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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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SUNY Oneonta offers students more than 1,400 courses—from Accounting to Zoology—from over 25 separate departments. Requirements for majors and minors and course descriptions are listed under the departments that offer them; and these departments are arranged in alphabetical order. See the “Course Index” for details.
Please note that requirements, courses, and course descriptions are subject to change after publication of this catalog. Contact the appropriate departments for updated information. Also note that some course descriptions have been edited for clarity and consistency. Complete descriptions are available from the instructors or the departments concerned.
Key to Course Descriptions
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Activity course in Health & Fitness |
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Liberal Arts (course is a Liberal Arts offering) |
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Sustainability Focused Courses |
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Semester Hour(s) |
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Sophomore standing |
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Junior standing |
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Senior standing |
Course Numbering System
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No credit; usually developmental in nature. |
| 100 - 199 |
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Lower-division undergraduate-level courses. |
| 200 - 299 |
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Upper-division intermediate undergraduate-level courses. |
| 300 - 499 |
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Upper-division advanced courses. |
| 500 - 699 |
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Graduate-level courses. |
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Literature |
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LITR 100 - Themes in Literature 3 s.h.
Designed to help the general student interpret literary works. The class will focus on a theme or genre to be chosen by the instructor. Offered Fall and Spring.
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H3
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LITR 150 - Introduction to Literary Studies 3 s.h.
Introduction to Literary Studies is designed for those who are or wish to be English Majors. It provides a foundation for the contexts, concepts and methods relevant to the study of literature. Course coverage will include instruction in the use of relevant terminology and concepts, familiarization with literary and historical periods, and an overview of literary and genre conventions. The course should be taken within one year of declaring the major. Offered Fall and Spring.
LA
Prerequisite(s): Declared English major, or by permission of the department.
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LITR 206 - Children’s Literature in the Classroom 3 s.h.
This course explores the diverse literature (multicultural and generic) for children from infancy to adolescence. Students will read a wide variety of children’s literature and discuss it from different perspectives, including how to interpret the literature with children in K-8 classrooms. Offered every 2-3 years.
LA
Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 .
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LITR 215 - Contemporary Novel 3 s.h.
Exploration of present-day novels by English, American, and continental writers. Offered every 2-3 years.
LA
H3
Prerequisite(s): SoS.
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LITR 220 - Short Fiction 3 s.h.
Appreciation and understanding of form and meaning in fiction through reading and analysis of selected works. Offered every 2-3 years.
LA
H3
Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 .
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LITR 222 - Science Fiction 3 s.h.
Analysis of the evolution and present character of science fiction. Offered every 2-3 years.
LA
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LITR 234 - The Folktale Tradition 3 s.h.
An examination of the history and development of folktales and their continuing impact on contemporary literature and culture. Offered every 2-3 years.
LA
Prerequisite(s): COMP 100.
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LITR 237 - Fantasy 3 s.h.
Introductory literary study using the convention of the subgenre. Offered every 2-3 years.
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LITR 238 - Comedy 3 s.h.
The theory and historical development of comedy. Readings of selected, relevant texts from the Greeks to the present. Offered irregularly.
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LITR 244 - Contemporary Literature 3 s.h.
Wide reading of novels, short stories, plays, and poetry, with emphasis on contemporary American, European, South American, Asian, and African writers. Offered every 2-3 years.
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H3
Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 ; LITR 100 or LITR 150 .
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LITR 247 - Environmental Humanities 3 s.h.
This is a lecture and discussion course that explores the various ways that the humanities help us understand the relationship between humans and the environment. Insights from literature, philosophy, religious studies, and the arts will be employed in this endeavor. To achieve sustainability we need to explore human values, perceptions, beliefs, fears, and cultural inclinations in shaping humanity’s relationship to the natural world and human landscapes we have created. A depp understanding of the humanities and humanistic methodologies is a necessary component of the interdisciplinary solution of environmental problems we face such as global climate change and loss of biodiversity. Offered annually.
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Cross-listed as PHIL 247 .
Prerequisite(s): SoS.
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LITR 250 - Critical Approaches to Literature 3 s.h.
Exploration of the various approaches and techniques used in understanding and judging literary works; includes the reading of representative literary works, written criticism, critical theory, and practice in literary criticism. Offered Fall and Spring.
LA
H3
Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 ; LITR 150 with a grade of “C” or higher; 3 s.h. 200-level ALIT, ELIT, LITR or WLIT.
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LITR 283 - Women’s Literature 3 s.h.
Explores the role of women through reading literature by and about women. Offered every 2-3 years.
LA
H3
Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 ; LITR 100 or LITR 150 .
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LITR 284 - Writing the Land: Literature of Place 3 s.h.
Explores encounters with the natural world as articulated in creative nonfiction, fiction, essays, and poetry. Emphasis placed on diverse representations of the environment, as understood through varied cultural and social perspectives. Offered every 2-3 years.
LA
H3
Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 ; and LITR 100 or LITR 150 .
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LITR 285 - Writing Lives: Gender and Memoir 3 s.h.
This course considers diverse life writings in order to explore the influence of gender, sexuality, and other categories of identity on literary self-representation. We consider forms of memoir ranging from graphic novels to mixed-genre texts, and how they respond to questions such as the relationship between writer and reader; “truth” and narrative authenticity; memory and imagination; the personal and political. Offered every 2-3 years.
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BC3
Cross-listed as WMST 285 .
Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 ; LITR 100 or LITR 150 .
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LITR 294 - Special Topics in Literature 3 s.h.
Offered according to interest of instructor, requests by students, and availability of instructor.
LA
Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 ; LITR 100 or LITR 150 .
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LITR 299 - Independent Study in Literature 1 s.h. - 6 s.h.
