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2021 - 2022 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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Economics |
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ECN 380 - Seminar in Monetary Economics 4 credits
Analysis of how monetary and financial institutions affect the growth and stability of economies internationally. Examination of theoretical controversies and evidence about relations between money and the real sectors of economies, interactions between central banks, international monetary authorities, and currency flows, and financial aspects of the inflation process and economic stability. Study of the effects of current changes in financial intermediaries and structures.
Prerequisite: ECN 282 . Prerequisite or co-requisite: ECN 286 , MAT 336 , or STA 336 .
Instructor: Staff
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ECN 384 - Seminar in the Economics of Education 4 credits
Education becomes increasingly important as the “information economy” replaces the old industrial economy. This course explores some questions that are global, others that are personal: is better education the solution to poverty? Is investment in human capital the key to a nation’s development? Can vouchers improve public schools? Is a Grinnell education a better investment than putting those thousands of tuition dollars into the stock market? Should you go to law school?
Prerequisite: ECN 280 and ECN 282 . Prerequisite or co-requisite: ECN 286 , MAT 336 , or STA 336 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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ECN 388 - Seminar in Global Factor Movements 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course focuses on the movements of factors of production across countries, particularly labor migration and capital movements. We will cover theoretical frameworks, trends, and discuss empiracal evidence related of the determinants and consequences of these flows in the origin and destination countries.
Prerequisite: ECN 280 , ECN 282 , and ECN 286 , MAT 336 , or STA 336 .
Instructor: Mehra
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EDU 101 - Educational Principles in a Pluralistic Society 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course provides an overview of philosophical, historical, and sociological/anthropological perspectives on education with an emphasis on making connections between educational theories and schooling in the U.S. Special focus on practices that marginalize or disadvantage students. Ten hours of observation in schools required for all seeking licensure. Course required for Iowa teacher certification.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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EDU 102 - Introduction to Participant Observation in Schools 2 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course is designed to “pull back the curtain” on teaching by identifying some of the skills, micro-decisions, and epistemologies that comprise teacher practice. You will spend a minimum of 14 hours in local school classrooms, where you will practice taking field notes. Our seminar will prepare you to ask important questions about student learning, inclusion, and teacher preparation and introduce you to participant observation, a methodology that is central to educational research.
Prerequisite or co-requisite: EDU 101 .
Instructor: Michaels
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EDU 115 - How to Learn Physics 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: PHY 115 . An elective science course designed for students who might be interested in physics, but are a little mystified or intimidated by it. Students will use inquiry-based methods to study some basic concepts of physical science. The course also focuses on learning science as the refinement of everyday thinking. Occasional lectures will introduce a vocabulary to help students become more aware of everyday thinking and its subsequent refinement toward scientific understanding.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Hutchison
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EDU 210 - Historical Perspectives on U.S. Education 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: HIS 210 . Three questions guide our study of the history of U.S. education: (1) Whose interests should schools serve and whose interests have they served in the past? (2) What should be taught and why? and (3) How should schools be organized and operated? We explore current educational issues (e.g. resegregation, immigrant education, tracking, secularism, and homeschooling) through an historical lens that considers the ideologies and assumptions embedded in the institutions and policies of the U.S. school system.
Prerequisite: EDU 101 or second-year standing.
Instructor: Michaels
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EDU 211 - The Politics of Educational Assessment 4 credits (Spring)
The course will begin with an examination of the purposes and limits of assessment and discussions of the ethical use of standardized tests. We will examine the concept of meritocracy as a guiding principle of the American education system and will trace the historical development of standardized measurements of intelligence and aptitude as tools used to track students and determine eligibility for further schooling. We will include an analysis of the current national debate on the K–12 education.
Prerequisite: EDU 101 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: P. Hutchison
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EDU 212 - Critical Pedagogy and School Reform 4 credits (Fall)
This course is a study of critical pedagogy from its roots in Marxism and the Frankfurt School through current-day theoretical connections (postmodernism, critical theory, critical feminism, and critical race theory) and their relevance to American public education. We will examine the dual character of schools that helps to explain some difficulties of school reform; that is, the democratic promise of schooling on the one hand, and its institutional service to a society based on race, class, and gender privilege on the other.
Prerequisite: EDU 101 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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EDU 213 - Cultural Politics of Language Teaching 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course will focus primarily on issues critical to the teaching and learning of English in the United States and abroad. Concepts of language ideology, personal identity, and international development will be used as analytical frames for examining language policy, language instruction, and language shift. Multilingualism, the needs of U.S. English language learners, and the politics of heritage language maintenance will also be examined. This course fills a 200-level course elective for the Linguistics Concentration. This course is required for a teacher licensure candidate earning the ESL endorsement.
