204. African History.
231. African American Politics 3
hours
3SS,CD,WR
This course is a survey and explication of the major ideas, themes, events and
texts that make up African American political experience, historically and contemporarily.
African American political experience will be examined as it expresses itself
through formal and informal venues. Some of the themes that will be examined
will be political leadership, political ideology, institutional and mass popular
political expression, political movements and the influence of African American
culture on political behaviour. Focus will be placed on the intersections of
race, class and gender and the manner in which these perspectives inform African
American political expression. Enrollment Limit: 35
Sem 2 CRN 11905 AAST-231-01 TTh--1:30-2:45 Mr.
Peterson
352. Running and Governing: Urban Politicking and Governance
1 hour
1SS
Second semester, second module. In this seminar, former Cleveland Mayor Michael
White and Chris Carmody (OC '89), former Co-director of the Mayor's Office of
Competitiveness, will explain the processes of campaigning for, and governing
from, the mayoralty of a major U.S. City. How is a campaign shaped and pursued?
What enables victory? What were the White Administration's goals? How were challenges
met and managed? Based on first-hand and original materials, students will produce
analyses of what works and doesn?t work in urban campaigning and governance.
Prerequisite: at least one course in American Politics. Identical to POLT 423.
Enrollment limit: 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11423 AAST-352-01 T--1:00-2:50
(April 6, 13, 20, 27) Mayor White, Mr. Carmody
380. African American Historiography
3 hours
3SS,CD
This seminar offers an historical overview of theories and appoaches pertinent
to the study and writing of African American History. While the course is designed
for students contemplating advanced studies in African American History or African
American Studies, the critical thinking, writing, and research skills they will
be exposed to in it will be very useful in related disciplines. Students will
be expected to engage the literature and demonstrate mastery of concepts through
class discussions and writing assignments. A working knowledge of African American
History before and since 1865 will be of great advantage in the course. Enrollment
Limit:15.
Sem 2 CRN 11906 AAST-380-01 W--7:00-9:00pm
Ms. Kossie-Chernyshev
Cancelled Course
520. Community Afr-Amer Urban South
232. Native Americans: Contemporary Issues.
201. Ecological Knowledge, History,
and the Nonhuman in the Upper Amazon 1 hour
1SS
Second Semester. One Week Module. How do dogs dream? Can words ever capture
what really happens in the forest? Why are jaguars like powerful whites? These
questions are of vital importance for Amazonians because their livelihood depends
on the ability to successfully engage with the myriad beings that inhabit the
forest. Examining such questions, by means of an in-depth study of the ecological
understandings and practices of the Runa of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, will help
us better understand current debates regarding the ways in which culture and
nature become entangled. This course will be offered as credit/no entry. Enrollment
Limit: 60
Sem 2 CRN 11977 ANTH-201-01 April
6-9: 7:00-9:00 p.m. Mr. Kohn
April
10: 9:00-11:00 a.m.
240. Anthropology and Film 3
hours
3SS,CD
This course is an introduction to ethnographic film and its relationship to
social anthropology. We will study the varied styles of ethnographic film-making
and examine some of their underlying assumptions. Films will be treated as texts
whose meanings reside both in their content
and in their communicative structures. The objectives and methods of ethnographic
film-making will be compared to those of anthropology, with particular reference
to the intellectual tradition in which each has evolved. The course will also
provide an opportunity to examine the appropriateness of film as a medium of
scientific research and to consider whether film-making can offer any useful
alternatives to current concepts of anthropological knowledge. Prerequisite:
One introductory course (100 level) in Anthropology or equivalent. Enrollment
limit: 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11982 ANTH-240-01 MW--2:30-3:45 Mr.
Reyes-Ruiz
278. Human Rights, Universalism, and Cultural Relativism
3 hours
3SS, CD
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. The 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. Enrollment Limit: 35
Sem 2 CRN 11969 ANTH-278-01
TTh--3:00-4:15 Mr. Pineda
288. Immigrant America: Then and Now 3 hours
3SS, CD, WR
Second Semester. The beginning and end of the twentieth century mark two periods
of large-scale immigration to the United States, each bringing profound changes
to the character of the nation. From 1900 until 1924, millions of newcomers
from southern and eastern Europe arrived. Immigration since 1965 has drawn people
mostly from Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. This course examines the
history of immigration to the United States and then compares the two periods
of immigration in terms of social, economic, and cultural consequences, assimilation
and cultural persistence, linguistic and environmental implications, immigration
advocacy and resistance, welfare and entrepreneurship, and immigrant communities
in relationship to the rest of the nation, particularly to African Americans.
Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or prior work in American History or Sociology Enrollment
limit 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11942 ANTH-288-01 MWF--1:30-2:20 Mr.
Glazier
750. Javanese Gamelan.
213. Roman Oddities: The Other Social
History 3 hours
3SS
Many modern institutions and traditions find their origin in Roman
times--the Capitol, Senate, and bull fighting, for instance--and thus make the
Roman world appear familiar to us. Much of Roman life, however, could hardly
seem more alien: child exposure, unrepentant enslavement of fellow humans, riotous
religious rites, and public latrines serving hundreds of patrons in full view
of one another. In this course on Roman civilization, we will concentrate on
these foreign aspects and seek to explain them by considering them within their
social and cultural contexts. Possible topics include: privacy, pollution, hygiene,
slavery, entertainment, sexuality, and death. Identical to CLAS 213. Prerequisite:
Classics 104, Classics 212, or consent of instructor. Enrollment limit: 25
Sem 2 CRN 11985 ACHS-213-01
TTh--11:00-12:15 Mr. Hartnett
251. Approaches to Japn Art History 3
hours
3HU
This survey of Japan will highlight a range of artistic media from ancient times
to the modern day. We will examine the art and architecture of religious and
secular traditions, with an emphasis on painted traditions (narrative handscrolls,
prints, and screens). Primary themes will include the contexts of artistic production
(as informed by gender or socio-political circumstances), the spatial or social
networks of their use, cultural exchange with China, and tensions between court-sponsored
traditions and other artistic practices. Identical to EAST 142
Sem 2 CRN 11665 ARTS-251-01 TR-11:00-12:15 Ms.
Cheng
260. Understanding Art & Architecture: Examining the Body 3
hours
3HU
This course will provide a focused study of the representation of the body in
Western art in order to introduce students to the goals, methods, and practices
of art-historical inquiry. Broadly oriented geographically and chronologically,
course readings and meetings will consider definitions of the body as well as
uses of the body in artistic practice. Discussions as well as writing assignments
will be organized around frequent class and individual visits to the Allen Memorial
Art Museum in this investigation of traditional and experimental representations
of and by the body.
Sem 2 CRN 11666 ARTS-260-01 MWF--0130-0220 Ms. Hirsh
451. Problems in East Asian Art History: Death and Dying in East Asian Art 3
hours
3HU
The concept of death and one’s post-mortem fate has traditionally elicited
an array of human responses, often an amalgam of fear and fascination. This
seminar considers art and practices inspired by these concerns: preparations
for graves, ritual treatment/transformation of the body, representations of
otherworldly realms, and modern modes of commemoration. We consider themes of
the soul, Buddhist judgment and rebirth, ritual sacrifice, and suicide to understand
how preparations for or representations of death assuage fears of death. Consent
of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12.
Sem 2 CRN 11672 ARTS-451-01 W--2:30-4:20
Ms. Cheng
461. Art & Totalitarianism: Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Stalinist Russia
3 hours
3HU
This seminar will examine the visual culture of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany,
and Stalinist Russia with a view toward how totalitarian regimes do (and do
not) shape artistic production. Before embarking on these three case studies,
we will review working models of avant-garde and modern practice in order to
better consider these regimes’
influence on the art, architecture, and film produced within the greater context
of European modernism. Throughout the course, we will analyze both the aestheticization
of politics and the politicization of aesthetics. Lastly, the course will include
a consideration of American visual culture contemporary to the three totalitarian
regimes under investigation. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit:
12.
