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College Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Students planning a program of study or concentration are urged to review program requirements and course descriptions before meeting with their advisors. Not all courses listed here are taught every year, and students should consult the Course Schedule on the Wheaton website for information about offerings in a particular semester. Courses are numbered to indicate levels of advancement as follows: 100–199, elementary or introductory; 200–299, intermediate; 300 and above, advanced. Departments often design new courses, either to be offered on a one-time basis or an experimental basis, before deciding whether to make them a regular part of the curriculum. These courses are numbered 098, 198, 298 or 398.
Information is available online through WINDOW about prerequisites that must be completed before enrolling in a course, as well as the curriculum and general education requirements that a course fulfills. Most courses are offered for one course credit; a course credit at Wheaton is the equivalent of four semester hours.
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ENG 320 - Beowulf
In this course students will translate all of Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon poem that is usually called the earliest English epic. Topics of discussion will include manuscripts and material culture, comparative philology, heroism and epic morality, influence, adaptation and oral tradition. Students must be proficient in Old English, having taken either ENG 208 or its equivalent.
Prerequisites
ENG 208 or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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ENG 325 - The Eighteenth-Century Novel
Before the 18th century, novels in English did not exist. By the end of the 18th century, however, many cultural figures worried about the seemingly obsessive novel reading that was going on among young (particularly female) readers. This course will examine what changed between 1700 and 1800 to make the novel the most important genre of English literature. We will explore the novel as a historical and literary phenomenon. We will see the many ways that the novel answered the grand social and cultural questions which dominated the 18th century. What is the difference between men and women? What makes a human life worthwhile? How should I relate to my family and loved ones? What makes a story seem truthful or false? By reading the prose of Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney and Austen, we shall find out.
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with WGS 324
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality
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ENG 326 - Digital Victorians
Do digital tools present a new way of reading and understanding Victorian literature and culture? In this course, we examine a series of user-friendly tools to explore Victorian novels, poetry, and graphics culture (such as maps, cartoons, graphs, and more). Working with texts by Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, and others, we consider the “digital turn” in literary studies to blur the line between what counts as information and what counts as art. The course culminates in a final project of “information artistry” – you’ll turn one of your critical essays into digital art. Together, we will push the bounds of what it means to be a literary scholar.
Prerequisites
ENG 290 or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Connection
21004
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities
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ENG 332 - Creative Industries in the Digital Age
The creative industries span a wide range of nonprofit and for-profit areas of artistic and cultural production, including everything from television, film and video, photography, music, and publishing, to advertising, architecture, crafts, design, fashion, games, the studio and performing arts, etc. In the U.S. alone, these industries employ roughly five million people and contribute nearly $1 trillion to the economy each year. This course provides students interested in the creative industries an opportunity to study and contribute to some of the ways in which new media and digital technologies are transforming how, when, where and by whom creative content is produced, distributed, consumed and experienced. In particular, we will take up several case studies to consider how digital technologies simultaneously and somewhat paradoxically democratize and professionalize creative innovation, creative labor, artistic production and intellectual property. Like the creative industries, the course will be project-based and will emphasize the importance of both basic digital literacy and data literacy as adjuncts to cultural literacy. Students should expect to explore and evaluate the cultural, social, technical and economic aspects of creative content production, distribution and consumption; to collect, analyze and visualize cultural data; and to work both individually and as members of teams throughout the semester. The course counts toward both the Area A and 300-level requirements for Film & New Media Studies majors.
Prerequisites
FNMS 231 Introduction to New Media or Permission of Instructor.
Notes
Cross-listed with FNMS 332
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ENG 341 - Public Poetry, Private Poetry
Is rap poetry? Do poetry slams encourage “bad” poets? We will look at questions like these in order to examine two competing ideas about poetry’s role in the contemporary world. Is poetry the last refuge of the individual in a world dominated by corporations, as poet Robert Pinsky argues? Or can poetry be the effective vehicle for public culture, as when Maya Angelou read her poetry at Clinton’s presidential inauguration? Poets will usually include established writers like Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Rita Dove, Joy Harjo and Yusef Komunyakaa and newer names like the gay, Cuban American poet Rafael Campo and slammers such as Willie Perdomo and Tracie Smith.
Credits 1
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ENG 343 - Fictions of the Modern
Fiction responding to the radical changes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – industrialization, urbanization, colonization, mass culture, the women’s movement, and the emerging scientific studies of sex and sexuality. We will study writers who searched for new ways to represent and explore experiences that the traditional novel did not or could not express. The novel’s response to emerging media such as film and radio will also be central to the course. The course’s thematic focus will vary from year to year, but will always include comparison between writers from the modernist period with one or two later 20th century or contemporary novels. In Spring 2017, the course focus will be on novelist’s treatment of modern ideas of gender and sexuality, figures such as the effeminate homosexual, the mannish woman, the new woman, the immigrant, and the spinster. We will read works by authors such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, May Sinclair, Samuel Selvon, Jean Rhys, Dorothy Sayers, and Radclyffe Hall.
Prerequisites
Seniors, Juniors or Sophomores who have taken ENG 290 or by Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
Global Honors
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ENG 346 - Postmodern American Literature: The Pursuit of Meaning: Process and Provocation
Postmodern texts and films undermine the linear sequences of cause and effect that we find in traditional fictions. They often defy normal logic, and since language is built on grammatical logic” a subject, a verb, the action upon an object” how can we ever get a grip on what appears to be non-rational, random and unprecedented? How do structure and styles change to accommodate this new perspective? Postmodernism also wrestles with the unknowability and inaccessibility of other people and ourselves.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Connection
20059
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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ENG 347 - Blackness, Futurism, and Supernatural Fiction
This class will explore Black literary and cultural aesthetics that operate in speculative and science fiction. Students will read across media, including short stories, manifestos, journalism, critical theory, novels, music and film to engage and answer questions about the links between the African diaspora, cultural politics, technological development, communication systems, distant pasts and possible futures.
Prerequisites
ENG 290 . Minors by Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with AFDS 347
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ENG 357 - Cinema and the City
From its beginning, cinema has been fascinated with the city as a site of social cohesion, capital flows and intense ideological conflicts. From Hollywood to Bollywood to Hong Kong, from Soviet socialist realism to German expressionism, Italian neo-realism and the French New Wave, virtually all major film movements have a special relationship to the metropole. In this course, we will adopt an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relationship between film production and consumption, urban space, architecture and cultural geography. Required weekly film viewing.
