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Course Catalog 2021-2022 [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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FSEM 101 - Am I Living Out My Parent’s Dreams?
This seminar will explore the relationship between early life experiences, education and the goals we set for ourselves as adolescents and adults. We will approach this topic from several directions. Developmentally, we will look at the role of early life experiences to answer the following questions: How powerful are the interactions with one’s parents in shaping who we are and who we will become. What role does school play in life and career choices? What is the impact of the peers we interact with throughout our childhood and teenage years? Have stereotypes about our culture, religion, race, gender or age limited our goals or performance. What impact do MCAS, SAT, GRE’s or career tests such as the teacher test, bar exam, medical exams have on a person’s choice of college and careers?
We will discuss the “hurried child syndrome” which is the result of putting young children into competitive sports, academic preschools, forcing vocational choices on adolescents and pressuring high school students to go to college right after high school. We will also discuss peer relations in middle and high school and how teasing and bullying can impact a person’s ability to make good choices. Other topics will include discussing mentors you have had, experiences that changed the course of your life and/or books, poems or movies that touched you in a special way.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - Coming of Age in Latin American and Latino Fiction and Film
Contemporary Latin American and U.S. Latino artists often focus on childhood and adolescence in their fiction, memoirs, and films. What is at stake in these representations of children and teenagers? What compels artists and writers to tell stories again and again about the past of childhood? And what does reimagining childhood have to do with thinking about the future of a community? During this seminar we will analyze fictional, autobiographical, and cinematic narratives of childhood and adolescence from Latin America and the U.S. to see how such narratives not only describe personal pasts and identities, but also document traumatic collective histories, and work to create a cultural memory.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - Critical Thinking in Times of Madness
Is critical thinking dangerous? Does it undermine authority? Which mental habits make someone a good critical thinker? Which mental habits make someone a bad critical thinker? What do people think critically about? In this First-Year Seminar, we will explore critical thinking both as a subject of inquiry and as a tool for investigating a wide range of topics, from free will to friendship, and from social equality to epistemic injustice. We’ll read texts written by ancient, modern, and contemporary authors, and we’ll consider how non-text based disciplines communicate their own forms of critical thinking.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - Design Your Life
What do you want from life? How do you want to live? What do you need – in terms of knowledge, skills, resources, etc. – in order to live the kind of life that you choose? This course is a hands-on exploration of big questions about who you are, what you want, and how you can effectively pursue your goals. However, this is not just a “career preparation” course. We’ll work on skills that will be useful in your professional development, but we’ll also consider deep questions of meaning and value that will help you to make sense of the important, but often ambiguous, choices that life presents.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - Digital Citizenship and Digital Identity
What does it mean to be a digital citizen? How do you know what’s real online? Why would you want to create - or curate - an online persona? This course provides opportunities for you to grapple with these and other big questions related to life in the digital age. Along the way, you’ll build digital competencies that will serve you in your college career and beyond. Topics include participating in online communities, critically evaluating online content, protecting yourself digitally, defining who you want to be online, and more.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - Everyone’s a Critic: Thinking About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth
In Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth New York Times film critic A.O. Scott suggests the art of critical thinking not only enhances our relationship with the world but improves our lives. Have you ever loved a movie that all your friends hated? Why do we like what we like? What forms our taste? By deeply engaging with all manner of art and performance you will further develop your own aesthetic, articulate your thoughts with greater clarity and confidently defend what you love. Over the course of the semester we will attend various performances, visit art installations, watch films, read books and listen to music. Course material ranges from the polarizing to the popular, from ballet to professional wrestling, The Office to Ovid, the telenovela to improv comedy. We will discuss, debate and disagree. Arguing can be fun! The semester culminates with an individual research project diving deep into your favorite genre/work.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - Eyes to the Universe: A Full Spectrum View of Our World
Our quest to understand the nature of things, from microscopic atoms to stars and galaxies, relies heavily on the light we receive from these objects. Even the discovery of exotic objects such as black holes and dark matter, which by themselves do not emit any light, relies on light produced by objects near them. In this seminar we will explore properties of light in general, not just visible light but the whole spectrum ranging from radio waves to gamma-rays. In this hands-on, project-based course we will learn about how mirrors, lenses and cameras work, visit research laboratories, hear about cutting-edge developments from scientists, and use telescopes in our observatory to study the treasures of the night sky. Making use of Wheaton’s Makerspace facilities, we will design and build instruments and use them to explore nature.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - First-Year Seminar
First-Year Seminars offer students the opportunity to learn in small classes through reading and regular discussion, writing and critical engagement with controversial ideas.
