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2014-2015 Academic Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!

Courses

Descriptions are provided for courses offered at Scripps College and offered as part of joint or cooperative programs in which Scripps participates. For those courses that may appear under more than one discipline or department, the full course description appears under the discipline or department sponsoring the course and cross-reference is made under the associated discipline or department. Numbers followed by, for example, “AA,” “AF,” or “CH,” indicate courses sponsored by The Claremont Colleges as part of joint programs, i.e., Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies.

Please refer to the Schedule of Courses 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.
 

Classics
  

  • CLAS 052A PO - Elementary Classical Hebrew

    Basic elements of Hebrew grammar and translation of selected Biblical passages. Offered alternate years.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 052B PO - Elementary Classical Hebrew

    Basic elements of Hebrew grammar and translation of selected Biblical passages. Offered alternate years.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 052C PO - Classical Hebrew

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: E. Runions
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 060 SC - Greek Civilization

    This course is intended as an introduction to Greek culture and society from Homer to Alexander the Great. It draws on poetic and historical texts (in English translation) and material culture. Topics may include daily life, social customs, politics, colonization, religious festivals, class, gender, and sexuality.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 061 PO - Roman Life and Literature

    Literary texts organized around topics of importance to the study of Roman culture from c. 300 B.C. to 200 A.D.: poetry and politics, rhetoric, Roman self-definition, the family and gender roles, the influence of Greek philosophy, religion, and contact with the East. Readings from Lucretius, Vergil, Livy, Cicero, and Apuleius, among others.

    Instructor: C. Chinn
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 064 PO - Gods, Humans, and Justice in Ancient Greece

    Introductory course focusing on fundamental questions in ancient Greek moral thinking: What is the best kind of life for a human? Should I be good? Can I be good? Is morality objective, subjective, or relative to one’s society? What is the relation between gods and humans? Are we at the mercy of Fate? Readings from Greek literature and philosophy.

    Instructor: R. McKirahan
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 065 SC - Pagans and Christians

    An interdisciplinary examination and contrasting of pagan and Christian modes of self-understanding in the Greco-Roman world as represented in a variety of primary sources such as medical and philosophical writings, religious documents, ancient novels, accounts of the martyrs, and dream literature.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 100 PO - Intermediate Latin

    For students with two or three years of secondary school Latin or one year of college Latin. Selections from Latin poetry and prose of the late Republic and early Empire. Reading and translation from texts; grammar review and composition. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 008B  or Latin placement test results; test results valid for one year.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 101A SC - Intermediate Classical Greek

    The principal emphasis of this course will be learning to read Attic Greek prose, focusing on the conflicting portrayals of the historical Socrates in Plato and Xenophon. The second semester will focus on Greek poetry, including Homer and Greek tragedy. This course may be offered at Scripps College or Pomona College.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 051B  or permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 101B SC - Intermediate Classical Greek

    The principal emphasis of this course will be on learning to read Attic Greek prose, focusing on the conflicting portrayals of the historical Socrates in Plato and Xenophon. The second semester will focus on Greek poetry, including Homer and Greek tragedy. This course may be offered at Scripps College or Pomona College.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 051B  or permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 102 PO - Readings in Classical Hebrew

    Review of grammar and readings of selected prose and poetic texts from the Hebrew Bible and the Qumran Library.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 052A , CLAS 052B  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 103 PO - Intermediate Latin: Medieval

    Selections from medieval Latin prose: historical, literary, and liturgical. Emphasis on translation and historical contextualization. Half credit. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): Classics 8b (or equivalent) and permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 104 PO - Readings in Koine Greek

    Koine Greek was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. This course allows students to hone their skills by translating selections from important Koine texts (the Septuagint and the New Testament) and authors (such as Philo and Josephus). Grading is P/No Credit only.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS051B PO  or permission of instructor
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: B. Keim


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

  • CLAS 108 SC - Latin Prose Composition

    This course is designed to teach students of Latin the fine points of Latin grammar by actively writing in the language. We will use the text Bradley’s Arnold Latin Prose Composition and write weekly exercises.