Prerequisites
ENG 258 or ENG 290 or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
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ENG 376 - Literary and Cultural Theory
This course enables students to explore in greater depth some of the ideas introduced in ENG 290 . Topics will change from year to year, but the course will include the study of language theories, postcolonial theory, cultural studies theory, and film and media theory. This course will be especially important for students who wish to attend graduate school in English.
Prerequisites
Two courses in English Literature or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with FNMS 376 and WGS 376
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ENG 377 - Feminist Criticism
Do women read or write differently? Has their work been marginalized? What difference do race, class and sexual orientation make? We will explore U.S., British and French approaches to feminist criticism; also psychoanalytic, Marxist, African American, queer, postcolonial and cultural-studies approaches.
Prerequisites
Two courses in Literature and/or Women’s and Gender Studies
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with WGS 377
Area
Humanities
Connection
23005
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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ENG 386 - Young Adult Literature
What is Young Adult literature? Is it anything written for young people (aged 12 to 17? 10 to 25?) or is it literature appropriated by the young? Is it characteristically edgy? hopeful? defined by power relations? by abjection? Can it be canonical? What counts as a crossover novel? … In addition to grappling with criticism and theory, we’ll explore a wide range of literature for young adults, including science fiction, graphic fiction, poetry, and realistic fiction. The works address such topics as sex, love, LGBTQ, racism, violence, rape, the media, incest, history, hope, despair. Students will write frequently and create an online anthology.
Prerequisites
At least one English course at the 200-level or above or one Education course
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with WGS 386
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities, Writing
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ENG 399 - Independent Writing
As part of the creative writing concentration, after successful completion of at least one advanced writing workshop, students may be invited to undertake a semester of independent writing under the guidance of and with permission of the instructor.
Prerequisites
Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
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ENG 401 - Senior Seminar
Students study individual authors or special topics in their seminar. A list for the following year is announced each spring. Students will be asked to express preferences among the subjects offered. Each group meets weekly. There are certain sections especially suited to writing and literature majors and to American Studies majors.
Prerequisites
Open to Senior Majors by permission of Department Chair
Credits 1
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ENG 499 - Independent Writing
As part of the creative writing concentration, after successful completion of at least one advanced writing workshop, students may be invited to undertake a semester of independent writing under the guidance of and with permission of the instructor.
Prerequisites
Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
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ENG 500 - Individual Research and Writing
Open to senior majors by invitation of the department; other interested students should consult with the chair of the department.
Credits 1
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Environmental Science |
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ESCI 398 - Geology of Iceland
The Geology of Iceland program will introduce students to one of the most geologically spectacular landscapes in the world. Iceland is tectonically unique in being both a mid-ocean spreading center and a mantle hotspot, and the vast barren landscape gives an unparalleled view into active volcanism, tectonics, fluvial processes, and glaciation. This is a project-based excursion, in which students will spend time in the preceding semester developing proposals for observations and measurements to be carried out in one of the three field locations. Once in the field, each student takes a turn being responsible to lead the other students in accomplishing the work required to carry out their project. Results will be shared with the Wheaton community in a scientific poster session the following fall.
Prerequisites
PHYS 160 or a 300-level related physics or chemistry course.
Credits 1
Notes
Faculty-lead Short-term Study Abroad program. Offered Summer 2023.
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Natural Science
Division
Natural Science
Compass Attributes
Natural Science
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Environmental Studies |
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ENV 210 - Water Resources Planning and Management
Offered through the Marine Studies Consortium. Previously offered under INT 210.
Credits 1
Division
Social Sciences
Compass Attributes
Social Science
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ENV 215 - Coastal and Ocean Policy Management
Offered through the Marine Studies Consortium. Previously offered as INT 215 - Coastal Zone Management.
Credits 1
Area
Social Sciences
Division
Social Sciences
Compass Attributes
Social Science
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ENV 360 - Conservation Science
The fate of humanity and the rest of the natural world are intertwined. In this course, we will learn the often disturbing history of conservation biology, and how its goals, values, and practitioners have changed over time. We will then examine the science, methods, trade-offs, and controversies that
underlie our attempts thus far to conserve biological diversity. Throughout, we will include themes of environmental justice and the interrelationships between humans and the natural world. This course includes a lab section where students will practice methods used in this field.
Prerequisites
BIO 201 Environmental Science or BIO 215 Ecology
Credits 1
Notes
This course is cross listed with BIO 360 Conservation Science
Area
Natural Science
Division
Natural Science
Compass Attributes
Natural Science
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ENV 399 - Independent Research
Discussion and research on special aspects of environmental studies. Content varies with the interest of students and instructors. Offered at the discretion of the department.
Credits 1
Notes
Permission of Instructor
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FNMS 175 - Media and Society
The role and influence of the media in contemporary societies, with specific attention to questions regarding: the influence of the media over people’s lives in “mass society,” the political ideology inherent in mass media messages, the organization of media industries and the media as means for subcultural expressions.
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with SOC 175
Area
Social Sciences
Connection
20088, 20095
Division
Social Sciences
Compass Attributes
Social Science
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FNMS 199 - Independent Study
An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 0.5 - 1
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FNMS 230 - Comics and Graphic Novels
During this course students will study the language of comics and learn how to develop original concepts and characters to create visual stories.
Over the course of the semester we’ll study comics, graphic novels, and sequential art as a medium for communicating stories, ideas, and experiences. Students will learn the fundamentals of how to self-publish a short comic book; the workflow of taking an idea from start to finish using digital tools, drawing, and book layout software.
Generating ideas, writing concept, developing characters, and designing visual language will be practiced through weekly sketchbook assignments, and in-class drawing and writing projects. During the semester each student will produce several short comic projects and one longer length comic.
Prerequisites
ART 111 Two-Dimensional Design or ART 116 Drawing I . This course requires the completion of a survey to determine eligibility to register.
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with ART 230 Comics and Graphic Novels
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FNMS 231 - Introduction to New Media
This course introduces students to central issues in “new media”, a term that refers both to the emergence of new information and communication technologies as well as to the convergence of formerly distinct media — print, photography, cinema, radio, television, etc. — in digital environments. Though specific areas of focus will vary from year to year, students will engage topics such as the history and future of the Internet; the digitization of art, literature and film; digital copyright and intellectual property; the ‘freedom’ of information; social media and participatory culture; privacy vs. security; ‘smart’ technologies; and the role of new media in globalization and political movements.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Connection
20095
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FNMS 235 - Journalism 2.0: Civic Media in the Digital Age
This course will examine the present crisis in journalism and the decline of civic engagement in the US. Students will build a class blog that will feature quality journalism that we produce in class. In addition, we will work towards organizing two public meetings towards the end of the semester inviting the broader Wheaton community to talk about topics relevant to misinformation and disinformation in today’s media.
