May 20, 2024

2013-2014 Academic Catalog

2013-2014 Academic Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!

Courses

Descriptions are provided for courses offered at Scripps College and offered 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 Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies.

Please refer to the Schedule of Courses published each semester by the Office of the Registrar for up-to-date information on course offerings.

All courses are 1.0 credit unless otherwise stated.

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	HIST 111 SC - The Worlds of Niccolo Machiavelli This course examines the figure of Niccolò Machiavelli in the context of the Italian Renaissance. It begins with a survey of the classical, medieval, and humanist background for his work before turning to his own corpus of texts. We will then relate Machiavelli to his social world (politics, gender, class) before concluding with a look at his legacy in European history. Instructor: C. Tazzara Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 112 SC - Nuns, Saints, and Mystics from Late Antiquity to Early Modern Europe This course investigates female religious movements, forms of embodied spirituality, convent cultures before and after the Council of Trent, models of female sanctity and the rise of “fake saints,” instances of possession, the cult of the Virgin Mary, race relations and conversion efforts. Mix of primary sources and secondary literature. Instructor: J. Sperling Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 113 SC - Renaissance East and West: Venice, the Ottoman Empire, and Mediterranean Culture, 1350-1750 This course will examine the fortunes of two empires in the early modern Mediterranean: Venice and the Ottomans. Drawing on a balance of primary and secondary literature from both contexts, we will consider the extent to which the two powers shared a common cultural, social, and political world despite enduring religious differences. Instructor: C. Tazzara Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 114 SC - Women and Gender in the Wider Mediterranean (ca.1300-1800) This course examines recent literature on women’s property rights and legal agency, family practices, and sexual cultures in different ethnic and religious communities of the Mediterranean. Topics may include: divorce culture in medieval Cairo; women’s court cases in rural Anatolia; patrilineal kinship structures in Renaissance Florence; dowry exchange on the Aegean Islands; women’s property rights in Muslim Spain; male same-sex relations in the Ottoman Empire. Focus is on secondary literature. Instructor: J. Sperling Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 115 SC - The Making of Leviathan This course examines the origins and dynamics of the early modern state. Drawing on theoretical texts and historical monographs, we will study the empirical problem of how the modern state became the dominant form of political organization in the world. In addition, we will examine the theoretical debate that has long raged over the nature of the modern state and the reasons for its emergence. Instructor: C. Tazzara Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 116 SC - Baroque Civilization: Politics, Religion, and Science in the Seventeenth Century Between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment lies a gap of over a century that historians have filled with a variety of paradigms: the Scientific Revolution, Wars of Religion, Mercantilism, and Absolutism, among others. This course will draw on a range of theoretical perspectives, historiography, and primary sources to provide students with an integral view of the period. Instructor: C. Tazzara Offered: Every two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 118 SC - Queering the Renaissance We will discuss recent literature on topics such as cross-dressing and trans-gendering, the rarity of female and the ubiquity of male same-sex relations, Queen Elizabeth’s celebration of erotic chastity, hermaphrodites and the order of nature, the rediscovery of the clitoris and the anatomy of Lesbian desire, among others, in the context of Renaissance notions of gender and sexuality. Mix of primary sources and secondary literature. Instructor: J. Sperling Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 119L SC - The Making of Medieval Europe This course will explore the world of medieval Europe from the decline of the Roman Empire to the eve of the Protestant Reformation. Topics will include: Germanic kings, knighthood, the crusades, the Catholic Church, lay piety, medieval philosophy, the idea of purgatory, and the university. Instructor: J. Lessard Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 119M SC - The Art of Memory in Medieval and Early Modern Europe This course will trace the “art” of memory from ancient to early modern Europe through the history of writing, education, religion, the visual arts and missionaries to the New World. Lectures and readings will alternate with interactive exercises, immersing students in medieval and modern memory development methods and historical research. Instructor: J. Lessard Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 119R SC - Women and Religion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe This course traces the diverse roles women played in the religious world of medieval and early modern Europe: as mystics, artists, musicians, writers, readers, businesswomen. Some died as saints, many as heretics. This course will assess the complex lives of religious women through close examination of primary and secondary source material. Instructor: J. Lessard Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 122 CM - American Schools See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: D. Selig Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 122 PO - The Historical Film See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 123 SC - Introduction to the Philosophy and History of Culture This course will focus on some of the major work 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 HMSC 123 SC. Instructor: A. Aisenberg Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 124 SC - Paris and the Birth of Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century Mid-19th-century Paris is widely regarded as the first “modern” city and the birthplace of the cultural innovations we now call “modernism.” This course will attempt to understand these innovations by situating them in the context of the political, social, economic, and architectural transformation of 19th-century Paris. Among the topics to be considered are: Impressionist painting, the scientific novel, consumerism, sexuality, and sociology. In analyzing these topics, the course will draw upon theories of modernism from Walter Benjamin to Michel Foucault. Instructor: A. Aisenberg Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 125 AA - Introduction to Asian American History, 1850-Present This survey course examines journeys of Asian