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2018-2019 Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

Course Numbering

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

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

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

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

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

Abbreviation

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

W Writing Intensive 

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.
 

Comparative Literature
  

  • CMLT 23600 - Comparative Film Studies

    Course Credit: 1
    (FILM)
    COMPARATIVE FILM STUDIES A special topics course focusing on various aspects of film history, theory, or analysis. Introduction to basic concepts and skills necessary for the exploration of technical, stylistic, narrative, and ideological articulation in cinema. Possible categories of inquiry include national cinemas, genres (film noir, melodrama, etc.), representation and spectatorship, feminist cinema, African American film; documentary, political cinema, the avant garde, experimental film, etc. Extensive readings of theory and criticism as well as regular film screenings. [AH, C]
  

  • CMLT 29003 - Surrealism: Europe and the Caribbean

    Course Credit: 1
    (LAST)
    SURREALISM: EUROPE AND CARIBBEAN SURREALISM From the 1920s through the 1960s Surrealism emerged as an avant-garde literary, political and artistic movement that took Western Europe, and, later, the Caribbean, by storm. As we explore some of the main surrealistic films, literature and art of Spain, France, Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, and Martinique, we will consider how surrealism defined itself as a literary, cultural, and political movement; how surrealism transformed itself as it moved from Europe to the Caribbean; and how surrealism is situated within debates about politics, nationalism, and identity. Likely texts for the class include novels by Andre Breton and Alejo Carpentier; films by Luis Bunuel and Jean Cocteau, poetry by Aime Cesaire and Robert Desnos, and paintings by Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and Wifredo Lam. [AH]
  

  • CMLT 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.
  

  • CMLT 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 and which culminates in a thesis and an oral examination in the second semester. Prerequisite(s): CMLT-40100 Annually. Fall and Spring.
  

  • CMLT 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 thesis and an oral examination. Prerequisite(s): CMLT-41500 Annually. Fall and Spring.