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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.
 

Anthropology
  

  • ANTH 185 SC - Topics in Anthropology of the Middle East/North Africa

    Intensive and focused study of specific issues and themes in the Middle East and North Africa, drawing extensively on anthropological sources and modes of inquiry. 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.
  

  • ANTH 185P SC - Topics in Anthropology of the Middle East/North Africa: Palestine in Ethnography and Film

    Intensive and focused study of specific issues and themes in the Middle East and North Africa, drawing extensively on anthropological sources and modes of inquiry. Repeatable for credit with different topics. In spring 2015, the topical foci will be an overview of Palestinian society and culture, and the ways in which Palestine and Palestinians have been represented in ethnography and film.

    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • ANTH 190 SC - Senior Seminar in Anthropology and Ethnographic Writing

    This course has both practical and intellectual ends. Practically it aims to help students who plan to write theses on topics involving cultural representation to (a) formulate research questions; (b) situate their work in and against a relevant body of existing writing, and (c) structure their own descriptions and arguments. Intellectually, it aims to introduce students to some of the ways anthropologists have thought about the processes and politics of writing about culture(s) and people(s). Required for Scripps anthropology majors choosing the sociocultural track, the course is open (with the instructor’s permission) to students whose thesis or other major writing project would be enhanced by an examination of the issues and debates surrounding ethnographic writing.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Fall


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

  • ANTH 191 SC - Senior Thesis Seminar

    Offered: Spring


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

Applied Women’s Studies
  
  

Arabic
  
  
  
  

  • ARBC 120 CM - Arabic Grammar, Morphology, and Syntax (in Arabic)

    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.
  

  • ARBC 130 CM - Modern Arabic Prose and Poetry

    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.
  

  • ARBC 148 CM - Special Topics: Arabic Literature/Culture

    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.
  

  • ARBC 166 CM - Readings in Modern Arab Culture and Thought (in Arabic)

    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.

Arabic in Translation
  

  • ARBT 110 CM - Modern Arabic Poetry in Translation

    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.

Art
  

  • ART 020 PO - Black and White Photography

    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.
  

  • ART 021 PO - Foundations of Digital Design

    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.
  

  • ART 100 SC - Studio Art: Theory, History and Practice

    This studio art course offers a hands-on introduction to modern and contemporary art practices in the context of art movements and aesthetic theories from the mid-19th century to the present. It explores various methods of art making by building students’ skills in two-dimensional design and drawing, research, and the development of conceptually driven projects. 

    Fee: $75 lab fee
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ART 101 SC - Introduction to Painting

    An examination and application of the fundamental techniques and concepts of painting with the study of color, form, and composition. 

    Fee: Lab $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Fall and spring


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

  • ART 102 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Painting

    A studio-discussion course that investigates the formal, intellectual, and conceptual aspects of painting. This course may be taken twice for credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): ART 101 .
    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ART 105 SC - Introduction to Drawing

    An introduction to the concepts and fundamental techniques of drawing and design, using a variety of media. 

    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ART 106 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Drawing

    A studio course that explores drawing techniques and concepts in objective and non-objective modes. This course may be taken twice for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 105  or written permission of instructor.
    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 120 SC - Introduction to Wheel Throwing

    This course is an introduction to the techniques and concepts that constitute the contemporary vessel in ceramics. Topics covered include basic pottery wheel techniques: centering throwing, and trimming, in addition to conceptual development, firing, glazing, and ceramic history past and present. Classes will consist of technical demonstrations, lectures, slides, work time, and critiques.

    Fee: Lab fee $75; Materials fee $75
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 121 SC - Introduction to Ceramic Sculpture

    This course is an introduction to the techniques that constitute contemporary sculptural ceramics. Topics covered include hand-building techniques: pinch, coil, slab, and modeling, conceptual development, firing, glazing, and ceramic history past and present. Classes will consist of technical demonstrations, lectures, slides, work time, and critiques.