Prerequisite: EDU 101 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Jakubiak
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EDU 214 - Critical Literacy for Diverse Learners 4 credits (Fall)
This course will examine literacy and literacy education from historical, theoretical, critical, and pedagogical perspectives. Guiding questions include: How do schools define literacy? To what extent do schools draw upon variously situated students’ home-based and community-based literacy practices? How do students acquire literacy in a second language if they do not possess literacy in their primary home language? What is the relation between critical literacy practices (e.g., media literacy, new literacies) and school-based, academic literacy?
Prerequisite: EDU 101 .
Instructor: Jakubiak, Jones
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EDU 215 - Reading and Writing Youth and Youth Culture 4 credits (Spring)
Cross-listed as: ENG 215 . The course will have a dual focus: (1) an examination and critique of the dominant narrative of adolescence enacted through educational, legal, and medical institutions with the aim of exploring how these constructions enable or constrain young people from developing as autonomous and critical adults, (2) and the use of various critical approaches to analyze texts written for young adults to uncover assumptions about what adolescence is and how young people themselves should encounter the world.
Prerequisite: EDU 101 or ENG 120 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Jones
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EDU 217 - Comparative and International Education 4 credits (Spring)
Education can be a vehicle for world peace, reducing poverty and creating greater equality in the world. Or such is the claim of a multitude of education projects funded by grassroots initiatives and transnational organizations, including UNESCO, the World Bank, and nongovernment organizations (NGOs). In this course we learn to evaluate transnational education projects against their stated and implied goals, while considering their impact on local economies, communities, and education systems. We also investigate how globalization and democratization implicate education in broadscale changes. Student interests influence the countries we use in our case studies.
Prerequisite: EDU 101 or second-year standing.
Note: Foreign language option available in any language.
Instructor: Michaels
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EDU 218 - Place-Based Education 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course will address issues salient to place-based education, an educational philosophy that construes local communities (environmental and social), indigenous knowledge practices, and service-learning as the curricular building blocks of education defined broadly. Readings will include works addressing ecojustice, the broader social purposes of education, and the politics of place. Globalization and its intersections with notions of “the local” will also be a focus.
Prerequisite: EDU 101 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Jakubiak
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EDU 221 - Educational Psychology 4 credits (Spring)
The application of theories of learning and principles of development in formal instructional environments. Topics include behavioral, cognitive, and sociocultural theories of learning, motivation, several developmental theories relevant to teaching and learning, and assessment theory. Course requires 26 hours (2 hours per week) observing/teaching in a K-12 classroom. Required for Iowa Teaching Licensure.
Prerequisite: EDU 101 and at least second-year standing.
Instructor: P. Hutchison
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EDU 250 - Differentiating Instruction for All Students 4 credits (Fall)
This course aims to help future teachers develop ethical and effective approaches for meeting all students’ learning needs, using a critical model of inclusion based on a disability studies framework. The course will center on two key activities: a case study at the middle or high school, and the peer lessons developed using approaches that help all students learn more effectively. The case study will require that students spend 2 hours per week (26 hours) in the school observing, tutoring, and talking with students. In the course, students will develop research skills to improve their own teaching and will analyze how particular students learn, how teachers adapt instruction to meet a wide range of student learning needs, and how schools organize curricular paths for students. Required for Iowa Teaching Licensure.
Prerequisite: EDU 101 and EDU 221 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Jakubiak
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EDU 301 - Teaching and Tutoring Writing 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
See WRT 301 .
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EDU 340 - Research and Methods in Teaching the Young Adult 4 credits (Spring)
This course is taken with a complementary disciplinary specific methods course. Students will analyze and experiment with a variety of critical approaches to texts, will review and evaluate teaching materials, and will explore alternative means of evaluation of all the types of learning that should be happening in a classroom. Students will practice planning engaging lessons, assessing in fair and constructive ways, and developing effective classroom management approaches. Twenty (20) hours of observation in 5-12 public school setting. Required for Iowa Teaching Licensure.
Co-requisite: EDU 341 , EDU 342 , EDU 343 , EDU 344 , EDU 345 , or EDU 346 .
Prerequisite: EDU 101 , EDU 221 , and EDU 250 ; and EDU 210 , EDU 211 , EDU 212 , EDU 213 , EDU 214 , EDU 215 , EDU 217 , or EDU 218 .
Instructor: Staff
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EDU 341 - Research and Methods in the Teaching of Language Arts and Reading 2 credits (Spring)
This course complements the general methods course. Students will develop a practical theory of teaching English/language arts, one that synthesizes what they have learned about excellent, ethical teaching. Students will choose curriculum and design specific approaches for use in the middle or high school as they investigate the purposes for teaching English and theorize about how to best engage students in critical reading, writing, viewing, and speaking.
Co-requisite: EDU 340 .
Prerequisite: EDU 101 , EDU 221 , and EDU 250 ; and EDU 210 , EDU 211 , EDU 212 , EDU 213 , EDU 214 , EDU 215 , EDU 217 , or EDU 218 .
