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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.
 

Sociology
  

  • SOC 055 PO - Population and 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.
  

  • SOC 073 PZ - Model Minority/Perpetual Foreigner: Asians in America

    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.
  

  • SOC 086 PZ - Social Inequality

    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.
  

  • SOC 095 PZ - Contemporary Central Asia

    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.
  

  • SOC 108 PZ - Moon Called: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Ritual

    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.
  

  • SOC 109 PZ - African American Social Theory

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

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SOC 114 CH - Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequalites and Activism

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

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 030 CH  or SOC 051   PO
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SOC 114 PZ - Sociology of Religion

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SOC 120 PZ - Sex Politics

    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.
  

  • SOC 121 PO - Radicals, Revolutionaries and Terrorists

    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.
  

  • SOC 122 PZ - Sociology of Health and Medicine

    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.
  

  • SOC 126 AA - Immigration and the Second Generation

    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.
  

  • SOC 136 AF - Framing “Urban” Life

    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.
  

  • SOC 145 CH - Restructuring Communities

    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.
  

  • SOC 146 PO - Women’s Roles in 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.
  

  • SOC 150 CH - Chicanxs Latinxs and Education

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

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 030 CH  or SOC 051  PO
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SOC 150 AA - Contemporary Asian American Issues

    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.
  

  • SOC 154 PO - History and Development of Sociological Theory I: The Classical Tradition

    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.
  

  • SOC 157 PZ - Gender in American Society

    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.
  

  • SOC 170 PZ - Internship: Sociology of Health and Medicine

    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.

Spanish
  

  • SPAN 001 SC - Introductory Spanish

    Acquisition of four basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading, writing, with emphasis on aural comprehension and oral communication. This course includes laboratory work and tutorial sessions (times arranged). Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 002 SC - Introductory Spanish

    Acquisition of four basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading, writing, with emphasis on aural comprehension and oral communication. This course includes laboratory work and tutorial sessions (times arranged). Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 011 SC - Conversation: Contemporary Spanish Language and Culture

    Open to Scripps students, except native speakers. To obtain credit, the student should attend a 50-minute weekly conversation class and participate in field trips and cultural events organized by the Department of Hispanic Studies.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 033  or three semesters of college-level Spanish. Cumulative, one-quarter course credit; graded pass/fail. Limited to one enrollment per semester and a cumulative total of one course credit.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 022 SC - Intensive Introductory Spanish

    Designed for beginning students with some basic knowledge of the language, who are too advanced for SPAN 001 , but do not yet qualify for SPAN 033 . Students will fulfill in one semester the equivalent of SPAN 001  and SPAN 002 . This course includes laboratory work and tutorial sessions (times arranged). Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): Language Placement Test.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 031 PZ - Community-Based Spanish Practicum

    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.
  

  • SPAN 033 SC - Intermediate Spanish

    Review and reinforcement of four basic skills. Emphasis on conversation, reading, and writing. Course includes tutorial sessions (times arranged). Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 002 , SPAN 022  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 044 SC - Advanced Spanish: Readings in Literature and Civilization

    Study and discussion of selected texts and films concerning the literary, social, and artistic aspects of Spain and Latin America. Development of correct personal style in student’s oral and written expression. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 033 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 065 CH - Spanish for Bilinguals

    An intensive review of the fundamentals of grammar and orthography for students with oral proficiency in Spanish. Written assignments and oral presentations are structured around cinematographic, musical, and literary texts from Spain and Latin America, including work by U.S. Latinxs.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 100 SC - Cultural Competence in the Health Professions

    Development of listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills at an advanced level on topics related to the health professions and medicine within a socio-historical context, through discussion of visual media and arts, culture theory, histories, testimonios, and scientific scholarship in Spanish stemming from specific geographical and historical contingencies in the Americas and in Spain to enhance cross cultural understanding. (formerly SPAN070  SC)

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • SPAN 100 PZ - Spanish in the Community

    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.
  

  • SPAN 101 CM - Introduction to Literary Analysis

    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.
  

  • SPAN 101 PO - Introduction to Literary Analysis

    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.
  

  • SPAN 101 SC - Introduction to Literary Analysis. Analysis of literary genres and styles

    Introduction to methods of analysis, and practice in the interpretation of texts. Recommended for all majors and minors.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 102 CM - Introduction to Latin American Cultural Studies

    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.
  