    Instructor: E. Finkelpearl
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 110 PO - Cicero

    An introduction to Latin prose with readings from Cicero’s orations and rhetorical and prose works. Weekly prose composition and term paper.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 008B , CLAS 032 , or Latin placement test results.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 112 PO - Vergil

    An introduction to Latin poetry with readings from Vergil’s Eclogues and Aeneid.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 008B , CLAS 032 , or Latin placement test results.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 113 PO - History of Sexuality: the Classical World

    The ancient Greeks and Romans categorized sexuality differently from modern Westerners. This course focuses on same-sex love, an area of maximal difference. Using ancient evidence—from literature, history, and art—as well as modern theories, we will study the history of sexuality in the Classical cultures.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 114 SC - Female and Male in Ancient Greece

    Using evidence from literature, oratory, law, medical writings, and the visual arts, this course will explore the legal and social position of women in ancient Greece; male attitudes toward women and the idea of the Female; sexuality; and the contrast between the myths of powerful women and the apparent reality.

    Instructor: E. Finkelpearl
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 121 JT - Classical Mythology

    The structure and interpretation of Greek and Roman myth. Readings from ancient literature in English translation and modern mythologists. Lectures and discussions.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld and E. Finkelpearl
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 125 PZ - Ancient Spectacle: Glory, Games and Gore in Ancient Greece and Rome

    Spectacles offered ancient Greeks and Romans countless opportunities to define and present themselves to others—as individuals, as communities, even as kings and emperors. Using archaeological and literary evidence, this course will explore topics such as ancient theater and other types of performance, parades and triumphs, athletic competitions, gladiatorial contexts and wild beast games, mock battles, and even public protests. We will also look at domestic spectacles, from pleasure boats and county houses to fantastic dinner parties.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 130 SC - Roman Decadence

    From the Augustan Age onward, the Roman World was sharply divided between a self-created image of order, stability, and propriety, based on Rome’s visible political and military achievements, and its increasing involvement with exotic, private, and unconscious forces of disruption and decay. This course will examine closely those so-called “enemies of Roman order”: religious cults, superstition, personal corruption and excess, popular violence, the Roman obsession with death, the radical decline from Classical models of life and art. Authors read include Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, Petronius, Tacitus, Juvenal, Apuleius.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 145 SC - Ancient Political Thought

    Students study the historical and theoretical construction of communities in antiquity (with particular attention to Greece) and its reception in critical theory. Topics include citizenship, class struggle, different political regimes, and the relationship between culture and the state.

    Instructor: D. Roselli
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 150 SC - Special Topics in Ancient Studies

    A research seminar that focuses on specific historical periods, societies, problems, or themes. Repeatable for credit with different topics.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 161 PZ - Greek Art and Archaeology

    An introduction to the art, architecture, and other material culture of the ancient Greek world, from the Bronze Age through the rise of Alexander the Great.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 162 PZ - Roman Art and Archaeology

    An introduction to the art and architecture of the ancient Roman world, from the late Republic through the High Empire and up until the reign of Constantine. The course will include discussion of material both from the city of Rome and around the empire.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 164 PZ - Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius

    Explores the archaeology, history, and art and architecture of the ancient Roman towns of the Bay of Naples buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79CE, including Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as the villas and estates in the area. Examines the evidence for daily life in an ancient Roman city through the unusually well preserved remains of these sites and considers them in the context of the wider Roman world.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 175 PZ - International Cultural Heritage

    Cultural heritage can be defined as physical signs of the human past that exist in the present. This course focuses on cultural heritage as part of the built environment and its role in the effort to create a sustainable future. Students will be introduced to key concepts and examine theories and methods in the field today, particularly how these intersect with scholarship, international law, and policy.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 181A PO - Advanced Latin Readings

    Great works of Latin prose and poetry from the writings of major authors of the Roman Republic and Empire, selected according to the needs of students. Authors and topics covered may include the Roman letter, satire, lyric poetry, historians, drama, philosophy, elegiac poets, Lucretius, Apuleius, and Medieval Latin. Each semester may be repeated for credit. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 110 , CLAS 112 , or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 181B PO - Advanced Latin Readings

    Great works of Latin prose and poetry from the writings of major authors of the Roman Republic and Empire, selected according to the needs of students. Authors and topics covered may include the Roman letter, satire, lyric poetry, historians, drama, philosophy, elegiac poets, Lucretius, Apuleius, and Medieval Latin. Each semester may be repeated for credit. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 110 , CLAS 112 , or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 182A SC - Advanced Greek Readings

    Works of Greek prose and poetry selected from the writings of the major authors according to the needs of students. This course may be offered at Scripps College or Pomona College.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 101B  or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CLAS 182B SC - Advanced Greek Readings

