2 hours
	ENVS 491 - Practicum in Environmental Education 1-2 EX Second Semester. Students will apply what they learned in ENVS 490 by working intensively with a selected teacher in one of the local schools to develop curricula centered on the local watershed. Students will continue to learn about the dynamics of the Black River Watershed as they gain first-hand teaching experience. Discussion group format. Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: ENVS 490 or equivalent. Note: CR/NE or P/NP grading. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 16. Ms. Wolfe-Cragin Credits: 1 to 2 hours
	ENVS 501 - Research in Environmental Studies 1-5HU Research sponsored by Mr. McMillin and Mr. Newlin. Credits: 1 to 5 hours
	ENVS 502 - Research in Environmental Studies 1-5HU Research sponsored by Mr. McMillin and Mr. Newlin Credits: 1 to 5 horus
	ENVS 503 - Research in Environmental Studies 1-5NS Research sponsored by Mr. Benzing, Ms. Garvin, Ms. Hubbard, Mr. Hubbard, Ms. Janda, Mr. Laushman, Ms. Moore, and Mr. Petersen. Credits: 1 to 5 hours
	ENVS 504 - Research in Environmental Studies 1-5NS Research sponsored by Mr. Benzing, Ms. Garvin, Ms. Hubbard, Mr. Hubbard, Ms. Janda, Mr. Laushman, Ms. Moore, and Mr. Petersen. Credits: 1 to 5 hours
	ENVS 505 - Research in Environmental Studies 1-5SS Research sponsored by Ms. Gaudin, Ms. Janda, Mr. Orr, Mr. Petersen, Mr. Schiff, Ms. Stroud, Mr. Wilson, and Ms. Wolfe-Cragin. Credits: 1 to 5 hours
	ENVS 506 - Research in Environmental Studies 1-5SS Research sponsored by Ms. Gaudin, Ms. Janda, Mr. Orr, Mr. Petersen, Mr. Schiff, Ms. Stroud, Mr. Wilson, and Ms. Wolfe-Cragin. Credits: 1 to 5 hours
	ENVS 995 - Private Reading 1-3EX Consent of instructor required. Credits: 1 to 3 hours
Ethnomusicology
	ETHN 100 - Introduction to Musics of the World CD Second Semester. This course, for students with a basic knowledge of Western music theory, explores five areas drawn from the following: Africa, India, Indonesia, Japan, Europe, Native America, North America, South America. A dual focus on sociology (the musicians, their roles, their audience) and musicology (the instruments, elements of style, and compositional principles) is pursued through a field project, aural analysis, transcription, and in-class performance. For a similar course assuming no music knowledge see CMUS 103. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 40. Mr. R. Knight Credits: 3 hours
	ETHN 203 - Music of India CD First Semester. The focus of this course is on raga sangeet, the classical music of India in its North and South variants, and on the folk and tribal traditions from various parts of the country. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. R. Knight Credits: 3 hours
	ETHN 205 - Music of Indonesia Next offered 2006-2007. Credits: 3 hours
	ETHN 206 - Music of East Asia Second Semester. This course focuses on the classical and folk traditions of China, Korea, and Japan, while also encompassing the music of neighboring areas such as Mongolia, Tuva, Vietnam, and Myanmar (Burma). Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. R. Knight Credits: 3 hours
	ETHN 207 - Music of Africa CD First Semester. This course focuses on the variety of musical traditions in Black Africa with special emphasis on the Mandinka of Gambia, the Shona of Zimbabwe, and the Pygmies of Central Africa. Prerequisites & Notes For non-music students, CMSU 103 or a basic knowledge of western music theory is recommended. Enrollment Limit: 30. Mr. R. Knight. Next offered 2005-2006. Credits: 3 hours
First Year Seminar Program
	FYSP XXX - Russian Modernism: The Aesthetic Utopia 3 HU, CD, WR Next offered 2005-2006. Credits: 3 hours
	FYSP 110 - Black Women and Liberation 4 SS, CD, Wri First Semester. This seminar investigates the various ways that Black women of the 1960s and 1970s in the U.S. and South Africa have led their communities and their freedom movements (e.g., civil rights, anti-apartheid) with an important array of skills, resources, and vision. Students will be asked to think critically about the properties of women’s leadership and political consciousness. We will use autobiographies and other secondary sources, develop research skills, and explore the bridge between community-based activism and intellectual life. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Ms. Brooks Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 111 - Words That Matter 4 HU, Wri First Semester. Through intensive study of poetic language—language, that is, at its most concentrated, deliberate, and artful—we will seek to become more critically aware of language in general. How do words matter? How do they shape our sensory, emotional, and social experience? Readings will include lyric poems, some critical essays, and a few novels, including Gardner’s Grendel, Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Maclean’s A River Runs Through It. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Ms. Bryan Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 112 - Globalization Politics 4 SS, Wri First Semester. This course will explore the issue of globalization through an examination of classical and contemporary debates about the nature of the international political economy. We will examine such topics as the historical development of the world market; competing theoretical explanations of its rise including liberal, state-centered and Marxist approaches; the impact of global forces on the nation-state; alternatives and sources of resistance to the globalization process such as nationalism and transnational social movements. