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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.
 

Philosophy
  

  • PHIL 149 JT - Topics in Philosophy: Agency and Action

    The distinction we draw between what we do and what we undergo—between the active and the passive in our lives—is fundamental to our self-understanding. In this course we investigate the nature of and the puzzles and problems associated with agency and action. Topics to be considered will be drawn from: the causal theory of action, reasons explanation and the role of the normative in the understanding of action, the will and weakness of will, the relation between intention and action, mental action and mental agency, and the relevance of work in the cognitive and the neurosciences to an understanding of agency. This course should be of interest to students of the social, cognitive, and behavioral sciences as well as to students of philosophy.

    Prerequisite(s): One course in philosophy.
    Instructor: D. Scott-Kakures and M. Yamada (CGU)
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 150 SC - Philosophy of Feminism

    Examines several different theories of feminism, their relation to traditional political theories, and their analyses of the causes and solutions to women’s oppression. The course considers as well specific moral and political issues relevant to feminism: abortion, motherhood, reproductive technologies, and pornography.

    Instructor: S. Castagnetto
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 151 SC - Feminist Ethics

    This course will explore feminist approaches to ethics, including the ethics of care, maternal ethics, lesbian ethics, and other feminist ethics, how they contrast with traditional approaches to ethics, and the controversies they have generated. The application of feminist ethics to specific issues of importance to women, such as abortion, reproductive technologies and health care, will also be considered.

    Instructor: S. Castagnetto
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 154 SC - Philosophy of Social Sciences

    What are the methods appropriate to the study of human actions, institutions, and culture? Are the aims and methods of the social sciences different from those of the natural sciences? Ought they to be? We begin with an investigation of the dispute between “naturalists” and “anti-naturalists” in the social sciences and, then, turn to a consideration of such issues and areas of dispute as: explanation and prediction in the social sciences, methodological individualism versus holism, interpretivist social science, the appeal to rationality in the understanding of behavior, the challenge of relativism and the claims of objectivity.

    Instructor: D. Scott- Kakures
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 155 SC - Ethics of the Beginning and End of Life

    This course will focus on the unique moral dilemmas that arise at the beginning and end of life: procreative responsibility, surrogacy, cloning, abortion, suicide, euthanasia, and end of life care. These topics will be discussed from both the individual and the social ethical perspectives.

    Instructor: R. Weinberg
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 155 PZ - Islam v. Islam

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: A. Aliwshah
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 160 SC - Ethical Theory

    This course will focus on classic Western ethical theory and on contemporary metaethical critiques of these theories. The objectivity, possibility, and meaning of morality will be among the issues addressed.

    Instructor: R. Weinberg
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 162 SC - Political Philosophy

    What is the proper role of public social and political institutions? This course will survey the contemporary attempts to answer this question across the political spectrum. Readings will include libertarian, liberal, communitarian, Marxist, and feminist political theory.

    Instructor: R. Weinberg
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 164 SC - Ethical Theory Seminar: The Moral Deal

    If we were to construct a society, which rules might we agree to follow? This fundamental contractualist question underlies much of modern moral/political theory. In this course, we will analyze various ways of posing and answering this question, including classic and contemporary contract theories, and discuss the value of grounding our moral/political principles on what people might agree to under various bargaining conditions.

    Prerequisite(s): Ethical Theory or permission of instructor.
    Instructor: R. Weinberg
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 168 SC - The Rational and the Irrational

    The assumption of rationality plays a critical role both in our common sense understanding of ourselves and in the foundations of the behavioral and social sciences. This course is devoted to an examination of the nature and status of this assumption. Considerable attention will be paid to self-deception and to weakness of will. Readings drawn from contemporary philosophy and cognitive psychology.

    Instructor: D. Scott-Kakures
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 169 SC - Responsibility, Guilt, and the Person

    The course will examine concepts of responsibility and guilt and their relation to the notion of autonomous agency. Under what circumstance is a charge of responsibility justified? What sorts of considerations undermine such a charge? We will also investigate the following: the status of the insanity defense, competing theories of punishment, and the notion of desert. Readings will be drawn from contemporary sources.

    Instructor: D. Scott-Kakures
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 170 SC - Faith and Reason

    An examination of questions such as: (1) Can God’s existence be proved? (2) Does the existence of evil prove that there can be no God? (3) Is religious faith ever rational? (4) What are the alternative, secular explanations of our universe, and how could we decide which is most probable? We will read from historical and contemporary sources.

