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Course Catalog 2005-2006 
    
Course Catalog 2005-2006 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Oberlin College Courses


 

African American Studies

  
  • AAST 070 - Talking Book


    3 HU, CD
    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 072 - Blues Aesthetic: Continuity and Transformation


    3 HU, CD
    Second Semester. The emphasis of this course is upon the thesis that the Black or ‘Blues Aesthetic’ is a cultural perspective that emerges from within the experiences of Black people, facing the socio-political and economic conditions of modern and contemporary America. Our focus will be upon the traditions of African American music, literature, theater/film, and specifically the visual arts.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Identical to ARTS 072. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Mr. Coleman

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 074 - Something From Something


    3 HU, CD
    First Semester. This course is a ‘hands on’ exploration of vernacular visual traditions existing within African American Culture. We will examine design choices/material processes used to define and describe the specificity of lived experience within African American culture. Our focus is upon elders within black communities and the stories that they tell through their work. These ‘folk artists’ function as influences upon contemporary African American artists ranging from Alison Saar, to Renee’ Stout. These vernacular traditions will serve as resources that extend our own working processes as we tell our own stories.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Identical to ARTS 056. Note: Counts as Visual Concepts and Processes for Art majors. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Mr. Coleman

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 101 - Introduction to the Black Experience


    3 SS, CD
    Second Semester. An interdisciplinary exploration of key aspects of Black history, culture, and life in Africa and the Americas. The course attempts to provide students with a fundamental intellectual understanding of the universal Black experience as it has been described and interpreted by humanists and social scientists. Included in the course will be such topics as: the African American Studies movement, the African heritage of Afro-Americans, Pan-African relations, racism and sexism, the family, the role of religion in Black life, class structure and class relations, the political economy of African American life, and Black political power. Declared majors are given priority for this course.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 45.
    Ms. Brooks

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 118 - Ritual and Performance I: The World According to the Yoruba and their Descendants in the New World


    3 SS, CD, WR

    First Semester. This course will explore religious phenomena, performance, and artistic “agency” of the Yoruba and their descendants.We will look at Yoruba syncretic beliefs in the New World as well as in the Old World in relation to ritual secrets and choices for artistic representation, in the performance “arena.” After reading and discussion of written and verbal expression on this subject by practitioners, artists, and intellectuals, students will use dance movement, artistic representation, and “nommo”—the word to represent their own construct of a ritual—to render their example of a specific “construct” of ritual.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Identical to AAST 118/DANC 118.
    Enrollment Limit: 15, first-year students only.
    Ms. Sharpley

    Credits: 3 hours

  
  • AAST 120 - The Caribbean and the Wider World


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Second Semester: In 1493 the Caribbean did not exist in the imagination of Europe and the wider world. In 1494, it was “discovered” by Columbus, and from that time onwards became an integral part of the European imagination and of the Atlantic world. This course will examine the historical background to this transformation and some of the political, moral, and economic issues that confer significance on the changes that took place.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 131 - Traditional African Cosmology


    3 SS, CD, WR
    First Semester. An introductory survey of African philosophical and metaphysical traditions, including an examination of traditional African religion, spirituality, applied metaphysics, and cultural patterns.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 35.
    Mr. Saaka

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 141 - The Heritage of Black American Literature


    3 HU, CD
    Second Semester. A survey of black American literature from its inception in the 18th century to the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, David Walker, Maria Stewart, and others up to DuBois and Anna Julia Cooper, including related slave songs, sermons, spirituals, blues, slave narratives and other folk expressions.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Preference for declared majors and department credit students. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 35.
    Ms. Gadsby

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 171 - Introduction to African American Music


    3 HU, CD
    First Semester. The first semester of a one-year survey of musical styles and forms cultivated by African Americans. This semester includes West African music and West African continuity in the American, early African American instrumental-vocal forms, and the social implications of African American music. This course is cross-referenced with JAZZ 290 and MHST 290.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 50.
    Mr. Logan

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 172 - Introduction to African American Music


    3 HU, CD
    Second Semester. The second semester of a one-year survey of musical styles and forms cultivated by African Americans. This semester includes later instrumental and vocal music (jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, soul, etc.) and important composers and performers of works in extended forms. This course is cross-referenced with JAZZ 291 and MHST 291.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 50.
    Mr. Logan

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 181 - Education in the Black Community


    3 SS, CD, WR
    First Semester. The philosophy of a Ghetto Scholar is the sole focus of this course. This highly creative and very original philosophy centers on a Ghetto Scholar’s use of education to pursue the concept of GGG (the greatest good, for the greatest number, for the greatest period). Students are required to think imaginatively, analytically, and independently as they examine critical issues facing Black and other oppressed peoples. Education is essential to the attainment of a world that is liberated, peaceful, and humane.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Mr. Peek

