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2018-2019 Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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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
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.
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Earth Sciences |
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ESCI 40000 - Tutorial Course Credit: 0.5
Maximum Credit: 1
Tutorial Advanced library, field, and laboratory research problems in Geology and Environmental Geosciences.
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ESCI 40100 - Junior Independent Study Course Credit: 1
Junior Independent Study Concepts and techniques of Geology and Environmental Geosciences research culminating in a Junior I.S. thesis project. Prerequisite(s): ESCI-20000 (or GEOL-20000)
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ESCI 41000 - Internship Course Credit: 0.25
Maximum Credit: 4
Internship A structured, usually off-campus experience, in which a student extends classroom knowledge to a work position within a community, business, or governmental organization. Student interns work and learn under the joint guidance of a host organization supervisor and a College of Wooster mentor. The student must arrange the internship in advance through the appropriate department or program. No more than six internships, and a maximum of four Wooster course credits, will count toward graduation. The form for registering for an internship and the Internship Learning Plan are available in the office of the Registrar.
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ESCI 45100 - I.S. Thesis–Semester One Course Credit: 1
Independent Study Thesis–Semester One An original Earth Sciences investigation is required. An oral presentation is given to the department. P Prerequisite(s): ESCI-40100 (or GEOL-40100)
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ESCI 45200 - I.S. Thesis–Semester Two Course Credit: 1
Independent Study Thesis–Semester Two An original Earth Sciences investigation is required. An oral presentation is given to the department. Projects result in a thesis and an oral defense. Prerequisite(s): ESCI-45100 (or GEOL-45100)
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East Asian Studies |
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EAST 10000 - Intro to East Asian Studies Course Credit: 1
INTRODUCTION TO EAST ASIAN STUDIES [AH, C]
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EAST 11000 - Introduction to East Asia Course Credit: 1
INTRODUCTION TO EAST ASIA This course provides an overview of the interwoven cultures, politics, and economies of Japan, Korea, and China from earliest times to the present. Topics include shared traditions and their transformations; the legacies and contested histories of conquest and colonialism; trade and its role in the transfer of ideas, techniques, and institutions; and the current revival of regional popular culture. [AH, C]
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EAST 19900 - Topics in East Asian Studies Course Credit: 1
TOPICS IN EAST ASIA
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EAST 40100 - Junior Independent Study Course Credit: 1
JUNIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY A one-semester course that focuses upon the research skills, methodology, and theoretical framework necessary for Senior Independent Study. Annually. Fall and Spring.
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EAST 45100 - Senior Independent Study Course Credit: 1
SENIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY–SEMESTER ONE The first semester of the Senior Independent Study project, in which each student engages in creative and independent research guided by a faculty mentor and which culminates in a thesis and an oral examination in the second semester. Prerequisite(s): EAST-40100 Annually. Fall and Spring.
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EAST 45200 - Senior Indepdent Study Course Credit: 1
SENIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY–SEMESTER TWO The second semester of the Senior Independent Study project, which culminates in the thesis and an oral examination. Prerequisite(s): EAST-45100 Annually. Spring.
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Economics |
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ECON 10100 - Principles of Economics Course Credit: 1
(BUEC, GLIS, URBN)
PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS An introductory study of the fundamental principles of the operation of the market system, the determination of national income, and the role of money in the economy. Annually. Fall and Spring. [HSS, Q]
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ECON 11000 - Quantitative Methods Course Credit: 1
(BUEC, GLIS, URBN)
QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS An introduction to analytical decision-making and its role in business and economic policy. The course includes a discussion of the limitations of quantitative methods and illustrates various techniques with computer applications. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100 [HSS, Q]
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ECON 20100 - Intermediate Micro Economic Theory Course Credit: 1
(BUEC, GLIS)
INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMIC THEORY The theory of the firm and the industry; the analysis of price determination under market conditions, ranging from pure competition to monopoly; resource allocation. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100 and MATH-10400 (or MATH-10800 or MATH-11000)(May be taken concurrently); MATH-10400, MATH-10800, or MATH-11100. May be taken concurrently. Annually. Fall and Spring. [HSS]
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ECON 20200 - Intermediate Macro Economic Theory Course Credit: 1
(BUEC, GLIS)
INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMIC THEORY An analysis of the theory of national income determination, employment, and inflation, including a study of the determinants of aggregate demand and aggregate supply. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100, sophomore standing, or permission of the instructor. Annually. Fall and Spring. [HSS]
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ECON 20500 - History & Philosophy of Economic Thought Course Credit: 1
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT An analysis of the development of economic thought and method, with emphasis on the philosophical bases and historical context for alternative schools of thought. The course will examine the important characteristics of alternative schools of thought (e.g., Marxist, neoclassical, institutional), and will consider the implications of these alternative schools for economic research and policy. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100 [HSS, W]
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ECON 21000 - Applied Regression Course Credit: 1
(BUEC, GLIS, URBN)
APPLIED REGRESSION Application of multiple regression analysis to economics. Particular attention is paid to identifying and correcting the violations of the basic model. Consideration of special topics, including time series analysis, limited dependent variables, and simultaneous models. Prerequisite(s): ECON-11000 Annually. Fall and Spring.