The First Year Seminar (FYS) is designed for and required of new students at the beginning of their college studies. It offers students the opportunity to learn in small classes through reading and regular discussion, writing and critical engagement with controversial ideas. Sections are taught by faculty representing every part of the college’s liberal arts curriculum.
Each section focuses on a topic from current events or history or within one of the traditional areas of academic study which has generated controversy among the scholars, policy makers and others who have grappled with it. The role of controversy in shaping human understanding and motivating social and political action is the common theme which unites all sections. As students develop their own positions in the topics of their seminars, they learn how knowledge and understanding depend on the clash and synthesis of multiple points of view. They can also expect to develop a range of academic skills, including critical reading and thinking, writing and oral presentation, library research and the use of electronic technology for their learning.
Section topics and descriptions vary from year to year. 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 a FYS section by late June before registering for other first-semester courses. The instructor of their FYS section is normally their faculty advisor for the first year.
Credits 1
Foundation
First Year Seminar
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FSEM 101 - From Mercury to Insanity - Exploring the History and Impact of Science
This FYS will explore the connections of science and history. Penicillin was discovered by making a critical observation in the right place at the right time. It was learned that microwaves could have household value when a scientist noticed a melted chocolate bar in their pocket near a source of microwave radiation. How did we go from making observations of our world to a systematic method for understanding? How do we compare serendipitous discoveries to those as a result of a focused effort? Is there value in fundamental research for the sake of understanding? In the course of studying these exciting topics, you will perform some of the most historically impactful science experiments and learn valuable skills in scientific writing, data analysis, and presentations. From bombs to vaccines, we’ll find out how science has been used to harm and to heal.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - Hedonism II to H2 Worker: caribbean - U.S. Connections
The last several decades are often characterized as a time of intense economic globalization. National economies are increasingly linked by merchandise trade, cross-border investments, and the exchange of people and ideas. In this seminar, we examine how such interactions between the United States and English Speaking Caribbean countries affect these economies and their peoples. We use texts and films from anthropology, history, sociology, economics and beyond to explore themes ranging from all-inclusive Caribbean resorts (like Hedonism II) to U.S. guest workers (including West Indian H2 workers), and the transnational stardom of Barbadian singer, Rihanna, and Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - Into the Wild: Nature as Place and Cultural Construct
Most Americans pursue “unfiltered experience.” “A yearning for elsewhere, for a life beyond the one we’re leading,” suggests Jonathan Raban, “is universal [but] in the national mythology, it’s the quintessential American experience to arrive in a wild and inhospitable place, bend raw nature to one’s own advantage, and make it home.” The “bending” might not be as important as the getting there, the getting out there as in Outward Bound, out into the woods, on the river, up into the mountains. We are accustomed to seeing such an experience as “sublime,” a romantic vision discovered or re-discovered by romantic philosophers, novelists, filmmakers, and poets, so much so that going out into nature has become a commodity, a vacation package, complete with tour guides and slick pamphlets. This quest for a kind of transcendence associated with nature has existed since the very beginnings of the American experience and has recently been examined by Florence Williams in The Nature Fix, her exploration of neuroscientists’ grapplings with how we are affected by the natural world.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - L’Amerique! The United States through French Eyes
Even before Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835), the United States were an object of fascination to Europeans. What the French have said, and continue to say, has a great deal to teach us about both parties of a complex relationship. Could Americans learn anything from French notions of democracy, liberty, equality, or happiness? Has Tocqueville’s dread “tyranny of the majority” finally arrived? We will consider, and respond to, both negative and positive representations of the U.S.A. in French nonfiction, poetry, cinema, popular music, and advertising.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - No Place Like Home: The American House as Biography
In this seminar we will consider the intersection of American domestic architecture and personal identity, taking into account the ways that gender, class, race, sexuality, regional identity, and morality have shaped (and in some cases revolutionized) the places we call home. From cabins built by enslaved men and women in the nineteenth century, to the space-age bachelor pads of the 1960s, our homes tell stories about who we are, who we were, and who we aspire to be. Students will examine a range of theoretical writings on domestic architecture, develop “visual literacy” through the analysis of images and plans, and consider the ways biography has been interpreted (or re-interpreted) in historic house museums.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - Seeing/Thinking/Making
What role do artists play in examining contemporary social and political issues? How do we create through research? How does storytelling relate to curating? This course will consider ways of seeing, researching, making, and curating art. Working directly with the exhibitions at the Beard and Weil Galleries on campus, students will gain professional experience working with all aspects of putting together an exhibition of contemporary art. Beginning with researching artists and the cultural and historical relevance of their work, students will assist with creating site-specific art installations and will meet with contemporary artists as they visit campus. Along the way we will consider exhibition design and audience engagement. Students will examine the range of materials and methods used in contemporary art, from photography and artists books to social practice and performance. While this course uses research and writing as a way to gain a deeper understanding of art, it will also involve making. Students will have the opportunity to respond to the art we are studying with their own creative output.