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 190 - West African Dance Forms in the Diaspora I


    3 HU, CD
    Second Semester. This course will survey dance movement forms and technique from West Africa, to the New World through dance performance. A survey of dance performance using academic discourse as well as a movement vocabulary will be used. The influence of West African movements on the New World will include forms from Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti. This class will be taught from a traditional West African perspective and Pan-African world view.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Identical to DANC 190.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Ms. Sharpley

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 191 - West African Dance Forms in the Diaspora II


    2 HU, CD
    Second Semester. This course will expand the dance movements, forms, and techniques from AAST 190 class. Extensive dance performance within a particular area (Brazil, Cuba and Haiti) will be examined. The dances will be explored in their total experience in context with costumes and music. This course is cross-referenced with DANC 191.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: AAST/DANC 190 or previous dance experience.
    Next offered 2006-2007.


    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • AAST 192 - West African Dance Forms in the Diaspora III


    3 HU
    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 196 - African American Dance History


    3 HU, CD
    Second Semester. This course will trace African American dance and dancers from minstrelsy to the 1960s. The course will highlight the importance of the African form and how this form has impacted types of dances done by African Americans. The course will also explore ways in which African Americans both connect and separate sacred and secular dance forms and the codes that distinguish the two. This course is cross-referenced with DANC 196.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 202 - African American History Since 1865


    3 SS, CD
    First Semester. An analysis of African American history from the Reconstruction Era to the Rise of Black Power. Coverage includes: the Age of Booker T. Washington, Urbanization, Pan-Africanism, Depression and War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Resurgence of Black Nationalism.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 50.
    Ms. Brooks

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 203 - African History from Earliest Times to the 19th Century


    3 SS, CD, WR
    First Semester. This course deals with the origins of human society in Africa; the rise of organized social, commercial and political systems; Egypt and other classical African civilizations and empires; traditional religions, Christianity and Islam in Africa; the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its impact on African societies and trading systems; the under-development of Africa by the end of the slave trade.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Staff

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 204 - African History


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Second Semester. The history of Africa from its encounter with colonialism to the era of independence and neo-colonialism. Coverage includes colonial systems of governance, African resistance and nationalism, the independence movement, and the struggle for liberation n Southern Africa.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 35.
    Staff

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 207 - Seminar: HIV/AIDS and Development in Africa


    2 SS
    First Semester. This course is designed to sensitize and provide a frame of reference through which individual students can better understand HIV/AIDS. The main focus in this course is to examine the challenges HIV/AIDS present in Africa in terms of the economic, social and demographic underpinnings of development. The course will also review and assess the strategies African countries have taken in the campaign against HIV/AIDS. Though focused on Africa as a region, the course will provide students with the building blocks necessary to design an HIV/AIDS prevention campaign.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Mr. Ochwa-Echel

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • AAST 208 - Slavery and Freedom in the Western Hemisphere


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Second Semester. This course examines the emergence of the African diaspora in the Western Hemisphere from the 15th century onward. It focuses on the African historical background; the European contacts with West Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean; the rise of the Atlantic socio-economic and cultural complex; the development of New World economies and societies; the origins and organization of the slave trade and slavery; slave resistance, emancipation and the establishment of freedom.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 35.
    Mr. Millette

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 209 - Society and Politics in the Modern Caribbean, 1838-1970


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Second Semester. This course discusses the modern Caribbean from the emancipation of the slaves in the British West Indies to the independence and post-independence periods. It explores the post-emancipation social, economic and political problems; the introduction of East Indian indentureship; the later emancipations in the French and Spanish islands; political and economic modernization; the growth of the nationalist movements; independence and neo-colonialism.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Mr. Millette

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 211 - Seminar in Diplomacy: Model Organization of African Unity (OAU)


    2 SS, CD
    Next offered 2005-2006.

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • AAST 213 - Education and National Development in Africa


    3 SS, CD
    Second Semester.This course examines the link between education and national development in Africa. Emphasis is given to understanding the relationship between education and development; international aid, education and role of donor agencies; gender, development and education; globalization and education; colonialism and education: legacies and links; lifelong learning and adult literacy programs and education for all.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Mr. Ochwa-Echel

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 215 - African American Women’s History


    3 SS, CD, WR
    First Semester. A general survey of the history of Black women from colonial times to the present. This course will examine the uniqueness of the Black female experience through the lens of the intersection of race, class and sex in American society. This course studies the lives of Black women from slavery through reconstruction, northern migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, and on to the development of a contemporary Black feminism. The course includes literature and political commentary from Black women writers and activists.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Identical to GAWS 280
    Consent of instructor required
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Ms. Brooks

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 219 - The Freedom Movement: Civil Rights and Black Power


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Second Semester. This course offers an analysis of the many singular and communal acts waged by Black people in the U.S. in pursuit of justice from 1955-1968 and beyond. It illuminates the philosophical, moral, political, and practical meanings of freedom as interpreted by communities, organizations and individuals. Using a host of personal testimonies, as well as important secondary works, this course considers questions of leadership, organization, tactics, goals, gender relations, politics, and the economic implications of such a critical moment in African American and U.S. history.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Ms. Brooks

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 231 - African American Politics


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Next offered 2005-2006.