    Instructor: Y. Avnur
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 175 CM - Life, Death, and Survival of Death

    A study of philosophical and theological answers to questions about death and the meaning of life. Also listed as RLST 144 .

    Instructor: S. Davis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 179 SC - Greek Moral Philosophy

    Discussion of the moral philosophies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Special attention will be paid to the Crito, Apology, Republic, and the Nichomachean Ethics.

    Instructor: C. Young
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 180 CM - Metaphysics

    An investigation of some traditional problems in Western philosophy that have been labeled metaphysical, e.g. the existence of God, the relationship between mind and body, the determinism-free will debate, and the nature of space and time. This year the topics will be (1) personal identity, that is, what makes a person the same person through time, and (2) free will and determinism.

    Prerequisite(s): At least one previous course in philosophy or permission of instructor.
    Instructor: A. Kind
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 185N JT - Topics in Neurophilosophy

    This course is an examination of selected issues at the intersection of contemporary philosophy and neuroscience. Topics may include the philosophical, theoretical, and empirical bases of social (cognitive) neuroscience; the neurobiology of belief attribution and “mind-reading”; the metaphysical relationship between the mind and the brain; the nature of sensory modalities; as well as the bearing of the neurosciences on issues in the theory of action.

    Instructor: B. Keeley, D. Scott-Kakures
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 186E PO - Heidegger and the Tradition

    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.
  

  • PHIL 186K PO - Kant

    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.
  

  • PHIL 190 SC - Senior Seminar

    A seminar for students writing a thesis with a substantial component in philosophy. The seminar will introduce students to methods of philosophical research and analysis, focusing on using these methods in the development of their theses.

    Instructor: R. Weinberg, D. Scott-Kakures, Y. Avnur
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PHIL 197 CG - Topics in Early Modern Philosophy

    Courses under this heading are devoted to the intensive investigation of a particular figure or to specific themes of Early Modern philosophy.

    Instructor: P. Easton
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 199 SC - Independent Study in Philosophy: 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.

Physics
  

  • PHYS 017 PO - Physics in Society

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: Mr. Whitaker
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHYS 030L KS - General Physics

    A first-year general physics course introducing mechanics, sound, fluids, wave motion, heat, electricity, magnetism, atomic physics, relativity, and nuclear physics. This course is designed for majors in fields other than physics, chemistry, or engineering. Offered annually and summer session.

    Prerequisite(s): Previous calculus experience or MATH 030  taken concurrently, or permission of the instructor. (Physics 30L is a prerequisite for PHYS 031L .)
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50 per semester.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHYS 031L KS - General Physics

    A first-year general physics course introducing mechanics, sound, fluids, wave motion, heat, electricity, magnetism, atomic physics, relativity, and nuclear physics. This course is designed for majors in fields other than physics, chemistry, or engineering. Offered annually and summer session.

    Prerequisite(s): Previous calculus experience or MATH 030  taken concurrently, or permission of the instructor. (PHYS 030L  is a prerequisite for 31L.)
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50 per semester.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHYS 033L KS - Principles of Physics

    A first-year general physics course designed for physics, chemistry, and engineering majors. Topics include Newtonian mechanics, gravitation, fluids, wave motion, electrical measurements, DC and AC circuits, Maxwell’s equations, and light.

    Prerequisite(s): Previous calculus experience or MATH 030  and MATH 031  taken concurrently, or permission of instructor. (33L is a prerequisite to PHYS 034L .)
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50 per semester.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • PHYS 034L KS - Principles of Physics

    A first-year general physics course designed for physics, chemistry, and engineering majors. Topics include Newtonian mechanics, gravitation, fluids, wave motion, electrical measurements, DC and AC circuits, Maxwell’s equations, and light.

