Freshman Year:
Art St 205-Introduction to Painting. Survey of basic painting concepts
and procedures, materials and techniques. Prerequisite: 101 or 103 or 109.
1 unit - Swider, Trissel.
W S 206-Topics in Women Studies. Focuses on contemporary areas of concern.
Courses will vary from year to year.
Block 2: Feminism and Psychoanalysis. 1 unit.
Phil 217-Existentialism. 1 unit - Rabbin.
Soc 190-Topics in Sociology: Examination of a variety of
sociological issues and problems. Topics will vary from year
to year depending upon the interests and expertise of the
faculty. 1 unit - Department.
Block 4: Sociology of Religion. 1 unit - Matson.
Math 128-Calculus 2. Techniques of integration, applications
of the definite integral, differential equations, infinite
series. Prerequisite: 125 or 126. 1 unit - Department.
Phys 129 Acoustics
H S 115 Introduction to Film
Clsscs 220-Myth and Meaning. An exploration of myth as a
source of meaning. Topics include myth and fiction, myth
and culture, myth and self-understanding and the vitality
of myth. Readings primarily in ancient Greek myths with additional
modern mythologies. Examinations of myth by authors such
as Joseph Campbell, Roland Barthes, C.S. Lewis and C.G. Jung.
No knowledge of Greek required. (Also listed as Women's Studies
220.) 1 unit - Dobson.
Sophomore Year:
Art H 243-Revolution and Tradition in Modern Art: 1880 to 1945. Post Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Constructivism, Dada and Surrealism. An analysis of the styles, meanings and concepts of modern art, their evolution and interrelationship with the other arts and society. Prerequisite: 112 or consent of instructor. 1 unit - Murray.
Engl 221-Introduction to Poetry. An introduction to English verse. (Offered in some years for 2 units with Emphasis on Writing.) 1 unit - Stone.
Fren 201-Intermediate French. Readings in French literature and civilization: oral work based on texts read; review of grammar. Laboratory. Prerequisite: 101 or equivalent. 2 units - Mecchia, Department.
Engl 300-Peer Tutoring in Writing. Theories of teaching writing and tutoring writers. Discussion of writing problems and strategies for identifying and alleviating them. Focused work on grammar and writing style. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. (January 1/2 block.) 1/2 unit - Wingate.
Cmp Lit 200-Topics in Comparative Literature. Intermediate
level consideration of various topics in comparative literature.
Topics might include a single genre, a period or a theme. Texts
usually in English but with reference to non-English materials
within the competence of students. May be offered as a January
half-block. Prerequisite (when taken for comparative literature
credit): CO 100. 1/2 or 1 unit - Staff.
Block 5: The Faust Theme in Literature. 1 unit - Davis.
Cmp Lit 100-Theory and Practice of Literature. Concepts and assumptions underlying various approaches and responses to literature; formations and transformations of literary traditions. Topics include: What is literature? What are genres? How should they be read, interpreted and evaluated? What social and personal functions does writing have? How is writing related to oral tradition? How do writers compare themselves to others (admiration and imitation, rejection, transformation)? Why do they also compare their fictional characters to monsters, gods, and beasts? Readings from a number of literatures including European. Clarity, organization and imagination in students own writing emphasized. (Meets the Alternative Perspectives: A or B requirement.) 2 units - Cramer, Davis, the Maytag Professor.
Engl 250 - Critical Practices. 1 unit - Butte.
Summer 1996
Engl 204-Fiction: Reading It, Writing It. The development
of short narrative fiction in Western Literature, from ancient
times to the present. Students combine the reading of great
short stories with writing short stories of their own and
criticizing one another's work. Writers may include Ovid,
Boccaccio, Poe, Chekhov, Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor. (Meets
the Alternative Perspectives: A requirement.) (Not offered
1997-98.) 2 units - Yaffe.
Junior Year:
Art St 203-Advanced Drawing. Drawing in various media. May include study of human figure, superficial anatomy, landscape, composition and conceptual drawing. Prerequisite: 103. 1 unit - Leonard, Reed, Swider, Trissel.
Engl 321-Renaissance Poetry. Selected poetry of the period 1500-1660 focusing on a single poet (such as Donne or Spenser), a group of poets (such as Donne and the Metaphysicals or Ben Jonson and the Tribe of Ben), or a particular genre of poetry (such as narrative verse, the lyric, pastoral poetry, the sonnet sequence, or satire). 1 unit - Stavig.
Cmp Lit 200-Topics in Comparative Literature. Intermediate
level consideration of various topics in comparative literature.