Credits 1
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FSEM 101 - Sing the Body Electric: Making and Consuming Music in the Digital Age
Are turntables an instrument? What does authorship entail in an age where sampled audio is ubiquitous? Whither the human when machine-learning algorithms can write songs? Are our utopian dreams and dystopian anxieties about new technologies unique to our era, or might they simply be variations on an older tune? This course examines how music is made and consumed across the globe in the age of the computer, spanning from the so-called “Third Industrial Revolution” in the 1950s into the present day. Our guiding thesis is that musical activity presents an exceptionally fertile ground for exploring broad questions about human thought, behavior, creativity, and expression in the face of technological advances. Although our evidentiary focus is music, our aims will be interdisciplinary and expansive, with intellectual sources drawn from anthropology, philosophy, science and technology studies, media theory, and psychology.
No musical background is required, though there is a substantial listening component to the course and students are required to engage seriously and at length with a wide range of musical examples. This is not a course about making music, although we will get hands-on with technologies when appropriate.
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FSEM 101 - Social Empowerment through the Performing Arts
People around the world use music, dance, theatre and visual art traditions to inspire significant social change at local, national and international levels. Expressive forms have the power to illuminate controversial issues for consideration in profound and provocative ways, with the potential to unite rather than divide people of diverse backgrounds and life experience. We will examine the history of charity, consider the impact of colonialism and missionary outreach on philanthropy, and see how people are questioning conventional charitable paradigms. We will study collaborative projects within the arts where people from a variety of class, ethnic, and national affiliations can learn from and empower one another. Required assignments will include readings on cross-cultural engagement within the empowerment model, research on relevant traditions, and discussions to nurture sensitivity and understanding for work across critical, inherited perspectives. Students will participate in established outreach programs and envision and design an empowerment-based project. Reaching out to connect with and support people here and around the globe is the central premise to this course.
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FSEM 101 - Television in America
Does Netflix count as television? How does HBO get away with controversial content? Can the FCC censor what we watch? What is the FCC? This FYS will explore the history of TV in three phases: the network era; the 1970s-80s in which cable television loosened networks’ hold on consumers; and the current “on-demand” moment that has further destabilized traditional ideas of audience and content delivery. We’ll also study how culture and identity (ex. issues of race, gender, sexuality, class, etc.) have impacted TV. Watching TV shows from I Love Lucy to Breaking Bad, and crafting projects from writing a TV line-up to tracking the history of network news, students will learn to critically engage (while still enjoying) a medium that has powerfully shaped American life.
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FSEM 101 - The Tales of Cupid and Psyche
Embedded in a second-century Latin novel about a man who turns into an ass is a long story about a woman who turns into a goddess. It is a folk tale and a hard story, of rape and murder and love and transformation, in turns ghastly and glorious. Frequently interpreted and frequently retold, it appears now as a philosophical myth of the nature and ascent of the soul, now as a psychological analysis of the development of the feminine; it can be a sociological document illustrating the realities of Roman marriage, or an erotic account of sex turning immature youths into mature adults. We will read and reread the story of Cupid and Psyche, in ancient and modern versions, in print and painting and film, and try to understand how its retellings and reinterpretations can include Beauty and the Beast and King Kong, and how we can draw a line from Plato to Disney.
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FSEM 101 - Theatre and Social Change
Theatre provokes in the wide range of human emotion and has the power to reveal to us the complexity of what it means to be human. This live experiment generates empathy, for ourselves and for others. The class will investigate how theatre can be used to help communities talk about themes of sexual and relationship violence. Especially in this area of the #MeToo movement, how can plays help us to navigate conversations around sexual misconduct and empower all of us to create healthy relationships? We will build a collaborative community amongst ourselves, share our work with the larger Wheaton community, discover our unique social justice and political voice, and create unique ways to discuss difficult issues in a new way, deepening our collective ability to listen, to see, and to understand one another.