  • SPAN 102 SC - Latin American Culture and Civilization

    This course will introduce students to the richness of cultures in Latin America from pre-Columbian days to the present. We will study selected themes, that demonstrate the unique political, social, and artistic components of Latin American culture. Class discussions will be based upon students’ research.

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


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

  • SPAN 102B PO - Introduction to Contemporary Spanish Cultural Studies

    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.
  

  • SPAN 103 SC - Advanced Conversation and Composition

    This course is designed to develop oral and written skills in Spanish at the advanced level, and is organized around a series of cultural and controversial topics of current interest concerning the Hispanic world. Students will read cultural and social science texts, supplemented with films and other audio-visual material. This course prepares the student for advanced courses in literature and civilization. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 105 PO - Spanish Film: Tradition and Transgression

    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.
  

  • SPAN 106 PO - Images of Latin America in Fiction 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.
  

  • SPAN 107 PO - Identity Matters in Latin American Literature and Culture

    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.
  

  • SPAN 110 SC - Introduction to Spanish Civilization

    A historical survey of Spanish civilization from the Middle Ages to present day Spain through discussion of history and social science texts, films, visual presentations, music, art, and popular tradition. Special attention will be paid to the multicultural situation of Spain (Christians, Muslims, and Jews) and its contributions to European civilization.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044  or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 114 SC - Gender and Identity Formation in Contemporary Mexican Literature

    Building on a broad range of theoretical discourses (gender studies, cultural, and postcolonial studies), this course is designed to study different forms of narrativization of sexual and historical identity formation in contemporary Mexican fiction. The novels included raise questions about (hetero)sexist hegemony in the construction of subject identities. Students will look at the epistemic and ontological choices these novels entail and their ideological and political implications at the time these fictional discourses were produced. We will also analyze the various textual strategies these authors use to debunk the precognitive literary and social foundations laid by a more traditional literature. We will read texts by Sara Sefchovich, Brianda Domecq, José Joaquin Blanco, Miguel Barbachano Ponce, Rosamaria Roffiel, Oscar de la Borbolla.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 115 SC - Contemporary Spanish Women Writers: Gender, Politics, and The Self

    This course studies how women writers have defined their own subjecthood, and questionedned dominant formations of gender identity in Spain from the beginning of “modernity” (1898-1931) to nowadays. Other themes include the construction of collective memory, the representation of violence, and the negotiation of a multi-ethnic national identity.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 116 SC - Beyond Neoliberal Imaginaries

    This course studies literary and filmic representations of the neoliberal transformations of urban space in Chile and Cuba since the 1900s. We will analyze how the social production of urban space and the experience of walking and writing the city become important for social justice struggles in each context.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 120A PO - Survey of Spanish Literature

    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.
  

  • SPAN 120A SC - Survey of Spanish Literature

    Survey of Spanish literature readings in selected literary masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the present, coordinated with lectures, films, and visual presentations and discussions. First semester: the jarchas through the Golden Age (poetry, narrative, and theater). Second semester: 18th century to the contemporary period (rationalism, romanticism, and the Generations of 98 and 27).

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044  or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 120B PO - Survey of Spanish Literature

    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.
  

  • SPAN 120B SC - Survey of Spanish Literature

    Survey of Spanish literature readings in selected literary masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the present, coordinated with lectures, films, and visual presentations and discussions. First semester: the jarchas through the Golden Age (poetry, narrative, and theater). Second semester: 18th century to the contemporary period (rationalism, romanticism, and the Generations of 98 and 27).

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044  or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 124 CM - Visions of Democracy: New Spanish Voices after the Fall of the Dictatorship

    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.
  

  • SPAN 125A CM - Introduction to Latin American Literature and Civilization I

    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.
  

  • SPAN 125A PO - Medieval & Early Modern Literature: Licentious Laments to Life is a Dream

    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.
  

  • SPAN 125B CM - Introduction to Latin American Literature and Civilization II

    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.
  

  • SPAN 125B PO - Survey of Spanish-American Literature

    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.
  

  • SPAN 126 PO - In Short: Latin American Story Telling

    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.
  

  • SPAN 127 CH - Literatura Chicana en Español

    Analyzes 20th-century texts written in the U.S. in Spanish. Focusing primarily on the Mexican American experience, we will survey a wide array of genres dating to distinct historical periods, from crónicas published in Spanish-language newspapers to political treatises, poetry, drama, and narrative.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN044 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 128 PO - Poverty, Literature and Social Justice

    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.
  