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Crowley Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 113 - Re-envisioning Russia: A Task of Mythic Proportions 4 HU, CD, WRi First Semester. Faced with the daunting task of creating new myths and symbols for the “New Russia,” how do contemporary filmmakers contribute to ongoing ideological and spiritual debates? This course focuses on post-Soviet cinema as a projection of and reflection upon such controversial issues as the divide between the center and the periphery, the wars in Chechnya, the rise of the nouveau riche, and the legacy of the Soviet past. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Ms. Forman Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 114 - Origins and Treatment of Cancer 4 NS, WRi First Semester. This seminar examines the science underlying cancer research and treatment. An understanding that cancer is the result of a series of mutations has emerged from a quarter century of successful cancer research. We will assess the strengths and weaknesses of this description of the origins of cancer, and we will examine the impact of this description on the treatment of cancer. Chemical and biological principles will be developed as needed. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Fuchsman Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 115 - Literature of Atlantic Slavery 4 SS, CD, Wri First Semester. This course examines explorations of Atlantic slavery by African and African Diasporic writers. Students will be exposed to several responses to the circumstances of Western chattel slavery through slave narratives, poetry, novels, essays and film, including those of people who lived as slaves and those who attempt to re-imagine enslavement for a 21st-century audience. We will discuss issues of gender, nationality, race, sexuality, and the politics of abolition. Authors discussed will include Toni Morrison, Sherley Ann Williams, Fred D’Aguiar and Esteban Montejo. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Ms. Gadsby Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 116 - Field-Based Writing: Ecology of the Vermilion River Watershed 2 NS, 2 HU, Wri First Semester. This course will examine the natural processes of autumn using the methodologies of ecology, the study of interactions between organisms and their environment. We will focus on the changes that occur on the Vermilion River watershed through frequent field trips and research into its history and animal and plant life. Writing and sketching will be our means of recording our observations. Weekly writing assignments will be discussed in class and with the instructors during individual appointments. Prerequisites & Notes Note: P/NP grading only. Enrollment Limit: 14. Ms. Cooper, Ms. Garvin Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 117 - Uses of Metaphor 4 HU, Wri First Semester. This seminar will address the fascinating complexity of metaphorical language-how metaphors are used by writers and how they are interpreted by readers. We explore metaphors in poetry and fiction as well as in films, religion, medicine, politics, and art. We will be asking questions such as: How do metaphors inform and direct our thoughts and imaginations? How have metaphors changed over the centuries? Is metaphor an appealing ornament to plain speech, or is it inherent in language itself? Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Hobbs Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 119 - The First Amendment and the Internet 4 SS, WRi First Semester. Constitutional law cases are used to study the impact of the Internet on First Amendment rights of speech, dissent, political organization, academic inquiry, and the right of privacy and security. Topics: What constitutes political, offensive, pornographic, indecent, hateful, harassing, and subversive speech? Are principles of freedom of expression transformed when applied to the Internet? Should, and can, such speech be regulated on the Internet? Prerequisites & Notes Note: This course counts toward the Law and Society and Politics Majors. Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Kahn Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 120 - The Collision of Cultures in North America, 1492-1700 4 SS, CD, WRi First Semester. Once celebrated as a heroic episode in the providential expansion of Western civilization, the European “discovery” and colonization of North America between 1492 and 1700 has more recently been portrayed as an imperialistic enterprise that wrought a holocaust upon native peoples and promoted the spread of slavery in the Atlantic World. This seminar attempts to move beyond sweeping generalizations and simple moral judgments to explore in detail the complex interactions of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans in different regions of North America during the 16th- and 17th-centuries. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Kornblith Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 121 - Everyday Evolution 3 NS, Wri First Semester. Dobzhansky’s famous quote, “Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution,” suggests that organic evolution is widely appreciated and understood. However, many think evolution happened only long ago, and others think evolution is simply “survival of the fittest.” Using non-technical books, such as Why We Get Sick and The Botany of Desire, we will explore the complexities of evolution as central to everyday natural processes. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Laushman Next offered 2006-2007. Credits: 3 hours
