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2020-2021 Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENGL 24036 - Revenge and Its Tragedies Course Credit: 1
REVENGE AND ITS TRAGEDIES Early modern England was obsessed with vengeance. Between the 1580s and the outbreak of civil war in 1642, the lurid and bloody genre of revenge tragedy dominated the English stage. The subject of revenge was thrilling in its own right, but it also allowed playwrights to explore such themes as politics, sexuality, religion, psychology, and the nature of knowledge. The character of the revenger-solitary, brooding, cynical, preoccupied with the wrongs of the past-captured the popular imagination, spurring dramatists to create more and more imitations. In this course, we will read a selection of revenge tragedies, including The Duchess of Malfi, Hamlet, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Revenger’s Tragedy, and Titus Andronicus. Other topics will include the theological and philosophical underpinnings of revenge in early modern England; the role of humor in literary depictions of violence; and modern cinematic adaptations of the revenge plot. [Before 1800] [AH]
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ENGL 24037 - Intro to Image-Text Studies Course Credit: 1
INTRODUCTION TO IMAGE-TEXT STUDIES This course explores the inherent uncertainty in any attempt to assert a clear distinction between visual and verbal representation. Through a study of seminal figures in image-text studies-such as Horace, Aristotle, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Clement Greenberg, Jacques Derrida, and W.J.T. Mitchell-we will examine the persistently shifting yet productive interrelationship between text and image. We will apply such theoretical engagements not only to contemporary poets concerned with visuality, but also to contemporary visual artists concerned with textuality: Tom Phillips, Susan Howe, Douglas Kearney, Augusto de Campos, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Wool, Guerrilla Girls, and others. [AH]
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ENGL 25012 - Reading for Writers: Poetry & Performance Course Credit: 1
READING FOR WRITERS: POETRY & PERFORMANCE This course will introduce students to the craft of performance poetry through careful and strategic engagement with the form’s long history. From chançons to rap battles, epic poetry to modernist experimentations, we will evaluate how poets use language to craft a relationship to their audience, enlivened in performances such as those we will observe during the semester. Along the way, students will have the opportunity to practice their own poetry performance through reinterpretations of others’ work, performances of their own work, and a final project which blends creative production and critical analysis. [AH]
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ENGL 26100 - Advanced Fiction Writing Course Credit: 1
ADVANCED WRITING IN FICTIONAL FORMS Analysis, discussion, and practice of writing in one or more fictional forms, such as short stories, poems, or plays. Courses explore the aims and conventions of the specified written discourse and emphasize participants’ writing. May be repeated for credit as offerings vary. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-16100; Or permission of instructor [AH]
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ENGL 26102 - Advanced Writing in Fictional Forms Course Credit: 1
ADVANCED FICTION WRITING: THE STORY CYCLE This course focuses on studying collections of linked short stories. Participants analyze several complete story cycles and discuss the techniques authors use to connect the stories in each collection in order to create cohesive book-length narratives. The emphasis during the first half of the semester is on studying published story collections. The class then shifts into writing and workshopping during the second half of the semester. As a class, students write and revise one complete story cycle, with each student contributing one story to the collection. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-16100; Or permission of instructor [AH]
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ENGL 26103 - Advanced Poetry Writing Course Credit: 1
ADVANCED POETRY WRITING This course looks at a number of different contemporary poets and approaches to poetry, including writing in various fixed as well as open forms. Students explore (and experiment with in their own poetry) a number of traditional and contemporary techniques as well as consider prose-poetry, spoken word poetry, and other artistic threads prominent in the contemporary poetry landscape. Along with the reading of published works of poetry, students explore aspects of craft and style in their own writing as well as provide constructive feedback for their fellow writers in weekly workshops. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-16100; Or permission of instructor [AH]
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ENGL 26107 - Advanced Writing in Fictional Forms Course Credit: 1
ADVANCED WRITING IN FICTIONAL FORMS: SHORT FORMS In this workshop students will do advanced work in the short story form. In addition to considering aspects of style, voice, thematic development, and craft-based elements, students will also be encouraged to experiment, and try a range of narrative strategies. Four widely recognized and influential contemporary short story collections–Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, Junot Diaz’s Drown, Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son and Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior–will provide reference points for discussing literary craft, as well as inspiration for writing exercises and longer story assignments. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-16100; Or permission of instructor [AH]
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ENGL 26108 - Adv Fictional Wrtg: the New Short Story Course Credit: 1
ADVANCED FICTION WRITING: THE NEW SHORT STORY The landscape of contemporary fiction is vital, and constantly changing. This course will focus exclusively on short fiction published within the last few years (two of the course texts will be released in early 2017), discussing in detail the specific ways in which these works impact and enlarge literary form, and influence our perception of ourselves and our socio-cultural moment. Students will be encouraged to participate in the evolution of the form by applying these narrative techniques and strategies to their own short fiction, which will then be discussed in formal workshops. Course texts may include What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours-Helen Oyoyemi, Vertical Motion-Can Xue, A Manual for Cleaning Women-Lucia Berlin, Homesick for Another World-Ottessa Moshfegh, Counternarratives-John Keene, Wait Til You See Me Dance-Deb Olin Unferth Prerequisite(s): ENGL-16100; Or permission of instructor [AH]
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ENGL 26109 - Advanced Writing: Poetry & Prose-Poetry Course Credit: 1
ADVANCED WRITING: POETRY & PROSE-POETRY Prerequisite(s): ENGL-16100; Or permission of instructor [AH]
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ENGL 26110 - Advanced Short Story Writing Course Credit: 1
ENGL 26111. ADVANCED SHORT STORY WRITING Prerequisite(s): ENGL-16100; Or permission of instructor [AH]
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ENGL 26111 - Adv Memoir & Creative Non-Fiction Wrtg Course Credit: 1
