Apr 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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French
	FREN 160 SC - Romancing the Revolution: Victor Hugo and Women This class looks at the French Revolution through Victor Hugo’s novel Quatre-Vingt-Treize and the lives and writings of outstanding women of the era. It explores the representation of the guillotine as a “feminine” arm of justice and the rise of Marianne as a national symbol. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 170 SC - The Mad Artist in French Literature (1830-1930) A misunderstood artist paints a materpiece, destroys it, and then ends his or her life. This myth of the mad artist is the basis of 19th century French novels by Balzac, Mirbeau, Zola, Rachilde, and Sand. This course investigates the perceived historical, literary, and neurological connections between insanity and creativity. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 173 SC - Wit and Ridicule in the French Salon This course will examine the role of wit and its counterpart, ridicule, in nineteenth century French society through an analysis of Stendhal’s novel Le Rouge et le noir, Balzac’s novel Illusions perdues, Patrice Leconte’s film Ridicule. We will explore how wit is characterized in these works and investigate the role of language in social success and self-definition. We will also consider the process by which France’s national identity became tied to its language and how wit arose as an aristocratic value and came to embody key cultural capital. The course will include critical readings as well (Hesse, Lilti, Corbin, Foucault). Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 175 PO - Writing the Exotic See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 179 SC - French Love Affairs: An Introduction to Proust This class presents Proust’s celebrated novel A la recherche du temps perdu. The goal is to provide a lively and multi-faceted introduction to Proust that will foster understanding of his work, of early-century social culture, and of the novel as a genre. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 182 SC - Contemporary Fiction in French What are Francophone people reading and writing about today? This course will examine works by major novelists writing in French in the latter part of the 20th century. These include Georges Perec, Patrick Modiano, Jean Echenoz, Jean-Marie Le Clézio, Annie Ernaux, (France), but also Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Anne Hébert, Marima Bâ (Sénégal), and Assia Djebar (Algeria). Taught in French. Prerequisite(s): FREN 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 191 SC - Senior Thesis The culmination of a student’s French major, the thesis requires her to think creatively, analytically, and critically about a topic of her choice in consultation with the French faculty. Students propose their topic at an early fall thesis meeting and present a minimum of their first chapter upon return from winter recess. Whereas regular theses are generally 10,000 to 15,000 words (40-70 pages double-spaced), honors thesis are approximately 17,000 to 25,000 words (75-100 pages double-spaced). Senior theses are written in French. If a student is a dual major, the requirement to write in French may be waived if the second reader does not read French. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FREN 199 SC - Independent Study in French Studies: Reading and Research In extraordinary circumstances and only for the most advanced student, an independent study course may be requested on a topic not available in the curriculum. Students must seek permission from the relevant faculty member. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
	FGSS 026 SC - Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Issues to be covered may include: transnational, intersectional and antiracist approaches and methodologies; the social construction of gender and sexuality; the gender and sexual politics of everyday life; and the gender and sexual politics of colonialisms, imperialisms, nationalisms and decoloniality. Required for Majors and Minors. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 036 SC - Introduction to Queer Studies This course introduces students to queer theory. Issues to be covered may include: heteronormativity, performativity, queer theory in a transnational context, and queer of color critique. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 179 SC - South Asian Feminisms This class will explore feminist, queer and gender-justice movements in contemporary South Asian contexts paying special attention to intersectional questions of caste, class, religion, nationalisms, state violence and militarism. It will examine various regional and national social movements organized from Muslim, Dalit, Adivasi, queer, transgender feminist perspectives. Working class and rural experiences will also be emphasized. Tensions and faultiness between various kinds of feminisms in specific “women’s movements” will be analyzed. Particular attention will be paid to critiques and revisionings offered through the perspectives of historically marginalized communities. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 181 SC - Feminisms in Community: Community Engagement with Incarcerated Women This course will introduce students to the practice and principles of feminist community engagement. The course will focus on issues of gender, sexuality, race, class, and incarceration, and on critiques of the prison-industrial complex. Students will take part in a community-writing workshop in the California Institution for Women (prison). Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC or by instructor permission Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 182 SC - Feminist Intersectional Pedagogies: Learning Grassroots Leadership Practices This course is modeled on the democratic creative processes that brought about “INCITE!” and “This Bridge Called My Back.” Students will interact with grassroots organizing models of leadership that foster feminist intersectional pedagogies. This course discusses processes by which feminist intersectional spaces are constructed, negotiated, sustained, and also co-opted. Prerequisite(s): FGSS187 SC or POLI128 SC or permission of Professor Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 183 SC - Sciences from “Below”: Feminist and Queer Conceptions This course engages how women of color feminisms and queer of color critique reorient conceptions of life from “below” to challenge discourses that pathologize minoritarian subjects. It will prepare students to consider the ethics of representing life within the Sciences and the Humanities. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 184 SC - Feminist Theories: Antiracist, Postcolonial and Queer Critiques We will explore intersectional feminist and queer theories as produced by U.S. women and trans people of color, and native, transnational and postcolonial scholars. We will explore debates about “difference” (of race, gender, sexualities, class, religion, nation etc.) as emerging through colonial rule, settler colonialism, and contemporary imperialism. Required for majors. Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC or by instructor permission. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 186 SC - The Imperial University: Antiracist Feminisms and Student Movements in U.S. Higher Education This course will focus on the organizational structures of U.S. college and university systems with comparative emphasis between public and private institutions. Secondly, it will explore historical and contemporary student-led social movements and the issues they have raised about war, foreign policy, labor, debt, institutional racism and academic freedom. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Alternate years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 187J SC - Women and the Writing of Science This seminar course will consider the role of women in early modern and Enlightenment science as the objects of scientific inquiry and women as scientists or natural philosophers. Reading topics will include: anatomy, astronomy, mathematics, and physical sciences, along with contemporary theory on gender, science, and cultures of pre-1800 Europe. This course is cross-listed as ENGL178 SC . Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 188 SC - Advanced Topics in Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies This course explores a current topic in feminist and/or queer studies and the history and cultural politics of genders and sexualities. Topics of study may include: queer feminists of color critique; indigeneities; antiracisms and intersectionality; colonialism and decoloniality; law and the criminal justice system; race, law and sexualities, queer popular culture, queer nationalisms and transnationalisms. Required for FGSS Majors. Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC or by instructor permission. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 188E SC - The Queer Transpacific: Sinophone Cultures and Race/Ethnicity in Asian America This course draws together emergent scholarship in transpacific studies and sinophone studies with Asian American studies and queer studies. It attends to how the hemispheric Americas and Asia Pacific regions have been shaped by the United States and China, respectively and concomitantly. We trace overlapping histories of U.S.-European interventions into Asia Pacific, Pacific militarizations, Chinese empire, and modern Chinese nation-state building led by Han ethnonationalisms. Focusing on transpacific crossings and the production of “sinophone cultures” in history, popular culture, science, and tourism, this course applies queer analyses to investigate how the U.S. and China produce one another as analogous “others.” Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 189 SC - Feminist & Queer Research Methods: Anti-Racist Perspectives This course introduces students to the ethics and methods of research through feminist, queer, and antiracist lenses. Particular emphasis will be paid to what this means in fieldwork, community-engagement and advocacy in regional, national and transnational contexts. Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC or by instructor permission. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 190 SC - Feminist and Queer Pedagogies: Research and Writing as Collective Practice Geared toward seniors writing theses, this course examines antiracist, feminist, and queer writing as praxes. We explore theories and practices that challenge racial, gendered, sexual, and other assumptions of knowing and authorship. We experiment with collective strategies for learning and writing to reconfigure power relations inside and outside the classroom. This course is also designed as a workshop for senior thesis writers. The course will be rotated between SCR and PO. Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC or instructor permission. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 191 SC - Senior Thesis Thesis is an original investigation on a topic in Feminst, Gender, and Sexuality Studies within the discipline of concentration, completed under the guidance of the reader in the department of concentration and a reader in the Scripps Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 192 SC - Antiracist Feminist and Queer Praxis: Theory, Ethics and Social Action This course will explore intersectional, antiracist and queer feminist activisms as reflecting both theory and practice. It will interrogate concepts like altruism, “the savior complex,” coalitions, “internalized oppression,” allyship and solidarity. Feminist ethics and the geopolitics of the local/global will be emphasized. Required for Majors. Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC or by instructor permission. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	FGSS 193 SC - Field Work Experience Some fieldwork or internship experience involving women’s issues is required. In consultation with the adviser, students will select the most appropriate means by which to fulfill this requirement. It might be fulfilled during the school year or summer as an internship, independent study, volunteer work, fieldwork as part of a senior thesis, or as part of another course. Pass/Fail. Noncredit course. Course Credit: No course credit Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Geography
	GEOG 105 HM - Place, Power, and Difference 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.
	GEOG 179 HM - Special Topics in Geography 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.
Geology
	GEOL 112 PO - Remote Sensing of Earth’s Environment See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GEOL 125 PO - Earth History with Laboratory See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
German