Unlike ENG 285 Journalism , which is primarily an introduction to news writing, this course combines 1) media literacy training, 2) an introduction to the theory and practice of civic media, and 3) opportunities to create civic media beyond the classroom.
Our broader goal is to support and further develop civic engagement on campus.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FNMS 242 - Horror Film and the Unruly Body
Horror films often treat marginalized bodies as monstrous “Others.” Histories of stigmatization, however, are only part of the story. Minority audiences have always enjoyed and critiqued the horror genre, and filmmakers from James Whales (Frankenstein) to Jordan Peele (Get Out) have appropriated the genre to their own ends. This course will explore how unruly bodies—women, people of color, queer populations, and disabled groups—have defined the horror film in front of the camera, and increasingly, how they have moved behind the camera to create their own tales of power, fear, irony, and identity.
Credits 1
Notes
Cross listed with WGS 242 Horror Film and the Unruly Body
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts & Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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FNMS 244 - Visualizing Cultural Data
This is a project-based, hands-on introductory course for anyone with an interest in data visualization and information design. No prior experience with design, data science, or programming is necessary. Students will learn to collect, prepare, and analyze data, and will use entry-level tools to build visualizations that produce meaningful insights. Projects will include designing an information dashboard, a narrative infographic, an interactive map, and a multi-panel interactive visual story. Students will learn to combine creative, critical, and computational thinking in ways that will strengthen their information fluency and digital literacy skills, skills that are increasingly important to academic success and professional pursuits alike.
Credits 1
Area
Math and Computer Science
Foundation
Quantitative Analysis
Compass Attributes
Quantitative Analysis
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FNMS 249 - Film Genres
What makes a western a western, a musical a musical? For Hollywood, genre has historically served as a form of product differentiation organized around specific narrative codes and conventions. Genres reveal much about how Hollywood interacts with and responds to shifts in audience tastes and cultural values. The course will introduce students to a variety of Hollywood genres and theories of generic formation in order to increase our understanding of the commercial, artistic and ideological function of genres. Required weekly film viewing.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Connection
20034
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FNMS 251 - Introduction to World Cinema
This course is designed as an introduction to the critical concepts in the study of “world cinema”: Orientalism, Third World nationalism, diasporic cultural production and Global Hollywood. We will study a broad range of films, from the colonial adventure to the anti-colonial documentary, from avant-garde cinema to popular blockbusters. Rather than force the vast cinemas of the world into a stable grid of discrete national formations, this course encourages students to explore the connections between “global” and “local” cinematic worlds. Required weekly film viewing.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Connection
20085
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities
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FNMS 252 - Photography and Knowledge, 1830-1930
This course is a social history of photography which examines how the medium shaped categories of subjectivity in the 19th century (class, gender, race, nationality, for example). We study how photographic representations were a means to archive and classify fields of knowledge. The development of photography in this period intersected with the burgeoning sciences of ethnography and anthropology, and it was used in both topographical and expeditionary surveys. Faith in photography as a document made it a powerful witness to war, urban development, colonial expansion and social inequalities. While we study the work of photography’s more well-known practitioners from Europe and North America, our approach will not emphasize the aesthetic innovations of self-consciously artistic photography. Rather, we examine both professional and domestic photography as a means to produce knowledge about the world.
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with ARTH 257
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FNMS 257 - Race and Racism in United States Cinema
U.S. cinema has always struggled with both race and racism. This course examines the long, complex history of representations (and erasures) of racial difference in U.S. film. Although most mainstream films and public discussions frame race as a black-and-white issue, this course understands racial formations in the U.S. to be more multiple. We will watch films from a wide historical range that speak to and problematize the experiences of Chicanos, African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans and Anglo Americans (yes, white is a race, too) in the U.S. Required weekly film viewing.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Connection
20034, 20094
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FNMS 258 - Introduction to Film Studies
Current trends stemming from the globalization of the media and its accompanying media synergies make it untenable to view the cinema as a discrete, unitary phenomenon. This course addresses this phenomenon in a parallel manner by bridging the disciplinary divides between film theory, media and cultural studies. Conjoining theoretical and historical approaches to cinematic texts, institutions and audiences, this course explores the multidimensional nature of the cinema and its place in society: (1) as representational spaces with textual properties and reading protocols enabling the creation of “meaning,” (2) as a unique industry driven by political and economic agendas; and (3) as a social practice that audiences “do,” involving relations of subjectivity and power. As such, we shall survey various approaches to the study of the cinema, and work through crucial questions regarding film analysis (e.g., what is the relationship between film and literature?), the political economy of the media (e.g., is the cinema a democratic institution?) and audience reception (e.g., what is a fan? Why do we adore “stars”?). By engaging these issues, this course will teach you not only how to engage critically with media texts, but also how to “talk” to the powerful media institutions that touch our lives.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Connection
20093
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FNMS 260 - Production I: Visual Storytelling with Film and Video
An intensive hands-on introduction to the art and craft of visual storytelling with film/ video. The class is conceptually divided into four core areas; Image, Sound, Editing, and Storytelling. Students plan, shoot, and edit two short non-sync (no dialogue) projects while engaging in a broad exploration of the technical and artistic components of filmmaking. These projects are supported by in-class exercises, discussion, readings and some film screenings. This course is cross listed with ART 260 .
Prerequisites
Survey to determine eligibility to enroll in this course must be completed prior to registration.
Credits 1
Notes
Survey to determine eligibility to enroll in this course must be completed the week before registration.
Area
Creative Arts
Connection
20093
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Creative Arts
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FNMS 262 - Screenwriting
Screenwriting examines the fundamentals of writing for visual media; idea development, screenplay format, story structure, character, dialogue, visualization, and conflict. Students will write and workshop three scripts of varying lengths over the course of the semester, read a variety of scripts and screenplays, and review/critique a variety of short films.
Prerequisites
Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes
Survey to determine eligibility to enroll in this course must be completed the week before registration.
Area
Creative Arts
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Creative Arts, Writing
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FNMS 264 - Animation l
This course will introduce students to the world of animation through a series of hands-on exercises, projects, and screenings of the most impressive independent animation from around the world. The projects cover a variety of animation concepts and techniques, all of which are based in animating real materials and digital recording methods. Basic editing and sound design are introduced, as is output to a variety of digital formats and compressions. Group discussions accompany the discovery of animation films, techniques and methods. A final project of the student’s own design will be based on a Haiku. This course is cross listed with ART 264 .
Prerequisites
Survey to determine eligibility to enroll in this course must be completed prior to registration.
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with ART 264 . Formerly taught as Introduction to Animation.