Instructor: Jones
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EDU 342 - Research and Methods in the Teaching and Learning of World Languages 2 credits (Spring)
This course complements the general methods course and provides an introduction to theories in and teaching of world languages. We will analyze theories of language acquisition and pedagogies that grow out of those theories, and evaluate theories of the “best” pedagogy for teaching a new language. We will discuss how to integrate the sometimes opposing theories of ethical and effective teaching practices. Students will have an opportunity to practice teach.
Co-requisite: EDU 340 .
Prerequisite: EDU 101 , EDU 221 , and EDU 250 ; and EDU 210 , EDU 211 , EDU 212 , EDU 213 , EDU 214 , EDU 215 , EDU 217 , or EDU 218 .
Instructor: Jakubiak
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EDU 343 - Research and Methods in Teaching and Learning in the Social Studies 2 credits (Spring)
This course complements the general methods course. Becoming a teacher of the social sciences requires students to think about what they are teaching, whom they are teaching, and how they will teach. The work in this course is structured to provide students with the tools to answer those questions and to teach effectively for student understanding.
Co-requisite: EDU 340 .
Prerequisite: EDU 101 , EDU 221 , and EDU 250 ; and EDU 210 , EDU 211 , EDU 212 , EDU 213 , EDU 214 , EDU 215 , EDU 217 , or EDU 218 .
Instructor: Staff
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EDU 344 - Research and Methods in Teaching and Learning in the Mathematics 2 credits (Spring)
This course is a study of strategies, techniques, materials, technology, and current research used in the teaching of mathematical concepts to middle and high school students. Students will review the standards involved in teaching mathematics at the secondary school level; develop an awareness of the professional resources, materials, technology and information available for teachers; prepare unit and lesson plans with related assessment procedures on a variety of topics; and acquire teaching experience.
Co-requisite: EDU 340 .
Prerequisite: EDU 101 , EDU 221 , and EDU 250 ; and EDU 210 , EDU 211 , EDU 212 , EDU 213 , EDU 214 , EDU 215 , EDU 217 , or EDU 218 .
Instructor: P. Hutchison
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EDU 345 - Research and Methods in Teaching and Learning in the Sciences 2 credits (Spring)
This course is a study of strategies, techniques, materials, technology, and current research used in the teaching of science concepts to middle and high school students. Students will review the standards involved in teaching sciences at the secondary school level; develop an awareness of the professional resources, materials, technology and information available for teachers; prepare unit and lesson plans with related assessment procedures on a variety of topics; and acquire teaching experience.
Co-requisite: EDU 340 .
Prerequisite: EDU 101 , EDU 221 , and EDU 250 ; and EDU 210 , EDU 211 , EDU 212 , EDU 213 , EDU 214 , EDU 215 , EDU 217 , or EDU 218 .
Instructor: P. Hutchison
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EDU 346 - Research and Methods in Teaching and Learning ESL/Bilingual Education 2 credits (Fall)
This course is a complement to the general methods course, EDU 340 . It will provide prospective ESL practitioners with the methodologies necessary to develop into successful and thoughtful teachers. We will examine past and current approaches, methods, and techniques for teaching ESL. Students will explore the political and cultural implications for teaching ESL in the United States K- 12 schools.
Co-requisite: EDU 340 .
Prerequisite: EDU 101 , EDU 221 , and EDU 250 ; and EDU 210 , EDU 211 , EDU 212 , EDU 213 , EDU 214 , EDU 215 , EDU 217 , or EDU 218 .
Instructor: Jakubiak
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EDU 460 - Seminar in Teaching the Young Adult 4 credits (Fall)
This course is a complement to the student teaching internship and is designed to provide students with a structured way of making connections between teaching theory and practice. We will conduct weekly seminar meetings aimed at two purposes: 1) to develop a problem-posing, relective approach to teaching challenges, and 2) to support the design, implementation and presentation of an action research project.
Co-requisite: EDU 469 .
Prerequisite: EDU 101 , EDU 221 , EDU 250 and EDU 340 ; and EDU 210 , EDU 211 , EDU 212 , EDU 213 , EDU 214 , EDU 215 , EDU 217 or EDU 218 ; and EDU 341 , EDU 342 , EDU 343 , EDU 344 , EDU 345 , or EDU 346 .
Instructor: Staff
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EDU 469 - Student Teaching Internship in The Disciplines 8 credits (Fall)
This internship is the culminating experience for the student teaching program and provides a vehicle for systematic practice of our program goals and the program standards they encompass. This carefully mentored 14-week internship begins as soon as the school to which you are assigned begins its school year. Equivalent to a full-time job for the 14 weeks you are working in the schools, the internship commits you to over 600 hours of work.
Co-requisite: EDU 460 .