	FYSP 123 - Representation and Reality in Contemporary Culture 4 HU, WRi Second Semester. Images pervade our environment to a degree never experienced before. We are inundated by representations in the form of photography, film, television, the internet, and advertising. Yet few of us recognize the effects of such representations on our environment, our culture, or ourselves. Through analyses of various forms of the visual, we examine the largely concealed and naturalized assumptions underlying our cultural values and beliefs as they are produced and reinforced in the visual representations that surround us. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Ms. Mathews Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 124 - Seeing War and Peace through Religious Traditions 4HU, CD, WRi Prerequisites & Notes Next offered 2006-2007. Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 125 - American Mixed Blood 4 SS, CD, Wri First Semester. From the coyote and the half-breed to the ‘tragic’ mulatto, people of mixed ethnic and racial heritage occupy a conflicted and controversial place in American history. This course will chart the histories of people of mixed heritage from the colonial period to the present, exploring the relationship between the historical experiences of mixed heritage and broader trends in American history including slavery, imperialism, legal transformation, and changing cultural patterns. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Mitchell Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 127 - William Butler Yeats: The Last Romantic 4 HU, Wri First Semester. A study of the poetry, autobiographical prose, and several of the plays of William Butler Yeats in the context of his late Victorian and Modernist contemporaries. The influence of writers such as Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot and Pound on Yeats’ poetic practice and theory will be assessed. In Yeats’ work we will focus on the poetry collections “Responsibilities,” “The Wild Swans at Coole,” “The Tower,” “The Winding Stair and other Poems,” and “Last Poems,” and plays such as Cathleen ni Houlihan, The Words Upon the Window-Pane, The Death of Cuchulain and Purgatory. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Olmsted Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 128 - Media and Memory 4 HU, Wri First Semester. Beyond offering different sorts of content and engagement for their audiences, various artistic forms and techniques can be understood to provide alternative models for individuals and groups to filter and process experience in general. This course will look at multiple artistic forms (e.g., painting, photography, film, literature), in light of their own technical developments and contrasts with each other across time, in order to develop a greater sense of the many ways medium matters. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Pence Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 129 - Coming of Age in African Literature 2HU, 2SS, CD, WRi First Semester. This course focuses on African writing, examining a non-western body of work from a non-western perspective. A major theme is the challenges facing youth in colonial and postcolonial Africa: the struggle to balance tradition and change; the quest for education; the development of political awareness. Several books offer an African approach to what in the west is called a “Bildungsroman,” or novel of youth’s coming of age. Texts include Laye’s L’Enfant Noir, Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, and Achebe’s No Longer at Ease. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Podis, Mr. Saaka Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 131 - How Early Jews and Christians Rewrote the Bible 3 HU, CD, Wri First Semester. The first Jewish interpreters of the Bible (including the first Christians) did not just passively read the biblical text, they rewrote it, filling in its narrative gaps with fanciful subplots and using difficult passages as jumping-off points for leaps of poetic and philosophical fancy. We will study these interpretations in early Rabbinic and Christian writings, the Talmud, the New Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Apocrypha, Josephus, and elsewhere, together with the underlying principles of such creative close reading (called midrash in the Jewish tradition). Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Socher Credits: 3 hours
