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Course Descriptions

Course descriptions are provided for course offerings at Scripps College and courses available as part of joint or cooperative programs in which Scripps participates. For those courses that may appear under more than one discipline or department, the full course description appears under the discipline or department sponsoring the course and cross-reference is made under the associated discipline or department. Numbers followed by, for example, “AA,” “AF,” or “CH,” indicate courses sponsored by The Claremont Colleges as part of joint programs, i.e., Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Chicanx-Latinx Studies.

Please refer to the Schedule of Courses on the Scripps Portal published each semester by the Registrar’s Office for real-time information on course offerings.

All courses are 1.0 credit unless otherwise stated.
 

Music
  

  • MUS 125 SC - Fight the Power: Music in L.A.

    This course explores how music has been used by disenfranchised people in Los Angeles to propose counternarratives to American mainstream culture. By examining the social and cultural sources of rhythm and blues, punk, and hip-hop in Southern California, it will also look at how race, class, and gender affect the performance and production of popular music in the Southland.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 126 SC - Music in East Asia and its American Diasporas

    This course introduces the “traditional” music of China, Korea, and Japan and explores the ways in which traditional performing arts have been transformed, adapted, and given new meanings in these modern nation-states and the East Asian diasporic communities of the United States. A survey of these musical traditions will be followed by a closer study of pungmul, kabuki, taiko, Chinese opera, and pansori. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 127 HM - Harmony of Sound and Light

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 130 SC - Rhythm and the Latina Body Politic

    This interdisciplinary course focuses on the construction of Latina bodies in contemporary US popular culture, in particular how dance movement is often ethnically defined along cultural and gendered stereotypes. Dance, music, and control of the body are used as key concepts in exploring this arena.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 131 SC - Mariachi Performance and Culture

    This course combines a musical ensemble with music history and the study of culture. Students will become familiar with the Mexican mariachi tradition through participation, lecture, readings, exams, multi-media materials and a final concert. Cultural representation and ethnicity help us explore the tradition’s rich history and its role in contemporary society. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 132 SC - Stravinsky: His Milieu and His Music

    A seminar studying Igor Stravinsky’s life, his ballets, other instrumental music, and vocal music. Study of Russia at the turn of the 20th century, Paris in the early 20th century, ballet and other arts contextualizes Stravinsky’s music. Mode of instruction includes frequent student presentations on topics and works. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 151F SC - Conducting

    The study of the art of conducting, with emphasis on the five principal areas of expression within beat patterns, gestural vocabulary and communication, score study and phrase analysis, score reading at the keyboard, and repertoire studies. Over-arching consideration will be that of a philosophy of conducting. Repeatable 2 times for a total of 2.0 course credits.

    Formerly MUS 151AF, 151BF, 151CF and 151DF
     

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 151H SC - Conducting

    The study of the art of conducting, with emphasis on the five principal areas of expression within beat patterns, gestural vocabulary and communication, score study and phrase analysis, score reading at the keyboard, and repertoire studies. Over-arching consideration will be that of a philosophy of conducting.  Repeatable 4 times for a total of 2.0 course credits. 

    Formerly MUS 151A, 151B, 151C and 151D.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every semester


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 162 SC - Musical Text-Setting, Analysis and Diction

    Students will study the ways in which composers have combined text and music in vocal music over the course of the European tradition, starting with Gregorian chant and ending with twentieth-century experiments in text-setting. They will explore the cultural contexts for these compositional strategies and become familiar with the practice of lyric diction in English, Italian, German, French, Spanish and Latin and transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Previous musical training is desirable, but not required. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 170F SC - Voice

    This course is a study of techniques of singing and their application to vocal literature. Participation in scheduled class meetings is required. Half-hour lessons (H) earn half-course credit per semester; hour lessons (F) earn full-course credit. Repeatable 8 times for a maximum of 8.0 course credits.

    Formerly MUS 170AF, 170BF, 170CF and 170DF.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and MUS 003 SC Fundamentals of Music  or equivalent required. MUS 003  SC may be taken concurrently first semester.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 170H SC - Voice

    This course is a study of techniques of singing and their application to vocal literature. Participation in scheduled class meetings is required. Half-hour weekly lessons (H) earn half-course credit per semester. One-hour weekly lessons (F) earn full-course credit per semester. Repeatable 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits.