Sem 2 CRN 11673 ARTS-461-01 M--7:00-10:00
pm Ms.Hirsh
471. The Architectural Ruin in European Landscape Painting, 1600-1800
3 hours
3HU
Second Semester: This seminar examines various approaches to the portrayal of
architectural ruins in European landscape painting of the 17th and 18th centuries,
with particular focus on the French school, considering some of the external
forces that shaped the production of these pictures. Works in the Allen Memorial
Art Museum will feature in discussions, as well as paintings to be included
in the Museum's exhibition, The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting,
1640-1800, scheduled for the Spring of 2005 and curated by the instructor. Consent
of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12. Sem 2 CRN
11674 ARTS-471-01 Th--2:30-4:20
Mr. Borys
041. Visual Concepts and Process: Art
and the Environment 3 hours
3HU
Students will be introduced to a number of artists whose ideas and work are
influenced by their interest and concerns for the environment. We will work
in both two and three dimensions using found, recycled, and borrowed materials.
An introduction to basic building techniques and tools will assist students
in their ability to express their ideas. Readings, research, and critiques are
a required part of the cour-e. Enrollment Limit: 18
Sem 2 CRN 11909 ARTS-041/01 TTh--9:00-12:00
Ms. Macias
047. Vis Pro-Painting: Metaphors for Relationships 3
hours
3HU
This course will examine the medium of paint as a contemporary venue. While
the course is designed to enhance the student's understanding of perceptual
painting and methods, the intent is to integrate social and cultural concerns
and processes into the discourse of painting. We will facilitate these issues
through four (painting, installation, collage, and performance based) projects.
Readings, critiques, and one oral presentation required. One semester of drawing
required.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Sem 2 CRN 11658 ARTS-047-01
WF--9:00-12:00 Ms. Umbenhour
Sem 2 CRN 11659 ARTS-047-02
TTh--9:00-12:00 Ms. Umbenhour
051. Visual Concepts and Processes: Video Art Installation 3
hours
3HU
Description: This course will focus on the history of video art surveying the
period between the 1980’s until the present. The contemporary use of large-scale,
multi-channel, multi-projection, video installations, new technology, and the
integration of narrative and documentary techniques will be covered. Screenings,
readings and studio exercises are three equally important components in the
course study. Students will be required to develop concepts for small and large-scale
video installations. These video installations will be developed from conception,
to written proposal including technical drawings and eventually to final presentation
within a class exhibition. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit:
12
Sem 2 CRN 11907 ARTS-051-01
TTh--9:00-12:00 Ms. Mattern
061. Problems In: Multi-Media Performance 3 hours
3HU
This is a studio production course in contemporary multimedia performance with
an emphasis on the interface between literature, painting, performance, video,
sound, music, new media technologies and installation. A variety of high and
low-tech media, both analog and digital will be employed in the development
of an experimental and interdisciplinary performance based on a journey made
by Cuban painter Wilfredo Lam and his contemporaries . Students will be required
to participate as collaborators in their respective area of study. Public presentations
of the various stages of development will take place throughout the semester
including the premiere of a final public presentation at the end of the semester.
Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12
Sem 2 CRN 11908 ARTS-061-01
MW--1:30-4:30 Ms. Mattern
065. Problems In Painting: Other Voices 3
hours
This is an upper level course designed for students who have taken at least
two painting classes or combination of painting and sculpture, photography,
silkscreen, or time based media. Students will be working with a variety of
materials examining how installation, collage, Xerox, and reconfiguration impact
the exploration process. Readings and discussion will be an important part of
the course. Students are required to complete four major projects. Prerequiste:
ARTS 048. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 10
Sem 2 CRN 7041 ARTS-065-01 MW--1:30-4:30
Ms. Umbenhour
225. Approaches to Islamic Art and
Architecture 3 hours
3HU
An introduction to the architecture, painting, and decorative arts of the Islamic
World, from Africa to India, between the seventh andeighteenth centuries. The
course material is discussed chronologically with an eye toward stylistic change,
and thematically in order to emphasize the central concepts of Islamic art,
including sacred space, palace culture, the role of mysticism, the question
of figural representation, and the centrality of calligraphy and ornament. This
course will provide a basic understanding of the historical evolution and regional
variation of Islamic art and architecture and a deeper appreciation of its major
themes and concepts. Limited to 25.
Sem 2 CRN 11986 ARTS-225-01
TTh--1:30-2:45 Mr.
Tabbaa
325. The Architecture and Arts of the Mamluks (1250-1517)
3 hours
3HU
This course deals with the architecture, the decorative arts, and the art of
the book of the Mamluks, the dynasty that ruled Egypt, Palestine, and Syria
between the 13th and early 16th centuries. The religious, educational, and charitable
complexes favored by the Mamluks, form a central theme of this course and a
point of departure for discussions of the socio-economic foundations of these
institutions; their role in defining the urban character of Cairo, Jerusalem,
Damascus, and Aleppo; and their ideological impact upon the urban population.
Qur’an manuscripts and various religious furnishings – including wooden
pulpits and mosque lamps – are discussed within the context of these foundations,
while secular objects, particularly inlaid metalwork, are discussed as emblems
of royal privilege and social distinction.
Sem 2 CRN 11987
ARTS-325-01 TTh--11:00-12:15
Mr. Tabbaa
425. Palace and Kingship in Medieval Islam 3 hours
3HU
This seminar discusses palace and palace culture in the central and western
Islamic world between the 10th and 14th centuries, ending with the Alhambra
Palace in Granada. After briefly surveying the gigantic palaces of the Abbasids
in Baghdad and Samarra, the seminar will focus on the citadels and palaces of
the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries, examining their formal and iconographic
features (including gardens, sculpture, and inscriptions) and the various physical
and ideological linkages with their surrounding cities. The seminar also provides
an excellent opportunity for comparing these citadels and palaces with their
Crusader counterparts in the Levant. Limited to 15 with consent of the instructor.
Sem 2 CRN 11988
ARTS-425-01 M--2:30-4:20 Mr.
Tabbaa
069. Re-Imagining the Book.
343. Issues Amer Art & Architecture.
351. Themes in Chinese Art.
126. Free Weight Training I(CRN 7088).
127. Running Conditioning (CRN 7091).
127B. Running Conditioning (CRN 9176)
128. Running Conditioning (CRN 11679).
129. Free Weight Training II(CRN 7093 & 11680).
151. Racketball (CRN 11681).
321. Hammer Strength (CRN 7116).
101. Form, Style & Meaning in Cinema 4
hours
4HU
See catalog for course description. Identical to ENGL 173.
Sem 2 CRN 11163 CINE-101-01 TR--11:00-12:15
Ms. Monti
W---7:00-10:00pm
242. Masters Of World Cinema: Focus On Bergman 2 hours
2HU
A selected viewing and close analysis of Ingmar Bergman’s most acclaimed
films from his earlier comedies to his epic Fanny and Alexander. The evolution
of Bergman’s central thematic concerns and the development of his distinctive
cinematic style is traced out in Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal,
Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence, Persona,
and Fanny and Alexander. Enrollment Limit: 40
Sem 2 CRN 11980 CINE-242-01 MW--3:30-4:20
& T--3:00-5:00 screening time Mr. Goulding Module
1
243. Masters Of World Cinema: Focus On Polanski 2 hours
2HU
A focused discussion and critical analysis of Polanski’s most significant
films from his earliest works in his native Poland, his British, Hollywood,
and French periods, to his recent award-winning international co-productions
Death and the Maiden and The Pianist. Emphasis will be placed on continuities
and discontinuities of artistic influences, thematic treatment, sociocultural
content, and aesthetic form and imagery as Polanski moved from the political
East to the political West and from one film culture to another. Enrollment
Limit: 40
Sem 2 CRN 11981 CINE-243-01 MW--3:30-4:20
& T--3:00-5:00 screening time Mr. Goulding
Module 2
376. Screening Spirituality 4 hours
4HU, WR
Since its inception, cinema has maintained a perennial concern with problems
of representing experiences of the miraculous or transcendental. Despite the
customary linkage of film to secular modernization, then, filmmakers and critics
have returned repeatedly to the form's profound evocation of a sense of reality
to explore the limits and consequences of this tendency. Across historical and
national divisions, we will investigate cinematic treatments of spirituality
in light of the challenges they present to critical theory and practice.
