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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.
 

French
  

  • FREN 128 SC - Writing Memory

    This course focuses on a group of texts that emerge out of the occupation of France during World War II. Some are diaries or autobiographical accounts while others are works of fiction published long after the end of the war. All are concerned with how memory and the self are written and, taken together, they constitute an informal archive standing against oblivion. This course is designed around the exhibition “Hélène Berr, A Stolen Life,” to be held at the Scripps Clark Humanities Museum, and a significant portion of the course will be spent studying French survivors’ audiovisual testimonies. We will be asking what testimonies, in all their forms, do to literature and how literature interacts with other sources. Special attention will be given to accounts given by women and they will be read in contrast with accounts written about women.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 130 SC - French Theater from Text to Stage I: Theatricality and “Mise en Scène.”

    This course will examine major plays of the French theatrical canon from a performance perspective. The role of the characters as actors inside their play will be central to our investigation. Textual analysis as well as performance of selected scenes constitute the focus of this course. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 131 SC - French Theater from Text to Stage II: The Tragic and Comic Muse

    This course proposes to investigate the nature of tragedy and comedy and their subsequent fusion in the Nouveau Theatre phenomenon of the post-war period in France. Major plays from the French dramatic canon will be the object of our study. In addition to examining analytical and theoretical issues related to tragedy and comedy, students will perform scenes from the plays studied in the course. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 132 CM - Introduction to North African Literature (after Independence)

    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.
  
  
  

  • FREN 137 CM - The Algerian War and the French Intelligentsia

    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.
  

  • FREN 141 SC - Medieval French Literature, Culture, and Language

    A survey of some of the major texts in French Medieval narrative literature. Each text will be studied for its intrinsic literary merits, and for the particular aspect of medieval culture it reflects. Modern French versions of the texts will be used, but for each text an excerpt will be studied linguistically in the original. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 142 SC - Comedy in the Age of Louis XIV

    This course takes a dual approach to examining the politics of laughter during the reign of Louis XIV. In the first half of the course, our readings of work by Isaac de Benserade, Moliere, Francoise Pascal will focus on the various funtions of laughter and comedy, particularly with respect to issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. In the second half of the course, students will work in teams to create and perform a micro-scene based on one of the plays.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every three years


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

  • FREN 151 PO - Men, Women, and 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.
  

  • FREN 154 SC - The 18th Century Novel: Experimentations in Form

    The 18th century in France marked one of the great periods in the development of the novel. The vitality characteristic of this genre was due to a great extent to the novelists’ awareness of narrative techniques and to their willingness to experiment with diverse modes of novelistic form. In this course, problems of narration will be studied in the works of L’Abbe Prevost, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, and Sade. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 155 SC - Nature/Culture; Government/Utopia: Political Writings of the 18th Century

    A study of attempts by 18th-century authors from Montesquieu to the Revolution to describe ideal forms of social and political organization, as well as “natural” alternatives to “cultural” systems. Political writings by Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire, and articles of the Encyclopédie, excerpts from L’Esprit des lois, and the Voyage de Bougainville will be discussed during the first half of the course; the latter half will be devoted to texts from the Revolutionary period, including selections from Danton, Robespierre, Sade, and Babeuf. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 160 SC - Hugo, Women, and the French Revolution

    This class looks at the French Revolution through Victor Hugo’s novel Quatre-Vingt-Treize and the lives and writings of outstanding women of the era. It explores the representation of the guillotine as a “feminine” arm of justice and the rise of Marianne as a national symbol. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 170 SC - The Mad Artist in French Literature (1830-1930)

    A misunderstood artist paints a materpiece, destroys it, and then ends his or her life. This myth of the mad artist is the basis of 19th century French novels by Balzac, Mirbeau, Zola, Rachilde, and Sand. This course investigates the perceived historical, literary, and neurological connections between insanity and creativity.