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FSEM 101 - Truth, Reconciliation and Forgiveness
Can there be reconciliation between the victim of repression and the oppressor? Can one learn to forgive once the active repression has ended? This course will examine the history of repression, the function of memory, and the desire for reconciliation across the globe. Slavery, genocide, the Holocaust, and South African Apartheid will serve as examples to investigate how groups can or cannot move beyond their oppression and hatred of the other toward building a stronger community, nation, and world. In addition to studying the devastation, the humiliation, the brutal torture, and the mass murder of others, we will examine if confession alone is enough to bridge the divide between oppressor and victim, or if some recompense is necessary to heal the wounds of genocide, slavery, racism, and colonialism. This course will examine the concept of forgiveness from a number of differing angles to determine its efficacy as a method of bridging the divide of national and personal conflicts.
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FR 099 - Independent Study
An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits .5
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Humanities
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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 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 235 - Postcolonial Encounters
Postcolonial encounters: What does it mean for the colonized to write in the language of the colonizer? We will try to answer that question through film screenings and the reading and discussion of novels, plays, poems and essays by 20th-century French writers such as Marguerite Duras as well as Vietnamese, African and West Indian Francophone writers. This course is part of connection 20041 (Colonial Encounters). (Previously Introduction to Modern French Literature)
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
20041
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, 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 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 307 - Translation, Art and Craft
An exploration of what the phrase “lost in translation” implies. Translation is considered here not as an end in itself, but as an effective means to enrich vocabulary, to refine writing style, to review grammar and to appreciate better what is “untranslatable” in French and English. Not recommended for students seeking extensive oral practice in French.
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Language
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities
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FR 327 - Moralists and Misanthropes, Sociability and Individualism in Literature of the Ancien Régime
Examines texts from mid-17thto 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
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FR 329 - French Chanson from Roland to Rap
Fiercely defended, hotly debated: popular song in France is a touchstone of national identity. We’ll consider it as an expression and reflection of French cultures, and contend with questions such as “What makes a song French?” Successful students will end the semester more familiar with the “chanson” tradition and a deeper appreciation of the language and themes that nourish it. Readings, listening, films, discussion, exposés, and two papers.
Prerequisites
One French course above FR 222 or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes
Taught in French
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities
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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
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FR 349 - Les Trente Glorieuses
The 1945-1975 period was marked by both material prosperity and cultural ferment. Is there a relationship between these two worlds? Particular focus on France in the 1950s. Likely readings: existentialism (Sartre, Camus), postwar poetry (Prévert, Ponge), feminine voices (Beauvoir, Sarraute, Duras, Rochefort), essays in cultural criticism (Barthes) and the nouveau roman (Robbe-Grillet)
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
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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 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 099 - Independent Study
An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits .5
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GER 101 - Elementary German
This course develops the ability to understand and speak German in a real-life context. Extensive use of video and tapes to develop skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Special attention paid to cultural aspects of language and to Germany after the Wall. Three classes a week plus a weekly intensive session with our German language assistant.
Credits 1
Notes
Course requires one additional hour per week
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors
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GER 102 - Elementary German
A continuation of GER 101 with emphasis on speaking and listening skills through use of video and video filmmaking.
Prerequisites
GER 101 or departmental placement
Credits 1
Notes
Course requires one additional hour per week
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 1
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GER 201 - Intermediate German
A course that puts to practical use German skills acquired at Wheaton or elsewhere. We will pay special attention to contemporary Germany. This course consists of three hours of class a week and a weekly intensive session with our German language assistant.
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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GER 202 - Intermediate German
A continuation of GER 201 with an emphasis on speaking and listening through the use of video and video filmmaking.
Prerequisites
GER 201 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, Structure/Power/Inequality
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GER 240 - Advanced German
The emphasis of this course is on increasing reading, speaking and writing skills. Reading of literary and nonliterary texts; viewing of videos and film; writing of short compositions and conversations in German.