Identical to ENGL 376. Prerequisite: Cinema Studies 101 or a Cinematic Traditions
course or three 200-level courses in English. Enrollment limit: 25
Sem 2 CRN 11956 CINE-376-01
TTh--1:30-2:45 + M--7:00-10:00pm screening time
Mr. Pence
380. The Anxiety of
Influence: Godard and Bertolucci 4 hours
4HU, WR
A comparative study of the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Bernardo Bertolucci
over the past four decades. Particular attention is paid to the close relationship
between the two filmmakers during the 1960s
and the different paths their careers eventually took.
Prerequisite: CINE 101 and any other 200-level cinema course or consent of instructor.
Enrollment limit: 25
Sem 2 CRN 11978 CINE-380-01
TTh--3:00-4:15 & M--7:00-10:00pm screening time Ms.
Monti
436. Movies and Melodrama 4 hours
4HU, WR
This course will explore the long history, cultural contexts, and critical challenges
associated with melodramatic narrative cinema. We will study the origins of
melodrama, the rise and fall of its status as a form, its association with women
as subjects and audiences, its adaptation to different historical and cultural
contexts, and its relationship to contemporary problems of cultural analysis.
Expect a demanding viewing and reading schedule, high expectations about participation,
and to develop a significant independent project.
Identical to ENGL 368. Prerequisite: Cinema Studies 101 or a Cinematic Traditions
course or three 200-level courses in English. Enrollment limit: 18. Consent
of instructor required.
Sem 2 CRN 11184 CINE-436-01
W--7:00-9:30 pm + T--7:00-10:00pm screening time Mr.
Pence
468. Feminist Film
Theory and American Cinema 4 hours
4HU, WR
A study of the major contributions of feminist film theory over the past twenty-five
years. Topics include spectatorship, psychoanalysis, genre, and authorship,
as well as recent works that have addressed the mutual interrogation of gender
and race. Students become conversant with the critical methodologies of feminist
scholarly writing and apply them to the analysis of film texts. Prerequisite:
CINE 101 and any other 200-level cinema course or consent of instructor. Enrollment
limit: 16.
Sem 2 CRN 11979 CINE-468-01
M 2:30-4:20 + Su 7:00-10:00 pm screening time Ms. Monti
213. Roman Oddities: The Other Social
History 3 hours
3SS
Many modern institutions and traditions find their origin in Roman
times--the Capitol, Senate, and bull fighting, for instance--and thus make the
Roman world appear familiar to us. Much of Roman life, however, could hardly
seem more alien: child exposure, unrepentant enslavement of fellow humans, riotous
religious rites, and public latrines serving hundreds of patrons in full view
of one another. In this course on Roman civilization, we will concentrate on
these foreign aspects and seek to explain them by considering them within their
social and cultural contexts. Possible topics include: privacy, pollution, hygiene,
slavery, entertainment, sexuality, and death. Identical to ACHS 213. Prerequisite:
Classics 104, Classics 212, or consent of instructor. Enrollment limit: 25
Sem 2 CRN 11943 CLAS-213-01
TTh--11:00-12:15 Mr. Hartnett
300. Theories & Methods of Comparative
Analysis.
402. Capstone Seminar on Community.
100. Introduction to Comparative American Studies 3
hours
1.5HU, 1.5SS, CD, WR
The course will introduce students to the complexity of American social and
cultural formations, with particular emphases on sexuality, race, ethnicity,
class and gender, and to various methodologies of comparative analysis. Enrollment
Limit: 25
Sem 2 CRN 11709 CAST-100-01 MWF--10-10:50 Ms.
Perez
211. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Identities 3
hours
1.5HU, 1.5SS, CD, WR
From the Supreme Court to reality television, national visibility of lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender and queer identities has drawn increased attention
to the relationship of queer sexualities to national identity. In this course,
we will examine the production of non-normative sexual identities in the United
States as they intersect with important social markers such as race, class,
gender, and nation. Situating specific case studies in historical, social, and
comparative context, the class will explore a range of issues such as labels
and naming, the intersection of racial and sexual sciences, processes of community
formation, the politics of embodiment, social justice movements, and queer cultural
productions. Using an interdisciplinary range of methods and sources, we will
ask how a comparative perspective works to challenge fundamental assumptions
about the study of sexuality. Enrollment Limit: 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11910 CAST-211-01 TTh--1:30-2:45
Ms. Raimondo
290-01 Themes in Contemporary Native American Feminism 1 hour
1EX, CD
Second Semester. One week module (February 23-March 15, 2004). This course will introduce themes in contemporary Native American feminism. We will look at the development of Native feminist thought and its relationship both to Native land-based struggles and non-Native feminist movements. Particular issues we will focus on include: sexual/domestic violence; environmentalism; reproductive health and spirituality. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 20
The class is being taught by Dr. Andrea Smith, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. The 6 days of this course runs from February 24 through March 15, 04. There will be 3 lectures during this time Course Meeting Dates: February 24th from 7-9pm, March 9th from 7-9pm, March 12th from 7-8pm, March 13th & 14th from 1-5pm, & March 15th from 4:30-6pm.
Sem 2 CRN 12208 CAST-290-01 Ms. Smith
311. Militarization in American Daily Life 4 hours
4SS, CD, WR
How has the historic and contemporary reality of war and war preparation shaped
daily life in the United States? And what have been the repercussions of militarization
beyond U.S. geopolitical boundaries both throughout the Americas and globally?
This course takes a broad view of "American" daily life to consider
how war, war preparation, and the underlying assumption that war is both a natural
fact of life and part of human nature shape the experiences of people throughout
the Americas, as well as the globalizing reach of American military power throughout
the 20th century. Using history, ethnography, film and literature, this course
will provide historical context for understanding U.S. military power in a global
context and how it is that contemporary U.S. society has become defined by what
sociologist C. Wright Mills calls "a military definition of the situation." Enrollment Limit: 20.
Sem 2 CRN 11911 CAST-311-01 MW--12-1:15 Ms.
Perez
370. Itineraries of Postmodernism
4 hours
4HU, WR
When and why did Modernism transmogrify into Postmodernism? This course examines
current theories of these two amorphous "isms" and surveys the forking
paths between them. We will read works and hybrids of literature and theory
comparatively across national, cultural, and linguistic boundaries and consider
such topics as: the (de)constructions of gender; (inter)textuality and the play
of the signifier; surrealism and the hyperreal. Authors may include Djuna Barnes,
Marguerite Duras, Luce Irigaray, Jean-François Lyotard, James Joyce,
Flann O’Brien, Jacques Derrida, Louis Aragon, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis
Borges, Georges Perec, Georges Bataille, and Jean Baudrillard.
Identical to ENGL 370. Prerequisite: see prerequisites for other 300-level courses
in English. Enrollment limit: 25
Sem 2 CRN 11954 CMPL-370-01
TTh--3:00-4:15 Mr. Deppman
201. Modern Dance II-High Intermediate.
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
New Course
268. History of Christianity in Korea 1 hour
1SS, CD
Second Semester. This mini-course will survey the Korean encounter with Christianity, from pre modern times to the present. Beginning with Korea's first Catholic communities, the course will examine the interaction between Christianity and growing forces for change and modernization. Themes include Christianity under Japanese rule, the conflict between Christianity and Communism, the role of Christianity in the human rights movement under military rule, and current prospects for the future.