  • SPAN 129 PO - Early Modern Women Writers

    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.
  

  • SPAN 131 SC - Representations of Queer Lives in Latin America

    This course examines representations of queer lives within Latin American cultural production since the 1950s. The course will analyze how the works studied conceptualize queer lives in relation to social justice, historical memory, and various social transformations in Latin America. We will explore the intersections of sexuality, gender, race, class, and politics.

     

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044  
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 133 SC - Translation and the Right to Language

    Is translation an impossible task? This course will first examine key theories of translation (Schopenhauer, Von Humboldt, Nietzche, Benjamin, Pax, Ortega y Gasset, Borges, Derrida) to help us think about the issues that surround the practice of translation. The second phase of the course will allow us to translate from Spanish into English parts of key literary texts by Asturias, Cabrera Infante, Valenzuela at the same time we compare our work to that of their “official” translations by translators such as Rabassa and Levine. Finally, we shall explore translation as a practice that often contributes to a history of inequality among languages and people from different ethnic backgrounds.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 134 SC - Indigenous Women, Representations, and Struggles

    The course will focus on how current emancipatory thought and practice led by indigenous women have challenged ethnocentric and homogenizing assumptions embedded in certain scholarly studies and feminist traditions. It will explore a broad range of interdisciplinary theories and studies as well as literary and cinematic representations that have shaped readership and cultural analysis for indigenous women in Latin America.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • SPAN 135 PO - Latin American Narrative Boom of the 1960s

    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.
  

  • SPAN 137 SC - Translating the Aztecs: Indigenous Cultures and Colonialism in Mexico

    This course considers the translation of Aztec (Nahua) culture across time and mediums such as pictographic books, alphabetic writing, theatrical performance, and film. The moment of conquest will serve as a pivot as we trace a genealogy of indigenous cultural expression through these varied mediums from pre-Columbian times to the present, paying particular attention to alphabetized Nahuatl as a colonial tool of domination that complicates standard ideas of literacy. Against these ideas, students will explore, through artistic projects, alternatives to logocentric “literature.” Coursework includes introductory Nahuatl lessons, paleography using archival documents, and translation workshops.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • SPAN 139 SC - Plants, Magic, and Race: Intercultural Translations of Shamanism

    This course deals with the construction of ethnic and racial identities around agriculture and the figure of the shaman. Drawing on the various meanings of “colonist,” from the Latin colõnus, we will consider the shamanic transformation of agricultural practice into art. The study of primary materials such as pre-Columbian painted books and musical recordings illustrates this process as one of cultural translation prompted by colonization. Taking the colonial period in Latin America as a historical turning point, we will track the racial criminalization of illicit plant use, which continues by way of the “drug war,” with the help of primary and secondary readings.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • SPAN 140 PO - From Borges to “Literatura Lite”: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture

    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.
  

  • SPAN 140 SC - The Spanish Transition Through the Lens of Pedro Almodóvar

    Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most recognizable auteur directors in Europe today. This course studies Pedro Almodóvar’s development from his directorial debut to the present, from the “shock” value of the early films to the award-winning mastery of the later ones.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 142 PO - Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad

    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.
  

  • SPAN 146 PO - El deseo de la palabra: Slow Soundings in Latin American 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.
  

  • SPAN 151 SC - “Necropolis”: Detective Novels and Cities in Spain and Latin America

    This course will examine how writers from Spain and Latin America rethink the detective novel as a genre. We will analyze in particular how these authors, by drawing pictures of crime, vice and political intrigues create new urban portraits. Each of these novels could be read as the monograph of a city, a neighborhood, a suburb. The mystery lies also in the blurred boundaries between geographical space, between the real urban violence and fiction, humor and solemnity, nomadism and inertia, ordinary and extraordinary people.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 152 SC - Border Thinking in Spain

    The class explores border narratives in Spain and Catalonia that articulate the complex needs of cultural and ethnic minorities in multicultural democracies and help chart a way out of oppressive social formations. Transcultural forms of expression such as storytelling, visual arts, film and performance will be analyzed.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN044 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • SPAN 153 PO - Spanglish in Context: Bilingualism in the United States

    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.
  

