May 06, 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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History
	HIST 141 SC - Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor, and Organizing Designed from the perspective of Latin American and Caribbean history, this seminar addresses the resistance strategies of workers who were enslaved and free, rural and urban, female and male, union and non-union. The workers’ own voices and analyses are foregrounded. Eduardo Galeano’s famous interpretive essay Open Veins of Latin America serves as a narrative thread for the course. Several of the case studies examine relations between workers in Latin America or Caribbean countries and their U.S. employers, as well as Black, Latinx workers in the United States. In other words, this course offers an economic history through the eyes of people who have labored in subhuman conditions. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every three semesters Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 143 SC - Cuba/Bolivia/Venezuela: Revolution We will explore how racial identities have shaped resistance in Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela, and analyze the nature of new freedoms in these contemporary revolutions. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 144 SC - Haiti & Colombia - Maroon Nations & Paramilitary States This course looks at two countries that are not commonly compared, Haiti and Colombia, with a focus on the African Diaspora. Starting in 1791, the enslaved broke their chains in the Haitian Revolution and radically recast the promise of freedom in the Americas. Colombia is home to the second largest Black population in Latin America after Brazil, and Blacks have stood at the heart of its struggles for dignity across the course of the nation’s history. Throughout the colonial era (1697 to 1791 in Haiti and the 1520s to 1810 in Colombia), the poor practiced marronage or escape from beneath the control of European slave elites and metropoles. Metaphorically, those who liberate themselves or break free are the maroon nations, the peoples who have built societies based upon egalitarianism and profound respect for the land. Ranged against them were elites closely tied to Europeans, at first, and then to the United States, up to the present. Black Colombians have won rights to the land that are historic for all people in the African Diaspora in the hemisphere. The Black majority of Haiti has, in recent decades, twice elected a president who obeys the will of the poor, and that sort of political project has encountered the full wrath of foreign soldiers, extractive economic models, and U.S.-backed coups. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every three semesters Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 144 CM - Reagan’s America: The Politics and Culture of the 1980s 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.
	HIST 146 SC - Zapatistas/Mayan Rebels Through oral tradition and “people’s history,” this course looks at revolutionary movements in Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico. Readings focus on the words and actions of the Maya as well as texts in film, poetry, history and political economy. Many of the texts are classics of Latin American culture, such as the chronicles of the 1500s, the words of Rigoberta Menchú during the 1980s genocide in Guatemala, and the challenge of Zapatista rebels in Chiapas to build a world with dignity for all. Among the subjects we will explore are oral histories of the poor as a source for talking about national history; changing approaches toward racial identities across recent decades; centering campesino and working-class gender perspectives; Zapatista challenges to heterosexism; counter-hegemonic conceptions of time and space. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every three semesters Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 147 PO - Mughal India 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.
	HIST 148 PZ - Gender and Sexuality in Africa 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.
	HIST 150 HM - Technology and Medicine 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.
	HIST 151 HM - Science in Fiction 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.
	HIST 152 HM - History of Modern Physics 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.
	HIST 153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America This course examines the role of power and race in the lives and experiences of slave women in antebellum United States mainly through primary and secondary readings. Topics include gender and labor distinctions, the slave family, significance of the internal slave trade, and regional differences among slave women’s experiences. The course ends with slave women’s responses during the Civil War. Offered alternate years. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 154 SC - The Old South and Modern Memory This course explores the complexity and diversity of the Old South and the way in which this period and region continue to fascinate Americans. An in-depth examination of relationships between slaveholders and slaves, slaveholders’ wives, and slave women and slave men is a critical part of the course. Readings include diaries, slave narratives, and monographs that reveal the character of Southern society. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 155 SC - Women, Gender, and US Colonialism How have women and gender informed colonization in U.S. history? Was gendercide, not just physically, but also culturally, emotionally, and spiritually, central to all colonial regimes? How have women and gender minorities resisted and/or furthered the goals of American empire? What have past and contemporary Indigenous and other colonized people, such as members of the Chicana/x and Latina/x communities, had to say on these topics? This course will explore these questions by considering formal and informal colonial and imperialist practices in a variety of regions claimed by the United States through the present day. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: One-time offering in spring 2021 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 161 CM - Modern Korean History See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 163 CM - Modern Chinese History, 1750 to the Present 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.