    Fee: Lab fee $75; Materials fee $75
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 122 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Ceramics

    Students continue to explore the techniques and concepts that constitute contemporary ceramics. This will include a refinement of the basics, with the addition of wheel throwing, mold making/slip casting, and image transfers onto clay. Classes will consist of technical demonstrations, lectures, assigned and self-directed projects, and group and individual critiques. This course may be taken twice for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 121 .
    Fee: Lab fee $75; Materials fee $75
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 123 SC - Figurative Ceramic Sculpture

    This course is an introduction to sculpting the human figure with clay. Topics covered include basic construction techniques, finishes, firing, conceptual development, and figuration in contemporary art history. Classes will consist of technical demonstrations, lectures, slides, work time, and critiques. Fee: Lab fee $75; Materials fee $75
     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ART 124 SC - Documenting Change with Clay

    This course is an introduction to clay as a unique material language for documenting the world around us. In addition to learning basic construction and firing techniques, students will gain an in-depth understanding of clay’s behavioral qualities and cycles as they pertain to recording aspects of time and place. Classes will focus on non-traditional processes and include lectures, readings, exercises, work time, and critiques. 

    Fee: Lab fee $75, Materials fee $20
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ART 125 PZ - Intermediate Black & White Photography

    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.
  

  • ART 125 SC - Sculpture

    This course is an introduction to contemporary sculpture. Assignments will introduce a variety of materials and techniques while addressing and exploring various models indicative of current sculptural practice, which will include site, context, time, implementation of new media, process, aesthetics of the object, and relationships to the body. Class time will consist of lectures, demos, work time, and critiques.

    Fee: Lab fee $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 126 PZ - Intermediate Photography

    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.
  

  • ART 127 JT - Sculpture Practicum

    This introductory sculpture course emphasizes craft and material investigation, helping students to develop intensive studio practices for both design and fine art. Working individually and in small teams, students have the opportunity to explore modeling, casting, and woodworking, using a variety of traditional and experimental materials. Students must commit to working in pairs a minimum of 6 hours per week during open studio hours.

    Fee: $75 lab fee
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ART 128 PO - Installation: Site, Time, and Context

    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.
  

  • ART 129 SC - Clay and Public Space

    This course will use clay to link the studio with public space. In addition to learning basic construction and firing techniques, students will learn non-traditional approaches and gain an in-depth understanding of clay’s behavioral, cyclical, and relational qualities as they pertain to creating artworks that physically and conceptually respond to particular sites and places. Referencing over 70 years of walking as a creative practice, weekly exercises will use the act of walking as a primary tool for moving clay beyond the studio and as a visceral method for deepening the connection between maker, material, and site. Class structure will also include lectures, readings, work time, and critiques.

    Fee: Lab fee: $75; Materials fee: $25
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ART 130 SC - Clay/Collaboration/Cooperation

    Relative and relevant to the context of the contemporary political climate, students will explore a wide variety of strategies for interconnectedness and collaboration, form traditional teamwork to exchanges, call-and-response models, and viewer participation. In addition to learning basic ceramic construction and firing techniques, students will gain an in-depth understanding of the materiality of clay as a purveyor of conceptual content and as a conduit between people. Classes will focus on non-traditional processes and include lectures, readings, exercises, individual and group work time, and critiques.

    Fee: Lab fee: $75
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ART 134 SC - Crossing Media: Moving Between Analog and Digital in Printmaking

    The digital print is considered something of a hybrid in the print and photo world. Crossing platforms between the printmaking studio and the digital art lab, students will create works that integrate both methodologies. Systems including transfer drawing, monoprinting, silk screen, digital transfer and analog and digital printing will be explored. This course may be taken twice for credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): ART 141 .
    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ART 135 SC - Typography & Book Arts

    Working in collaboration, students create a limited edition, letterpress-printed artist’s book under the Scripps College Press imprint. Through local field trips, library visits and archival research on the fruit trees and plantings on Scripps College campus, regional environmental changes and conservation, students develop original texts, generate imagery, hand set metal and wooden type, hand print on antique presses, and hand-bind an edition of approximately 100 copies of an original student-produced artist book.

