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Otterbein University Course Catalogs

2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Courses

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  • THR 4550 - Advanced Computer Graphics

    Hours: 3
    Advanced studio work in 3D modeling and animation building on techniques and software covered in THR 3550.
    Prerequisites: THR 3550.
    Notes: Open to non-majors by permission of instructor.
  

  • THR 4600 - Special Topics in Theatre Design/Technology

    Hours: 1-3
    Advanced study in selected areas and techniques of theatrical design or technology.
    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
    Notes: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 hours.
  

  • THR 4700 - Senior Showcase

    Hours: 2
    Preparation of scenes or songs for presentation to agents and casting directors.
    Notes: Open by audition only. This course has an additional fee.
  

  • THR 4800 - Summer Theatre

    Hours: 1-4
    An intense laboratory experience in acting or technical theatre for advanced students with the Otterbein Summer Theatre.
    Notes: Entrance by audition only.
  

  • THR 4900 - Internship

    Hours: 1-16
    Required for all senior BFA majors, subject to departmental approval. Open to senior B.A. Theatre majors who apply and meet departmental requirements. Students must have a 3.0 cumulative grade point average in their required major classes to apply. Off-campus internship programs provide opportunity for practical work in professional theatre. Students may not enroll in any other class while on internship. Specific requirements are on file in the departmental office.
  

  • TYS 2001 - Past, Present, Future: Integrating Learning Through Work, College, and Career

    Hours: 4
    This course provides a learning transition for adults returning to college in which they learn how to morph the skills necessary for the work world into the skills necessary to succeed in college and to become life-long, world learners. Students will understand the ways in which a liberal studies completion degree enhances life and work opportunities as they explore service and the integrative curricular components of the Otterbein experience. Students will integrate foundational reading, thinking, communication, information literacy, and research skills through face-to-face and online activities. Students will participate in discussions, keep a journal, complete tests and quizzes, and write short papers. Course is offered in hybrid format.
  

  • TYS 2002 - Understanding Self and Community

    Hours: 4
    This course seeks to provide a transition for Adult learners returning to college, or beginning college for the first time. Students will be challenged to learn the expectations and skills required to succeed in higher education and beyond as life-long learners, to understand the ways in which a liberal arts education will prepare them to be engaged citizens in their communities and the world, and to explore their own identities and strengths through active self-reflection.
  

  • TYS 2003 - The Emerging Leader

    Hours: 4
    This course seeks to provide a transition for Adult learners returning to college, or beginning college for the first time, and students transferring to Otterbein University from other institutions. Students will be challenged to learn the expectations and skills required to succeed in higher education and beyond as life-long learners, to understand the ways in which a liberal arts education will prepare them to be engaged citizens in their communities and the world, and to explore their own identities and strengths through active self-reflection. To achieve these ends, students will engage in a number of learning activities. They will use several personality and strengths assessment tools to determine their styles of interaction, problem-solving, and personal strengths. Through readings and class discussion, they will clarify their own values and the differing value structures that exist and how these impact relationships. They will learn basic principles of effective leadership and consider how they might develop and maximize their own strengths. They will engage with their communities to learn the obstacles and opportunities facing their own neighborhoods and ways they might become involved, whether through civic or cultural engagement. While learning the structure of Otterbein’s Integrative Studies program and majors, they will map their own development and goals.
  

  • WGSS 1100 - Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    Hours: 4
    This course is an introduction to key concepts, questions, and analytical tools developed by scholars working in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies across diverse disciplinary fields. Students will explore the links between sex, gender, and identity, the social construction of femininities and masculinities, the way that sexed and gendered identities intersect with racial, class, and national identities, and the gendered dynamics of power and oppression. As an introduction to the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies major and minor, this course encourages the process of questioning—and, often, unlearning— conventional and normative thinking about sex and gender.
  