	GERM 001 SC - Elementary German 1 Acquisition of basic oral communication, survey of German grammar, practice in reading and writing, weekly conversation classes with a native speaker. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 002 SC - Elementary German 2 Acquisition of basic oral communication, survey of German grammar, practice in reading and writing, weekly conversation classes with a native speaker. Prerequisite(s): GERM001 SC or the equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 010 PO - Intensive Introduction to German 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.
	GERM 022 SC - Accelerated Introductory German Accelerated introduction to basic structure; intensive practice in reading and writing, weekly conversation with a native speaker. Prerequisite(s): Placement examination. Students who have completed either GERM001 or GERM002 are not eligible to enroll. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasional fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 033 SC - Intermediate German Emphasis on developing reading ability. Extensive review of grammar; continuing acquisition of new vocabulary and conversational skills, weekly conversation classes with a native speaker. Prerequisite(s): GERM 002 , GERM 022 , or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 044 SC - Advanced German Emphasis on grammar review, correct idiomatic writing and speaking. Weekly conversation classes with a native speaker. Prerequisite(s): GERM 033 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 101 SC - Introduction to German Culture Concepts of culture have long been the object of intellectual inquiry. The course will introduce students to some of the most compelling issues and debates in German culture through fiction, criticism, and philosophy, as well as film and the visual arts. The presentation of materials is exemplary rather than comprehensive and is based on thematic, historical, generic, etc., units. Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044 or the equivalent is normally required. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 101B SC - Vienna Modernism In the decades between 1880 and 1910, Vienna emerged as one of the birthplaces of European modernism. This class offers an introduction to the city’s vibrant turn-of-the-century culture. We will discuss the work of playwrights, poets, and philosophers, visual artists, composers, and architects against the backdrop of the political and social climate of the Hapsburg monarchy’s final years. Décadence and psychoanalysis, aestheticism and Kaffeehausliteratur are but a few of the many essentially Viennese and radically modern ideas the course will explore. Taught in German. Prerequisite(s): GERM044 SC Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 101C SC - Introduction to German Culture: Pop and Protest in Fiction and Film This course will examine German-language film and fiction that emerged out of the student movements and countercultures from the 1960s onwards. We will consider the ways in which new models of artistic expression sought to combine political engagement and consumerist enjoyment. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 102 SC - Introduction to German Literature This course introduces major literary movements in the German language from the 18th to the 21st century. Through close readings of short prose, poetry, and drama, we will consider how German literature has engaged with social and cultural upheavals including the Enlightenment, industrialization, war, revolution, and consumerism. Readings and discussions in German. Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 or instructor permission Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 103 SC - A History of German Film Starting with a selection of groundbreaking Weimar Republic experimental films, we will discuss the cinematic anti-fascist resistance of the 1930s, East-German cinema, feminist and New German Cinema of the 1970s as well as a few recent examples of an exciting new wave of German and Austrian filmmakers. The class includes an introduction to film theory and to some of the key technical terms of film analysis. Readings include short essays by Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Béla Balázs, Thomas Elsaesser, and Gertrud Koch. Taught in German. Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 104 PO - Compostion and Creative Writing See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 105 SC - Berlin Stories This literature and film course explores diverse roles played by Berlin in recent cultural history: a laboratory for urban modernity, a flashpoint of cold war politics, a haven for counter cultures, and a site of cross-cultural encounters in a multicultural Europe. We will study short prose and films. Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 . For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044 or the equivalent is normally required. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 106 SC - German Art in 1810-2010 The history of German, Swiss and Austrian visual art is full of contradictions and conflict, political and otherwise. We will explore the relation between German art and the eminent German tradition of critical writing on art. The works discussed include painting and sculpture, collage, performance and video art by Friedrich, Schiele, Höch, Kirchner, Klee, Blinky Palermo, Trockel, Hito Steyerl and many others. Reading assignments include artist manifestos, art theory, and criticism. At least one field trip to a regional museum. Taught in German. Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: GERM 044 , GERM 033 considered. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 107 SC - Trauma, Memory, Guilt: Writing the Shoah The aftermath of the Shoah has dominated the politics and culture of post-war Europe like no other event. Introducing to memory and trauma theory: this class explores the continuing importance of refined remembrance given the recent resurgence of anti-Semitic hate crimes in Europe and elsewhere. Materials discussed may include fiction, poetry, theory, memoir, visual art, and film by Paul Celan, Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Lanzmann, Bruno Schulz, W.G. Sebald, Ruth Klueger, Amery, Hannah Arendt, Adorno, and Susan Sontag. Readings will be provided in English and German. Taught in German. Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 ; GERM 033 considered. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 108 SC - Pop & Protest, Conversation and Grammar What is Krautrock? What was so radical about Disco? How conscious is German hip hop? What did Die Hamburger Schule fight for or against? In this conversation class, we will listen to music and discuss German lyrics by Die Goldenen Zitronen, Sookee, Slime, Kraftwerk, Ja Panik, Tocotronic, Leila Akinyi, K.I.Z., Michaela Melian and many other artists. We will read pop theory and manifestos. Class meets twice a week: once for conversation and once for advanced grammar (time and place for latter tbd in the first week of classes). Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 required, GERM 033 considered. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 109 SC - Your Heimat is Our Nightmare: Marginalized and Minoritized Germans A major source of pride and identification for many Germans, the exclusivity of “Heimat” can be a curse for others. This class will discuss “Heimat” as a tool for both aggressive identity-building and rigorous exclusion. We will explore German notions of race and Whiteness and learn from refugee stories about the impossibility of ever truly arriving in Germany. We will hear from LGBTQ activists and from Germans with “Migrationshintergrund”. Film, art, literature, essays, radio plays, theory. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 110 SC - Karl Marx This conversation class will introduce either to the first volume of Marx’s magnum opus Capital or to a selection of excerpts from some of his most important writings on capitalism and socialism, labor, the working class, and revolution. All readings will be provided in English and German. May be taken in addition to the English-taught GRMT103H SC . Taught in German. Repeatable for a total of 1.0 course credit. Prerequisite(s): GERM044 SC ; GERM033 SC considered. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 152 PO - Drama as Experiment See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 154 SC - Great German Fiction This course introduces students to some of the greatest works of 19th-and 20th-century German literature. Close reading of literary works by such authors as Kleist, Keller, Mann, Rilke, Kafka, Hesse, Böll, Frisch, Grass, Wolf, and others is combined with key ideas of selected representatives of the German intellectual tradition: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, and others. Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 . For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044 or the equivalent is normally required. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 189 SC - German Across the Curriculum (GAC) Offered as a German language component to courses in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences at The Claremont Colleges. Also offered as a German language component to German Department courses taught in English. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 or permission of the German instructor. For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044 or the equivalent is normally required. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 191 SC - Senior Thesis Permission of the student’s adviser and the program coordinator is required. Offered annually. Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044 or the equivalent is normally required. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 193 PO - German Comprehensive Exams See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GERM 199 SC - Independent Study in German Studies: Reading and Research Open to students capable of independent study. Permission of instructor required. Course or half course. May be repeated. Offered annually. Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044 or the equivalent is normally required. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
German Literature in English Translation
	GRMT 103H SC - Karl Marx This conversation class will introduce either to the first volume of Marx’s magnum opus Capital or to a selection of excerpts from some of his most important writings on capitalism and socialism, labor, and the working class. May be taken in addition to the German-taught class GERM110 SC Taught in English. May be repeated for a total of 1.0 course credit. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GRMT 114 SC - Plotting Crime This course covers various “genres” of criminality in modern European fiction and film, including murder, criminal vice, theft, sex crimes, white-collar corporate conspiracy, crimes of passion, and domestic violence. We explore two related (but distinct) topics: how crimes are planned and executed; and how they are then turned, step-by-step, into compelling literary and cinematic storylines. This course is taught in English. Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044 or the equivalent is normally required. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GRMT 116 SC - The Decadents The 19th-century “decadents” treated art as an intoxicant. Theirs was a cult of extremes: theaters of cruelty, art for art’s sake, celebrations of criminality, and deliberate derangement of the senses. Course begins with 19th-century fiction, visual arts and criticism, and then turns to their “after-images” among 20th-century avant-gardes. This course is taught in English. Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044 or the equivalent is normally required. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GRMT 119 SC - Modern Times In the years that followed World War I, Europe experienced an extraordinary degree of both social upheaval and creative experimentation. Expressionist violence, stream of consciousness narrative, fractured imagery: writers used whatever means they could to come to terms with the period’s rapid-fire modernization. This course will cover key works of European literature from the early 20th-century (Kafka, Brecht, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Rilke, and Proust, among others), as well as examples of pre-World War II avant-garde film. Course and course materials entirely in English. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GRMT 130 SC - Schools of Cultural Criticism: Culture and Critique This team-taught course will examine the categories by which philosophers, social scientists, historians, and literary critics have understood culture. Topics may include historicism (the role of history in defining individual experience), the development of mass culture and new media, and post-colonialism. May be completed twice for credit with different topics. (Taught in English) Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GRMT 162 PO - Rich, Pretty, and Orderly - Swiss? See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GRMT 167 SC - Metropolis: Imagining the City Whether pictured as labyrinth, stage set, utopian pleasure-dome or gigantic living room, the urban landscape has played a crucial role in the attempt of 20thcentury writers and artists to come to terms with modernity. The course will move from the squares of 19th-century Berlin, the grid of Manhattan, to the malls and theme parks of Los Angeles, using fiction (Poe, Kafka, Wm. Gibson), film (Lang, Wenders, R. Scott), essays (Eco, Didion), and urban theory (Sennett, Choay) to investigate how changes in the perception of the city reflect the ways modernity sees itself. Cross listed as HMSC 167 SC. This course is taught in English. Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044 or the equivalent is normally required. Cross listed as HMSC 167 SC. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GRMT 170 PO - Culture of Nature: Green Movements See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Government