Prerequisite: EDU 101 , EDU 221 , EDU 250 and EDU 340 ; and EDU 210 , EDU 211 , EDU 212 , EDU 213 ,EDU 214 , EDU 215 , EDU 217 , or EDU 218 ; and EDU 341 , EDU 342 , EDU 343 , EDU 344 , EDU 345 , or EDU 346 .
S/D/F only
Instructor: Staff
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English |
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ENG 120 - Literary Analysis 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
An introduction to the methods and pleasures of literary analysis focusing on skills needed to practice close reading and explication of texts and emphasizing the rich complexities of literary language. Although individual sections vary in genres considered, all prepare students for further work in poetry and prose. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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ENG 121 - Introduction to Shakespeare 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
A close study of representative plays from each period of Shakespeare’s career, including comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Simpson, Garrison
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ENG 204 - The Craft of Argument 4 credits (Spring)
Advanced course in argumentative or analytical writing with particular attention to style.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Arner
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ENG 205 - The Craft of Fiction 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Instruction in the techniques and process of fiction writing, with emphasis on the short story. Readings may include published short stories and essays on the art of fiction. Students may also be asked to write in forms related to fiction (journal, autobiography, prose poem).
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 .
Instructor: Smith, Bakopoulos, Nutting, Sanchez
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ENG 206 - The Craft of Poetry 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Instruction in the techniques and process of verse writing. Readings may include published poems and essays on the art of poetry.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 .
Instructor: Phan, Savarese
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ENG 207 - Craft of Creative Nonfiction 4 credits (Spring)
In this course, we will acquaint ourselves with the genre of creative nonfiction, sampling a range of the myriad possibilities it presents: the personal essay, the political essay, nature writing, memoir, travel writing, literary journalism, biographical profile. We will read exemplary models and try our hands at each.
Prerequisite: ENG 205 or ENG 206
Instructor: Bakopoulos, Savarese
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ENG 210 - Studies in Genre 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Intensive study of a particular genre. May include the study of lyric, epic, or narrative poetry; or novel, graphic novel, short story or drama. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; or for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Staff
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ENG 215 - Reading and Writing Youth and Youth Culture 4 credits (Spring)
See EDU 215 .
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ENG 223 - The Tradition of English Literature I 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Study of English literature from Old English to the early 17th century; may include such works as Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Abdelkarim, Arner, Garrison
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ENG 224 - The Tradition of English Literature II 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Study of English literature from the Restoration through the Victorians; may include such authors as Behn, Defoe, Swift, Wordsworth, Shelley, Austen, George Eliot, and Dickens. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 , or third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Simpson
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ENG 225 - Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures 4 credits (Fall)
An introduction to postcolonial literatures and theory from the Caribbean, Africa, South Asia, and the Pacific. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Kapila, Sutaria
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ENG 226 - The Tradition of English Literature III 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Study of English literature of the 20th century; may include such authors as Joyce, Woolf, Beckett, Orwell, Eliot, Winterson, Kureishi, and Walcott. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Instructor: Kapila, Simpson
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ENG 227 - American Literary Traditions I 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Study of American literature from Columbus to 1830; may include such authors as Columbus, Ralegh, Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Franklin, Rowson, Irving, Bryant, and Cooper. Features works from a variety of genres, including Native American myths, travel and promotional narratives, journals, poetry, fiction, nonfiction prose, and maps. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Andrews
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ENG 228 - American Literary Traditions II 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Study of American literature from 1830 to 1893; may include such authors as Emerson, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, Chopin, Chesnutt, and Zitkala-Sa. Features works from a variety of genres including fiction, poetry, nonfiction prose, and drama. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Andrews
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ENG 229 - The Tradition of African American Literature 4 credits (Fall)
The emergence and growth of African American literature from slavery to the present. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Lavan
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ENG 230 - English Historical Linguistics 4 credits (Spring)
Study of the history of the English language through examination of phonological, grammatical, and semantic changes in the language from Old English to Middle English to Modern English with attention to “external” history.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Arner
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ENG 231 - American Literary Traditions III 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Study of American literature from 1893 to today; may include such authors as Crane, Eliot, Faulkner, Hurston, Plath, DeLillo, and Morrison. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Staff
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ENG 232 - Ethnic American Literatures 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Study of the major traditions of American ethnic literatures. Features works from a variety of genres including fiction, poetry, nonfiction prose, and drama. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Instructor: Phan
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ENG 240 - Lighting the Page: Digital Methods in Literary Studies 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