	FYSP 133 - Science and the Mind 4 NS, Wri First Semester. The study of the brain and mind is one of the most exciting frontiers of science. We will discuss some fundamental aspects of science including reasoning, review the basic principles of evolution, learn about brain structure/function, and then explore some of the exciting areas of research in brain and mind. Broad topics include: How does the brain work? What does brain damage tell us about how the mind works? How much of what we perceive is ‘real’? Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Ms. Thornton Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 134 - Crossing Borders: The Mysteries of Identity 4 HU, WRi First Semester. In Western cultures, identity has tended to be defined in binary terms: an individual is either black or white, male or female, straight or gay, and so on. This seminar will seek to explore the nature of identity by focusing on fiction, essays, and films in which categories of identity–specifically those of race, gender, and sexuality–are represented as fluid and ambiguous rather than as fixed and polarized. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Walker Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 136 - Ways of Seeing; Ways of Knowing 4 HU, WRi First Semester. Is seeing believing? Do you see only what you know? Through discussion and writing we’ll address such questions, focusing on the literal and metaphoric perspectives we bring to narratives and other creative work and how such work projects or plays with perspective and “truth.” We’ll examine prose narratives by O’Connor, Morrison, Fitzgerald and others, essays on identity and hoax, the graphic narrative Maus, The Wizard of Oz (film and novel), Orson Welles’ F for Fake, and selected works of visual art. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Ms. Zagarell Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 137 - Neurobiology of the Mind: The Brain is Wider than the Sky 4NS Prerequisites & Notes Next offered 2006-2007. Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 138 - Class: Comparative Perspectives 4 SS, Wri First Semester. Class is not part of our national conversation the way identities—gender, race, ethnicity, nation—are. Yet it involves at least as much exploitation, oppression and inequality. We lift (and explain) this veil. We ask what class is, utilizing anthropological, economic, historical, political, psychological and sociological perspectives. We analyze cases from various locales and moments. Finally, students produce research papers honing in on an aspect of class that interests them. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Blecher Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 139 - Political Leadership 4 SS, WRi First Semester. In the American democracy, political leadership requires a willingness to seek tentative answers to questions that may have no final, unambiguous answer. These include: Does political leadership require certain personal qualities? Can you lead without political power? Without increasing governmental authority or decreasing personal liberty? This seminar deals with these and related questions through reading and discussing various case studies and other analytical perspectives and through writing and rewriting many essays over the semester. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Dawson Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 140 - Religion, Politics, and Ethnicity in South Asian History 4 SS, CD, WRi First Semester. This seminar analyzes the historical developments leading up to independence in South Asia, when religious and ethnic identities became prime politically mobilizing factors in many competing anti-colonial movements. The violent 1947 partition of South Asia led to the creation of the Islamic republics of Pakistan and Bangladesh; while officially secular, India has also moved recently toward religiously defined nationalism. Cross-cutting these religiously defined communities, however, are powerful ethnic identities, including regional nationalisms and “caste-based” parties. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Fisher Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 143 - Sports Matters in America 4 SS, CD, WRi First Semester. This class examines sports as an important lens for understanding historical and contemporary constructions of race, class, gender and sexuality. It challenges students to engage with different historical topics, and to read, think and write critically about a wide range of issues related to sports including: economic systems/practices, media representations, local/national communities and identities, social justice movements, state politics/policy, and the impact of war, terrorism and mass violence. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Mr. Estes Credits: 4 hours
	FYSP 147 - Genesis: Myth, Saga, and Novella 4 HU, WRi First Semester. The book of Genesis narrates the opening drama of a divine/human encounter. Foundational to Jewish and Christian scriptures, this ancient text has generated centuries of interpretation and appropriation. This course will examine the Genesis narrative through progressive historical lenses: its relationship to ancient Mesopotamian mythology, its place in ancient Israelite religion, its appropriation and transformation within early Jewish and Christian interpretation, and finally its place within political, legal, and social disputes in the modern U.S. Prerequisites & Notes Enrollment Limit: 14. Ms. Chapman Credits: 4 hours