    Prerequisite(s): Previous calculus experience or MATH 030  and MATH 031  taken concurrently, or permission of instructor. (PHYS 033L  is a prerequisite to 34L.)
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50 per semester.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • PHYS 035 KS - Modern Physics

    An introductory modern physics course designed as a continuation of PHYS 033L , PHYS 034L . Topics include thermodynamics, relativity, atomic physics, elementary quantum mechanics, chemical bonding, solid state physics, band theory, and appropriate applications.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 034L , or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS 001AL , AISS 001BL , AISS 002AL , AISS 002BL ), and MATH 032 . Mathematics may be taken concurrently.
    Instructor: S. Gould
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • PHYS 077L KS - Great Ideas in Science

    This course surveys a number of fundamental ideas in science that have revolutionized our modern conception of Nature and challenged our understanding of our place in the natural world. Examples include: Big Bang Theory; evolution, genomics and cloning; chaos theory; Einstein’s Theory of Relativity; quantum mechanics; debates about global warming; the analysis of risk and coincidence; game theory. Underlying scientific principles as well associated public policy issues will be described. The course is co-taught by faculty from various scientific disciplines. Enrollment limited to 24.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $30.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • PHYS 079L KS - Energy and the Environment

    (See ENGR 79L HM) Examination of the options available for meeting projected U.S. and global energy requirements. Consideration of resources and conversion and consumption patterns, thermodynamic limitations; immediate and long-range engineering options; environmental consequences. Topics include conservation, fossil fuel, nuclear, geothermal, and solar energy systems. Enrollment limited to 45.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $30.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • PHYS 100 KS - Computational Physics and Engineering

    This course is a comprehensive introduction to the application of computational techniques to physics and engineering. It provides direct experience in using computers to model physical systems and it develops a minimum set of algorithms needed to create physics and engineering simulations on a computer. Such algorithms are employed to solve nontrivial, real world problems through the investigation of seven major projects. Students will use computer mathematical software such as Maple, Mathematica, or MatLab. No prior computer course is assumed. Enrollment limited to 12.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 033L , PHYS 034L , or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS 001AL , AISS 001BL , AISS 002AL , AISS 002BL ); and MATH 030 , MATH 031 .
    Instructor: J. Higdon
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • PHYS 101 KS - Intermediate Mechanics

    The application of classical mechanics to statics and dynamics of rigid bodies, central force motions, and oscillators. Numerical analysis, Lagrangian methods, and nonlinear approximation techniques will be used. Enrollment limited to 20.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 033L , PHYS 034L , or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS 001AL , AISS 001BL , AISS 002AL , AISS 002BL ), and Differential Equations.
    Instructor: S. Naftilan
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • PHYS 102 KS - Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism

    An upper-division course in electrodynamics using analytical, but emphasizing numerical techniques to solve problems. Topics include electrostatic solutions using Laplace’s and Poisson’s equations, polarization, magnetostatics, magnetization, Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic waves and electromagnetic radiation.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 033L , PHYS 034L , or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS 001AL , AISS 001BL , AISS 002AL , AISS 002BL ), PHYS 100  or equivalent, MATH 032  or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • PHYS 105 KS - Computational Partial Differential Equations

    A survey with examples of modern numerical techniques for investigating a range of elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic partial differential equations central to a wide variety of applications in science, engineering, and other fields.

    Prerequisite(s): Entry-level programming, differential equations, scientific computing or equivalent courses, or permission of instructor.
    Instructor: J. Higdon
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • PHYS 107 KS - Materials Science

    An introductory examination of materials and their properties. Topics covered include atomic packaging and crystal structure, elastic and plastic deformation of metals, strengths of materials; ceramics, polymers, electric properties of semiconductors, piezoelectricity, paramagnetism, and ferromagnetism. Enrollment limited to 20.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 033L , PHYS 034L , or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS 001AL , AISS 001BL , AISS 002AL , AISS 002BL ).
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHYS 108 KS - Programming for Science and Engineering

    A comprehensive introduction to programming using Matlab, the primary language of engineering computations. Topics include control constructs, internal and external procedures, array manipulations, user-defined data structures and recursions. These elements are used to develop some computational techniques needed in engineering. No prior computing experience required. Enrollment limited to 24.

    Instructor: J. Higdon
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • PHYS 114 KS - Quantum Mechanics: A Numerical Methods Approach

    Introductory upper-level quantum mechanics using analytical, but emphasizing numerical methods to solve problems. Both Shrodinger’s wave mechanics and Heisenberg’s matrix formulation of quantum mechanics are used. Topics include: eigenvectors and eigenvalues tunneling, Koenig-Penney model, harmonic oscillator, WKB approximation, spin and Pauli matrices, hydrogen atom and Hatree-Falk approximation, Dirac notation, eigenvalue perturbation method: non-degenerate, degenerate and time-dependent, Fermi’s Golden rule and variational approximation.