Prerequisites
GER 202 or departmental placement
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 241 - Kafka and the Kafkaesque
This course examines Kafka’s life and major works in the historical and social context of early-20th-century Central Europe. Central themes are: generational conflicts, the function of humor and parody in his writings, modernity in and as crisis, the figure of the outsider as well as the “foreign,” the eccentric, the illogical, the uncanny”Òthe Kafkaesque. Several film adaptations that attempt to visualize Kafka’s imaginative depths will also be studied.
Credits 1
Notes
Course is taught in English
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 242 - Introduction to German Studies
Conducted entirely in German, this course is a general introduction to German culture, German history and German society. Its goal is to provide students with a basic level of cultural literacy about the German-speaking world.
Prerequisites
GER 202 or departmental placement
Credits 1
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 267 - Weimar and Nazi Cinema and Culture
This course examines the films of the Weimar and Nazi periods and their socio-historical, politico-cultural and aesthetic contexts of production. It covers a wide variety of works from the early beginnings of German cinema to the end of WWII. Each week is thematically structured around one film and several readings, on topics such as “the male gaze,” “mass culture and modernity”, or “fascist aesthetics.” (Previously Lulu, Lola and Leni: Women of German Cinema)
Credits 1
Notes
This course is taught in English. Cross-listed with WGS 267 .
Area
Humanities
Connection
23014
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 270 - Black in Berlin
On a map of contemporary Berlin, Germany, we find a subway station called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and a street named after Jesse Owens. Owens upset Nazi theories of white physical superiority by winning four gold medals for the U.S. in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Berlin reflects African American history in these and many more historical, political and cultural traces. This seminar will compare the troubled histories of the U.S. and Germany as we investigate the very different, but interwoven, changing definitions of, and expectations for, race, gender and identity. We will begin by considering Berlin as an unexpected place of openness and opportunity for African Americans, as it was here that W.E.B. DuBois analyzed race not as a biological but as a social phenomenon. We will continue to the deadly racial catastrophes of the early twentieth century and the changing social and economic climates of both countries. We will continue the course with the ecstatic German welcome of presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 and the hope for a new post- racial era. Our final weeks will examine present day Afro-German culture. Questions of gender and intersectionality infuse every topic of Black in Berlin, from the first readings on Colonialism to the last week on contemporary Afro-German culture.
Through film, music, fiction, art, essays, newspapers and interviews we will discuss the following topics:
· German colonialism in Africa
· German universities and black intellectuals
· 19th & 20th century travel and expat communities
· Jesse Owens and the black athlete in Germany
· American G.I.s in Germany after WWII
· Audre Lorde’s Berlin Years
· Obama in Berlin 2008
· Contemporary German hip-hop & rap
This course is cross listed with WGS 274.
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with WGS 274 Black in Berlin . Course taught in English.
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Beyond the West
Compass Attributes
Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 274 - Contemporary German Cinema and Culture
This course offers an overview of the history of German cinema from 1945 until the present. Students will be introduced to the political, economic, and social conditions of Germany during the post-war and post-wall eras. As we study the larger socio-historical and cultural context of the films, we will learn how German identity has changed over the last century. Each week is thematically structured around one film and several readings, on topics such as “the Cold War and sexual repression,” “minority cinema,” and “history and memory.” (Previously German 273: Film and German Culture).
Credits 1
Notes
Course taught in English
Area
Humanities
Connection
23014
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 276 - Berlin: Monuments and Mayhem
Berlin is attracting profit” and thrill-seekers” once again, recapturing something of the vibrant energy of the Roaring Twenties before its imminent descent into fascism and the subsequent construction of the wall that would divide this city and the world at large during the Cold War. This course examines the political, social and cultural metamorphoses of the city with a special focus on the intercultural crossroads in literature, film, music and architecture. We will investigate how new identities and memories are formed at this local and global construction site.
Credits 1
Notes
Course taught in English
Connection
20028, 20068
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 280 - The Monstrous and the Marvelous: German Fairy Tales and Folklore
This course provides a general introduction to German culture from the medieval to the present. Students will examine the social and cultural context of various fairy tales and folklore (stories, songs, beliefs, customs, folk craft and folk art) and their various adaptations in (world) literature and visual arts.