    Works of Greek prose and poetry selected from the writings of the major authors according to the needs of students. This course may be offered at Scripps or Pomona Colleges.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 101B  or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CLAS 190 SC - Senior Seminar in Classics

    This course consists of an intensive study of selected topics within the larger field of classical studies leading to significant independent research. Required of majors in the senior year.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    The student will work closely and on an individual basis with the faculty to identify an area of interest, become familiar with basic bibliography and research tools, and define a topic to investigate. The student will submit the results of this research in writing and make an oral presentation to the Classics Department. Restricted to seniors majoring in classics. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 199 SC - Independent Study in Classics: 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.

Computer Science
  

  • CSCI 000 HM - Intro to Computing and Programming

    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.
  

  • CSCI 051 CM - Introduction to Computer Science

    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.
  

  • CSCI 052 PO - Fundamentals of Computer Science

    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.

Core Courses
  

  • CORE 002 SC - Constructions of (Dis)Ability

    This course focuses on the ways our society is structured around particular norms for “ability” and on the different kinds of violence done to those who do not fit these norms. After discussing how “normal” and “abnormal” bodies have been defined and categorized throughout modern history in literature and science, we examine the current implications of those definitions and categories. We will discuss contemporary debates about the incorporation of non-normative bodies and behaviors into social spaces and consider whether we must modify our bodies or the institutional and social spaces that they inhabit.

    Instructor: J. Armstrong, K. Drake


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Contract Enforcement: Histories of the Mafia, Past and Present

    This course will examine the nature of the mafia as an economic, cultural and political institution, one taking shape alongside the formation of the Italian state in the late nineteenth century, but with far more ancient and less localized roots. Through historic texts, fictional narratives, films and material on game theory and economic strategies to understand what determines the institutional boundaries of the mafia, the nature of contract enforcement within the mafia, and between the mafia and various nonmembers, students will learn about the historic and cultural reasons that allowed this organization to thrive, the representations of the mafia that have proliferated, and the details behind its economic structure. The course will also explore the development of mafia into a global phenomenon during the twentieth century and how it has been studied and represented as such in recent years.

    Instructor: L. Chaudhary, S Ovan


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Death

    What is death? Why do we care about it? Is death bad? Why do we mourn the dead? What ought to be done with the dead? Has death changed? Can one be dead? The definition of death is not obvious and its criterion has changed over time (soul departure, cessation of breath, cessation of heartbeat, cessation of brain waves, etc.) for a variety of complex reasons (including religious, scientific, practical, political). Drawing upon philosophical, historical, psychological, religious, and pop culture perspectives, we will investigate death.

    Instructor: R. Weinberg


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Desire and Decadence: Interdisciplinary Contexts in Fin-de-Siecle Europe

    This course will explore the fin-de-siècle aesthetic in the Symbolist and Decadent Movements that gave birth to new ideas at the threshold of Modernism. How did artists and writers from 1880 to 1914 reflect and reimagine new societal roles in such themes as the dandy and the femme fatale, virgins and vampires, or the sphinx and Salome? How do contemporary artists and writers reframe Symbolist and Decadent themes as they illuminate the ever-intriguing relationship of history to the present? We will compare our current attitudes toward change to those of a century ago.

    Instructor: E. Haskell, M. MacNaughton


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Eat the Rich! Capitalism and Work

    We live in a world saturated by capitalism. As a result, we often fail to evaluate critically the conditions of exploitation, the drudgery of labor, and the role of class in our daily life. Is work inherently a social and political good? Is poverty just a given? Why is the working class sometimes demonized? This course examines labor under capitalism, the transformation of traditional values and practices set in motion by the triumphant march of capital, and the possibilities for change.

    Instructor: D. Roselli


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Incentives Matter: The Economics of Gender and Choice

    This course will explore how gender construction and perceptions about gender have evolved over time and how current perceptions affect the choices that individuals, institutions, and governments make. We explore the very ideas of choice, gender roles, the relationship between social and biological functions, and the notion of equity that economic participation may promise. These are issues we will examine as we look at how economic opportunities for women are linked to issues of race and class and how education plays a key role in changing the economic calculus of women’s lives.