	GOVT 070 CM - Introduction to International Relations See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 105 CM - Organization of Healthcare and Public Policy See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 106 CM - Politics of Interest Groups See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 110 CM - American Culture Wars See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 111 CM - Politics and Population See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 112 CM - Public Opinion and American Democracy See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 114 CM - Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofits: Law, Public Policy and Leadership See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 118 CM - The Processes of Environmental Policymaking See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 119 CM - Study of Law See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 120 CM - Environmental Law and Policy See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 120E CM - Environmental Leadership See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 131 CM - Political History of the Middle East (1967-2011) See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 132E CM - Politics and Economics of Natural Resources Policy in Developing Countries See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 135 CM - Comparative Politics of the Middle East See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 138 CM - Religion, Politics, and Change in Latin America See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 140 CM - International Politics of Nuclear Weapons See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 141 CM - The Politics and Craft of International Journalism See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 142 CM - International Political Feature Writing See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 143 CM - Introduction to Political Journalism Writing See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 145 CM - Globalization and East Asian Capitalism See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 146 CM - Chinese Foreign Policy See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 146A CM - Middle Eastern Politics I (1918-1967) See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 151 CM - The United States, Israel, and the Arabs See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 152 CM - U.S. Policy in Asia See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 154 CM - Policymaking in International Organizations See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 164 CM - Political Rhetoric See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 165 CM - Political Philosophy and History See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 181 CM - Crime and Public Policy See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GOVT 187 CM - Women and the Law 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.
Greek
	GREK 001 SC - Introductory Classical Greek Greek grammar and syntax for beginning students. Selected readings from such works as Plato’s Dialogues. Formerly CLAS051A SC Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GREK 002 SC - Introductory Classical Greek Greek grammar and syntax for beginning students. Selected readings from such works as Plato’s Dialogues. Formerly CLAS051B SC Prerequisite(s): GREK001 SC Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GREK 022 PO - Introductory Classical Greek Accelerated See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every semester Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GREK 033 SC - Intermediate Classical Greek The principal emphasis of this course will be learning to read Attic Greek prose, focusing on the conflicting portrayals of the historical Socrates in Plato and Xenophon. The second semester will focus on Greek poetry, including Homer and Greek tragedy. Repeatable once for credit. Formerly: CLAS101A/B SC Prerequisite(s): GREK022 PO or permission of the instructor. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GREK 044 PO - Advanced Greek Readings See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Prerequisite(s): GREK033 SC or permission of instructor. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	GREK 104 PO - Readings in Koine Greek See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
History
	HIST 010 PO - The Ancient Mediterranean 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 010A SC - Early Modern Europe: Renaissance to the Napoleonic Wars An introduction to European history between the Renaissance and the Napoleonic Wars. Topics include the waning of the Middle Ages, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, New World trade and settlement, Thirty Years War, Absolute and Constitutional Monarchy, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, and French Revolution. Special attention paid to religion, politics, and changes in gender and social norms. This course is taught in alternating years at Pomona College as HIST070 PO. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 010B SC - Europe from the Seventeenth Century to the Present This course will examine the political, economic, social, cultural, and military transformations that made Europe a dominant force in the modern world. It will give particular attention to the development of the individual as a source of value and power, and how workers’ movements, feminism, and anti-colonialism emerged as a critical response to the limitations and contradictions of European liberal individualism. Offered annually. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 011 PO - Medieval Mediterranean 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 011 PZ - The World Since 1492 See the Pitzer 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.

