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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 on the Scripps Portal 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.
 

History
  

  • HIST 100N CH - The Mexico-United States Border

    This seminar examines the transformation of the U.S.-Mexican border region from a frontier to an international boundary. Employs the concept of an expansive “border region” that penetrates deep into Mexico and the United States, and influences the politics, economy, and culture of both countries. Focuses on the changes that Mexicans, Americans, native peoples, and Chicanos/as experience as a result of border interaction.

    Instructor: M. Tinker Salas
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 100NB CH - United States-Latin American Relations

    An overview of the basic elements which have shaped the U.S. presence in Latin America and the way in which Latin America has been represented in the U.S. from the early 19th century to the present day, exploring both official (public) policy as well as the impact of corporations and the market, ideology, cultural representation, the media, and others.

    Instructor: A. Mayes
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 100O PO - India and Britain, 1750 to the Protest

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: R. Woods
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 100T PO - Tokugawa Thought

    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 100U AF - Pan-Africanism and Black Radical Traditions

    Examination of the historical evolution of the Pan-African concept and its political, social, and economic implications for the world generally and for Black people in particular. Discussion of 20th-century writers of Pan-Africanism, and especially of Padmore, DuBois, Garvey, Nkrumah, Malcolm X, and Toure (Carmichael) in terms of the contemporary problems of African Americans.

    Prerequisite(s): Lower-division IDBS courses and permission of instructor.
    Instructor: S. Lemelle
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 100V PO - Modern Feminisms in East Asia

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: A. Chin
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 100WC PO - Early Christian Views of Islam

    Over the course of the century following Muhammad’s death in 632, Muslim armies dominated the eastern, southern, and western shores of the Mediterranean, areas that, up until then, had been in Christian hands. How Christian commentators came to terms with this religio-political transformation of their world is the subject of this seminar. A combination of primary sources from Greek, Syriac, Arabic, and Latin Christians will be supplemented by the works of modern scholars. Letter grade only. (Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean)

    Instructor: K. Wolf
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 100WH PO - Heresy and the Church in the Middle Ages

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: K. Wolf
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 100WR PO - Medieval Spain

    Religious Tolerance in Medieval Spain? It is widely noted that Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived together (that is, experienced convivencia) in relative harmony for significant periods of medieval Spanish history and in the process benefited materially and culturally from their interrelationship. In this course we will take a critical and nuanced look at the idea of convivencia and how it relates to the historical realities of medieval Spain and, by extension, to those of the modern world. Letter grade only. (Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean)

    Instructor: K. Wolf
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 100X PO - Sexuality, Empire and Race in the Modern Caribbean

    Examines European and U.S. imperialism in the region through the analytical lenses of sexuality and race. Emphasizes the ideological construction of subject peoples and the creative means by which colonized “subjects” resisted colonialism. Pays close attention to the racial and sexualized politics of emancipation, U.S. military intervention, migration, tourism and economic development. Juniors and seniors only.

    Instructor: A. Mayes
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 101 PO - Ancient Greece

    An examination of ancient Greek history and culture from prehistoric times to the coming of the Romans, with special attention to the evolution of radical democracy in Athens and of charismatic kingship under Alexander the Great. Investigation of issues such as the significance of status divisions in Greek society and the implications of Greek history for modern political life. Lecture and discussion.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 103A CM - From Village to Empire: The History of the Roman Republic, 750-44 BCE

    This course explores the history of Rome from its foundations as a small village in the middle of the 8th century BCE to its establishment as an imperial power over the Mediterranean world through the 1st century BCE. Rome’s expansion from a city-state to a world power and the social, political and economic implications of this expansion will constitute the primary focus of the course. But we will also examine material culture, religion, social customs, sub-elites and women, and the dynamics of cultural interaction in the ancient Mediterranean. First part of the sequence on Roman history.

    Instructor: S. Bjornlie
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 103B CM - Governing Rome: The History of the Roman Empire, 44 BCE-565 CE

    This course examines the manifold techniques adopted and adapted by Roman emperors and their representatives to govern a vast territory that at its greatest extent stretched from the British Isles to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Particular attention will be given to changes in traditional Roman political, social and cultural practices brought about by the emergence of a monarchical government, economic crises, ethnic diversity, and the rise of Christianity. Part two of sequence on Roman history.

    Instructor: S. Bjornlie
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 109 PO - Convivencia: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval Spain

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: K. Wolf
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 109 SC - The First Age of Globalization, 1492-1789

    What is globalization and when did it begin? This course examines the notion of a global early modern period. We will analyze the entangled histories of Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, West Africa, and the Americas to consider how economic, political, religious, and intellectual exchanges developed between them.