Sem 2 CRN 12209 EAST-268-01 Mr. Clark
327. International Finance was taught first semester.
342. Monetary Theory & Policy will be taught second semester.
442. Seminar: Consumption.
440. Monetary Policy 3
hours
3SS, WR
What does monetary policy do? What *should* monetary policy do? This seminar
addresses these questions in the context of policy at the Federal Reserve, and
other major central banks. Topics will include the formulation, implementation,
and transmission of policy, with an emphasis on using empirical methods and
results. Prerequisites: Econ 251 and Econ 255 or consent of instructor.
Sem 2 CRN 11945 ECON-440-01
W--2:30-4:20 Mr. Kuttner
140. Shaping Heroes, Past and Present 3 hours
3HU
This course will focus on adventure narratives of the medieval period and the
more recent past. The verb in the course title, "to shape," comes
from the Old English words scieppan (to make, fashion, or create) and scop,
a poet or singer of stories. In the course, we will explore the ways in which
writers, in crafting their texts and characters, make or shape heroism through
storytelling. Questions we pursue may include: to what extent do these stories
of heroism depend on idealized visions of the past? How do these narratives
negotiate questions of chivalric or heroic identity, gender ambiguity, and racial
difference? How do modern writers use heroisms of the past to address concerns
and problems within their own cultures and communities, such as the restraint
of violence, new technologies of warfare, expansionism, totalitarianism, and
imperialism? How does contemporary popular culture rework traditional notions
of heroism?
Readings for the course may include Beowulf (in translation), Heldris de Cornualle’s
Roman de Silence (in translation), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and other
Arthurian romances, Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court and The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
No prerequisites. Enrollment limit: 50
Sem 2 CRN 11946 ENGL-140-01
TTh 9:35-10:50 Ms. Heckman
173. Form, Style & Meaning in Cinema 4
hours
4HU
See catalog for course description. Identical to CINE 101.
Sem 2 CRN 11996 ENGL-173-01 TR--11:00-12:15
Ms. Monti
W---7:00-10:00pm
239. History and Structure of the English Language 3
hours
3HU, WR
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the continually shifting
history of the English language from Old English to the present day. We will
discuss both the internal aspects of English, such as changes in its sound system,
syntax, grammar, and lexicon, and its external history, including the linguistic
consequences of invasions, migrations, trading, colonialism, and other political
and cultural changes. The first part of the course will focus on Old and Middle
English, from the Germanic invasions of Britain in the fifth century to the
earliest stages of the Protestant Reformation. In the second half of the semester,
we will discuss changes in Early Modern and Present-Day English, focusing on
the worldwide spread of English and its diversity, with special attention to
pidgins, creoles, and ethnic, regional, and class-based dialects.
Prerequisite: see prerequisites for other 200-level Elective courses in English.
Enrollment limit: 30.
Sem 2 CRN 10405 ENGL-239-01
MWF--9:00-9:50 Ms. Heckman
CRN 11754 ENGL-239-02
MWF--10:00-10:50 Ms. Heckman
211. Milton�s Paradise Lost
and its Interpretations 3 hours
3HU, WR
A study of Milton�s great epic poem about human consciousness, temptation, and
love in a world of mythic struggle and fall. The poem first appeared in 1667
in the aftermath of the English Civil War, and has been read since then in many
different contexts. The central goal of this course (a Gateway course for the
English major) will be to study how the context in which a work is read affects
the nature of its reading and the interpretations that result. Among the contexts
we�ll consider are: biography (Milton�s life and other work); mode (classical
epic and its derivatives); gender (feminist readings); poetic language (Milton�s
remarkable blank verse); religion (the poem as a document in the evolutions
of religious thinking); rhetoric (Milton�s complex involvement of the reader);
political history (the poem as a comment on England in its own time); ideology
(the poem as subject for reinterpretation in later ages and different beliefs,
especially the Romantic period); contemporary literary theory (the poem�s involvement
as a site of understanding how and why we read). Prerequisite: see prerequisites
for other 200-level Gateway courses in English. Enrollment limit: 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11160 ENGL-211-01
MWF--3:30-4:20 Mr. Jones
214. Shadows of Enlightenment: Order and Disruption in Eighteenth-Century Literature
3 hours
3HU, WR
This course introduces students to the complexity of a period in British literary
history that has sometimes been caricatured as beginning in dullness and ending
in sentimentality. In fact, literature of the eighteenth century is both dynamic
and highly expressive, engaging fundamental questions of humans’ moral
and social nature in both private and public life. As we read representative
works of poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fictional prose, we will survey the
disruptive currents that troubled the apparently placid surface of eighteenth-century
culture (e.g. violent political factionalism; declarations of the primacy of
the passions over reason; swellings of religious enthusiasm; and expressions
of dissent by disenfranchised groups). Attention to such phenomena shows just
how contested eighteenth-century "stability" was, but also reveals
the extraordinary intellectual effort behind eighteenth-century assertions of
order in the face of potential chaos. Principal authors may include Jonathan
Swift, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, and Jane Austen. As
a Gateway course, this class stresses methods in literary studies. We will read
a variety of critical texts with an emphasis on interrogating intersections
between questions of literary form and questions of cultural history.
Prerequisite: see prerequisites for other 200-level Gateway courses in English.
Enrollment limit: 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11947 ENGL-214-01
TTh--9:35-10:50 Mr. Pauley
Sem 2 CRN 11948 ENGL-214-02
TTh--3:00-4:15 Mr. Pauley
236. Contemporary Poetry and the Question of Identity
3 hours
3HU, WR, CD
This course examines the difficulties and advantages of characterizing contemporary
poets through references to racial, sexual, gender, and national identity. Focusing
on the work of Audre Lorde, James Merrill, Frank O’Hara, Sylvia Plath,
and Derek Walcott, we’ll work through complex and ambivalent expressions
of cultural identifications that often seem "divided to the vein."
With the help of a range of critical essays, we’ll take care to emphasize
the differences between lived and poetic identities, asking ourselves whether
the pleasures, difficulties, and disruptions of poetic language begin to suggest
their own strategies for imagining the self in relation to the social world.
Prerequisite: see prerequisites for other 200-level Gateway courses in English.
Enrollment limit: 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11949 ENGL-236-01
MWF--1:30-2:20 Mr. Lee
Sem 2 CRN 11950 ENGL-236-02 MWF--3:30-4:20
Mr. Lee
354. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson 3 hours
3HU, WR
This course is a comparative study of America’s two most important 19th-century
poets: Walt Whitman – the public, physical, exuberant, self-celebrating
being who wandered across America – and Emily Dickinson, the private, ethereal,
thoughtful soul who selected her own society.
Using a variety of critical approaches, we will examine some of the key textual
contexts in and against which each poet wrote – the Enlightenment, Romanticism,
Transcendentalism, Puritanism – and consider their poems on love, sex,
nature, death, poetry, and the powers of human bodies and minds. We will also
consider both poets’ reactions to the Civil War and other major American
socio-historical trends: democracy, slavery and abolition, commerce, the influx
of immigrants and other demographic changes, the ascendancy of science, the
decline of Calvinism, and others.
Texts will include correspondence, prose works, and major poetic 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."
Prerequisite: see prerequisites for other 300-level courses in English. Enrollment
limit: 25
Sem 2 CRN 11951 ENGL-354-01
TTh--11:00-12:15 Mr. Deppman
368. Movies and Melodrama 4 hours
4HU, WR
This course will explore the long history, cultural contexts, and critical challenges
associated with melodramatic narrative cinema. We will study the origins of
melodrama, the rise and fall of its status as a form, its association with women
as subjects and audiences, its adaptation to different historical and cultural
contexts, and its relationship to contemporary problems of cultural analysis.
Expect a demanding viewing and reading schedule, high expectations about participation,
and to develop a significant independent project.
Identical to CINE 436. Enrollment limit: 18. Consent of instructor required.