    Offered: Fall 2014


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

  • FREN 171 SC - Aesthetics, Society, and Thematic Structures in the 19th-Century Novel in France

    A study of the works of Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola. The course will examine such problems as the evolution in techniques of description and characterization, the relationship of the individual to society, and the representation of women. Emphasis will be placed on the novel as a work of art reflecting the social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic consciousness of an era. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 173 SC - Wit and Ridicule in the French Salon

    This course will examine the role of wit and its counterpart, ridicule, in nineteenth century French society through an analysis of Stendhal’s novel Le Rouge et le noir, Balzac’s novel Illusions perdues, Patrice Leconte’s film Ridicule. We will explore how wit is characterized in these works and investigate the role of language in social success and self-definition. We will also consider the process by which France’s national identity became tied to its language and how wit arose as an aristocratic value and came to embody key cultural capital. The course will include critical readings as well (Hesse, Lilti, Corbin, Foucault). Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 175 PO - Writing the Exotic

    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.
  

  • FREN 176 SC - “Voyage et Exotisme”

    A search for a new definition of the poetic function, the expression of the quest for the reality of Self through the experience of the Other characterizes the renewal of the traditional theme of the journey as self-discovery in late 19th- and early 20th-century French literature. The significance of this trend will be studied in prose and poetic works of major writers. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. 

    Prerequisite(s): FREN044 SC  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 179 SC - French Love Affairs: An Introduction to Proust

    This class presents Proust’s celebrated novel A la recherche du temps perdu  through the themes of women and love. The goal is to provide a lively and multi-faceted introduction to Proust that will foster understanding of his work, of early-century social culture, and of the novel as a genre.  Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 182 SC - Contemporary Fiction in French

    What are Francophone people reading and writing about today? This course will examine works by major novelists writing in French in the latter part of the 20th century. These include Georges Perec, Patrick Modiano, Jean Echenoz, Jean-Marie Le Clézio, Annie Ernaux, (France), but also Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Anne Hébert (Quebéc), Marima Bâ (Sénégal), and Assia Djebar (Algeria). Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 183 CM - The Novel in France Since 1945

    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.
  

  • FREN 184 SC - Portrait of Two Voices: Marguerite Yourcenar and Marguerite Duras

    An in-depth study of 20th-century French literature through the works of two of its major writers. Although usually situated at opposite ends of the literary spectrum, the works of the neo-classicist Yourcenar and the unclassifiable Duras (novelist, essayist, film-maker) can both be defined and examined as the paradoxical attempt to create the “portrait of voices” now silent. Special attention will be given to their protagonists’ relation to the past, to the issues of private vs. public history, and the fictionalization of history. Discussion of novels, films, and interviews in book and video form. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 191 SC - Senior Thesis

     The culmination of a student’s French major, the thesis requires her to think creatively, analytically, and critically about a topic of her choice in consultation with the French faculty. Students propose their topic at an early fall thesis meeting and present a minimum of their first chapter upon return from winter recess. Whereas regular theses are generally 10,000 to 15,000 words (40-70 pages double-spaced), honors thesis are approximately 17,000 to 25,000 words (75-100 pages double-spaced). Senior theses are written in French. If a student is a dual major, the requirement to write in French may be waived if the second reader does not read French.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 199 SC - Independent Study in French Studies: Reading and Research

     In extraordinary circumstances and only for the most advanced student, an independent study course may be requested on a topic not available in the curriculum. Students must seek permission from the relevant faculty member.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  

  • FGSS 026 SC - Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Issues to be covered may include: transnational, intersectional and antiracist approaches and methodologies; the social construction of gender and sexuality; the gender and sexual politics of everyday life; and the gender and sexual politics of colonialisms, imperialisms, nationalisms and decoloniality. Required for Majors and Minors.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FGSS 036 SC - Introduction to Queer Studies

    This course introduces students to queer theory. Issues to be covered may include: heteronormativity, performativity, queer theory in a transnational context, and queer of color critique.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 179 SC - South Asian Feminisms