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ECON 23200 - Labor Economics Course Credit: 1
LABOR ECONOMICS An application of economic theory to the labor market, with particular emphasis on the U.S. labor market. Topics include: labor demand, labor supply, human capital theory, theories of labor market discrimination, unions, and inequality in earnings. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100 [HSS]
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ECON 24000 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Course Credit: 1
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS An examination of the economic use of natural resources in society: the economic implications of finite resource supplies, renewable resource supplies, and the use of environmental resources with consideration of policy options regarding optimal resource use. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100 [HSS]
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ECON 24500 - Economics of Gender Course Credit: 1
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ECONOMICS OF GENDER An investigation of the relationships between economic institutions (e.g., labor force, family, and government) and the role of women in our society, and the implications of the changing role of women for institutional change. Focus on the way traditional tools of economic analysis have been used to address issues that affect women’s economic status, and on feminist critiques of these methods. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100 Fall. [HSS]
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ECON 25100 - International Trade Course Credit: 1
(GLIS)
INTERNATIONAL TRADE An examination of the basis for international trade. Evaluation of the distributional effects of trade and alternative trade policies. Analysis of free trade areas and economic integration, including the European Union and NAFTA. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100 Fall. [HSS]
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ECON 25400 - Economic Development Course Credit: 1
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT This course will introduce students to the various economic schools of thought concerning the process of economic development. Traditionally economic development has been associated with increasing GDP per capita but this vision has broadened to incorporate, marxists, humanists, gender-aware economists, environmentalists, economic geographers, as well as mainstream neo-classical economists. A political economy approach that incorporates political, social, as well as economic factors affecting development will be the main focus of the course. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100 Annually. Spring. [HSS]
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ECON 26100 - Urban Economics Course Credit: 1
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URBAN ECONOMICS An analysis of economic activity in the spatial context of urban areas from the perspective of inefficient resource allocation resulting from externalities; theories of industrial location, land use, housing markets; application of models to urban problems of growth, land use, slums, ghettos, transportation, pollution, and local government, etc., with consideration of alternative policy options. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100 Annually. Spring. [HSS]
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ECON 26300 - Law & Economics Course Credit: 1
LAW AND ECONOMICS An examination of law and legal institutions from the perspective of economics. Economics is used to explain aspects of common and statute law, and legal cases illustrate economic concepts. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100 [HSS]
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ECON 26800 - Health Economics Course Credit: 1
HEALTH ECONOMICS An application of economic theory to the market for medical care and health insurance. Other topics include the role of government in these markets, health care reform, and international comparison of health care systems. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100 [HSS]
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ECON 29900 - Special Topics in Economics Course Credit: 1
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ECONOMICS A course designed to explore an application of economic analysis to a contemporary economic issue. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100
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ECON 29904 - Money and Banking Course Credit: 1
Money and Banking Money and Banking emphasizes the financial system, financial institutions, central banks, monetary policy and financial stability. The course studies the role that money and interest rates play in the operation of the U.S. economy. Prerequisite(s): ECON-10100
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ECON 31500 - Public Finance Course Credit: 1
PUBLIC FINANCE An investigation of the economics of the public sector to determine an optimum level and structure of the revenues and expenditures of government; includes the relation between government and the private sector, the theory of public goods and collective decision-making, cost-benefit analysis, the structure and economic effects of various taxes, and inter-governmental relations among federal, state, and local governments. Prerequisite(s): ECON-20100 Annually. Spring.
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ECON 32000 - Industrial Organization Course Credit: 1
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION An application of microeconomic theory to firms and industries. Topics include market structure, pricing practices, advertising, antitrust, and public policy. Prerequisite(s): ECON-20100
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ECON 32500 - Agency Economics Course Credit: 1
AGENCY IN ECONOMICS This course surveys how economists have studied and conceptualized individual and group agency-or the capacity for human beings to make choices and to impose those choices on the world around them. Topics examining the main insights from Classical, Evolutionary, Behavioral, and Experimental Game Theory are explored. Additional topics survey the principle findings and implications of Behavioral Economics, Neuroeconomics, and Behavioral Finance for Economics and related social sciences. Prerequisite(s): ECON-20100 (Intermediate Micro Economic Theory)
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ECON 33500 - Monetary Economics Course Credit: 1
MONETARY ECONOMICS The role of money and the nature of the Federal Reserve’s management of the monetary system are examined in the context of the U.S. financial system and economy. Topics include the term structure of interest rates, economic effects of banking regulations, formulation and execution of monetary policy, and transmission channels through which monetary policy affects employment and inflation. Prerequisite(s): ECON-20200
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ECON 35000 - International Finance Course Credit: 1
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INTERNATIONAL FINANCE An analysis of the international financial system and policy issues related to world economic interdependence. Topics include exchange rate determination, balance of payments adjustments, monetary and fiscal policies in the open economy. European Monetary Union and issues of development and transition are also included. Prerequisite(s): ECON-20200
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ECON 39900 - Spc Tps in Advanced Economic Analysis Course Credit: 1
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ADVANCED ECONOMIC ANALYSIS A seminar designed for the advanced major. Topics will reflect new developments in the economics discipline. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): ECON-20100 or ECON-20200
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ECON 40000 - Tutorial Course Credit: 0.25
Maximum Credit: 1
TUTORIAL May be repeated.
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ECON 40100 - Independent Study Course Credit: 1
(GLIS)
JUNIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY A one-semester course that focuses upon the research skills, methodology, and theoretical framework necessary for Senior Independent Study. Prerequisite(s): ECON-11000 (or MATH-22900); ECON-21000 (or MATH-32900); and either ECON-20100 or ECON-20200. ECON-21000 may be taken concurrently. Annually. Spring.
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ECON 45100 - Independent Study Thesis Course Credit: 1
(GLIS)
SENIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY–SEMESTER ONE The first semester of the Senior Independent Study project, in which each student engages in creative and independent research guided by a faculty mentor and which culminates in a thesis and an oral examination in the second semester. Prerequisite(s): ECON-40100 Annually. Fall and Spring.
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ECON 45200 - Independent Study Thesis Course Credit: 1
(GLIS)
SENIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY–SEMESTER TWO The second semester of the Senior Independent Study project, which culminates in the thesis and an oral examination. Prerequisite(s): ECON-45100 Annually. Fall and Spring.