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 235 - Government and Politics of Africa


    3 SS, CD, WR
    First Semester. This course will provide a general overview of colonialism in Africa and its after-effects. More specifically it will deal with topics such as: the acquisition of African colonies by European powers; the slave trade; the colonial policies of the various European powers; “protonationalism;” constitutional developments on the Continent, particularly during the period from 1945 to 1960; African nationalism; the evolution of political parties and the struggle for independence.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Mr. Saaka

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 244 - Modern African Literature


    3 HU, CD, WR
    First Semester. An examination of 20th and 21st century African literature in English with a focus on the political and economic realities of modern day Africa. Keeping in mind that being a writer in Africa is a political act, often punishable by imprisonment and even death, we will appreciate African literature as a platform for political and social critique, as well as the multiplicity of African lives and cultures. Some authors discussed: Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Ben Okri.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Ms. Gadsby

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 245 - The Harlem Renaissance


    3 HU, CD, WR
    First Semester. The Harlem Renaissance refers to the period of African American Arts and Letters from roughly 1919 to 1940. Our examination will include poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and will revolve around the ways in which writers, activists, and artists collaboratively extended African American aesthetic traditions, as we address the major themes, criticisms, and problems discussed by Black writers of the period. Works by Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay will be examined, among others.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Ten places held for consent.
    Enrollment Limit: 35.
    Ms. Gadsby

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 248 - Black Women Writers


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Next offered 2005-2006.

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 261 - “Framing Blackness”: African Americans and Film In The United States, 1915 to the Present


    4 HU, CD, Wri
    Next offered 2006-2007

    Credits: 4 hours
  
  • AAST 264 - African American Drama


    3 HU, CD
    Next offered 2006-2007

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 268 - Black Arts Workshop


    3 HU, CD
    Next offered 2006-2007

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 281 - Practicum in Tutoring


    1-3 SS, CD
    First and Second Semester. Tutors offer academic help to children in schools, homes, etc. Focus is on academically weak children generally, and on Black children specifically. By critiquing the instructor’s tutorial demonstrations, tutors develop an appreciation and understanding of the Master Tutor Concept. TB test required. Obtain and return questionnaires before tutoring.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: Repeatable up to eight hours
    CR/NE or P/NP grading
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Mr. Peek

    Credits: 1 to 3 hours
  
  • AAST 290 - Ritual and Performance II: The World According to the Yoruba and their Descendants in the New World


    3SS, CD, WR
    Second Semester. This course will further explore the religious phenomenon discussed in AAST 118 in performance and artistic “agency” of the Yoruba and Kongo as their descendants develop the secular “Blues” dance and music. This course will also explore the Blues’ on-going artistic and musical tradition that includes the greater Mali Empire’s tradition of the Griot and the codes and signals used in Blues that are the choices of its artistic expression and its uses in the performance arena.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Ms. Sharpley

    Credits: 3 Hours
  
  • AAST 321 - Seminar: Black Feminist Thought: An Historical Perspective


    4 SS, CD, WR
    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 4 hours
  
  • AAST 336 - Pan-Africanism Political Perspective


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 343 - Langston Hughes and the Black Aesthetic


    3 HU, CD, WR
    Next offered 2005-2006.

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 346 - Contemporary African American Literature: 1960-Present


    3 HU, CD, WR
    First Semester. This course examines African American Literature from 1937 to the present. Beginning with the literature of social realism (Ann Petry and Richard Wright) we will cover almost 100 years of African American Literature, including some of the major critical discourses (Modernism, Protest, and the Black Arts Movement) that have guided its development over the past century. Other authors discussed include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, and Toni Cade Bambara.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Ms. Gadsby

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 347 - Culture, History, and Identity: Caribbean Literature and the Politics of Survival


    3 HU, CD
    First Semester. This course serves as introduction to Caribbean Literature. Students will examine a wide range of texts that exemplify the beginning and evolution of a literary tradition that is located on a continuum of African Diasporic Literatures. Our discussion will engage the historical, political, and cultural contexts out of which Caribbean Literature has emerged, particularly struggles against colonialism, neocolonialism, sexism, and global capitalism. Some authors discussed are Michelle Cliff, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, and Nalo Hopkinson. Consent of instructor required.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Ms. Gadsby