  • SPAN 154 SC - Trans-Caribbean Formations: Translating Identity, Race, and Gender in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico

    This course will explore questions of identity formations and translations during different historical time periods in the Caribbean. We will pay close attention to how conceptualizations of blackness are deployed-simultaneously highlighted and erased-during different iterations of nation-building projects in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. We will also explore the place of indigenous peoples in Caribbean national imaginaries. Our studies of novels, short stories, political essays, films, and other audiovisual materials will allow us to analyze how the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality are “translated” into Caribbean identity formation both nationally and transnationally.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN044 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • SPAN 155 SC - Short Fiction by Spanish Women Writers

    This course will analyze the narrative techniques peculiar to the genres of the modern novella and short story, while also studying the works in their historical, cultural, and literary contexts. Spanish women writers will include, among others, Emilia Pardo Bazan, Carmen de Burgos, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, Cristina Fernandez Cubas. 

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 156 SC - From Macondo to McOndo: Revisiting the Latin American Short Story

    This class will focus on rethinking one of the most cultivated genres in Latin American literature, the short story. We will take as a point of departure canonical texts by Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Juan Rulfo and analyze the evolution of the genre throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The new short story authored by writers such as Fugets, Baily, Montero, Obejas, Kam Wen and Kazumi Stahl will allow us to delve into issues as diverse as immigration, “estética queer” and gender and the urbanization of Latin America as well as reassess the question of magical realism.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 157 SC - Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literature: Nation, Family, and Romance

    After the wars of Independence of the first half of the 19th century, Latin America’s most urgent concern was the development of new nations. One of the most interesting cultural representations of these nations “coming into being” was the historical romance or the national romance novel. During the course of the semester we will read several Latin American romances and we will study the “public function” of the romantic novel during this period of nation-building. We will analyze how passion, love, and marriage promoted harmony and order as well as the concept of “nation-family,” or the family as the projection of an ideal state. We will show how these novels contributed to contain the gender, racial, social, and economic conflicts that were imminent dangers to the utopian idea of the “natural family” on which national stability was based.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 160 SC - Jews, Moors and Native Americans: Religious and Ethnic Minorities in the Spanish Empire

    Analysis of the largest minorities in early modern Spain, from the expulsions of 1492, the Spanish Inquisition, the conquest of the New World and the expulsion of 1609. The crown’s single-minded determination during this time to dominate and marginalize these minorities became an importan display of its stuatus as well as a factor in its decline.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN044 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 163 SC - Pais Vasco or Euskal Herria: Una intro

    Basque people (euskaldunak) are considered one of the oldest indigenous ethnic groups of Europe; its language is a mystery. Most Basques live in seven historical territories and speak Spanish, French, and Euskara. The aim of this course is to introduce students to Basque culture from a historical, linguistic, anthropological, political and artistic perspective. As one of the most unique regions of Spain, it provides a fertile ground to analyze decentralized forms of knowledge. We will tackle issues such a nation/nation state, ethnicity and identity politics; sexualities and gender, tradition and modernity. The course will also examine Basques in the American diaspora.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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  • SPAN 165 SC - History of the Spanish Language

    A comprehensive study of the development of Spanish from Latin into the modern, present-day language. Analysis of the influence of Germanic and Arabic languages on medieval Spanish, as well as the relationship of Spanish to other Romance Languages. Special attention will also be devoted to the different varieties of Latin-American Spanish, as well as to Peninsular dialects. Knowledge of languages other than Spanish is not necessary.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • SPAN 170 PO - Don Quixote and Cultural Identity

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • SPAN 175 SC - From Freedom and Democracy to Dictatorship and Repression: The Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1975

    The Spanish Civil War is the most dramatic event of modern Spanish history. The uprising of General Franco in 1936 produced a bloody conflict that shattered the effort of the Spanish intellectuals to create a new and modern nation. The war and the dictatorship that followed drove leading Spanish intellectuals into exile. This course will examine the causes of the war and its disastrous consequences for the intellectual life of Spain through the study of different forms of expression such as literature, cinema, painting, and graphic art of the period. Readings will include selected works by Machado, Garcia Lorca, Alberti, Miguel Hernandez, Guillén, Ayala, Goytisolo, Aldecoa, Mart’n Gaite, and Roig.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 110  or similar level.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • SPAN 176 SC - From Tyranny to Democracy: The Politics of Culture in Spain Between 1975-1992