Topics might include a single genre, a period or a theme.
Texts usually in English but with reference to non-English
materials within the competence of students. May be offered
as a January half-block. Prerequisite (when taken for comparative
literature credit): CO 100. 1/2 or 1 unit - Staff.
Block 3: The Other in Literature & Film. 1 unit - Ricciardi.
Cmp Lit 310-Junior Seminar in Comparative Literature. Texts chosen, from a variety of literatures, to present important methodological problems (e. g., the nature of genres, the relations of literature and society, the possibilities of literary history). Prerequisite: Junior standing, reading knowledge of a language other than English, 300, and a 300-level course in English or other literature, or consent of instructor. (1995-1996: East European Prose.) 1 unit - Moskver, Rabbin.
Fren 300-Orientation Perpignan Program (taught in France.) 1/2 unit - Department.
Fren 312-Oral Practice and Composition in France. Advanced composition and conversation practice through the study of French literary and cultural texts. Emphasis on Contemporary France. Taught in France. Prerequisite: 201 or equivalent. 1 unit - Department.
Fren 306-Introduction to Literary Analysis. Continues the acquisition of the French language and trains students in the most important methods of critical analysis through readings in different genres. Prerequisite: French 305 or equivalent. 1 unit - Department.
Geo 100-Studies in Geology - The Geology of France. Geological topics, such as environmental hazards, plate tectonics, and mineral resources and society, offered in different years. No prior knowledge of geology is assumed. (May meet the laboratory/field requirement for natural sciences.) 1 unit - Department.
Fren 429-Paris and the Arts. A course taught in Paris as
part of the Colorado College Semester in France. This course
will introduce students to various aspects of the Parisian
world. May include 20th-Century theater, prose and poetry,
theater as a genre, film, the manner in which the French
understand questions of gender, race and the environment;
the intersection of low and high culture; the relationship
of popular texts to ideology. 1 unit - Mecchia.
Senior Year:
Cmp Lit 351-Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature. Topics
to include periods, genres, themes, movements or other groupings
of texts. (May be taught as a January half-block.) Prerequisite:
300 or consent of instructor. 1/2 or 1 unit - Staff.
Block 1: Postmodernism.
Cmp Lit 400-Independent Readings in Comparative Literature. Opportunity for advanced students to do guided research, specialized topics or thesis preparation. Prerequisite: 300 or consent of instructor. 1 unit - Rabbin.
Cmp Lit 300-Practice in Comparison. Deepening of comparative reading and critical writing begun in 100. Specific topics, themes or genres as well as texts to vary from year to year. Designed to promote the practice and encouragement of more sophisticated textual work, greater perception of literary issues, and clarity of writing. Prerequisite: 100 or consent of instructor. (1996-1997: Poetics and Aesthetics.) 1 unit - Vatter.
Fren 309-Advanced Language Study. Combines the study of grammar at an advanced level with an introduction to the techniques of translation. Particular attention will be given to questions of style and social register, as well as to the systematic differences between French and English usage. Prerequisite: 305 or equivalent. 1 unit - Paheau.
Art St 205-Introduction to Painting. Survey of basic painting concepts and procedures, materials and techniques. Prerequisite: 101 or 103 or 109. 1 unit - Swider, Trissel.
Cmp Lit 391-Advanced Literary Theory. The grounding of contemporary
literary theory in Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophy
and in major nineteenth century thinkers such as Marx, Nietzsche
and Freud. In-depth introduction to important twentieth century
movements of thought about literature and art (e. g. Russian
Formalism, New Criticism, semiotics, phenomenology and hermeneutics,
reader response criticism, psychoanalytic and feminist criticism,
structuralism, deconstruction and new historicism). Comparative
Literature majors opportunity to combine practice in close
reading with the development of their own theoretical stance.
Prerequisite: 100 (or English 202), and another, 200-level
literature course, or consent of instructor. 1 unit - Mecchia.
Cmp Lit 431-Senior Thesis. Thesis
subject chosen by student and approved by Comparative Literature Program Director.
Choice of subject, research, outline and writing completed in this course.
Prerequisite: 310 and required for majors. 1 unit - Davis, The Maytag Professor.
Clsscs 218-Homer. The Iliad and Odyssey as oral traditional poems, preservers
of Bronze Age and archaic lore, locus of the creation of classical Greek culture
and predecessors of European epic; together with Hesiodic epic and Homeric
hymns. Reading in English with attention to the formal Greek diction and the
problems of translation, except that students who know Greek will read parts
of the original text. 1 unit - Cramer.