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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A critical study of the novels, plays, stories, and poetry of such modernists as Kafka, Mann, Rilke, Wedekind, Kaiser, and Brecht and such contemporary masters as Bachmann, Bernhard, Frisch, Grass, Handke, and Weiss. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. Readings from Lessing, Goethe (Faust I and II), Schiller, Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A study of major works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. Brodsky.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. Readings in the works of 20th-century authors writing in Yiddish and Hebrew, such as the Polish author Isaac B. Singer, the Russian author Sholem Aleichem, and the Israeli novelists Amos Oz and A. B. Yehoshua. These writings are studied as literary expressions of religious themes and as responses to the historical and religious crises of modern Jewish life in Europe, the United States, and Israel. The class views four films for additional insight into Yiddish and Israeli culture. Students write two interpretive papers and daily analyses of the readings and films. This is a discussion-centered course. Marks.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of FW requirement. A selected topic focusing on a particular author, genre, motif or period in translation. The specific topic is determined by the interests of the individual instructor. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topic for Winter 2011:
LIT 295: Topics in Romance Language:Female Protagonists in Romance Literatures (3). Meets the humanities distribution requirement in the women’s and gender studies minor. This course takes a comparative look at the representation of women in different literary works of prose and drama from France, Italy, and the Hispanic world. The texts are in English, though students are encouraged to also look at original versions, depending on their various language skills in the respective languages. (HL) Radulescu.
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4.00 Credits
Taught in English. Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. A selected topic focusing on a particular author, genre, motif or period in translation. The specific topic is determined by the interests of the individual instructor. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topics in Spring 2011
LIT 296-01: Japan in the World: The Global Appeal of Japan’s Manga and Anime Fictions (4). Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. This course examines the interrelated fictional and media worlds of modern manga comics and animation produced in Japan, including the role of overseas reception, soft power government policies, and fan cultures in creating the most popular and award-winning fictions. Japan’s long history of mixed visual and literary texts serves as specific cultural background to a modern phenomenon now global in dimension. (HL) Knighton.
LIT 296-02: The Grimms Revisited: Fairy Tales and Popular Culture (4). Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. In this course, students read and analyze variant forms of fairy tales from the Western tradition as well as poetic, prose, and cinematic rescriptings of fairy-tale narratives. The course traces the tales’ evolution from folktale to literary fairy tale to popular U.S. filmic adaptation, as well as the cultural circumstances that produced them. We examine how fairy tales are generated and structured, their history, and the ways in which they were -– and remain -– instrumental in constructing identity, creating cultural fantasies, and enforcing social norms. To help us interpret the texts, we turn to scholars of anthropology, folklore, psychology, sociology, history, and literature. Finally, we read longer narratives that incorporate and rework -– or offer alternatives to -– fairy-tale themes for both children and adult readers. (HL). Prager.
LIT 296-03: French New Wave Film (4). Taught in English. Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. This course uses French language films as the basis for discussions, oral presentations, and directed writing exercises. It is structured as an intensive workshop for students who would like to learn to analyze films. The class focuses on French New Wave films of the 1960s and ‘70s and the filmmakers who revolutionized film style by experimenting with hand-held cameras, natural light and sound, and by playfully questioning accepted film techniques. Students acquire the vocabulary to describe camera position, camera movement, and editing as the grammar and syntax of the ‘mise-en-scene.’ They acquire a better understanding of how the composition and sequencing of images contributes to narrative development. These films are a window onto the baby-boom culture of post-World War II France and, as such, provide a deeper understanding of contemporary French culture. (HL) Lambeth.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. An intensive study of a single Russian novelist to be selected. All readings and discussions in English. Brodsky.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of FW requirement and two 200-level or higher literature courses or permission of the instructor. A seminar focusing on a particular author, genre, motif or period of translation. The specific topic is determined by the interests of the individual instructor. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the calculus of functions of one variable, including a study of limits, derivatives, extrema, integrals, and the fundamental theorem.
No individual topics for Winter 2011.
Topics for Fall 2010:
MATH 101A (3) — Calculus I. An introduction to the calculus of functions of one variable, including a study of limits, derivatives, extrema, integrals, and the fundamental theorem. This class is for students who have already taken Calculus and meets four days a week. (FM)
MATH 101B (3) — Calculus I: A First Course. Students who have already taken Calculus may not take this course. An introduction to the calculus of functions of one variable, including a study of limits, derivatives, extrema, integrals, and the fundamental theorem. This class is restricted to and specially tailored for those who are {\bf B}eginning their study of calculus. This class meets four days per week. (FM) Evans
MATH 101D (3) — Calculus I: Calculus Explorations. If you throw a ball up, which is greater, its ascent time or descent time? How long does it take to drain a tank? Can your bank compound interest continuously? Is there any chaos in calculus? How well does a tangent line really approximate a graph? What are the three pillars of calculus and how are they used? Through exploration of a variety of applications, this course will reinforce your calculus skills, while introducing you to some useful new ideas and techniques for problem solving. This class is for students who have already takenCalculus and meets three days a week. (FM) Feldman
Math 101E (3) — Calculus & Environmental Issues. An introduction to the calculus of functions of one variable, including a study of limits, derivatives, extrema, integrals, and the fundamental theorem. In addition, this course will have an applied component centered on sustainability. Using data about natural resources (e.g., coal, water) and pollutants (e.g., carbon dioxide emissions), students will find mathematical models appropriate for the data, and then use the models and calculus to make predictions about pollution levels and the availability of resources given our current consumption. This class is for students who have already taken Calculus and meets three days a week. (FM) Finch
Math 101 H (3) — Calculus I: Calculus and Its Historical Development. This course is intended for students who wish to share in the spirit of investigation and invention that guided those who first discovered and used calculus. Its focus will be on problems that motivated the development of the tools of calculus, leading students to match wits with pioneers of the subject such as Pythagoras, Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Archimedes, Fermat, Newton, and Leibniz. The course will also stress connections calculus has with the humanities as well as those with the sciences. This class is for students who have already taken Calculus and meets three days a week. (FM) McRaeStaff.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: The equivalent of MATH 101 with C grade or better. A continuation of MATH 101, including techniques and applications of integration, transcendental functions, and infinite series. Staff.
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