	HIST 164 CM - Mao’s China: Revolutionary Leadership and Its Consequences 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.
	HIST 166 CM - Murder and Mayhem in Imperial China 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.
	HIST 166 SC - Self and Society: Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S. This course explores the relationship of individuals, communities, and social change through readings in autobiographical, social scientific, philosophical, and political essays. How did writers and activists connect self-understanding, social analysis, and political transformation? Topics include the meanings of identity, the formation of community, the challenge of democracy, violence and justice, and the possibilities of resistance and hope. Readings include works by Angela Davis, W.E.B. Du Bois, Horace Kallen, James Baldwin, Jose Antonio Vargas, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Boas, Meridel Le Sueur, Reinhold Niebuhr, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Ta-Nehisi Coates. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 167 PO - Early Modern Japan 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.
	HIST 168 PZ - Diaspora, Gender, and Identity 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.
	HIST 168 PO - Modern Japan 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.
	HIST 169 SC - Gender, Race, and US Education How have racism and sexism defined education systems in the United States in the past and present? How did we get from predominantly gender-and race-segregated schools to our current moment? Why did schools like Claremont Men’s College and Pitzer Women’s College decide to go co-ed? What is the place of those who identify as genderqueer, nonbinary, trans, etc. at a women’s college like Scripps? This course will explore these questions by looking at the history of gender and race in education in the United States, focusing on the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: One-time offering in spring 2021 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 170 PZ - Hybrid Identities: Spanish Empire 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.
	HIST 171 AF - African American Women in the United States This course explores the distinctive and diverse experiences of women of West African ancestry in the United States from the 17th century to the present. Topics, including labor, activism, feminism, family and community, are examined within a theoretical framework. Narratives, autobiographies, letters, journals, speeches, essays, and other primary documents constitute most of the required reading. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race This course examines ideas about race, nationality, and citizenship in African American intellectual thought in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Taught as a reading/discussion seminar, students are introduced to major themes, controversies and contradictions among Black intellectuals engaged in public and scholarly conversations about the role and function of race in contemporary U.S. society. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 173 PZ - Religion, Violence, and Tolerance, 1450-1650 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.
	HIST 174 SC - The U.S. in the 1960s The Sixties has a particular hold on our present. Why? How do we disentangle history from memory, memory from nostalgia? To answer these questions, this course examines the hopes, struggles, and impact of the decade by focusing on conflicts over the meanings of “American” as a source of individual and collective identity and polemical purpose in the U.S. and in the international movements against war, racism and imperialism. Topics include liberalism, civil rights and nationalist movements, immigration, environmentalism, women’s liberation and the sexual revolution, the Vietnam War and the national security state, counterculture, and the rise of the New Right. Students will have the opportunity to do the work of historians in original sources. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 175 PZ - Magic, Heresy and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1400-1700 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.
	HIST 175 SC - War, Empire, and Society in the U.S., 1898-Present This course will investigate the roots and impact of war on American society since the Spanish-American War, with emphasis on social, ideological, and cultural issues. Topics include the relationship between ideals and ideology, national security and civil liberties, reform and dissent, imperialism and national identity. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era Mainly through primary readings, film, and guest lecturers, this course explores the origins, development, and impact of the modern African American struggle for civil rights in the United States. Particular emphasis is placed on grassroots organizing in the Deep South. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 177 SC - The U.S. in the 1920s: Fords, Flappers, and Fundamentalists Conjuring up images of the Jazz Age, the decade between the Great War and the Great Depression saw the birth of modernity. This course will explore this contradictory transformation: The Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation; mass-consumer culture and the New Woman, the revolt against Victorianism and fundamentalism, pluralism, and nativism. By the end of the semester, we will be able to answer the question, “How did the 1920s roar?” Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 178 CM - Nation and Nationalism in the Global Middle East See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 179 CM - Researching the Holocaust 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.
	HIST 180 SC - History in a Time of Crisis References to “history” abound in the context of America’s current political crisis. But why and how is history especially relevant now? Is its lesson primarily instructive, to teach us that the past either repeats itself or is constituted by unique events? Does history provide critical distance to help us reflect on the present maelstrom of political rancor and division? Or might its uses even be emotional or psychological, offering comfort and shelter from a harsh contemporary reality? This course will consider these questions and others through a reading of historical monographs dealing with a variety of topics, time periods, and places. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 181 PO - Sex, Drugs, and Revolution: The Global Sixties 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.