Area
Creative Arts
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Creative Arts
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FNMS 270 - Digital Editing
A study of film and video editing from both technical and aesthetic perspectives. Students will utilize Adobe Premiere, AfterEffects, and Photoshop to engage in multiple editing projects spanning a variety of modes; Narrative, Documentary, Experimental, Remix and Video Essay. Students will examine how a story/idea is most effectively assembled and enhanced through the use of sequence structure, image juxtaposition, shot duration, pacing and rhythm and continuity. Furthermore, students will develop skills in fundamental areas of post-production, including title design, motion graphics, color correction, greenscreen compositing, audio sweetening and audio mixing.
Prerequisites
Survey to determine eligibility to enroll in this course must be completed the week before registration.
Credits 1
Notes
Survey to determine eligibility to enroll in this course must be completed the week before registration.
Area
Creative Arts
Division
Arts and Humanites
Compass Attributes
Creative Arts
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FNMS 280 - Documentary Storytelling
As online distribution has contributed to a golden age of short form non-fiction filmmaking, it is imperative that aspiring filmmakers and media-makers become fluent in the aesthetics and story potential of the documentary form. Documentary Storytelling is an intensive hands-on introduction to the art and craft of short form documentary production. Students will produce two documentary projects, engage in a variety of in-class filmmaking exercises and challenges, study a variety of films and texts, and critique each other’s work.
Prerequisites
Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes
Survey to determine eligibility to enroll in this course must be completed the week before registration.
Area
Creative Arts
Division
Arts and Humanites
Compass Attributes
Creative Arts, Sophomore Experience
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FNMS 283 - Advanced Writing: Digital Controversies
In an electronic era, medium and message talk alike spark debate. Brownsville, Brooklyn police used Omnipresence, a video surveillance technology, leading one journalist to ask, “Sound policing, or stop and frisk by another name?” When Europe’s top court ruled that Google could be compelled to erase news articles about individuals, scholars wondered, “Should people have the right to be forgotten?” This course explores the different ways that writers discover, frame and deliberate digital controversies. Students will read and write about these controversies, honing their writing skills by composing and revising print essays, blogs, and digital essays in our workshop-centered course.
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with ENG 282 .
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FNMS 284 - Writing in Professional Contexts
An advanced course in practical writing, with emphasis on writing as problem solving and on conciseness and clarity. Each student will select a particular local problem requiring a professional or technical solution, research the history of that problem, and write a report recommending a course of action to a specific audience. In addition to preparing frequent shorter writing assignments and the final large report, students will also be required to attend at least one career-related workshop or seminar offered by the Filene Center and to prepare a short report based on that seminar.
Credits 1
Notes
Open to Juniors and Seniors or Permission of Instructor. Cross-listed with ENG 280
Area
Humanities
Connection
20018, 20080
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FNMS 285 - Journalism
Journalism is the practice of presenting the public with timely and accurate information about matters of public interest. Our goal in this class is to develop skills that will allow you to produce journalism of your own. To this end we will practice and discuss reporting, investigating, interviewing, writing, editing, revising, re-investigating and polishing.
The only way to learn to write journalistically is to do it. You will therefore be doing a lot of writing in this class: multiple short news briefs and full-length articles, as well as a comparative essay and a final in-depth enterprise story. But writing in a journalistic style is not enough to make you a journalist. The essence of journalism is timely publication, and the course, therefore, will operate according to the same kinds of strict deadlines, for both initial drafts and revisions, that are required in the profession. This course is cross listed with ENG 285 .
Prerequisites
ENG 101 or AP credit
Credits 1
Notes
Open to Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Cross listed with ENG 285
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities, Writing
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FNMS 298 - Museums in the Digital Age
From audio guides to crowdsourced exhibitions to award-winning social media accounts, museums have always experimented with the latest forms of technology, at times driven to do so by artists who incorporate new media into their work. Today, museums receive exponentially greater numbers of visitors to their websites than their physical sites, and the pace of technological change has staff scrambling to gather the human and financial resources needed to function in the digital age. This course explores how museums – highly respected, yet often controversial cultural institutions – use digital media and technologies to better care for their collections, engage their audiences, and navigate relationships with source communities.
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with ARTH 298 Museums in the Digital Age .
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FNMS 298 - Podcast Production and Storytelling
Students will learn the art and craft of audio-based storytelling by producing their own audio projects and engaging with a variety of creative work within the medium. They will learn the process of properly recording and editing sound, both in the field and in controlled environments. They will learn the proper development process in advance of recording, how to structure interviews and conversations, and how to build complex soundscapes. Students will create and develop three projects in a mode and genre of their choice.
Credits 1
Notes
Survey to determine eligibility to enroll in this course must be completed prior to registration.
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Creative Arts
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FNMS 298 - Race, Gender and Television
How has television dealt with race, gender, and other forms of difference? How have marginalized artists created space for themselves in the TV industry? This seminar will explore how four groups—African Americans, LGBTQ+ populations, women, and those with disabilities—have shaped, and were shaped by, TV history. In addition to studying televisual representation, students will explore how industrial shifts (ex. the demographics of writers’ rooms) and audience practices (ex. binge-watching), affect what we see on TV and who gets the power to make it. Required weekly viewing.
Prerequisites
Permission of instructor
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
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FNMS 298 - Sound Design
When we think of movies, TV shows, theater, art shows, or multimedia productions we first think of visuals. Behind the visual elements is a structure that often goes unnoticed yet shapes our perception immensely: Sound. Students of the Sound Design course will learn the art and craft of using sound to enrich and enhance their productions. In a workshop environment we will engage with a variety of sound design examples from contemporary media, art, and stage productions in order to learn about the elements, possibilities, and techniques of designing sound. We will record, arrange, and mix sound effects, ambient sound environments, and music. The class will include discussions, peer critique, group work, and presentations to share projects, and learn from each other. Sound Design invites students of FNMS, Theater, Music, Art, and Science to explore the sonic possibilities of their individual projects, and to engage in this interdisciplinary creative workshop.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Creative Arts
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FNMS 299 - Independent Study
An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 1
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FNMS 316 - Music, Sound and the Moving Image
An exploration of film music from 1895 to the present through classic and contemporary films and film scores by important directors and composers. Considerable viewing, discussion, frequent reading and writing assignments, and creative editing projects using Garage Band and IMovie.
Prerequisites
MUSC 114 or MUSC 115 and one 200-level Music course or Permission of Instructor.
