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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.
 

Government
  

  • GOVT 180E CM - Politics and Law in Fiction and Film

    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.
  
  

Greek
  

  • GREK 001 SC - Introductory Classical Greek

    Greek grammar and syntax for beginning students. Selected readings from such works as Plato’s Dialogues.

    This course is offered alternating years at Scripps and Pomona Colleges.

    Formerly CLAS051A SC

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GREK 002 SC - Introductory Classical Greek

    Greek grammar and syntax for beginning students. Selected readings from such works as Plato’s Dialogues.

    This course is offered alternating years at Scripps and Pomona Colleges.

    Formerly CLAS051B SC

    Prerequisite(s): GREK001 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GREK 022 PO - Introductory Classical Greek Accelerated

    Greek grammar and syntax for beginning students. Completion of this one- semester course will prepare students to read Ancient Greek texts such as Plato, Xenophon, Tragedy and History in intermediate- level courses. The course will also prepare students to read New Testament texts.

    Formerly: CLAS052  PO

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • GREK 033 SC - Intermediate Classical Greek

    The principal emphasis of this course will be learning to read Attic Greek prose, focusing on the conflicting portrayals of the historical Socrates in Plato and Xenophon. The second semester will focus on Greek poetry, including Homer and Greek tragedy.  Repeatable once for credit.

    This course may be offered at Scripps College or Pomona College.

    Formerly: CLAS101A/B SC

    Prerequisite(s): GREK022 PO  or permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GREK 044 PO - Advanced Greek Readings

    Great works of Greek prose and poetry selected from major authors, genres and periods. Authors and topics may include Homer, the Archaic Age, Greek tragedy, Greek historians, Greek rhetoric, Aristophanes, Plato and Aristotle. Repeatable up to 4 times for credit.

    Formerly: CLAS182A/B PO

    Prerequisite(s): GREK033 SC  or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • GREK 104 PO - Readings in Koine Greek

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

    Course Credit: 0.5


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

History
  

  • HIST 010 PO - The Ancient Mediterranean

    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.
  

  • HIST 010A SC - Early Modern Europe: Renaissance to the Napoleonic Wars

    An introduction to European history between the Renaissance and the Napoleonic Wars. Topics include the waning of the Middle Ages, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, New World trade and settlement, Thirty Years War, Absolute and Constitutional Monarchy, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, and French Revolution. Special attention paid to religion, politics, and changes in gender and social norms. This course is taught in alternating years at Pomona College as HIST070 PO.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • HIST 010B SC - Europe from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

    This course will examine the political, economic, social, cultural, and military transformations that made Europe a dominant force in the modern world. It will give particular attention to the development of the individual as a source of value and power, and how workers’ movements, feminism, and anti-colonialism emerged as a critical response to the limitations and contradictions of European liberal individualism. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Bi-annually


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

  • HIST 011 PO - Medieval Mediterranean

    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.
  

  • HIST 011 PZ - The World Since 1492

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • HIST 012 PZ - History of Human Sciences

    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.
  

  • HIST 012 PO - Saints and Society

    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.
  

  • HIST 016 PZ - Environmental 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.
  

  • HIST 017 CH - Introduction to Chicanx-Latinx History

    Survey introduction to Chicanx and Latinx historical experiences across the span of several centuries but focused on life in the United States. Analyzes migration and settlement; community and identity formation; and the roles of races, gender, class and sexuality in social and political histories. Letter grade only.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 020 PO - US Colonial Era to Gilded Age

    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.
  

  • HIST 021 PO - Power in the U.S.

    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.
  

  • HIST 025 CH - All Power to the People! Social Movements for Justice

    A survey of 20th-century movements for change, with a focus on those created by and for communities of color. Examines issues of race, gender and class in U.S. society while investigating modern debates surrounding equity, equality and social justice. Letter grade only.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 025 PZ - U.S. History Before 1877

    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.
  

  • HIST 026 PZ - Modern U.S. History Since 1877

    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.
  

  • HIST 031 CH - Colonial Latin America

    Examines the rise of the Aztec and Incan empires; the Spanish conquest and settlement of the Americas; the evolution and consolidation of colonial institutions; the significance of race, gender and sexuality in shaping the culture of the colonial society from the perspectives of Indigenous, European and African peoples; and the settlement of Brazil and the impact of the Age of Revolution, especially the Haitian Revolution, on the process of independence.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 032 CH - Latin America Since Independence

    The history of Latin America from 1820s to the present, including the complex process of national consolidation, the character of new societies, the integration of Latin American nations into the world market, the dilemma of mono-export economies, political alternatives to the traditional order and relations with the United States.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 034 CH - Mexico, from Indigenous Societies to Modern State

    The course traces Mexican history from pre-Columbian times to the present. It explores the character of Indigenous societies, the nature of the encounter, the colonial legacy, the tumultuous nineteenth century, the Mexican Revolution, United States-Mexican relations, politics during the 20th century, immigration, the rise of social movements and the current drug war.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 035 PO - The Caribbean: Crucible of Modernity

    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.
  