How do you write an interactive short story? How do machines read and write? And how do humans and machines read and write together? Students in this course learn about electronic literature and digital literary studies, using digital tools to develop skills in creative and scholarly reading and writing. The class begins with electronic literature. After reading works of e-lit such as Szilak and Tsibouski’s Queerskins: A Novel and Ana María Uribe’s Tipoemas y Anipoemas, students use digital tools to create their own works. The class then takes up computer-aided textual analysis. This part of the class combines literary texts, critical readings in the digital humanities, and hands-on programming exercises. Students will also use digital tools to analyze and revise their own writing. Assignments will include individual and group projects using digital tools and methods. No technical skills are required, but willingness to gain them is fundamental to the course.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors ENG 120 or ENG 121 , or third-year standing.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Simpson
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ENG 273 - Transnational and Postcolonial Feminisms 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Study of critical debates in global, transnational and Postcolonial feminisms. This introductory course will include literary, historical, and theoretical texts which study the progress of feminism in the global south in conjunction with but also often in opposition to the Euro-American world. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 , ENG 121 , GWS 111 or third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Kapila
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ENG 274 - Sex, Gender, and Critical Theory 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Study of the critical debates in the construction of gender and sexuality, and how these debates have shaped, and been shaped by contemporary feminist and queer theory. This course will familiarize students with a range of critical theories that have transformed the study of sexuality and gender in recent decades-psychoanalysis, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction and postmodernism. We will read key figures in theories of sex and gender, including Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and Gayle Rubin.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 , ENG 121 , GWS 111 or third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Staff
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ENG 290 - Introduction to Literary Theory 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Survey of Critical debates in history of literary theory and criticism from Plato to Butler. For purposes of practical application, readings may also include selected fiction, poetry, and drama. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 120 or ENG 121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG 120 or ENG 121 or third-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Staff
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ENG 303 - Chaucer 4 credits (Spring)
Study of Chaucer’s poetry in Middle English. Option of doing some reading in Latin, Italian, or French. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 223 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Abdelkarim, Arner
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ENG 310 - Studies in Shakespeare 4 credits (Fall)
An intensive study of three or four plays from various approaches, such as sources, imagery, and critical and theatrical traditions. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 121 . ENG 223 and ENG 224 strongly recommended.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Garrison
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ENG 314 - Milton 4 credits (Fall)
Intensive study of Milton’s poetry and selected prose with emphasis on Paradise Lost, on Milton’s place in the epic tradition, and on Milton’s reputation in English poetry. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 223 or ENG 273 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Garrison
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ENG 316 - Studies in English Renaissance Literature 4 credits (Spring)
An intensive study of a group of related authors, a mode, or a genre from the period 1500–1600. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 223 or ENG 273 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Garrison
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ENG 323 - Studies in English Literature: 1660–1798 4 credits (Spring)
Intensive study of Restoration and 18th-century literature with a focus on specific themes and genres. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 223 , ENG 224 , ENG 225 , ENG 227 , or ENG 228 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Simpson
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ENG 325 - Studies in Ethnic American Literatures 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Intensive study of important authors, movements, or trends in American ethnic literatures. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 227 , ENG 228 , ENG 229 , ENG 231 , ENG 232 , or ENG 273 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Phan
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ENG 326 - Studies in American Poetry I 4 credits (Fall)
Intensive study of important poets, movements, or trends in 19th-century American poetry. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 227 , ENG 228 , ENG 229 , ENG 231 , ENG 232 , or ENG 273 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Andrews, Savarese
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ENG 327 - The Romantics 4 credits (Fall)
Study of major figures in English literature from 1798 to 1830, with attention to Romantic theories of poetry. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 223 , ENG 224 , ENG 225 , ENG 227 , or ENG 228 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Simpson
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ENG 328 - Studies in American Poetry II 4 credits (Fall)
Intensive study of important poets, movements, or trends in 20th-century American poetry. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 227 , ENG 228 , ENG 229 , ENG 231 , ENG 232 , or ENG 273 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Andrews, Savarese
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ENG 329 - Studies in African American Literature 4 credits
Intensive study of an African American literary genre, movement, author, or a group of related authors. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 225 , ENG 227 , ENG 228 , ENG 229 , ENG 231 , ENG 232 , or ENG 273 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Lavan
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ENG 330 - Studies in American Prose I 4 credits (Fall)
Intensive study of important writers, movements, or trends in 19th-century American prose. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 227 , ENG 228 , ENG 229 , ENG 231 , ENG 232 , or ENG 273 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Andrews, Savarese
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ENG 331 - Studies in American Prose II 4 credits (Spring)
Intensive study of important writers, movements, or trends in 20th-century American prose. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 227 , ENG 228 , ENG 229 , ENG 231 , ENG 232 , or ENG 273 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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ENG 332 - The Victorians 4 credits (Fall)
Study of major British writers from 1830 to 1900, with emphasis on distinctive approaches to common artistic, intellectual, and social problems. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.below.