(ENVS)
ADVANCED MEMOIR & CREATIVE NON-FICTION: NATURE & ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING This class will explore what can be found in creative writing when we lose ourselves in the wilderness of imagination and nature. Students will read stories that track beasts, chase myths, and challenge the limits of survival in search of answers, while journeying into the wild with their own creative work. This class will also consider the role and responsibility of nature writing in the midst of environmental decline and climate change. Students will share writing in a workshop setting, with the goal of generating several new pieces during the semester. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-16100; Or permission of instructor [AH]
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ENGL 26112 - Advanced Poetry Writing: Looking Outward Course Credit: 1
ADVANCED POETRY WRITING: LOOKING OUTWARD In this advanced poetry workshop, students will read and write poems that reckon with the larger world through poetic investigations of historical and contemporary concerns and events. Students will abandon the inward gaze by incorporating research, facts, documents, politics, and history into their poems. During the semester, students will read several exemplary poetry collections and create original work with writing prompts and exercises. Students will workshop original poems and provide constructive criticism, with the goal of generating several new pieces during the semester. Course texts include “The Art of Daring” by Carl Phillips, “Holey Moley Carry Me” by Erika Meitner, “Wade in the Water” by Tracy K. Smith, “Whereas” by Layli LongSoldier, “Sycamore” by Kathy Fagan, and poems by C.D. Wright, Camille Dungy, Phil Metres, and Claudia Rankine. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-16100; Or permission of instructor [AH]
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ENGL 26113 - Writing the Novella Course Credit: 1
WRITING THE NOVELLA In this creative writing course students will work on building and completing their own original novella-length works, while studying numerous examples of the contemporary novella to see what makes it tick. Special attention will be given to novellas that use unconventional approaches to content and structure, including cross-genre and hybrid works that are lyrical, formally experimental, or incorporate graphics. Authors studied will include Anne Carson, Justin Torres, Ottessa Moshfegh, Michael Ondaatje, Sandra Cisneros, Max Porter, Claudia Rankine, and Italo Calvino. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-16100 [AH]
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ENGL 26114 - Advanced Writing in Experimental Fictional Forms Course Credit: 1
ADVANCED WRITING IN EXPERIMENTAL FICTIONAL FORMS This course will critically engage with exemplary fiction by both and international writers, with a particular interest in expermiental forms. These works will be supplemented with graphical novels, photographs, and paintings, to help enlarge our understanding of what constitutes a story. In addition, these readings will potentially inspire multimedia possiblilties in our own writing, as the second half of the course will be dedicated to workshopping students’ works of fiction. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-16100 or permission of instructor [AH]
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ENGL 27001 - The Politics of Language Course Credit: 1
THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE How do grammar and language norms reflect social, racial and national identities? How and why are some forms of English privileged over others? How do speakers and writers use language to delineate social and political groups? This course will seek to answer these questions by examining the connections between language, power, identity and culture. [AH]
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ENGL 27003 - Writing Tutoring Methods Course Credit: 1
WRITING TUTORING METHODS This course introduces students to the theory and practice of one-to-one composition instruction. Students explore theories from psychology, sociology, and English studies. Students also learn about the history of peer instruction and its place in a composition program. [AH, W]
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ENGL 29901 - Serials and Social Justice/ Digital Age Course Credit: 1
(COMM, WGSS)
SERIALS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE DIGITAL AGE This team-taught writing seminar will begin by surveying serial storytelling techniques as well as the history of the form, beginning with Dickens’s nineteenth-century novels and moving through the wide range of media-art, comics, film, television, podcasts, twitter and so on-that have adopted and adapted the serial form. What functions do serials serve for consumers? For producers? How are plots configured to extend across time while meeting the (perceived) needs of diverse audiences? How does the genre, and the ways in which it is constructed, represent social diversity and engage with questions of social justice? Students will develop a critical vocabulary to assess the serial genre while analyzing the economic and cultural issues surrounding serial production and consumption. In the last half of the course, students will apply their learning by writing and producing a serial narrative of their own. [AH, C]
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ENGL 29902 - Networked Lives, Networked Bodies Course Credit: 1
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NETWORKED LIVES, NETWORKED BODIES The course will provide a survey of theories of cultural and media studies from the mid-nineteenth century through the twenty-first, in tandem with a survey of the rise of the mass media. Focusing on the direct impact of media technologies on human ways of knowing, the course aims to help students-often typecast as “digital natives”-think critically about the technologies that surround us. Through humanistic training, students can learn to see media through fresh eyes, considering other possibilities for their own interactions with technology, as well as for the processes through which texts are composed and circulated and for technology’s role in shaping, and being shaped by, human cultures. [AH, C]
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ENGL 30010 - Post/Colonial Lit. & Film Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, FILM, GMDS, WGSS)
POST/COLONIAL LITERATURE AND FILM This special topics seminar examines questions of identity in colonial and postcolonial literature and film through a range of theoretical lenses, including postcolonial, gender, queer, and critical race studies and ecocriticism. We will read paired colonial/postcolonial texts, including two novels (Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing) and two films (Euzhan Palcy’s Sugar Cane Alley and Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight), and consider theoretical debates on representation, identity, and narrative form. In the second half of the course, each student will design and complete a critically informed essay of roughly 20 pages written from a clearly articulated theoretical perspective; this process prepares students for the Senior Independent Study in English, GMDS, and related disciplines. (AH)
The course fulfills the requirement in the English and Global Media & Digital Studies majors for Junior Independent Study.
