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2016-2017 Catalogue 
    
2016-2017 Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


Course Numbering

The College of Wooster uses a five-digit course numbering system. The first three digits indicate the primary course number. The next two digits are the secondary course number and indicate whether there is a special focus for the course. For example:

The first letters are the department or program abbreviation. The next three digits are the primary course number (101 is the primary course number for all Introduction to Historial Study courses). The last two digits are the secondary course number. These two digits indicate that the special focus for this HIST 101 course is The History of Islam. A course with a given three-digit primary course number can only be taken once for credit unless specifically indicated otherwise by the department.

The following policy has been used in assigning primary course numbers:

  • 100-level courses are usually introductory courses; some 100-level courses do have prerequisites, and students are advised to consult the description for each course.
  • 200-level courses are usually beyond the introductory level, although many 200-level courses are open to first-year students and to majors and non-majors.
  • 300-level courses are seminars and courses primarily for majors but open to other students with the consent of the instructor.
  • The following numbers are for Independent Study: I.S. 40100 (Junior Independent Study), I.S. 45100 and I.S. 45200 (Senior Independent Study).

In addition to the regular course offerings, many departments offer individual tutorials under the number 40000 and internships under 41000. On occasion, departments will offer a course on a special topic as approved by the Educational Policy Committee, designated 19900, 29900, or 39900.

Abbreviation

In keeping with the general education requirements of the College’s curriculum
(see Degree Requirements ), course listings employ the following abbreviations:

W Writing Intensive (W† indicates that not all sections are Writing Intensive)

C Studies in Cultural Difference

R Religious Perspectives

Q Quantitative Reasoning

AH Learning Across the Disciplines: Arts and Humanities

HSS Learning Across the Disciplines: History and Social Sciences

MNS Learning Across the Disciplines: Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Except where otherwise noted, all courses carry one course credit.

 

History

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Interdepartmental

Teaching Apprenticeship

Students often serve as teaching apprentices in departmental academic courses across the College as well as in the First-Year Seminar program. Students benefit from the experience of working in a different way with familiar material, from the relationship with the faculty teaching mentor, and from the opportunity to share their enthusiasm for a subject with other students. Student peers, faculty members, and teaching apprentices themselves come to recognize the importance of the teaching apprentice’s roles as a mentor, a model of academic participation, and a tutor in the course.

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Mathematics

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Music

Courses open to all students, without prerequisites. Any student may take these courses, regardless of prior musical background. The 200-level courses may also be taken as Music electives by Music majors. One credit per course.

Music Theory-Composition

One credit per course unless otherwise specified.

Music History and Literature

One credit per course unless otherwise specified.

Music Education

One credit per course unless otherwise specified.

Music Therapy

All courses listed below, with the possible exception of MUSC 41000 , will normally be taught at Baldwin-Wallace University in Berea by the Music Therapist who is also the Director of the Music Therapy Consortium. One credit per course is standard unless otherwise specified. Please see the Handbook for Music Students and Faculty for further information about the Music Therapy major, including acceptance requirements and the entrance exam.

General Courses in Music

One credit per course unless otherwise specified.

Music Performance Groups

All music performance groups are graded S/NC.

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