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 361 - Framing Blackness II: African Americans and Cinema in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries


    4HU, CD, WRi
    First Semester. This course will continue the inquiry in AAST 261, but will intensively focus on more recent films with Black subjectivity in both dominant and independent cinema. We will consider the legacy of both “Blaxplolitation” and the radical film movement of the early 1970’s on artists of the 1980’s and 90’s. Short papers will be required every week with lengthier assignments at mid-term and finals. Students must be able to attend all morning classes and evening screenings.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Ms. Jackson Smith

    Credits: 4 Hours
  
  • AAST 385 - Black Pedagogy


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Second Semester. Black children possess the inherent ability to score 1400 plus on the SATs and obtain As in school. This course examines the philosophy and practices of Honors Teachers. Students explore analytically and pragmatically a pedagogy designed to help ghetto children attain excellence in reading, writing, and arithmetic in spite of racism, poverty, etc.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Mr. Peek

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 390 - Essence Dance Class


    1-3 HU, CD
    Second Semester. This course is designed to promote and develop creativity in dance performance through the Black experience. A variety of dance forms will be used such as: modern, Afro-forms, and Black urban vernacular dances. Students are expected to purchase costumes.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: AAST 101, AAST 190, or AAST/DANC 191
    Note: This class may be repeated for a maximum of four accumulated hours
    CR/NE or P/NP grading
    Consent of instructor required
    Identical to DANC 390
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Ms. Sharpley

    Credits: 1 to 3 hours
  
  • AAST 391 - Dance Diaspora


    3 HU, CD
    First Semester. Faculty directed performance project. Auditions are held during each semester before enrollment.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: This class may be taken for four accumulated hours
    African American Studies majors will have first priority
    Consent of instructor required
    Identical to DANC 391
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Ms. Sharpley

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 450 - Senior Seminar


    4 SS, CD, WR
    Second Semester. This course will cover aspects of philosophy, history, methodology and research methods in the discipline. This is a required course for all African American Studies majors during the senior year.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Juniors who are majors will be accepted only with consent of instructor or department chair.
    Consent of instructor required
    Mr. Saaka

    Credits: 4 hours
  
  • AAST 500 - Junior Honors Project


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Specialized readings pertaining to a well-defined Honors project. Students must be supervised by a member of the department to identify research sources.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Honors Program is by departmental invitation.
    Consent of chair required.

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • AAST 501 - Senior Honors


    6 SS, CD, WR
    The preparation of Honors theses under the supervision of faculty supervisors.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Honors Program is by departmental invitation
    Consent of chair required.

    Credits: 6 hours
  
  • AAST 502 - Senior Honors


    6 SS, CD, WR
    The preparation of Honors theses under the supervision of faculty supervisors.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Honors Program is by departmental invitation
    Consent of chair required.

    Credits: 6 hours
  
  • AAST 995 - Private Reading


    1-3 SS, CD
    Any student who is interested in undertaking a Private Reading course with a member of the department.

    Credits: 1 to 3 hours

Anthropology

  
  • ANTH 101 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology


    3 SS, CD
    First and Second Semester. An introduction to the nature of cultural anthropology through an examination of basic concepts, methods, and theories that anthropologists employ in order to understand the unity and diversity of human thought and action cross-culturally. Language and culture, kinship and the family, politics and conflict, religion and belief, and the impact of social change and globalization on traditional institutions are some of the topics to be considered in a range of ethnographic contexts

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Ms. Pagliai, Mr. Pineda, Staff

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 102 - Human Origins (Lecture Only)


    3 SS, CD
    Second Semester. This course focuses on paleoanthropology and is an introduction to the evolutionary development of humans. We will examine biological relationships between humans and other primates, primate behavior and classification, and the fossil evidence for human evolution. Emphasis will be placed on the methods used in the study of prehistoric human biological and cultural development.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Ms. Grimm

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 103 - Introduction to Archeology


    3 SS, CD
    First Semester. An introduction to the subfield of anthropology concerned with past human cultures. A basic objective is to acquaint students with both the methods and techniques that archeologists employ in the study and reconstruction of prehistoric societies. Examples will be drawn from a variety of archeological situations ranging from simple hunting and gathering societies to complex chiefdoms and states. Matters of contemporary debate in the area of archeology and the public will also be considered.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Ms. Grimm

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 112 - Human Origins (Laboratory only)


    1 SS
    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 1 hour
  
  • ANTH 113 - Introduction to Archeology (Laboratory only)


    1 SS
    Next offered 2006-2007.


    Credits: 1 hour
  
  • ANTH 204 - Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology


    3 SS
    First Semester. This course furnishes an introduction to core concepts and methodology pertaining to the analysis of language. Students will explore key areas of current research, including sociolinguistics, language socialization, language and gender, non-verbal communication, and literacy. In addition, through practical exercises, the students will learn foundations in phonology, morphology, and syntax, as well as basic discourse analysis transcription skills. The course is intended as a base for more advanced courses in Linguistic Anthropology and in related areas, and no prior linguistic training is required.