  • WGSS 2001 - Theories and Methods: Feminisms - Writing Intensive

    Hours: 4
    This course will familiarize you with key contemporary debates in feminist theory and practice, as well as the historical formation of these debates. Students will explore feminist frameworks for understanding and complicating subjects as various as female pleasure, intimacy and power, the “normal‟ body, reproductive justice, female literacy and education, women’s work inside and outside the home, and structural forms of violence against women. The course will also examine critical issues that inform feminist theory and practice: the gendered production of knowledge, the complex challenges of intersectionality, the transnational feminist project, and the role of feminist action in the academy and larger world.
    Prerequisites: WGSS 1100 (or co-registration with permission).
  

  • WGSS 2002 - Theories and Methods: Gender and Sexuality Studies

    Hours: 4
    This course will introduce you to the pivotal ideas, questions, and modes of inquiry that animate gender and sexuality studies – as distinct and inter-related fields. Students will explore the history of gender and sexuality studies, their sociopolitical contexts, and the rise and relevance of queer and post-queer theories. Thematically, the course will foreground the ways that gender and sexuality studies re-see a rich range of topics, including the body, sex, desire, power, identity, violence, normalization, alternative genders, sexual citizenship, and media images.
    Prerequisites: WGSS 1100 and 2001; or permission. With permission, WGSS 2001 may be waived for those minoring in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
  

  • WGSS 3000 - Special Topics in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    Hours: 1-4
    Topical investigations of critical questions and issues in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Topics and credit hours will vary.
  

  • WGSS 3010 - Bodies That Move

    Hours: 4
    This course is driven by a series of open and provocative questions: How is the body engrossed by the language of movement? What is a gendered gesture? In what ways is performance shaped by these gestures? At the same time, how might performance work to complicate or challenge the very idea of gender? How do we understand and enact the relationship between gender and sexuality in performance? And how might sexual identity and expression affect on and off stage kinetic-behavior? Using performance based studies, this class will examine the gendered and sexed body in all its performative dimensions. We will investigate the constructed and physical portrayal of character in both mainstream and marginal productions. We will also think about the way that everyday expressions of gender encourage all bodies to become perfomative. Drawing from various artistic media, students will be urged to see somatics–or body study–in a new and revealing light, understanding the important role that gender and sexuality can play in creating both bodily awareness and alienation. This course is for performers, theatrical enthusiasts, and any student who wants to think more deeply about the gendered and sexed body.
     
    Notes: This course fulfills the dyad requirement when paired with one course from among ARTH 3300, COMM 4100, FMST 3281, INST 3501, INST 3504, INST 4011, WGSS 4026.
  

  • WGSS 3900 - Independent Study

    Hours: 1-4
    An independent study may be arranged with the director of WGSS or any faculty member affiliated with the WGSS program. The proposed topic must be centrally concerned with critical questions or issues in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Requires approval of the WGSS director.
  

  • WGSS 4000 - Internship/Practicum in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    Hours: 1-4
    An internship or practicum may be arranged with the director of WGSS or any faculty member affiliated with the WGSS program. The internship or practicum must be work or service that prioritizes the needs of women and girls, sex/gender equality, or the LGBTQ community. Requires approval of the WGSS director. Please note: these internship and practicum hours are not designed to meet the requirement of the Senior Capstone.
     
  

  • WGSS 4026 - Female Trouble: The Pathologies of Femininity, Femininity as Pathology

    Hours: 4
    Mad, sick, and unpredictable women: they seem to be stock trade in narrative, film and media, the arts, and cultural mythology. As a result, it is hard not to conclude that there seems to be something unwell about femininity itself. In this course, we will examine the disordered and diseased women that both symbolize and stand in for the excesses and deficits of femaleness: the hysteric, the anorexic, the agoraphobic, the depressive, the cutter, the invalid, the sexually promiscuous, and the sexually averse. In the course of the semester, we will consider the way that these “troubled women” are represented and contained within a wide range of texts and artifacts: personal memoir, the narrative arts, psychological tracts, performance art, film and media, and popular cultural references. Feminist critical scholarship will inform our study and help shape the questions we ask about the easy and seemingly inevitable relationship between pathology and femininity.
    Notes: This course fulfills the dyad requirement when paired with one course from among ARTH 3300, COMM 4100, FMST 3281, INST 3501, INST 3504, INST 4011, WGSS 3010.
  

