May 27, 2024

2020-2021 Scripps Catalog

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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.

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Physics
	PHYS 108 KS - Programming for Science and Engineering A comprehensive introduction to programming using Matlab, the primary language of engineering computations. Topics include control constructs, internal and external procedures, array manipulations, user-defined data structures and recursions. These elements are used to develop some computational techniques needed in engineering. No prior computing experience required. Enrollment limited to 24. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	PHYS 114 KS - Quantum Mechanics with Computational Applications An upper-division course in quantum mechanics using both analytical and numerical methods to solve problems. Topics include Shroedinger’s wave mechanics, Heisenberg’s matrix formulations, Dirac formalism, hydrogen model, harmonic oscillators, spin and Pauli matrices, perturbation theory. Prerequisite(s): Differential Equations and/or Linear Algebra, PHYS 035 , PHYS 100 or equivalent, or by permission of instructor. (Prior knowledge of some basic elements or linear algebra - matrices eigenvectors, eigenvalues - is assumed.) Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	PHYS 115 KS - Statistical Physics with Computational Applications This upper-division course focuses on statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Topics include the laws of thermodynamics, kinetic and transport theory, quantum statistical mechanics (including microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical ensembles, Bose and Fermi statistics) and applications. Both analytical and numerical techniques will be emphasized. Prerequisites: PHYS035, MATH032, PHYS100 or equivalent. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 035 , MATH 032 , PHYS 100 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	PHYS 178 KS - Biophysics An examination of biological systems from the point of view of classical physics, including mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism. Topics may include molecular diffusion, low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics, cooperative transitions in biomolecules, the mechanism of nerve impulses, the physics of vision and hearing, and principles of medical imaging and radiation therapy. Prerequisite(s): BIOL 043L , or BIOL 040L , or BIOL042L KS ; CHEM 014L and CHEM 015L , or CHEM 040L and CHEM 015L , or CHEM 029L , or CHEM042L KS ; and PHYS 030L , PHYS 031L or PHYS 033L , PHYS 034L , or permission of instructor. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	PHYS 187 KS - Special Topics in Physics Selected topics in contemporary physics. Topics will vary from year to year, depending on instructor. Example areas could include solid-state physics, optics, material science, etc. Course may be repeated for credit (for different topics). Prerequisite(s): PHYS035 KS 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.
	PHYS 188L KS - Senior Thesis Research Project in Physics Seniors may apply to do laboratory or field investigation with a faculty member. The topic should be chosen by the end of the junior year. In this course, library and lab materials are developed, research begun, and seminar discussions held with faculty and students in the field of concentration. This is the first course for students doing a two-semester senior project. Registration in this course will be followed by registration in PHYS 190L . Fee: $50 Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	PHYS 189L KS - Senior Thesis Summer Research Project in Physics Students who intend to satisfy a two-semester senior thesis project by conducting a substantial research project during the summer after their junior year, should enroll in this course in the fall semester following their research. No credit towards graduation will be awarded for this course. Typically, registration in this course would be followed by registration in PHYS 190L . This course will be graded Pass/Fail. There is no lab fee for this course. Course Credit: No course credit Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	PHYS 190L KS - Senior Thesis Research Project in Physics, Second Semester Senior laboratory or field investigation research is culminated and results are summarized in a written thesis and formal presentation. This is the second semester course for those doing a two-semester research thesis. Fee: $50 Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	PHYS 191 KS - One Semester Senior Thesis in Physics All students who intend to complete a one-semester thesis should enroll in this course. Students are required both to submit a substantive written thesis–which may involve experimental work, analysis of datasets previously collected by other researchers, or a critical analysis of the literature–and to make a formal presentation. Students register for this course during the semester in which the one-semester thesis is written and due. There is no lab fee for this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	PHYS 199 KS - Independent Study in Physics See BIOL199 KS for details. Course Credit: 1.0 or 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Political Studies
	POST 106 PZ - Law and 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.
	POST 107 CH - Latino 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.
	POST 114 HM - Comparative Environmental Politics 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.
	POST 118 PZ - Criminalization of Latinos & Resistance 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.
	POST 128 PZ - The War on Terror 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.
	POST 140 HM - Global Environmental Politics 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.
	POST 156 PZ - Critical Race Theory 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.