    Prerequisites & Notes

    One introductory course.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Ms. Pagliai

    Next offered 2006-2007

    Credits: 3 hours

  
  • ANTH 210 - Indigenous Peoples of Latin America


    3 SS
    First Semester. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to modern historical, ethnohistorical and anthropological approaches to the indigenous populations of Latin America. The course will focus on the ongoing process of conflict and accommodation that has characterized the relationship between the native peoples of the New World and those of the Old World. We will study indigenous social movements dealing with issues such as land claims, natural resources, economic development, cultural recognition and human rights.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Mr. Pineda

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 215 - Art, Language and Society


    3 SS
    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 232 - Native Americans: Contemporary Issues


    3 SS
    Second Semester. Second Module. This course focuses on a selected number of issues facing North American Indians. These include land rights, protection of the environment, creation of urban communities, challenges of economic development and education on the reservations, repatriation and reburial, exploitation of Native American images in the market economy, revitalization movements, and other topics. The course emphasizes native strategies of political and cultural survival amid incorporation into the world system. Through videos and presentations by invited speakers, the class will be particularly attentive to native voices and perspectives.

    Prerequisites & Notes

    One introductory course (100 level) in anthropology or equivalent.
    Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Ms. Pagliai

    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 2 hours

  
  • ANTH 251 - Language in Culture and Society


    3 SS, CD
    First Semester. Study of the relationship between language and culture and of the use of languages in socio-cultural context. Attention is focused on ethnosemantic studies of folk classification systems (cognition, taxonomy, meaning, universals) and sociolinguistic studies of variation in linguistic usage in different social and cultural circumstances (speech acts, speech events, code switching, social meaning).

    Prerequisites & Notes
    One introductory course (100 level) in Anthropology or consent of instructor.
    Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Ms. Pagliai

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 254 - Forms of Folklore


    2SS, 2HU, 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. This course is cross-referenced with ENGL 295.


    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: “For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled “For Introductory Courses to the Study of English”. Identical to ENGL 295.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Ms. Gorfain

    Credits: 4 hours
  
  • ANTH 266 - Ancient Complex Societies


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Second Semester. Using a case study approach, the course focuses on issues associated with the emergence and development of social, economic, and political complexity as these are reflected in the development of early village societies, the evolution of urban, literate societies, and the emergence of ancient empires. Goals include familiarity with methodologies used in date interpretation and a critical understanding of historical and contemporary theoretical issues in archeological research on complexity.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or consent of the instructor.
    Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Ms. Grimm

    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours

  
  • ANTH 278 - Human Rights, Universalism, and Cultural Relativism


    3 SS, CD
    Second Semester. Through an examination of the ways in which people in different societies identify and define ethical and social standards, this course will examine the concept of universal human rights. This course will consider the tension between universal claims and cultural relativism. We will also document and analyze the development of international efforts to apply universal rights. The course will focus on ethnographic case studies from a wide variety of societies that demonstrate the cultural challenges involved in defining, establishing, and implementing a set of global and universal human rights.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 35.
    Mr. Pineda

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 286 - Culture, Symbol and Meaning


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Second Semester. This course explores ethnographic representations of meaningful social experience and collective identity through an examination of rites of passage, dietary habits, human-animal relationships, funerary practice, sexuality, gender, and the like. It examines how the anthropologist makes sense out of the diverse ways people of various cultures, American included, represent systems of meaning. The course addresses concerns not only of Anthropology majors but also of students of history, literature, and the humanities.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: One introductory course (100 level) in anthropology or its equivalent.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Mr. Glazier

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 288 - Immigrant America: Then and Now


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 292 - Museum Anthropology


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Second Semester. Students will assist in an on-going project to make the department’s ethnographic collections from Africa, Asia, and the Pacific available online. This will involve cataloging and digital imaging objects as well as research in the College archives and on the web. Readings about the history and significance of such collecting activity will be discussed as well.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Priority will be given to majors in Anthropology and Archeology Studies and others with a particular interest in museum studies. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Ms. Grimm

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 304 - Language, Gender and Sexual Identities