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with MUSC 316
Area
Creative Arts
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Creative Arts
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FNMS 331 - Digital Culture
Designed for students with a wide range of interests in print and visual media, this course explores the various ways in which the new communication technologies and the digitization of culture impacts issues such as representation, textuality, narrative, interpretation and the production of cultural meaning. Sample topics of inquiry include: the future of print, film and television in the age of trans-media entertainment; Digital Humanities; intellectual property rights vs. open-access and the digital commons; social media and online communities; the impact of ethnic and community media and global Internet culture on language, race and citizenship.
Prerequisites
FNMS 231 Introduction to New Media
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanites
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FNMS 332 - Creative Industries in the Digital Age
The creative industries span a wide range of nonprofit and for-profit areas of artistic and cultural production, including everything from television, film and video, photography, music, and publishing, to advertising, architecture, crafts, design, fashion, games, the studio and performing arts, etc. In the U.S. alone, these industries employ roughly five million people and contribute nearly $1 trillion to the economy each year. This course provides students interested in the creative industries an opportunity to study and contribute to some of the ways in which new media and digital technologies are transforming how, when, where and by whom creative content is produced, distributed, consumed and experienced. In particular, we will take up several case studies to consider how digital technologies simultaneously and somewhat paradoxically democratize and professionalize creative innovation, creative labor, artistic production and intellectual property. Like the creative industries, the course will be project-based and will emphasize the importance of both basic digital literacy and data literacy as adjuncts to cultural literacy. Students should expect to explore and evaluate the cultural, social, technical and economic aspects of creative content production, distribution and consumption; to collect, analyze and visualize cultural data; and to work both individually and as members of teams throughout the semester. The course counts toward both the Area A and 300-level requirements for Film & New Media Studies majors.
Prerequisites
FNMS 231 or Permission of Instructor.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FNMS 335 - Exhibition Design
This course introduces students to the history, practice and theory of exhibition design. In this course, we will engage in all aspects of the exhibition design process through reading, in-class discussions, site visits, and guest lectures as well as the design and installation of an exhibition. We will consider the visitor experience and how objects and ideas are interpreted by and for different audiences, as well as how museums use technology to engage the public. Students will gain an understanding of the history of exhibition design as well as the challenges museums/like institutions face in making their collections accessible to the communities they serve. Students will be required to participate fully in the practical component of the course, which involves the research for and the design and installation of an exhibition for Wheaton’ Beard and Weil Galleries.
Prerequisites
Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes
Registration for the pre-application section of this course is required. Eligibility to enroll in this course will be determined at the first day of class. Cross-listed with ARTH 335
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities, Sophomore Experience
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FNMS 345 - Queer Cinema
What does mean to “queer” a film? How have LGBTQ+ artists created space for themselves in Hollywood? The seminar will focus on queer cinema, with the goal of exploring how US film shapes perceptions of sexual and gendered identities (particularly at the intersection with other forms of difference including race, class, region, and disability). The class will be organized chronologically, moving from classical Hollywood cinema through queer representation in a post-marriage equality world. Queer theory, critical race theory, and feminist readings will be interwoven through the course, and texts examined will range from Paris is Burning to Moonlight.
Credits 1
Notes
Cross listed with WGS 345 Queer Cinema
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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FNMS 355 - Global Cinemas
How has cinema “gone global”? This course explores how globalization has impacted the way films are made, circulated and received in an increasingly interconnected world system. Through specific case studies, we will examine how transnational circuits of cultural exchange have dramatically transformed the world’s media landscape, giving rise to a global imaginary with profound implications for the construction of identity.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Beyond the West
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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FNMS 356 - Third Cinema
In this course, we will trace the political, economic and cultural contexts that shaped Third Cinema, the only body of film theory that did not originate in Europe or North America. First elaborated in the militant manifestos of Latin American filmmakers during the 1960s, the theory argued for an independent and aesthetically radical cinema keyed to the anti-colonial politics of an emergent Third world political consciousness. Through a mix of case studies and theoretical explication, this course asks you to think about how the issues flagged by Third Cinema may actually be especially relevant today.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Connection
20091
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Beyond the West
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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FNMS 358 - Digital Humanities Methods and Tools
See HISP 358 for course description.
Credits 1
Notes
Course taught in English. Cross-listed with HISP 358
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanites
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FNMS 360 - Film Production II
An intensive hands-on film/video production in which students will explore advanced techniques in directing, cinematography, lighting, editing, and sound design. The class will be broken up into teams of four students, who will conceive a story, translate it into visual language, and produce a 10-minute film. This project is supported with a variety of in-class critique sessions, hands-on production challenges, discussions, and film screenings.
Prerequisites
Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes
Registration for the pre-application section of this course is required. Eligibility to enroll in this course will be determined at the first day of class.
Area
Creative Arts
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Creative Arts, Sophomore Experience
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FNMS 364 - Animation II
This course is an advanced study in the creative and technical processes of creating 2D animation.Students will expand their understanding of the fundamental principles of animation through in-class
exercises, intensive weekly short animated projects, and viewing and discussion of related animated films. Along with advanced animation principles, there will be an emphasis on idea generation for storytelling, and
developing a personal visual language..
Prerequisites
FNMS 264 Animation l or ART 264 Animation l
Credits 1
Notes
This course is cross listed with ART 364
Area
Creative Arts
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Creative Arts
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FNMS 398 - Stop Motion Animation
Stop-Motion Animation is a course in the study and technical production of 2D multi-plane Stop-Motion Animation. Students will complete this course understanding how to apply the principles of animation to “straight ahead” Stop Motion animation, with a emphasis on animation physics and acting for animation. The projects will take students through a traditional animation pipeline from concept, to planning, storyboarding, design, and fabrication of 2D elements (flat puppets, and background elements). The class will include significant homework including weekly animation assignments and readings. Students must be comfortable using fabrication materials and tools (x-acto knives, adhesives, paint, pencils, etc).
Prerequisites
ART 264 Animation l or FNMS 264 Animation l
Credits 1
Notes
This course is cross listed with ART 398 Stop Motion Animation .
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Creative Arts
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FNMS 398 - Streaming TV
Streaming services have fundamentally changed our experience of consuming media, what viewers think “counts” as TV, and how content creators & media industries craft televisual images. This course will explore the evolution of “streaming TV,” from the rise of broadband internet (and the beginning-of-the-end for Blockbuster) to the current streaming wars. Students will consider how streaming affects consumers’ access, how new portals have led to the creation of new kinds of media (ex. web series), as well as the socio-economics of streaming. We’ll also watch shows from Issa Rae’s Awkward Black Girl to Ted Lasso to gauge who’s included, who’s excluded, and who benefits from the current streaming tv boom.