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Education |
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EDUC 10000 - Introduction to Education Course Credit: 1.25
INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATION This is a survey course that addresses a variety of topics that include: history of education; diversity of learners; societal changes; educational philosophy; instructional technology; school organization; family and community involvement; cultural diversity; differentiation; lesson planning; and professional development. The course includes a 50-hour supervised field placement in the appropriate content area in a local school. Enrollment in this course is typically limited to first year and sophomore students. Annually. Fall and Spring.
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EDUC 11000 - Using Phonics to Teach Reading & Develop Literacy Course Credit: 1
(COMD, COMS)
USING PHONICS TO TEACH READING AND DEVELOP LITERACY In this course students explore techniques and strategies used to teach children to match, blend, and translate letters of the alphabet into sounds they represent and meaningful units. Emphasis is placed on the following topics: technology-related resources; the nature and role of word recognition; multiple literacies; methods and rationale for the instruction of phonemic awareness; fluency and vocabulary; instructional strategies for using children’s literature; diversity; differentiation; decoding; spelling; and word recognition. This class includes a series of focused observations in various early childhood classrooms. Annually. Fall.
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EDUC 12000 - Content Area Reading Course Credit: 0.5
CONTENT AREA READING In this course students consider and examine the research and reading strategies used when teaching content in grades 7-12. Emphasis is placed on the following topics: diversity of learners; needs of struggling readers; developing effective strategies; reflection; ESL/ELL learners; instructional technology; differentiation; assessment; and cooperative and collaborative learning. Students observe teachers using content area reading teaching strategies. Prerequisite(s): EDUC-10000 Annually. Spring.
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EDUC 14000 - Interdisciplinary Fine Arts Course Credit: 1
INTERDISCIPLINARY FINE ARTS IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD YEARS This course is designed to help students explore developmentally appropriate practice and curriculum design and implementation within the areas of art, music, drama, and movement. Students examine lesson planning, assessment, instructional technology, community organizations that support the arts, instructional strategies, developmentally appropriate practice, diversity, differentiation, interdisciplinary planning, teaching and learning, and program organization and classroom management available to meet the needs of all learners within the area of fine arts. Several observations and hands-on clinics sponsored by a local community arts center are required in this course. Annually. Spring.
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EDUC 19903 - Urban Education Course Credit: 1
Urban Education This course examines the context of education in urban settings and includes an exploration of the historical evolution of school as an urban socio-political institution, building a deeper understanding of the impact of race, ethnicity, and social class on the development of this institution. Utilizing relevant film and scholarly writings, emphasis will be placed on current educational policy and school reform efforts, understanding the experiences of at-risk students facing varying and confounding challenges, and thinking critically about a range of traditional and alternative school models along with the impact of private and parochial schools on the overall urban education landscape. Annually. Fall.
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EDUC 19905 - Teaching Globally Engaged Learners Course Credit: 1
TEACHING GLOBALLY ENGAGED LEARNERS This course examines multicultural education with a focus on the historical, sociological and philosophical foundations of education and on ways to help school-aged students investigate the world, recognize perspectives other than one’s own, communcate ideas, and take action. Students will examine culturally responsive curricula and, as we recognize the value and strength of diversity, be encouraged to reflect and actively participate in the classroom, our community and the world. Lastly, students will consider ways to teach and integrate students whose first language is not English.
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EDUC 20000 - Teaching Exceptionalities Course Credit: 1
(COMD, COMS)
TEACHING CHILDREN W/ EXCEPTIONALITIES This course is designed to explore the federal government’s exceptionalities categories and special education models currently used in schools. Emphasis is placed on the following topics: laws governing special education; research-to-practice gap; disproportionate representation in special needs classrooms; impact of ELL/ESL; at risk students; collaborations with colleagues and students’ families; instructional differentiation; early intervention; problem-solving; writing and interpreting the I.E.P.; and cultural diversity. The course includes a 20-hour field placement within a special needs classroom. Annually. Fall and Spring.
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EDUC 20500 - Reading, Teaching, & Learning Course Credit: 1
(COMD)
READING, TEACHING, AND LEARNING: LITERATURE AND MEDIA FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADOLESCENTS Engaging children in the process of literacy is fundamental to their academic success and engagement with the world around them. The ways in which we create these engagements is highly context depended - even more so in educational settings. What is intriguing about this engagement is why a child or young adolescent picks up, reads, and loves a particular book. The course is designed with readings, discussions, and assignments cause students to think about text, especially those for youth, differently and more critically than they have in the past and focuses on readings, discussions, films, and speakers, and applying what you are learning to your own life experiences and those of others.
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EDUC 21000 - Theory & Practice in Teaching Reading Course Credit: 1.25
THEORY AND PRACTICE IN TEACHING READING This is a comprehensive course that introduces students to the theory and practice of acquiring literacy and developing instructional strategies for teaching reading in early childhood settings. Some course topics include: theoretical and methodological approaches; diagnostic and organizational techniques; writing; new and multiple literacies; assessment; teaching comprehension, vocabulary, phonemics awareness, writing, and working with words; content area reading; children’s literature; ESL/ELL learners; differentiation; teaching diverse populations; instructional technology; the role of family and community; and classroom environment. This course includes a 50-hour supervised field experience in a reading/literacy-related classroom. Recommended: EDUC-23100 recommended Prerequisite(s): EDUC-10000 Annually. Spring.
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EDUC 23100 - Intro to Early Childhood Education Course Credit: 1.25
INTRODUCTION TO EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION This course introduces students to the theory and practice which drives current early childhood education. Designed to present an exploration of an integrated and developmentally appropriate curriculum and the implementation of that curriculum, the course provides opportunities to examine many topics related to early childhood education. A 50-hour supervised field experience in an appropriate educational setting provides exposure to a diverse student population, instructional technology in an array of social service agencies, the early childhood profession, and a variety of curriculum guidelines and expectations. Prerequisite(s): EDUC-10000 Annually. Fall.