    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ART 136 SC - The Artist’s Book

    In this studio course at the Scripps College Press, each student will create a unique, limited-edition artist’s book. Students write original text, generate imagery using traditional and alternative printing techniques, hand set metal and wooden type, letterpress print on antique printing presses, and hand-bind an edition of 12-15 copies of an artist’s book. While some assignments will be collaborative, the final book project will represent each student’s individual vision and effort.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • ART 137 SC - Social Justice & Book Arts

    From the early works of the English poet and printmaker William Blake to contemporary artists’ books, this course examines the methods and rationales of artists presenting challenging, and at times disturbing, topics as artwork in book form. Students will study relevant hand-printed and hand-bound works, including those held in the Rare Book Room at Denison Library, and discuss readings focused on social justice and practice in the book arts. Students will curate a Core III exhibition and the course will culminate in the creation of a limited-edition set of prints under the Scripps College Press imprint.

    Fee: Studio Fee: $75
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 141 SC - Introduction to Digital Art

    This course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of digital art through the use of digital art software. Students will approach their artistic ideas from a fine arts perspective, drawing upon formal elements in art and on conceptual issues related to art and technology thus influencing and informing their creative process, projects and goals.

    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 142 SC - Intermediate Digital Art

    This course introduces design strategies for the arrangement of elements in visual art. Projects assigned will address a specific design problem, require sketches for a plan, and management of the project by Adobe’s Illustrator and/or InDesign programs. The assignments may include both visual and textual elements. Projects may include a work of art for a portfolio, an exhibition announcement, a graphic novel or e-book.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 141 SC  
    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • ART 143 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Digital Photography

    This course will provide students with an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of digital color photography. Working with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, students will learn advanced image editing skills and image management, and will create a digital image database and a digital portfolio website. Issues of digital printing, digital photography and contemporary photographic practice will be discussed. Related readings on contemporary photography and digital art practice. Digital SLR recommended.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 141 SC , ART 145 SC  .
    Fee: $75.
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ART 144 SC - Advanced Web Projects

    This studio course builds on students’ web design experience and introduces them to animation and motion graphics for the web using Macromedia Flash software. Production is augmented by critiques and discussions of conceptual and formal ideas. This course may be taken twice for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 141 .
    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 145 SC - Introduction to Black and White Darkroom Photography

    A studio course in black-and-white photography with an emphasis on image production, developing, and printing 35mm film, in a wet darkroom. Instruction in basic camera operation, and darkroom techniques, and considers historical and contemporary uses of the photographic medium. Students should have access to a 35mm camera. Some cameras are available for check out from Scripps AV.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 141 SC , Intro to Media Studies.
    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • ART 146 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Black-and-White Photography

    This course continues training in traditional darkroom black-and-white photography, and may include alternative processes, large and medium format cameras, and studio lighting. The course includes readings on photography, student presentations, self-directed projects, and group critiques.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 145 SC 
    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 147 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Digital Photography

    This course will provide the student with an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of digital color photography. Working with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, students will learn advanced image editing skills and image management, and be given the opportunity to combine digital with film, large format, and wet darkroom techniques. Course will include readings and student presentations on contemporary photography. Digital SLR camera recommended.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 141 SC  or ART 145 SC  
    Fee: $75
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 148 SC - Introduction to Video Art

    A studio course introducing students to the basic techniques of digital video production: camerawork and non-linear editing. Production is augmented by critiques, screenings, and discussions of conceptual and formal ideas.

    Prerequisite(s):   MS 049 SC  or  MS 050 PZ , or permission of instructor.
    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 149 SC - Intermediate Video Art

    Students continue to develop digital projects and begin to create motion graphics for video using Adobe After Effects software. Production is augmented by critiques, screenings, and discussions of conceptual and formal ideas. This course may be taken twice for credit.