Sem 2 CRN 11952 ENGL-368-01 W--7:00-9:30
pm (+ screening time: Tu 7:00-10:00pm) Mr. Pence
370. Itineraries of Postmodernism 4 hours
4HU, WR
When and why did Modernism transmogrify into Postmodernism? This course examines
current theories of these two amorphous "isms" and surveys the forking
paths between them. We will read works and hybrids of literature and theory
comparatively across national, cultural, and linguistic boundaries and consider
such topics as: the (de)constructions of gender; (inter)textuality and the play
of the signifier; surrealism and the hyperreal. Authors may include Djuna Barnes,
Marguerite Duras, Luce Irigaray, Jean-François Lyotard, James Joyce,
Flann O’Brien, Jacques Derrida, Louis Aragon, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis
Borges, Georges Perec, Georges Bataille, and Jean Baudrillard.
Identical to CMPL 370. Prerequisite: see prerequisites for other 300-level courses
in English. Enrollment limit: 25
Sem 2 CRN 11953 ENGL-370-01
TTh--3:00-4:15 Mr. Deppman
376. Screening Spirituality 4 hours
4HU, WR
Since its inception, cinema has maintained a perennial concern with problems
of representing experiences of the miraculous or transcendental. Despite the
customary linkage of film to secular modernization, then, filmmakers and critics
have returned repeatedly to the form's profound evocation of a sense of reality
to explore the limits and consequences of this tendency. Across historical and
national divisions, we will investigate cinematic treatments of spirituality
in light of the challenges they present to critical theory and practice.
Identical to CINE 376. Prerequisite: see prerequisites for other 300-level courses
in English. Enrollment limit: 25
Sem 2 CRN 11955 ENGL 376-01 TuTh 1:30-2:45 (+ screening time: M 7:00-10:00 pm) Mr. Pence
212. London in 18th Century Lit (both sections).
333. Poetry Since 1945
A survey of U.S. poetry since 1945, considering poets as participants in larger
movements and examining new forms in relation to terms such as multiculturalism,
the New Criticism, open form, confessional poetry, and language poetry. Featured
poets include Lowell, Brooks, Bishop, Berryman, Ashbery, O'Hara, Ginsberg, Rich,
Levertov, Bernstein, Graham, Li-Young Lee, and Lorna Dee Cervantes.
320. Gender, Nature & Culture.
325. Fundamentals of Building Performance (Lecture & Lab.
351A. Practm Eclogl Design AJLC II
351B. Practm Eclogl Design AJLC II
351A. Practicum in Ecological Design
of the A.J. Lewis Center (Part II) 1-2 hours
1-2 NS
Second Semester. This is a continuation of ENVS 350. Students will work with
specific faculty sponsors to pursue natural science projects proposed and accepted
during Part I. This project will involve genuine research, i.e. the production
of new information and/or new approaches to presenting this information. Research
areas include: experiments on the garden or living machine, collection and analysis
of data on building performance, development of art work that augments the educational
objectives of the center. Prerequisites: ENVS 350 Part I and consent of instructor.
Enrollment Limit: 7
Sem 2 CRN 1199 ENVS-351A-01 M--7:00-8:00 p.m. and weekly
by appt.; Mr. Benzing, Mr. Petersen, Ms. Janda
351B. Practicum in Ecological Design of the A.J. Lewis Center (Part II)
1-2 hours
1-2SS
Identical to ENVS 351A Students will work with specific faculty sponsors to
pursue a social science project proposed and accepted during Part I. Enrollment
Limit: 7
Sem 2 CRN 11992 ENVS-351B-01 M--7:00-8:00 p.m. and weekly by appt.; Mr.
Benzing, Mr. Petersen, Ms. Janda
360. Dynamics of Consumption 3
hours
3SS
Second Semester. This course will stress field visits and on-site measurements
in local residential, commercial, and education buildings. Through a series
of exercises, students will gain experience with quantitative and qualitative
data gathering and analysis as well as data visualization and presentation.
This first part of the course will use hand-held monitoring equipment to assess
energy use, thermal comfort, lighting levels, ventilation, and air quality.
The second part of the course will use interview methods and post-occupancy
evaluations to address occupant comfort and environment/behavior interactions.
The course will culminate with an exercise using Ecotect software to model the
effects of proposed physical and social changes to the studied environments.
Prerequisites: ENVS 324 or ENVS 310 or PHYS 055 (066 or 067) and consent of
instructor. Enrollment Limit: 15
Sem 2 CRN 11990 ENVS-360-01
MW--3:00-4:15 Ms.
Janda
301. Research Methods in Ethnomusicology 3
hours
CD
Limited to 10 with consent of instructor.
Sem 2 CRN 11995 ETHN-301-01 W--2:30-4:30
Mr. Knight
136. Ways of Seeing-Ways of Knowing.
172. The Religious thought of Mohandas Gandhi.
128. Media and Memory 3
hours
3HU,WRi
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. Enrollment Limit: 14 first-year students only.
Sem 2 CRN 11932 FYSP 128-01 TTh--9:35-10:50 Mr.
Pence
225. The Politics of Gender in South
Asia 3 hours
3SS, CD, WR
Second Semester. This course will explore key issues and debates surrounding
gender, and the so-called "woman question," in South Asia, from the
colonial period through the nationalist struggle for independence and partition
to the post-colonial era. Selected topics will include: reform movements in
the colonial period aimed at, for example, sati and child marriage; women in
the nationalist movement; South Asian feminisms and "Westernization;"
partition and communal violence. Sources will include historical, theoretical,
activist, and filmic works. Priority given to GAWS majors. Enrollment limit:
30.
Sem 2 CRN 11798 GAWS-225-01 MW--12-1:15 Ms.
Germain
408. Seminar: The Politics of Sentiment: Family, Class, and Gender 4
hours
4SS, CD, WRi
This seminar will explore different familial forms, material practices, and
identities through the interlocking categories of gender, family, and class.
Beginning with an introduction to theories of sentiment and "structures
of feeling," we will ask: what is sentiment? And how does it operate, both
individually and socially? We will then move on to grounded case studies –
ranging from the contemporary US to post-colonial Southeast Asia to European
history – to investigate the formation of identities and the politics of
sentiment in these varied contexts. Students will write an original research
paper on a related topic. Consent of instructor required. Priority given to
GAWS majors. Enrollment Limit: 15.
Sem 2 CRN 11800 GAWS-408-01 T--7:00-9:00
p.m. Ms. Germain.
329. Still-Moments and Moving Pictures:
Classic German Cinema 3 hours
3HU, CD,WR
In this class we will study how German cinema developed out of the German theatrical
tradition, particularly Expressionism. Classic films from Fritz Lang to Wim
Wenders will show the power of the still-moment within the moving picture. The
emotional impact of the image (its ability to "move" us) will be examined
with respect to the attempt of New German Cinema to create a level of political
awareness through cinematic techniques. Course conducted in English. Films in
German with English subtitles. Consent of the instructor required. Enrollment
Limit: 30
Sem 2 CRN 11861 GERM-329-01 MW--3:00-4:15
& M--7:00-9:00 pm Ms. Doran
345. The Discreet Charm of the Buñuels:
3
hours
Transnational Cinema and the Surrealist Legacy
3HU, CD.
Second semester. Overview and analysis of the cinematic work of Spanish director
Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) and his Spanish-Mexican-French son, director
and Oberlin alumnus ('57) Juan Luis Buñuel (1934-), in the context of
transnational (or exilic) cinema and the legacy of the surrealist movement.
There will be one weekly film screening preceded by a half-hour lecture, followed
later in the same week by a two-hour lecture/discussion session. There will
be a total of 12 screenings. Six of these will be introduced and discussed by
an interdisciplinary group of Oberlin faculty; the other six will be introduced
and discussed by Prof. Faber. In the week after Spring break, Juan Luis Buñuel
will be visiting campus to speak about his own and his father's work; at this
time there will also be a colloquium with two additional invited speakers. Films
screened will include Un chien andalou, Land Without Bread, Los olvidados, Tristana,
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Woman with Red Boots, Belle de Jour,
among other titles. Conducted in English. Enrollment limit: 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11904 SPAN-345-01 T--7:00-10:00
pm Mr. Faber
(for the introduction and screenings)
Th--1:30-2:45
(for the lecture/discussion)
112. The Bourgeoisie & the Making
of Modern Europe.