    Instructor: C. Tazzara
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 110 SC - Renaissance Venice: Politics, Society, and Visual Culture

    In this course, we will examine topics at the intersection of social history, art history, and political/institutional history, such as the art of republican self-fashioning; courtesan culture, patriarchal family structures, and the female nude; interior decorations and the concept of male domesticity; charity in the art of Tintoretto. Mix of primary and secondary literature, visual material.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 110AK PO - Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

    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 110B PO - Gender and Nation in Modern Latin America and the Caribbean

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: A. Mayes
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 110S CH - Latina/o Oral Histories

    Explores use of oral histories in historical research of marginalized communities, investigating issues such as memory and the “ body as archive.” Provides overview of oral history theory, practice, and ethical concerns. Students apply course knowledge in research project incorporating Latina/o oral histories.

    Instructor: T. Summers Sandoval
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 110WH PO - Heresy and Church

    See Pomona College catalog for details.


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

  • HIST 110WW PO - Holy War in Early Christianity and Islam

    From its very inception, Christianity was a religion steeped in blood. The original members of this sect found themselves subject to suspicion and intermittent prosecution by the Roman authorities. In the process, some learned to welcome execution as a way of achieving a particularly intense form of identification with their crucified leader. The moment the empire embraced Christianity in the fourth century, bishops, emperors, and even monks began to inflict “divinely sanctioned” violence on groups they perceived as threats to the Christian “chosen people”: pagans, Jews, and heretics. By the time Muhammad entered the picture, a whole range of Christian notions of holy violence had become commonplace. The unparalleled success of Arab expansion in the seventh century has drawn much attention to the Islamic idea of jihad. In this seminar, we will use primary and secondary texts to help us contextualize this concept by considering it alongside early Christian attitudes toward and experiments with religious violence.

    Instructor: K. Wolf
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • 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 - Venice and the Islamic East, 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 117 SC - Capitalism in the Renaissance

    This course will examine Renaissance society through the lens of economic life. We will study a variety of texts from the period, from account books to short stories. We will consider not only how the Renaissance economy functioned, but also how to distinguish Renaissance capitalism from modern economic systems.

    Instructor: C. Tazzara
    Course Credit: 1.0


    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: T. Venit-Shelton
    Course Credit: 1.0


    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 and Colonialism 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/Bolivia/Venezuela: Revolution

    We will explore how racial identities have shaped resistance in Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela, and analyze the nature of new freedoms in these contemporary revolutions.

    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

    See Pomona College catalog for more details.

    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 150 HM - Technology and Medicine

    This course explores the increasingly technological nature of medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, investigating the impact of new technologies on diagnostic practices, categories of disease, doctors’ professional identities and patients’ understanding of their own bodies. Technologies studied include the stethoscope, electrotherapy devices, X-rays, ultrasound and MRI.

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

    In the Spanish Empire, many distinct peoples coexisted under one king and together created a diverse imperial society. This seminar examines the ways that religion, ethnicity, language, law and space defined or failed to define people in the Spanish Empire. We will pay particular attention to the processes of cultural encounter, domination, resistance and adaptation that formed identity. The course begins in Spain, exploring interactions between “old Christian” Spaniards, Jewish people converted to Christianity and Muslims converted to Christianity. We then turn to colonial Latin America and the Philippines to consider interactions between Spaniards and indigenous peoples such as Aztec, Inca, Maya, and Tagalog Filipinos.
     

    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 examines religious and social transformations in Europe from 1450 to 1640. Focusing on common people’s experiences, we will explore the relationship of religion to social action and tolerance during an era when Latin Christendom broke apart into a religiously divided Europe. We will examine how religious ideas, practices and debates fueled social conflict and protest and under what circumstances religious toleration and intolerance were possible.
     

    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 examines the history of witchcraft, magic and forbidden versus approved belief in the trans-Atlantic world from 1400 to 1700. We will begin in Europe and then turn to Spanish America and New England to examine the contributions of Africans and Native Americans to both the practice and ideas of witchcraft. Special focus will be given to the role of the devil and the ways that gender influenced decisions to condemn or accept ideas about magic and nature.
     

    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 179C HM - Special Topics in History: Science in Fiction

    See Harvey Mudd Catalog for more details.

    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 HM - Science and Technology in American Culture

    An exploration of the ways in which science and technology have shaped the American landscape and mindscape as well as the reciprocal ways in which American contexts have ?directed scientific and technological developments. Covers the colonial and early modern ?period during which the “inventory sciences,” including botany and geology were pursued for their presumed economic benefits and during which enlightenment scientific ideas helped to shape our governmental institutions. Discussion also includes the 19th and early 20th centuries, which saw the spread of railroads, electrification and automobiles and an obsession with evolution, efficiency and eugenics. Concludes with recent themes connected with military technologies, including the atomic bomb, energy sources, environmental issues and biotechnology.
     

    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.
 

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