    Prerequisite(s):   ART 148 SC  or equivalent
    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ART 181 SC - Topics Seminar in Studio Art

    This upper-division course provides an in-depth look at the history and methodologies underlying contemporary art practices and is intended to provide students with an opportunity to explore, research, and write on visual culture. Connecting contemporary art practice to the wider history of art, topics may include uses of photography in the 19th century, the avant-garde in Europe, Performance Art, Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Installation Art, Pop Art,Feminist Art and/or contemporary practices. Repeatable for credit with different topics.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 148  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 181B SC - The Critical Landscape: Photography from the Sublime to the Anthropocene

    This course examines shifting contexts for photographing the landscape as a means to express the economic and political issues imbued in humans’ relationship to our geography. In an era characterized by human and technological dominance over nature, it is critical to re-examine the relationship between photography and the environment. The course follows a loosely historical narrative, beginning with foundational texts on the Sublime, then considering cultural criticism and identity politics of landscape photography, and concluding with readings on the Anthropocene and the digital, networked landscape. Course material includes both readings and artist projects, and is the basis for students to develop their own photography project on a related topic.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 145 SC  or ART 147 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 181G SC - Topics Seminar in Studio Art: From Beauty to the Abject, Race, Whiteness and Modernism

    Looking at various aesthetic models, this course will highlight the intersection of modern and contemporary art criticism with issues related to social and cultural constructions of difference as manifested within the visual arts.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 181M SC - Topics Seminar in Studio Art: Feminist Concepts and Strategies in Studio Art and Media Studies

    This seminar examines the recent history and current trends of women’s roles and contributions in media studies and studio art through readings and projects with an emphasis on gender in relationship to media culture. Analysis of and experimentation with visual media including print, photography and digital art in relation to the theory and practice of media studies and studio art is informed by a feminist perspective and critique.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 192 SC - Senior Project and Seminar in Art

    Devoted to aspects of research and professionalism within the visual arts, this seminar will emphasize the development of a senior project in conjunction with a major paper about each student’s work or area of concentration. This seminar will also emphasize graduate school preparation, resume writing, and arts career preparation. Enrollment limited to senior art majors. Offered annually fall.

    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 193 SC - Advanced Senior Project in Art

    This is an elective course that extends the research completed in ART 192  SC and culminates in the Senior Art Exhibition in the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. Each senior will work independently with a committee of 2-3 faculty consisting of their thesis readers. The first two readers must be from the Scripps Art Department.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 192 SC  
    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Spring semester


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

  • ART 199 SC - Independent Study in Art: Reading and Research

    This course may be taken twice for credit. Must obtain special petition form in the Registrar’s Office.

    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

Art Conservation
  

  • ARCN 101 SC - Introduction to Art Conservation and Cultural Sustainability

    This course provides an overview of the interdisciplinary fields of art conservation and cultural sustainability. The investigation, treatment and management of art collections, archaeology, archives, and architecture face diverse challenges ranging from climate change and globalization, to air pollution, art crime, and tourism. What physical legacy of our culture do we want to pass on to the future? How can we prolong the lifespan of a cherished object? How do we provide access to cultural heritage and for its ongoing conservation, interpretation, research and management? What tangible or intangible elements of culture should we work to sustain and why?

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARCN 110 SC - Artists’ Materials and Technologies-Ancient and Modern

    Questions regarding heritage and legacy, change and sustainability lie at the intersection of art conservation and materials science. What should be preserved? How can we prolong their lifespan to pass on works to future generations? What are the ethics of intervention? This course surveys these and other current issues in art conservation. 

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARCN 115 SC - Art and Crime: Plunder, Fakes & Forensics

    This course explores the increasing use of forensic science to evaluate issues of authentication, sourcing and repatriation of works of art. From the uncovering of forgeries and looted antiquities, to the return of art stolen during WWII, history and science come together in this interdisciplinary art conservation course.