    3 SS
    First Semester. This course examines the role of language in constructing gender identities. It privileges a cross-cultural approach, addressing studies done in linguistic anthropology, linguistics, and sociolinguistics. The students consider some of the debates regarding gender differences in language use and explore their grounding in structures of power, authority, and social inequality. The course offers an arena to reflect on the influence that ideologies of language have on practices connected to the representation of sexualities and expression of desire. The format is discussion oriented and students will conduct their own research on the topics addressed in class.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: ANTH 204 or ANTH 251, or consent of instructor.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Ms. Pagliai

    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours

  
  • ANTH 312 - Latino and Latin American Folklore


    3 HU, CD
    First Semester. Conducted in English, this course examines the traditional, expressive dimensions of culture to gain a greater understanding of Latin America. Folklore methods and theories are employed in the study of, for example, folk music, dance, drama, foodways, carnival, belief systems, art and dress. Examples are drawn from various regions, including the Caribbean and the United States. Slides, videotapes, and recordings support the readings. Knowledge of Spanish is desirable but not required. This course is cross-referenced with HISP 312.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Ms. Cara

    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours

  
  • ANTH 353 - Culture Theory


    3 SS, CD, WR
    First Semester. A critical examination of major issues in the study of culture over the past century and a quarter through a discussion of such theoretical topics as cultural evolution and neo-evolution, materialism and cultural ecology, functionalism and ecosystems theory, interpretive and symbolic anthropology, structuralism, and political economy. The role of ethnography, the scientific and humanistic dimensions of anthropology, and the relationships between various theories are also considered. Recent multicultural and postmodernist efforts at cultural explanation on the part of anthropologists and other scholars will be examined.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Junior- or senior-level standing, ANTH 101, and one additional course in anthropology.
    Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Staff

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 391 - Practicum in Anthropology


    1-3 SS
    Junior or senior majors in the department may receive up to three hours of credit for applied fieldwork in anthropology. The work should be carried out in connection with a systematic course of reading and the writing of a paper on the topic of the project. The purpose of the paper is to tie the field experience to relevant anthropological principles. The program should be worked out in advance with a department faculty sponsor.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Ms. Grimm, Ms. Pagliai, Mr. Pineda

    Credits: 1 to 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 408 - Seminar on Current Issues in Anthropology: Postmodernism


    3 SS, CD, WR
    Second Semester. This seminar will explore postmodernism and its impact on anthropology over the last two decades. The class will examine the assumptions underlying the postmodernist perspective, the relationship of postmodernism to empirical and scientific anthropology, the nature of research and writing produced in a postmodernist framework, and postmodernist conceptions of ethnography and the role of the anthropologist. Related issues concerning ethics and theory vs. practice will also be considered.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 10.

    Next offered 2006-2007

    Credits: 3 hours

  
  • ANTH 415 - Internships in Teaching


    1-2 SS
    Qualified seniors who wish to assist in the teaching of specific courses may, upon consent of the instructor, achieve one or two credits for their work in such courses. Assistance with laboratory sessions, data analysis, and the research concerns of students in the class compose the major activities of the teaching internships.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Ms. Pagliai, Ms. Grimm, Mr. Pineda

    Credits: 1 to 2 hours
  
  • ANTH 450 - Seminar on Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective


    3 SS
    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 463 - Seminar in Archeology: Art and Image in Ice Age Europe


    3 SS, CD, WR
    First Semester. This course surveys the corpus of Upper Paleolithic art in terms of its geographic distribution, subject matter, techniques of production, context and dating. Interpretive frameworks from anthropology and art history are employed to explore the possible meanings of the expressive culture that was recorded on cave walls, in rock shelters and on portable artifacts by late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 10.
    Ms. Grimm

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 465 - Interactive Technologies and the Museum


    3 SS, CD, WR
    First Semester. In this course we will survey the many ways in which modern museums use interactive technologies to maintain their collections and make them accessible to researchers and the public. Topics will include collection management issues, the presentation of museum materials in exhibitions, educational programs, and digitization projects that provide online access to collections and associated documentary materials. Students will have an opportunity to work with the department’s ethnographic collections and participate in a project to digitize these holdings so they may receive wider exposure and use.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 10.
    Ms. Grimm

    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours

  
  • ANTH 468 - Seminar: Language and Cognition


    3 SS
    Second Semester. This course traces the historical evolution of theoretical attempts to define the relationship between language and thought, moving from the classic works by Sapir and Whorf and the successive debates on them, through the work of ethnolinguists and ethnoscientists, to contemporary approaches. We will explore the legacy of the Cognitive school in linguistic anthropology from its emergence until today, examining its basic propositions and looking forward to possible applications in future studies. Finally, we will discuss more recent work on metaphors and the conceptual structures that influence our behavior and thought.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: ANTH 101 and one additional course in anthropology, or consent of instructor.
    Enrollment Limit: 10.
    Ms. Pagliai

    Next offered 2006-2007.