	HIST 182 CM - Human Health and Disease in American History See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 183 CM - The Fall of Rome and the End of Empire 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.
	HIST 185 PZ - Information Revolutions x.0 and z.0: the Printing Press and Internet 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.
	HIST 188 CM - Travel and Encounter in the Islamic World 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.
	HIST 189F PO - Muslim Societies in African History See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 190 CM - Race and American Cities 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.
	HIST 191 SC - Senior Thesis Fall enrollment for a one-semester thesis, or a two-semester thesis. Enroll for HIST192 SC in the spring for a two-semester thesis. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 192 SC - Senior Thesis Spring enrollment for a two-semester thesis; enroll in HIST191 SC for the fall semester. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 197 SC - Topics in Historical Study Intensive and focused study of specific historical periods, nations, figures, problems, or themes. 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.
	HIST 197D SC - Contagion! Historical Pandemics and the Globalized World This class will examine worldwide pandemics through the lens of globalization. In what ways are pandemics a direct consequence of global exploration and trade? Where do these diseases start and where do they spread? But most important: how and why do they spread? And in what ways does the lived experience of a pandemic influence and become influenced by other social and cultural trends across the globe, particularly in science trends across the globe, particularly in science and religion? We will consider these questions zooming in on the following case studies: the Plague of Justinian, the Black Death, the Columbian Exchange, multiple outbreaks of Smallpox and Cholera in the 19th century, the Third Plague Pandemic, the ‘Spanish’ Flu of 1918, Polio, the Asian Flu of 1957, AIDS, and Ebola. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: One-time offering Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 197G JT - Rethinking Radicalism: Progress and Its Critics What else might radicalism mean? How and why did democrats abandon populism to the political right? Through these questions, we will consider whether or not there are inherent limits to much of contemporary progressive thought and action. Special attention will be given to the political and historical foundations of radical populism on the left and to the anti-progressive tradition of democracy. The diverse set of readings includes labor leaders, agrarian farmers, artists, religious figures, and civil rights organizers, as well as some major political thinkers. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 199 SC - Independent Study in History: Reading and Research Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Humanities The Humanities Institute was founded in 1986 to promote interdisciplinary research and public discussion of important issues in culture and society. Each semester the Institute sponsors a series of events on a significant theme in the humanities. The programs of the Institute include conferences, lectures, readings, exhibitions, and film series and bring to Scripps College scholars, scientists, and artists who are of special interest to the community. Students can apply to participate in the work of the Institute. Fellows, who are appointed for one term, take a research seminar (Humanities 195J) in addition to attending all the events of the Institute and creating a final project.
	HUM 195J SC - Fellowship in the Humanities Institute Fellows in the Scripps College Humanities Institute will work closely with the director on an experiential project related to the theme of the Institute in a given semester. The Fellowship in the Humanities Institute does not satisfy any general education requirement, but may be used once toward requirements of a major with approval of the faculty adviser in the major. Registration requires application. For information on applying, see www.scrippscollege.edu/campus/humanities-institute/indes.php. May apply to repeat once for credit. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Humanities Major: Culture
	HMSC 123 SC - Introduction to the Philosophy and History of Culture This course will focus on some of the major works in post-Enlightenment (19th and 20th centuries) thinking about culture: Kant’s Third Critique, Schiller’s Aesthetic Education, Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy. As well, it will examine later works on the historical development of the relationship between culture and society paying attention to the ways in which culture has shaped the social categories and experience of class, race, nation, and gender.This course is cross listed as HIST 123 SC. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 130 SC - Schools of Cultural Criticism: Culture and Critique This team-taught course will examine the categories by which philosophers, social scientists, historians, and literary critics have understood culture. Topics may include historicism (the role of history in defining individual experience), the development of mass culture and new media, and post-colonialism. May be completed twice for credit with different topics. This course is cross listed as HIST 130 SC. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 133 SC - Modernity and the Unconscious Beyond the theme of sexuality, Freud’s discovery of repression and the unconscious has been enormously influential in challenging the foundations of modern experience. This course brings Freud’s central analytic concepts into conversation with those of the twentieth-century philosopher Jacques Derrida in order to explore how the vision of a mind characterized by the unconscious has profoundly shaped aspects of modern experience. Topics to be addressed: scientific thought, love, death, identity. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 134 SC - Foundations in Postcolonial Theory This course provides an in-depth survey of key foundational texts in postcolonial theory. Students will learn the main tenets of theoretical paradigms advanced by postcolonial theorists and attain proficiency with the terminology of the field (ex. hegemony, subalternity, orientalism, hybridity, contamination, conviviality, etc.) emerging across geographies and disciplines from the 1950s to the present. The course will problematize the relationship of postcolonial theory as a field to discourses in feminist theory, globalization and transnationalism and application of the theories to real-world situations. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 136 SC - Critical Theory and Modern Culture This course explores historical and contemporary efforts to analyze and understand the complex relationship between culture and political economy. We will explore the emergence of the concept of culture and the critical discourses surrounding it from the rise of modern industry to contemporary crises. Topics include aesthetics and politics, literary genres, haunting, sexuality, cinema, and fascism. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 138 SC - Genet Among an impressive group of post-World War II European writers, Jean Genet stands out as perhaps the most versatile. He was, at once, novelist, playwright, philosopher, filmmaker, memoirist, and polemicist. Is this the reason why Genet’s works, though lauded by both Sartre and Derrida, today occupy a “minor” position in both the academy and the literate world beyond? Through a close reading of some of his most important texts, this course will consider how Genet deployed and confronted sexuality, family, morality, and nation as interrelated aspects of the operations of inclusion/exclusion so central to modern Western societies. This course is designed for mature audiences. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 139 SC - The Essay Film, History and Theory The essay film is a slippery form. It resists categorization and registers different ways of thinking about the world and one’s place in it; it typically blends documentary, experimental, and narrative elements into hybrid and subjective articulations. The course aims to combine theorizing the role of the “essayistic” and the formal analysis of the essay film, along with an informed sense of what the “essay” does. We explore the possible histories of the essay film and study the relationship among essays, the essayistic, and the essay film through a series of case studies. Readings include work by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Michel de Montaigne, Hito Steyerl, and Theodor Adorno. Possible filmmakers include Dziga Vertov, Alexander Kluge, Chris Marker, John Akomfrah, Harun Farocki, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, Agnès Varda, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Ja’Tovia Gary. Meets the Letters 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.
	HMSC 148 SC - The Poetry and Science of Sleep This course looks at ways scientists, social scientists, and artists approach sleep, and at ways sleep is positioned in various cultures and societies. It draws on multiple perspectives: neuroscience, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, immunology, psychoneuroimmunology, endocrinology. Instructor permission required. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 167 SC - Metropolis: Imagining the City Whether pictured as labyrinth, stage set, utopian pleasure-dome or gigantic living room, the urban landscape has played a crucial role in the attempt of 20th-century writers and artists to come to terms with modernity. The course will move from the squares of 19th-century Berlin, the grid of Manhattan, to the malls and theme parks of Los Angeles, using fiction (Poe, Kafka, Wm. Gibson), film (Lang, Wenders, R. Scott), essays (Eco, Didion), and urban theory (Sennett, Choay) to investigate how changes in the perception of the city reflect the ways modernity sees itself. Cross listed as GRMT 167 SC. This course is taught in English. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 191 SC - Senior Thesis Fall enrollment for a one-semester thesis, or a two-semester thesis. Enroll for HMSC192 SC in the spring for a two-semester thesis. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 192 SC - Senior Thesis Spring enrollment for a two-semester thesis; enroll in HMSC191 SC for the fall semester. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 199 SC - Independent Study in the Humanities major Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Interdisciplinary Studies
	ID 099 SC - Mellon Mays Undergraduate Seminar This course is an academic research and leadership seminar for Mellon Mays undergraduate Fellows. It will prepare students for graduate school. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every semester Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ID 191D SC - Senior Thesis for Dual Majors Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ID 191S SC - Senior Thesis for Self-Designed Majors Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ID 199 SC - Independent Study This course number may be used to enroll a student approved to complete an independent study of an interdisciplinary nature that does not fit into one of the established majors or programs and is overseen by two or more faculty from different academic departments. Offered only when approved by petition. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Italian