    Prerequisite(s): Differential Equations, PHYS 100  or equivalent, or by permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • PHYS 115 KS - Statistical Mechanics with Numerical Approach and Application

    This course covers, at the junior-senior level, statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Standard topics include the laws of thermodynamics, kinetic theory, classical statistical mechanics and its connection to thermodynamics, quantum statistical mechanics and its applications. In addition, numerical techniques are implemented, and used to solve realistic thermodynamics problems in the computer lab. Enrollment limited to 20.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 033L , PHYS 034L , or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS 001AL , AISS 001BL , AISS 002AL , AISS 002BL ); PHYS 100  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • PHYS 178L KS - Biophysics

    An examination of biological systems from the point of view of classical physics, including mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism. Topics may include molecular diffusion, low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics, cooperative transitions in biomolecules, the mechanism of nerve impulses, the physics of vision and hearing, and principles of medical imaging and radiation therapy.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 043L , or BIOL 040L , CHEM 014L  and CHEM 015L  or or CHEM 040L  and CHEM 015L , or  CHEM 029L , and PHYS 030L  and PHYS 031L  or PHYS 033L  and PHYS 034L , or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS 001AL , AISS 001BL , AISS 002AL , AISS 002BL ), or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • PHYS 188L KS - Senior Thesis Reserch Project in Physics

    Seniors may apply to do laboratory or field investigation with a faculty member. The topic should be chosen by the end of the junior year. In this course, library and lab materials are developed, research begun, and seminar discussions held with faculty and students in the field of concentration. This is the first course for students doing a two-semester senior project. Registration in this course will be followed by registration in PHYS 190L .

    Fee: $50


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

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

    Students who intend to satisfy a two-semester senior thesis project by conducting a substantial research project during the summer after their junior year, should enroll in this course in the fall semester following their research. No credit towards graduation will be awarded for this course. Typically, registration in this course would be followed by registration in PHYS 190L . This course will be graded Pass/Fail. There is no lab fee for this course.


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

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

    Senior laboratory or field investigation research is culminated and results are summarized in a written thesis and formal presentation. This is the second semester course for those doing a two-semester research thesis.

    Fee: $50


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

  • PHYS 191 KS - One Semester Senior Thesis in Physics

    All students who intend to complete a one-semester thesis should enroll in this course. Students are required both to submit a substantive written thesis–which may involve experimental work, analysis of datasets previously collected by other researchers, or a critical analysis of the literature–and to make a formal presentation. Students register for this course during the semester in which the one-semester thesis is written and due. There is no lab fee for this course.


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

Political Studies
  

  • POST 107 CH - Latino Politics

    The role of Latinos in the American political process is examined. Latino political empowerment movements are analyzed with a focus on political culture/voter participation; organizational development in the different Latino subgroups; leadership patterns, strategy, and tactics; and other issues impacting the Latino community.

    Instructor: A. Pantoja
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POST 114 HM - Comparative Environmental Politics

    See Harvey Mudd College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POST 140 HM - Global Environmental Politics

    See Harvey Mudd College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POST 145 PZ - The War on Terror

    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.
  

  • POST 146 PZ - International Relations in 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.
  

  • POST 174 CH - U.S. Immigration Policy and Transnational Politics

    Examines the factors shaping the size and composition of past and contemporary immigration flows to the U.S. Areas examined include the role of economics, social networks, policy and politics in shaping immigration flows and the process by which immigrants simultaneously participate in the politics of sending and receiving countries.

    Instructor: A. Pantoja
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POST 175 CH - Immigration and Race in America

    America has long prided itself in being a nation of immigrants and in its ability to assimilate persons with distinct religious cultures and national origins. Far from being color-blind, the United States has been and remains a color-conscious society. The purpose of this course is to examine immigration and the formation of racial ideologies, hierarchies, and identities in America.

    Instructor: A. Pantoja
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POST 190 PZ - Science, Politics, and Alternative Medicine

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: S. Snowiss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POST 195 PZ - Senior Seminar: Women in Politics

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: R. Van Sickle-Ward
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Politics
  

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 001B PO - Modern Political Theory

    See 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.
  