Prerequisites: English 200 and at least two literature courses. Open to non-majors. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-20000, and 2 literature courses; or permission of instructor. [AH]
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ENGL 30014 - Sem Lit/Cul St: Narrating Our Pasts Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
SEMINAR IN LITERARY AND CULTURE STUDIES: NARRATING OUR PASTS The research seminar investigates narrative as a way of knowing by exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century fictional representations of the past in relation to the conventions of storytelling and assumptions about fiction and nonfiction. Focusing on novels that represent contested historical events, we examine how narrative both makes sense of our perceptions of the world and shapes those perceptions, including how experience and identities may become indistinguishable from story. Possible texts include William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!, Toni Morrison, Beloved, Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer, Tim O’Brien, In the Lake of the Woods, Philip Roth, The Plot Against America, and D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel, as well as readings in narrative theory. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-20000, and at least 2 Literature courses [AH]
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ENGL 30015 - Sem/Lit/Cul St: Early American Novel Course Credit: 1
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SEMINAR IN LITERARY AND CULTURE STUDIES: THE EARLY AMERICAN NOVEL Research seminar on the history of the novel in the United States from the nation’s founding to the Civil War. The course will examine the American novel within the contexts of the emergence of the genre in English across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the social, economic, and geopolitical history of the United States. Authors may include Hannah Webster Foster, Charles Brockden Brown, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Wilson. Secondary readings will include foundational scholarly texts in the history and theory of the novel, as well as recent work in the fields of literary and cultural studies. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-20000, and 2 Literature courses [AH]
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ENGL 30016 - Sem Lit & Cult Studies: Bad Romance Course Credit: 1
SEMINAR IN LITERARY AND CULTURE STUDIES: BAD ROMANCE Medieval romance has a terrible reputation. Critics have maligned the authors of chivalric romances as “hack writers” who narrated preposterous stories in galloping meter. Geoffrey Chaucer parodied these romances in his own Tale of Sir Thopas-a tale so awful that the Host insisted he stop because his “drasty ryming was nat worth a toord!” But romance was one of the most popular forms of literature in the later Middle Ages. One critic even named it the “pulp fiction” of its day. Why did people read romances? Are they really aesthetically challenged? What do they say about the world in which they were written? Can they tell us anything about our world? In our quest to answer these and other more theoretical questions, we will read purportedly bad romances like Sir Isumbras and Erle of Toulouse, weird romances like Sir Gowther (a knight who is half devil), horrifying romances like Richard Coer de Lyon (cannibalism) and so-called “good” romances as well, such as Sir Orfeo and Gawain and the Green Knight. Before 1800. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-20000, and two literature courses; or permission of instructor. [AH]
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ENGL 30017 - Writing a Warming World Course Credit: 1
WRITING A WARMING WORLD Climate change is settled science, but the narratives constructed around climate change could hardly be more unsettled or unsettling. The problem of inaction on climate change is in many ways a problem of narrative-an inability to agree upon a shared understanding of how humans affect the natural world-and even climate change activists often feel overwhelmed by narratives that describe its effects. Inspired by novelist Amitav Ghosh’s monograph The Great Derangement, we will ask: what stories are being told about our warming world, and why has literary fiction generally failed to tackle climate change? What can ecocriticism, queer theory, and other critical approaches enable us to see in the texts that do address potential climate catastrophe? Prerequisite(s): ENGL-20000 and 2 literature courses or permission of instructor. [AH]
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ENGL 30018 - Medieval Cinema Course Credit: 1
(GMDS)
MEDIEVAL CINEMA On or about December 28th, 1895 the motion picture era began. Less than two years later, the first medieval film (about Joan of Arc) was made. As many of the early filmmakers were French, perhaps a film about “the Maid of Orleans” was inevitable, but other films about the Middle Ages quickly followed. Some focused on martial and chivalric themes (e.g. The Hidden Fortress and Excalibur). Others (like The Seventh Seal) purported to show the abject Middle Ages in all its pathological barbarity. Still others appropriated the Middle Ages to create a pseudo-medieval feel (Conan the Barbarian, Army of Darkness). In this course, we’ll try to get a handle on why on filmmakers have been entranced (or perhaps even hypnotized) by the medieval period. Along the way we’ll explore how twentieth- and twenty-first century social and political ideologies informed medieval cinema even as modernity was haunted by the Middle Ages. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-20000 and 2 Literature Courses [AH]
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ENGL 30019 - Literature and the Media Course Credit: 1
LITERATURE AND THE MEDIA Technology and literature have historically been mobilized to circumscribe knowledge about marginalized communities. Eighteenth-century writers claimed indigenous people saw colonial technology as magic; today, we debate whether social media enhances or limits democracy in the Global South. This research seminar explores the influence of literary production and technological mediation on collective power. We will investigate orally-transmitted narratives such as the Malian epic Sundiata and Irish ballads; nineteenth century works exploring technology’s rising influence, such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds; and contemporary texts about our relationship to social media, such as Teju Cole’s Hafiz and Dave Eggers’s The Circle. Writings by postcolonial, race, gender, ecocritical, and media theorists such as Franz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, and Rob Nixon provide an analytic framework to reflect on the relationship between the human and the digital-and on our own lives as creative, digital subjects. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-20000 and 2 Literature courses. Must be completed prior to taking this course. [AH]
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ENGL 40000 - Tutorial Course Credit: 1
TUTORIAL May be repeated.
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ENGL 41000 - English Internships 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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ENGL 45100 - Independent Study Thesis Course Credit: 1
SENIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY–SEMESTER ONE This is 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): ENGL-40100 or ENGL-300xx Annually.
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ENGL 45200 - Independent Study Thesis Course Credit: 1
SENIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY–SEMESTER TWO This is the second semester of the Senior Independent Study project, which culminates in the thesis and an oral examination. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-45100 Annually.
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ENVS 11000 - Environment and Society Course Credit: 1
Environment and Society To understand the complexity of humankind’s interaction with the environment requires grasping the basic social, cultural, economic, and political forces that condition our relationship with and impact on the natural world. This course provides an introduction to core principles and concepts in the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies. The goal of the course is to help you develop the critical thinking skills and theoretical background to analyze and evaluate complex evidence, arguments, and competing claims about the environment and society. Annually. [HSS, W]
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ENVS 12000 - Ecology and the Environment Course Credit: 1
Ecology and the Environment To understand the complexity of humankind’s interaction with the environment requires an understanding of the natural world as seen through the eyes of science. This course is a content-based introduction to this particular space, where ecology, and environmental studies intersect. The goal is to understand basic processes of ecosystem dynamics, material cycling, and energy flows, through the lens of humanity’s relationship with the environment. Annually. [MNS]
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ENVS 16000 - Science of Environmental Issues Course Credit: 1
SCIENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES This course provides an overview of key environmental issues facing our society today. Topics include climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, as well as concerns about our food, water, soil, material and energy resources. Emphasis will be on an in-depth study of the environmental science (physical, chemical, and biological) informing us about the causes, connections, scope, scale, and impacts of these issues; as well as the feasibility of potential solutions. Annually. [MNS]
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ENVS 19000 - Readings in Environmental Studies Course Credit: 0.5
Maximum Credit: 1
Readings in Environmental Studies A “book club” format course that offers students an opportunity to read classic and current books of key importance to the environmental studies field and engage in deep, sustained conversation about them. Discussions are guided by the professor as well as assigned discussion leaders, and seek to unravel the scientific, sociocultural, and humanistic threads that comprise and underlie the books. Three of every four years.
