2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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ESL 0700 - Intermediate ESL II Hours: 0
This mid-intermediate course builds on the conversational and reading skills of those for whom English is not their first language, and begins to emphasize writing skills. The course also continues to build oral communication and grammar skills to achieve communicative competence. The course is aimed at preparing students for academic work in their major area of study. The course uses a wide range of resources.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ESL 0800 - Intermediate ESL III Hours: 0
This high-intermediate course sharpens the reading and writing skills of those for whom English is not their first language. The course emphasizes the capacity to sustain written and conversational competence in routine settings and contexts. The course is aimed at preparing students for academic work in their major area of study. The course uses a wide range of resources.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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ESL 0900 - Advanced ESL Hours: 0
This advanced level course prepares students to read, write, and converse in a variety of more advanced academic and cultural contexts. The course emphasizes the capacity to participate actively in communicative tasks associated with academic work, and with the events of American culture at large. The course is aimed at students who are transitioning into doing academic work in their major area of study. The course uses a wide range of resources.
Notes: This course has an additional fee.
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FIN 3400 - Business Finance Hours: 4
An introduction to the financing (i.e., capital structure, cost of capital, dividend policy) and investing (i.e., capital budgeting) decisions within corporations. The economic environment within which these decisions are made is examined. Other topics, including working capital management and international finance, are also explored.
Prerequisites: ACCT 2000, ECON 2100.
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FIN 4200 - Intermediate Corporate Finance Hours: 4
A study of advanced topics in financial management including capital structure, cost of capital, capital budgeting, corporate valuation, real options, dividend policy, working capital management, leasing, mergers and acquisitions, international finance, and bankruptcy.
Prerequisites: FIN 3400.
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FIN 4210 - International Finance Hours: 4
An introduction to the financial management of firms in an international setting. The course explores financing and investing decisions for multinational corporations. Additional topics include currency trading and options, hedging, and risk management.
Prerequisites: FIN 3400.
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FIN 4600 - Investments Hours: 4
This course provides students with both theoretical and practical perspectives on investments. It covers security valuation, market efficiency, technical and fundamental analysis, global investing, the organization of financial markets, asset pricing models and mutual funds. It also introduces students to various derivative securities – options, futures, warrants and convertibles. Students participate in an investment simulation which enables them to apply concepts learned in the course.
Prerequisites: FIN 3400.
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FIN 4610 - Options and Futures Hours: 4
A study of advanced topics in derivative securities including the structure of options and futures markets, option pricing models, the pricing of forwards and futures, interest rate options, and hedging strategies. Students participate in an investment simulation which enables them to apply concepts learned in the course.
Prerequisites: FIN 4600.
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FIN 4700 - Case Studies in Finance Hours: 4
An advanced course in finance that deals with the application of financial theory to business decision-making. Financial models are applied to case studies which focus on financing current operations, capital structure, long-term financing, risk management, and valuation and investment.
Prerequisites: ACCT 2100, FIN 4200, FIN 4600, MGMT 3000, MKTG 3100; or permission of instructor.
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FIN 4900 - Internship Hours: 1-16
Experience with an organization that offers an exposure to business practices. Students may design their own internship experience within departmental guidelines. Notes Open to juniors and seniors with better than average academic performance. Credit can count toward satisfying the minimum number of courses required for the major, as an elective option. Prerequisites: Junior or Senior level standing.
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FMST 2280 - Cinema: History, Theory and Criticism Hours: 4
This course enacts a critical investigation of significant moments in the history of film from the silent period to the present. The films and movements covered in this course are chosen for the way they are in dialogue with one another. The course also acquaints students with methods and insights of film theory and criticism.
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FMST 3280 - Studies in Directors and/or Movements Hours: 4
This course promises an intensive study of a significant director or directors and/or the movements to which they belong. Readings, screenings, and discussions will seek to create a kind of command of the director and/or movement being considered. Topics will change with each incarnation of the course. Some possible examples include: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, Encountering the French New Wave, The Weirdness of David Lynch, Sex and Power in the Films of Claire Denis, Documentary: Stranger than Fiction, and Screening Scorsese & Spielberg.
Prerequisites: FMST 2280 or permission of instructor.
Notes: Repeatable for credit when offered with a different topic.
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FMST 3281 - Film and Cultural Studies Hours: 4
This course promises an intensive study of the role film plays in the construction or challenging of prevailing social values. Readings, screenings, and discussions will seek to convey the way groups of films intersect with specific historical, national, and political contexts. Topics will change with each incarnation of the course. Some possible examples include: Screening the Middle Ages, The African Diaspora on Film, the New Iranian Cinema, and Gendering Clint Eastwood.
Notes: Repeatable for credit when offered with a different topic. This course fulfills the dyad requirement when paired with one course from among ARTH 3300, COMM 4100, INST 3501, INST 3504, INST 4011, WGSS 3010, WGSS 4026.
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FREN 1000 - Elementary French I Hours: 4
French 1000 is an introduction to French language and cultures for students with little or no knowledge of the language. Through partner and group work, readings, films, internet exploration, online exercises and modules, and brief writing assignments, students will develop and practice the four skills—oral (speaking and listening) and literacy (reading and writing)—and will be introduced to culture in Francophone communities.
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FREN 1050 - French Language and Culture Hours: 4
An interdisciplinary study of the cultures of French and Francophone worlds. Using literature, nonfiction, cinema, music, and art, this course examines some of the foundational contexts—socioeconomic, national, colonial, gender—that influence the construction and expression of French and Francophone identity in the modern world. Though taught in English, this course focuses additionally on the way the French language influences our understanding of these questions and contexts.
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FREN 1100 - Elementary French II Hours: 4
French 1100 is the second semester of an introduction to French language and cultures. Students will continue to learn the foundations of French, with the goal of achieving an intermediate level of proficiency. This course continues to engage students with partner and group work, readings, films, internet exploration, online exercises and modules, and brief writing assignments to deepen competency with reading, writing, speaking, and listening as well as to increase knowledge of culture, history, and politics.
Prerequisites: FREN 1000.
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FREN 2000 - Intermediate French: Grammar and Composition Hours: 4
This course acquaints students with the major grammatical structures of French, with a specific application to communicative and formal writing. Students will advance their proficiency in French by deepening their understanding of the morphological and syntactical structures of the language and by learning and practicing the stylistic, mechanical, and rhetorical processes that are characteristic of thinking and writing in French.
Prerequisites: FREN 1100.
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FREN 2100 - Intermediate French: Reading and Conversation Hours: 4
Departing from literary, cultural, and political readings, students learn to recombine elements of language to articulate thought and develop critical thinking abilities in speaking contexts. While offering the linguistic platform for students to develop speaking abilities, this course also engages students with fundamental issues that surround French and francophone cultures and the ways French and Francophone identity is constructed and expressed in the contemporary world.