223. Ethnic Minorities in Central Europe.
310. Marx & Nietzsch
112. Vienna 1900 3
Hours
3SS, WP
Second Semester: This class will introduce you to the study of history by focusing
on one of the richest periods in European history: fin-de-siècle Vienna.
We will examine the politics of fin-de-siècle Austria-Hungary and consider
the rise of nationalism and the crisis of liberalism in the Empire, we will
also spend time analyzing the founding texts of psychoanalysis, and finally,
we will be reading, viewing and listening to artistic works from this vibrant
cultural period. Note: Restricted to first- and second-year students. Enrollment
limit 15.
Sem 2 CRN 11916 HIST
112-01 TTh--1:00-2:15 Ms. Sammartino
229. Gender in Modern Europe, 1789-1989 3 Hours
3SS, CD
Second Semester. This course will examine how gender roles, gender expectations
and the opportunities for participation for men and women changed over the course
of the 19th and 20th centuries. We will be using gender as a way of gaining
greater insight into different forms of social and political organization. We
will also be using these forms of social and political organization as a way
of understanding how ideologies of gender function in diverse contexts. Enrollment
limit 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11917 HIST 229-01
MWF--12:00-12:50 Ms. Sammartino
262. Gay and Lesbian History 3 Hours
3SS, CD
This course will explore the changing ways that individuals, moral authorities,
scientific experts, and the state have conceptualized same-sex sexuality with
an emphasis on the United States. We will study the emergence and transformation
of gay male, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual identities, cultural practices,
and political movements within the broader context of changes in the social
constructions of sexuality, as well as cultural, social, political, and economic
transformations. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which gender,
race, and class have shaped same-sex sexuality in different periods.
Enrollment limit 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11919 HIST
262-01 TTh--11:00-12:15 Ms.
Gorchov
313. The French Empire: Colonizers and Colonized 3
hours
3SS, CD, WR
Second Semester. This advanced colloquium will consider issues of French colonialism
since the 18th century, both in the colonies and in metropolitan France itself.
Particular issues include: causes of imperial expansion; slavery in the French
empire; imperialism and republican ideology; the role of the colonial army;
the "mise en valeur" of the empire after World War I; the wars of decolonization
in Southeast Asia and Algeria; immigration to metropolitan France and the origins
of French multiculturalism. Frequent presentations and short papers, with rewrite
option. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
Sem 2 CRN 11365 HIST-313-01 W--2:30-4:15
Mr. Smith
319. Migration in 20th Century Europe
3 Hours
3SS, WR, CD
Second Semester. This course will explore migration in 20th century Europe.
We will investigate a wide range of topics from European responses to asylum
seekers, to the integration of former colonial subjects and labor migrants,
and the responses of these migrants to European culture and society. Throughout
we will be questioning the various meanings assigned to migration throughout
this period as well as evolving notions of belonging in Europe. Consent of the
instructor required. Enrollment limit 12.
Sem 2 CRN 11918 HIST 319-01
M--7:00-9:00pm Ms. Sammartino
321. History of Medicine in the United States 3 Hours
3SS, WP
This course will examine how political, social, and cultural changes have shaped
American medicine and understandings of disease since the late 18th century.
We will discuss the development of medicine as a profession, including the place
of women, and the shifts in its institutional forms and cultural position. We
will also examine the involvement of physicians in political and social issues
and the ways they have helped to create social constructions of gender, race,
and sexuality. Consent of the instructor required. Enrollment limit 12.
Sem 2 CRN 11930 HIST 321-01
W--7:00-9:00pm Ms. Gorchov
329. The Politics of Reform: Populism, Progressivism, and the New Deal 3
Hours
3SS, WP
This course will examine American reform movements between 1880-1940. We will
discuss Populism, Progressivism, and the New Deal by reading classic works in
political and intellectual history that emphasize the actions of white men,
as well as more recent cultural and social histories that describe a wider range
of historical actors and analyze race, gender, and sexuality. By contrasting
older and newer works we will be able to explore broader questions of historiography.
How do different methodologies shape what historians find significant in the
past? What is lost and what is gained by newer historical approaches?
Consent of the instructor required. Enrollment limit 15.
Sem 2 CRN 11931 HIST-329-01
M--7:00-9:00pm Ms. Gorchov
212. Introduction to Baroque Ornamentation 3
hours
An introductory course in Baroque ornamentation for performers. Ornamentation
skills will be acquired through a combination of guided experimenting in performance
and studying period resources, including major Baroque treatises. Each participant
will apply these skills in at least two performances of solo works in class.
Prerequsites: MUTH 132. Limit 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11957 HPRF-212-01 TTh--11:00-12:15 Mr.
Gall
Jazz STUDIES
New Course
380. Special Topic: The Jazz Avant Garde 2-3 hours
Second Semester. A study of post-bebop projections in American improvised music, beginning with the first sustained developments and reactions to metrically and harmonically confined styles. The course will focus on the philosophical bases of this music (the so-called: “new thing,” avant-garde jazz, “creative music,” etc.), the emergence of new forms, musical content (and the implications for newer improvisational resources and approaches), the changed (and the changing) contexts in which this music was/is performed, and important practitioners and their music. Prerequisites: JAZZ 291. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 20.
Sem 2 CRN 12230 JAZZ-380-01 Mr. Logan
192. Modern Jewish Literature from the Age of Reason to the Age of Terror 1 hour
1HU
The course will encompass 150 years of Jewish literature, from the aftermath of the European Haskala (i.e., Enlightenment) to present-day life in the United States, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. The assumption will be made that the Jewish people create a transnational, polyglotic narrative able to overcome historical time. Although constant references will be made to the biblical, talmudic and rabbinical periods, the focus will be on fiction as a symptom of modernity. Three themes will run across the material: politics, language, and religion. Students use stories to understand social change and vice versa. How have Jews responded to assimilation and anti-Semitism? What is their sense of patriotism in Israel and beyond? Is there a link between the roles of the rabbi and the writer? Authors as diverse as Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish), Franz Kafka and Elias Canetti (German), Isaac Babel (Russian), Bruno Schulz (Polish), Sh.Y. Agnon and Amos Oz (Hebrew), Alberto Gerchunoff (Spanish), and Moacyr Scliar (Portuguese) will be read in translation, along with Saul Bellow, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick and Nadine Gordimer in the original. CR/NE grading.
Sem 2 CRN 11998 JWST-192-01 Sun., Feb. 29- Thurs. March 4, from 4:30-7:00pm (The Sunday ssession will run 2:00-5:30pm) Ilan Stavans
399. Seminar on Applied Topology.
Topology is the study of shape. In the last several years, topological tools
have had a tremendous impact on physics, biology, chemistry and other hard sciences.
Throughout most of its history, topology has been one of the most abstract of
subjects, but recent applications from configuration spaces and quantum field
theory to DNA supercoiling and molecular chirality, force us to reconsider the
"purity" of this fundamental field.
This seminar will consider some basic tools of topology, particularly the branch
of topology called "knot theory," and examine their application in
the sciences. Presentation of results by students will be a central feature
of the class.
Cancelled Course
338. Probability Models & Random Processes.
331. Johann Sebastian Bach 3
hours
WR
A study of Bach's life and selected works. The course addresses the "new
image" of a familiar master which has emerged from the startling research
of post-1950 scholars. Through a close study of the cantatas and works such
as the Brandenburg Concertos, St. John Passion, and Musical Offering, the class
seeks to illumine Bach's position in various musical traditions, to explore
his response to cultural environment, and to describe analytically his expressive
vocabulary. Prerequisites: MHST 101 and one 200-level music history course.