Credits 1
Division
Social Science
Compass Attributes
Social Science
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FNMS 398 - Transmedia Franchises
Transmedia storytelling—a narrative or universe that unfolds across multiple platforms—seems a very modern phenomenon. However, this form of storytelling has a much longer history. This course will examine that longer history of transmedia franchising through a series of case studies that will range from Star Wars to Veronica Mars and the Marvel universe (think: The Avengers). Our exploration will take us down still-emerging paths in media studies, and will also allow us to discuss key issues in media history: how producers have historically dealt with fan cultures, the influence of video games and new media on Hollywood, how storytelling conventions change across media, the development of genre, and the ever-shifting power dynamic between fans, artists, industry professionals, and stars.
Credits 1
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FNMS 398 - Women in Film
This course is formulated around paradoxes: it will trouble the category of “woman,” while also analyzing key areas in which gender identity has affected the film industry: the representation of women, women filmmakers (cis, trans, non-binary, and otherwise self-identifying), and feminist film theory. Students will watch films from Rear Window and Daughters of the Dust to The Witch and Legally Blonde, with the goal of illuminating how the idea of “woman” is constructed on film and how audiences engage, reshape, and elaborate on that construction in their everyday lives.
Prerequisites
Students are strongly encouraged to have taken either FNMS 258, WGS 101 or WGS 102 prior to taking this course.
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with WGS 398
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FNMS 399 - Independent Study
An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 1
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FNMS 401 - Senior Seminar
This is the capstone course for Film and New Media Studies majors. Each seminar will focus on one or more aspects of film, new media and/or other creative industries. Although topics will vary from year to year, the seminar is fundamentally project-based insofar as it is designed to provide students with both the guidance and autonomy necessary to design and complete a capstone project that is meaningful to them “Ò academically, creatively, professionally. In addition to the capstone project, students will co-facilitate at least one seminar meeting and will be expected to participate actively in the intellectual and creative community of the seminar both in class and online. Students will also complete an inventory and self-assessment of the knowledge, experience and expertise they have developed throughout their coursework in order to identify connections between their academic and professional skill sets, and to help them to leverage their experiences as Film and New Media Studies majors in their post-Wheaton pursuits effectively and intentionally.
Credits 1
Notes
Normally open to Senior majors. Permisison of Program Coordinator
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FYE 101 - Between Good & Evil
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL: This FYE links two disciplines, philosophy and psychology. The courses—”What is the Good Life?” and “The Social Psychology of Good and Evil,”—examine the nature and meaning of these foundational concepts. The courses will study real-world examples of individuals who are caught between good and evil, attempting to navigate the situational, societal, and political contexts in which they find themselves. We will draw upon a range of historical, contemporary, fictional, and scientific texts to critically analyze the human struggle to live a good life. This FYE invites students to contemplate their own lives through reflections, activities, and practices aimed at paving the way toward a meaningful and purposeful existence.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FYE 101 - Dialogues with the Dead
As above, so below. One of the great world myths is the trip to Hell. The hero overcomes an insurmountable obstacle in order to speak with the dead who possess the knowledge they need. The basic story stays the same, but these dialogues in the underworld reflect the changing world above as much as they reflect the unchanging world within. We’ll start 4,000 years ago with the Epic of Gilgamesh and engage in dialogue
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FYE 101 - First Year Experience
The Connected First Year Experience (FYE) is designed for and required of new students at the beginning of their college studies. The experience is designed to put connections/interdisciplinarity at the core of the first-year experience, encourage exploration and excitement, develop strong student cohorts, and introduce students to the rigor of college-level work. Teams of two to four faculty representing at least two disciplines will work together to determine a shared topic, question, or problem that will guide their FYE class. These faculty will teach collaboratively, but will have the autonomy to design the structure of the student experience.
Section topics vary from year to year and are available within the Course Schedule. Recent sections have covered topics in the arts, ecology, international relations, social and public policy, personal development, the sciences and history. Students typically are placed in an FYE section by late June before registering for other first-semester courses.
Learning Outcomes
- Engage with multiple disciplinary perspectives and the tools, habits of mind, and problem-solving approaches inherent in those perspectives
- Create a product applying at least two disciplinary perspectives to address a big question, issue, or problem
- Create a collaborative, communicative, and cooperative cohort through classwork in teams, team projects, or shared work across sections of the Connected FYE
- Practice and demonstrate professional decorum through time-management, preparation, communication, and relationship-development skills to be assessed by the instructor
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FYE 101 - Food for Thought
What is food? It’s such a simple question at first. But when the four of us started answering that question, our first impulse was to ask more questions. Is food what you eat? Is food what you buy at the grocery store? Yes, what you buy at the grocery store is what you eat, but there are so many other questions to ask about eating. When, with whom, and how do we eat? Why do we choose some food over others? How does what we eat affect ourselves and others? There are so many ways to analyze why we eat what we eat that have little to do with what’s available in a grocery store. Family traditions. Religious traditions. Concerns for animal welfare. Convenience. Necessity. Can we just keep eating food without being mindful of these concerns? Doesn’t the situation of our planet (8 billion people, climate change) require all of us to think about more than ourselves? How can we possibly balance all these concerns and still register true delight and relish with what we are eating?
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FYE 101 - Island Energy: Geophysics and the Arts
The world’s islands provide opportunity to study how peoples’ cultural values and worldviews, expressed through their stories, visual and performing arts, are shaped by the geophysical world around them. In this first-year experience, students will explore how the unique physical environments of islands are reflected in the cultures and artistic practices of the people living there. Topics will range from volcanoes, architecture and avant-garde pop music in Iceland to petroleum geology and Trinidad’s infectious steelband music, from a long tradition of tranquille renderings of the natural world and the escalating reality of typhoons and tsunamis in Japan, to the complicated relationships represented within Hula, decisions surrounding astronomy and geothermal energy in Hawaii.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FYE 101 - Make it New: Modernism in Literature and the Arts
Do we experience the world as it really is? Do the arts represent the world? Or do they create the world for us to understand? Can we understand the world at all? How about ourselves? These are a few of the questions raised by the artists, musicians, and writers whose ideas became central to early-twentieth century modernism. We will focus especially on German and Austrian figures such as the psychologist Sigmund Freud, the artist Wassily Kandinsky, the composer Arnold Schoenberg, the architect Mies van der Rohe, and the writer Franz Kafka who didn’t just change their disciplines: they radically transformed the ways that humans thought about themselves, their relationships with each other and with society as a whole, and how the arts could be used to explore these new conceptions of the world. By questioning, reformulating, and even destroying 19th-century ideas about art, music, literature, and human nature, modernism paved the way for a new world: one marked by an unceasing critical exploration of nearly every aspect of human culture and society.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FYE 101 - Memory and the American Civil War
In this FYE, students will investigate the impact of the Civil War on American memory, politics, and art. We’ll explore questions like: How might we understand the urge to memorialize racially charged moments in US history? How have images of the plantation system and its legacies—from Gone with the Wind to Get Out—shaped American identity? How has our two-party system evolved since the Civil War?