	POST 159 PZ - Crime and Punishment 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.
	POST 174 CH - U.S. Immigration Policy 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.
	POST 175 CH - Immigration and Race 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.
	POST 186 PZ - Technology and 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.
	POST 190 PZ - Science, Politics, and Alternative 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.
	POST 198 CH - God in the Barrio 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.
Politics
	EEP 191 SC - Senior Thesis in Environment, Economics, and Politics Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 001B PO - Modern Political 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.
	POLI 005 PO - Introduction to Comparative Politics 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.
	POLI 007 PO - United States Foreign Policy 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.
	POLI 008 PO - Introduction to International Relations See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 033A PO - American Constitutionalism I: Structures of Power See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 033B PO - American Constitutionalism II: Rights and Liberties 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.
	POLI 060 PO - The Global Politics of Food and Agriculture 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.
	POLI 061 PO - The Global Politics of Water 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.
	POLI 100 SC - Introduction to International Relations This course provides a broad survey of issues in and approaches to the study of relations between states. We will examine enduring topics, such as diplomacy and the balance of power, as well as more recent phenomena, including the rise of international organizations and humanitarian international law to prominence since the mid-20th century. Open to first-year students. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 101 SC - International Political Economy The central problematic in the international economy is “globalization”—pressures for integration and uniformity across national boundaries. This course examines the dynamics of the main forces for globalization—trade, finance, and investment, the major supporting institutions—WTO, IMF, IBRD, and a central consequence—concerns about national “competitiveness.” Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 102 SC - Cooperation and Rivalry in the European Union The European Union is a unique instance of extensive cooperation among sovereign states. This course provides an introduction to European politics by examining the historical development of the European Union and some of its current controversies. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 105 SC - NATO in the 21st Century: The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is often referred to as history’s most successful alliance. But NATO suffered a severe identity crisis after the Cold War, with its members divided in their attitudes towards both the Alliance’s traditional leader (the United States) and its traditional adversary (Russia). This course examines the history and prospects of the Atlantic alliance, focusing on the policies of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 108 SC - Political Europe and Monetary Europe Following World War II, most of the states of western Europe—including most prominently France and the Federal Republic of Germany— embarked on a process of political reconciliation and economic integration. Using both primary and secondary source materials, this course will examine why plans for monetary cooperation, and ultimately monetary union, came to play such a significant role in these efforts. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 110 SC - Introduction to Comparative Politics This survey course introduces students to the field of comparative politics by investigating cross-national similarities and differences in politics, economies and societies through several illuminating empirical case studies and examines the strengths and weaknesses of comparative analysis as a methodological tool. Topics may include: the formation of states and nations; the evolution of democratic and non-democratic political regimes; political development and culture; the role of culture and religion in modern politics; policymaking; and modes of political participation and protest. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 111 SC - Politics and Markets in Latin America This course is designed to introduce students to the political economy of Latin America. The course will be organized thematically with readings that draw on several country examples. Some of the central themes of the course include: democracy and growth, structural reform, trade, debt, and inequality. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 112 SC - Mobilizing Islam How have social and political actors mobilized Islam in the modern public sphere, and why? This course explores the intellectual origins of Islamic revival movements through the writings of major thinkers, and considers how movements in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia, as well as transnational jihadi movements, have interpreted Islam for different political goals. Using the lenses of social movement theory, we will consider what drives Islamists to participate in elections, oppose established political regimes, promote conservative and activist interpretations of gender roles, give religious meaning to social activism, justify or oppose violence, expand their coalitions, and change their ideas. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 113 SC - People and Power in the Modern Middle East How have political identities, ideologies, institutions, public spheres and avenues for participation evolved in major Arab states, and how have people experienced power and exercised agency through them? This class explores opposition politics, social movements, youth politics, Islamism, gendered mobilizations, informal urban politics, cultural resistance, and the uprisings of 2011 Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Palestine, and the Gulf states. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 114 SC - Islam and Politics in the Middle East: Rulers, Reformers and Radicals Why is Islam such a potent political force in the Middle East? This course will assess Islam’s relationship with democracy in the modern Middle East. We will study how it has informed political ideologies, justified diverse forms of government, motivated revolutionaries, and inspired conservatives and reformers. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 115 SC - Politics of Identity in India: Religion, Caste, and Ethnicity Why have the politics of religion, caste, and ethnolinguistic identity remained vital in the world’s largest democracy despite socioeconomic developments that should weaken them? How does democracy weaken some identities and strengthen others? How do urbanization and media reshape the bonds of caste and religion? What causes communal violence? We will examine how identities have been structured by state laws and institutions, mobilized in elections and social movements, reshaped by social media and transnational politics, and sustained through conflict, starting with the national movement and including contemporary debates around the rise of the BJP, cow protection politics, and caste-based reservations. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 116 SC - The Politics of God Why and how does religion continue to exercise political influence in a secular age? This course examines how religion is mobilized in democratic politics, by national and state elites, and by revolutionary and fundamentalist movements in global,comparative case contexts. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 117 SC - Nations and Nationalism This course examines the concepts of nations and nationalism and their relationships with modernity, the nation-state, and democracy. It investigates, from a comparative perspective, the production of politically salient identities around questions of national identity, language, religion, and ethnicity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the West and the non-West. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 118 SC - Korea and Korean Americans This course is an intensive introduction to North and South Korea, with their interlocking histories and greatly divergent economic, political, and social realities. The course pays special attention to the impact of U.S. foreign policy on Korean national formation and Korean American identity and community formation. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 119 SC - Public Policy in the European Union The members of the European Union have agreed to joint policies in some areas but not in others. This course examines EU policy in a number of different fields. Likely topics include: the Single Market; competition policy; trade policy; monetary union; and the Community budget. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 120 JT - Black Political Thought and the Literary Imagination How have black writers used literature in the service of political critique, development, resistance, transformation, and vision? What has the role of literature been shaping black political thought? In this course, we explore black political thought and literary imagination, with a particular focus on American authors. We will consider works by writers such as James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, Martin Delany, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison, among others. This course is co-taught at Pomona and Scripps. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 120 SC - Introduction to U.S. Politics This survey course introduces students to the major institutions and processes of American politics. Topics may include Congress, the Supreme Court, the Presidency, groups and movements, federalism, the role of the media, voter turnout, macroeconomic policy, and public discontent with government. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 121 SC - Ending Mass Incarceration This course engages in a grounded examination of how communities of color engage in political struggle over the ideologies and practices of mass incarceration in the United States. The focus is on understanding the relationship between race, social welfare, and the prison-industrial complex through text and direct engagement with individuals and organizations involved in social justice work that confronts mass incarceration. Course is repeatable for credit. The course is project-based, with different projects each semester it is offered, as such, will not cover the same material from year to year. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 122 SC - The Power Elite This course explores the relationship between business and government domestically and internationally. Topics include: business influence over public policy; relative power of financiers within the business community; role of financial structure in development and growth; and growing tension between capital mobility and national monetary sovereignty. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 123 SC - Power, Justice, and the Environment This course begins with the empirical premise that the planet is in an environmental crisis and recognizes the normative imperative to stop the ongoing catastrophe. We survey past and current formations of political organizing to combat the problems of environmental inequality including but not limited to climate change. How do politically engaged organizations and movements interrogate the social scientific evidence concerning environmental inequality and how do they combat it? How do they understand the political, social, economic, and environmental forces including but not limited to environmental racism that produce environmental inequalities, and how do they incorporate their analyses into their political campaigns? How do political movements seeking to transform environmental inequality incorporate theories of transformative social change that take into account multiple axes of difference and domination including but not limited to race, gender, class, and nationality? Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 124 SC - Race in American Politics This course examines the centrality of race in American politics. The course examines how racial and ethnic interest groups pursue political power and the relative success of their efforts. Thematically, the course will focus on how these groups interact with strategic political actors working within established political institutions. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 125 SC - Voting, Campaigning, and Elections This course is designed to provide a strong theoretical background in understanding voting behavior, elite campaign strategies, and electoral systems. It also connects theory to the “real world” of elections. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 126 SC - Black Americans and the Political System This course focuses on the relationship between black Americans and the US government, as well as the continuing struggle for black empowerment since Reconstruction. Careful consideration and analysis will be given to the current social and economical conditions of the black community. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 127 SC - Politics and Public Policy of Asian Communities in the U.S This course examines the intersection between Asian Americans and the politics of race and ethnicity. Central to the course is the claim that understanding race is critical to understanding American politics and that any sophisticated analysis of race must include the role of Asians in America. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 128 SC - Race and American Capitalism This course engages in a grounded examination of the contemporary political struggle of communities of color negotiating capitalist ideologies and practices. Students directly engage with individuals and organizations involved in social justice work rooted in working-class communities of color. Foci include civil rights, environmental justice, public health, economic justice, and the criminal legal system. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 129 SC - Toward Economic Dignity in the Real World This seminar asks how individuals in the academy can contribute directly to sustained efforts for economic dignity and justice in Los Angeles and California more broadly. Students will study topics including but not limited to policy campaigns, strategy development, alliances between workers centers and organized labor, state politics, social media, and popular education. To the extent possible, students will have opportunities to directly engage ongoing policy campaigns and communications projects at the city and statewide level. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 130 SC - Introduction to Political Economy This course explores the ways in which the study of politics and economics are interrelated, and introduces students to several models that attempt to explain and analyze the ways in which politics and economics affect each other. These include public choice theory, game theory, new institutionalism, and neo-Marxism. Open to first-year students. Offered spring. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 132 SC - Wealth, Poverty and Inequality Income inequality is an important and complex issue that faces every society. The challenge of managing inequality from a policy perspective is not merely a political concern, but one that is fundamentally economic, psychological, sociological, historical, philosophical, and geographic in nature. In this trans-disciplinary course, students will engage the diverse literature on income inequality to develop a nuanced understanding of the issue and, ultimately, develop a policy proposal to manage rising income inequality with a multifaceted approach. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: One-time offering Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 134 SC - Infrastructures of Justice This research seminar focuses on the question, “Do markets result in just outcomes?” Most answers to this question seem to be virtually predetermined, but focus little attention on the question, “Under what conditions do markets result in just or unjust outcomes?” The premise here, to be explored through the students’ original case study research projects, is that markets as deeply embedded societal structures simply perpetuate underlying social conditions, be they just or unjust. Examples include white supremacy, patriarchy, land and asset distribution derived from colonial and slave plantation systems. However, markets can also reinforce social justice whether through, for example, community-based development projects or marketable permits for industrial pollution. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 135 PO - Policy Implementation and Evaluation 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.
	POLI 135 SC - Political Economy of Food This course will focus on social, cultural, racial and gendered power relations around the production, distribution, consumption, and waste of food in the United States and globally. We will address these issues in an intergenerational partnership with elder co-learners from Pilgrim Place and other elders similarly committed to social justice. Students in this course will register for a ½-course credit (4-7 hours per week) co-requisite internship in which they will explore alternative food practices through community engagement projects. Corequisite(s): POLI 135L . Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 135L SC - Political Economy of Food Lab This is a required lab involving off-campus community engagement work that is directly connected to classroom discussion and reading for POLI 135 . Students will attend one or two established programs that meet weekly at regular times for a minimum 3 hours a week. The professor is on site for both of these programs during the entire required lab time. Corequisite(s): POLI 135 . Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 136 PO - Environmental Justice and Public Policy 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.
