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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.
 

Media Studies
  

  • MS 111 PZ - Perspectives on 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.
  

  • MS 112 PZ - Anthropology of Media

    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.
  

  • MS 114 PZ - Film Sound

    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.
  

  • MS 115 PZ - Topics in Sound Culture: Soundscape

    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.
  

  • MS 116 PZ - Screen Culture

    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.
  

  • MS 117 PZ - Fan Culture and Celebrity

    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.
  

  • MS 120 HM - Animal Media Studies

    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.
  

  • MS 120 SC - Video Games and Media Discourse

    How does a medium become gendered or racialized? Whose voices, images, and bodies come to delimit a medium? In this course, we will investigate the role that paratextual fields such as criticism, marketing, and fandom play in shaping media culture, with video games and game cultures as a paradigmatic case study. Historical examples from games will be supplemented with theories of criticism and discourse to create a starting point for student-developed media research projects.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 SC , MS 050 PZ , or MS 051 SC .
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: One-time offering


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

  • MS 127 HM - The Harmony of Sound and Light

    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.
  

  • MS 130 SC - New Media Research Studio

    New Media Research Studio is a class dedicated to the applied and participatory study of new media, materials, environments and platforms.  It uses the term “new” to pivot around the historical conditions and everyday practices of contemporary media.  Students will explore the social, cultural, economic, and political dimension of phenomena such as social media, mobile gaming, live streaming, digital fabrication, internet art, automation, and augmented reality.  Through immersive independent investigations that will take the form of “travelogues,” they will learn how to define and develop projects that employ historical, ethnographic, and artistic methods of research and production.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 SC , MS 050 PZ , MS 051 SC , and an Introductory Production class in Media Studies
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • MS 131 SC - Interactive Narrative Design

    This course situates narrative writing as a key design practice for the creation of games and other interactive experiences. Learn how traditional narrative principles such as character, setting, and plot function within indeterminate and variable experiences that range from mainstream video game to tabletop role-playing and experimental digital/theatre works. Embark on creative writing and design projects that integrate narrative and algorithmic/rule-based play in digital and non-digital form.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 SC , MS 050 PZ , MS 051 SC  and an introductory Production class in Media Studies.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: One-time offering


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

  • MS 132 SC - Theories of Interaction: Games as Media

    This course explores cultural techniques and technologies of interaction, including but not limited to games, motion capture, and virtual reality.  This semester, we will use the topic of games to unpack notions of interaction within a productive set of limits.  Games are interactive media.  And more and more, they are everywhere.  While Eric Zimmerman calls our present moment the “ludic century,” Alex Galloway describes it as “an era of ludic capitalism.”  In this moment, making and playing games ranges across the personal, political, professional, prescribed, and performative.  Students will explore central questions in media theory and game studies while developing projects about formal, material, technical, social, and theoretical understandings of interaction.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 SC , MS 050 PZ , or MS 051 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • MS 135 PZ - Learning from YouTube

    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.
  

  • MS 136 PZ - Online Feminist Spaces

    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.
  

  • MS 137 PZ - Media Archives

    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.
  

  • MS 138 SC - Media and the Environment

    This course introduces students to the field of the environmental humanities through the tools of ecocriticism, media studies, and cultural studies. In particular, it is interested in exploring the many relationships between media and the environment, including not only the representations of the natural world in media such as film, photography, and digital media but also the material entanglements of media technologies with surrounding built and natural environments. 

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: One-time only FA20


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

  • MS 147H PO - Reality, Realism, and the Real

    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.
  

  • MS 148A PO - Topics in Media Theory: Surveillance and the Media: Observation, Power, and Control

    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.
  

  • MS 148B PO - Drone Theory

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 148C PO - Media, Space, and Power: Cultural and Political Geographies of the Media

    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.
  

  • MS 149E PO - The Brief History of Film Theory

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 152 SC - Navigating Digital Communities

    In 1995, 37% of computer scientists were women; today, only 24% are women. The biggest drop off of girls’ participation in computer science occurs between the ages of 13 and 17. This course seeks to change this trend by setting up intergenerational mentorship teams made up of girls and other BIPOC pre-college youth, Scripps and other 5C students, and mentors in the fields of computational media and digital arts. Drawing upon the extensive resources of the Processing Foundation and the School of Poetic Computation and structured as a teaching practicum, students will explore digital pedagogy and curriculum development while gaining firsthand experience in navigating and building digital communities. Students will work directly with Pacific Islander focused groups such as, but not limited to PIEAM, Purple Maia, and Kamehameha Schools, and will participate in a 4 hour/week for 10 week practicum placement with one or two pre-college youth.  