    This class will explore feminist, queer and gender-justice movements in contemporary South Asian contexts paying special attention to intersectional questions of caste, class, religion, nationalisms, state violence and militarism. It will examine various regional and national social movements organized from Muslim, Dalit, Adivasi, queer, transgender feminist perspectives. Working class and rural experiences will also be emphasized. Tensions and faultiness between various kinds of feminisms in specific “women’s movements” will be analyzed. Particular attention will be paid to critiques and revisionings offered through the perspectives of historically marginalized communities.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • FGSS 181 SC - Feminisms in Community: Community Engagement with Incarcerated Women

    This course will introduce students to the practice and principles of feminist community engagement. The course will focus on issues of gender, sexuality, race, class, and incarceration, and on critiques of the prison-industrial complex. Students will take part in a community-writing workshop in the California Institution for Women (prison). 

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC   or by instructor permission
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 182 SC - Feminist Intersectional Pedagogies: Learning Grassroots Leadership Practices

    This course is modeled on the democratic creative processes that brought about “INCITE!” and “This Bridge Called My Back.” Students will interact with grassroots organizing models of leadership that foster feminist intersectional pedagogies. This course discusses processes by which feminist intersectional spaces are constructed, negotiated, sustained, and also co-opted.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS187 SC  or POLI128 SC  or permission of Professor
    Offered: Every year


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

  • FGSS 183 SC - Sciences from “Below”: Feminist and Queer Conceptions

    This course engages how women of color feminisms and queer of color critique reorient conceptions of life from “below” to challenge discourses that pathologize minoritarian subjects. It will prepare students to consider the ethics of representing life within the Sciences and the Humanities.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Yearly


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

  • FGSS 184 SC - Feminist Theories: Antiracist, Postcolonial and Queer Critiques

    We will explore intersectional feminist and queer theories as produced by U.S. women and trans people of color, and native, transnational and postcolonial scholars. We will explore debates about “difference” (of race, gender, sexualities, class, religion, nation etc.) as emerging through colonial rule, settler colonialism, and contemporary imperialism. Required for majors.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC   or by instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 186 SC - The Imperial University: Antiracist Feminisms and Student Movements in U.S. Higher Education

    This course will focus on the organizational structures of U.S. college and university systems with comparative emphasis between public and private institutions. Secondly, it will explore historical and contemporary student-led social movements and the issues they have raised about war, foreign policy, labor, debt, institutional racism and academic freedom.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • FGSS 187J SC - Women and the Writing of Science

    This seminar course will consider the role of women in early modern and Enlightenment science as the objects of scientific inquiry and women as scientists or natural philosophers. Reading topics will include: anatomy, astronomy, mathematics, and physical sciences, along with contemporary theory on gender, science, and cultures of pre-1800 Europe. This course is cross-listed as ENGL178 SC .

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 188 SC - Advanced Topics in Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies

    This course explores a current topic in feminist and/or queer studies and the history and cultural politics of genders and sexualities. Topics of study may include: queer feminists of color critique; indigeneities; antiracisms and intersectionality; colonialism and decoloniality; law and the criminal justice system; race, law and sexualities, queer popular culture, queer nationalisms and transnationalisms. Required for FGSS Majors.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC  or by instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FGSS 188E SC - The Queer Transpacific: Sinophone Cultures and Race/Ethnicity in Asian America

    This course draws together emergent scholarship in transpacific studies and sinophone studies with Asian American studies and queer studies. It attends to how the hemispheric Americas and Asia Pacific regions have been shaped by the United States and China, respectively and concomitantly. We trace overlapping histories of U.S.-European interventions into Asia Pacific, Pacific militarizations, Chinese empire, and modern Chinese nation-state building led by Han ethnonationalisms. Focusing on transpacific crossings and the production of “sinophone cultures” in history, popular culture, science, and tourism, this course applies queer analyses to investigate how the U.S. and China produce one another as analogous “others.”