immigrant groups (and subsequent American-born generations) as they have settled and adjusted to life in the United States since 1850. The course addresses issues such as the formation of ethnic communities, labor, role of the state, race relations, and American culture and identity. Offered annually. Instructor: Venit-Shelton Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 125 PO - The US in the Middle East See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 126 CM - American Constitution and Legal Development See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 127 SC - Rousseau, Tocqueville, Foucault This course undertakes a detailed examination of the major works of three prominent modern French thinkers—Rousseau, Tocqueville, Foucault—as the starting point for a historical understanding of the origins and aims of critical thinking. The course will pay special attention to the particular historical contexts that shaped the ideas of each writer, and the ways in which their writings addressed specific social and political challenges. Through a careful consideration of the important engagement between thinking and the world, the course offers the possibility of a richer and more satisfying understanding of the initiative we now call “theory.” Instructor: A. Aisenberg Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 128 HM - Immigration and Ethnicity in America A study of the experiences of different ethnic groups in the U.S. from the colonial period to the present, and addresses the meanings of cultural diversity in American history. Instructor: H. Barron Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 130 CM - Ottoman Power and Urban History See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 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 HMSC 130 SC. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 131 HM - The Jewish Experience in America See Harvey Mudd College catalog for details. Instructor: H. Barron Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 131S HM - The Jewish Experience in America See Harvey Mudd College catalog for details. Instructor: H. Barron Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 134 PZ - Empire and Sexuality See Pitzer College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 134 SC - France/Algeria This course explores the historical relationship between Algeria and France, from the initial attempts at conquest in the 1830’s to independence and colonization during the second half of the twentieth century. It will examine the principles, interests, and values at stake in the French conquest and settlement of Algeria. It will also ask how an understanding of the French experience in Algeria necessitates a rethinking of values and practices such as free markets, universalism, citizenship, and the nation-state. Instructor: A. Aisenberg Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 138 SC - Disease, Identity, and Society In all societies, understanding of disease assumes a central role in constructing the relationship between the individual and society. This course will undertake an in-depth analysis of three different diseases at three specific historical moments and the social norms they produced: the plague (social ostracism in Medieval Europe), tuberculosis (the emergence of the bourgeois conception of “self” in 19th-century Europe) and AIDS (sexuality as a source of danger and an expression of liberation in contemporary America). The course will focus on a variety of texts, including Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, and Paul Monette’s Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. Instructor: A. Aisenberg Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 139E CM - Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 140 PO - Empire in the Middle East and North Africa See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Khazeni Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 140B SC - Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean A survey that analyzes the historical forces which fostered nationalism, economic development, political turmoil, and social upheaval in modern Latin America. The course focuses on Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Offered annually. Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 141 PO - Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Khazeni Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 141 SC - Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor, and Organizing This course addresses workers who were slave and free, rural and urban, female and male, to understand the ways in which working people organized themselves and shaped the thinking of their leaders. Designed from the perspective of Latin American history, it explores struggles for dignity at different points in time. Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 143 SC - Cuba and Nicaragua: Revolution in the Shadow of Empire This course explores two major revolutions in contemporary Latin America. In addition to looking at social change and the nature of new freedoms, it addresses cultural narratives and Liberation Theology. Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 143 AF - Slavery and Freedom in the New World Survey course covering the history of Africans and their descendants in the Americas from the epoch of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade until the end of the 19th century. Divided into two general sections: the slave epoch, and emancipation (and aftermath). Instructor: S. Lemelle Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 145 PO - Afro-Latin America This course examines the social and political effects of racial and ethnic categorization for people of African descent in Latin America, with a particular focus on Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. We will look at the social organization of difference from a theoretical and historical perspective as it relates to colonialism, economic systems of production, such as slavery, issues of citizenship, national belonging and government services, and access to resources. Our questions include: what have been the experiences of African-descended people in Latin America? Who is “Black” or “African” in Latin America and why have the meanings of “blackness” changed over time? Instructor: Ms. Mayes Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 146 SC - History of the Modern Maya: Indigenous Ethnicity and Resistance History of the Maya explores resistance and the political economy of race relations in a cultural region that embraces Chiapas, the Yucatan Peninsula, and Guatemala. Through oral tradition and history, the course looks at Maya identity from its ancient roots to present-day revolutionary movements in Chiapas and Guatemala. The readings focus on the words and actions of the Maya. Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 147 SC - The Church of the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 148 PZ - Gender in African History See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: H. O’Rourke Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 152 PZ - Down and Out: The Great Depression, 1929-1941 See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: S. McConnell 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. Instructor: R. Roberts 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. Instructor: R. Roberts Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 158 JT - Civil War and Reconstruction This course looks at the causes and consequences of the American Civil War on social, cultural, economic, and political structures. Although not neglecting military history, it places emphasis on the decisions leading up to the conflict and on the devastation it left in its wake. Instructor: R. Roberts and S. McConnell Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 159I CM - Islamic World: Travel/Encounter See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 160L SC - History of Latinas in the U.S Instructor: A. Chavez Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 161 CM - Modern Korean History See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 162 CM - Traditional China See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Rosenbaum Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 163 CM - Modern China See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Rosenbaum Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 164 CM - People’s Republic of China See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Rosenbaum Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 165 CM - China and the U.S. in the Twentieth Century See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Rosenbaum Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 166 CM - Imperial China See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Rosenbaum Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 166 SC - Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S This course focuses on political and cultural criticism in the U.S. since the turn of the (20th) century as means of activism and critique. We will read fiction, memoirs, social scientific, philosophical and political essays to understand the efforts to understand and transform society. Topics include the relationship between the individual and society, the possibility of community, the challenge of democracy, aesthetics and politics, the rise of science and the cult of expertise, violence and technocracy, alienation and the desire for engagement, exile and national identity. Instructor: J. Liss Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 167 PO - Early Modern Japan See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Yamashita 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 Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: H. O’Rourke 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 Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Yamashita Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 169 PO - State and Citizen in Modern Japan See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Yamashita Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 169A SC - Freedom and Race: Citizenship, Slavery and the Sex/Labor Trades This course explores freedom and migration through an analysis of labor trades that have led to exploitation. We will examine shifting perceptions of freedom and race in the U.S. in historical and contemporary contexts. Course topics include human slavery, representations of freedom, coercive labor, and human rights. Cross listed as AMST169A SC . Instructor: A. Fukushima Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 170 PZ - Hybrid Identities: Early Modern Spain, Spanish America, and the Philippines This course is taught by members of the intercollegiate program in Religious Studies. Instructor: C. Johnson 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. Instructor: R. Roberts Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 172 PZ - Empire and Sexuality The construction of gender and sexuality was central to British and French imperialism. This course examines the formation of genders in colonial Asia and Africa from the 18th through the early 20th-centuries. We will look at men and women, colonizers and colonized and hetero- and homosexualities in order to understand the connections between gender, sexuality, race, and power. Themes will include gendered discourses that defined political authority and powerlessness; the roles that women’s bodies played in conceptualizing domesticity and desire; and evolving imperial attitudes toward miscegenation, citizenship and rights. Instructor: C. Johnson 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 What does it mean to be a racialized “other” and how does one respond to such a label? This course explores the varied and complex ways black intellectuals in the United States addressed biological racism and the persistence of the idea of race from the mid-nineteenth into the twenty-first centuries through essays, novels, films, and books. Instructor: R. Roberts 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 This course is taught by members of the intercollegiate program in Religious Studies. Instructor: C. Johnson Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 174 SC - The American 1960s Other than the Civil War, no other period has so divided Americans as the 1960s. This course will examine the hopes, struggles, and legacies of the decade with an emphasis on social, political, cultural, and economic developments. Particular topics include liberalism, prosperity, the Vietnam War, civil rights movements, women’s liberation, the sexual revolution, the counter culture, and the conservative backlash. Instructor: J. Liss 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 This course is taught by members of the intercollegiate program in Religious Studies. Instructor: C. Johnson 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. Instructor: J. Liss Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 175 CM - Women and Politics in America See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: D. Selig 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. Instructor: R. Roberts 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?” Instructor: J. Liss 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 Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: J. Petropoulos Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 180 SC - Proseminar: What is History? This course is designed to introduce students to the varieties of historical research, interpretation, and writing. Through a focus on recent and prominent works of history, drawn from different historical specialties and representing different methodological approaches, the course will address fundamental questions such as: Why do we study and write history? What defines history as a unique discipline of investigation and knowledge? What constitutes historical evidence, and what are the debates about the criteria for recognizing historical facts and evidence? What is the relationship between politics and historical writing (for example, race, colonialism, or gender)? Are pre-established ideas and values necessary for, commensurate with, or antithetical to the pursuit of historical research and writing? In order to guarantee the widest possible field for considering such questions, the course will be team taught, and the faculty will rotate regularly. Required of all history majors, and open to all students. Seminar format. Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 181 PO - Early Modern Japan See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Yamashita 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 Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 184 PZ - Women and Gender, 1300-1650 See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: C. Johnson Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 189 CM - The Cultural Revolution See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Rosenbaum Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 190 SC - Senior Seminar in History A seminar for students writing a thesis with a substantial historical component. Required for history majors, the course is open to students from any field whose work on their senior theses would be enhanced by a study of the writing of history as well as by the ongoing discussion of practical problems in historical research and thesis writing. Offered fall. Instructor: R. Roberts 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 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 199 SC - Independent Study in History: Reading and Research Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually 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.
	HMSC 133 SC - Freud/Derrida This course will examine key concepts common to Freudian psychoanalysis and Derridean deconstruction: repression and meaning, the limit of knowledge, and sexual difference and the self. A consideration of the significance of Freud’s work beyond the theme of sexuality will be pursued through an engagement with the critical insights of Derrida, so as to think differently about intellectual influence, the filiation of disciplines, and the aims/possibilities of knowledge. Instructor: A. Aisenberg Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HUM 195J SC - Junior Fellowship in the Humanities Institute Junior Fellows in the Scripps College Humanities Institute will work closely with the director on a project related to the theme of the Institute in a given semester. The one-credit Junior 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/index.php. May apply to repeat once for credit. Offered fall and spring. Instructor: C. Jáquez Course Credit: 1.0 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 work 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. Instructor: A. Aisenberg, M. Katz, M. Pérez de Mendiola, D. Roselli Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 132 SC - Critiques of Community This course will examine critiques of the concept of community within continental European philosophy, sociology and literary theory from the 19th century to the present. We will study thinkers who have questioned dominant conceptions of social and cultural cohesion in an attempt to understand the forms of alienation that have emerged in modernity. Cross listed as GRMT135 SC . Instructor: P. Buchholz Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 136 SC - Cultural Critique and Capitalism This course explores historical and contemporary efforts to analyze and understand the relationship between “culture” and “capitalism.” We will focus on the emergence of the concept of culture and the critical discourses surrounding it from the rise of industrial capitalism to contemporary crises in capital. Instructor: D. Roselli Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 142 SC - British Domestic Interiors: Gender, Space and Identity This course explores cultural representations of the domestic interior and its relation to identity formation in literature, film, as well as historical and social documents. The course focuses on British living spaces, from the nineteenth-century bourgeois interior to the modern urban high-rise. Instructor: E.Cuming Offered: Each year 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. Instructor: G. Greene 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. Instructor: M. Katz Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 185 SC - Humanities Major Junior Seminar Provides intensive instruction to majors in the study of culture, using both theoretical and archival materials in the investigation of a specific assigned topic. Students will develop skills in critical thinking and in archival and bibliographical research. In the second half of the semester, they will apply these skills by choosing and researching their own topic in the area of culture. Prerequisite(s): Two of the following: HMSC 123 , HMSC 130 , an introductory course related to discipline. Permission of instructor required. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 190 SC - Senior Seminar The course will consider issues in the field of Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture as they are presented in classic and contemporary scholarship in the humanities and the interpretative social sciences. The aim will be to prepare students to write the thesis in the Humanities major. Instructor: A. Aisenberg 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 Course Credit: 1.0 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 020 PO - Science and Religion: Friends, Enemies, or Strangers? See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: T.A. Moore Course Credit: 1.0 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: Annually 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: Annually 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.
International and Intercultural Studies
	IIS 050 PZ - Power and Social Change See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: J. Parker Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	IIS 075 PZ - Introduction to Postcolonial Studies See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: J. Parker Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	IIS 080 PZ - Introduction to Critical Theory See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: J. Parker Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	IIS 128 PZ - The War on Terror This course is taught by members of the intercollegiate program in Religious Studies. Instructor: J. Parker Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	IIS 146 PZ - International Relations of the Middle East See Pitzer College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	IIS 167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture This course is taught by members of the intercollegiate program in Religious Studies. Instructor: J. Parker 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.