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Oberlin College Courses

ENGL 293 - Lyric Poetry Before 1700

ENGL 295 - Forms of Folklore

ENGL 301 - Chaucer

ENGL 307 - Drama in the Age of Shakespeare: Staging Domestic Violence

ENGL 309 - Paradise Lost: Milton, Blake, Shelley

ENGL 312 - Advanced Topic in 18th-Century Literature

ENGL 315 - Eighteenth-Century Fiction

ENGL 316 - Early Victorian Fiction in Context

ENGL 317 - Late Victorian Fiction in Context

ENGL 320 - Documentary Production

ENGL 326 - Contemporary Irish Novel

ENGL 327 - Modern Drama: Ibsen to Pirandello

ENGL 328 - Modern Drama II: Brecht to Pinter

ENGL 330 - Modernist Chicago: Urban Literature and Sociology

ENGL 331 - Modern Poetry I: The Emergence of the Modern

ENGL 333 - Modern Poetry III: Postwar and Postmodern Lyric

ENGL 340 - Technology and Contemporary American Culture

ENGL 353 - “To Write Like an American”: American Literature 1825-1865

ENGL 354 - Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

ENGL 366 - Nature and Transcendentalism

ENGL 368 - Movies and Melodrama

ENGL 372 - Contemporary Literary Theory in American Culture

ENGL 373 - American Literature and Culture in the 1930s

ENGL 376 - Screening Spirituality

ENGL 379 - Gender Formation in Asian American Literature

ENGL 380 - (Dis)Locations of Race

ENGL 383 - Selected Authors: Vladimir Nabokov

ENGL 385 - Coetzee, Greene, and Rushdie: Structures of Belief in J.M. Graham

ENGL 390 - Selected Authors: William Faulkner

ENGL 395 - Poetry Workshop

ENGL 396 - Nonfiction Workshop

ENGL 397 - Fiction Workshop

ENGL 398 - Playwriting Workshop

ENGL 399 - Teaching and Tutoring Writing Across the Disciplines

ENGL 400 - Senior Tutorial

ENGL 409 - Seminar: Arthurian Identities

ENGL 421 - Seminar: Modern Irish Literature

ENGL 425 - Seminar: Feminist Shakespeare: Gender, Race, and Empire

ENGL 433 - Seminar: Imagining History in American Film

ENGL 441 - Seminar: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf

ENGL 450 - Honors Project

ENGL 451 - Honors Project

ENGL 995 - Private Reading

ENVS 101 - Environment and Society

ENVS 208 - Environmental Policy

ENVS 231 - Environmental Economics

ENVS 291 - Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture

ENVS 310 - Ecological Design

ENVS 316 - Systems Ecology

ENVS 318 - Global Environmental Issues: Food Security

ENVS 320 - Gender, Nature and Culture

ENVS 322 - Energy and Society

ENVS 324 - Fundamentals of Building Performance

ENVS 331 - Advanced Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics

ENVS 340 - Environmental Systems Modeling

ENVS 350 - Practicum in Ecological Design of the Adam J. Lewis Center

ENVS 360 - Dynamics of Consumption

ENVS 431 - Seminar: Topics in Water Resource Economics

ENVS 490 - Introduction to the Black RiverWatershed

ENVS 491 - Practicum in Environmental Education

ENVS 501 - Research in Environmental Studies

ENVS 502 - Research in Environmental Studies

ENVS 503 - Research in Environmental Studies

ENVS 504 - Research in Environmental Studies

ENVS 505 - Research in Environmental Studies

ENVS 506 - Research in Environmental Studies

ENVS 995 - Private Reading

ETHN 100 - Introduction to Musics of the World

ETHN 203 - Music of India

ETHN 205 - Music of Indonesia

ETHN 206 - Music of East Asia

ETHN 207 - Music of Africa

FYSP XXX - Russian Modernism: The Aesthetic Utopia

FYSP 110 - Black Women and Liberation

FYSP 111 - Words That Matter

FYSP 112 - Globalization Politics

FYSP 113 - Re-envisioning Russia: A Task of Mythic Proportions

FYSP 114 - Origins and Treatment of Cancer

FYSP 115 - Literature of Atlantic Slavery