	POLI 140 SC - Introduction to Political Theory This survey course examines the evolution of central political concepts in the western tradition through close readings of major texts in political theory. Students will be introduced to the political thought of authors such as Plato, Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, and Mill, as well as contemporary writings. Special attention will be given to changing understandings of liberty and authority, equality and rights, legitimacy, and democracy. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 141 SC - Politics of Race and American Popular Film This seminar investigates the social, political, and ethical issues surrounding representations of race in American popular film. Premised upon the insight that “race” is a social rather than a biological category, it examines racial identities as products of political relationships as well as sources of powerful political claims. The seminar uses film texts to gain a sharper understanding of the role of race in American politics as well as exploring the significance of popular film in constructing and defining racialized public memory. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 142 SC - Marxist and Post-Marxist Political Thought In American public discourse, news media, and academic institutions, political discussion is almost always circumscribed by the limits of liberal ideology. The language of political liberalism is so ubiquitous that many students will be unaware of how their own moral sensibilities and political intuitions are products of liberal thought. In contrast, this course draws upon Marxist, post-modern, and post-colonial theory to explore radical perspectives on politics, economics, culture, and power. A basic familiarity with liberal political philosophy, while helpful, is not required. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 143 SC - Civil Liberties and Fundamental Rights While civil liberties protect the individual from coercive power by outlining what the government must not do, civil rights protect the individual from coercive power by obligating the government to take positive action. This course examines civil liberties and civil rights in American public law and jurisprudence. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 144 SC - Legal Storytelling and the Rule of Law This course examines the competing claims of “legalism” (with its emphasis on formal rules and neutral principles) and “legal storytelling” (which prioritizes subjective experiences of the law as actually practiced) regarding questions of race, gender, and justice in American constitutional law. Through close readings of both literary and legal texts, the course adopts a humanistic approach to legal scholarship, locating the force of law within its discursive and rhetorical dimensions. Topics to be discussed include: rights to privacy, sexuality and reproductive freedom; sexual harassment and racist speech; anti-discrimination, integration, and affirmative action. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 145 SC - Race, Violence, and the Law This course investigates the relationship between race, violence and law in the American context. Law is often understood to derive its legitimacy from its opposition to violence. And yet, paradoxically, the enforcement of law is inseparably bound to acts of state violence, both threatened and enacted. What role has law played in organized movements to suppress race-based violence? How have appeals to law supplied tools of recourse, resistance, political struggle, and freedom? Alternatively, when and how might law create, sustain, or institutionalize violence against people of color? What roles do gender and sexuality play in negotiating the boundaries of violence and law? Drawing principally from African American political thought, this course considers the relationship between violence and law in three historical contexts: slavery and abolition, segregation and civil rights, and the rise of mass incarceration. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 149 AF - Africana Political Theory in the United States Given the Black dispersal throughout the world, Africana Political Theory will analyze the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the formation of political structures through the African Diaspora. Utilizing the texts of Black scholars throughout the Diaspora, the course will provide a broad look into Black politics. Prerequisite: at least one course in Africana Studies. Prerequisite(s): At least one course in Africana Studies. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 149 PO - Science, Technology, and Public Policy 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.