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 189 SC - Feminist & Queer Research Methods: Anti-Racist Perspectives

    This course introduces students to the ethics and methods of research through feminist, queer, and antiracist lenses.  Particular emphasis will be paid to what this means in fieldwork, community-engagement and advocacy in regional, national and transnational contexts.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC  or by instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • FGSS 190 SC - Feminist and Queer Pedagogies: Research and Writing as Collective Practice

    Geared toward seniors writing theses, this course examines antiracist, feminist, and queer writing as praxes. We explore theories and practices that challenge racial, gendered, sexual, and other assumptions of knowing and authorship. We experiment with collective strategies for learning and writing to reconfigure power relations inside and outside the classroom. This course is also designed as a workshop for senior thesis writers. The course will be rotated between SCR and PO.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC  or instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FGSS 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Thesis is an original investigation on a topic in Feminst, Gender, and Sexuality Studies within the discipline of concentration, completed under the guidance of the reader in the department of concentration and a reader in the Scripps Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FGSS 192 SC - Antiracist Feminist and Queer Praxis: Theory, Ethics and Social Action

    This course will explore intersectional, antiracist and queer feminist activisms as reflecting both theory and practice. It will interrogate concepts like altruism, “the savior complex,” coalitions, “internalized oppression,” allyship and solidarity. Feminist ethics and the geopolitics of the local/global will be emphasized. Required for Majors.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC   or by instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FGSS 193 SC - Field Work Experience

    Some fieldwork or internship experience involving women’s issues is required. In consultation with the adviser, students will select the most appropriate means by which to fulfill this requirement. It might be fulfilled during the school year or summer as an internship, independent study, volunteer work, fieldwork as part of a senior thesis, or as part of another course. Pass/Fail. Noncredit course.

    Offered: Every year


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

Geology
  

  • GEOL 110 PO - Looking at the Earth: Using GIS and Images from Space to Explore our 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.
  

  • GEOL 111A PO - Introduction to GIS

    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.
  

  • GEOL 112 PO - Remote Sensing

    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.
  

  • GEOL 125 PO - Earth 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.

German
  

  • GERM 001 SC - Elementary German 1

    Acquisition of basic oral communication, survey of German grammar, practice in reading and writing, weekly conversation classes with a native speaker.
     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • GERM 002 SC - Elementary German 2

    Acquisition of basic oral communication, survey of German grammar, practice in reading and writing, weekly conversation classes with a native speaker.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM001 SC  or the equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • GERM 010 PO - Introduction to the Study of Language

    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.
  

  • GERM 022 SC - Accelerated Introductory German

    Accelerated introduction to basic structure; intensive practice in reading and writing, weekly conversation with a native speaker. 

    Prerequisite(s): Placement examination. Students who have completed either GERM001 or GERM002 are not eligible to enroll.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasional fall


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

  • GERM 033 SC - Intermediate German

    Emphasis on developing reading ability. Extensive review of grammar; continuing acquisition of new vocabulary and conversational skills, weekly conversation classes with a native speaker.
     

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 002  , GERM 022  , or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • GERM 044 SC - Advanced German

    Emphasis on correct idiomatic writing. Essays every other week, oral work, and grammar review.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 033  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • GERM 101 SC - Introduction to German Culture

    Concepts of culture have long been the object of intellectual inquiry. The course will introduce students to some of the most compelling issues and debates in German culture through fiction, criticism, and philosophy, as well as film and the visual arts. The presentation of materials is exemplary rather than comprehensive and is based on thematic, historical, generic, etc., units.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 101B SC - Vienna Modernism