  • HIST 036 PO - Women of Honor, Women of Shame: Women’s Lives in Latin America and the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean, 1300-1900

    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.
  

  • HIST 040 AF - History of Africa to 1800

    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.
  

  • HIST 040A SC - Latin America before 1820: Long Views of Contemporary Struggles for Equality

    We will address 1) the ancient past; 2) the first European invasions and occupations of 1492 to 1600; 3) the period between 1600 and 1800 – when African and Indigenous labor became the foundation of the European imperial system, and capitalism in Europe grew in significant measure from profits generated by the sale of kidnapped Africans; and 4) the cataclysmic era of revolution from 1750 to 1825 that shattered colonial domination. The four sections of the course are tied to modern resistance movements, some of which have won national elections since the 1990s, thus opening a path to the practice of economics designed by and for the poor.
     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • HIST 041 AF - History of Africa from 1800 to the Present

    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.
  

  • HIST 042 PO - Worlds of Islam

    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.
  

  • HIST 043 PO - The Middle East and North Africa Since 1500

    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.
  

  • HIST 048 SC - Gender and Testimony in Latin America and the Caribbean

    The course is structured around pathbreaking texts that are life histories of non-elite women or “testimonies.” Through testimony we will explore problems of theory and analysis addressing feminism, womynism, racial justice, and economic dignity, as well as the queering of revolution in 21st century Latin America and the Caribbean. Today, African and Indigenous gender identities lie at the heart of movements for justice that have won national power. This region of the world with 600 million people has lifted 70 million people out of poverty in recent decades, thanks to the organizing of women such as those whose words we will read and hear in this course.
     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually, or every three semesters


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

  • HIST 050A AF - African Diaspora in the United States to 1877

    This course examines the diverse and complex experiences of people of African ancestry in the United States beginning with pre-European contact in West and central Africa to the end of the Reconstruction era. Working from a Diasporic focus, parallels will be drawn between specific cultural expressions, forms of nationalism and other types of protest in the United States and in other parts of the Americas.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 050B AF - African Diaspora in the United States since 1877

    Recognizing the diverse voices and experiences of people of African descent in the United States, this course introduces students to key issues engaging African Americans from Reconstruction to the late twentieth century. Points of discussion include national identity; distinct political, economic and social approaches; continuing class and gender differences; urbanization; the State; and international influences. This is the second half of the African diaspora in the United States survey. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 055 CM - The Middle East: From Muhammad to the Mongols

    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.
  

  • HIST 056 CM - The Middle East: From the Ottomans to the Present

    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.
  
  

  • HIST 060 PO - Asian Traditions

    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.
  
  

  • HIST 070A SC - United States History to 1865

    A survey of the major social, economic, intellectual, and political developments from the period of colonial settlement to the Civil War. Topics to be covered include the evolution of colonial society, the American Revolution and its impact, slavery and race, abolitionism, and other reform movements, the early industrial revolution, and westward migration. Offered alternate years.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 070B SC - Introduction to Modern U.S. History

    How do we understand the past and why does it matter? Focusing on the period since the Civil War, this course introduces students to the interpretive work of history through analysis of primary documents and different historical arguments. Topics include the politics of Reconstruction, the growth of industrial society, reform and radicalism, imperialism and war, the Great Depression, race and ethnicity, civil rights, feminism, the student movement and the New Right.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 072 SC - History of Women in the United States

    This course will explore the changing experiences of women in the 19th and 20th centuries with an emphasis on how racial, ethnic, and class differences affected women’s lives and histories. Is it possible or even useful to talk about “women” as a group? Part of our task will be to explore the continuities of and variations in the lives of women in the face of rapid social and economic change. Topics we will consider include work and livelihood, sexuality, politics, and feminisms.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 074 PZ - Holiness, Heresy, and the Body

    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.
  

  • HIST 077 PZ - Great Revolutions in Human 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.
  

  • HIST 080 CM - Early America: Invasion-Civil War

    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.
  