Consent: Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11963 MHST-331-01
M--7:00-9:30pm Mr. Plank
340. Sensory Neuroscience
3 hours
3NS
This course will provide an overview of the neural pathways and specialized
receptor systems for the senses: vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch, and balance.
Each sense has a different type of physical or chemical signal that must be
translated into neural signals. The problems each receptor type encounters in
transduction and each sensory system's solution will be discussed. We will trace,
for example, the visual signal from the photoreceptors through the retina, thalamus,
and into the many cortical regions specializing in different aspects of visual
processing. The olfactory system projects not only cortically, but also to the
limbic system - we will discuss why this is important in a phylogenetically
old sensory system. Prerequisite of NSCI 201 (The Brain: Introduction to Neuroscience)
or NSCI 204 (Human Neurobiology). Limited to 20.
Sem 2 CRN 11993 NSCI-340-01
MWF--9:00-9:50 Ms. Gunther
343. Sensory Psychophysics Laboratory 2 hours
2NS
This lab is a companion to the Sensory Neuroscience course. It covers such topics
as mapping two-point tactile discrimination; measuring contrast thresholds for
stimuli of varying colors, seeing how these vary within an individual across
colors, and across individuals within colors; sound localization. The course
may also examine musical illusions (depending on the musical background of the
attending students); and will look at the psychophysics of cheese tasting. Current
enrollment with NSCI 340 (Sensory Neuroscience) is required. Limited to 10.
Sem 2 CRN 11994
NSCI-343-01 T--1:30-4:30 Ms.
Gunther
231. Philosophy of Music 3
hours
3HU, WR
This course invites you consider what is special about music compared to the
other arts, and why we should value it as most of us do. The questions that
we will examine concern what it is to understand music, the relation between
what critics do and what performers do in interpreting music, and whether music
is valuable for its beauty, its expressiveness or as a kind of language. The
aim of the course is to make explicit views which are already implicit in musical
practice, and subject them to philosophical examination. Prerequisite: Three
hours in Philosophy or the permission of the instructor. Enrollment Limit: 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11983 PHIL-231-01 TTh--11:00-12:15
Ms. Thomson
232. Philosophy of Film 3 hours
3HU, WR
This course examines the philosophical assumptions behind classical and contemporary
film theory. Topics include the uniqueness of film as an art form, the nature
of expression in film, realism, film authorship, whether there is a language
of film, and the nature of film narrative. The aim of the course is to bring
us to understand the nature of film and our engagement with it. Prerequisite:
Three hours in Philosophy or the permission of the instructor. Enrollment Limit:
30.
Sem 2 CRN 11984 PHIL-232-01 TTh--1:30-2:45
Ms. Thomson
249. Topics in Philosophy.
Polt 132 (Explaining Social Power: Classical & Contemporary Theories) is open to both first and second year students.
211. Revolutions.
317. The Transformation of the Welfare State is now a WRi course.
100. The American Experiment 3
hours
3SS
This course will ask: how does the Constitution and the values embodied by it
shape American politics? By assessing the character and ramifications of the
American government's original experimental design and subsequent attempts to
change it, this course helps students develop a lens with which to view current
politics. We will explore differing accounts of, for example, the motives behind
the formation of the Constitution, the character of Americans, the success or
failure of American institutions, and the current political situation in America.
Topics include: Does America's constitutional system give it an excessive confidence
in the exportability of the American system to other countries? Was the Constitution
anti-democratic in its intent? Does the system of "checks and balances"
create excessive governmental inefficiency? Does real political change require
the abandonment of the system of "checks and balances?" Why has socialism
had such a difficult time taking root in America? Does the American regime encourage
conformity? Does it encourage unquestioning individualism? Enrollment limit:
25 per section.
Sem 2 CRN 11786 POLT-100-01
MWF 9:00-9:50 Mr. Kleinerman
Sem 2 CRN 11787 POLT-100-02
MWF 3:30-4:20 Mr. Kleinerman
201. The Political Development of American Institutions 3
hours
3SS
The goal of the course is to deepen students? understanding of American political
institutions, i.e. Congress, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, Political Parties,
and the Bureaucracy, by tracing their historical development and by assessing
their current structure and functions. How does the political development of
an institution change political behavior? How does the development of one institution
affect the political resources of other institutions? Topics include: Has the
presidency overwhelmed the other institutions? What conditions are necessary
for presidential greatness? Does the drastic increase in the bureaucracy foreclose
the possibility of significant political change? How has the Supreme Court come
to assume the role it has in American politics? Why do we have a two party system
in America? Does "careerism" in Congress create unresponsive representatives?
Why has Congress ceded so much power to the President in foreign policy and
war-making? Enrollment limit: 25.
Sem 2 CRN 11788 POLT-201-01
TTh--1:30-2:45 Mr. Kleinerman
423. Running and Governing: Urban Politicking and Governance
1 hour
1SS
Second semester, second module. In this seminar, former Cleveland Mayor Michael
White and Chris Carmody (OC '89), former Co-director of the Mayor's Office of
Competitiveness, will explain the processes of campaigning for, and governing
from, the mayoralty of a major U.S. City. How is a campaign shaped and pursued?
What enables victory? What were the White Administration's goals? How were challenges
met and managed? Based on first-hand and original materials, students will produce
analyses of what works and doesn?t work in urban campaigning and governance.
Prerequisite: at least one course in American Politics. Identical to AAST 352.
Enrollment limit: 30.
Sem 2 CRN 11422 POLT-423-01 T--1:00-2:50
(April 6, 13, 20, 27) Mayor White, Mr. Carmody
220. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
287. Soul Sisters: Black Women and
Spirituality in Africa and the Diaspora 3 hours
3HU, CD
Second Semester: Using autobiography, creative literature, film, and art, this
course examines black women?s spiritual odysseys through various faith traditions
(including Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism) and in
selected nineteenth- and twentieth-century societies (colonial and post colonial,
slavery and post-slavery). Given black women's dual struggle with sexism and
racism, we will examine the impact of spirituality and faith on their individual
and communal quests for identity, place, and mooring. Although this course has
no prerequisites, a basic knowledge of black women's history and the
African Diaspora would be helpful. Limit 40.
Sem 2 CRN 11923 RELG-287-01
TTh--7:00-8:15pm Ms. Kossie-Chernyshev
288. Black Pentecostalism in Historical Perspective 3
hours
3HU, CD
Second Semester. Drawing on anthropology, sociology, theology, ethnomusicology,
history, literature, and film, this course examines the rise of Pentecostalism
among peoples of African descent in the Americas, Caribbean, Africa, Europe,
and Eurasia. In addition to examining the origins of Black Pentecostalism, the
course interrogates how Black Pentecostalism relates to modernism, cultural
resistance, concepts of power, and social uplift in rural and urban communities.
We will explore intersections with creative literature, film, music (secular,
gospel, and commercial), liberationist and feminist/womanist theology, post-modernism,
and political agency. Although this course has no prerequisites, a basic knowledge
of black history would be helpful. Limit 30
Sem 2 CRN 11924 RELG-288-01 TTh--3:00-4:15pm
Ms. Kossie-Chernyshev
295. Scholarship, Research, and the Academic Study of Religion 1 hour
1HU
Second semester. This course is designed to prepare religion majors for the kinds of reading, writing, and research they will undertake in graduate school. The course has three sections: how to read monographs outside of one's field of specialty, how to write reseach grant proposals, and how to give oral presentations. Consent of instructor and completion of at least three core courses in the major required. Enrollment Limit: 15
Sem 2 CRN 12206 RELG-295-02 Sun--7:00 p.m. Ms. Richman
388. Seminar: Afro-Cuban Religions 3 hours
3HU, CD
Second Semester. A close reading of seminal texts on the foundations of Afro-Cuban
religious practices. Themes to be discussed include: the influences of Spanish
colonialism, U.S. occupation and the 1959 Cuban Revolution; the oricha pantheon
in Yor?b?-Lucum' mythology; the legacies of slavery; religious syncretism; Cuban
notions of race and gender (and how these are manifested in Cuban conceptions
of the ?nation? and the sacred); the theories of Fernando Ortiz; and the effects
of Marxist ideology, ?folkloricization,? tourism and commercialism upon the
practice of religion in Cuba. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit:
15.