    Credits: 3 hours

  
  • ANTH 490 - Junior Year Honors


    2-3 SS
    Sections will be offered by Ms. Grimm, Ms. Pagliai, and Mr. Pineda.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Open only to second semester junior majors.
    Consent of instructor required.

    Credits: 2 to 3 hours
  
  • ANTH 491 - Senior Year Honors


    2-6 SS
    Sections will be offered by Ms. Grimm, Ms. Pagliai, and Mr. Pineda.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.

    Credits: 2 hours to 6 hours
  
  • ANTH 995 - Private Reading


    .5-3 SS
    Sections will be offered by Ms. Grimm, Ms. Pagliai, Mr. Pineda, and Staff.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.

    Credits: .5 to 3 hours

Applied Studies

  
  • APST 110 - Piano Class


    First Semester. A basic one-year course (should be taken in the freshman year) including technique, sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, accompaniment, and piano repertoire. Section numbers below (last two digits) relate to placement levels.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission by placement/audition.
    Open only to Conservatory students who must complete a piano requirement.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Mr. Hisey, Ms. McAlister

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 111 - Piano Class


    Second Semester. A basic one-year course (should be taken in the freshman year) including technique, sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, accompaniment, and piano repertoire. Section numbers below (last two digits) relate to placement levels.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Admission by placement/audition.
    Open only to Conservatory students who must complete a piano requirement.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Mr. Hisey, Ms. McAlister

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 112 - Keyboard Accompanying (Vocal)


    First and Second Semester. Following a brief placement audition, pianists are paired with singers according to the needs of the voice department. Students may also make arrangements to accompany specific singers, subject to accompanying faculty’s approval. Accompanying projects are supervised by the voice teacher and accompanying faculty. Five hours of weekly contact time are expected, including rehearsals, voice lessons, coachings with accompanying faculty, but not practice time.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: May be repeated for credit.
    Open to all keyboard players.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Mr. Highfill

    Credits: 1 hour
  
  • APST 113 - Keyboard Accompanying (Instrumental)


    First and Second Semester. Assignments will be made from repertoire requests submitted by the applied faculty. Students are encouraged to make arrangements to accompany specific instrumentalists, subject to accompanying faculty’s approval. Accompanying projects will be supervised by the instrumental teacher and accompanying faculty. Five hours of weekly contact time are expected, including weekly master classes with accompanying faculty, rehearsals, lessons, coachings, but not individual practice time.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Notes: May be repeated for credit.
    Open to all keyboard players.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Mr. Howsmon

    Credits: 1 hour
  
  • APST 130 - Viola Class


    First and Second Semester. A one-semester course required of all students whose principal applied study is violin. The course is designed to familiarize the student with viola technique and clef reading.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: This course may be waived by examination.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 10.
    Staff

    Credits: 1 hour
  
  • APST 204 - Interpretation of Art Song


    First and Second Semester. Individual coaching sessions for singer/accompanist duos on musical style, interpretation, ensemble, languages, and presentation. Students who begin coaching first semester for a second semester recital will receive a deferred grade pending completion of the recital. Piano majors may substitute this course for one of the required keyboard accompanying credits.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Accompanists may repeat the course for credit once.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 8.
    Open to seniors and artist diploma candidates preparing degree recitals, and to their accompanists.
    Mr. Highfill

    Credits: 1 hour
  
  • APST 208 - Guided Piano Pedagogy Project


    First and Second Semester. An independent study course for prospective and declared piano pedagogy minors. Students must propose and complete a significant written research project in the field of piano pedagogy and present their work in a public lecture-demonstration. Topics may be drawn from the piano teaching literature, current pedagogical trends, or historical pedagogy.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to declared piano pedagogy minors only.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5.
    Mr. Hisey

    Credits: 1 hour
  
  • APST 209 - Guided Teaching Observation


    First and Second Semester. A student will observe a series of individual and group lessons to become familiar with a variety of teaching styles and pedagogical approaches.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Requirements will include a portfolio of observation reports and regular consultation with the instructor.
    Open to piano pedagogy minors or those intending to pursue the minor.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5.
    Mr. Hisey

    Credits: 1 hour
  
  • APST 210 - Intermediate Piano Pedagogy


    Second Semester. General introduction for pianists to pedagogical principles, teaching repertoire, and learning materials and technology, with focus on teaching intermediate level students. Students will engage in lecture-discussions, critically respond to assigned readings, examine current teaching materials, and contribute regularly to a web-based discussion group.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Observation and practice teaching of private and group lessons is required.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 13.
    Mr. Hisey