Prerequisites: FREN 1100.
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FREN 2600 - Special Topics in French and Francophone Studies Hours: 4
Topical, thematic exploration of French and Francophone identity in the modern world. Course may focus on a constellation of literary texts or films and/or significant moments in French and Francophone history. Possible incarnations of this course include: Post-Colonial French Identity, The Making of French Quebec, The Politics of Race and Gender in Contemporary France.
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FREN 3600 - Discovering the Francophone World Hours: 4
An interactive learning experience that involves international travel, this course seeks to introduce, challenge and strengthen linguistic proficiency in French, while at the same time exposing students to the tremendous historical and cultural richness of French speaking countries and communities. Students in the course will travel to places such as France, Quebec, Martinique, Guadeloupe, or New Brunswick, and will interact with the peoples and cultures of these places in ways that will broaden their understanding of the global world and give them new insights into their own cultures.
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FYS 1001 - Environmental Sustainability Hours: 4
This class looks at environmental sustainability through a multidisciplinary lens, illustrating the interconnection between humans, the environment and sustainable use of resources. Students will be challenged to explore how personal actions can ultimately affect global conditions and reflect on how modifications of personal choices can result in preserving and sustaining environments for future generations. Specific topics considered include: defining sustainability, an overview of earth processes, food production, hazardous wastes and climate change.
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FYS 1002 - Evil Spirits, Placebos, Equivalence Relations: Mathematics and Ways of Knowing Hours: 4
There are alternate ways of understanding the world around us and we often disregard them. However, stories of evil spirits and village shaman can teach us that disregarding alternate ways of knowing can be dangerous-even deadly. But, how do we judge what kinds of knowing are valid? Equivalent? Useful? We will learn how to formulate generalized ideas, a process called abstraction, to help us interpret what people tell us, and what we see around us. Contrary to popular opinion, mathematics is about abstraction, not calculation, and we will adopt the methods of mathematics to help us interpret several different types of knowledge. For example, we will learn that on the one hand, the belief in evil spirits may not be scientific, but on the other hand it may save lives.
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FYS 1003 - Navigating the Informational World Hours: 4
We all are bombarded by large amounts of information that reach us in a variety of formats and through various channels: books, journals, emails, websites, streaming videos, audio podcasts, blogs, MP3, social networking sites, etc. While enjoyable, this large variety can also make us feel overwhelmed and disoriented. Especially during college, when we are being asked to navigate these complicated information networks in an efficient and timely manner, it becomes crucial to know how to access, evaluate, and select the right information, but also to be able to identify the role of information in defining us as individuals within the local and global communities that we inhabit. These skills will also prepare us for the challenges of a continuously changing job market and train us to become independent, competent, and reflective information users. This course will provide an introduction to the practice of effective and ethical information use in order to help us achieve academic and lifelong success. We will investigate various sources and types of information, ask questions about the role of information and technology in shaping our identities, and discover the best strategies for making information an integral part of our academic and professional lives.
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FYS 1004 - From Socrates to Snape; From Descartes to Dumbledore: The Philosophy of Harry Potter Hours: 4
The Harry Potter novels are enjoyable reads, but they are also full of philosophically important ideas. In this seminar we will look at the Harry Potter novels through the lens of philosophy and use those novels as a springboard for discussion of such questions as these: What is the nature and value of friendship? Is Harry really courageous? What do the Death Eaters teach us about the nature of evil? What does Prof. Trelawney’s ability to foretell the future mean for our ability to act freely? Is the sort of time travel practiced by Hermione possible? Is the cultural purity pursued by the Death Eaters really such a bad thing? Is patriotism a virtue (like loyalty to one’s house) or a vice (like adherence to the racist view of Voldemort)? What makes it the case that the Lord Voldemort who killed Harry’s parents is the same person who returned to fight Harry so many years later given that he didn’t have a body during the intervening time? What do the Horcruxes teach us about the nature of the soul? What do Quidditch and the Tri-Wizard Tournament tell us about the value of extra- and co-curricular activities as part of a college education? Do they detract from a student’s education, or do they add to it? If so, how? And finally, while on the topic of education, if Hogwarts is the pinnacle of education in the wizarding world, why are there no literature, science, philosophy, or arts courses? And what does that tell us about the sort of education we should value?
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FYS 1005 - Jesus As Super Star: Jesus as Portrayed by the Film Industry Hours: 4
This course focuses on an examination of the portrayal of Jesus in the film industry. Critiques of films, ranging from The Greatest Story Ever Told to Monty Python’s Life of Brian, will be derived from several different academic perspectives and will include biblical, literary, historical, performance, sociological, and theological.
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FYS 1006 - The Science of Happiness Hours: 4
This course will consider positive psychology, the science of human strengths and virtues. Rather than starting from mental illness, positive psychology begins instead at mental wellness. It uses scientific studies, validated tests, and interventions that are proven effective. In this course on positive psychology, students will learn about: (1) aspects of happiness and factors that contribute to these aspects, (2) signature strengths and values, (3) the role of cognition and emotion in happiness, and (4) the role of creativity and flow in everyday activities. Students will reflect on these principles in their own lives and will learn skills that they can use in college and beyond. In studying these topics, students will also gain an understanding of psychological research methods and the contemporary research findings on positive psychology.
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FYS 1007 - Uncommon Experiences—Building on the Common Book Hours: 4
Students will build upon the themes, issues and experiences presented by the common book reading. Through additional readings, films, lectures and materials that expand the primary common book topics, students will engage in discussion and presentations, research, writing, and experiential learning that challenge them to examine themselves and their responsibilities to local and gobal communities. This course requires an off-campus experience to take place during the autumn break in October in which students will travel and engage in an immersion service experience. Extra fee to cover travel costs is required.
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FYS 1008 - Finding Voice; Making Noise Hours: 4
In his self-help/management book, “The 8th Habit,” Steven Covey states, “the crucial challenge of our world today is to find our voice and inspire others to find theirs.” While Covey brings the concept of voice into popular culture, critical scholars in many disciplines have wrestled with the notion of voice, specifically seeking to hear and understand the voices of marginalized individuals, who have often been silenced. This course will examine power and identity. Through readings, activities and lectures, student will explore the concept of voice, and uncover how those who have been silenced have found and used their voices. The ultimate goal is for students to apply the lessons to their own experiences, discovering their own voices and the power that they have to be heard and make a difference on campus and in our society.