Sem 2 CRN 11925 RELG-388-01
W--2:30-4:30 Ms. Schmidt
202. Advanced English Composition will be taught spring semester 2004.
120. Soviet Cultural Globalization 1 hour
1HU
Second Semester, 10-15 March. The communist project in Eastern Europe has been the largest deliberately designed experiment in globalization in modern history. A major inquiry on modern and contemporary Eastern Europe will provide a welcome contrast and comparative background for an improved understanding of modern globalization processes. Oberlin faculty and distinguished lecturers from North America and Europe will address Soviet cultural globalization from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to provide a historical context for the globalization process and its relevance to the phenomenon as it is understood today.
Course schedule:
Wednesday, March 10, 7pm, Craig Auditorium.
‘Engineers of Human Souls ? an introduction to the cultural politics of the Stalin era’
Arlene Forman, Associate Professor of Russian
Thursday, March 11, 7pm, Hallock Auditorium.
‘Globalization and the Soviet Experiment’
Steve Crowley, Associate Professor of Politics
Friday, March 12, 7pm, Craig Auditorium.
‘Culture, Identity, and the Crisis of U.S. Foreign Policy’
Walter L. Hixson, Professor of History, the University of Akron.
Saturday, March 13,10 am, Craig Auditorium.
‘The Architecture of a Master Narrative: Berlin’s Socialist Realist Reconstruction’
Greg Castillo, Assistant Professor, University of Miami School of Architecture.
‘Crosstalk: East-West Dialogue about Hungarian Music,1950-1956’
Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Assistant Professor of Music History, Ohio State University.
‘Seeing the "West" through the "East": Soviet Viewers Meet Polish Modernism at the Art Exhibition of Socialist Countries, Moscow 1958-59’
Susan E. Reid, Lecturer in Russian Visual Arts, Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield.
‘The Nylon Curtain -- The Dialectics of Globalist Assertiveness and Isolationist Defensives in the Experience of Communist Eastern Europe’
György Péteri, Professor of History and Director, Program on East European Cultures & Societies, Trondheim University.
Sunday, March 14, 2pm, Craig Auditorium.
Film: Story of a Young Couple (East Germany, 1952).
Introduced by Elizabeth Hamilton, Assistant Professor of German
Monday, March 15, 7pm, Hallock Auditorium.
Film: Circus (Soviet Union, 1936)
Introduced by Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian,
Sem 2 CRN 12215 RUSS-120-01 CR/NE grading, no prerequisites Mr. Scholl
121. Postcommunism as a Cultural Problem: Russia in the 1990s 2 hours
2 HU
Second Semester, Second Module (April 6-May 13). The course explores symbolic mechanisms and daily practices around which new post-Soviet identities are being built in contemporary Russia. By looking closely at such diverse fields as ‘consumption,’ ‘family,’ ‘crime,’ ‘economy,’ ‘mass culture,’ etc., we will try to understand the specificity of the post-Soviet experience and re-examine the existing anthropological literature on transitional and liminal societies (A. van Gennep, V. Turner, K. Verdery), cultural production (P. Bourdieu, M. Ivy), crime (J. Segal), and political economy (C. Humphrey, M. Burawoy, D. Miller). CR/NE grading, no prerequisites.
Serguei Alex. Oushakine is an Associate Professor Altai State Technical University in Barnaul (Siberia). He is currently completing a PhD in sociocultural anthropology at Columbia University. His work attempts to understand a cultural logic of post-socialist changes in Russia. Oushakine recently edited two volumes of essays on masculinityand family issues.
Sem 2 CRN 12236 RUSS-121-01 TTh--3:00-4:15 Mr. Oushakine
311. Introduction to Russian Literature:
Dreamers, Ghosts and Clowns, 1833-Present 3 hours
3HU, CD
This course introduces students to the study of Russian literature in the original.
In Spring 2004 the course will focus on Russia’s rich tradition of the
fantastic and absurd in texts that span the 19th and 20th centuries. Readings
will include short fiction and/or poems by Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov, Mayakovsky,
Zoshchenko, Kharms, Tsvetaeva, Siniavskii, Petrushevskaia, Sadur, Tolstaia and
Prigov. Class discussions will address the stylistic characteristics; historical
contexts; and, when necessary, the grammatical and lexical peculiarities of
assigned readings. Prerequisites: Russian 204 or permission of the instructor.
Sem 2 CRN 11287 RUSS-311-01 MW--12:00-1:15
Ms. Larsen
213. Tyranny and Iconoclasm in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture: 3
hours
Revolutionary Arguments in Words, Images and
Objects
3HU, CD
This course is an introduction to the evolution of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet
culture over the past 100 years. It focuses on a series of conflicts among competing
cultural authorities, avant-garde visions and dissident or underground voices.
In an attempt to encourage cross-disciplinary thinking about Russian history,
art and society, the course examines a wide range of cultural expression: pulp
fiction and highbrow literature; experimental and popular film; visual and performing
arts; architecture and urban planning; music; social and political thought;
social customs; and popular entertainments, values and practices. The course
devotes particular attention to debates over the relationship between popular
and self-styled ‘revolutionary’ culture in the first third of the
century; the relationship between mass, popular and official culture in the
Stalin era; initial reactions against the cultural legacies of the Stalin era
in the 1950s; musical, visual and theatrical cultures of resistance in the Brezhnev
era; and the sweeping cultural transformations initiated with the arrival of
glasnost’ and perestroika in the late 1980s.
Sem 2 CRN 11926 RUSS-213-01 TTh--1:30-2:45 Ms.
Larsen
127. Introduction to Sociology
3 hours
3SS
The goal of sociology is to offer insights into our social environment, which
we often take for granted, to explain the social processes that shape our lives.
Sociologists address such questions as why is there crime; what are our common
values; why are there inequalities; what role does religion play in our society;
how is technology changing our lives; etc. This course introduces students to
these and other topics as well as to the dominant theories and methods of the
discipline used to make sense of such social phenomena. Students are encouraged
to bring their own sociological insights to class. No pre-requisites. Limit:
45
Sem 2 CRN 11891 SOCI-127-01 TTh--1:30-2:45 Mr.
Dhingra
293. Civil Society, Social Movements, and American Democracy
3 hours
3SS
Second Semester: This course examines the different forms of civic engagement
in the United States over the course of the 20th century with the purpose of
understanding the role of voluntary and non-profit associations in the American
political process. Two guiding questions for the course are: (i) How do Americans
organize themselves in the institutions between the state and the market? (2)
Can ordinary people not constituted as powerful state or economic actors exercise
meaningful influence over government institutions and policies in the United
States? Topics covered include civil society and social capital, social movements,
community building and democratic revitalization, and the racial, ethnic, class,
and religious bases of participation in civic life. Prerequisites: one introductory
sociology course. Enrollment Limit 30
Sem 2 CRN 11342 SOCI-293-01
T--7:00-9:00pm Mr. G. Crowley
348. Constructing Immigrant Communities
3 hours
How and why do immigrant groups create their own communities? What effects do
such communities have on their relationship with the majority and other minorites?
How do individuals resist their own ethnic communities? In an era of multiculuralism,
these issues take on increasing importance. Taking a comparative ethnic approach,
with emphasis on Asian Americans, we will examine the kinds of communities immigrants
and their descendants form in response to their local environments and the effects
of such formations on their own group members, other races and the nation in
the process. We will pay special attention to the roles of race, gender, culture,
class and politics in shaping community dynamics. Pre-requisites: At least one
sociology course and at least one course primarily focused on race relations
or immigration. Enrollment Limit: 25
Sem 2 CRN 11894 SOCI-348-01 TTh--11:00-12:15 Mr.
Dhingra
101. Fundamentals of Technical Theater.