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FREN 160 SC - Romancing the Revolution: Victor Hugo and Women

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

FREN 173 SC - Wit and Ridicule in the French Salon

FREN 175 PO - Writing the Exotic

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

FREN 182 SC - Contemporary Fiction in French

FREN 191 SC - Senior Thesis

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

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

FGSS 036 SC - Introduction to Queer Studies

FGSS 179 SC - South Asian Feminisms

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

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

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

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

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

FGSS 187J SC - Women and the Writing of Science

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

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

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

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

FGSS 191 SC - Senior Thesis

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

FGSS 193 SC - Field Work Experience

GEOG 105 HM - Place, Power, and Difference

GEOG 179 HM - Special Topics in Geography

GEOL 112 PO - Remote Sensing of Earth’s Environment

GEOL 125 PO - Earth History with Laboratory

GERM 001 SC - Elementary German 1

GERM 002 SC - Elementary German 2

GERM 010 PO - Intensive Introduction to German Language and Culture

GERM 022 SC - Accelerated Introductory German

GERM 033 SC - Intermediate German

GERM 044 SC - Advanced German

GERM 101 SC - Introduction to German Culture

GERM 101B SC - Vienna Modernism

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

GERM 102 SC - Introduction to German Literature

GERM 103 SC - A History of German Film

GERM 104 PO - Compostion and Creative Writing

GERM 105 SC - Berlin Stories

GERM 106 SC - German Art in 1810-2010

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

GERM 108 SC - Pop & Protest, Conversation and Grammar

GERM 109 SC - Your Heimat is Our Nightmare: Marginalized and Minoritized Germans

GERM 110 SC - Karl Marx

GERM 152 PO - Drama as Experiment

GERM 154 SC - Great German Fiction

GERM 189 SC - German Across the Curriculum (GAC)

GERM 191 SC - Senior Thesis

GERM 193 PO - German Comprehensive Exams

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

GRMT 103H SC - Karl Marx

GRMT 114 SC - Plotting Crime

GRMT 116 SC - The Decadents

GRMT 119 SC - Modern Times

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

GRMT 162 PO - Rich, Pretty, and Orderly - Swiss?

GRMT 167 SC - Metropolis: Imagining the City

GRMT 170 PO - Culture of Nature: Green Movements

GOVT 070 CM - Introduction to International Relations

GOVT 105 CM - Organization of Healthcare and Public Policy

GOVT 106 CM - Politics of Interest Groups

GOVT 110 CM - American Culture Wars

GOVT 111 CM - Politics and Population

GOVT 112 CM - Public Opinion and American Democracy

GOVT 114 CM - Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofits: Law, Public Policy and Leadership

GOVT 118 CM - The Processes of Environmental Policymaking

GOVT 119 CM - Study of Law

GOVT 120 CM - Environmental Law and Policy

GOVT 120E CM - Environmental Leadership

GOVT 131 CM - Political History of the Middle East (1967-2011)

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

GOVT 135 CM - Comparative Politics of the Middle East

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

GOVT 140 CM - International Politics of Nuclear Weapons

GOVT 141 CM - The Politics and Craft of International Journalism

GOVT 142 CM - International Political Feature Writing

GOVT 143 CM - Introduction to Political Journalism Writing