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FYS 1009 - Screening Teens/Scripting Identity Hours: 4
“All we are not stares back at what we are.” - W.H. Auden. This class will dive into contemporary teen film - films that take adolescence and adolescents seriously – and consider the identity scripts that “stare back” at us. It will think teen cinema’s depictions of what we are, and what we aren’t, as we come of age. It will wrestle with how movies document the “identity assemblages” - youth, gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, ability, etc. - that are written on teen cinematic bodies. And how film dramatizes the realities of a twenty-first-century adolescence: sex, drugs, love, rage, violence, poverty, alienation, rebellion, etc. We will screen films like: The Breakfast Club, Heathers, Thirteen, Elephant, Almost Famous, Juno, Pariah, and a Winter’s Bone. And we will read relevant theory and criticism. Students interested in film studies, gender and sexuality studies, class and race studies, and youth studies will really dig this class.
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FYS 1010 - How Green Do I Have to Be? The Psychology Behind Environmental Decision-Making Hours: 4
“Being green” is a term that conveys many ideas, labels and ecological connotations. The term can be used to describe environmental behavior, such as recycling, consumer conduct, dietary choices, and resource conservation. It can also be used as a persuasive technique to guide consumer attitude, behavior and purchasing choices, which may or may not be environmentally sound. The decisions we make are based on our early influences (family), our learning experiences (schooling), our personal experiences, our cognitive abilities as well as the social relationships we form and develop. Class discussion will focus on the most predominant environmental issues faced by consumers on a daily basis, including consumer spending habits, such as clothing choices, water ethics, food production, energy choices, and recycling. The course will address environmental decision-making in issues concerning environmental justice, global justice, NIMBY, and pro-environmental behavior.
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FYS 1011 - People Like Us: Class and Race in the USA Hours: 4
People Like Us explores the social process of creating and justifying inequality within human communities. Through readings, films, and active discussion, we will explore the ways our community, our country, and our world are stratified—and we will ask how such inequalities can be addressed. We will pay particular attention to the ways that socially and historically constructed differences of class and racial identity structure individuals’ unequal access to education, jobs, and other social resources. Using the example of the common book and other sources, we will talk about how groups are defined as naturally “belonging” or marked as “Other” within national and local communities.
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FYS 1012 - The Journeys and Stories of Our Lives Hours: 4
Our lives are filled with journeys, both those experienced and those observed by others. This course will explore the journeys that students have taken as well as those in their families and those in course readings. Students will seek to understand how those journeys have shaped one’s sense of self and the way in which they experience the world. Through this reflection, students will define their own sense of personal identity and perspective of the world. Finally, students will reflect upon their transition journey to Otterbein and seek to discover the resources and support on campus to assist in their transition.
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FYS 1013 - Women’s Leadership Hours: 4
This class will focus on the meaning and significance of leadership in general, as well as the historic, current, and future challenges and opportunities associated with women seeking and fulfilling leadership roles in their professions and in society. We will examine various perspectives on leadership and advice on how to become a leader today and in the future, as well as the social, cultural and economic factors associated with women and leadership. Class sessions will include speakers who work in different sectors discussing their individual views and experiences related to women and leadership roles. This course also serves as the first course in the Leadership Minor.
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FYS 1014 - How Sports Explains Us Hours: 4
This seminar will explore how sports can be used as a lens to view our rapidly changing world. Students will study their own growing up in both a local and global sports culture. The course will examine how sports are used in education and whether they reflect or help define cultural values and gender roles.
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FYS 1015 - Learning How to Lose and Other Hard Lessons in Life: A Short Course in Death and Dying Hours: 4
This course will take the approach of a typical death education course in addressing: Confronting mortality in a death denying society, loss and the grief process, religious/philosophical/ethical issues (to some degree in the time permitted), and contemporary issues related to the topic (e.g., suicide prevention).
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FYS 1016 - Trilobites, Dinos, and Cavemen, OH MY: A History of Life and Humans Hours: 4
This course will explore the history of life from the primordial soup, through trilobites, dinosaurs and ultimately the evolution of Lucy and Homo sapiens. Special emphasis will be on the evolutionary origin of the unique characters and behaviors that make us “human”. The course will explore the “grandeur in this view of life” and its “forms most beautiful and most wonderful” and how a modern scientific perspective lets us better understand ourselves and what it means to be human.
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FYS 1017 - Communicating in a Virtual World Hours: 4
Developments in the last decade have changed the way we connect to our friends, family, employers, and world at large. Technology is directing what is appropriate in how we communicate and when. Can you remember life without cell phones? How has the internet affected how you get information as well as what information you get? Technology has even affected the way we play. Do you escape into the virtual world of an on-line game? This course will explore how these changes have affected how we interact with our world and the impact they have on our own perspective of the world around us. We will examine the ever changing role of communication in our lives and how we derive meaning from the new forms of communication we encounter each day. What are appropriate forms of communication in what context? What is legal or what will get you in trouble on the internet? Is cyber vetting ethical? How has this technology shaped our society and what does it mean for us in the future?
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FYS 1018 - The Hero’s Journey Through College Hours: 4
The myth of the hero involves a central character who must leave behind the ordinary world to complete a series of physical or psychological tests. The hero’s courage, strength and resolve are all required to successfully overcome the dangers and pitfalls of this journey. If all the challenges are met successfully, the hero undergoes a spiritual or emotional transformation and is returned to the ordinary world a stronger and wiser person, often using the skills he or she has gained to restore order in the community. In this course, students will be introduced to the hero myth throughout history and across cultures. We will then investigate depictions of the hero’s journey in American culture, with special attention paid to cinematic representations. Students will be expected to identify and analyze the components of the heroic narrative in literature and film. We will furthermore consider the myth of the hero as a metaphor for the student’s journey through his or her college education. Together we will investigate the ways in which college, like the hero’s quest, can be a challenge leading to a transformation of the self from an untested novice to an educated and experienced adult.
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FYS 1019 - A Thousand Cuts: Bullying, Power, and Hope Hours: 4
Fat, gay, poor, or just different. As anyone who has ever survived middle and high school knows, adolescence can be a difficult and jagged experience, especially when bullying occurs. According to national surveys, 30% of U.S. students in grades 6 through 12 report that they have been involved, either as victims or bullies, in bullying, and the numbers are growing at an alarming rate, even at the university level. Bullies can also dominate the workplace, families, and cyberspace. This course will focus on narratives and films that examine some of the underlying causes of bullying, explore bullies and victims’ responses to this destructive behavior, and engage questions of individual and collective empowerment in the face of the pain and fear that bullying creates. While not all experiences of bullying bring happy endings, they can offer moments of healing, growth and transformation. Readings will range from traditional fiction such as Jane Eyre and Alice in Wonderland to contemporary works such as Jodee Blanco’s Please Stop Laughing at Me, Ann Dee Ellis’ This Is What I Did, Gus Van Sant’s Elephant, Walking On the Moon, and the documentary, Bullies and Rats.