  

  • HIST 090 SC - Individual and Society

    This course examines the development of individualism in Europe from the Renaissance to the present day. We will juxtapose theoretical reflections on the past with actual historical voices as they appear in primary sources such as memoirs or letters. The course will consider the articulation of personal experience. In addition, this class will offer an overview of the key epochs of European history in lieu of a standard survey course. It is an ideal introduction to historical analysis for first- and second-year students. 

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Bi-annually


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

  • HIST 098 PZ - The Modern State and history: the Israeli Case

    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.
  

  • HIST 100 CM - Gender and Popular Culture in Middle East History

    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.
  

  • HIST 100AI PO - Indian Ocean World

    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.
  

  • HIST 100C CH - Chicanx-Latinx Feminist Histories

    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.
  

  • HIST 100D CH - Political Protest and Social Movements in Latin America

    The political landscape of Latin America has changed dramatically since the 1980s, when neo-liberal policy predominated. The backlash to these policies has transformed the political landscape in most countries where the rise of mass movements and popular discontent has produced the election of reformers, progressives and even socialists. The seminar seeks to contextualize the emergence of new social and political movements throughout Latin America.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 100I CH - Race, Culture, Identity, and Power in Latin America

    Latin America incorporates Indigenous, European, African and Asian traditions. Examines the interplay between race, identity, culture, gender and nationalism; the multifaceted process of ethnicity and race relations; challenges to elite preferences; alternative cultural identities such as Indigenismo and Negritude; impact of immigration; and current state of nationalism.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 100J PO - State and Citizen in Modern Japan

    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.
  

  • HIST 100M PO - Rethinking Modern Asian History

    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.
  

  • HIST 100N CH - Mexico-United States Border: Diaspora, Exiles, and Refugees

    This class is a community engagement course that focuses on the U.S.-Mexico Border, paying specific attention to Haitian and other immigrant groups residing on both of sides of the border. Students will examine the historical formation of the U.S.-Mexico Border and its contemporary political economy. Students will be prepared to conduct research among and will be involved in a community engagement project focusing on immigration policy regarding Haitians and other immigrants currently residing in San Diego/Tijuana. 

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 100NB CH - United States-Latin American Relations

    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.
  

  • HIST 100O PO - India and Britain, 1750 to the Protest

    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.
  

  • HIST 100T PO - Tokugawa 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.
  

  • HIST 100U AF - Pan-Africanism and Black Radical Traditions

    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.
  

  • HIST 100WH PO - Heresy and the Church in the Middle Ages

    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.
  

  • HIST 100X PO - Sexuality, Empire and Race in the Modern Caribbean

    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.
  

  • HIST 103A CM - From Village to Empire: The History of the Roman Republic, 750-44 BCE

    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.
  

  • HIST 103B CM - Governing Rome: The History of the Roman Republic, 44 BCE-565 CE

    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.
  
  

  • HIST 105 PO - Achilles to Alexander

    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.
  
  

  • HIST 107 SC - Dante and the Medieval World

    Few texts have represented an entire civilization as fully as Dante’s Divine Comedy. This course will examine the Comedy as a work of tremendous historical and literary importance. We will study the poem and Dante’s other works in the context of the culture, theology, and politics of the medieval world.  This course is cross-listed as LIT 111 CM.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Bi-annually


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

  • HIST 109 PO - Convivencia: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval Spain

    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.
  

  • HIST 109 SC - The First Age of Globalization, 1492-1789

    What is globalization and when did it begin? This course examines the notion of a global early modern period. We will analyze the entangled histories of Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, West Africa, and the Americas to consider how economic, political, religious, and intellectual exchanges developed between them.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 110 SC - Renaissance Venice: Politics, Society, and Visual Culture

    In this course, we will examine topics at the intersection of social history, art history, and political/institutional history, such as the art of republican self-fashioning; courtesan culture, patriarchal family structures, and the female nude; interior decorations and the concept of male domesticity; charity in the art of Tintoretto. Mix of primary and secondary literature, visual material.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 110AK PO - Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Previously offered as HIST100AKPO.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 110S CH - Latinx Oral Histories

    Introduces students to community history in Chicanx-Latinx Studies through the theory, ethics, and practice of oral history. In partnership with local high schools, students read and discuss foundational texts; record and archive oral histories with local Latinx communities; and build a public archive for future generations. Culminates in a research paper using these sources. Letter grade only.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 110WH PO - Heresy and Church

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


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

  • HIST 110WW PO - Holy War in Early Christianity and Islam

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Previously offered as HIST013  PO.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 111 SC - The Worlds of Niccolo Machiavelli

    This course examines the figure of Niccolò Machiavelli in the context of the Italian Renaissance. It begins with a survey of the classical, medieval, and humanist background for his work before turning to his own corpus of texts. We will then relate Machiavelli to his social world (politics, gender, class) before concluding with a look at his legacy in European history.