    In the decades between 1880 and 1910, Vienna emerged as one of the birthplaces of European modernism. This class offers an introduction to the city’s vibrant turn-of-the-century culture. We will discuss the work of playwrights, poets, and philosophers, visual artists, composers, and architects against the backdrop of the political and social climate of the Hapsburg monarchy’s final years. Décadence and psychoanalysis, aestheticism and Kaffeehausliteratur are but a few of the many essentially Viennese and radically modern ideas the course will explore. Taught in German.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM044 SC  
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • GERM 101C SC - Introduction to German Culture: Pop and Protest in Fiction and Film

    This course will examine German-language film and fiction that emerged out of the student movements and countercultures from the 1960s onwards. We will consider the ways in which new models of artistic expression sought to combine political engagement and consumerist enjoyment.

    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • GERM 102 SC - Introduction to German Literature

    This course introduces major literary movements in the German language from the 18th to the 21st century. Through close readings of short prose, poetry, and drama, we will consider how German literature has engaged with social and cultural upheavals including the Enlightenment, industrialization, war, revolution, and consumerism. Readings and discussions in German.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044  or instructor permission 
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 103 SC - A History of German Film

    Starting with a selection of groundbreaking Weimar Republic experimental films, we will discuss the cinematic anti-fascist resistance of the 1930s, East-German cinema, feminist and New German Cinema of the 1970s as well as a few recent examples of an exciting new wave of German and Austrian filmmakers. The class includes an introduction to film theory and to some of the key technical terms of film analysis. Readings include short essays by Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Béla Balázs, Thomas Elsaesser, and Gertrud Koch. Taught in German.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • GERM 104 PO - Introduction to German Composition

    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.
  

  • GERM 105 SC - Berlin Stories

    This literature and film course explores diverse roles played by Berlin in recent cultural history: a laboratory for urban modernity, a flashpoint of cold war politics, a haven for counter cultures, and a site of cross-cultural encounters in a multicultural Europe. We will study short prose and films.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 . For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 106 SC - German Art in 1810-2010

    The history of German, Swiss and Austrian visual art is full of contradictions and conflict, political and otherwise. We will explore the relation between German art and the eminent German tradition of critical writing on art. The works discussed include painting and sculpture, collage, performance and video art by Friedrich, Schiele, Höch, Kirchner, Klee, Blinky Palermo, Trockel, Hito Steyerl and many others. Reading assignments include artist manifestos, art theory, and criticism. At least one field trip to a regional museum. Taught in German.
     

    Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite:  GERM 044 , GERM 033  considered.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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  • GERM 107 SC - Trauma, Memory, Guilt: Writing the Shoah

    The aftermath of the Shoah has dominated the politics and culture of post-war Europe like no other event. Introducing to memory and trauma theory: this class explores the continuing importance of refined remembrance given the recent resurgence of anti-Semitic hate crimes in Europe and elsewhere. Materials discussed may include fiction, poetry, theory, memoir, visual art, and film by Paul Celan, Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Lanzmann, Bruno Schulz, W.G. Sebald, Ruth Klueger, Amery, Hannah Arendt, Adorno, and Susan Sontag. Readings will be provided in English and German. Taught in German.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 ; GERM 033  considered.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • GERM 128 PO - Multicultural Germany

    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.
  

  • GERM 151 PO - Modern German Poetry

    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.
  

  • GERM 152 PO - Drama as Experiment

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • GERM 154 SC - Great German Fiction

    This course introduces students to some of the greatest works of 19th-and 20th-century German literature. Close reading of literary works by such authors as Kleist, Keller, Mann, Rilke, Kafka, Hesse, Böll, Frisch, Grass, Wolf, and others is combined with key ideas of selected representatives of the German intellectual tradition: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, and others.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 . For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 189 SC - German Across the Curriculum (GAC)

    Offered as a German language component to courses in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences at The Claremont Colleges. Also offered as a German language component to German Department courses taught in English. May be repeated for credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044  or permission of the German instructor. For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Annually


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  • GERM 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Permission of the student’s adviser and the program coordinator is required. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • GERM 199 SC - Independent Study in German Studies: Reading and Research