Prerequisite: ENG 223 , ENG 224 , ENG 225 , ENG 227 , or ENG 228 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Jacobson, Simpson
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ENG 337 - The British Novel I 4 credits (Spring)
Historical development of the British novel, formal evolution, methods of publication, and the relation of novels to their cultures. Through the early Dickens (e.g., Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Jane Austen, Thackeray). For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 223 , ENG 224 , ENG 225 , ENG 226 , or ENG 273 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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ENG 338 - The British Novel II 4 credits (Spring)
Historical development of the British novel, formal evolution, methods of publication, and the relation of novels to their cultures. From Dickens to the present (e.g., George Eliot, Hardy, Conrad, Lawrence, Forster, Virginia Woolf). For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 223 , ENG 224 , ENG 225 , ENG 226 , or ENG 273 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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ENG 346 - Studies in Modern Prose 4 credits (Fall)
Intensive study of important modern fiction. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 224 , ENG 225 , ENG 226 , ENG 227 , ENG 228 , ENG 229 , ENG 231 , ENG 232 , or ENG 273 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Simpson, Smith
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ENG 349 - Medieval Literature 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: GLS 349 . Study of medieval European literary forms (lyric, epic, romance, allegory, and dream vision) through analysis of major works such as Beowulf, Chretien de Troyes’ poems, Marie de France’s Lais, The Romance of the Rose, The Divine Comedy, The Decameron, Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Book of the City of Ladies, and Malory’s prose. Option of doing some reading in Latin, Italian, or French. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 223 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Arner
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ENG 360 - Seminar in Postcolonial Literature 4 credits (Spring)
An intensive study of important writers, movements, or theoretical concepts in postcolonial literature written in English. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 224 , ENG 225 , ENG 226 , or ENG 229 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Kapila, Sutaria
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ENG 385 - Writing Seminar: Fiction 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Advanced workshop for students with a strong background in fiction writing.
Prerequisite: ENG 205 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Smith, Bakopoulos, Nutting
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ENG 386 - Writing Seminar: Poetry 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Advanced workshop for students with a strong background in verse writing.
Prerequisite: ENG 206 .
Instructor: Phan, Savarese
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ENG 388 - Writing Seminar: Screenwriting/Television Writing/Variable Genre 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course examines creative writing with a focus on digital, emerging, and hybrid genres-namely writing for television and film. In some semesters, the course may focus on other emerging genres depending on the research interests of the instructor. Students will spend much of the semester discussing the craft and construction of existing texts and applying knowledge gained to the completion of significant creative project of their own. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: ENG 205 , ENG 206 , or ENG 207 .
Instructor: Bakopoulos, Nutting, Savarese
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ENG 390 - Literary Theory 4 credits (Spring)
An intensive introduction to the major schools of critical and literary theory. Readings likely to include foundational texts in formalism, Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, historicism, poststructuralism, and postcolonialism. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level English course.
Instructor: Andrews, Kapila
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ENV 120 - Environmental Challenges and Responses 1 credits (Fall)
This course provides a substantive forum for discussions of current environmental issues among a small groups of students and faculty. Content varies. All students meet biweekly to hear an invited speaker present on a relevant topic or to engage in a environmental issue through an off-campus field trip. During intervening weeks students meet in a small group to discuss the previous week’s seminar and/or related readings.
Prerequisite: Second-semester standing.
S/D/F only
Instructor: Sharpe, Staff
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ENV 125 - Introduction to Earth Systems Science with Lab 4 credits (Fall)
Cross-listed as: SCI 125 . An introductory geology course that demonstrates that Earth systems (the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere) are dynamically linked by internal and external physical, chemical, and biological processes. Using process-response models, we examine the structure and evolution of the Earth, how the rock record is used to decipher Earth’s past and predict its future, and societal issues centered on the environment, land use, resources (water, mineral, and energy), and natural hazards. Three lectures and one laboratory each week.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Graham
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ENV 145 - Nations and the Global Environment 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Global environmental issues discussed from the perspective of how these problems relate to each student. Emphasis on the geological, biological, and human history of Earth: trends in global climate (including the greenhouse effect and ozone depletion), species diversity (including episodes of mass extinction), human demography, international energy policies, global distribution of resources (including famine, lifeboat “ethics,” and politics of “north vs. south”). Discussion of sustainable development of tropical forest, savanna, and marine ecosystems. Readings from texts and current literature.
Prerequisite: None.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Campbell
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ENV 240 - Environmental Chemistry 4 credits (Spring)
See CHM 240 .
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ENV 251 - Water, Development and the Environment 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See GDS 251 .
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ENV 261 - Climate Change, Development and the Environment 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
See GDS 261 .
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ENV 495 - Senior Seminar 4 credits (Spring)
An interdisciplinary senior seminar for students completing the concentration in Environmental Studies. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: Open to Junior and Senior Environmental Studies Concentrators.
Instructor: Staff
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ESC 297 - Guided Reading Project 2 credits (Fall or Spring)
To be taken in the semester preceding that in which the student will take the 397 course, this project is designed as preparation for Senior Independent Study. The student may request to work with any instructor currently teaching in the program who will also be teaching on the Grinnell campus during the following semester.
Prerequisite: Second semester of first-year standing.