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FYS 1020 - Against the Odds: Discovering Life in the Absurd Hours: 4
This course will invite students to think about the way in which we respond to adversity—or what Albert Camus described as the Absurd. We will study the way various thinkers have answered this challenge, and we will also explore the way others have acted in literature, film and current events. In doing so, we will explore what it means to be alive and uncover the logic of living. We will consider the ethical, social, political, and psychological conditions needed to live. Students will use their exploration to frame their own transition to college and beyond, and inspire their own journey into an awakened life.
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FYS 1021 - Don’t Drop Your Cell Phone in the Outhouse: Viewing Other Cultures Hours: 4
A Peace Corps volunteer recently told me, “I make sure my cell phone accompanies me on each trip to the outhouse. After all, if I were to fall into the eight foot hole how would I ever get out unless I called for help?” The seeming contradiction of owning a cell phone but using an outhouse stuck with me. How could a country with no plumbing available have consistent cell phone use among their general population? Likewise, how could 60 percent of the population be living in tents but have available internet connections in those tents? In this course we will examine our own ideas, thoughts, impressions, values and priorities. Though discussion and perusal of blogs, research articles, DVDs and literature we will identify cultural “contradictions” and explore reasons for these “contradictions”. We will begin to answer the question, “How do our own backgrounds and beliefs shape the way in which we view others? How can we take these understandings and become viable members of the Otterbein, local and global communities?”
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FYS 1022 - Revolutions Hours: 4
A study of selected revolutions in physics, specifically the Copernican revolution, the theory of relativity, and quantum theory. A main focus is on developing a concrete understanding of the basic physical principles that underlie these developments. In addition, we will consider how these discoveries illuminate the nature of science, and discuss the impact they have had (and continue to have) on our conception of the natural world, on philosophy and on society generally.
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FYS 1023 - To Infinity and Beyond Hours: 4
Concepts of infinity trace back at least as far as the ancient Greeks, with significant connections to philosophy, theology, and mathematics. Infinity also has strong metaphorical connotations in modern culture. This course will trace the historical development of infinity while also exploring the 20th century revolutions in understanding the nature of the infinite in logic and mathematics.
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FYS 1024 - Leadership Pathways Hours: 4
The course takes students along formative paths toward an understanding of leadership principles and practices. Students examine and experience emergent ways of seeing themselves, others, and human situations defined locally and globally—all against a background of traditional and non-traditional leadership roles and models. Through critical self-reflection, students learn pathways for joining the sides of the self, achieving common purposes, collaborating, effecting change, and accepting the responsibilities of the engaged citizen. Class sessions focus on group-learning practices. The course introduces students to the goals of the Integrative Studies program. Students participate in FYE and service-learning activities. This course also serves as the first course in the Leadership Minor.
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FYS 1025 - Discovering and Developing Your Strengths Hours: 4
While most of us know the benefits of physical strengths and fitness many do not know or understand personal talents and strengths. In this course we will look at the connections between physical strengths, academics and social behaviors as well as discovering your personal strengths. We will investigate, analyze, and activate these strengths in academics, career exploration, relationships, wellness, and community engagement. Students will be challenged to explore the connection between their own personal strengths and those of others. How do these strengths currently influence our choices, behaviors and relationships and how can we use these strengths to shape our futures. This is a Service-Learning Course.
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FYS 1026 - Our Brains on Technology: Learning in the Digital Age Hours: 4
Are there really “digital natives” and “digital immigrants”? Can people learn well through digital games? What does research suggest that our frequent multitasking means for our brains? Are new technologies changing the way we experience education more radically than technologies that arrived earlier on the scene, such as writing, the book, or chalk? Although most college classrooms today look remarkably similar to classrooms of an earlier era, digital technologies promise to challenge and disrupt familiar approaches to teaching and learning. In this course, we’ll explore some of these technologies as ways of teaching and learning, and we’ll consider what enthusiasts and critics alike have to say about technology and education as we discuss questions that lie at the intersection between digital technologies and learning.
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FYS 1027 - Walking the Path: A Personal Journey to Peace and Social Justice Hours: 4
This course introduces the language of peace and social justice and how it is employed within tradition liberal arts disciplines. The goal is to help students situate themselves in the praxis of peace and social justice within a variety of disciplines. Modules attend to the engagement of Peace and Social Justice in political science, sociology, history, philosophy, religion, economics, education, psychology, and communication.
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FYS 1028 - The Other in World Literature, Art, and Cinema Hours: 4
This course examines human relationships in the context of world literature, art, and cinema in which the other plays a crucial role in the way the subject constitutes an identity either socially (Jean-Paul Sartre), sexually (Simone de Beauvior), racially (Frantz Fanon), or ethically (Emmanual Levinas). These perspectives inform not only how the self relates to others in the real world but also how this relationship should be lived. The latter ultimately raises ethnical questions: How should one approach the other? How does one response when the other is abusive or violent? Or, what can you do for the other that would have a positive impact in his/her life? This course offers you an opportunity to engage with others in the community to enrich your learning and your life.
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FYS 1029 - The Spanish Legacy in the Americas Hours: 4
This interdisciplinary course will serve as an introduction to Spanish and Latin American studies majors. The objectives of the course are to assist and excite students in integrating the culture of others in their studies. The second learning objective is to include in their education the diverse mode in which the Spanish colonized and founded communities with the first European language and the first Christian Church in the Americas.
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FYS 1030 - The History of Women in Science Hours: 4
This course explores the important, complex, and often unrecognized ways in which women and science have been connected to one another. Using a historical perspective, we will examine women’s contributions to various scientific fields, consider the ways in which the sciences have viewed women in different eras, and ultimately investigate the gendered nature of science itself.
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FYS 1031 - Revolutionaries and Revolutions: Hijacked Revolutions? Hours: 4
Contemporary revolutions in the mid-East and North Africa grab our attention as news reports focus on the revolutionaries’ democratic hopes and aspirations. But how will these revolutions turn out? Will the revolutions serve the interests of the people, or will the revolutions be blown off course, with special interests or other aims winning out? We will address these questions by examining how revolutionary aims and revolutionary outcomes have matched-up in the past. In our exploration, we’ll analyze a number of case studies including the American Revolution, The French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, The Cuban Revolution, and the Iranian Revolution.