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EDUC 25100 - Intro to Adolescent & Young Adult Educ Education Course Credit: 1.25
INTRODUCTION TO ADOLESCENT AND YOUNG ADULT EDUCATION This course is designed to introduce students to teaching at the adolescent to young adult level, grades 7-12. Emphasis is placed on the following topics: evidence-based learning; instructional technology; curriculum models; learning theories; instructional planning; assessment; motivation; the role of family and community; accountability; classroom management; and strategies for meeting the needs of all learners. A 50-hour supervised field experience in a local 7-12 classroom appropriate to the area of licensure is required. Prerequisite(s): EDUC-10000 Annually. Fall. [W]
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EDUC 26000 - Curriculum: Math/Science/Social Studies In the Early Childhood Years Course Credit: 1.25
CURRICULUM: MATH/SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD YEARS This course is designed to help students examine curriculum and instruction in the areas of math, science, health, safety, and nutrition in the early childhood years. Topics include: developmentally appropriate practice; content area reading; content specific teaching and assessment strategies; the role of family and community; differentiation; instructional technology; ESL/ELL learners; and collaborative and cooperative learning. A 50-hour supervised field placement in a content-specific early childhood setting is required. Prerequisite(s): EDUC-10000 Annually. Spring.
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EDUC 26500 - Social & Cultural Environments in Early Childhood Education Course Credit: 1
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION This course examines current research that addresses the significance of the home, school, and community on the growth and development of young children. Emphasis is placed on early childhood educators establishing and maintaining collaborative, cooperative programs and activities that involve families of young children. Topics are explored through lecture, readings and discussions, student presentations, small and large group activities, community speakers, community field trips, video presentations, and 10 hours of focused, field-directed experiences. Annually. Fall. [HSS, W]
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EDUC 30000 - Teaching Diverse Populations Course Credit: 1
ISSUES IN EDUCATION: TEACHING DIVERSE POPULATIONS This course examines topics relevant to teachers preparing to teach grades 7-12. Topics include: classroom management; effective professional relationships; roles and responsibilities of various school personnel; collaborative teaching and learning; differentiated instruction; teaching students with disabilities; ESL/ELL learners; content area reading; multicultural education; legal and ethical implications of teaching; school finance; educational technology; professionalism; standards and accountability; and school reform. Guest speakers from local schools and focused observations are integral to the course. Prerequisite(s): EDUC-10000, EDUC-25100, or MUSC-29000 Annually. Fall.
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EDUC 31000 - Assess & Intervention/Teaching Reading Reading Course Credit: 1
ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION IN TEACHING READING This course is designed to provide an in-depth exploration of formal and informal assessment and intervention strategies in the early childhood years. Topics include: observation and assessment of reading skills; value-added assessments; diagnosis and remediation of reading difficulties; use of children’s literature; multidisciplinary teaching, planning, and evaluation of instructional lessons and units; evaluation of technology tools; implementation of the I.E.P.; use of family-centered assessment; reflective practice; collegial relationships; and professionalism. An impact on student learning? project is integral to this course and requires both pre- and post- assessments and a 12-week tutoring experience with school-aged children. Prerequisite(s): EDUC-10000 and EDUC-11000 Annually. Fall.
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EDUC 32000 - Method & Assessment Aya Education Course Credit: 1.25
CURRICULUM METHODS AND ASSESSMENT IN LANGUAGE ARTS, INTEGRATED MATHEMATICS, OR INTEGRATED SOCIAL STUDIES This course is designed for those students who plan to teach grades 7-12 in either English/Language Arts, Mathematics or the Social Studies. Topics include: curriculum development, content area reading, implementation of Ohio Academic Content Standards and/or the Common Core State Standards; instructional models and methods; issues of diversity; integration of instructional technology and 21st century learning; assessment strategies; and research applications/best practices appropriate to the specified content area. A 50-hour supervised field placement in a content-appropriate classroom setting is required. Prerequisite(s): EDUC-10000 and EDUC-25100 Annually. Spring.
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EDUC 40000 - Tutorial Course Credit: 0.25
Maximum Credit: 1.25
TUTORIAL May be repeated. Annually. Fall and Spring.
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EDUC 41000 - Internship Course Credit: 0.25
Maximum Credit: 1
INTERNSHIP A structured, usually off-campus experience, in which a student extends classroom knowledge to a work position within a community, business, or governmental organization. Student interns work and learn under the joint guidance of a host organization supervisor and a College of Wooster mentor. The student must arrange the internship in advance through the appropriate department or program. No more than six internships, and a maximum of four Wooster course credits, will count toward graduation. The form for registering for an internship and the Internship Learning Plan are available in the office of the Registrar. May be repeated.
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EDUC 49000 - Early Childhood Student Teaching & Sem Course Credit: 1
EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENT TEACHING AND SEMINAR Placement consists of a full-time, 12-week supervised teaching experience in a pre-school, K, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade classroom.
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EDUC 49100 - Early Childhood Student Teaching & Sem Course Credit: 1
EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENT TEACHING AND SEMINAR Placement consists of a full-time, 12-week supervised teaching experience in a pre-school, K,1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade classroom. Annually. Fall and Spring.
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EDUC 49200 - Early Childhood Student Teaching & Sem Course Credit: 1
EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENT TEACHING AND SEMINAR Placement consists of a full-time, 12-week supervised teaching experience in a pre-school, K,1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade classroom. Annually. Fall and Spring.