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ENVS 19900 - Readings in Environmental Studies Course Credit: 1
Readings in Environmental Studies
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ENVS 19903 - Intro to Environmental Humanities Course Credit: 1
Introduction to Environmental Humanities What does it mean to know the land upon which we stand? How are the histories of our environments legible to us? How does deepening our knowledge of place allow for us to better understand our position in the ecosystem? How do environmental histories correspond to social, political and economic histories of this region? To begin answering these questions, we will read across the disciplines, explore our environs, and meet with local experts, in the process identifying some of the methods for research and writing that are available to us in the Environmental Humanities. [AH]
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ENVS 19904 - Experiments in Everyday Life Course Credit: 1
Experiments in Everyday Life We will begin with the assumption that ecological crises indicate that prevailing systems (economic, social, etc) destroy life on this planet. Rather than focus on that which is failing, we will experiment with projects that build the world in which we wish to live, beginning with an exploration of literary, artistic and philosophical forms of experimentation of other possible worlds. Contemporary experimental poetry and visual art will be a central focus. We will also explore hands-on responses to environmental concerns that might include: practical forms of self-sufficiency in late capitalism, energy alternatives, and experiments in alternative political and economic structures. [AH]
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ENVS 19905 - Readings in ENVS, 2nd Half Course Credit: 0.25
Maximum Credit: 0
Readings in ENVS This seven week course will provide students with a close reading of foundational texts related to sustainability and the environment. Designed to expose students to challenging and controversial ideas, the course will be structured around readings, regular meetings and discussion of readings, and writing assignments that ask students to critically reflect on important perspectives in conceptualizing our natural and built environment. Readings will consist of environmental fiction and non-fiction pieces, and may include work in the humanities, natural sciences, and/or social sciences.
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ENVS 19906 - Introduction to Environmental Policy Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
(PSCI)
Introduction to Environmental Policy This seminar analyzes and conducts research on environmental politics, policy-making and environmental justice. It will introduce students to contemporary debates on common pool resources, resource management and exploitation, and the economic ideas of scarcity. The course draws primarily from a range of political economy and sociological studies. We also examine how environmental humanities inform political and cultural movements in environmental justice. A foundational understanding of political science is helpful but not required. Students will use these texts to analyze contemporary climate and environmental challenges, and critically examine international and domestic US policymaking in environmental justice.
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ENVS 19907 - Speculative Environmental Futures Course Credit: 1
SPECULATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES In this class, we will cultivate our abilities to imagine livable futures in light of the ecocidal and unjust present. How do we move from eco-anxiety and hopelessness to rigorous acts of collective imagination that lead to action? How do we begin, today, to build toward the worlds we wish to see in the future? Working to answer these questions, we will engage in exploratory exercises for individual and collective imagining as well as a rigorous study of speculative fiction and theory, historical and contemporary examples of prefigurative organizing, and regenerative design. Students should be prepared to read deeply across disciplines and perform speculative thought experiments that will culminate in both creative projects and concrete proposals for building resilient futures. [AH]
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ENVS 21000 - Rural Society & the Environment Course Credit: 1
Rural Society and the Environment Coverage of empirical research on the social patterns that characterize rural societies and their relationship to the environment. Themes covered include: rural identies; natural resource flows in the context of national and global political economies; the sociology of agriculture; race, class, and environmental justice in rural areas. [HSS]
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ENVS 22000 - Farm to Table: Understanding Food System Course Credit: 1
FROM FARM TO TABLE: UNDERSTANDING THE FOOD SYSTEM The purpose of this class is to come to a deeper understanding of the complex system of the production and consumption of food. We begin on the farm, discussing the history of American agriculture and the rise of modern industrial farming. Then we explore some of the alternatives that have been proposed to industrial farming, including organic farming and going local. Finally we turn our attention to food itself and tackle the most basic question of all: what should we eat? Offered three of every four years. [HSS]
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ENVS 23000 - Sustainable Agriculture: Theory/Practice Course Credit: 1
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: THEORY AND PRACTICE Agroecology is the “science of sustainable agriculture.” It serves as the scientific basis for devising more natural, less environmentally harmful farming practices that build soil fertility and plant resilience while maintaining adequate production levels. The goal of this course is to introduce students to a broad suite of sustainable agriculture principles and practices and to investigate the scientific basis for those practices. Students will learn agroecology techniques by actually practicing them in the campus Learning Garden. Students registering for the course are required to simultaneously register for ENVS 23000L: the associated lab. Prerequisite(s): ENVS-23000L Annually.
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ENVS 24000 - Environmental Innovations Course Credit: 1
Environmental Innovations This course will explore the concepts of entrepreneurship and innovation, specifically as problem-solving tools applied to the environmental challenges of the new century. We will use multiple case studies from around the world to explore the framing of both problems and solutions. The course focuses heavily on presentation skills, with students presenting to the class on at least four different occasions.