    Instructor: S. Flynn, N. Macko


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Investigating Humor in Literature and Mass Media

    Some say that man is the animal who laughs. In other words, laughter is an essential part of human nature. Humor performs important social functions: for example, enforcing a society’s norms through ridicule of those who violate them, or offering a relatively harmless outlet for antisocial feelings that might threaten the social order. Many argue that the stereotypes associated with race, class, gender, sexuality, and physical and mental abnormality are essential to comedy. We will look at plays, movies, TV shows, standup comics, comic strips, and other modes of humor in light of theoretical work by Freud, Bergson, Bakhtin and others.

    Instructor: D. Krauss, J. Peavoy.


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Lights, Camera, Murder! Crimes and Trials in France and the U.S

    This class takes a historical approach to the understanding and construction of different types of criminal personalities and crimes in eighteenth- to twentieth-century France and the United States. It examines current and past crimes from the points of view of serial killers and victims, the media, courtrooms, and capital punishment. Through fictional and non-fictional narratives, court transcripts, sociological studies, films and documentaries, it traces the historical and cultural approach of each nation to justice and, ultimately, seeks to bring to light the definition of human nature upon which each legal system is built.

    Instructor: J. Groscup, F. Lemoine


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Old New Media

    Beginning with photography in the early nineteenth century and attending primarily to telegraphy, telephony, radio, television, and video, this seminar explores the history of the fascination, fear, and peculiar associations that have accompanied new technological developments. Do telephones provide direct lines to the next world? Are radio waves signals from Martians? Do new technologies help us communicate better with (and, consequently, understand) ourselves? This course uses fiction, nonfiction, film, and paranormal engagements to explore historical efforts in Europe and the United States to come to terms with new technologies and the kinds of communication they appear to provide.

    Instructor: J. Koss


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Plantation Empires: Gender, Labor, Race and the Construction of “Difference”

    This course explores the contemporary and historical significance of the plantation complex in North America, the Caribbean, South and South East Asia. We will underscore its centrality not only to the production of vital commodities like sugar and tea but also to the constitution of dominant ideas of “difference” (of race, gender, and sexuality) that emerged through labor practices and brutal bondage. Resistance will also be explored. We will trace plantation pasts that continue to live in the present- pasts that continue to haunt our understandings of social difference, power, and inequality.

    Instructor: P. Chatterjee


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Plantation Empires: Gender, Labor, Race and the Construction of “Difference”

    This course explores the contemporary and historical significance of the plantation complex in North America, the Caribbean, South and South East Asia. We will underscore its centrality not only to the production of vital commodities like sugar and tea but also to the constitution of dominant ideas of “difference” (of race, gender, and sexuality) that emerged through labor practices and brutal bondage. Resistance will also be explored. We will trace plantation pasts that continue to live in the present- pasts that continue to haunt our understandings of social difference, power, and inequality.

    Instructor: P. Chatterjee


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Riotous Americans: Los Angeles and the Poetics of Unrest

    This course focuses on three Los Angeles riots (“Zoot Suit,” Watts, Rodney King) with an eye towards understanding them as complex and multilayered “histories of the present.” By focusing on “riots,” we will explore how our built environments continue to produce and reproduce differential structures of class, race, gender, and citizenship.

    Instructor: W. Liu, R. Roberts


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Shakespeare and Love

    ) “The course of true love never did run smooth,” Shakespeare wrote. The playwright’s rough treatment of love offers ways to think about the conflicts and mysteries of living together as lovers, families, and citizens. We will focus on these themes, which endure today: the festive but skeptical presentation of love in the sonnets and comedies; the destructive toll that heroic codes take on marriage and family life in the tragedies; and the strange and bloody pull of nationalism in the histories. Secondary texts in philosophy, psychology, social theory, and cultural studies will supplement our study.

    Instructor: G. Simshaw


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Terms of Modernity

    This course examines the concepts that structure the possibilities of our (contemporary) world, especially how we “experience” it and attempt to transform it through social and political action. The course will focus most explicitly on the fundamental concept of the “individual” and the characteristics most commonly associated with it: understanding, freedom, equality, family, justice, rights, secularism, to name a few. Too often, we take these concepts and characteristics as givens, and reduce their imperfect realization to the relations and machinations of the material world. In doing so, have we not bought into a false binary between principle and context that has precluded us from understanding these concepts as constituent elements of political power and social organization, and thus from fully appreciating what their potential might be?