Instructor: Staff
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ESC 397 - Senior Independent Study 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
The subject must be arranged with a faculty adviser (preferably the instructor of the Guided Reading Project 297, above) before the end of the semester preceding the independent study. The study should result in either a substantial essay (about 25–30 pages) or a creative accomplishment such as a photographic essay, film, dramatic production, paintings, etc. of similar magnitude. The latter will require some written explication as well. Occasional colloquia consisting of all students and faculty engaged in these projects will be held to exchange ideas and methods.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Instructor: Staff
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FRN 101 - Introduction to French I 5 credits (Fall)
This course is designed for students with no previous training in French. Through total immersion in the target language, students will develop communicative competence in order to use and understand French in real-life situations. All four language areas (speaking, reading, writing, listening) are emphasized. Students will also gain cultural knowledge of the French-speaking world, learning the customs, values, and social practices that accompany the language. The course meets five days per week.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
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FRN 102 - Introduction to French II 5 credits (Spring)
This course continues the development of communication competence begun in FRN 101 . Through total immersion in the target language, students will learn to use and understand French in real-life situations. All four language areas (speaking, reading, writing, listening) are emphasized. Students will also gain cultural knowledge of the French-speaking world, learning the customs, values, and social practices that accompany the language.
Prerequisite: FRN 101 or by placement.
Instructor: Staff
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FRN 103 - Accelerated Introduction to French 5 credits (Fall)
Offered only in the fall, this course is designed for students who have already taken some French in high school but are still establishing the basics of French grammar and communication. The course is also suitable for students who have studied another Romance language (such as Spanish or Portuguese) and wish to begin learning French. The course covers the equivalent of FRN 101 and FRN 102 in a single semester.
Prerequisite: Grinnell Placement Test or consultation with department.
Instructor: Staff
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FRN 201 - French Conversation Through Media 1 credits (Fall and Spring)
Using contemporary films, television shows, news program, music and other media, this course develops the ability to speak and understand everyday French. Students also develop their cultural knowledge of France and the French-speaking world. The course provides good practice for students preparing to study abroad or complete a French-language internship. May be taken only once for credit.
Co-requisite: Concurrent registration in any 200- or 300-level French course.
Instructor: Staff
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FRN 221 - Intermediate French I 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
This course deepens students’ linguistic skills alongside their cultural knowledge of the French and Francophone world. While reviewing the essential aspects of French grammar and expanding their vocabulary, students will gain the ability to express increasingly complex thoughts about themselves, others and the world around us, including some of the most pressing contemporary questions—all in French.
Prerequisite: FRN 102 or FRN 103 , or by placement.
Instructor: Staff
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FRN 222 - Intermediate French II 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
This course increases students’ communicative and analytical skills in French, focusing on a particular site (such as Paris) or a particular period of history (such as France during the 1960s) to discuss a variety of important texts, films, historical documents, or visual media. The class continues to review and refine students’ grammatical skills while enabling students to deepen their cultural understanding, and learn and express more nuances of the French-speaking world.
Prerequisite: FRN 221 , or by placement.
Instructor: Staff
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FRN 301 - Advanced Reading & Written Expression 2 credits (Fall or Spring)
This seven-week course is designed as an intensive workshop in writing with accuracy, and coherence in French. Students examine different models of writing and engage in different activities to improve their own writing in a variety of genres.
Prerequisite: FRN 222 .
Instructor: Moisan
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FRN 302 - Phonetics and Advanced Oral Expression 2 credits (Fall or Spring)
This seven-week course is designed as a intensive workshop in understanding French sounds and how to produce them with accuracy, as well as the techniques of making formal presentations in French. Class activities include phonetic exercises, oral exposés, debates, and dictations.
Prerequisite: FRN 222 .
Note: Dates: 01/24/22 to 03/18/22. Half semester deadlines apply.
Instructor: Moisan
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FRN 303 - French Civilization I: Sites of Myth and Memory 4 credits (Fall)
Using historical figures like Joan of Arc and Louis XIV, along with specific intellectual movements, such as Renaissance humanism and the Enlightenment, this course seeks to understand how France has drawn upon a variety of ideas and individuals in creating itself as a nation. The course explores why certain figures have been “immortalized” throughout history and how certain myths have defined various French identities.
Prerequisite: FRN 222 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Harrison
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FRN 304 - French Civilization II: Revolutions and Identities 4 credits (Fall)
Beginning with the French Revolution and continuing until today, this course investigates the many social, political, and artistic movements that have defined France over the past two centuries. The course studies a variety of paintings, texts, documents, and films, to understand phenomena as diverse as Napoleon Bonaparte, the impressionist movement, the ravages of World War I, and the demands for decolonization.
Prerequisite: FRN 222 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Moisan
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FRN 305 - Contemporary Francophone Cultures 4 credits (Spring)
This course focuses on the contemporary French-speaking world and what defines it. It examines the relationship between national identity and the forces of geography, history, language, race, religion, and ethnicity. Topics include: colonization, decolonization, immigration, French-American relations, and societal values related to the family, gender, education, political organization, the state, and secularism.