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ENVS 26000 - Sustainability Challenges Latin America Course Credit: 1
Sustainability Challenges in Latin America Despite great socioeconomic progress throughout Latin America, inequality, threats to biodiversity, rising social tensions, and vulnerability to climate change remain persistent and widespread issues. In this course, we will focus on addressing the questions of what should be sustained in the region, and how do we do it? The course begins with an examination of the concept of sustainability itself, then moves to discussion of some of the ongoing social, economic, political, and ecological challenges in Latin America, and the principle actors, policies, and methodologies that have taken center stage in efforts towards sustainable development. Alternate Years. [MNS]
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ENVS 27000 - Science of Agroecology Course Credit: 1.25
The Science of Agroecology This interdisciplinary course will take an in-depth, science-based look at the ecology of food production in the context of emerging 21st century challenges such as global environmental change, depleting natural resource bases, and shifting patterns in global dietary demands. Examples will be drawn from local, regional, and global food systems, with particular focus on smallholder production and traditional knowledge. Classroom discussion will be complemented with hands-on field activities that will introduce students to the ecological foundations of agroecology. The course requires students to simultaneously register for the accompanying lab, ENVS 27000L. Prerequisite(s): ENVS-27000L Alternate Years. [MNS]
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ENVS 27000L - Science of Agroecology Lab Course Credit: 0
Maximum Credit: 0
Prerequisite(s): ENVS-27000
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ENVS 28000 - Agricultural Entomology Course Credit: 1
Agricultural Entomology Insects, and arthropods in general, are a vital component of any farm system, or agroecosystem. In this class, we will explore the relationships between humans and arthropods in agriculture and understand how we can manage these relationships in the pursuit of sustainable food production. We will understand the general bases of insect biology, morphology, and behavior, and critically assess the ecology of insects and arthropods in agroecosystems. We will also learn the theory and practices of pest management and integrate them into the environmentally sound management of crops and livestock. [MNS]
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ENVS 29900 - Topics in ENVS Course Credit: 1
Topics in ENVS
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ENVS 29901 - Cultural Studies in Energy Course Credit: 1
Cultural Studies in Energy This course will consider the complex relationship between energy extraction and cultural production through a broad investigation of literature, music and visual art alongside historical and critical sources about energy. We will explore methods across the humanities for looking at the role that energy plays in culture, focusing on three areas: nuclear power in Japan, oil in Nigeria, and fossil fuels in and around Appalachia. We will conclude the course by researching and imagining energy alternatives. Students will be invited to respond both critically and creatively to the topics explored in the course. [AH]
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ENVS 29902 - Queer Ecologies Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
Queer Ecologies In this course, the frame of queer ecology will serve as an invitation to ponder the multitudinous relations an organism might have to its environment. Our explorations will be largely informed by theoretical texts (including, but not limited to, those concerned with ecofeminism, environmental justice, queer theory, feminist materialism, ecosexuality and posthumanism) accompanied by outdoor exploration, literature (including Vi Ki Nao and Octavia Butler) and visual art (including The Institute for Queer Ecology, Zheng Bo and Rian Hammond). Students will be required to produce formal and informal writing, as well as at least one creative project in any medium.
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ENVS 29903 - Urban Environments in Comparative Context Course Credit: 1
(PSCI)
URBAN ENVIRONMENTS IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS Most of the world’s poor live in cities, yet much of what we know about the politics of developing countries comes from villages and towns (Alison Post, Ann. Rev. of Pol. Sci., 2018). Coincidentally, most of what we know about urban politics comes from American sociology. Is there - and should there be - a politics of the global urban south? This course is developed as an elective for Political Science and Environmental Studies majors, although it is open to anyone who has taken a course in either of those fields. The syllabus draws on theoretical texts from American urban politics and sociology, focusing on the creation of an urban “class” and the challenges of state services, public goods, and policing in American cities. It also brings in political science and environmental politics scholarship from the developing world. Some of the key themes we will explore include: How does public infrastructure determine political outcomes? We explore water and other utilities in South Asian cities, on the role of intermediaries and bureaucrats, and the challenges of everyday urban life. How are cities linked to and separated from rural areas? We examine the creation of cities by migrants. How does the female, black and queer experience in urban space inform urban politics? This section looks at the history of the city as a site of surveillance and resistance Chauncey, linking them to contemporary democratic participation by feminist activists in South Asia. Finally, we focus on urban and electoral politics: using cases from North America, Pakistan, and India, one of the major modules of this course will examine the role of cities in setting the agenda for national politics. [HSS]
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ENVS 30000 - ENVS Interdisciplinary Seminar Course Credit: 1
ENVS Interdisciplinary Seminar
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ENVS 30001 - Waste & the Environment Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
Waste and the Environment The composition, history, social use and ultimate fate of plastics, as well as a wider analysis of contamination of the environment by persistent and endocrine-disrupting synthetic chemicals.
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ENVS 30002 - CAFOs and the Environment Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
CAFOs and the Environment Industrial meat production and the factory-style confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) produce the vast majority of the meat consumed in the country, yet few people have any idea how they operate, and they pose grave environmental risks. In this course, we will peel back the curtain on CAFOs and their environmental, human health, social, and ethical implications, using texts from multiple disciplines and various research methodologies.
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ENVS 30003 - Sustainability Course Credit: 1
Sustainability Presents a multidisciplinary perspective on environmental topics by examining in depth an issue of global and local significance from the perspectives of the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. Students will apply fundamental concepts from various disciplines to understand, formulate and evaluate solutions to environmental issues. The spring 2016 section will focus on sustainability; we will consider various ways of defining sustainability, and discuss ways of moving toward sustainability, both in the world at large and on campus. [SJ]
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ENVS 30004 - Managing Invasives Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
Managing Invasives Invasive species management is an inherently complex, multi-faceted issue that requires an interdisciplinary lens in the assessment, development, coordination, and implementation of mitigating strategies. This course seeks to first disentangle the disciplinary underpinnings of “invasiveness” in both natural and managed ecosystems (i.e., what is an invasive species?), explore the multidisciplinary factors that lead to invasions, and then understand the emergent properties and unique synergisms that are required to manage invasive species at local, regional, and global scales.
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ENVS 31000 - Sustainable Dev: Principles & Practices Course Credit: 1
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES This course will explore the intersection of development and sustainability. We will begin with a historical understanding of the idea of sustainable development, then shift to a more applied and experiential focus with an emphasis on case studies from around the world. Students will be come away with a deeper understanding of concepts that underlie sustainability, including the tragedy of the commons, the interface between population growth and resource use, societal solutions for increasing energy efficiency, and ecological economics. [HSS]
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ENVS 35000 - Advanced Research Seminar Course Credit: 1
Advanced Research Seminar A one-semester course that focuses on the research skills, methodology, and theoretical framework necessary for Senior Independent Study. Each student will complete the course by producing a research prospectus, including a literature review, as a leadup to Senior I.S. Course may be taught by one faculty or co-taught by two or more faculty. Annually.