    Formerly MUS 170A, 170B, 170C, and 170D.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and MUS 003 SC Fundamentals of Music  or equivalent required. MUS003  SC may be taken concurrently first semester.
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every semester


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 171F SC - Piano

    Individual instruction at the intermediate and advanced levels. Participation in weekly class meetings is required. Half-hour weekly lessons earn half-course credit per semester (H). One-hour weekly lessons (F) earn full-course credit per semester. Repeatable 8 times for a maximum of 8.0 course credits.

    Formerly MUS 171AF, 171BF, 171CF, and 171DF.

    Corequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 171H SC - Piano

    Individual instruction at the intermediate and advanced levels. Participation in weekly class meetings is required. Half-hour weekly lessons (Music 171H) earn half-course credit per semester. One-hour weekly lessons (Music 171F) earn full-course credit per semester.  Repeatable for credit 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits.
    Formerly MUS 171A, 171B, 171C, and 171D.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 172 SC - Chamber Music

    Weekly coaching by instructor as well as weekly rehearsal and independent practice will lead to on-campus performance.  Repertory studied may range from 1600 to the present.  Open to string players, pianists, harpsichordists, vocalists, wind, brass, and classical guitar players.  Repeatable 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits.

    Formerly MUS 172A, 172B, 172C and 172D.
     

    Prerequisite(s): Permsission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 173 JM - Claremont Concert Choir`

    A study through rehearsal and performance of choral music selected from the 16th-century to the present, with an emphasis on larger, major works. Singers will be invited to register after a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not reaudition. Repeatable 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits.


    Formerly MUS 173A, 173B, 173C, and 173D.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 174 JM - Claremont Chamber Choir

    A study of choral music from 1300 to the present, with emphasis on those works composed for performances of a choral chamber nature. Singers will be invited to register after a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not reaudition. Repeatable 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits.


    Formerly MUS 174A, 174B, 174C, and 174D.
     

    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 175 JM - Claremont Concert Orchestra

    The study, through lecture, discussion, rehearsal, and performance, of styles and techniques appropriate for the historically accurate performance of instrumental works intended for the orchestra. Repertoire will include works from the mid-18th century to the present with special emphasis on the Classical and Romantic periods. Class enrollment permitted only after successful audition. Repeatable 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits.

    Formerly MUS 175A, 175B, 175C, and 175D.
     

    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 176 JM - Claremont Treble Singers

    A study through rehearsal and performance of choral music for soprano and alto voices selected from the 14th century to the present. Singers will be invited to register after a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not audition.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Every semester


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 177F SC - Violin

    Individual instruction on the violin.  Half-hour lessons earn half-course (MUS 177H SC) credit per semester. One-hour lessons (MUS 177F SC) earn full-course credit per semester.  Repeatable 8 times for a maximum of 8.0 course credits.


    Formerly MUS 177AF, 177BF, 177CF, 177DF.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 177H SC - Violin

    Individual instruction on the violin.  Half-hour lessons earn half-course credit per semester; hour lessons earn full-course credit. Repeatable 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits.

    Formerly MUS 177A, 177B, 177C, and 177D.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 187 SC - Special Topics in Music

    This course is designed to explore music through musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, performance practice and research, or interdisciplinary studies. Repeatable for credit with different topics.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 187A SC - The Relationship between Sacred Music and Sacred Spaces of Italy.

    This course aims to immerse the students in a “virtual voyage” to Italy, through the interrelated mediums of music and architecture. The imposing architectural presence of temples, churches, palazzos, gardens and ruins and their relationships to music provide a lense to explore issues of aesthetics. Students will engage in comparatively identifying and critically understanding the categories of architectural artifact and musical work.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 189 SC - Junior Recital

    This course is open only to performance concentration majors. The recital must feature a minimum of 30 minutes of repertoire representing several style periods.

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 170A , MUS 170B , MUS 170C , MUS 170D , MUS 171A , MUS 171B , MUS 171C , MUS 171D , MUS 177A , MUS 177B , MUS 177C , MUS 177D  or equivalent music study, and approval of performance concentration status by full music faculty and teacher of performance area by the end of sophomore year. Instructor permission required. 
    Course Credit: Half course


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Students will register for senior thesis in spring of their senior year. Full music faculty approval of performance or composition concentration required by spring of sophomore year. For general music majors: written thesis, 50 pages minimum. For performance concentration majors: Senior Recital (minimum 50 minutes of repertoire representing several style periods with comprehensive program notes). For composition concentration majors: Senior Recital of original compositions and portfolio of composition manuscripts (minimum 30 minutes with comprehensive program notes).