Credits 1
Notes
Course taught in English
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 298 - K-Pop and the German Fairy Tale
What is the secret behind the immense popularity of BTS and BlackPink? Why and how have K-drama, -music, and -cuisine developed into a socio-economic powerhouse whose export value has become a substantial percentage of the nation’s GDP? This “Korean wave” or Hallyu hasn’t occurred by accident but is the result of governmental policies and the strategic cultivation of “idols” by an entertainment industry that needed territorial expansion for its own survival. This course examines how Hallyu, especially K-pop, has been a deliberate tool of soft power and how especially the K-drama and K-music industries have embraced and adapted the heroes and heroines of the German Grimm fairy tales. We will look into the development and marketing of the artists’ images and how they are grounded on the persona of the ‘underdog’ and display the vulnerabilities of fairy tale protagonists, telling an overarching story of adolescent temptations and growth, their conflicts between carnal instincts and moral self-realization. We will also investigate how the constructed imagery of “idols” today conforms to the bourgeois taste and the engendered patriarchal ideology of 19th century Germany that shaped and structured the fairy tales collected and edited by the brothers Grimm as well as those adapted a century later by Walt Disney. Moreover, K-pop’s continual artistic self-reinvention and active participation by their fan bases have started to challenge western notions of gender and its monolithic concept of (hyper) femininity and masculinity. It is at these crossroads of East and West, race, and gender that we take an in-depth look back to the original German fairy tale and its global reach into 21st century K-pop.
Credits 1
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GER 298 - Repression and Rebellion
This English- taught course traces ideas of German identity as reflected in literature, film, and popular media. Beginning with the explosion of print media made possible by Gutenberg’s press, we will read widely through significant periods of cultural change including the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism, Nazi Germany, the split state, and today’s reunited Germany of immigration. Special emphasis will be given to literatures of resistance, which challenged, and often changed, dominant cultural paradigms. Authors writing against artistic, political, sexual, and racial repression will be read alongside other creative production – film, art, and music - for a comprehensive introduction to German cultural history.
Credits 1
Notes
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GER 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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GER 302 - Business German
This course is designed to broaden students’ knowledge of German as a language of commerce and industry. Emphasis is given to business terminology, development of communication skills, and current international business topics. Students will be introduced to differences in “small c” culture and communication in the world of German business transactions and will be encouraged to take the internationally recognized “Pruefung Wirtschaftsdeutsch” (International Business German Exam) administered by the German Chamber of Commerce.
Credits 1
Notes
Course taught in German
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors
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GER 303 - Deutsche Märchen
From fairy tales and the fantastic novellas and love stories of the Romantic Era to modern stories of the Wall and reunification, the course focuses on the art of telling stories in German: cultural context, purpose and technique. (Previously Telling Fantastic Tales: Märchen und Novellen)
Prerequisites
GER 240 or equivalent or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes
Course taught in German
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 341 - Kafka and the Kafkaesque
(See GER 241 ).
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GER 365 - Representations of the Holocaust
Hitler and the Nazis loom large in the American imagination, and this short period in history continues to define evil. This course provides critical depth to what we understand as “The Holocaust.” We will investigate the most recent historical and philosophical debates around questions such as “Who were the perpetrators and victims?”, “Is the Holocaust unique?”, “What is resistance?”, “How can we record and remember the unspeakable?”, and “How is today’s racism connected to the Holocaust?” We will focus on artistic sources – literature, music, film, and visual art as we develop a critical awareness about the representation of these events. Taught in German.
Credits 1
Notes
Course taught in German
Area
Humanities
Connection
20096
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 367 - Weimar and Nazi Cinema and Culture
This course examines the films of the Weimar and Nazi periods and their socio-historical, politico-cultural and aesthetic contexts of production. It covers a wide variety of works from the early beginnings of German cinema to the end of WWII. Each week is thematically structured around one film and several readings, on topics such as “the male gaze,” “mass culture and modernity”, or “fascist aesthetics.” At the 300-level, we will be targeting certain syntactical and grammatical issues that arise from students’ essays (written in German) and class discussions (held in German).
Prerequisites
GER 240 or equivalent or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes
Course taught in German
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 370 - Black in Berlin
On a map of contemporary Berlin, Germany, we find a subway station called “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and a street named after Jesse Owens. Owens upset Nazi theories of white physical superiority by winning four gold medals for the U.S. in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Berlin reflects African American history in these and many more historical, political and cultural traces. This seminar will compare the troubled histories of the U.S. and Germany as we investigate the very different, but interwoven, changing definitions of, and expectations for, race, gender and identity. We will begin by considering Berlin as an unexpected place of openness and opportunity for African Americans, as it was here that W.E.B. DuBois analyzed race not as a biological but as a social phenomenon. We will continue to the deadly racial catastrophes of the early twentieth century and the changing social and economic climates of both countries. We will continue the course with the ecstatic German welcome of presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 and the hope for a new post- racial era. Our final weeks will examine present day Afro-German culture. Questions of gender and intersectionality infuse every topic of Black in Berlin, from the first readings on Colonialism to the last week on contemporary Afro-German culture.