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ENVS 39902 - Perspectives on Invasive Species Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
Perspectives on Invasive Species In this course, we will explore the concept of invasive species through a wide variety of fields, including ecology, history, sociology, and poetry. We will consider the definitions of native, alien, and invasive, asking what conditions lead to biological “invasions” across local, regional, and global scales. We will examine these ideas in relation to the complex history of human movement and changing relationship to the land. Focusing primarily on the U.S. (including Hawai?i) and the Caribbean, we will consider how invasion biology relates to the history of colonialism, immigration policy, and land management practices on those places.
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ENVS 39903 - Advanced Research Seminar Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
Advanced Research Seminar The course walks students through what it means to conduct research in environmental studies. The semester is broken into three units, designed to move juniors progressively towards the goal of conceptualizing and outlining their senior I.S.s. In the first unit, we read several prominent scholarly articles from environmental studies, dissecting them for lessons gained about conducting research in an interdisciplinary field. In the second unit, students begin to comb through literature pertaining to their own individual topics and refine their own research questions. In the third unit, students each write a research prospectus of 15-30 pages.
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ENVS 41000 - Internship Course Credit: 0.5
Maximum Credit: 1
INTERNSHIP ***MUST VISIT REGISTRAR (APEX) TO ADD COURSE*** This course can only be added to your schedule by visiting the Registrar’s Office. If you do not visit the Registrar’s office, you cannot add this course to your schedule. In consultation with a faculty member associated with the program, students may arrange academic credit for supervised work in an applied setting that is relevant to topics in environmental studies. Placement may be on- or off-campus. Examples of on-campus internships might include work through the physical plant, exploring energy use on campus; through campus grounds, investigating aspects of campus plantings and land use; or through campus dining services, examining ways to promote local foods or develop a composting program. In addition to the work, an internship will include an appropriate set of academic readings and written assignments, developed in consultation with the supervising faculty member, that will allow the student to reflect critically on his or her experience. (.5 - 1.0 credit) S/NC course. Prerequisite: Prior consultation with the faculty member and permission of the chair of Environmental Studies. May be repeated. S/NC Annually.
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ENVS 45100 - Senior I.S.-Semester One 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: ENVS 35000 or Junior I.S. completed in another department. Prerequisite(s): ENVS-35000 or ENVS-39903 Annually.
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ENVS 45200 - Senior I.S.–Semester Two 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: ENVS 45100. Annually.
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FYSM 10100 - First-Year Seminar Course Credit: 1
FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR IN CRITICAL INQUIRY Required of all first-year students, the First-Year Seminar in Critical Inquiry focuses on the processes of critical inquiry in a writing-intensive, small seminar. Each seminar invites students to engage a set of issues, questions, or ideas that can be illuminated by the disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives of the liberal arts. Seminars are designed to enhance the intellectual skills essential for liberal learning and for successful participation in the College’s academic program. First-Year Seminar may not be taken S/NC. Annually.
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French and Francophone Studies |
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FREN 10100 - Level I Beginning French Course Credit: 1
LEVEL I BEGINNING FRENCH An introduction to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing French. Acquisition of basic structure, conversational practice, short readings, and compositions. Cultural content. Extensive use of authentic video and audio materials. Annually, fall.
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FREN 10200 - Level II Beginning French Course Credit: 1
LEVEL II BEGINNING FRENCH Continuation of FREN 10100 with increased emphasis on conversational, reading, and writing skills. Prerequisite(s): FREN-10100 Annually, spring.
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FREN 20100 - French Conversation Course Credit: 1
FRENCH CONVERSATION Intensive practice in conversational French. Course includes cultural explorations in the francophone world and work with grammar, vocabulary, and appropriate texts. Prerequisite(s): FREN-10200 or placement Annually, fall. [C]
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FREN 20300 - French Composition Course Credit: 1
FRENCH COMPOSITION Intensive practice in writing and reading, with a focus on writing strategies, the writing process, and different kinds of writing. Continued study of French vocabulary and grammar. Prerequisite(s): FREN-10200 or equivalent. Annually, spring. [W]
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FREN 21600 - Advanced French Course Credit: 1
(GLIS)
ADVANCED FRENCH Practice in listening, speaking, reading, and writing at an advanced level. Review of linguistic structures focusing on questions of usage and style. Extensive use of multi-media resources; reading on multiple topics. Prerequisite(s): FREN-20300 or equivalent. Annually, fall. [C, W]
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FREN 21800 - French Phonology Course Credit: 1
(GLIS)
FRENCH PHONOLOGY Introduction to phonetics and phonology of the French language. Analysis of spoken French, including phonetic transcription. Extensive use of audio materials. Oral drill to improve pronunciation and diction. Prerequisite(s): FREN-21600 or equivalent [AH]
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FREN 22000 - Intro to Francophone Texts Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, GLIS)
INTRODUCTION TO FRANCOPHONE TEXTS This course explores a sampling of authors and works that have helped to shape French and Francophone thought and cultures from the Renaissance to the present day. Students will develop an understanding of selected texts’ important literary, philosophical, historical, and cultural contexts. Students will acquire a broadened palette of analytical tools that will enable them to become skilled readers of multiple kinds of texts: poetry and prose, but also historical documents, films, editorials, political speeches, etc. Through extended classroom discussions and a sustained focus on textual analysis and writing, this course seeks to help students improve their linguistic and analytical skills, preparing for more advanced coursework in French and Francophone Studies. Prerequisite(s): FREN-21600 or permission of instructor. Annually, fall. [AH, C, W]
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FREN 22403 - Contemp France: Econ/Soc/Institutions Course Credit: 1
(GLIS)
CONTEMPORARY FRANCE: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, INSTITUTIONS This course uses a number of different lenses to explore French society, French identity, and the French state from World War Two to the present. Topics to be covered include: the modernization of France; work, unemployment and the welfare state; the French school system; and immigration and national identity. Prerequisite(s): FREN-21600 or permission of instructor. Every other year, spring. [AH, C, GE]
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FREN 22406 - Mediterranean Crossings: North Africa and France in Historical Perspective Course Credit: 1
(GLIS, MENA)
MEDITERRANEAN CROSSINGS: NORTH AFRICA AND FRANCE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE This course explores France’s deep and complex relationships with the francophone Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia). Through a selection of historical and cultural readings, memoirs, novels and films, the course examines the evolution of these relationships during the twentieth century and up to the present day. Prerequisite(s): FREN-21600 or permission of instructor. Every other year, spring. [AH, C, D, GE]
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FREN 31000 - French Theatre Course Credit: 1
FRENCH THEATER This course explores the evolution of French theater from the seventeenth century to the present through the study of works by major playwrights, including Corneille, Molière, Racine, Marivaux, Beaumarchais, Rostand, Jarry, Sartre, Beckett and Reza. Attention will be paid to dramatic theory and to the historical and cultural contexts in which plays were produced. Prerequisite(s): FREN-22000 or FREN-224xx or the equivalent. [AH, C]
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FREN 31900 - Applied Linguistics (in English) Course Credit: 1
(GLIS)
APPLIED LINGUISTICS Taught in English. Linguistic theory and its application in the teaching of foreign languages. Offered jointly by the departments of French, German, and Spanish. Individual practice for the students of each language. Required for certification of prospective teachers of French. Prerequisite(s): FREN-20100 or the equivalent.