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FYE 101 - Putin’s Russia
It came as a shock to much of the world on February 24th of this year when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. But for those paying attention it was less of a surprise. Over the years, Putin has engaged in military conflict all over the world, has assassinated enemies both in and outside of his own country, and has meddled in the internal affairs of the United States and various European nations. His invasion of Ukraine was simply the continuation of a war started in 2014. Furthermore, Putin’s rise fits into a broader wave in populist movements that can be seen in Hungary, Poland, Italy, Britain, and the United States. In this class we will examine the history of Putin’s rise to power, the cultural environment it has produced, and the furtive democratic moments that have risen to meet it. Among other things we’ll look at the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s political meddling, Pussy Riot, Alexei Navalny, and of course the invasion and ongoing war in Ukraine.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FYE 101 - Soy Cuba: Cuban Youth in Word, Image, and Sound
“Soy Cuba: Cuban Youth in Word, Image, and Sound” explores the voices and perspectives of Cuban youth through ethnographic interviews, as well as literary, visual, and audiovisual texts. As a collaborative, project-based course, students will create a digital, in-house archive of Cuban narratives. They will also document their processes of academic and personal development as first-year college students participating in a cross-cultural learning experience with Cuban youth.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FYE 101 - The Innovation Economy
In this first year experience (FYE) course, students will explore the entrepreneurial frontier where innovative technology transforms the market economy. We – a mathematician, an economist, and an entrepreneurship scholar – examine with our students how economic growth is driven as much by processes of trial and error as by design. Government investment in national goals enables the discovery of new knowledge and fuels the innovation process for the betterment of humanity, providing the building blocks of new technologies. Nevertheless, it is the downstream experiments in exploiting novel technologies and processes by private sector actors that bring them to customers and other end-users. Financial bubbles and speculative investment amplify the impact of innovations and accelerate their impact.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FYE 101 - The Monstrous and the Marvelous: Fairy Tales across Cultures
This FYE analyzes the structure, meaning, and function of fairy tales and their enduring influence on literature and popular culture. We will draw fairy tales from various national traditions and historical periods and examine them as cherished yet controversial conduits of learning that framed our childhood and shaped personal identities. We will explore pedagogical and political uses and abuses of fairy tales and investigate their origins and their continued relevance in, for example, children’s psychological development, traditional gender roles, as well as the means by which fairy tale and folk motifs are transferred to other media such as film (think Disney!) and music.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FYE 101 - What Good is College?
We will explore the different ways people think about college, as well as whether college is equally good for everyone who attends. In the U.S., people have long idealized higher education as a meritocracy, offering opportunities for upward social mobility for any student with the drive, intelligence, and desire to succeed. But, is it possible that the way college is organized benefits some people more than others?
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FYE 101 - What’s Your Story
A geologist, a children’s lit professor, an actor, and a businessman walk into a bar… Join us as we lay the foundation for you to interrogate your own stories, while digging into the Wheaton College experience, and plotting your own path forward. We’ll look at the power of storytelling from a variety of perspectives including science and the arts. You’ll be getting up, moving around, and interacting with other students and the world around you. By the end of the course, you will be able to advocate for yourselves and feel more connected with your fellow students and the Wheaton community. Plus, you might be able to help us finish the joke!
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
First Year Experience
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FR 101 - Elementary French I
For students with no prior experience in French. The course develops the ability to understand and speak authentic French in a meaningful context. The French in Action videodisks introduce students to language, customs, culture and everyday life in France.
Credits 1
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language
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FR 102 - Elementary French II
For students continuing from FR 101 , or students with prior experience in French who placed at that level. The course develops the ability to understand and speak authentic French in a meaningful context. The French in Action videodisks introduce students to language, customs, culture and everyday life in France. Classes on MWF; no scheduled lab.
Prerequisites
FR 101 or placement test
Credits 1
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language
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FR 121 - French in Review I
A review of French grammar, largely through short readings and films. Students will develop a richer vocabulary and a broader knowledge of French and Francophone cultures, including literature and film.
Prerequisites
FR 102 or placement test
Credits 1
Notes
Previously taught as FR 201.
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Humanities
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FR 122 - French in Review II
A more advanced grammar review, including the conditional, future, and subjunctive forms. Continued emphasis on vocabulary building. Performance of a poem or song in lieu of final exam.
Prerequisites
FR 121 or placement test
Credits 1
Notes
Previously taught as FR 202.
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Humanities
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FR 199 - Independent Study
An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 0.5 - 1
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FR 221 - Read and Converse I
A review of basic and introduction to advanced grammar and vocabulary. Read and Converse I and the next course in the sequence, Read and Converse II, prepare students for courses like “Introduction to Literature,” “Contemporary France,” and study abroad in France or other French-speaking countries. Emphasis is on acquiring vocabulary, writing, and speaking about francophone culture, film in particular. In addition to papers, students will do skits and other presentations in class.
Prerequisites
FR 122 or by placement test.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Humanities
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FR 222 - Read and Converse II
Designed to perfect skills learned in FR 221 , and in preparation for courses like “Introduction to Literature” and “Contemporary France,” with an added emphasis on oral expression, including French phonetics and pronunciation. There will be close study and discussion of selected readings, plays, films, and short papers, dramatic performances and oral presentations.
Prerequisites
FR 221 or placement test
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Language
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Humanities
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FR 236 - Introduction to Early French Literature
Reading and discussion of novels and plays by major French authors from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. We will read, discuss and write about Tristan et Iseut, Racine’s Phèdre, Diderot’s La Religieuse and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. This course is part of connection 23004 (Gender) and connection 20008 (Gender Inequality: Sociological and Literary Perspectives).
Prerequisites
Students have studied French for three or four years in secondary school, placement scores indicate comparable preparation, or have completed FR 222 or above
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Connection
20008, 23004
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Humanities
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FR 240 - French for Business
In this course students learn the terminology and idioms needed to communicate in a French-speaking business environment. Equally important will be the focus on intercultural differences related to the business world with which candidates for employment should be familiar. While course content prepares students to communicate in a business setting, many of the linguistic and intercultural lessons covered will be of interest to French Studies majors and minors not necessarily on a career path to business. This course prepares students for the Diplôme de français professsionnel test given by the French Chamber of Commerce, should they opt to take it, at various levels of proficiency (B1, B2, C1).