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • MUS 199 SC - Independent Study in Music: Reading and Research

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

Neuroscience
  

  • NEUR 095L JT - Foundations of Neuroscience

    An introduction to the nervous system and behavior that explores fundamental issues in neuroscience from a variety of perspectives. Emphasis will be placed on technological advances, experiments and methodologies that have most influenced our understanding of the nervous system. The class will be divided into three groups that will rotate through four 3-week modules covering the history and philosophy of neuroscience, the electrical nature of the nervous system, the chemical nature of the nervous system, and cognition and the nervous system. The course will end with a final integrative module that brings together fundamental principles developed throughout the course. Intended primarily for first- and second-year students. Permission of instructor required of third- and fourth-year students. Lecture, discussion, and laboratory. 

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • NEUR 123 SC - Cognitive Neuroscience

    A thorough introduction to the concepts and findings of the field. Cognitive neuroscience seeks to understand mental processes in terms of brain mechanisms linking behavior and cognitive models to neural signals and models of neural processing. Areas of inquiry include perception, imagery, attention, learning, prominent computational models of brain/mind, decision-aking, valuations, braid adaptation in evolution, and brain-machine interfaces for neural enhancement.  This course is also listed under PSYC123 SC; optional lab offered as PSYC123L SC/NEUR123L KS.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC103 SC  or equivalent; NEUR095L JT  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually, or every other year


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • NEUR 123L SC - Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory

    Provides introduction to computer programming in Matlab and R for computational cognitive modeling using Bayesian approaches, and for the analysis of neural signals, including EEG and fMRI, along with the theoretical framework, justification, and limitations of these analyses. Also offered as PSYC123L SC.

    Prerequisite(s): NEUR123 SC  
    Corequisite(s): NEUR123 SC  (if not yet taken)
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Annually, or every other year


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • NEUR 182 SC - Network Science and Machine Learning Using Neural Signals

    This course teaches students the theory and practice of computational analyses of neural networks and neural classification. We will use real neural signals (e.g., spikes, EEG data, fMRI data, diffusion MRI data) in Python, Matlab, and R, so some computer programming experience is required (e.g., BIOL133, PHYS108, PSYC123L, or equivalent). In this course, students will learn how to identify and analyze neural networks and how those systems relate to information processing, conceptual classification, and decision-making. Each class will involve theory and practical applications, giving students conceptual and computational capabilities that they can use for their own scholarly inquiry.

    Prerequisite(s): NEUR095L JT  or equivalent AND (BIOL133L KS , PHYS108 KS , PSYC123L SC , or equivalent)
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • NEUR 184 SC - Computational Psychiatry

    This course in Computational Psychiatry will help students learn, understand, and use cognitive models in clinically relevant contexts, such as addiction, attention differences, depression, and post-traumatic stress. Students will also encounter and learn from peer-reviewed research papers and from disabilities studies perspectives. The course is ideal for students interested in computational approaches and in data science approaches to understanding clinical conditions.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • NEUR 188L KS - Senior Thesis Project in Neuroscience

    Seniors may apply to do laboratory or field investigation with a faculty member. The topic should be chosen by the end of the junior year. In this course, library and lab materials are developed, research begun, and seminar discussions held with faculty and students in the field of concentration. This is the first course for students doing a two-semester senior project. Registration in this course will be followed by registration in NEUR190L KS.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every Semester


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • NEUR 189L KS - Senior Thesis Summer Research Project in Neuroscience

    Students who intend to satisfy a two-semester senior thesis project by conducting a substantial research project during the summer after their junior year should enroll in this course in the fall semester following their research. No course credit is awarded for this course. Typically registration in this course would be followed by registration in NEUR190L KS  . This course is graded Pass/Fail. There is no lab fee for this course.