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FREN 32200 - Studies in the 17th Century Course Credit: 1
(CMLT)
STUDIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY An examination of works that explore the relationship between language, art, knowledge and power in the Age of Absolutism. Authors studied include Mme. de Lafayette, Madeleine de Scudéry, Racine, La Fontaine and Molière. Prerequisite(s): FREN-22000 or FREN-224xx or the equivalent. [AH, C, GE]
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FREN 32400 - Religion, Reason, & Revolution Course Credit: 1
(WGSS)
RELIGION, REASON AND REVOLUTION: REMAKING THE WORLD IN ENGLIGHTENMENT FRANCE This course explores the ways in which current debates in France about religion, civil society, gender roles, free speech and civil protest are informed by literary works, art, philosophy, and political writings of the Enlightenment. Prerequisite(s): FREN-22000 or FREN-224xx or the equivalent. [AH, C]
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FREN 33001 - Journeys in the French-Speaking Caribbean Course Credit: 1
JOURNEYS IN THE FRENCH-SPEAKING CARIBBEAN This course examines the complex history and diverse cultural encounters that have shaped Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana. These territories will be situated and studied within the broad context of the Atlantic world, with particular emphasis on intersections with France and the United States. Prerequisite(s): FREN-22000 or FREN-224xx; or permission of the instructor. [AH, C, GE]
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FREN 33002 - Remembering War Course Credit: 1
REMEMBERING WAR This course explores the memory of the First World War, the Second World War and the Algerian War of Independence in French society. This examination will be conducted through literature, films and historiographical texts. Prerequisite(s): FREN-22000 or FREN-224xx; or the equivalent. [AH, C]
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FREN 33003 - Youth & Educ in France: May 1968- Present Course Credit: 1
YOUTH & EDUCATION IN FRANCE: MAY 1968 - PRESENT This course examines contemporary France through the experiences of the nation’s youth. Throughout the semester, we will compare the challenges of being young, going to school, and growing up in France to equivalent experiences in the United States or in other countries. Prerequisite(s): FREN-22000 or FREN-224xx or the equivalent. [AH, C]
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FREN 33500 - West Africa & France: Encounters Since 1900 Course Credit: 1
(AFST, CMLT)
WEST AFRICA & FRANCE: ENCOUNTERS SINCE 1900 This course explores complex encounters that have shaped both France and francophone West Africa, a region that includes the present-day countries of Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. Tacking back and forth between West African and French contexts, we will examine themes such as colonialism, decolonization, nation-building, migrations, immigrant communities, diaspora, and francophonie. Prerequisite(s): FREN-22000 or FREN-224xx or the equivalent. [AH, C, D, GE]
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FREN 40000 - Tutorial Course Credit: 1
TUTORIAL May be repeated.
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FREN 41000 - Internship Course Credit: 0.25
Maximum Credit: 1
INTERNSHIP ***MUST VISIT REGISTRAR (APEX) TO ADD COURSE*** This course can only be added to your schedule by visiting the Registrar’s Office. If you do not visit the Registrar’s office, you cannot add this course to your schedule. 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. S/NC
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FREN 45100 - Independent Study Thesis 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. Annually.
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FREN 45200 - Independent Study Thesis Course Credit: 1
SENIOR INDEPENDENT STUDY–SEMESTER TWO The second semester of the Senior Independent Study project, which culminates in the finished thesis or an equivalent project and an oral examination. Prerequisite(s): FREN-45100 Annually.
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German Studies |
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GRMN 10100 - Beginning German Level I Course Credit: 1
(GERS)
BEGINNING GERMAN LEVEL I An introduction to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing German in a cultural context. Acquisition of basic structure, conversational practice, short readings, and compositions. Use of authentic video and audio materials. Four hours per week. Annually.
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GRMN 10200 - Beginning German Level II Course Credit: 1
(GERS)
BEGINNING GERMAN LEVEL II Continuation of GRMN 10100 with increased emphasis on conversation, cultural material, and reading authentic texts, including two children’s books. For students who have had GRMN 10100 or equivalent training, to be determined by placement test. Four hours per week. Annually.