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FYS 1032 - The Skills: Keys to Mental Resilience Hours: 4
This course will explore four basic areas related to sound mental health: physiology, cognition, affect, and behavior. Students will learn about the main contributors in each area, their basic theoretical frameworks, and the applied techniques that grew from these ideas. The class will involve both classroom discussions and demonstrations as well as field practice and applied homework assignments. Also, the class will be a textbook-free, digital-heavy class. Students should be prepared to do all their readings, many of their assignments, and some of their discussions online within the Blackboard structure.
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FYS 1033 - Arts are Alive Hours: 4
The arts are alive in all cultures. We will explore the cultural, sociological and aesthetic aspects of the arts together this semester through listening to music, viewing visual art, discussing current economic issues related to the arts, and analyzing and critiquing the arts. Reading articles assigned and text material is required. Writing assignments are assigned throughout the semester. We will enjoy art exhibits, workshops, and performances on our campus together that will introduce you to the many opportunities in and through the arts.
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FYS 1034 - Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Discoveries for College and Beyond Hours: 4
This first-year seminar is designed for students who are undecided or unsure about their choice of a major, and who are interested in exploring the many options available to them at Otterbein. However, we welcome anyone who finds themselves wrestling with important life decisions (major, career, personal visions) or transitions. We will begin by looking at issues of transition and life-decisions, employing the Common Book as a touch point. From there, we will move to a discussion about methods for managing transitions and personal decisions, and apply these methods to your personal transitions and decisions, including, but not limited to, choices of majors and careers. It is our hope that these discussions and activities will help you to identify and sharpen your understanding of your own interests, values, and skills, find interesting choices for majors, and find ways to deepen the significance of the course of study they choose—whether through the choice of a single major, the combination of two majors or of a major and minor, or the development of an individualized major. We are also interested in helping students to link the skills they develop in their pursuit of a University education with their post-graduation success after Otterbein. Your class instructors are a professor in the Department of English (and the Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences), and a professor in the Department of Communication (who also teaches a course for seniors entitled “Connecting College to Career”) and we will be assisted by the Assistant Director of the Center for Career Planning. The class will employ methods from both English and Communication, and include instruction and practice in writing, interviewing, and oral presentations.
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FYS 1035 - Political Scandals: The Consequences of Temporary Gratification Hours: 4
The course will examine political scandals of the 20th and 21st century to evaluate why political officials and decision makers risk their political careers and personal lives for sex, money and power.
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FYS 1036 - Reading for Our Lives Hours: 4
Many of us grow up liking to read, but begin to see reading as a chore at some point, a requirement for school or an obstacle between us and other, more exciting activities. Others of us have never liked to read or struggle with it. Yet we know reading is important and often wish we could be better at it and even like it more. What would happen if we read for our lives? How might reading and our attitudes about it change if we changed our questions, approaches, and aims? This course will ask students to read a couple of books together (the common book and one other), to choose other books they would like to read from lists in pre-determined categories (going through a transition, growing up, being different, helping others), and to bring ideas to class for other books to read in categories they determine. They will read their books in book clubs, share their discoveries with other clubs and the class, and discuss how reading for one’s life differs from other kinds of reading. The class will also explore different technologies of reading: books, internet, portable reading devices, phones.
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FYS 1037 - The Soundtrack of Your First Year Hours: 4
Students will create an online record of their first year at Otterbein. Self-reflection will play a great role in creating this virtual mirror of student’s “freshman personas”. Musical examples will be used as part of this reflection on this time in their lives and essays will provide a virtual time capsule for students to keep forever. This class will also focus on campus resources, participating in campus activities, and viewing yourself as part of the larger Westerville community.
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FYS 1038 - Identities, Dwellings and off the Grid Living Hours: 4
The course examines a new approach to residential dwelling design aligned with personal identity and energy efficiency. By meeting the certification standards of the Passive House Institute, United States (90% efficiency), it is possible to construct a building that requires no furnace or a/c units. Students will first examine the role of “Identity” as a marketing objective in our society and review the applications where it is most prevalent. As an exercise, each student will also investigate a design of a residential dwelling aligned with his or her personal identity. The design will also explore sustainable building materials and techniques. This course welcomes any student who is interested in contemporary home design. One need not be overly concerned about technical abilities. Rather, the course will focus primarily on creative ways to incorporate unique and energy efficient design into a home as well as reducing material and energy cost significantly making unique home ownership accessible to more individuals.
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FYS 1039 - The 411 on Election 2014 Hours: 4
It is easy to be disillusioned by politics and to convince ones’ self that individual citizens are not empowered to make improvements. However, this situation seems hopeless because of how the election and daily governance are portrayed by the media, Students will work to restore lost hope by analyzing some of the challenges the media faces by examining the candidates’ communication in the context of the 2014 Election. We will explore recurring communication strategies in candidates’ advertising, speeches, and presidential debates. We will also examine strategies and gaffes that emerge in this particular campaign.
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FYS 1040 - Guard and Protect: Super Heroes Problem -Solve Our World(s) Hours: 4
This course takes its cue from present-day popularity of twentieth-century and new-millennial action super heroes. The classic battle between “good” and “evil,” cast as a take-all-or-nothing war between the valiant and villain echoes through time and cultures. Historically, the super-hero tale identifies an inequality, and the story line fights back by offering a justified solution that the hero embodies. The course, for example, attempts to understand cultural situations that energized Superman’s quest to safeguard social justice. It examines the force of “Amandla!” activated by the Black Panther. What are the origins of super heroes? Why do super heroes exist? What do their awesome powers teach us about our cultures, and our ideals about individualism and conflict resolution? While the course reaches back by reading historical folklore from around the globe, it also reads and screens contemporary comics, novels, films, and television series.
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FYS 1041 - Transitions through International Comparisons Hours: 4
The purpose of this course is to read literary, philosophical, and religious texts that introduce and illustrate important traditions in the Western world and in other parts of the world—with an emphasis on China. The three different traditions we will consider are Confucianism, Christianity, and Existentialism. The texts include sayings, parables, stories, speeches, and an autobiographical philosophical essay. We will discuss the key ideas in those texts in order to better understand those traditions. We will also think about possible similarities and differences among those traditions. The key concepts we will discuss include the Confucian idea of 仁 (rén–including the question of how to translate this into English), the Christian idea of love (agape), and the existentialist idea of freedom. The figures we will study are Confucius, Mencius, Martin Luther King, and Victor Frankl. This course is specifically geared towards incoming international students to Otterbein. However, American students who have an interest in global issues and working with a cohort of international students are welcomed into this course.
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FYS 1042 - Music and Ideology Hours: 4
In this course we will examine ways in which philosophy, art, literature, and mathematics have altered the course of Western music history. Using a chronological approach, we will examine the effects of Enlightenment thought, Romanticism, ‘Sturm und Drang’, Nationalism, Symbolism, Modernism and other seminal ideas and philosophical approaches. We will end the course with an examination of key topics from mathematics and music, including temperament and the golden ratio.