  • WGSS 4100 - Teaching Practicum in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    Hours: 2
    The director of WGSS or affiliated faculty in the program may invite a junior or senior WGSS major to serve as a teaching assistant for a WGSS course. This mentorship allows advanced undergraduates the opportunity to assist in the preparation and facilitation of a course, gain valuable experience in an academic work setting, and model best learning practices for other Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies majors and minors.
     
  

  • WGSS 4200 - Practicum in Collective Action

    Hours: 4
    This practicum encourages the examination of the relationship between theory and collective action to improve societal conditions for women and LGBTQ individuals. Students will combine seminar meetings with community research and/or service learning in local organizations that advocate for women and girls, the LGBTQ population, or other sexual minorities. Satisfies the Senior Capstone requirement in the major.
     
  

  • WGSS 4600 - Senior Project

    Hours: 4
    The senior project is an original research, creative, or artistic project. Students will work with a director and reader (at least one must be WGSS-affiliated faculty) on a project that centrally focuses on women, gender, and/or sexuality. Satisfies the Senior Capstone requirement in the major.
  

  • WGSS 4900 - Internship

    Hours: 4-16
    An internship in WGSS seeks to integrate a student’s academic experiences with work in the larger community. Students will secure a placement with a local, state, national or international non-profit organization, advocacy group, agency, business, or institution that is centrally focused on the needs of women and girls, the LGBTQ population, or other sexual minorities. Satisfies the Senior Capstone requirement in the major. Students who also register for SYE 4900 (2 hrs) will satisfy the Senior Year Experience requirement.
  

  • ZOSC 1010 - Introduction to Zoo and Conservation Science

    Hours: 4
    This course will concentrate on the structure and function of zoos and introductory aspects of conservation biology. The laboratory will be a series of excursions to the zoo, the wildlife center, or other places to examine timely zoo and conservation science activities. Students will observe animals and prepare ethograms.
    Prerequisites: BIO 1010. Corequisites: MATH 1250.
  

  • ZOSC 2010 - Sophomore Practicum 1

    Hours: 2
    This practicum will familiarize students with the Ohio Wildlife Center and give them an opportunity to perform essential duties of a wild animal care and rehabilitation center.
    Prerequisites: Open to majors only; permission of instructor required.
  

  • ZOSC 2011 - Sophomore Practicum 2

    Hours: 2
    This practicum will be a continuation of ZOSC 2010 and will train students in the care of injured wildlife and provide them opportunity to work with these animals.
    Prerequisites: Open to majors only; permission of instructor required.
  

  • ZOSC 3010 - Junior Practicum 1

    Hours: 2
    This practicum will familiarize students with the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and give students an opportunity to work in a zoo setting.
    Prerequisites: Open to majors only; permission of instructor required.
  

  • ZOSC 3011 - Junior Practicum 2

    Hours: 2
    This practicum will be a continuation of ZOSC 3010 and will train students to perform essential duties at a zoo.
    Prerequisites: Open to majors only; permission of instructor required.
  

  • ZOSC 4900 - Internship

    Hours: 1-16
    Internships at organizations and companies external to Otterbein in zoo and conservation science. Students must find an external internship opportunity and identify a Department of Biology and Earth Science faculty member to serve as their on-campus advisor. They must also complete the college internship contract between themselves, their advisor, their external supervisor, and the Academic Affairs Office.
  

  • ZOSC 4950 - Research

    Hours: 1-4
    This course is designed for students pursuing independent research on a major senior research project in the zoo and conservation sciences. Required of all Zoo and Conservation Science BS degree students. Four hours of HNRS Senior Thesis Research may be substituted for ZOSC 4950.
 

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