	POLI 150 SC - Introduction to Public Policy This course addresses the public policy process through policy formulation, implementation, and oversight in the United States. We will cover various dynamics of both formalized political institutions, particularly evinced through federalism and the separation of powers, as well as special interests and the prominence of “The Third House.” The first half of the semester will focus on processes, while the second half will evaluate government policies surrounding specific issues including climate change, poverty, and violence. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 151 SC - Women and Public Policy This course addresses social dynamics related to femininity and masculinity and the consequent politics and policy choices that evolve from notions of difference between men and women. We explore gendered representation as a central category of analysis, and focus on the concept of womenhood in the American policy process. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 152 SC - Women and the Law The purpose of this course is twofold: first, to broadly explore whether gender matters within the legal context; and second, to provide an introduction to the structure of constitutional and statutory legal doctrine that apply when claims of sex discrimination are made. The first part of the course will provide an overview of the American court system and the ways that gender has affected citizenship status. The second part will deal with the major constitutional themes that are invoked in sex discrimination cases and their evolution across time. We will also consider how alternative schools of legal thought address these issues. The final part of the course will examine more closely specific gender policy areas that have been brought before the judiciary. Particular attention will be paid to employment law, reproductive rights, family law and criminal law. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 153 SC - Environmental Policy in the United States This course focuses on federal policy regarding the environment in the United States. It will provide a history of environmental protection as well as analysis of current policy and the politics of regulation and US participation in international efforts to stem carbon emissions. Close attention will be paid to issues of energy/fossil fuels, environmental justice, and epigenetics. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 154 SC - Future of Higher Education This seminar considers the past, present, and possible future organization of higher education in the United States. We will examine the origins of its current organization, the circumstances under which these features arose, and how issues such as the cost, access, and technological change are influencing debates about its future. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 155 SC - Marginalized Communities This course explores definitions, mechanisms, and experiences of marginalized communities in the United States, with specific attention paid to racial minority groups, women and children, immigrants, the LGBT community, and the poor. What hurdles exist for these communities as they attempt to navigate social, political and economic processes in the US? How do federal, state and local policies hurt or bolster these communities? Readings will be drawn from across the social sciences. Formerly offered as Core 2. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 156 SC - Women and Public Policy This course addresses social dynamics related to femininity and masculinity and the consequent politics and policy choices that evolve from notions of difference between men and women. We explore gendered representation as a central category of analysis, and focus on the concept of womenhood in the American policy process. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 157 SC - Black Feminist & Womanist Thought The purpose of this advanced seminar is to examine the social, political, economic, and religious/spiritual forces that shape the lives of Black women in America. Black feminism argues that the race/racism, gender identity, and class oppression are inextricably tied together. Womanist theology is a contemporary theological discipline that aims to place African American women at the center of God, The Bible, and life experience. This seminar seeks to place Black feminist thinkers in conversation with womanist theologians. The course aims to interrogate the rise of the first generation of womanist theologians and Black feminist thinkers; examine the coherence of key intellectual ideas; and analyze outstanding social, political, theological issues, and methodological approaches. Readings are exclusively and intentionally from the voices of African American/Black women. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 167 JT - The Arab Spring and the Remaking of the Middle East Why did the Arab Spring end in authoritarian reassertion or state disintegration (with Tunisia as the sole success)? Starting with the lineages of state formation and divergent trajectories of populist-authoritarianism, rentierism, praetorianism, and Islamist-secular polarization, we explore how various Arab states adapted to challenges in the 1980s-1990s and explore what led to the 2011 uprisings. We ask what structural legacies and key choices set states on track for democratization, coups, civil war or monarchical reassertion after 2011, assess the influence of outside actors, and consider prospects for stability and democracy in the region. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every 1-2 years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 173 SC - Remaking the Self and Changing the World: Social Movements in the Middle East and United States How do social movements change the world by changing ideas, identities, and norms about the public good? How do they introduce new actors and forms of activism into the political sphere? How do activists frame and mobilize social norms and identities, tap emotions, and build new embodied and virtual networks for political goals, and what makes them succeed or fail? This class explores these questions in comparative context, through cases spanning the Christian Right and AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power in the United States, Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Syria, religious and gendered activism in Saudi Arabia, Palestinian militants, and transnational human rights networks. Meets Social Science general education requirement. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 180 SC - Research Design This course provides an introduction to methodology in the social sciences generally, and political science in particular. The aim is to enhance understanding of both qualitative and quantitative analyses of political phenomena, and to assist students in employing suitable methodologies when conducting research of their own. Scripps Politics majors should plan to take this course in either their sophomore orjunior year as preparation for writing their senior thesis. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 184 SC - Qualitative Approaches to Comparative Political Analysis This is an advanced seminar that introduces majors to debates and methods in qualitative approaches to analyzing and explaining political phenomena. We will focus on what the comparative method allows us to know about politics, and study how comparativists pose and answer research questions and approach causality, through case studies, comparative historical analysis, process tracing, discourse analysis, and interpretive methods. Readings will pair methods with literatures on topics like democratization, social movements, ethnic conflict, nationalism, and political violence, and students will produce original research plans. Recommended for students planning to write theses in comparative politics. Meets the Social Science general education requirement. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 187 SC - Special Topics in Politics An undergraduate course designed to cover various aspects of politics. Possible topics are drawn from political theory, public law, and jurisprudence, American politics, comparative politics, political economy, and international relations. Repeatable for credit with different topics. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 187B SC - Race, Gender, and Welfare State Politics Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 187D SC - Gender Politics and Public Policy Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 187I SC - Race, Education and Law This course will explore how race, American jurisprudence, and state and federal laws impact education in the U.S. More specifically, the course will explore education as a “commodity”, as a “right”, and whether various court decisions and laws support one classification or the other. The course will utilize lectures and the Socratic method. Course materials will include a review and analysis of selected caselaw, statutes, articles and book excerpts. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 187K SC - Race, Nation, and Baseball This seminar examines the formation of the United States through the lens of baseball. From Dodger Blue to the Cuban national team to the World Baseball Classic, we will consider how race, class, ethnicity, nation, and gender dynamics have determined the business and practice of the game, how baseball itself shapes the contours of race and nation, and how it has been a force for globalizing the political economy. The course will use a variety of material for its texts ranging from historical studies, documentary and feature films, web sites, and visits to baseball games and parks. Fee: Varies Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 187M SC - Feminist Political Thought Feminist political thinkers shed light on the role of gender in shaping our social position and experience of the world. In this course, we will read authors who take up questions of gender-based oppression in order to make visible marginalized persons and groups, and seek out practices of political empowerment and solidarity. We consider themes and episodes including the women’s, black feminist, and Chicana liberation movements; the evolving problem of gender and capitalism - from women’s relegation to the domestic sphere to the contemporary exploitation of care work in neoliberal economies; racialized sexuality and governmental power; experiences of inheritance, depression, anxiety, and anger; and reparative strategies of care and resistance. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 190 SC - Senior Seminar Students will assess goals for thesis and pursue them via active research and writing, become familiar with conventions of research article writing in political science, learn how to craft an argument situated in an academic literature, and learn how to revise an argument to make it more persuasive. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 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.
	POLI 195A SC - Politics Practicum: Food Justice This course will examine alternatives to dominant food practices and will explore such practices through experiential projects and involvement in community organizations. Groups of students will work each week directly in local middle and high schools, the Chino Women’s Correctional facility, and a transitional home for women recently released from prison. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	POLI 199 SC - Independent Study Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Portuguese
	PORT 022 SC - Intensive Introductory Portuguese Designed for students with a strong background in Spanish, this course provides a fast-paced introduction to the Portuguese language, with an emphasis on grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation in the context of Brazilian culture. Instructor permission required. Taught in Portuguese. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Psychology
	PSYC 012 AF - Introduction to African American Psychology 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.
	PSYC 037 CM - Organizational Psychology 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.
	PSYC 051 PO - Introduction to Psychological Science 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.
	PSYC 052 SC - Introduction to Psychology A consideration of critical issues in psychology and methods of studying human behavior. Analysis of evidence and theory from a variety of approaches to psychology, including experimental and clinical approaches. Prerequisite(s): Required as prerequisite for all psychology courses. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