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EDUC 49300 - AYA Student Teaching & Seminar Course Credit: 1
ADOLESCENT/YOUNG ADULT STUDENT TEACHING AND SEMINAR: Placement consists of a full-time, 12-week supervised teaching experience in a local, approved adolescent and young adult setting (grades 7-12) within the appropriate area of licensure. Annually. Fall and Spring.
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EDUC 49400 - AYA Student Teaching & Seminar Course Credit: 1
ADOLESCENT/YOUNG ADULT STUDENT TEACHING AND SEMINAR Placement consists of a full-time, 12-week supervised teaching experience in a local, approved adolescent and young adult setting (grades 7-12) within the appropriate area of licensure. Annually. Fall and Spring.
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EDUC 49500 - AYA Student Teaching & Seminar Course Credit: 1
ADOLESCENT/YOUNG ADULT STUDENT TEACHING AND SEMINAR Placement consists of a full-time, 12-week supervised teaching experience in a local, approved adolescent and young adult setting (grades 7-12) within the appropriate area of licensure. Annually. Fall and Spring.
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EDUC 49600 - Multiage Student Teaching & Seminar Course Credit: 1
MULTIAGE STUDENT TEACHING AND SEMINAR Placement consists of a full-time, 12-week supervised teaching experience in a local, approved multiage music setting (two different levels, divided among the pre-school, K-6, 7-8, and 9-12 environments). Annually. Fall and Spring.
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EDUC 49700 - Multiage Student Teaching & Seminar Course Credit: 1
MULTIAGE STUDENT TEACHING AND SEMINAR Placement consists of a full-time, 12-week supervised teaching experience in a local, approved multiage music setting (two different levels, divided among the pre-school, K-6, 7-8, and 9-12 environments). Annually. Fall and Spring.
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EDUC 49800 - Multiage Student Teaching & Seminar Course Credit: 1
MULTIAGE STUDENT TEACHING AND SEMINAR Placement consists of a full-time, 12-week supervised teaching experience in a local, approved multiage music setting (two different levels, divided among the pre-school, K-6, 7-8, and 9-12 environments). Annually. Fall and Spring.
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ENGL 12000 - Language, Literature and Culture Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
Language Literature and Culture This course introduces students to fundamental issues of literary language and textual interpretation. Each section focuses on a selected topic in literary studies to consider the ways language functions in the reading process and to explore interrelations among literature, culture, and history. Attention is given to the following goals: 1) practicing the close reading of literary texts; 2) understanding the terminology of literary analysis as well as core concepts; 3) introducing a range of genres and historical periods and discussing literature as an evolving cultural phenomenon; 4) increasing skills in writing about literature. This course is required for the major and strongly recommended as the first course in English for non-majors. NOTE: English 120xx can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120xx for College credit only. Annually. Fall and Spring. [AH]
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ENGL 12001 - Imagining America Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
LLC: Imagining America We will compare descriptions of America’s landscape and promises by authors from diverse cultural groups, exploring the changing American dream, the emergence of a multicultural community, and how literature creates narratives of national identity. Such authors as Fitzgerald, Johnson, Whitman, Miller, Kingston, Mukherjee, Hansberry, Cisneros, and Marshall inform our evolving definition of what it means to be American in periods of national transformation, including the Jazz Age, Great Depression, and the Civil Rights era. NOTE: English 120XX can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120xx for College credit only. Annually. Fall and Spring. [AH]
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ENGL 12005 - Modern Selves Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
Modern Selves This course focuses on how the self has been represented over time in poetry, fiction, and drama. The course gives special attention to how literary expressions of selfhood and crises of the self have developed in relation to three contexts: first, to historical shifts in understanding and preoccupations, from the early modern to the postmodern world; second, to such cultural positions as are defined by gender, race, ethnicity, class, and national origin; and third, to the shaping influences of literary language and genres. Works studied may include texts by Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, William Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson,Toni Morrison, David Malouf, Marilynne Robinson, and Tim O’Brien. NOTE: English 120xx can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120xx for College credit only. [AH]
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ENGL 12006 - Gods & Monsters Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
Gods and Monsters If, as some have claimed, society needs its gods, then it seems to need its monsters as well. But why? In this course we’ll examine early manifestations of gods and monsters (Homer’s Odyssey, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, The Mahabharata, Popol Vuh) in order to uncover the origin of the desire for the monstrous and the divine. We’ll conclude with more contemporary examples (Frankenstein, The Golem, cinematic horror) to discover how and why this desire persists. NOTE: English 120xx can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120xx for College credit only. [AH]
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ENGL 12008 - The Gothic Imagination Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
The Gothic Imagination The Gothic, with roots in the sublime geographies and alienated individuals of the Romantic era, has mutated into new forms today. We will explore the genre’s origins, emphasizing the ways these wild stories of despair, degeneration and desire helped readers to forge national identities, bridge chasms between Self and Other, and negotiate relationships among humans, nature, and technology. Readings may include Walpole, Byron, Mary Shelley, Stevenson, Poe, O’Connor, García Márquez, Benítez Rojo, and Ferré. NOTE: English 120xx can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120xx for College credit only. [AH]
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ENGL 12015 - Animals in Literature Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, ENVS)
Animals in Literature To determine whether authors personify animals, what do readers assume about the differences between humans and other animals? Serving as an introduction to literature and analysis, this course also attempts to identify and transcend literary interpretation’s traditional human-centeredness. Students will learn, for example, how understanding terms like metaphor and allegory can propel them toward controversial interpretations, especially of how animals function complexly in a wide variety of literary works. Featured texts include Høeg’s novel The Woman and the Ape; Vaughan and Staples’s Saga comics; poems by Atwood, Neruda, Angelou, and many others; Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Shaffer’s play Equus. NOTE: English 120xx can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120xx for College credit only. [AH] [AH]
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ENGL 12019 - The Watery Part of the World Course Credit: 1