Through film, music, fiction, art, essays, newspapers and interviews we will discuss the following topics:
· German colonialism in Africa
· German universities and black intellectuals
· 19th & 20th century travel and expat communities
· Jesse Owens and the black athlete in Germany
· American G.I.s in Germany after WWII
· Audre Lorde’s Berlin Years
· Obama in Berlin 2008
· Contemporary German hip-hop & rap
This course is cross listed with WGS 374.
Prerequisites
GER 240 or permission of instructor
Credits 1
Notes
Cross-listed with WGS 374 . Course taught in German.
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Beyond the West, Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 374 - Contemporary German Cinema and Culture
This course offers an overview of the history of German cinema from 1945 until the present. Students will be introduced to the political, economic, and social conditions of Germany during the post-war and post-wall eras. As we study the larger socio-historical and cultural context of the films, we will learn how German identity has changed over the last century. Each week is thematically structured around one film and several readings, on topics such as “the Cold War and sexual repression,” “minority cinema,” and “history and memory.” At the 300-level, we also will be targeting certain syntactical and grammatical issues that arise from students’ essays (written in German) and our discussions (held in German).
Prerequisites
GER 240 or equivalent or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Notes
Course taught in German
Area
Humanities
Connection
23014
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 376 - Berlin: Monuments and Mayhem
Berlin is attracting profit” and thrill-seekers” once again, recapturing something of the vibrant energy of the Roaring Twenties before its imminent descent into fascism and the subsequent construction of the wall that would divide this city and the world at large during the Cold War. This course examines the political, social and cultural metamorphoses of the city with a special focus on the intercultural crossroads in literature, film, music and architecture. We will investigate how new identities and memories are formed at this local and global construction site. (See also GER 276 )
Credits 1
Connection
20028, 20068
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 380 - Identität und Differenz
What does it mean to be a German today? Recent political, cultural and literary debates in Germany have addressed the question of who is allowed to claim Germany as their “home,” their Heimat. Literary (prose, poetry) and nonliterary (film, popular music, journalism) texts by intercultural writers and artists of the last two decades challenge the narrow and exclusive concept of “Germanness.” This course will explore important moments in the history of their struggle and responses to these challenges.
Credits 1
Foundation
Beyond the West
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
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GER 398 - Repression and Rebellion
This English- taught course traces ideas of German identity as reflected in literature, film, and popular media. Beginning with the explosion of print media made possible by Gutenberg’s press, we will read widely through significant periods of cultural change including the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism, Nazi Germany, the split state, and today’s reunited Germany of immigration. Special emphasis will be given to literatures of resistance, which challenged, and often changed, dominant cultural paradigms. Authors writing against artistic, political, sexual, and racial repression will be read alongside other creative production – film, art, and music - for a comprehensive introduction to German cultural history.
Credits 1
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GER 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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GER 401 - Senior Seminar
Intensive, independent, self-designed research for majors meeting with faculty on a weekly basis.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors
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GER 499 - Independent Research
Offered to selected majors at the invitation of the department.
Credits 1
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GER 500 - Individual Research
Selected majors are invited by the department to pursue individual research in preparation for writing an Honors Thesis.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors
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Greek |
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GK 099 - Independent Study
An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits .5
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GK 101 - Elementary Greek
A two-semester course that covers the essential grammar of classical Greek and introduces students to the reading of simple Attic prose. Resources in the audio lab and the computer lab will assist students in proper pronunciation and in drill and review.
Credits 1
Notes
One hour lab to be determined at the begining of the semester
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language
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GK 199 - Independent Study
An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits 1
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GK 213 - Theologia: Religious and Philosophical Inquiry
Talking about God in Greek: hymns, narratives, myths, catechisms. Translation and analysis of key texts: Homer and Hesiod, Pre-Socratics and Hellenistic philosophers, Septuagint and New Testament, neo-Platonists.
Prerequisites
GK 101 or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Division
Arts and Huamnities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities
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GK 215 - Private Lives and Public Citizens
A study of the Greek household of the Classical era. Key texts include Xenophon’s Oeconomicus and Lysias’s Murder of Eratosthenes.