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HIST 111 SC - The Worlds of Niccolo Machiavelli

HIST 112 SC - Nuns, Saints, and Mystics from Late Antiquity to Early Modern Europe

HIST 113 SC - Renaissance East and West: Venice, the Ottoman Empire, and Mediterranean Culture, 1350-1750

HIST 114 SC - Women and Gender in the Wider Mediterranean (ca.1300-1800)

HIST 115 SC - The Making of Leviathan

HIST 116 SC - Baroque Civilization: Politics, Religion, and Science in the Seventeenth Century

HIST 118 SC - Queering the Renaissance

HIST 119L SC - The Making of Medieval Europe

HIST 119M SC - The Art of Memory in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

HIST 119R SC - Women and Religion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

HIST 122 CM - American Schools

HIST 122 PO - The Historical Film

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

HIST 124 SC - Paris and the Birth of Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century

HIST 125 AA - Introduction to Asian American History, 1850-Present

HIST 125 PO - The US in the Middle East

HIST 126 CM - American Constitution and Legal Development

HIST 127 SC - Rousseau, Tocqueville, Foucault

HIST 128 HM - Immigration and Ethnicity in America

HIST 130 CM - Ottoman Power and Urban History

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

HIST 131 HM - The Jewish Experience in America

HIST 131S HM - The Jewish Experience in America

HIST 134 PZ - Empire and Sexuality

HIST 134 SC - France/Algeria

HIST 138 SC - Disease, Identity, and Society

HIST 139E CM - Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany

HIST 140 PO - Empire in the Middle East and North Africa

HIST 140B SC - Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean

HIST 141 PO - Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa

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

HIST 143 SC - Cuba and Nicaragua: Revolution in the Shadow of Empire

HIST 143 AF - Slavery and Freedom in the New World

HIST 145 PO - Afro-Latin America

HIST 146 SC - History of the Modern Maya: Indigenous Ethnicity and Resistance

HIST 147 SC - The Church of the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean

HIST 148 PZ - Gender in African History

HIST 152 PZ - Down and Out: The Great Depression, 1929-1941

HIST 153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America

HIST 154 SC - The Old South and Modern Memory

HIST 158 JT - Civil War and Reconstruction

HIST 159I CM - Islamic World: Travel/Encounter

HIST 160L SC - History of Latinas in the U.S

HIST 161 CM - Modern Korean History

HIST 162 CM - Traditional China

HIST 163 CM - Modern China

HIST 164 CM - People’s Republic of China

HIST 165 CM - China and the U.S. in the Twentieth Century

HIST 166 CM - Imperial China

HIST 166 SC - 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 PO - State and Citizen in Modern Japan

HIST 169A SC - Freedom and Race: Citizenship, Slavery and the Sex/Labor Trades

HIST 170 PZ - Hybrid Identities: Early Modern Spain, Spanish America, and the Philippines

HIST 171 AF - African American Women in the United States

HIST 172 PZ - Empire and Sexuality

HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race

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

HIST 174 SC - The American 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 175 CM - Women and Politics in America

HIST 176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era

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

HIST 179 CM - Researching the Holocaust

HIST 180 SC - Proseminar: What is History?

HIST 181 PO - Early Modern Japan

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

HIST 184 PZ - Women and Gender, 1300-1650

HIST 189 CM - The Cultural Revolution

HIST 190 SC - Senior Seminar in History

HIST 191 SC - Senior Thesis

HIST 197 SC - Topics in Historical Study

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

HMSC 133 SC - Freud/Derrida

HUM 195J SC - Junior Fellowship in the Humanities Institute

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