(ENVS)
The Watery Part of the World This course will consider the ocean as a literary subject, with a special focus on its relation to the economic and political history of empire and globalization, and the ecological crises that have arisen from these historical developments. As an introduction to literary and cultural studies, the course will explore a wide array of cultural productions from a variety of genres and time periods, including the ancient epic, renaissance drama, the nineteenth-century novel, and contemporary lyric poetry, as well as essays in environmental philosophy, popular journalism, and documentary film. Topics include: global warming and ocean acidification, animal ethics and the crisis of mass extinction, and the role of the humanities in theorizing our planetary future. NOTE: English 120XX can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120XX for College credit only. [AH]
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ENGL 12025 - LLC: Looking Behind Paradise Course Credit: 1
LLC: Looking Behind Paradise The Caribbean is commonly viewed as a tourist’s paradise, where the sun, ocean, and rum meet under a perfect sky: both a static, exotic, eternal place and a site of temporary escape. But the historical legacies of the region include colonialism, plantation economies, slavery, and forced migration-and more recently, political instability, economic underdevelopment, and neocolonialism. How do Caribbean and other writers make sense of these histories? In this course, we will read works by authors who grapple with and connect the past and present, personal and political, to move beyond paradise. NOTE: English 120XX can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120XX for College credit only. [AH]
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ENGL 12027 - LLC: Memory & Gender in Caribbean Lit. Course Credit: 1
(WGSS)
Memory and Gender in Carribbean Literature Memory is often dictated by the dominant perspectives of history, but is also a site of preserving alternative interpretations of the past’s relationship to the present. As Caribbean history is marked by genocide, rupture, conquest, and migration, writers must find creative methods to reclaim silenced memories. For example, they often produce counter-histories through the body, environment, and dreams. We will investigate how this process is also deeply gendered, as it impacts how Caribbean masculinities, femininities, and queerness are imagined. By reading novels, poetry, essays, and theory, we will examine how language, race, and gender are related to the treatment of memory in decolonizing the Caribbean. NOTE: English 120XX can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120XX for College credit only. [AH]
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ENGL 12028 - LLC: Historical Fiction Course Credit: 1
LLC: HISTORICAL FICTION In this course, we will study four historical novels and a range of short stories, as well as essays about the goals and practices of historical fiction. We will learn about the history of this contested genre and the ways readers and critics have responded to it over the last two centuries. How does historical fiction fit into and illuminate literary history? How do representations of history in fiction differ from putatively factual historical accounts? Can historical fiction really teach us about the past, or is it, according to L. P. Hartley’s much-quoted line, a foreign country whose inhabitants do things differently and whose psychologies are opaque to modern readers? We will consider the cultural contexts in which various historical fictions are produced as well as analyzing the structure, form, and style of these texts. NOTE: ENGL-120XX can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second ENGL-120XX for College credit only. [AH]
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ENGL 12029 - Llc: Ghostly Others in American Lit Course Credit: 1
LLC: GHOSTLY OTHERS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE What (or who) haunts the American national imaginary? What is present but also simultaneously erased? Focusing on African American, Indigenous, Chican@, Caribbean, and Asian American literature, we will consider how writers explore the tension between belonging, exclusion, and histories that just won’t die. NOTE: English 120XX can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120XX for College credit only. [AH]
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ENGL 12030 - Mothers & Daughters in Contemporary Lit Course Credit: 1
Mothers and Daughters in Contemporary Literature Mother-daughter relationships are complicated. Reflecting on this intergenerational relationship in contemporary literature, we will consider how authors speak back to assumptions about the Mother, and the obligations of the Daughter, to reimagine gendered labor, identity, and sexuality. We will read Caribbean, African American, Chican@, Asian American, and Euro-American authors who approach this gendered dyad to comment on history, culture, and politics. NOTE: English 120XX can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120XX for College credit only. [AH]
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ENGL 12031 - Romance Narratives Course Credit: 1
Romance Narratives Romance is often regarded as lowbrow, yet it is a financially successful genre with broad audiences. This course will examine how issues of gender, sexuality, and love evolve over time and for different audiences. By studying romance in literature and media, we can understand how different cultural forms are interpreted and critiqued. NOTE: English 120XX can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120XX for College credit only. [AH]
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ENGL 12032 - Jazz & African American Literature Course Credit: 1
Jazz & African American Literature What did jazz-the central form of black expression in the twentieth century-mean to African American writers and their literary aesthetics? Did the music offer a promise or a snare, a provocation or an example? We will approach that complex question by looking at the myriad ways-thematic and formal-that the genre influenced pivotal figures from the Harlem Renaissance, forcing them into bolder forms of verbal experimentation. We will also examine how the jazz tradition began, by looking at the role of spirituals in slave narratives, and where the tradition persists today, in the poetic dimensions of contemporary hip-hop. NOTE: English 120XX can be taken only once for departmental credit; students may take a second English 120XX for College credit only. [AH]
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ENGL 16000 - Intro to Non-Fictional Writing Course Credit: 1
INTRODUCTION TO NON-FICTIONAL WRITING This course introduces students to major writers and genres of contemporary and classic non-fictional writing-particularly the genres of memoir, personal essay, literary journalism, editorial writing, critical writing, and film review. The course focuses on answering questions such as What is non-fiction? What are the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction? and What is the relationship between reading non-fictional writings and writing about them? Students write and read non-fiction by comparing and contrasting students’ writings in creative non-fiction, the critical essay, and the review essay with those by contemporary and classic essay writers, and with writings by other students in the class as well. Annually. Fall and Spring. [AH, W]
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ENGL 16002 - Autobio Wrtg: Memoir Course Credit: 1