    Offered: Every semester


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • NEUR 190L KS - Senior Thesis Research Project in Neuroscience, Second Semester

    Senior laboratory or field investigation research is culminated and results are summarized in a written thesis and formal presentation. This is the second semester course for those doing a two-semester research thesis.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • NEUR 191 KS - One-Semester Thesis in Neuroscience

    All students who intend to complete a one-semester thesis should enroll in this course. Students are required both to submit a substantive written thesis, which may involve experimental work, analysis of datasets previously collected by other researchers, or a critical analysis of the literature, and to make a formal presentation. Students register for this course during the semester in which the one-semester thesis is written and due. There is no lab for this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

Ontario Program
  

  • ONT 101 PZ - Critical Community Studies

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • ONT 105 PZ - Research Methods for Community Change

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

Philosophy
  

  • PHIL 030 JT - Knowledge, Mind and Existence

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 032 PO - Ethical Theory

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 034 PO - Philosophy of Law

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 037 PO - Values and the Environment

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 038 PO - Bioethics

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 039 PO - Women, Crime and Punishment

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 040 PO - Ancient Philosophy

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 042 PO - History of Modern Philosophy

    See the Pomona College Catalog for the description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 043 PO - Continental Thought

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 043 PZ - Continental Thought

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 046 PO - Feminism and Science

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 052 PZ - Philosophy of Religion

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 060 PO - Logic

    See the Pomona College Catalog for the description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 062 PZ - Chance and Scientific Reasoning

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 080 PO - Philosophy of Mind

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 081 PO - Epistemology

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 084 PZ - Islamic Philosophy

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 090 SC - Introduction to Philosophy

    Introduction to the basic questions and investigations of modern Western philosophy, including: the nature of knowledge, truth, and reality; the existence of god; the possibility of free will; the nature of morality; the requirements of morality; the relative merit of various political theories; and the meaning of life.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 096 JT - God and Philosophy: A Conflict in Reason

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  
  
  

  • PHIL 101 HM - History of Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 101B CM - Classical Ethical Theory: Plato

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 101C CM - Classical Ethical Theory: Aristotle

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 101D CM - Classical Ethical Theory: Stoics, Skeptics, and Epicureans

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 102 PO - Science and Values

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 103 PO - Philosophy of Science: Historical Survey

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 103 PZ - Philosophy of Science: History

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 104 HM - History of Philosophy: Contemporary Period

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 104 PO - Philosophy of Science: Topical Survey

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 106 PO - Philosophy of Biology

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 108 PZ - Philosophy of Mathematics

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course is cross-listed with MATH008  PZ.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 109 SC - The New Science and New Social Order in Early Modern Philosophy

    (CGU) This course is an introduction to early modern philosophy through the study of selected influential philosophical works of thinkers in the Western tradition such as Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, John Locke, David Hume, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. We will begin with an examination of the role of skepticism in the challenge to the authority of the Scholastic scientific model, and the importance of finding a rational method for the “New (mechanical) Science.” The theme of skepticism and the challenge to divine authority will reemerge in our study of the social-political writing of the period, which culminated in the American and French revolutions at the end of the 18th century.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 112 SC - History of Philosophy: Ancient

    The following movements and figures in ancient philosophy are considered: the Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Skepticism. 

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 113 SC - Early Modern Philosophy: The Rationalists

    The basic aim in this course is to study the ideas, texts, and arguments of the “Rationalists” (Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche and Leibniz) of the seventeenth century. Arguments concerning the nature of ideas, bodies, minds, laws and the proper method of philosophical and scientific enquiry will be examined.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 114 SC - History of Analytic Philosophy

    The course introduces students to early 20th-century Analytic philosophy, including works by Anscombe, Ayer, Austin, Carnap, Frege, Moore, Quine, Russell, and Wittgenstein. We will examine different methods of analysis and how these were employed to address philosophical problems regarding knowledge, reality, and language.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 118 SC - History of Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant

    This is an introduction to some of the great modern philosophers, including Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. We will focus on their distinctive approaches to the nature of the self, experience, reason, imagination, understanding, knowledge, and reality.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
  

  • PHIL 119 SC - History of Existentialism

    In this course, we will read and analyze the major works of important figures in the existentialist and phenomenological movements, focusing on the questions of human freedom, subjectivity, and meaning. Readings may include works by Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Heidegger, Husserl, and many other thinkers of this time period to gain an understanding of existentialist thought.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 125 SC - Classical Chinese Philosophy

    This course examines representative schools of Chinese philosophical thought from the classical period: Confucianism, proto-Daoism, and their critics. We will read selections from both primary texts and contemporary scholarship, and discuss early Chinese conceptions of cosmology, human nature, moral cultivation, and epistemology.