	ITAL 001 SC - Introductory Italian Instruction in Italian grammar supplemented by extensive readings and conversations concerning Italian life and culture. Emphasis on mastery of oral communication as well as use of the written language. Offered annually. Note: This course may not be counted in the major. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 002 SC - Continued Introductory Italian Review of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary as covered in the preceding course. Continuation of grammar study, with presentation of more complex grammar structures. Continuation of emphasis on oral communication. Note: This course may not be counted in the major. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 001 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 033 SC - Intermediate Italian Review of first year grammar, conversation, composition, and readings based on literary sources. Concentration on syntax, style, and idiomatic phrases. Note: This course may not be counted in the major. Offered annually. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 002 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 044 SC - Advanced Italian: Readings in Literature and Civilization Literary analysis and cultural perspectives, based on short stories, excerpts from longer works, and films. Offered annually. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 033 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 120 JT - Italian Cities This course will provide an interdisciplinary approach to the development of cities and urban spaces in Italy from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century. How have urban structures and social group identities changed from early city-states to modern metropolis with sprawling urbanization? What are the “narratives” produced around the city? Italian cities will be studied under the rubrics art history, architecture, literature and film. Taught in English. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 121 SC - The Italian Fairy Tale Tradition Even though Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Puss in Boots are among the most popular tales on a global scale, their Italian origins remain unknown or unclear to many. This course aims at unveiling the Italian fairy tale and folk tale traditions and depictions of the human condition through the works of authors such as Straparola (c.1480-1557) and Basile (1566-1632), the founders of this genre, who first blended realistic and fantastical elements in their collections. Students will read and analyze fairy tales written between the Renaissance and today in relation to the cultural milieu in which they originated and their adaptations in other genres and literary traditions. While it is true that numerous fairy tales were initially aimed at spreading civic and familial values among children and young adults, we will examine how many also contributed to the construction and perpetuation of stereotypes, gender roles, and discrimination. In this course, we will discuss questions concerning the narratological and literary aspects of fairy tales, the relationship between fairy tales and national identity, and the reworking of older fairy tales and the production of new ones, in regard to contemporary culture and its aspirations and anxieties. The course will end with readings of the latest “fairy tales” inspired by recent events such as the Mediterranean refugee crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 124 SC - La cultura del Fascismo This course will consider the texts, artifacts and documents that have accompanied the rise of Fascism in Italy (1919-22) and explore how these have contributed in creating a culture of Fascism. Students will consider texts surrounding the creation of the movement and party lead by Benito Mussolini, as well as its many forms of opposition we will also read contemporary texts and visual sources to reflect on the remnants of Fascist ideology in Italian culture and society after World War II. Prerequisite(s): ITAL044 SC or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 131 SC - The Disunification of Italy: 1861-1921 This course will explore the history, literature, and narratives surrounding the period from 1861-1921, from the Italian unification to the rise of Fascism. Material for class will consist of original texts and artistic expressions from the period, as well as contemporary revisitations of the time. Confronting the different ways of narrating an era, we will focus on themes such as class conflicts, the changing role of women and the family, the contemporaneous rise of anarchism, feminism, and colonialism. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 133 SC - Contemporary Italy This course explores recent trends in Italian literature, film and the arts. Organized around a different theme each time it is offered, it explores the current debates in literature, cinema, art, and popular culture, and their relation to Italian history and current events. Repeatable three times for credit with different topics. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 134 SC - Twentieth-Century Italian Women’s Literature Works by some of the most well known authors of the 20th century. What do these authors have to say about issues of social justice, and especially gender? How were these works received by various audiences? Who decides what books qualify as “great art,” and how? Authors to be read include: Sibilla Aleramo, Grazia Deledda, Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante, and Dacia Maraini. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 136 SC - Italians as Guests and Hosts: Intercultural Encounters in Current Italian Fiction This course examines the phenomenon of exchange between Italians and other cultures. Through their readings, students will gain an understanding of the experiences of Italian immigrants, who undergo the process of establishing themselves on foreign soil, as well as those of immigrants from abroad, who seek opportunities as “new Italians.” The course will take into account the changes in attitudes experienced by these guests as well as by their hosts. Authors to be read include: Erri de Luca, Laura Pariani, Carmine Abate, and Pap Khouma. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 137 SC - Italy as a Murder Mystery In this course, we will explore in detail all the characteristics of the “giallo” genre and subgenres related to it (such as horror stories and legal narratives), its widespread reception and its inherent multiple textuality, which includes novels, film and comic books. Such texts will open the way to the cultural analysis of the representation of real “gialli”, or violent episodes in Italian history that have been on the spotlight for different reasons and in different ways of investigation and have contributed to the formation of Italian modernity. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 140 SC - History of Italian Cinema This course will explore the history and criticism of Italian cinema from its origin to the 21st century through the showing of a number of iconic films and the criticism surrounding them. It will also help student better understand contemporary Italian history through film. Taught alternately in Italian and English. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 141 SC - Italian History Through Film This course will examine the important events that marked Italian history (1861- present) through the analysis of films produced during and/or about those times. We will not concentrate on film history, but rather on how cinema has portrayed history over the years. For this reason, the course will not explore well known masterpieces of Italian cinema, but we will instead analyze the impact of less known productions, films made for television or films that were not destined to foreign distribution, in order to analyze how Italian history has been translated into the popular imaginary. The course will be taught entirely in Italian. Meets Letters and Foreign Language general education requirements. Prerequisite(s): ITAL044 SC or equivalent proficiency Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 142 SC - Italian Cinema and Literature: The Decameron This course offers an introduction to Boccaccio’s Decameron, one of the masterpieces of Italian literature, through a close reading of Boccaccio’s collection of hundred tales, an investigation of the literary traditions (tradizioni) that converge in the most important prose work of the Italian Middle Ages, and its cinematic “translations” (traduzioni/tradimenti). During the semester, we will read all the novellas that have been adapted for the screen by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Decameron, 1971), and the Taviani brothers (Magnifico Boccaccio, 2015) identifying the challenges that such a classical Italian work presents to Italian filmmakers in their attempts to transcribe it into an audiovisual spectacle. By reading and analyzing a large selection of Boccaccio’s one hundred novelle, and watching and examining their corresponding filmic transpositions, we will address notions and problems of language, style, structure and content for each novella, together with the techniques of transposition of the written text to the movie screen. Syllabus Prerequisite(s): ITAL044 SC or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 145 SC - Italian Literature of Gastronomy The year 2020 marks the two hundredth anniversary of Pellegrino Artusi’s birth, author of La scienza in cucina e l’arte di mangiar bene (1891), the most prominent and famous Italian cookbook in the history of gastronomy. However, the centrality of food and the act of eating have been tackled long before and they have always played a pivotal role in Italian literature, as witnessed by their representations from Dante and Boccaccio to Dacia Maraini and Igiaba Scego. Depictions of food, and the many references to it, in Italian literature and cinema, carry more complex aesthetic and ethical messages that transcend the realm of the kitchen. Dante’s condemnation of gluttony, Collodi’s insatiable hungry Pinocchio, Pasolini’s La Ricotta, and Ferzan Ozpetek’s cinematic obsession with desserts, reveal how food can be a lens through which one can interpret Italy’s sociopolitical, religious, and cultural panorama, how it has become a crucial element in defining “Italianess”, and how its diversity reflects Italian identity whose dynamic and liquid nature is constantly shaped by its location as a Mediterranean crossroads. We will read short stories, poems, and prose extracts from but not limited to: Dante, Boccaccio, Giulio Cesare Croce, Pirandello, and Marinetti. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 197 SC - Special Topics in Italian Specific course information available in pre-registration materials. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 199 SC - Independent Study in Italian Literature: Reading and Research Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Japanese
	JAPN 001A PO - Elementary Japanese See the Pomona 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.
	JAPN 001B PO - Elementary Japanese See the Pomona 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.
	JAPN 011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary Japanese Language and Culture See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	JAPN 012A PO - Intermediate Kanji See the Pomona 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.
	JAPN 012B PO - Intermediate Kanjii See the Pomona 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.
	JAPN 013 PO - Advanced Conversation 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.
	JAPN 051A PO - Intermediate Japanese See the Pomona 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.
	JAPN 051B PO - Intermediate Japanese See the Pomona 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.
	JAPN 111A PO - Advanced Japanese See the Pomona 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.
	JAPN 111B PO - Advanced Japanese See the Pomona 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.
	JAPN 124 PO - Readings in Current Japanese See the Pomona 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.
	JAPN 125 PO - Readings in Modern Japanese Literature See the Pomona 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.
	JAPN 131 PO - Introduction to Classical Japanese 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.
	JAPN 192 PO - Senior Research Paper See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	JAPN 199IR PO - Japanese: Independent Research Project See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 0.5 or 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Japanese Literature and Culture in English Translation
	JPNT 170 PO - Pre-Modern Japanese Literature in English Translation 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.
	JPNT 174 PO - Modern Japanese Literature in English: Literary Reconfigurations of Japanese Identity, 1868 to Present See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Alternate years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	JPNT 176 PO - Time and Space in Modern Japanese Literature See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