    Open to students capable of independent study. Permission of instructor required. Course or half course. May be repeated. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

German Literature in English Translation
  

  • GRMT 114 SC - Plotting Crime

    This course covers various “genres” of criminality in modern European fiction and film, including murder, criminal vice, theft, sex crimes, white-collar corporate conspiracy, crimes of passion, and domestic violence. We explore two related (but distinct) topics: how crimes are planned and executed; and how they are then turned, step-by-step, into compelling literary and cinematic storylines. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GRMT 116 SC - The Decadents

    The 19th-century “decadents” treated art as an intoxicant. Theirs was a cult of extremes: theaters of cruelty, art for art’s sake, celebrations of criminality, and deliberate derangement of the senses. Course begins with 19th-century fiction, visual arts and criticism, and then turns to their “after-images” among 20th-century avant-gardes. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GRMT 119 SC - Modern Times

    In the years that followed World War I, Europe experienced an extraordinary degree of both social upheaval and creative experimentation. Expressionist violence, stream of consciousness narrative, fractured imagery: writers used whatever means they could to come to terms with the period’s rapid-fire modernization. This course will cover key works of European literature from the early 20th-century (Kafka, Brecht, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Rilke, and Proust, among others), as well as examples of pre-World War II avant-garde film. Course and course materials entirely in English.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • GRMT 130 SC - Schools of Cultural Criticism: Culture and Critique

    This team-taught course will examine the categories by which philosophers, social scientists, historians, and literary critics have understood culture. Topics may include historicism (the role of history in defining individual experience), the development of mass culture and new media, and post-colonialism. May be completed twice for credit with different topics. (Taught in English)


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

  • GRMT 161 PO - Nationbuilding and Nationalism: A German 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.
  

  • GRMT 167 SC - Metropolis: Imagining the City

    Whether pictured as labyrinth, stage set, utopian pleasure-dome or gigantic living room, the urban landscape has played a crucial role in the attempt of 20thcentury writers and artists to come to terms with modernity. The course will move from the squares of 19th-century Berlin, the grid of Manhattan, to the malls and theme parks of Los Angeles, using fiction (Poe, Kafka, Wm. Gibson), film (Lang, Wenders, R. Scott), essays (Eco, Didion), and urban theory (Sennett, Choay) to investigate how changes in the perception of the city reflect the ways modernity sees itself. Cross listed as HMSC 167  SC. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required. Cross listed as HMSC 167  SC.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GRMT 170 PO - The Culture of Nature

    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.

Government
  

  • GOVT 070 CM - Introduction to International Relations

    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.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • GOVT 114 CM - Nonprofits, Philanthropy, and Public Policy

    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.
  

  • GOVT 118 CM - The Processes of Environmental Policymaking

    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.
  

  • GOVT 119 CM - Introduction to Environmental Law and Regulation

    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.
  
  
  
  

  • GOVT 132E CM - Politics and Economics of Natural Resources Policy in Developing Countries

    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.
  

  • GOVT 135 CM - Comparative Politics of the Middle East

    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.
  

  • GOVT 138 CM - Religion, Politics, Change in Latin America

    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.
  
  

  • GOVT 142 CM - Governments and Politics of East Asia

    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.
  

  • GOVT 144 CM - Political and Social Movements

    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.
  

  • GOVT 145 CM - Conflict and Cooperation in Southeast Asia

    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.
  
  

  • GOVT 147 CM - Japanese Foreign and Defense Policy

    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.
  

  • GOVT 151 CM - The United States, Israel, and the Arabs

    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.
  

  • GOVT 152 CM - The Pacific Rim and the United States

    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.
  

  • GOVT 154 CM - International Relations of Asia

    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.
  
  

  • GOVT 165 CM - Political Philosophy and 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.
  

  • GOVT 173 CM - Politics of East Europe and Russia

    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.
 

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