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 211 - Elementary Piano Pedagogy


    First Semester. A one-semester introduction to the teaching of beginning piano and musicianship skills to young students in group and private settings. The course covers philosophical and developmental issues; as well as a thorough review of methods, materials, resources, and techniques for teaching at the elementary level. Weekly one-hour lecture; regular supervised group and private teaching experiences.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to piano majors or principals.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 8.
    Mr. Hisey

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 212 - Advanced Piano Class


    First Semester. A continuation of APST 110, 111 Piano Class, including advanced work in technique, sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, accompaniment, and piano repertoire.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open only to Conservatory students.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Mr. Hisey

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 213 - Advanced Piano Class


    Second Semester. A continuation of APST 110, 111 Piano Class, including advanced work in technique, sight reading, harmonization, improvisation, accompaniment, and piano repertoire.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open only to Conservatory students.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Mr. Hisey

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 214 - Keyboard Skills I


    First Semester. Intensive practical experience in functional keyboard skills including keyboard harmony, sight reading, transposition, improvisation, score reading, continuo playing.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUTH 132, APST 214 (or the waiver exam) is prerequisite to APST 215.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 8.
    Mr. Boe, Mr. Breitman, Staff

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 215 - Keyboard Skills II


    Second Semester. Intensive practical experience in functional keyboard skills including keyboard harmony, sight reading, transposition, improvisation, score reading, continuo playing.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUTH 132, APST 214 (or the waiver exam) is prerequisite to APST 215.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 8.
    Mr. Boe, Mr. Breitman, Staff

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 216 - Improvisation at the Organ


    Second Semester. A course designed to help students acquire the technical and mental disciplines necessary to improvise in different classical styles. The course is devoted primarily to learning how to apply keyboard harmony in improvising short pieces and to developing simple contrapuntal techniques. Cantus firmus treatment in two-, three-, and four-part textures will be explored along with more extended free forms.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: APST 214.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5.
    Staff

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 230 - The Teaching of Singing


    Second Semester. The first part of the course is designed as an introduction to aspects of physiology, acoustics, and phonetics of the singing instrument, relating them directly to comparative vocal techniques and to the materials of teaching. It presents practical application of systematic vocal technique to the teaching of singing. The Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center will be heavily relied upon as a resource for the course.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Significant vocal study.
    Junior or senior status required.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Ms. Manz

    Credits: 3 hours
  
  • APST 233 - Woodwind Performance Pedagogy


    First Semester. A one-semester course examining various aspects of teaching of all levels of all of the instruments of the woodwind family. This course will include master classes with discussion sessions following. Some writing will be involved. We will have discussions on subjects concerning teaching etiquette, breathing, psychology, etc. The students will give lessons to students invited to the class. Discussions will follow.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 10.
    Ms. Chastain

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 234 - Flute Pedagogy


    Second Semester. A one-semester course examining the various teaching techniques and methods for beginning through college level flutists. The course will include lectures and teaching observed by the class to be followed by discussion sessions. Participants will also teach supervised private lessons on a pay basis.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Open to flute performance majors.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 6.
    Ms. Chastain

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 235 - Percussion Instruments


    Second Semester. Primarily for music education majors. Designed to give students knowledge of the pedagogy of percussion instruments, materials and method books, and methods for building percussion sections of school ensembles. All percussion instruments are demonstrated and basic techniques taught, each student being required to develop basic playing ability.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Mr. Rosen

    Credits: 1 hour
  
  • APST 236 - Workshop in Writing for Percussion


    First Semester. A workshop for composition majors only, concentrating on the problems of writing for percussion instruments and including studies of the characteristics and performance problems of all percussion instruments, notational systems, set-up problems, and orchestrational possibilities.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 6.
    Mr. Rosen

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 240 - Continuo Realization at the Keyboard


    Second Semester. A course in the technique and practice of realizing continuo parts in the music of the Baroque. Designed primarily for harpsichord, organ, piano, and music history majors.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUTH 132 and APST 214.
    Enrollment Limit: 5. Staff

    Credits: 2 hours
  
  • APST 241 - Introduction to Historical Keyboard Instruments for Pianists


    First Semester. A team-taught, hands-on introduction to the fortepiano, harpsichord, and organ. The semester will be divided into four segments. During each of the first three segments (one per instrument) students will meet in groups of three or four, twice a week. Students will be expected to prepare excerpts from a variety of repertory. Related readings will also be assigned. For the fourth segment, each student will concentrate on one of the instruments, selecting a short work for in-class performance at the end of the semester. During this final segment, private lessons with the appropriate faculty member will replace the class meetings.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MHST 215 (first semester of Keyboard Literature).
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Staff

    Credits: 2 hours
 

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