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

  • ARCN 120 SC - Global Tourism, Climate Change and World Heritage Preservation

    Venice, with 60,000 natives, receives 20 million visitors per year, while Washington’s National Mall attracts 25 Million. This course evaluates the impact of climate change and tourism on world heritage sites, such as Paris, Venice and Petra, while investigating the wide range of creative, interdisciplinary approaches to mitigating these impacts.

    Prerequisite(s): ARCN 101 ; 1 year of college-level natural science.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every four years


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

  • ARCN 125 SC - Preserving Cultural Landscapes

    This course addresses environmental and conservation issues related to the preservation of diverse cultural landscapes, including historic gardens, cemeteries, battlefields, college campuses, industrial landscapes and plazas. This interdisciplinary course navigates the progress and challenges of the field of Cultural Landscape Preservation.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARCN 130 SC - Unraveling the Gordian Knot: Archaeological Conservation and the Tomb of King Midas

    This course will examine the different phases involved in archaeological conservation by studying the exploration and excavation of King Midas’s tomb in Anatolia, Turkey. Investigative techniques of testing and analysis will be explored that contribute to our knowledge of material science, attribution and dating, and deterioration of the archaeological record.


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

  • ARCN 144 SC - Capturing Art: Cultural Sustainability and Digital Preservation Analysis in 100 Objects

    How is permanence practiced today? Digital preservation is an increasingly important part of how we experience art, save cultural heritage and create legacy, raising questions of authenticity and ownership, triage and ethics. In this hands-on course, participants will use state-of-the-art tools–such as 3D capture and multispectral imaging–to analyze, back-up, and increase access to 100 important works of art at the five colleges.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

Art History
  

  • ARHI 001A PO - Introduction to the History of Art: Prehistory to c. 1400

    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.
  

  • ARHI 001B PO - Introduction to the History of Art: c. 1400 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.
  

  • ARHI 051C PZ - Introduction to Art History: 1200 to Present

    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.
  

  • ARHI 120 PO - Introduction to Islamic Art

    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.
  

  • ARHI 121 PO - Islamic Painting: Landscape, Body, Power

    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.
  

  • ARHI 125 CM - Rembrandt’s World: Invention and Exploration in the 17th Century

    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.
  
  

  • ARHI 133 PO - Art, Conquest and Colonization

    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.
  

  • ARHI 135 PO - Art and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century North America

    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.
  

  • ARHI 137 PZ - Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art

    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.
  

  • ARHI 138 PZ - Native American Art Collections Research

    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.
  

  • ARHI 140 PO - The Arts of Africa

    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.
  

  • ARHI 141A PO - (Re)presenting Africa: Art, History, and Film

    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.
  

  • ARHI 141B PO - Africana Cinema: Through the Documentary Lens

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 141M PO - Representing Blackness: Music and Masculinities from Class to A$$

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 150 SC - The Arts of China

    A survey of artistic traditions in China from Neolithic to modern times. Architecture, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, ceramics, and metalwork will be discussed in their cultural contexts.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 151 SC - The Arts of Japan

    The development of Japanese art and civilization from prehistoric through the Meiji periods. Major art forms will be examined in their cultural contexts.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 152 SC - Arts of Late Imperial China

    Ming and Qing Dynasty arts and literature will be examined with special attention to literati and imperial court tastes. Students will help prepare an exhibition using Chinese art objects from the Scripps College collections.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 153 SC - Art and Architecture of India

    A survey of the arts and architecture of India from the material culture of the Indus Valley in the second millennium BCE to the present. The course will explore the art of Buddhism, the emergence and development of the Hindu temple, art under India’s Islamic rulers, and the art of colonial and post-colonial India. 