  • POLI 005 PO - Comparative Politics

    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.
  

  • POLI 007 PO - United States Foreign Policy

    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.
  

  • POLI 008 PO - Introduction to International Relations

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: D. Arase
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 033A/B PO - American Constitutionalism I/II

    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.
  

  • POLI 039 PO - Politics of Environmental Justice

    Examines political action aimed at environmental justice and sustainability, with emphasis on power dynamics around race, ethnicity, class, gender, geography, and technological change. Includes analysis of movements in the Los Angeles area, such as those catalyzed by the Bus Riders’ Union, Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice and others. Previously offered as POLI136 PO.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 042 PO - Gender and Politics

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: E. Crighton
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 060 PO - Global Politics of Food and Agriculture

    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.
  

  • POLI 082 PO - Seminar: The Vietnam War

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: D. Elliott
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 100 SC - Introduction to International Relations

    This course provides a broad survey of issues in and approaches to the study of relations between states. Thematically, we will examine such enduring topics as deterrence and the balance of power, as well as the more recent rise of international law and international organizations to prominence in the late 20th century. At the level of theory, we consider the dominant mode of reasoning in the field—political realism— and several of its leading challengers, including moral, liberal, and postmodern critiques. Offered spring. Open to first-year students.

    Instructor: D. Andrews
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 101 SC - International Political Economy

    The central problematic in the international economy is “globalization”—pressures for integration and uniformity across national boundaries. This course examines the dynamics of the main forces for globalization—trade, finance, and investment, the major supporting institutions—WTO, IMF, IBRD, and a central consequence—concerns about national “competitiveness.” Offered annually.

    Instructor: D. Andrews
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 102 SC - Cooperation and Rivalry in the European Union

    The European Union is a unique instance of extensive cooperation among sovereign states. This course provides an introduction to European politics by examining the historical development of the European Union, some of the distinctive characteristics of its member states, and the nature of their interactions. Offered annually.

    Instructor: D. Andrews
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is often referred to as history’s most successful alliance. But NATO suffered a severe identity crisis after the Cold War, with its members divided in their attitudes towards both the Alliance’s traditional leader (the United States) and its traditional adversary (Russia). This course examines the history and prospects of the Atlantic alliance, focusing on the policies of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

    Instructor: D. Andrews
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 108 SC - Political Europe and Monetary Europe

    Following World War II, most of the states of western Europe—including most prominently France and the Federal Republic of Germany— embarked on a process of political reconciliation and economic integration. Using both primary and secondary source materials, this course will examine why plans for monetary cooperation, and ultimately monetary union, came to play such a significant role in these efforts.

    Instructor: D. Andrews
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 110 SC - Introduction to Comparative Politics

    This survey course introduces students to the field of comparative politics by investigating several illuminating empirical case studies drawn from both the developed and developing world. It focuses on cross-national similarities and differences in politics, economies, and societies, and examines the strengths and weaknesses of comparative analysis as a methodological tool. Topics may include: political development and culture; political systems; policymaking; and social movements. Open to first-year students. 

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually in fall


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

  • POLI 111 SC - Politics and Markets in Latin America

    This course is designed to introduce students to the political economy of Latin America. The course will be organized thematically with readings that draw on several country examples. Some of the central themes of the course include: democracy and growth, structural reform, trade, debt, and inequality.

    Instructor: N. Neiman Auerbach
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 112 PO - Hannah Arendt: Politics, Love, Violence, Gender

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: J. Seery
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 113 SC - Politics and Society in the Contemporary Middle East

    The course introduces students to the societies and politics of the Middle East, investigating several themes: democratization, Islam, identity politics, and political dissent. It explores questions of central importance to the region’s past, present, and future, focusing on the comparative study of Middle Eastern societies.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 115 SC - Ballots, Bullets, and Identities: South Asia and the Shadow of Gandhi

    This course examines the ideas that influenced the founding and post-colonial politics of India and Pakistan. It identifies the challenges faced by these societies in responding to their ethno-religious diversity within the framework of democracy and reflects on the fate of M.K. Gandhi’s legacy in contemporary South Asia.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 116 SC - Mobs, Crowds and Citizens: Politics and Mass Mobilization in India:

    This course examines India’s experience with democracy through a focus on mass mobilizations. How do mass mobilizations influence the nature of democracy? When do social movements and civil society generate democracy or not? It considers the emancipative and tyrannical dimensions of mass mobilizations in a democracy.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 117 SC - Nations and Nationalism

    This course examines the concepts of nations and nationalism and their relationships with modernity, the nation-state, and democracy. It investigates, from a comparative perspective, the production of politically salient identities around questions of national identity, language, religion, and ethnicity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the West and the non-West.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 118 SC - The Politics of Korea

    This course is an intensive introduction to North and South Korea, with their interlocking histories and greatly divergent economic, political, and social realities. The course pays special attention to the impact of U.S. foreign policy on Korean national formation and Korean American identity and community formation.

    Instructor: T. Kim
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 119A SC - Public Policy in the European Union: Markets and Security

    The members of the European Union have agreed to joint policies in some areas but not in others. This course examines EU policy in a number of different fields, including the Single Market; competition policy; trade policy; EMU (Economic and Monetary Union); and CFSP (Common Foreign and Security Policy).

    Prerequisite(s): No prerequisite; POLI 119a and POLI 119B  may be taken in either order.
    Instructor: D. Andrews
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 119B SC - Public Policy in the European Union: Membership and Budget

    The members of the European Union have agreed to joint policies in some areas but not in others. This course examines EU policy in a number of different fields, including the Community budget; regional policy; Justice and Home Affairs, including immigration policy; and the admission of new member states.

    Prerequisite(s): No prerequisite; POLI 119A  and POLI 199b may be taken in either order.
    Instructor: D. Andrews
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 120 SC - Introduction to U.S. Politics

    This survey course introduces students to the major institutions and processes of American politics. Topics may include Congress, the Supreme Court, the Presidency, groups and movements, federalism, the role of the media, voter turnout, macroeconomic policy, and public discontent with government. Offered annually fall.

    Instructor: T. Kim
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 122 SC - The Power Elite

    This course explores the relationship between business and government domestically and internationally. Topics include: business influence over public policy; relative power of financiers within the business community; role of financial structure in development and growth; and growing tension between capital mobility and national monetary sovereignty.

    Instructor: N. Neiman Auerbach
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 124 SC - Race in American Politics

    This course examines the centrality of race in American politics. The course examines how racial and ethnic interest groups pursue political power and the relative success of their efforts. Thematically, the course will focus on how these groups interact with strategic political actors working within established political institutions.

    Instructor: M. Golub, T. Kim
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 125 SC - Voting, Campaigning, and Elections

    This course is designed to provide a strong theoretical background in understanding voting behavior, elite campaign strategies, and electoral systems. It also connects theory to the “real world” of elections.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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

    This course examines the intersection between Asian Americans and the politics of race and ethnicity. Central to the course is the claim that understanding race is critical to understanding American politics and that any sophisticated analysis of race must include the role of Asians in America.

    Instructor: T. Kim
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 128 SC - Race and American Capitalism

    This course engages in a grounded examination of the contemporary political struggle of communities of color negotiating capitalist ideologies and practices. Students directly engage with individuals and organizations involved in social justice work rooted in working-class communicites of color.Foci include civil rights, environmental justice, publich health, economic justice, and the criminal legal system.

    Instructor: T. Kim
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 130 SC - Introduction to Political Economy

    This course explores the ways in which the study of politics and economics are interrelated, and introduces students to several models that attempt to explain and analyze the ways in which politics and economics affect each other. These include public choice theory, game theory, new institutionalism, and neo-Marxism. Open to first-year students. Offered spring.

    Instructor: N. Neiman Auerbach
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 134 SC - Infrastructures of Justice

    This research seminar focuses on the question, “Do markets result in just outcomes?” Most answers to this question seem to be virtually predetermined, but focus little attention on the question, “Under what conditions do markets result in just or unjust outcomes?” The premise here, to be explored through the students’ original case study research projects, is that markets as deeply embedded societal structures simply perpetuate underlying social conditions, be they just or unjust. Examples include white supremacy, patriarchy, land and asset distribution derived from colonial and slave plantation systems. However, markets can also reinforce social justice whether through, for example, community-based development projects or marketable permits for industrial pollution.