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  • PHIL 125 HM - Ethical Issues in Science and Engineering

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 130 SC - Philosophy of Mind

    What is the nature of mind? In this course we investigate the traditional mind/body problem as well as the following issues: Individualism in psychology, self-knowledge, mental causation, and the philosophical significance of recent work in the cognitive sciences.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 132 CM - Philosophy of Cognitive Science

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.l

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 132 SC - The Substance of the Soul

    This course will survey a peculiar branch of modern philosophy, “Rational Psychology.” Rational psychology postulated the existence of a simple, immaterial substance responsible for sensation, perception, judgment, and volition. This substance has variously been referred to as “thinking substance,” or simply as “the soul.”

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 134 SC - Knowledge and Mind

    This course is a philosophical investigation of knowledge and mind. What is rational belief? What is truth? What are sensory or perceptual states? When is a sensory or a perceptual state a rational warrant for belief? Readings from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Hegel, Lewis, Sellars, Wittgenstein, Rorty, Davidson, and others.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 134 CM - Special Topics in Metaphysics and Epistemology

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 137 SC - Skepticism

    In this course we will discuss various arguments (old and new) for different versions of skepticism, the view that our beliefs about some subject matter are ungrounded, unjustified, irrational, or otherwise defective. These skeptical arguments oblige us to clarify the nature of evidence, probability, rationality, and the significance of disagreement among peers.

    Prerequisite(s): One philosophy course or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 138 SC - Introduction to the Philosophy of Language and Mind

    A philosophical investigation into thought and reference and the relations between language and mind. How are these abilities possible, and how are they best to be understood? Readings from Mill, Husserl, Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kripke, Kaplan, Putnam, Dummett, Evans, Burge, Dretske, Fodor, Grice, Searle and Derrida.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 140 HM - Environmental Philosophy

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 141 CM - Free Will, Responsibility, and Determinism

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 144 SC - Logic and Argumentation

    An introduction to the identification and formal evaluation of arguments as they naturally occur. We will, in addition, investigate scientific and probabilistic reasoning, though no prior technical competence is assumed.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 146 SC - History of Analytic Philosophy

    The course introduces students to early 20th-century Analytic philosophy, including works by Anscombe, Ayer, Austin, Carnap, Frege, Moore, Quine, Russell, and Wittgenstein. We will examine different methods of analysis and how these were employed to address philosophical problems regarding knowledge, reality, and language.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 146 SC - Temptation and the Will

    Since before Plato, philosophers have been puzzled by how it is that an individual can act freely and deliberately against better judgment. Yet acting against our better judgment, and “giving in to temptation,” would appear to be facts it makes little sense to dispute. In this course, we aim to investigate such patterns of self-defeating behavior-addictions, “bad habits,” etc., with an eye towards a consideration of such questions as: What is self-control? What makes a “will” strong or weak? Is the self unified? Readings will be drawn from historical and contemporary philosophical sources as well as from the contemporary behavioral sciences.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 149 JT - Topics in Philosophy: Agency and Action

    The distinction we draw between what we do and what we undergo—between the active and the passive in our lives—is fundamental to our self-understanding. In this course we investigate the nature of and the puzzles and problems associated with agency and action. Topics to be considered will be drawn from: the causal theory of action, reasons explanation and the role of the normative in the understanding of action, the will and weakness of will, the relation between intention and action, mental action and mental agency, and the relevance of work in the cognitive and the neurosciences to an understanding of agency. This course should be of interest to students of the social, cognitive, and behavioral sciences as well as to students of philosophy.

    Prerequisite(s): One course in philosophy.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 150 SC - Philosophy of Feminism

    Examines several different theories of feminism, their relation to traditional political theories, and their analyses of the causes and solutions to women’s oppression. The course considers as well specific moral and political issues relevant to feminism: abortion, motherhood, reproductive technologies, and pornography.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 151 SC - Feminist Ethics

    This course will explore feminist approaches to ethics, including the ethics of care, maternal ethics, lesbian ethics, and other feminist ethics, how they contrast with traditional approaches to ethics, and the controversies they have generated. The application of feminist ethics to specific issues of importance to women, such as abortion, reproductive technologies and health care, will also be considered.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 154 SC - Philosophy of Social Sciences

    What are the methods appropriate to the study of human actions, institutions, and culture? Are the aims and methods of the social sciences different from those of the natural sciences? Ought they to be? We begin with an investigation of the dispute between “naturalists” and “anti-naturalists” in the social sciences and, then, turn to a consideration of such issues and areas of dispute as: explanation and prediction in the social sciences, methodological individualism versus holism, interpretivist social science, the appeal to rationality in the understanding of behavior, the challenge of relativism and the claims of objectivity.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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