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FYS 1043 - How Much For Your Song? Hours: 4
The term intellectual property may make your eyes glaze over, but essentially this is about the ownership of creative work. Can a restaurant be closed down if a cover band plays Beatles songs? (Yes, it happens). Can a large corporation use a family photo for an advertising campaign without paying? (It has happened). Can the music and film industry go after Otterbein students for illegal downloads? (Yes, and they do). This course will look at the basics of copyright and other ideas of intellectual property. You will reflect on how this impacts your daily life at Otterbein. Further, you begin to form your own understanding of how creative work is made available and supported in the 21st century.
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FYS 1044 - Evolution and Identity in Science Fiction Hours: 4
Since the mid-nineteenth century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection and other theories of evolution have been central to our understanding not only of the natural world, but of human nature and humanity’s place in the universe. In this class, we will examine evolutionary theories from Lamarck, Darwin, and Dawkins (and some offshoots of these theories, such as Social Darwinism, free market economics, and the meme) through the prism of science fiction and imaginative fiction. We will investigate ways that evolutionary theory informs our understanding of who we are (and who we are not) by framing how we think about identity and difference, nationalism and war, what constitutes an ideal society, and what the future might hold for humankind.
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FYS 1045 - Alcohol and Food in History and Culture Hours: 4
Alcohol and Food in History and Culture is a first year seminar that examines the roles that food and alcohol play in shaping societies and culture. We will explore questions of how food and alcohol consumption shapes and reflects our individual and cultural identity as well as differences in gender, class and race. We will trace the history of food and alcohol production and consumption and reflect on how the modern food system (including science) shapes our behavior. Through exploring questions like these, we will explore the roots of contemporary issues related to cultural identity, industrialization, globalization, and sustainability.
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FYS 1046 - Eastern Encounters: Identity and Change in Modern East Asian History Hours: 4
This First Year Seminar examines Asian history through the lens of identity. Throughout the term, we will examine how personal and collective identity interacts with and informs larger political, social and cultural transformations. Aided by the course textbook, we will inquire into the nature of political power, the succession of dynasties and military regimes, the assertion of territorial and ethnic boundaries in the past and in the present, and the transformation of family structures, economies, and diplomatic relations.This First Year Seminar focuses on the modern history of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea) from the eighteenth century onward. Students will learn the national histories of each of these countries and will also develop a comprehensive understanding of the broad and lasting cultural heritage of East Asian civilizations.
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FYS 1047 - The Politics of Equality and Inequality Hours: 4
Equality is considered one of the basic elements necessary for democracy. Yet, especially since the recent “Great Recession” the United States has been marked by growing economic inequality. The richest 1% of Americans are increasingly wealthy and the remainder are relatively less wealthy than in the past. In this seminar we will discuss whether recent economic trends threaten democracy in the United States.
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FYS 1048 - Are We Alone Together? How Global Travel Impacts Your Identity Hours: 4
Technological advances brought to sea, land, and air travel have led humans out of their comfort zones, out of their villages, towns, countries and continents, and have confronted them with cultures that were at the same time familiar and different. The question of identity has gradually become more and more important as humans have tried no only to define one another, but also to better understand themselves through the eyes of the others. This course investigates the many ways in which cultural encounters influence identity and asks questions such as: Can travelling enrich our understanding of the self and the world? Do intercultural encounters lead to mutual understanding or also to conflict? What do national identities mean in a global world? Is the individual identity threatened by other identities? You will reflect on a number of relevant resources, including books, films, and hybrid (web-based) sources.
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FYS 1049 - Art and American Identities Hours: 4
Nearly since the establishment of the United States, “America” has also been a powerful idea - an idea that has been narrated, embellished, questioned, and complicated in art and popular culture. In this class we will study the ways that American identity and elaborations on and critiques of the American Dream are put on display in film and theatre of the 20th and 21st century. Particular attention will be paid to the ways that underrepresented or disempowered groups are represented in a range of expressions, and the ways that film, popular performance, and theatre illuminate the myriad myths, stories, and expectations coded in the seemingly simple idea of “being an American.” We will also consider what it might mean to create an artistic portrayal of American-ness as it is now.
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FYS 1050 - Baseball in the Negro League Hours: 4
This course will trace the story of Negro League Baseball emphasizing the social, cultural and historical circumstances which gave rise to the phenomena starting with the growth of local all-black independent teams in the 1880’s through the waning years of the leagues in the 1950’s. An interdisciplinary approach will be taken which will allow the class to possibly serve as an enticement for learners to continue in Social Science, History, African- American Studies and even Physical Education courses. Topics like the plight of the black athlete, social and civil rights, segregation, the business side of sports, evolution of the game and its equipment, breaking of the color barrier, and the reasons why the Major Leagues originally chose to disenfranchise black players will be addressed. Elements, skills, and goals pertinent to the First Year Seminar experience will be woven into course themes, assignments, and requirements.
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FYS 1051 - Leadership is Everything; The Rest is Noise: Fundamental Life Skills for the Next Economy Hours: 4
The rapid change in technology and the expanding global community put us in the position of preparing for careers and realities that don’t yet exist and cannot be predicted. The only constant in the equation is leadership. This course will explore the importance of leadership in overcoming personal and professional challenges, driving success, and making a difference in a changing society. We will use the US Army leadership model as a framework to examine leadership principles, characteristics, techniques, and styles. Students will modify and adapt these principles to forge a personal leadership ethos, develop an understanding of who they are now, and define necessary personal growth in order to be effective in times of change and uncertainty. Critical examination of current and past leaders will frame discussions about the personal strengths and flaws that contribute to the style and effectiveness of great leaders. Examining the different leaders within a leader will provide insight and spur thought on adaptive leadership.
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FYS 1052 - Talking About the Big Questions: Philosophical Dialogues Hours: 4
In this course, we will consider some core, enduring philosophical questions that are directly relevant for how determining how we should live our lives. We will do so by reading a series of historically significant and contemporary philosophical dialogues. Some of the questions that we will consider are; does the authority of morality depend on a divine entity, what reasons do we have for believing in god, do we have free will, are you the same person as you were in childhood, are there any universal moral truths, what is justice, and why should you be moral?
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FYS 1053 - OMG! – An Orientation to Media Genres Hours: 4
The far-reaching impact of the modern day media landscape is enough to make someone say “OMG!” This class is an orientation to media genres for first-year students. The class will encourage students to gain a deeper understanding of today’s media platforms as an interconnected global industry. Students will also gain an appreciation for the importance of media professionals to actively pursue public engagement and social responsibility. In addition, students will be given plenty of opportunity to reflect on how media programming provides images, lifestyles, and stories that relate to the identity of the human self and its place in the world.