    The death of Franco in 1975 marks the end of 30 years of dictatorship and new beginnings for Spain. This course will examine the transitional period from dictatorship to democracy through the study of several forms of expressions such as cinema, the press, literature, and art. Readings will be selected from newspapers and literature of the period.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • SPAN 177 SC - Escenarios de conflicto: Theater and Social Change in Contemporary Spain and Latin America

    This course brings together an array of dramatic texts and performances that trace some of the intersections of theater and social and political life in Spain and in Latin America over the past three centuries. The class will cover, among other themes, trends in stage renovation at the time of the Spanish Avant-Gardes; theatrical productions that resisted the military dictatorships in the Southern Cone of Latin America; fierce performance works that stage defiant critiques of repressive values and injustice. Film, videos, and interactive readings will bring the texts to life!

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN044 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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  • SPAN 178 SC - Literary and Filmic Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Contemporary Spain. “Working through” Memory.

    This course explores the process of memory production: how it is recounted, repressed, rewritten or forgotten. Among other themes, the course will focus on the political currency of nostalgia in reconstructions of the war; the rehabilitation of marginal figures or groups; and debates about universal human rights principles versus national amnesty laws.

    Prerequisite(s): Spanish 44
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • SPAN 178 CM - The New Latin American Cinema: History, Politics, Gender, and Society

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • SPAN 179 SC - Fe, Esperanza, Amor y Muerte: Women Writers of the Hispanic World

    An exploration of the contribution of women from Spain and Latin America to the world in the areas of spirituality, government, politics, sciences, and art, through the analysis of literary discourse. The scope of the course ranges from the Renaissance to the present time.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 120A  or SPAN 120B , 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.
  

  • SPAN 179 CM - Mexican Cinema in the New Millennium

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • SPAN 180 CM - A Time of Crisis: Spanish Literature from 1898-1920

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • SPAN 181 CM - Representations of Democracy in Latin American Literature and Cinema

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • SPAN 182 PO - Contemporary Spanish Poetry: Poetics, Identity, Difference

    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.
  

  • SPAN 182 SC - Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic: Towards an Interpretation of the Hispanic Caribbean through Its Short Stories

    This course will analyze central tropes that appear in short stories by authors from the nations the form the Hispanic Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Cuba) and their diasporas. Reading list will include works by Juan Bosch, Alejo Carpentier, Luis Rafael Sanchez, Ana Lydia Vega, Mirta Yanez, among others.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 182 CM - Latin American Documentary Cinema

    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.
  

  • SPAN 183 SC - Interculturality and Bilingualism in the Andes

    This course examines “interculturality” as a theoretical and political principle which emerged in the 2000s, as part of indigenous movements in Ecuador and Bolivia, and challenged the colonial and neoliberal nature of nation state projects. This course reflects upon the premises and promises of interculturality through an analysis of literature, testimonies and films by mestizo and indigenous authors from the Andean region. We critically engage in discussions around prevalent ideologies of mestizaje and bilingualism, as well as address the politics of relations among cultures historically in dispute. Philosophies of translation will be key for the analysis of how these cultures related and struggle to coexist.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 184 CM - Literature of the Zapatista Rebellion: “To rule by obeying.”

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • SPAN 184 SC - The Image and the Word/La imagen y la palabra

    The relation between writing, painting, photography and cinema might at first be viewed as a simple and familiar combination of visual and verbal art as felicitous interplay based on affinity and compatibility. However, it also generates numerous theoretical speculations with far-reaching implications for the theorization of art and literature. The potentially frictional relations between the visual image and the written text are especially pertinent for a discussion of the artworks of many Latin American and Spanish artists and writers.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SPAN 185 PO - The Avant-Garde in 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.
  

  • SPAN 186 PZ - Latin American Cultural Diaspora

    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.
  

  • SPAN 187 PZ - Expressions of Latin American Popular Cultures

    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.
  

  • SPAN 189 PZ - Seminar on Contemporary Issues in the Spanish Speaking World

    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.
  

  • SPAN 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • SPAN 199 SC - Independent Study in Latin American or Spanish Literature: Reading and Research

    Special topics for most advanced students. To be arranged with faculty. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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  • THEA 001A PO - Basic Acting: Tools and Fundamentals

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Fall and spring


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

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