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING (MEMOIR) This course focuses on analysis, discussion, and practice of autobiographical writing, with an emphasis on memoir. The course explores the aims and conventions of the genre, emphasizing course participants’ own writing. [AH, W]
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ENGL 16003 - Nature & Environmental Writing Course Credit: 1
(ENVS)
NATURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING This course explores the traditions and current practices of writing connected with the natural world. Along with the exploration of already published works in nature and environmental writing, the course may include off-campus field trips and emphasizes course participants’ own writing and peer feedback workshops. [AH, W]
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ENGL 16004 - Critical/Creative Non-Fiction Course Credit: 1
Critical/Creative Non-Fiction This class introduces students to major writers and genres of contemporary and classic non-fictional writing particularly the genres of memoir, personal essay, literary criticism, and film review. As we consider these texts, we will be answering the questions: What is non-fiction? What is the relationship between reading non-fictional writings and writing about them? And What are the boundaries between creative and critical non-fictional writing? Throughout the semester, students will be writing and reading non-fiction by comparing and contrasting students writings with those by contemporary and classic essay writers. [AH, W]
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ENGL 16007 - Travel Writing Course Credit: 1
TRAVEL WRITING Travel writing shapes our encounters with specific places; conversely, the encounter with place inevitably shapes the traveller. This course explores the conventions, strategies, and current practices of travel writing, with the goal of connecting course members’ own travels (especially during study abroad) to course discussions and assignments. Our readings and other texts will reflect the specific locations visited by class participants; we may also take field trips as a class. Participants’ own travel writing will be published in an online magazine produced by the class. [AH, W]
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ENGL 16008 - Non-Fiction Wrtg: Creative Nonfiction Course Credit: 1
INTRODUCTION TO NON-FICTIONAL WRITING (CREATIVE NON-FICTION) This course introduces students to the lyric essay, a genre that troubles the lines between fiction and non-fiction, poetry and essay, cultural criticism and imaginative writing, theory and autobiography. We will read, and students will be encouraged to write, on a wide range of topics, which may include the variances of inhabiting gender, media and American selfhood, pretentiousness, and the color blue. [AH, W]
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ENGL 16009 - Women & Politics of Pain Course Credit: 1
(WGSS)
Intro to Non-Fictional Writing: Women and the Politics of Pain In this introductory writing course, students will read and practice different genres of non-fiction, including memoir, personal essay, literary journalism, and critical writing. Students will read contemporary work by women that explores the role of gender in suffering, illness, and diagnosis. Readings and assignments will examine the treatment and mistreatment of sickness in women, and the resulting methods of survival, resistance, and transformation. [AH]
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ENGL 16100 - Introduction to Fiction and Poetry Writing Course Credit: 1
INTRODUCTION TO FICTION AND POETRY This course is an introduction to writing in a variety of fictional forms, especially short stories and poems. Participants analyze and discuss both published writing and their own writing. Priority given to English majors. Annually. Fall and Spring. [AH]
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ENGL 19900 - Editing a Literary Magazine Course Credit: 0.25
APPRENTICESHIP IN EDITING A LITERARY MAGAZINE This course provides an opportunity for students to serve as an assistant editor for the Artful Dodge, a nationally-distributed journal of new American writing, graphics, and literature in translation. Students are exposed to the daily operations of editing a professional literary publication, engaging in a number of important activities such as designing and developing the magazine’s web-site, editorial and promotional copy-writing, evaluating manuscripts, typesetting and proofreading, and organizing off-campus literary events. Students read histories of the American literary journal in addition to exploring other currently-published literary magazines. Annually. Fall and Spring. [AH]
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ENGL 20000 - Investigations in Literary Theory and Research Methods–Engl Majors Only Course Credit: 1
INVESTIGATIONS IN LITERARY THEORY AND RESEARCH METHODS This course is a writing course designed specifically for English majors. The course examines reading, writing, and conducting research as interrelated processes enabling one to investigate literary texts and other cultural work. Students 1) become familiar with several literary theories and understand what it means to ground literary investigation in a set of theoretical principles; 2) engage with ongoing scholarly conversations and become familiar with research methods; and 3) develop their own voices within the conventions of writing in the discipline. Priority given to sophomore majors. Juniors, non-majors, and second-semester first-year students with permission of course instructor. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-120xx Annually. Fall and Spring. [AH, W]
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ENGL 21002 - Black Women Writers Course Credit: 1
(AFST, CMLT, WGSS)
BLACK WOMEN WRITERS This course examines the writings of black women from 1746 to the present. Focusing on the major texts in the canon of African American women’s writing, the course considers the distinct cultural possibilities that enabled various forms of literary production throughout black women’s history in America. [AH]
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ENGL 21004 - Empire Boys (pre 1900) Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, WGSS)
Empire Boys This course interrogates gender models in 19th century literature and popular culture, with specific though not exclusive focus on masculinity. British models of manliness proliferated over the course of the 19th century as a result of industrialization, the growth of the mass media, and the rise of Empire; new models included muscular Christianity, the Sahib, the dandy, and the flaneur. Asking whether imperial models of masculinity continue to inflect gender roles today, we will explore a range of genres, including adventure and sensation novels, poetry and drama, popular culture, and literary and gender theory. [Before 1900]. [AH]
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ENGL 21009 - Post Colonial Literature & Film Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, FILM)
POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE AND FILM This course examines questions of identity (with particular emphasis on gender, race, and nation) in colonial and postcolonial novels, poems, and film. While acknowledging the problematic nature of the term postcolonial, we will examine paired colonial and postcolonial texts to understand the codes of race, gender, and nation constructed during the imperial era, and echoed, critiqued, and/or subverted in the postcolonial era. Our textual interpretations will be informed by postcolonial and gender theory. [AH, C]
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ENGL 21014 - Religion in Black Film & Literature Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