    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • HIST 113 SC - Venice and the Islamic East, 1350-1750

    This course will examine the fortunes of two empires in the early modern Mediterranean: Venice and the Ottomans. Drawing on a balance of primary and secondary literature from both contexts, we will consider the extent to which the two powers shared a common cultural, social, and political world despite enduring religious differences.

    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • HIST 114 SC - The Renaissance on the Margins: Gender, Slavery, and Heresy, 1450-1750

    Did women have a Renaissance? Did slaves and religious minorities? This course examines the status of dominated people during the European Renaissance, focusing on the construction of identity, the maintenance of religious and social boundaries, and the possibilities for resistance. Readings will encompass primary and secondary sources as well as theoretical perspectives from feminism, Marxism, and economics.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternating years


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

  • HIST 115 SC - The Making of Leviathan

    This course examines the origins and dynamics of the early modern state. Drawing on theoretical texts and historical monographs, we will study the empirical problem of how the modern state became the dominant form of political organization in the world. In addition, we will examine the theoretical debate that has long raged over the nature of the modern state and the reasons for its emergence.

    Offered: Every two years


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

  • HIST 116 SC - Baroque Civilization: Politics, Religion, and Science in the Seventeenth Century

    Between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment lies a gap of over a century that historians have filled with a variety of paradigms: the Scientific Revolution, Wars of Religion, Mercantilism, and Absolutism, among others. This course will draw on a range of theoretical perspectives, historiography, and primary sources to provide students with an integral view of the period.

    Offered: Every two years


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

  • HIST 117 SC - Capitalism in the Renaissance

    This course will examine Renaissance society through the lens of economic life. We will study a variety of texts from the period, from account books to short stories. We will consider not only how the Renaissance economy functioned, but also how to distinguish Renaissance capitalism from modern economic systems. Cross listing in Economics. Prerequisites for Economics elective credit: ECON051 SC  and ECON052 SC  

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 118 PO - Medieval Spain and the Idea of ‘Convivencia’

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Previously offered as HISR100WRPO.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 119 PO - Earliest Christian Views of Islam

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Previously offered as HISR100WCPO.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 122 PZ - Religion and the Founding Fathers

    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.
  

  • HIST 123 SC - Introduction to the Philosophy and History of Culture

    This course will focus on some of the major work in post-Enlightenment (19th and 20th centuries) thinking about culture: Kant’s Third Critique, Schiller’s Aesthetic Education, Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy. As well, it will examine later works on the historical development of the relationship between culture and society paying attention to the ways in which culture has shaped the social categories and experience of class, race, nation, and gender. This course is cross listed as HMSC 123  SC.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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  • HIST 124 SC - Paris and the Birth of Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century

    Mid-19th-century Paris is widely regarded as the first “modern” city and the birthplace of the cultural innovations we now call “modernism.” This course will attempt to understand these innovations by situating them in the context of the political, social, economic, and architectural transformation of 19th-century Paris. Among the topics to be considered are: Impressionist painting, the scientific novel, consumerism, sexuality, and sociology. In analyzing these topics, the course will draw upon theories of modernism from Walter Benjamin to Michel Foucault.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • HIST 125 AA - Introduction to Asian American History, 1850-Present

    This survey course examines journeys of Asian immigrant groups (and subsequent American-born generations) as they have settled and adjusted to life in the United States since 1850. The course addresses issues such as the formation of ethnic communities, labor, role of the state, race relations, and American culture and identity. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • HIST 125 PO - The US in the Middle East

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • HIST 126 CM - American Constitution and Legal Development

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • HIST 127 CH - American Inequality

    A focused reading seminar on 20th century United States history. Students investigate racial inequity and inequality, as well as evolving efforts by communities of color to address them. Scholarly readings, films, and historical documents focus primarily on Latinx experiences but in meaningful relation to African American, Asian American, and Native American histories. Letter grade only.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • HIST 127 SC - Rousseau, Tocqueville, Foucault

    This course undertakes a detailed examination of the major works of three prominent modern French thinkers—Rousseau, Tocqueville, Foucault—as the starting point for a historical understanding of the origins and aims of critical thinking. The course will pay special attention to the particular historical contexts that shaped the ideas of each writer, and the ways in which their writings addressed specific social and political challenges. Through a careful consideration of the important engagement between thinking and the world, the course offers the possibility of a richer and more satisfying understanding of the initiative we now call “theory.”

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • HIST 128 HM - Immigration and Ethnicity in America

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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