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PHYS 108 KS - Programming for Science and Engineering

PHYS 114 KS - Quantum Mechanics with Computational Applications

PHYS 115 KS - Statistical Physics with Computational Applications

PHYS 178 KS - Biophysics

PHYS 187 KS - Special Topics in Physics

PHYS 188L KS - Senior Thesis Research Project in Physics

PHYS 189L KS - Senior Thesis Summer Research Project in Physics

PHYS 190L KS - Senior Thesis Research Project in Physics, Second Semester

PHYS 191 KS - One Semester Senior Thesis in Physics

PHYS 199 KS - Independent Study in Physics

POST 106 PZ - Law and Politics

POST 107 CH - Latino Politics

POST 114 HM - Comparative Environmental Politics

POST 118 PZ - Criminalization of Latinos & Resistance

POST 128 PZ - The War on Terror

POST 140 HM - Global Environmental Politics

POST 156 PZ - Critical Race Theory

POST 159 PZ - Crime and Punishment

POST 174 CH - U.S. Immigration Policy

POST 175 CH - Immigration and Race in America

POST 186 PZ - Technology and Politics

POST 190 PZ - Science, Politics, and Alternative Medicine

POST 198 CH - God in the Barrio

EEP 191 SC - Senior Thesis in Environment, Economics, and Politics

POLI 001B PO - Modern Political Theory

POLI 005 PO - Introduction to Comparative Politics

POLI 007 PO - United States Foreign Policy

POLI 008 PO - Introduction to International Relations

POLI 033A PO - American Constitutionalism I: Structures of Power

POLI 033B PO - American Constitutionalism II: Rights and Liberties

POLI 060 PO - The Global Politics of Food and Agriculture

POLI 061 PO - The Global Politics of Water

POLI 100 SC - Introduction to International Relations

POLI 101 SC - International Political Economy

POLI 102 SC - Cooperation and Rivalry in the European Union

POLI 105 SC - NATO in the 21st Century: The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress

POLI 108 SC - Political Europe and Monetary Europe

POLI 110 SC - Introduction to Comparative Politics

POLI 111 SC - Politics and Markets in Latin America

POLI 112 SC - Mobilizing Islam

POLI 113 SC - People and Power in the Modern Middle East

POLI 114 SC - Islam and Politics in the Middle East: Rulers, Reformers and Radicals

POLI 115 SC - Politics of Identity in India: Religion, Caste, and Ethnicity

POLI 116 SC - The Politics of God

POLI 117 SC - Nations and Nationalism

POLI 118 SC - Korea and Korean Americans

POLI 119 SC - Public Policy in the European Union

POLI 120 JT - Black Political Thought and the Literary Imagination

POLI 120 SC - Introduction to U.S. Politics

POLI 121 SC - Ending Mass Incarceration

POLI 122 SC - The Power Elite

POLI 123 SC - Power, Justice, and the Environment

POLI 124 SC - Race in American Politics

POLI 125 SC - Voting, Campaigning, and Elections

POLI 126 SC - Black Americans and the Political System

POLI 127 SC - Politics and Public Policy of Asian Communities in the U.S

POLI 128 SC - Race and American Capitalism

POLI 129 SC - Toward Economic Dignity in the Real World

POLI 130 SC - Introduction to Political Economy

POLI 132 SC - Wealth, Poverty and Inequality

POLI 134 SC - Infrastructures of Justice

POLI 135 PO - Policy Implementation and Evaluation

POLI 135 SC - Political Economy of Food

POLI 135L SC - Political Economy of Food Lab

POLI 136 PO - Environmental Justice and Public Policy

POLI 140 SC - Introduction to Political Theory

POLI 141 SC - Politics of Race and American Popular Film

POLI 142 SC - Marxist and Post-Marxist Political Thought

POLI 143 SC - Civil Liberties and Fundamental Rights

POLI 144 SC - Legal Storytelling and the Rule of Law

POLI 145 SC - Race, Violence, and the Law

POLI 149 AF - Africana Political Theory in the United States

POLI 149 PO - Science, Technology, and Public Policy

POLI 150 SC - Introduction to Public Policy

POLI 151 SC - Women and Public Policy

POLI 152 SC - Women and the Law

POLI 153 SC - Environmental Policy in the United States

POLI 154 SC - Future of Higher Education

POLI 155 SC - Marginalized Communities