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GRMN 20100 - Intermediate German Level I Course Credit: 1
(GERL, GERS)
INTERMEDIATE GERMAN LEVEL I A skills-building course to follow GRMN 10200 or equivalent, to be determined by placement test. Emphasis on reading literary texts of moderate difficulty, improving proficiency in writing and speaking, and exposure to culture material. The German major and minor begin with GRMN 20100. Prerequisite(s): GRMN-10200 or equivalent or placement Annually. [C]
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GRMN 20200 - Intermd German Level II Course Credit: 1
(GERS)
INTERMEDIATE GERMAN LEVEL II Current issues through literary texts and media. More advanced readings and discussion of contemporary life in the German-speaking countries as reflected in newspapers, magazines, television, and film. Prerequisite(s): GRMN-20100 or equivalent. Annually. [C]
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GRMN 22700 - German Literature in Translation Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, GERL, GERS, WGSS)
GERMAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION Taught in English. Selected readings from classical and contemporary German authors. Sample topics: German Literature East and West Since 1945; Contemporary German Literature by Women; Modern German Theater; Fairy Tales and Gender. [AH, C]
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GRMN 22802 - German Film & Society Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, FILM, GERL, GERS, GMDS)
GERMAN FILM & SOCIETY This course examines major developments in German cinema from the early twentieth to the 21st centuries. The class will focus on important movements, directors, genres, stars, etc. in the history of German film and socio-political matters facing Weimar and Nazi Germany, post-war West and East German states, and major themes and trends in the cinema of unified Germany. Students will study and practice the tools of film analysis. No previous knowledge of German or film criticism/theory is required. [AH, C]
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GRMN 22809 - Hygiene: Bodies, Bacteria, and Moral Pan Course Credit: 1
HYGIENE: BODIES, BACTERIA, AND MORAL PANIC IN GERMANY, 1900-1945 In this course, students study the rise of the modern social hygiene movement in Germany from the turn of the 19thcentury through the Nazi period. Broadly defined as the health and wellness of the individual, hygiene was embraced by doctors, politicians, and everyday citizens to improve the individual for the benefit of the state. Hygiene not only encompassed modern living conditions-the management of sewage and clean water, the cleanliness of city streets and living quarters-but also daily concerns, from personal nutrition and clothing, to sport and the risk of disease, to more intimate issues of sex, marriage, and child-rearing. Analyzing medical treatises, popular literature, and films for “public hygiene enlightenment,” students will assess hygiene’s biopolitical implications. We explore how proponents of the social hygiene movement championed nudism, espoused “racial hygiene,” condemned prostitution, launched smoking-cessation campaigns, and backed the budding science of sexology, using hygiene to lay claims to the body for the supposed benefit of society. We will also consider hygiene’s manifestations in contemporary Germany, using the lens of hygiene to explore discussions surrounding immigration, sexuality, body optimization, and medical surveillance. [AH, C]
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GRMN 23000 - Theaterpraktikum Course Credit: 1
(GERL, GERS, GLIS)
THEATERPRAKTIKUM Dramatic readings and play production, in German. Ideal for students wishing to maintain and build speaking proficiency and self-confidence. No acting experience required. May be taken more than once, but only one of these may count toward the minimum eleven courses for the major or minor. Prerequisite(s): GRMN-20100 or permission of instructor [AH, C]
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GRMN 25000 - Advanced German: Texts & Contexts Course Credit: 1
(GERL, GERS, GLIS, GMDS)
ADVANCED GERMAN: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Reading, discussion of, and writing about important themes, events and texts (e.g. short stories, short novels, personal narratives, films) from the 20th century, presented in their socio-historical contexts. Special emphasis on developing students’ reading and formal conversation skills and on cultural literacy. Continued practice of complex grammar structures and systematic vocabulary building. Prerequisite(s): GRMN-20200 Annually. [AH, C, GE]
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GRMN 26000 - Kulturkunde: Intro to German Studies Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, GERS, GLIS)
KULTURKUNDE: INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN STUDIES A survey of the cultural history of the German-speaking world, with particular attention to the social matrix in which German cultural institutions function. An introduction to the methods and resources of German Studies as an interdisciplinary area of study. Must be taken at the College of Wooster. Prerequisite(s): GRMN-25000 Annually. [AH, C, W]
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GRMN 30005 - After the Holocaust (post-1945) Course Credit: 1
AFTER THE HOLOCAUST (POST-1945) Over the course of the fall semester, we will examine major themes that shaped German culture from the end of the Second World War and the Holocaust to the unification of East and West and beyond. The following questions will help guide our focus: How did the two German states rebuild their modern identities? What ways did artists find to deal with, or to put aside, the recent Nazi past and the atrocities committed in the state’s name? What dominant issues emerged in the public debate in each decade after the war? How do social categories like race, class, gender, and sexuality play into visions of German identity in East and West? Taught in German Prerequisite(s): GRMN-26000 [AH, C]
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GRMN 31900 - Applied Linguistics Course Credit: 1
(GERS, GLIS)
Taught in English. Linguistic theory and its application in the teaching of foreign languages. Offered jointly by the departments of French, German, and Spanish. Individual practice for the students of each language. Required for licensure of prospective teachers of German.
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GRMN 34000 - Major Themes in German Literature Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, GERL, GERS, GLIS)
MAJOR THEMES IN GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE A study of dominant recurring themes that cross period and genre lines and are important to the German cultural tradition. Topics will vary from year to year - e.g., Travel and Migration; The Artist and Society; The German Middle Ages; Fiction, History, and Memory; Nature, Space, and Place. May be repeated. Prerequisite(s): GRMN-26000 or permission of instructor. [AH, C, GE]
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GRMN 34005 - Transnational Enct Contemp Grmny (grmn) Course Credit: 1
(CMLT, GERS, GLIS)
TRANSNATIONAL ENCOUNTERS IN CONTEMPORARY GERMANY (in German) A study of cultural texts and contemporary readings on the subjects of immigration, mobility, immigrational refugees, travel, and national identity with a focus on German-speaking countries. Prerequisite(s): GRMN-26000 or permission of instructor. [AH, C, GE]
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GRMN 34008 - Die Reise:German Counterculture 1968-78 Course Credit: 1
DIE REISE: GERMAN COUNTERCULTURE 1968-1978 “Die Reise: German Counterculture 1968-78” examines the culture and politics of West Germany through the lens of counter-cultural musical and literary production. Taking the Weimar Republic as its point of departure, it investigates: historical relations between intoxication and violence; the echoes of early 20th-century philosophical musical debates in the music of the late 60s and 70s; relations between American and German music, politics, and culture; the German response to the Vietnam War; and revolutionary politics. Over the semester, students will engage with literary texts, manifestos, music and film, tracing the period’s moves from analog to digital, from psychedelics to amphetamines, from peace and love to terrorism. Prerequisite(s): GRMN-26000; or permission of instructor [AH, C]
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