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FYS 1054 - The History of Rock and Roll Hours: 4
This course is designed as an introduction to the history and culture of rock and roll. The course begins with an overview of ancestors and influences: blues, boogie-woogie, jazz, country and western, and gospel, in particular, and the success in the 1950s of rhythm and blues musicians that marked the birth of rock and roll. We will study the musical and social trends of the 1960s, including the influence of the British Invasion, the rock explosion and social upheaval of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the emergence of new genres such as punk, reggae, disco, funk, new wave, heavy metal, and grunge during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The course will culminate in an exploration of current musical trends and genres including rap and hip-hop. The course will combine lecture, discussion, and a significant listening component to explore the historical progression of rock and roll while also examining topics such as cultural geography; rock and roll as a working-class art form; race, gender, and class relations; generational conflict; youth cultures and subcultures; and the business of rock and roll.
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FYS 1055 - Asking the Big Questions Hours: 4
College is the time for asking big questions: Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? Who will I love? This course will explore these questions, and the ways we can use them to make meaning from our experiences in college. What do these questions mean to us as individuals? What do they mean to us as members of a community? How do these questions help us think about the world around us and help us understand the concept of the common good? Service, discussion, readings, films and activities will be used to consider the implication of these questions for first year students. Issues of identity, vocation, and relationships will also be explored using a variety of writing and creative assignments.
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FYS 1056 - Plymouth Rock and All That: Who Were the Real Puritans? Hours: 4
College is the time for asking big questions: Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? Who will I love? This course will explore these questions, and the ways we can use them to make meaning from our experiences in college. What do these questions mean to us as individuals? What do they mean to us as members of a community? How do these questions help us think about the world around us and help us understand the concept of the common good? Service, discussion, readings, films and activities will be used to consider the implication of these questions for first year students. Issues of identity, vocation, and relationships will also be explored using a variety of writing and creative assignments.
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FYS 1058 - Climbing Mountains Hours: 4
Forget the analogies and pass on the virtual experiences. This course is about the very real endeavor of getting one’s body to the top of an actual geologic cliff, peak or summit. The course will examine many aspects of climbing including the geology of cliffs and mountains, the biomechanics of training, the psychology of risk taking and perseverance, the physiology of going to altitude, the cultures that live in mountains, and the techniques of actually climbing. There will be two optional climbing field trips.
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FYS 1059 - Adolescence: Crisis or Transition? Hours: 4
Is adolescence just a transition in life, a place you pass through on your road to adulthood? Or is adolescence a discrete stage a life, a discontinuity from the childhood that came before and the adulthood that follows? Or, finally, was G. Stanley Hall, the father of American Psychology and the first to write about the Psychology of Adolescence, correct when he described adolescence as a time of “Sturm und Drang” (“Storm and Stress”)? This seminar will explore adolescence from a diversity of psychological perspectives as well as its representation in popular culture (autobiographical, literary, historical). You will compare insights from those representations with the observations, research and fieldwork drawn from psychology. We will explicitly focus on the intersections with gender, global culture, race/ethnicity and class as they overlap, compete and reinforce the developing adolescent identities.
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FYS 1060 - Playing House: The Role Gender Has Played in Establishing a Home Hours: 4
What makes a house a home? What role does each family member play? How has home life changed since your parents and grandparents were your age? From Mary and Joseph, to Ward and June Cleaver to Phil and Claire Dumphy “playing house” has changed throughout the centuries. We will examine gender roles through historical contexts and popular culture lenses through such formats as articles, films, TV shows and advertisements. Students will examine the influence advertising and popular culture has had on society’s perception of gender roles through self-reflections, personal interviews and art related projects. Students do not have to have technical abilities in art. Projects will involve creative ways to self-express ideas of identity without the ability to draw.
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FYS 1061 - Highway to Health: Your Personal Wellness Journey Hours: 4
This course focuses on personal health risk factors associated with nutrition, physical activity, substance use, sexuality, and mental health, and how they relate to injury and chronic and communicable diseases. The course also explores how personal, social and environmental health issues affect your personal health. Students will be exposed to individual strategies for reducing prevalence of health risk factors and incidence of disease and injury. Learning experiences and a service-learning component involve students in application of health education skills including hands-on assessment of personal needs, and possible program planning, implementation and evaluation of health initiatives.
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FYS 1062 - Health in the 21st Century Hours: 4
This course takes a look at healthcare leadership and health issues from the viewpoint of the professionals who work in healthcare settings. This course is designed to expose first year students to issues and conditions that are representative of healthcare in the 21st century in the United States and the world. By exploring these health issues through the lens of leadership students will develop an understanding of how individuals and groups have used innovation to combat real world problems and answer the question “Can one person affect the health of others?”
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FYS 1063 - Once Upon a Time: Adventures in Multi-Literacies for the 21st Century Reader/Author Hours: 4
What does it mean to be literate in the 21st century? How does the way we tell a story influence the message conveyed? What strategies and techniques should we use to critically analyze multimedia texts? Through this class we will reflect on the literacy tools and practices you bring to Otterbein. You’ll identify literacy tools and strategies you know and need to learn in order to access information and communicate your learning while at Otterbein. Along the way you’ll gain hands-on experience in a wide range of multimedia literacy tools, including tools that facilitate research (database, websites, and eTexts,) collaboration (Diigo social bookmarking, Google Docs, Wikis, Voicethreads), and communication (Audacity, PowerPoint, Movie Maker, Photostory, BlogSpot, and Digication ePortfolio). You’ll use these tools to identify an idea or question you’d like to explore related to your first year experience, research information in support of that story, and communicate what you’ve learned as the class culminates in a multimedia storytelling festival complete with red carpet, awards, and after party. Think This American Life meets Independent Lens. Through our class you’ll learn how to conduct inquiry using known and new media literacy tools and processes to research, collaborate, and construct a story you want to tell.
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FYS 1064 - Monsters, Freaks and Outcasts Hours: 4
Common preconceptions about science and scientists are ingrained within us; from Frankenstein to Dexter’s Laboratory we are presented with very specific ideas about who a scientist is. In this course we will explore our expectations of what a scientist is, their identity, behavior, and motivations. We will work to answer questions such as: Are there really mad scientists? What are women in science really like? Why do we think of Albert Einstein when asked to picture a famous scientist? We will examine common archetypes in books, television, and movies and compare these to real life examples. We will discuss the changing identity of scientists through history, efforts to introduce diversity into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, and examples of minorities (race and gender) in science. In addition to learning about the true identity of scientists through these “big picture” discussions we will learn about specific scientists and their contributions to science. Throughout the course we will reflect on the impact of our perceptions and preconceived notions at the individual level to the global scale.