    Prerequisite(s): Experience in digital art and computational media
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • MS 159 SC - Foundations of Computational Photography

    This class will study photographic technology from prehistoric times to 1976. Students will build photographic devices, reproduce chemistry, and make images following techniques ranging from archaeological optics, lensed cameras, all the way to the first digital sensor cameras. Activities include building camera obscuras, pinhole cameras, lensed cameras, and electronic light sensors. Students will use these devices to create projections, photograms, cyanotypes, and electronic images. We will pay special attention to the work required to create durable images and consider a range of ideas about the legibility and meaning of photography.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • MS 160 SC - Computational Photography 2

    Computers can correct flaws in traditional photography, and photographers are happy to use some or all of these tools to improve their images. Focus, aperture, and shutter may be automated alone or in concert. These fixes are just the beginning of the ways that computation will change photography. Soon cameras will make images without optics, manipulate time to sharpen the image, even see around corners to recover faces. We will study the impacts that computational photography will make on the arts, consider the consequences of new propaganda, and propose tactics to deal with these disruptions.  Part 2 builds on our study of cameras and representation and moves into computer vision, image processing, digital cameras, image segmentation, high-dynamic-range imaging, texture analysis and synthesis, object detection, and projector-camera systems. Course work includes implementing relevant algorithms and completing a final project.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 159 SC  or introductory programming class.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • MS 170 HM - Digital Cinema: Experimental Animation

    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.
  

  • MS 173 HM - Exile in Cinema

    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.
  

  • MS 180 SC - Junior Seminar in Media Studies Production

    The Junior Seminar in Media Studies Production is a studio/seminar course that prepares majors for their senior thesis project and exhibition. The course surveys contemporary practices, explores current issues, and fosters interdisciplinary thinking and production in film/video and digital/electronic art. Course material (including readings, screenings, discussions, guest speakers, and off-campus field trips) will enable students to situate their own work within the larger context of the independent media art world. Research, writing methods and critiques will help students to better understand, give meaning to, and publicize their practice. Students will be expected to make presentations and produce a final research paper or a final project with an accompanying paper.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 182 HM - Introduction to Video Art

    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.
  

  • MS 190 JT - Senior Seminar in Media Studies

    This is a team-taught thesis- and project-based seminar to be taken during the fall semester of the senior year. This seminar will emphasize the development of a senior exercise in one of the three tracks: film/video, critical studies, and digital/ electronic. Students in the critical studies or critical studies: film studies option will develop a major writing project that may be used in conjunction with their senior thesis in the spring. Students in the film/video and digital/electronic tracks will complete an approved project and a major paper about their work or area of concentration. The course prepares students with the skills and knowledge to continue their Media Studies practice and research post-graduation.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 191 JT - Senior Thesis in Media Studies

     This course meets the senior thesis requirement for those Scripps’ Media Studies majors chosen to attempt honors in the major and completing concentrations in Critical Studies or Critical Studies: Film Studies option. Prerequisites: MS 190 JT and Media Studies faculty approval of honors proposal.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 190 JT  and Media Studies faculty approval of honors proposal.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 192 JT - Senior Project & Paper in Media Studies

    This course meets the senior project requirement for those Scripps Media Studies majors chosen to attempt honors in the major and completing concentrations in Critical Studies, Film/Video or Digital/Electronic Media.  

    Prerequisite(s):   MS 190 JT  and Media Studies faculty approval of honors proposal.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • MS 192H SC - Honors Senior Project in Media Studies

    This course meets the senior project requirement for those Scripps’ Media Studies majors chosen to attempt honors in the major and completing concentrations in film/video or digital/electronic media.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 190  JT and Media Studies faculty approval of honors proposal.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 193 PZ - Directed Reading or Study in Media

    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.
  

  • MS 194 PZ - Media Arts for Social Justice

    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.
  

  • MS 196 PZ - Media Internship

    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.
  

  • MS 197 PZ - Media Praxis

    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.
  

  • MS 199 SC - Independent Study: Media Studies

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Music
  

  • MUS 003 SC - Fundamentals of Music

    In this course the student learns elementary concepts of melody, rhythm, harmony, and notation. Basic principles of sight-singing and reading music are included. No previous musical experience is required. This course, or its equivalent, is a prerequisite for MUS 101 SC - Music Theory I , and also will satisfy the fine arts requirement. Offered fall and spring.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • MUS 035 PO - Pomona College Band

    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.
  

  • MUS 037 PO - Jazz Ensemble

    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.
  

  • MUS 041 PO - Balinese Gamelan

    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.
  

  • MUS 049 HM - American Gamelan Ensemble

    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.
  