    Instructor: A. Aisenberg, M. Pérez de Mendiola
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Arts and Literature of Zen Buddhism

    From Beat poets to Bart Simpson, Zen Buddhism has been influential in contemporary cultures worldwide, although few “Zen-inspired” American authors or artists have studied the history of Zen or examined how the ideas and practices of Zen have been represented in the visual arts, performing arts, or literatures of East Asia. This course will survey the arts and literatures of Zen as they developed over the last 1500 years, with particular attention to Chan in China and Zen in Japan. By considering the historical development of Zen, recent American versions can be more fully evaluated and understood. Students will read and interpret texts (in translation) by Chan and Zen masters, examine paintings and calligraphy done by Chan and Zen monks, and experience architecture and gardens through field trips to a local Buddhist temple and the Huntington Botanic Gardens.

    Instructor: B. Coats


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Detective in the City

    In the dark corners of the popular imagination, crime virtually defines the modern city. We will go back to the nineteenth-century origins of detective fiction (Poe’s Paris, Conan Doyle’s London), before looking at classic and contemporary versions of “noir.” By combining literary and urban history, we consider how city settings shape the moral imagination—in particular, our sense of private and public life.

    Instructor: M. Katz


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Nature of “Nature.”

    What concepts about the nature of “nature” and about the natural landscape are revealed in the gardens and collections at Scripps College? This course will examine how concepts of nature developed between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries in Western Europe and the United States, and interrogate the representations of nature in the visual and performing arts and in botanical studies. Through such investigation we will come to analyze how concepts of nature and representations of the natural landscape in the Western traditions of arts and sciences point to social, political and moral issues within particular contexts of time and space.

    Instructor: B. Coats


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Question of the Animal, Ancient and Contemporary

    This course examines human interaction with non-human animals, focusing on two periods, mostly in the West: the ancient and the contemporary. Topics include: the “animal-industrial complex”; the conceptualizing of boundaries between human and animal in philosophy; literature and science; the visual representation of animals; the incorporation of animals in religious practice; and the enjoyment/exploitation of animals in zoos and gladiatorial spectacle.

    Instructor: E. Finkelpearl


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Self and the Origins of the State in the Western World

    How did the development of the state condition selfhood in the West? Drawing on economic, sociological, and historical perspectives, this course examines the nature of the modern state, its historical origins (c. 1100-1850), and its effects on the individual. We will consider the ways in which the state has made people more secure while aggravating their capacity for collective violence; and how it has made individuals freer in some ways while confining them to less visible ethical, cultural, and institutional prisons.

    Instructor: C. Tazzara


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Tragedy and National Narratives

    This course focuses on the Core I theme of human nature and human difference by turning to the relations between tragedy, human suffering, and our identities as individual and communal beings. Beginning with the Greeks’ conception of tragic heroes and the polis, we will explore how tragedians in a variety of disciplines create myths and histories that connect to personal and national narratives and counter-narratives. Then we will consider how the meaning of tragedy has changed in the modern period, as it now encompasses the lives of everyday people and the impact of events or circumstances such as war, slavery, poverty, systems of social oppression, natural disasters, and massacres.

    Instructor: K. Drake, G. Simshaw
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Urban Nights: Gender, Work, and Experiences

    We explore how our experiences of nighttime have been shaped through the rise of modern cities and expand our understanding of gender, sexuality, and modernity introduced in Core I by articulating these concepts with discussions about the division of labor, global outsourcing, urban crowd, and sustainability. By looking at various nighttime landscapes such as gentrification and urban planning in New York, call center labors in Mumbai, and take-back-the-night campaigns in London, we will come to understand how our ideas and experiences of urban nights are deeply associated with the culturally constructed divisions between men/women, public/private, and productive/non-productive.

    Instructor: S. Park


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

  • CORE 002 SC - What is Avant-Garde?

    This course will examine the shifting character of the avant-garde in modern movements in art, literature, cinematography, and performance, as well as the different meanings of the word in everyday language. We will explore how the notion of avant-garde shaped the modern imagination and changed the ways in which we perceive works of art and the world itself.

    Instructor: M. MacNaughton, S. Ovan
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Why Punish?