Special studies under department supervision for students who have shown unusual ability in English and other areas. May be continued in successive semesters. Admission by consent of department chair and instructor involved.
LA
Prerequisite(s): COMP 200 or COMP 290 ; LITR 150 ; LITR 250 ; 6 s.h. 200-level courses in ALIT, ELIT, LITR or WLIT.
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LITR 306 - Children’s Literature 3 s.h.
This course explores the diverse literatures for children and adolescents, particularly the multicultural and generic variety of literatures available. Students will read books from a variety of American and international children’s authors and situate the texts within the children’s literary tradition. Emphasis will be on literary analyses of these children’s and adolescent texts. Offered every 2-3 years.
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Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 , and LITR 150 , and 6 s.h. of 200-level ENGL coursework.
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LITR 307 - Madness in Literature 3 s.h.
This course will examine how literary texts from the Romantic through to the present era represent madness in ways that both reflect and help construct discourse about important social and political issues of their times. It will also explore releveant literary criticism and theory that engages with issues of madness. Offered every 2-3 years.
LA
Prerequisite(s): COMP 200 or COMP 290 ; LITR 150 ; and 6 s.h. of 200-level ENGL coursework or permission of instructor.
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LITR 308 - Queer Literature 3 s.h.
This course will look at literature spanning the last three hundred years to investigate attitudes and concepts pertaining to queer identities and lives, the queer struggle for identity creation, social legitimacy, acceptance and the fight for equality - and the corresponding heteronormative backlash. Critical exploration of literature will follow an intersectional approach that examines the connections among race, sexed embodiment, gender, class and sexual orientation in relation to the concepts that frame the meanings of bodies within social contexts. Students will have opportunities to do queer readings of some traditional texts, to see how the meaning changes when characters are not assumed to be heterosexual, gender normative, or cis-gendered. In addition to essays, letters, diaries, memoirs, poems, short stories, songs, plays, and novels, students will also read selections on queer theory to guide their readings. Offered every 2-3 years.
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Cross-listed as WMST 308 .
Prerequisite(s): SoS; LITR 250 or 3sh of any WMST course.
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LITR 345 - Native American Literatures 3 s.h.
Study of selected Native American literatures written in English from the 18th century to the present. The course will emphasize the historical and cultural contexts of Native literary history, as well as ongoing concerns with questions of education, identity, language, land, and tribal sovereignty. The course addresses the major debates within the field of Native literary studies while also considering this literature’s complicated relationship to canonical U.S. literature and American popular culture. Offered every 2-3 years.
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Prerequisite(s): COMP 100 and LITR 100 or LITR 150 , and 6 s.h. of 200-level literature coursework.
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LITR 350 - Contemporary Critical Theory 3 s.h.
Designed for students preparing for graduate studies in the humanities. Focuses on structuralist and post-structuralist analyses of texts and culture. Overviews of the philosophical foundations and current theoretical considerations of literary formalism, linguistics, and semiotics. Study to include notable figure such as Baudrillard, Hussert, de Saussure, Jakobson, Kristeva, Levi- Strauss and Barthes, with literary texts by authors such as Calvino, Eco, Coetzee, Kafka, Woolf and Borges. Offered every 2-3 years.
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Cross-listed as: PHIL 350 .
Prerequisite(s): JrS, LITR 250 or PHIL 201 or PHIL 213 .
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LITR 355 - Postmodernism 3 s.h.
This class will be a study of postmodernism, a major intellectual movement of the second half of the twentieth century that challenged modern ideas about literature and culture. In addition to reading novels and short stories, we will look at developments in film, music, art, and architecture, and discuss questions this movement raised about knowledge, representation, narrative, originality, media, and society. we will study fiction by writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, John Barth, Italo Calvino, Thomas Pynchon, Angela Carter, Milan Kundera, Paul Auster, and Jeanette Winterson; essays by theorists such as Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, and Linda Hutcheon; music by composers such as Philip Glass and Julia Wolfe; and films by directors such as David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Jane Campion, and Pedro Almodovar. Offered every 2-3 years.
LA
Prerequisite(s): LITR 150 , and 6 s.h. of 200-level ALIT, ELIT, LITR, WLIT coursework.
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LITR 360 - Poetics 3 s.h.
This class offers a historical overview of theories about poetry, poetic form, and the role of the poet in society. The course will begin with a study of the earliest classical texts on the nature of poetry (Plato and Aristotle), then explore in depth the Romantics, the source of the most influential ideas about poetry, which remain with us to this day. From there we will consider the major aesthetic movements that emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century (Modernism, Surrealism, Negritude) and those that reflect the cultural and political fragmentation of the post-WWII era, often lumped under the title of “Postmodernism.” Offered once every two years.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 150 .
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LITR 394 - Special Topics in Literature 3 s.h.
Offered according to interest of instructor, requests by students, and availability of instructor.
LA
Prerequisite(s): COMP 200 or COMP 290 ; LITR 150 ; LITR 250 ; 6 s.h. 200-level courses in ALIT, ELIT, LITR or WLIT.
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LITR 395 - Teaching Assistantship in English 3 s.h.
Provides teaching and tutorial experience for advanced English majors, under the guidance of a full-time faculty member. May be taken only once.
Prerequisite(s): 21 s.h. of English, including LITR 250 ; permission of instructor; minimum 3.0 in English.
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LITR 399 - Independent Study in Literature 1 s.h. - 6 s.h.
Special studies under department supervision for students who have shown unusual ability in English and other areas. May be continued in successive semesters. Admission by consent of department chair and instructor involved.
LA
Prerequisite(s): COMP 200 or COMP 290 ; LITR 150 ; LITR 250 ; 6 s.h. 200-level courses in ALIT, ELIT, LITR or WLIT.
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