Prerequisites
FR 222 or FR 235 or FR 236 or FR 245 or by permission of instructor.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities
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FR 245 - Contemporary France
What does it mean to be French today? What factors contribute to French national identity and how has that identity evolved in recent years? In this course, we look at the values that define French identity and how they are transmitted from one generation to the next. We look closely at education, government, religion, demographics and social policies as they affect work, race relations and the family. We conclude by studying how the European Union has changed French identity and politics.
Prerequisites
Students have studied French for three or four years in secondary school, placement scores indicate comparable preparation, or have completed FR 222 or above
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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FR 246 - Introduction to French Cinema
What is implied by the expression “the seventh art”? How have French directors both resisted and appropriated the dominant Hollywood formula? How have they challenged social, political and sexual norms? In what ways have French directors influenced world cinema? A survey of classic films from the silent period, Poetic Realism, the New Wave, and more recent filmmakers. Directors studied may include Ganz, Carné, Renoir, Cocteau, Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer, Bunuel, Varda, Denis, Beineix, Ozon, Haneke.
Prerequisites
Students have studied French for three or four years in secondary school, placement scores indicate comparable preparation, or have completed FR 222 or above.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Connection
23014
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities
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FR 298 - Reading and Writing in French
The course is designed to improve and reinforce students’ reading and writing skills acquired in lower-level courses using a selection of different literary genres and styles (poems, excerpts from novels, newspaper and magazine articles, and films on selected topics). Emphasis is on texts in their cultural contexts, whether in France or other Francophone countries.
Prerequisites
FR 222 Read and Converse II or above or student has studied French for three or four years in secondary school.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FR 299 - Independent Study
An opportunity for French Studies majors and minors to do independent work in a particular area not covered by our regular courses.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
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FR 327 - Moralists and Misanthropes, Sociability and Individualism in Literature of the Ancien Régime
Examines texts from mid-17th to mid-18th-century France that influenced public opinion and shaped modern moral and social ideas. Special attention is paid to the notions of sociability, honnêteté, the birth of individualism and to related questions of language and reciprocity. Readings include essays, plays and novels by authors like La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Molière, Marivaux, Voltaire, Diderot, Graffigny and Rousseau. This course is part of connection 20087 (Culture, Society, and Politics in Early Modern France).
Prerequisites
Before enrolling in a 300-level course, students should have completed at least two of the required courses at the 200-level (FR 235, FR 236, and FR 245). Prerequisites may be waived by the instructor for students with special preparation.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities, Foreign Language
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FR 331 - Other Voices, Other Stories: Great Works by Women from France and the Francophone World
In this course we study novels and short stories by contemporary women writers whose work defies traditional literary forms and introduces new modes of expression, whether as narrative experiments, figures of discourse or alternative texts” the body, for example, as metaphor or “text.” We explore how these writers respond to marginalization, subjugation or oppression through literature and how their stories operate on a political level. The course begins with a short introduction to French feminist theory. Authors may include Cixous, Leclerc, Duras, Letessier, Ernaux, Djébar, Tadjo, Bâ, Sow Fall.
Prerequisites
Before enrolling in a 300-level course, students should have completed at least two of the required courses at the 200-level (FR 235, FR 236, and FR 245). Prerequisites may be waived by the instructor for students with special preparation. This course is cross-listed with WGS 301 .
Credits 1
Notes
Course taught in French. Cross listed with WGS 331
Area
Humanities
Connection
23006
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Beyond the West
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities, Taylor and Lane Scholars, Foreign Language
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FR 398 - Discourses of Love in the French Novel
What did it mean to fall in love in early modern France, in a hierarchical social structure dominated by absolute monarchy, the Church, and the dictates of family? How did authors depict love differently in novels from the classical, the Enlightenment and romantic periods ? Borrowing Roland Barthes’s approach in Fragments d’un discours amoureux we will take a close look at how discourses of love evolve in the French novel and at the aesthetic movements that shape them. Doing so will shed light on how love was viewed differently over the course of French history, but also how these discourses drew upon common tropes which seem independent of historical development. Authors may include de Lafayette, Prévost, de Saint-Pierre, Balzac and Flaubert, among others.
Prerequisites
Students should have completed one course above FR 222 or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
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FR 398 - French for Business Honors
In this course students learn the terminology and idioms needed to communicate in a French-speaking business environment. Equally important will be the focus on intercultural differences related to the business world with which candidates for employment should be familiar. While course content prepares students to communicate in a business setting, many of the linguistic and intercultural lessons covered will be of interest to French Studies majors and minors not necessarily on a career path to business. This course prepares students for the Diplôme de français professsionnel test given by the French Chamber of Commerce, should they opt to take it, at various levels of proficiency (B1, B2, C1).
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities
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FR 398 - Reading and Writing in French
The course is designed to improve and reinforce students’ reading and writing skills acquired in lower-level courses using a selection of different literary genres and styles (poems, excerpts from novels, newspaper and magazine articles, and films on selected topics). Emphasis is on texts in their cultural contexts, whether in France or other Francophone countries.
Prerequisites
At least one course above FR 222 Read and Converse II . Students can also be placed at this level or given permission of instructor.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Humanities
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FR 399 - Independent Study
An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
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FR 500 - Individual Research
Selected majors are invited by the department to pursue individual research in preparation for writing an Honors Thesis.
Credits 1
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GER 101 - Elementary German I
This course is designed for students with no or little prior knowledge of German. Emphasis is placed on conversational language while acquiring the fundamental skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and cultural awareness.
Credits 1
Notes
Course requires one additional hour per week of language laboratory work.
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors
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GER 102 - Elementary German II
A continuation of GER 101 with further emphasis on grammar and conversation. Cultural activities cover a wide range of topics such as German soccer, Romantic poems, environmental initiatives, German customs, tradition and festivities.
Prerequisites
GER 101 or departmental placement
Credits 1
Notes
Course requires one additional hour per week of language laboratory work.
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors
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GER 199 - Independent Study
An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 0.5 - 1
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GER 201 - Intermediate German I
This course offers a thorough review of previously learned structures and aims at improving students’ ability to express opinions, to narrate, compare and connect. Using both prepared and authentic materials with theme-related vocabulary and grammatical structures, students will further develop their competencies in the German language and cultures. Audio, video, and print material will guide them in exploring a wide range of cultural topics and current events in contemporary German-speaking countries, such as German folklore, migration in Europe, German culinary traditions.
Prerequisites
GER 102 or departmental placement
Credits 1
Notes
Course requires one additional hour per week
Area
Humanities
Connection
20007
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors
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