  • MUS 058 PO - Beethoven and His Sphere of Influence

    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.
  

  • MUS 060 PO - History of Jazz

    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.
  

  • MUS 061 PO - Musical Theatre in 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.
  

  • MUS 062 PO - Survey of American Music

    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.
  

  • MUS 063 HM - Music and the Peoples of the World

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • MUS 065 PO - Introduction to World Music

    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.
  

  • MUS 066 SC - Music Cultures of the World

    This course offers an introductory survey of selected musical traditions from geographical areas such as Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. It examines structure, content, materials, and performance contexts of local musics, and the broader role music plays in society as it relates to ethnicity, gender, religion, and politics.  This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 067 HM - Film Music

    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.
  

  • MUS 068 PO - Listening to American Popular Music

    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.
  

  • MUS 070 PO - Ethnomusicology

    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.
  

  • MUS 071 SC - Musicianship I

    In Musicianship I, students will develop the ability to sight-sing diatonic melodies, take dictation of rhythms and diatonic melodies, and play basic chord progressions on the keyboard. The students will also learn the rudiments of harmonic dictation and develop basic score reading skills. 

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 003 SC , or equivalent musical experience.
    Corequisite(s): This course should be taken in conjunction with MUS 101 SC .
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • MUS 072 SC - Musicianship II

    In Musicianship II, students will develop the ability to sight-sing chromatic melodies, take dictation of more complicated rhythms and melodies, play and aurally recognize diatonic and chromatic chord progressions, and read scores. . 

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 071 SC  and MUS 101 SC  
    Corequisite(s): This course should be taken in conjunction with MUS 102 SC  .
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • MUS 081 JM - Introduction to Music: Sound and Meaning

    This course explores important works of western music from diverse historical epochs through listening and selected readings. Elements of music, basic musical terminology, and notation are discussed. Attention is given to the relation of the arts—especially music—to culture and society. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 085 SC - Group Piano

    Beginning and intermediate instruction in a digital piano lab setting with groups consisting of no more than nine students. Emphasis on performing solo and duet repertoire as well as learning to sight read, transpose, and provide harmonic accompaniment. Repeatable for credit 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits.

    Formerly MUS 085A, 085B, 085C, and 085D.

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


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

  • MUS 088 HM - Introduction to Computer Music

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • MUS 089 SC - Group Voice

    Voice instruction classes consisting normally of four to six students. A study of vocal literature and technique with emphasis on the fundamentals of music necessary for the beginning to intermediate singer. Repeatable for credit 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits.


    Formerly MUS 089A, 089B, 089C, 089D.

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


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

  • MUS 091 PO - Perception, Cognition, and the History of Sound

    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.
  

  • MUS 092 SC - Voice for Musical Theatre

    This course is a study of techniques of applied voice and their application to American musical theatre and American popular song traditions. Participation in scheduled class meetings and performance labs is required. Half-hour weekly lessons(H)earn half-course credit per semester. Repeatable 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits. Credits do not count toward the music major.

    Prerequisite(s): Audition/permission of instructor required.
    Corequisite(s): MUS 003 SC  is recommended, but not required.
    Fee: $75.00 course fee
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • MUS 096A PO - Electronic Music Studio

    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.
  

  • MUS 096B PO - Electronic Music Studio

    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.
  

  • MUS 101 SC - Music Theory I

    The study of tonal harmony and counterpoint primarily based on 18th-century principles. Students will analyze examples from music literature of the 18th through 20th centuries and learn the rudiments of composition. This course will culminate in the composition of short works based on tonal models. 

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 003 SC  or equivalent musical experience.
    Corequisite(s): MUS 071 SC Musicianship I  
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • MUS 102 SC - Music Theory II

    The continuation of Theory I with a study of basic chromatic harmony and introduction to the analysis of 18th century forms. 

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 101 SC  or equivalent.
    Corequisite(s): MUS 072 SC Musicianship II  
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • MUS 103 SC - Music Theory III

    A study of chromatic harmony, analysis of musical forms of the 19th and early 20th centuries (e.g. piano prelude, sonata, lied, Broadway song), and composition of original works based on formal models.

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 102 SC  or equivalent
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • MUS 104 SC - Music Literature and Analysis Since 1900

    A historical and analytical study of music composed after 1900, focusing on harmonic and contrapuntal practices as well as advanced analytic techniques.