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HIST 141 SC - Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor, and Organizing

HIST 143 SC - Cuba/Bolivia/Venezuela: Revolution

HIST 144 SC - Haiti & Colombia - Maroon Nations & Paramilitary States

HIST 144 CM - Reagan’s America: The Politics and Culture of the 1980s

HIST 146 SC - Zapatistas/Mayan Rebels

HIST 147 PO - Mughal India

HIST 148 PZ - Gender and Sexuality in Africa

HIST 150 HM - Technology and Medicine

HIST 151 HM - Science in Fiction

HIST 152 HM - History of Modern Physics

HIST 153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America

HIST 154 SC - The Old South and Modern Memory

HIST 155 SC - Women, Gender, and US Colonialism

HIST 161 CM - Modern Korean History

HIST 163 CM - Modern Chinese History, 1750 to the Present

HIST 164 CM - Mao’s China: Revolutionary Leadership and Its Consequences

HIST 166 CM - Murder and Mayhem in Imperial China

HIST 166 SC - Self and Society: Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S.

HIST 167 PO - Early Modern Japan

HIST 168 PZ - Diaspora, Gender, and Identity

HIST 168 PO - Modern Japan

HIST 169 SC - Gender, Race, and US Education

HIST 170 PZ - Hybrid Identities: Spanish Empire

HIST 171 AF - African American Women in the United States

HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race

HIST 173 PZ - Religion, Violence, and Tolerance, 1450-1650

HIST 174 SC - The U.S. in the 1960s

HIST 175 PZ - Magic, Heresy and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1400-1700

HIST 175 SC - War, Empire, and Society in the U.S., 1898-Present

HIST 176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era

HIST 177 SC - The U.S. in the 1920s: Fords, Flappers, and Fundamentalists

HIST 178 CM - Nation and Nationalism in the Global Middle East

HIST 179 CM - Researching the Holocaust

HIST 180 SC - History in a Time of Crisis

HIST 181 PO - Sex, Drugs, and Revolution: The Global Sixties

HIST 182 CM - Human Health and Disease in American History

HIST 183 CM - The Fall of Rome and the End of Empire

HIST 185 PZ - Information Revolutions x.0 and z.0: the Printing Press and Internet

HIST 188 CM - Travel and Encounter in the Islamic World

HIST 189F PO - Muslim Societies in African History

HIST 190 CM - Race and American Cities

HIST 191 SC - Senior Thesis

HIST 192 SC - Senior Thesis

HIST 197 SC - Topics in Historical Study

HIST 197D SC - Contagion! Historical Pandemics and the Globalized World

HIST 197G JT - Rethinking Radicalism: Progress and Its Critics

HIST 199 SC - Independent Study in History: Reading and Research

HUM 195J SC - Fellowship in the Humanities Institute

HMSC 123 SC - Introduction to the Philosophy and History of Culture

HMSC 130 SC - Schools of Cultural Criticism: Culture and Critique

HMSC 133 SC - Modernity and the Unconscious

HMSC 134 SC - Foundations in Postcolonial Theory

HMSC 136 SC - Critical Theory and Modern Culture

HMSC 138 SC - Genet

HMSC 139 SC - The Essay Film, History and Theory

HMSC 148 SC - The Poetry and Science of Sleep

HMSC 167 SC - Metropolis: Imagining the City

HMSC 191 SC - Senior Thesis

HMSC 192 SC - Senior Thesis

HMSC 199 SC - Independent Study in the Humanities major

ID 099 SC - Mellon Mays Undergraduate Seminar

ID 191D SC - Senior Thesis for Dual Majors

ID 191S SC - Senior Thesis for Self-Designed Majors

ID 199 SC - Independent Study

ITAL 001 SC - Introductory Italian

ITAL 002 SC - Continued Introductory Italian

ITAL 033 SC - Intermediate Italian

ITAL 044 SC - Advanced Italian: Readings in Literature and Civilization

ITAL 120 JT - Italian Cities

ITAL 121 SC - The Italian Fairy Tale Tradition

ITAL 124 SC - La cultura del Fascismo

ITAL 131 SC - The Disunification of Italy: 1861-1921

ITAL 133 SC - Contemporary Italy

ITAL 134 SC - Twentieth-Century Italian Women’s Literature

ITAL 136 SC - Italians as Guests and Hosts: Intercultural Encounters in Current Italian Fiction

ITAL 137 SC - Italy as a Murder Mystery

ITAL 140 SC - History of Italian Cinema

ITAL 141 SC - Italian History Through Film

ITAL 142 SC - Italian Cinema and Literature: The Decameron