    Instructor: N. Neiman Auerbach
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 135 PO - Policy Implementation and Evaluation

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: D. Menefee-Libey
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 135 SC - Political Economy of Food

    This course examines the production, distribution, consumption, and waste of food in contemporary U.S. society and globally. It analyzes contemporary practices such as: the institutionalization of factory farming as expressions of the logic of modernity; and the legacy and impact of global colonial structures on the production, consumption, and meanings of food. The course will also take a look at alternatives to dominant food practices and will explore such practices through experimental projects and internships with community organizations. 

    Corequisite(s): POLI 135L .
    Instructor: N. Neiman Auerbach
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Spring


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

  • POLI 135L SC - Political Economy of Food Lab

    This is a required lab involving off-campus community engagement work that is directly connected to classroom discussion and reading for POLI 135 . Students will attend one or two established programs that meet weekly at regular times for a minimum 3 hours a week. The professor is on site for both of these programs during the entire required lab time.

    Corequisite(s): POLI 135 .
    Instructor: N. Neiman Auerbach
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Spring


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

  • POLI 138 PO - Organizational Theory

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: R. Worthington
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 139 PO - Politics of Community Design

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: R. Worthington
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 140 SC - Introduction to Political Theory

    This survey course examines the evolution of central political concepts in the western tradition through close readings of major texts in political theory. Students will be introduced to the political thought of authors such as Plato, Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, and Mill, as well as contemporary writings. Special attention will be given to changing understandings of liberty and authority, equality and rights, legitimacy, and democracy. Open to first-year students. (fall)

    Instructor: M. Golub
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 141 SC - Politics of Race and American Popular Film

    This seminar investigates the social, political, and ethical issues surrounding representations of race in American popular film. Premised upon the insight that “race” is a social rather than a biological category, it examines racial identities as products of political relationships as well as sources of powerful political claims. The seminar uses film texts to gain a sharper understanding of the role of race in American politics as well as exploring the significance of popular film in constructing and defining racialized public memory.

    Instructor: M. Golub
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 142 SC - Radical Political Theory

    In American public discourse, new media, and academic institutions, political discussion is almost always circumscribed by the limits of liberal ideology. The language of political liberalism is so ubiquitous that many students will be unaware of how their own moral sensibilities and political intuitions are products of liberal thought. In contrast, this course draws upon Marxist, Post-Modern, and Post-Colonial theory to explore radical perspectives on politics, economics, culture, and power. A basic familiarity with liberal political philosophy, while helpful, is not required.

    Instructor: M. Golub
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 143 SC - Civil Liberties and Fundamental Rights

    (formerly 126). While civil liberties protect the individual from coercive power by outlining what the government must not do, civil rights protect the individual from coercive power by obligating the government to take positive action. This course examines civil liberties and civil rights in American public law and jurisprudence.

    Instructor: M. Golub.T. Kim
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 144 SC - Legal Storytelling and the Rule of Law

    This course examines the competing claims of “legalism” (with its emphasis on formal rules and neutral principles) and “legal storytelling” (which prioritizes subjective experiences of the law as actually practiced) regarding questions of race, gender, and justice in American constitutional law. Through close readings of both literary and legal texts, the course adopts a humanistic approach to legal scholarship, locating the force of law within its discursive and rhetorical dimensions. Topics to be discussed include: rights to privacy, sexuality and reproductive freedom; sexual harassment and racist speech; anti-discrimination, integration, and affirmative action.

    Instructor: M. Golub
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 149 AF - Africana Political Theory in the United States

    Given the Black dispersal throughout the world, Africana Political Theory will analyze the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the formation of political structures through the African Diaspora. Utilizing the texts of Black scholars throughout the Diaspora, the course will provide a broad look into Black politics. Prerequisite: at least one course in Africana Studies.

    Prerequisite(s): At least one course in Africana Studies.
    Instructor: D. Sojoyner
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 149 PO - Techno Politics and Policy

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: R. Worthington
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 152 SC - Women and Public Policy

    The purpose of this course is twofold: first, to broadly explore the extent to which gender matters within the public policy context; and second, to explore how implicit and explicit views about gender impact different policy issues.

    Instructor: J. Schroedel
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 161 PO - Japanese Politics

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: D. Arase
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 163 PO - Comparative Asian Politics

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: D. Arase
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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