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Feb 03, 2025
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Course Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Courses Open to and Appropriate for New Students
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This list contains courses that are open and appropriate for summer registration by incoming first-year students. If you have advising questions about these courses, please email first.year.advice@oberlin.edu.
Beginning in Fall Semester 2013, courses in the College of Arts and Sciences academic departments are offered as full or half academic courses. A full academic course is equivalent to four credits; a half academic course is equivalent to two credits. PLEASE NOTE: In the listing below, you will see the word “full;” this does not mean the course does not have any available seats, it means that it is a full academic course equivalent to four credits.
Omitted from this list are courses with pre-requisites and courses that require consultation with a member of the faculty before registration. You will be able to register for these courses during the on-campus registration period in August.
For complete descriptions of these courses, click on the link for the courses below.
A quick guide to all fall courses is available at: http://new.oberlin.edu/office/registrar/class-schedules/ or you may search PRESTO (presto.cc.oberlin.edu) for schedule information.
Language Courses: If you have no prior experience in a certain language, you should take the 100-level course in that language. If you have prior study or exposure to the language, you must take a placement test before registering. Please see the new students website section on Academic Planning (https://new.oberlin.edu/new-students/academic-planning/) for information about placement exams. The placement test will guide us in placing you in the correct course in our curriculum; once you know the results of the placement exam, you will be able to register for the appropriate class after you arrive on campus.
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Comparative American Studies
First Year Seminar Program
The courses listed below appear to require consent but do not for the summer registration process. You do not need to contact the faculty member to obtain consent until orientation begins and you register on campus. - FYSP 046 - Japanese Religion and Pop Culture: Manga and Anime
- FYSP 047 - Riffing and Sampling: Blues, Jazz, and Hip Hop and American Literature
- FYSP 048 - Robin Hood Across the Ages
- FYSP 049 - Renaissance Outsiders: Studies in Radical Self-Identity in Early Modern Art and Culture
- FYSP 050 - Conceptions of the Self East and West
- FYSP 052 - Women Composers: Negotiating a Place
- FYSP 051 - Soundscapes
- FYSP 056 - Music and the Search for Unity in Russian History
- FYSP 062 - Femmes Fatales
- FYSP 064 - The Last Days of Pompeii
- FYSP 066 - Jane Austen Then and Now
- FYSP 067 - Agreeing to Disagree: The Mathematics and Philosophy of Cooperation
- FYSP 070 - Uncle Sam(urai): Japan-U.S. Encounters since 1853
- FYSP 074 - Race and Place: Reading the Rez, the Holler, and the Cul-de-Sac
- FYSP 076 - The Privileged and the Marginalized: History and Culture of American Colleges and Universities
- FYSP 086 - Contemporary East Asian Cinema
- FYSP 089 - Heretics and Infidels: Muslims, Christians, Jews and the Legacy of the Middle Ages
- FYSP 093 - Disability
- FYSP 094 - Das Kapital
- FYSP 108 - The Uses of Literature
- FYSP 110 - Black Women and Liberation
- FYSP 113 - Re-envisioning Russia
- FYSP 117 - Nature and the Environment in East Asian Culture
- FYSP 118 - The Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender with Social Class in Contemporary America
- FYSP 127 - Race-ing the Environment: Historical Approaches to Race and Environmental History
- FYSP 128 - Media and Memory
- FYSP 129 - Coming of Age in African Literature
- FYSP 134 - Crossing Borders: The Mysteries of Identity
- FYSP 136 - Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing
- FYSP 139 - Political Leadership
- FYSP 140 - Pakistan: A New Nation’s Identities
- FYSP 153 - Worldview and History: Approaches to the History of the World
- FYSP 165 - Feeding the World
- FYSP 174 - Technologies of Writing: From Plato to the Digital Age
- FYSP 180 - Exploring Chicago
- FYSP 181 - Selfishness or Altruism? The Evolution of Sociality in Humans and Other Animals
- FYSP 187 - Ars Moriendi: Death and the Art of Dying
- FYSP 197 - Cats, Cattle, and Corn: On the Origin of Domesticated Species
- FYSP 199 - Designer Babies and Other Possibilities
German
New students will have an opportunity to register for upper level German courses after arriving on campus and taking placement exams. Greek
First year students with prior preparation in Greek may enroll in 200 or 300 level courses during registration in August. The Classics department does not give or require a placement exam in Greek; however, during orientation Classics faculty are happy to consult with students about which level of the language would be appropriate for them. Hispanic Studies
Except for 101, all Hispanic Studies courses require appropriate AP or SAT II scores or a placement exam. You will have an opportunity to register for other Hispanic Studies courses after you arrive on campus so consider other courses offered in the department and see specific information about entry into HISP courses at new.oberlin.edu/hispanic_studies. Latin
First year students with prior preparation in Latin may enroll in 200 or 300 level courses during registration in September. The Classics department does not give or require a placement exam in Greek but during orientation Classics faculty are happy to consult with students about which level of the language would be appropriate for them. Mathematics
In order to take introductory statistics (STAT 113 or 114) or introductory calculus (MATH 131 or 133 only), students must take the corresponding ‘readiness’ exam. These short tests are given during orientation week and other times during the semester. Once you have taken the readiness test and met with your advisor, you will be able to register for the appropriate course during on-campus registration. The Calculus Readiness Exam (but not the Statistics Readiness Exam) is also available online on Blackboard. (You can get to it by logging in to Blackboard, clicking on the “Classes” tab and then following the directions in the box titled “Placement Tests” under the “Information” tab.) After taking the readiness exam and meeting with an advisor, you will have the opportunity to register for statistics, calculus and other mathematics classes once you are on campus. Please note that only 100 and 200 level courses are listed, but 300 level courses will be open for on-campus registration. Neuroscience
First year students with an Biology AP score of 5 or an IB score of 6 will be able to register for open seats in NSCI 201 after they arrive on campus. Students with this preparation should speak to the course instructor during orientation for permission to add the course. Physics and Astronomy
Students interested in taking physics should consult with a physics faculty member for appropriate placement into either PHYS 103, PHYS 110, or PHYS 212, based on past experience. PHYS 110 is the typical entry course for prospective physics and 3-2 engineering majors; MATH 133 is a prerequisite, with students usually taking concurrently MATH 134. Psychology
First year students with a Psychology AP score of 5 will be able to register for open seats in 200-level Psychology courses during on-campus registration in August. Rhetoric and Composition Practica Courses
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