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 154 SC - Japanese Prints

    The development of Japanese woodblock prints from 1600 to the present will be explored, using the Scripps College Collections.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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  • ARHI 155 SC - The History of Gardens, East and West

    From sacred groves to national parks, this survey focuses on the functions and meanings of gardens, on the techniques of landscape architecture, and on the social significance of major parks and gardens in Asia, Europe, and North America.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 156 SC - Indian Miniature Painting from Landscapes to Erotica

    This seminar explores miniature painting styles in India from the sixteenth century to the present, spanning the Deccan sultanate and the British Empire. Incorporating a range of academic methods and perspectives, students will learn to identify and historically situate paintings of diverse styles, schools, regions, and periods, from landscape to erotica. We will analyze primary and secondary source materials, including films, while paying particular attention to the historical conditions that constrain the study of Indian painting and construct the academic disciplines of South Asian and Islamic art history.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 157 SC - Modern Art of South Asia

    This seminar focuses on the art and visual culture of South Asia since the nineteenth century. Methodologies informed by art history, area studies, postcolonial theory, and queer theory will be our guide as we move across periods and genres including colonial-era photography, painting, and architecture; nationalist “oriental” painting from the early twentieth century; the consolidation of modernism during the mid-twentieth century; and contemporary artistic practice in the era of globalization.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 160 SC - Art and the British Empire

    This seminar interrogates the role of art in the history of the British empire, which once ruled nearly a quarter of the world’s population. Using case studies in intercultural relations, global transit, and anti-colonial resistance from the seventeenth century to the present, we will explore cultural networks between Britain and North America, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Australasia. Themes will include ethnographic imagery and the construction of race, visual cultures of slavery, landscape art and settlement, Indigenous agency and the co-production of knowledge, science and exploration, collections and the politics of restitution, and post-colonial themes in contemporary art.
     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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  • ARHI 166 PO - The Crusades: A Cultural 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.
  

  • ARHI 170 PO - The Early Renaissance in Italy

    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.
  

  • ARHI 171 PO - High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 172 PO - Northern Renaissance Art

    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.
  

  • ARHI 174 PO - Italian Baroque Art

    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.
  

  • ARHI 175 PO - Northern Baroque and Rococo Art

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 176 JT - Italian Cities

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


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

  • ARHI 178 PO - Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation

    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.
  

  • ARHI 179 HM - Digital Art: Architecture and Design

    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.
  

  • ARHI 179 PO - Modern Architecture and Sustainability

    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.
  

  • ARHI 180 SC - Architectural Models, Monuments, and Miniatures

    This seminar explores models, monuments, and miniatures through the attentive reading of some recent books on these topics both within and beyond the discipline of architectural history. How do models work as mediators between art and architecture, representation and abstraction, patrons and architects, and amateurs and professionals? How has the notion of scale—miniatures, building blocks, toys, and colossal constructions—inflected the history of modern architecture? 

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 180R SC - Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes

    This course explores Russian and Soviet avant-garde art and culture from 1910 to 1938. It examines how artists responded to western European achievements, contended with the approach and aftermath of the October Revolution, engaged with sociopolitical changes in their country, and reworked traditional ideas about the definition and function of art. Open to juniors and seniors.

    Prerequisite(s): One previous art history course or permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 181 PZ - Art from 1945-1989

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ARHI 182 SC - The Bauhaus

    This course explores the Bauhaus, the renowned school of art, architecture, and design that was founded in Weimar, Germany, in 1919 (the same year as the Weimar Republic), relocated to the city of Dessau in 1925 and to Berlin in 1932, and closed in 1933. We will examine the school’s shifting artistic emphases, pedagogical programs, and political leanings in this tumultuous era under three directors—Walter Gropius (1919-27), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1927-30), and Hannes Meyer (1930-33)—as well as the range of artistic disciplines it brought together, from painting, architecture, and photography to theater, weaving, and furniture and graphic design. In the process, we will examine the works and ideas of some of its masters and students, including Marianne Brandt, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, and Gunta Stölzl.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 183 PZ - The Art World Since 1989

    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.
  

  • ARHI 184 PO - Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History of North American Art

    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.
 

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