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 102  or by permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • MUS 110A SC - Music in Western Civilization

    In the first semester, this course will be a study of music from the Ancient World through the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. In the second semester, this course will be a study of music from the Classical, Romantic, and 20th-century periods. Interdisciplinary relationships to other arts will be examined in a historical context. Semesters may be taken in reverse order. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): Music reading ability (MUS 003  or equivalent).
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 110B SC - Music in Western Civilization

    In the first semester, this course will be a study of music from the Ancient World through the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. In the second semester, this course will be a study of music from the Classical, Romantic, and 20th-century periods. Interdisciplinary relationships to other arts will be examined in a historical context. Semesters may be taken in reverse order. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): Music reading ability (MUS 003  or equivalent).
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 112 SC - Introduction to Ethnomusicology

    This course introduces students to the central theories, methods, and approaches used in the study of ethnomusicology. Students will become familiar with key issues and points of debate, resources for research and teaching, as well as a brief survey of the history of the discipline. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 118 SC - Music in the United States

    A survey of the history and development of music in the United States, this course will examine the diverse musical cultures and traditions, including European, African, Latin American, Native American, Asian, and others that have come to this country and have influenced the works of musicians and composers in the United States. Musical examples from American popular culture (jazz, rock, country, and pop), from religious services and practices of various denominations and sects, from ethnic groups and folk cultures within the United States, and from art music in the United States will be studied as expressions of important concerns and values in our society, and as influences on music in other countries as well. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 119 SC - Women and Gender in Music

    This class will study the role of gender in music as reflected by women composers, performers, writers on music, and patrons. This class will also investigate how active participation in music making and performance by women shapes the ways in which gender is represented. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • MUS 120 SC - Music in Christian Practice

    Music serves an essential role in Christian worship and devotional practices. This course examines the musical practices in various historical and present-day worship settings ranging from medieval European monasteries and American revival campus to contemporary mainline Protestant churches of various racial and ethnic groups in the United States. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 121 SC - Music of the Spirits: Hawaiian, Balinese and Tewa Pueblo Indian

    In this course, we assess how systemic discrimination and exploitation of Asian/Pacific Islanders and Native Americans impacted sacred musical traditions by studying histories of cultural contact and conflict with dominant settler “civilization”. Readings draw upon writings and interviews by minority scholars speaking about their own cultures, in addition to respected local scholars in the area. These sacred musical practices are not only imbedded within indigenous religious traditions, they represent ongoing shifts in societal and religious perspectives. 

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • MUS 122 SC - The Color of Music: Race in Blues and Jazz

    Jazz and blues are often represented as American musical traditions which transcend social barriers. Yet political divisions of race, class, and gender are manifest in disagreements as to whom the music belongs. This course focuses on how the concept of race has “colored” American popular music, and addresses the issue of expressive authenticity: are the kinds of understanding critical to authentic performance in a musical style accessible only to members of the community from which it originates? Relationships between race and gender in blues and jazz historical discourse will also be explored. Previous musical training is desirable but not required. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 123 SC - Music and the Performance of Identities: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender

    This course explores the ways in which individuals and groups represent, transform, and create their identities through musical performance and other performative acts. Several issues of “musical identity” are discussed: creation and expression of gender through music, musical expressions of ethnic and/or racial identity, musical creation of “official” identities (including U.S. nationalism), and the representation of the self through music. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 130 SC - Rhythm and the Latina Body Politic

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • MUS 151F SC - Conducting

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

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

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


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

  • MUS 151H SC - Conducting

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

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

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


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

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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 170F SC - Voice

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

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

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


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

  • MUS 170H SC - Voice

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


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

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


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

  • MUS 171F SC - Piano

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

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

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


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

  • MUS 171H SC - Piano

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

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


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

  • MUS 172 SC - Chamber Music

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

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

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


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

  • MUS 173 JM - Claremont Concert Choir`

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


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

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


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

  • MUS 175 JM - Claremont Concert Orchestra

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

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

    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • MUS 176 JM - Claremont Treble Singers

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

    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • MUS 177F SC - Violin

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


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

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


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

  • MUS 177H SC - Violin

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

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

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


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

  • MUS 178 SC - Diction for Advanced Vocalists

    Students will learn the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and employ it in the study and analysis of lyrical texts and their vocal settings in the six languages most commonly found in the European classical vocal tradition (Italian, German, French, Spanish, English and Latin). They will learn to transcribe, translate, recite and perform pieces in Italian, German, French, Spanish, English and Latin. Students who do not wish to perform songs will be asked instead to perform dramatic readings in several of the languages.

    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Occasionally


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  • MUS 187 SC - Special Topics in Music

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • MUS 189 SC - Junior Recital

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

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


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

  • MUS 191 SC - Senior Thesis

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

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


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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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Neuroscience
  

  • NEUR 095L JT - Foundations of Neuroscience

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • NEUR 123 SC - Cognitive Neuroscience

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

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


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

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