Prerequisite: FRN 222 .
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Caradec or Tricoire
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FRN 312 - Introduction to French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Revolution: From Knights to Libertines 4 credits (Spring)
This course examines the love poems, comic novels, family dramas, and philosophical essays that were written in France during the long period that stretches from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Students refine their ability to understand the nuances of the French language while also gaining an understanding of French history. Among the many authors studied are Rabelais, Labé, Montaigne, Molière, Voltaire, and Olympe de Gouges.
Prerequisite: FRN 222 .
Instructor: Harrison
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FRN 313 - Introduction to French Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries: Literary Revolutions 4 credits (Fall)
This course examines the transformation of French literature as it deals with the upheavals brought about by war, revolution, industrialization, colonization and colonial emancipation. Students refine their ability to understand the nuances of the French language while discussing artistic movements such as Romanticism, Realism, the Theatre of the Absurd, Surrealism, and the Nouveau Roman.
Prerequisite: FRN 222 .
Instructor: Staff
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FRN 327 - Social Climbers and Rebels 4 credits (Fall)
This seminar explores the depiction of social conventions - and their subversion - during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the period of Louis XIV, Versailles, and the Enlightenment. This seminar studies questions of individuality, taste, pleasure, social ascension, women’s rights, and what it means to live a good life. It examines a variety of cultural materials, including some contemporary representations, in an attempt to define both the delights and discomforts of “fitting in.”
Prerequisite: FRN 312 or FRN 313 .
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Harrison
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FRN 328 - Comedy in French Literature Prior to the Revolution 4 credits (Fall)
This seminar analyzes how French writers used comedy, and comic techniques, to depict and even criticize different aspects of French society, such as religion, sexual norms, or courtly etiquette. Students will also engage in translation of certain works, to try to understand how to capture humor and cultural notions while using a different language. Some of the authors studied may include Molière, Villedieu, Voltaire, Laclos.
Prerequisite: FRN 312 or FRN 313 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Harrison
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FRN 329 - Literature and Society in 19th-Century and Belle Epoque France 4 credits (Fall)
This seminar examines texts representative of Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and post-Romantic poetry. Topics may include: realism and nature; the role of description; the expression of desire; and the relationship between the individual and society.
Prerequisite: FRN 312 or FRN 313 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Moisan
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FRN 330 - Innovation and Transgression in French from 1870 to 1945 4 credits (Fall)
This seminar examines the evolution of literature and the rise of cinema between 1879 and 1945; examines notions such as moral and aesthetic transgression and innovation. Topics to be studied may include: collage, montage, memory, war, autobiography, and sexuality in authors and filmmakers such as Rimbaud, Rachilde, Colette, Melies, Jarry, Proust, Gide, Celine, and Cocteau.
Prerequisite: FRN 312 or FRN 313 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Moisan
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FRN 341 - Contemporary French Writing 4 credits (Spring)
This seminar examines the evolution of prose fiction from the 1950s to the present and examines its relationship to biography, autobiography, feminist writing, film, and the popular novel. Explores literary representations of topics such as mother-daughter relations, social class, sexuality, illness, interracial relationships, immigration, and exile.
Prerequisite: FRN 312 or FRN 313 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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FRN 342 - Orientalism Revisited 4 credits (Spring)
This seminar examines the relations between France and the Orient as portrayed in paintings, photos, films, and prose fiction from the mid-19th century to the present. Focuses in particular on images of Oriental women, beginning with France’s representation of its colonies as female. The main topics to be considered are: the depiction of interracial relationships; the effect of gender on the experience of immigration; women and war (Algeria and Lebanon); women’s voices in contemporary North Africa; and the notions of tradition and modernity in relation to issues such as arranged marriages, polygamy, and excision. The Orient studied includes Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, and Lebanon.
Prerequisite: FRN 312 or FRN 313 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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FRN 346 - The Francophone Caribbean World: From Plantation to Emancipation 4 credits (Spring)
This seminar explores relations between the francophone Caribbean islands (Haiti, Guadeloupe and Martinique) and the métropole from the colonial period to the present. It addresses topics such as slavery, négritude, identity, multilingualism, diaspora, globalization and the environmental challenges facing the region. Students will examine poetry, theater, fiction and film. Authors to be studied include Césaire, Fanon, Roumain, Chamoiseau, Glissant, Condé, Laferrière and Frankétienne.
Prerequisite: FRN 312 or FRN 313 .
Note: Not offered every year. Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Caradec
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FRN 350 - Advanced Topics in Literature and Civilization 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
This seminar does an intensive study of a particular period, author, theme, movement, and/or genre. Topic will be announced each time the course is offered. Conducted in French. Course may be repeated for credit if content is different. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.
Prerequisite: FRN 312 or FRN 313 .
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff
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