Credits 1
Connection
23004
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality
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GK 219 - Euclid and Greek Mathematics
A study of the origins and development of Greek mathematics. Selections primarily from Books I-VI of Euclid’s Elements, but with additional materials from late Greek mathematicians.
Prerequisites
GK 101
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanites
Foundation
Quantitative Analysis
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities, Quantitative Analysis
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GK 222 - Homer, Iliad
Achilles and Hector at the walls of Troy. Selections from the Iliad.
Credits 1
Division
Arts an Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities
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GK 224 - Homer, Odyssey
The wanderings of Odysseus. Selections from the Odyssey, Books 9-12.
Credits 1
Division
Arts and Humanites
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities
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GK 226 - Attic Drama
The tragic hero. Selections from Sophocles and Euripides.
Credits 1
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities
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GK 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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GK 313 - Theologia: Religious and Philosophical Inquiry
Talking about God in Greek: hymns, narratives, myths, catechisms. Translation and analysis of key texts: Homer and Hesiod, Pre-Socratics and Hellenistic philosophers, Septuagint and New Testament, neo-Platonists.
Prerequisites
GK 101 or Permission of Instructor
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
Global Honors
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GK 315 - Private Lives and Public Citizens
A study of the Greek household of the Classical era. Key texts include Xenophon’s Oeconomicus and Lysias’s Murder of Eratosthenes.
Credits 1
Connection
23004
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Structure/Power/Inequality
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GK 319 - Euclid and Greek Mathematics
A study of the origins and development of Greek mathematics. Selections primarily from Book I-VI of Euclid’s Elements, but with additional materials from late Greek mathematicians.
Prerequisites
GK 200-level course or equivalent
Credits 1
Area
Humanities
Division
Arts and Humanities
Foundation
Quantitative Analsis
Compass Attributes
Global Honors, Humanities, Quantitative Analysis
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GK 322 - Homer, Iliad
Achilles and Hector at the walls of Troy. Selections from the Iliad.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
Global Honors
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GK 324 - Homer, Odyssey
The wanderings of Odysseus. Selections from the Odyssey, Books 9-12.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
Global Honors
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GK 326 - Attic Drama
The tragic hero. Selections from Sophocles and Euripides.
Credits 1
Compass Attributes
Global Honors
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GK 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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GK 499 - Independent Research
Offered to selected majors at the invitation of the department.
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GK 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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Hispanic Studies |
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HISP 099 - Independent Study
An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
Credits .5
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HISP 101 - Introductory Spanish I
A course conducted by intensive oral method for students with no preparation in the language. Its goal is to provide introductory knowledge of Spanish while developing the fundamental skills: understanding, speaking, reading, writing and cultural awareness. By completing this course students will be ready for taking HISP 106 - Basic Spanish II . Three class meetings per week.
Credits 1
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language
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HISP 102 - Introductory Spanish II
A continuation of HISP 101
Prerequisites
HISP 101
Credits 1
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language
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HISP 105 - Basic Spanish I
Intensive one-year review of the basic structure of Spanish for students with some previous knowledge of the language but who are not ready for intermediate work. Intensive oral method. Comprehensive grammar review, with activities designed to improve the fundamental skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing and cultural awareness. Four class meetings per week.
Credits 1
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language
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HISP 106 - Basic Spanish II
Continuation of HISP 101 or HISP 105
Prerequisites
HISP 101 or HISP 105
Credits 1
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language
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HISP 150 - Intermediate Spanish I
This intensive one-semester course provides further development and practice of all language skills. Comprehensive grammar review, with activities designed to enhance the fundamental skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing and cultural awareness. Four class meetings per week.
Prerequisites
HISP 102 or HISP 106 , Placement Exam, or Permission of Department
Credits 1
Foundation
Foreign Language
Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors
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HISP 155 - Coming of Age in Latin American and LatinX Film
Contemporary Latin American and U.S. Latino filmmakers often focus on childhood and adolescence. What is at stake in these representations of children, youth and the process of coming of age? What does reimagining childhood and youth have to do with thinking about the future of a community? And how is film uniquely suited to such explorations? This course analyzes representations of childhood and adolescence from Latin American and Latinx filmmakers to see how these films not only describe personal pasts and identities, but also document traumatic collective histories, and work to create a cultural memory.
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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