RELIGION IN BLACK FILM AND LITERATURE This course analyzes the complicated role of religion, particularly Christianity, in black communities during slavery, the Great Migration, the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, and the Post Civil Rights Era. The course considers ways in which religion is shown to empower and/or oppress black people; ways in which the politics of class, gender, and sexuality inflect black religious practices; and strategies by which transcendent, spiritual experiences are represented. Films may include Spencer Williams’ The Blood of Jesus; Stan Lathan’s Go Tell it on the Mountain; Spike Lee’s Four Little Girls; Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust; and T.D. Jakes’ Woman Thou Art Loosed. Texts by Alice Walker, Melba P. Beals, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ernest Gaines, as well as some visual art, are also considered. [AH, R]
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ENGL 21018 - Sex & Gender in Restoration & 18 Century Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, WGSS)
Sex and Gender in Restoration and 18th Century Literature A man feigns impotence to cuckold unsuspecting husbands; a male and female couple compete for sexual favors from a male servant; a reformed prostitute recounts experiences with male and female partners. How should we interpret these literary episodes, since Foucault and others have dated the concept of sexual orientation to the 19th century? Posing such questions, this course aims to improve understandings of both the eighteenth century and modernity. Featured authors include Wycherley, Rochester, Behn, Pope, Swift, Montagu, Cleland, and Wollstonecraft. Featured scholars include Foucault, Rubin, Sedgwick, Butler, and Nussbaum. [Before 1800] [AH]
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ENGL 21022 - Global Anglophone Literature After 1900 Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
GLOBAL ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE AFTER 1900 This course will examine a series of 20th century transnational novelists, essayists, and poets who interrogate questions of home, national belonging, and erotic desire. The writers include: Hisham Matar, Allison Bechdel, Hanif Kureishi, James Baldwin, Michael Ondaatje, Leila Aboulela, and Marjane Satrapi. [AH]
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ENGL 21025 - Shakespeare to Wilde (pre-1900) Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, WGSS)
QUEER LITERATURE FROM SHAKESPEARE TO WILDE This course surveys literature from approximately 1600-1900 with emphasis on analyzing representations of same-sex friendships, romances, and sexual relationships and on understanding how they were imagined differently than they would later be in the 20th and 21st centuries. Featured texts may include sonnets by Richard Barnfield and William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, poems by Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn, erotic fiction by Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, and Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray. [Before 1900] [AH]
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ENGL 21026 - Lit, Cul & Environment Crisis Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, ENVS)
LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS We live in a world threatened by global warming and mass extinction across the entire web of life. This course, as an introduction to the environmental humanities, will consider a number of ways the arts and humanities might help us understand and respond to this planetary emergency. While the focus of the course will be on what we might think of as scientific phenomena, our materials will range across various disciplines, forms, and genres, from novels and poetry to recent popular journalism, documentary films, and scholarly essays in literary and environmental studies. Topics will include: global warming and ocean acidification, animal ethics and mass extinction, and the role of the humanities in theorizing our planetary future under conditions of ecological emergency. [AH]
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ENGL 21029 - Asian-American Literature Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE Within the context of European and American expansionism, a scholar writes, Asians did not go to America; Americans went to Asia. Asian diasporic literatures in the United States thus reflect ethnic resistance against legal, economic, social, and cultural practices of white nationalism and imperialism. Reading 19th-21st century texts by East, South, Southeast and West Asians in America, students will explore the perspectives of immigrants, second generation Americans, transnational adoptees, survivors of war, and activists. [AH]
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ENGL 21030 - Class, Gender, Criminality 18th Cent Lit Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
Class, Gender, Criminality in 18th Century Literature In this course, we will survey British literature of the eighteenth century by examining themes of class, criminality, and gender in novels, poetry, and memoir. The eighteenth century loved narratives of crime: stories of hangings and transportations (being sent against one’s will to a colony abroad), seduction and repentance. These texts also demonstrate a profound uncertainty about the shifting landscape of class and privilege, often linked to concerns about appropriate behavior for women in newly public spaces. Could a maid marry her employer and become a respectable woman? Should a penniless poet who claimed to be a nobleman’s bastard son be forgiven for killing a man, on the basis of his talent? We will discuss the historical contexts of these texts and examine how they grapple, both in content in form, with questions of how to define virtue and morality and how to punish crime. [Before 1800] [AH]
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ENGL 21031 - Queering Caribbean Literature Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, WGSS)
Queering Caribbean Literature This class explores the intersection between queer theory and Caribbean literary studies. Though colonial legacies still inform Caribbean gender and sexual norms, how might literature excavate stories about queerness hidden in plain sight? We will read Caribbean short stories, novels, memoirs, and scholarship to discuss how Caribbean writers reclaim non-normative behaviors and identities that contest Euro-American histories and definitions of race, gender, and sexuality. The course is open to first-year students without prerequisites. [AH]
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ENGL 21032 - Afrofuturism Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
Afrofuturism Afrofuturism–a literary formation where Black writers, visual artists, and musicians shape the future by melding art and technology–has reached a watershed moment in American culture. With increasing attention paid to the work of Octavia Butler, the emergence of futuristic musical stylings from Janelle Monae and Saul Williams, and the cinematic adaptation of Marvel’s Black Panther, the form has expanded the boundaries of how we understand Black culture, challenging traditional science fiction to include a wider range of voices. In this course, we will focus on the broader aesthetic tradition of the genre, tracing a trajectory from the nineteenth century to the present across visual art, music, and literature. We will pay particular attention to the formation’s subversive formal features, the lessons its radical politics hold for our own time, and its fluid approach to gender and sexuality. [AH]
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