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FYS 1065 - History Mysteries Hours: 4
Who built Ohio’s mounds and why? What happened at the Salem Witch trials? Where did the Lost Colonists go? Come explore these and other historical mysteries as you learn how to become a historical investigator. Out understanding of history is always flawed and incomplete, so it takes some creative sleuthing to better understand what happened in the past and why. In this course, you will learn how to identify good history mysteries, how to find clues and investigate these mysteries, and how to propose your own solutions to what happened.
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FYS 1066 - Global Flash Points Hours: 4
This FYS examines contemporary political flash points in a global perspective. The course examines how conflicts arise within and between states across the world. We will explore the causes and contexts of conflicts as well as the means and prospects for their resolution, including the role that other states and organizations like the United Nations, and NGOs can and do play in resolving tensions. Special attention will be directed to contemporary problems, such as nuclear proliferation, migration, disease, economic development, social justice, and/or food security in these conflicts. Areas may include the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Ukraine, and Latin America.
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GEOG 1000 - World Regional Geography Hours: 4
This course provides students with an understanding of the basic principles of geography and how they relate to the study of world regions. The course emphasizes how physical and human characteristics affect each other to make regions distinctive. The physical environment includes landforms and climate while the human landscape is characterized by culture, language, religion, diet, and economic development. The course analyzes how globalization is transforming the traditional forces that served to create nation-states. Since this course meets Otterbein’s requirements for teacher certification in Ohio, assignments will be provided that help students to learn how to teach geography.
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GERM 1000 - Elementary German I Hours: 4
German 1000 is an introduction to German language and cultures for students with little or no knowledge of the language. Through partner and group work, readings, films, internet exploration, online exercises and modules, and brief writing assignments, students will develop and practice the four skills—oral (speaking and listening) and literacy (reading and writing)—and will be introduced to culture in German-speaking communities.
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GERM 1100 - Elementary German II Hours: 4
German 1100 is the second semester of an introduction to German language and culture. Students will continue to learn the foundations of German, with the goal of achieving an intermediate level of proficiency. This course engages students with partner and group work, readings, films, internet exploration, online exercises and modules, and brief writing assignments to deepen competency with reading, writing, speaking, and listening as well as to increase knowledge of culture, history, and politics.
Prerequisites: GERM 1000.
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GLST 1000 - Introduction to Global Studies - Writing Intensive Hours: 4
As the foundation course of the Global Studies major, this course introduces students to an interdisciplinary understanding of the world as a single, interrelated system. Students will explore a number of issues confronting the global system including economic development, environmental challenges, war, poverty, pandemic diseases, imperialism, human rights, and the transnational migration of laborers and refugees.
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GLST 3900 - Independent Study Hours: 1-4 hrs
Independent Study.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Notes: Open only to majors in Global Studies.
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GLST 4900 - Internship Hours: 1-16
Internships are available to majors upon submission of a written proposal. They are arranged individually usually with local organizations or agencies.
Notes: The number of credit hours varies with the program agreed upon.
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GLST 4950 - Capstone: Global Citizenship Hours: 4
The capstone in Global Studies provides students with the opportunity to synthesize their academic studies and their internship or study abroad experience with others. Through a critical reflection on their experience and future goals, students will develop a research paper or appropriate project.
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HIST 1100 - American History to 1865 Hours: 4
This course surveys the history of the United States from the earliest days of contact and colonization to the era of the Civil War. Considering America in this formative period, the course investigates the ways in which the process of building an independent and unified America was neither steady nor assured. In exploring major social, political, and economic developments, the course considers sources of both unity and fragmentation among Americans including people’s competing visions of the nation, how and why those visions changed over time, and ultimately how those very tensions helped to define an American nation.
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HIST 1200 - American History Since 1865 Hours: 4
This course will explore and analyze American history since 1865 with an emphasis on the often intense battles that Americans fought over what constituted “the good society.” Topics covered include the Second Industrial Revolution, U.S. imperialism, the two world wars, and the post-World War II “rights revolution.” The course will also examine how race, class, gender, and sexuality have shaped the modern United States.
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HIST 1350 - Europe from the Renaissance to the Nuclear Age Hours: 4
The course explores historical changes in Europe from the humanist movement of the Renaissance to the global awareness of the nuclear era. It traces fundamental transformations in religious life, the development of scientific thought and method, and the origins of modern industrial and technological society. It examines movements for citizen and human rights, the formation of nation-states, the expansion and decline of European empires, and the nature and consequences of war in the recent past.
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HIST 1400 - Survey of Pre-Modern Asia Hours: 4
This course is a survey of the history of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea) from the sixth century B.C.E. through the end of the eighteenth century. Students will learn the national histories of each of these countries and acquire an in-depth understanding of some of the broad and lasting cultural legacies of East Asian civilizations. This course will provide a broad and complete general understanding of Asian history in itself and serve as a foundation for subsequent upper-division study in the field.
Notes: This course may be used as a substitute for the INST Interconnections (INST 2000’s) requirement.
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HIST 1500 - African History to 1800 Hours: 4
The course explores the history of human societies across the African continent to 1800. This survey introduces themes of political, economic, and social change in Africa and familiarizes students with Africa’s long history of connection to other world regions. Topics include: migration and agricultural change; trade and trans-regional interactions; state-building; and religious movements. Students will explore the diversity of sources that historians use to access the African past—from oral traditions, traveler’s tales, and official documents to archeological evidence and material culture.
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HIST 2100 - History Seminar - Writing Intensive Hours: 4
A seminar required for majors in history, designed to acquaint students with basic viewpoints, processes, materials and research tools used by historians. The course will also review the development of history as a discipline.
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HIST 2200 - Ancient Greece and Rome Hours: 4
The course examines the political and cultural history of ancient Greece and Rome with a focus on changing conceptions of community and the state. Topics include the emergence of the Greek city-state and evolution of Greek democracy; the rise and fall of the Roman republic and imperial state; the development of mythic and dramatic consciousness; and the birth of new religions, philosophies, and methods of education in the ancient world. The course explores how historians use contemporary multidisciplinary tools to interpret the ancient past and how legacies from ancient Greece and Rome continue to influence modern politics and culture.
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HIST 2300 - European Overseas Encounters Hours: 4
This course explores how Europeans and Westerners came to view other peoples and societies and how this helped define their view of what it was to be European. We start with the earliest European voyages to Africa and South America and compare and contrast the descriptions and viewpoints of these parts of the world with the beliefs and views Europeans developed about Asia before 1800. The course also examines how European viewpoints and identity shifted during the 19th century.
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