    Given the fact that, in 2009, in excess of seven million Americans were subject to some form of “correctional supervision,” and over two million Americans were incarcerated, we might think that there must be very compelling answers to the question that serves as this course’s title; and while most of us will agree that particular impositions of punishment are unjust, few of us are likely dispute the justification of the institution of legal punishment, per se. We aim during the semester to investigate the telling and disorientating relationship between various theories of legal punishment and the realities of legal punishment. We begin with an investigation of a number of influential justifications of punishment and then turn to various accounts and analyses of the shape legal punishment takes in contemporary America.
     

    Instructor: S. Castagnetto, D. Scott-Kakures


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

  • CORE 002 SC - “Once Upon a Time”: Psychological and Literary Approaches to the Fairy Tale

    Fairy tales explore social conditions, families in crisis, the human search for the meaning of life, coming of age, the path to the self. A critical analysis of familiar categories such as gender, sexuality, race, and class can demonstrate how fairy tales both support and subvert the dominant ideology implicit in the tales. In the course we trace these tensions from the earliest myths to their modern re-telling in popular culture, architecture, film and advertisements.

    Instructor: J. LeMaster


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Biblical Fictions and the Religious Imagination

    Since antiquity, Jews and Christians have rewritten biblical narratives, creating new media out of the Bible. By exploring these biblical fictions across three genres—drama, fiction, and film—we ask how religious identity is rearticulated out of a static textual canon. How do such biblical fictions engage with and subvert the limits of human personhood in the realm of religion? How have people, from antiquity to the present, from Africa to North America, used the Bible to reimagine their own social worlds, and how is the Bible itself reshaped in these acts of imagination?

    Instructor: A. Jacobs
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Blues Jazzlines: Past and Present Tense

    This course will focus on connections between music and poetry through jazz, a seminal American cultural performance practice. We will initially explore the complex relationship of jazz and blues to Harlem Renaissance concepts of New Negro art, folk authenticity, and modernist cosmopolitanism. Students will then engage in guided listening to music and reading poetry. The blurred boundaries between aural, oral and written art will be investigated within a historical context of past and present cultural practices.

    Instructor: H. Huang
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Challenges from the global south - “America”

    This class addresses challenges from the global south in the western hemisphere. It is organized around questions raised by struggles for freedom in locations ranging from Haiti to Chile. Each week we will focus on a discrete problem in a discrete geographic location. Most of these struggles draw on ancient Indigenous or African conceptions. They challenge contemporary corporate projects and elite conceptions. Our texts include films (subtitled in English), print media, essays, and oral histories. In order to explore issues of perspective, writers form the regions we are studying will be favored.

    Instructor: C. Forster
    Offered: Annually


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Collective Songwriting: Theory and Knowledge Production

    This course will engage in the study and embodied practice of the collective songwriting method. In this course collective creative expression through song becomes the vehicle by which we will engage in discussions about greater social issues pertaining to gender, race, class, sexuality and nationhood. We consider the historical, political, and economic significance that song has played in social movements through African-American, Chicana/o, Latina/o, Native American, Asian American and poor Anglo communities in the 20th and 21st centuries, and how song has played a vital role in their collective and individual struggle for self determination and social justice in the history of this country.

    Instructor: M. Gonzalez
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Creating and Recreating Genji

    Written in the 11th century by Lady Murasaki Shikibu as a fictional account of Japanese court life, The Tale of Genji has influenced Japanese literature and the visual and performing arts for over a 1000 years. This course will examine the original text and then explore various new versions, focusing on how the text has been recreated by later generations, through Buddhist interpretations in 14th century noh plays, working class satires in 17th century short stories, political parodies in 19th century prints, imperialist propaganda in the early 20th century and social commentary in late 20th century movies, anime and manga.

    Instructor: B. Coats


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Creating Archives: Archives, Disciplinary Knowledge, and Research

    We will examine the long history of the “archive,” including classical libraries, monastic collections, wonder-cabinets, modern archives, and new digital archives. We will explore the ways in which collection practices shape and are shaped by disciplinary practice. Archives from a range of different disciplines will be considered, including biological and mathematical sciences, corporate and national archives, literary archives and libraries, and perhaps even the long geological archive of the earth. Readings will help us theorize and problematize the concept of “archive” as a transparent, natural, and neutral space. Students will develop their own “small-archive” based on their research interests.

    Instructor: J. Wernimont
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Cyberculture and the Posthuman Age

    Since 1990, when the first web browser was created, the Internet has revolutionized every aspect of life, even our notion of what it means to be human. The purpose of this course is to identify the radical and controversial shifts that the Internet era has brought about in a variety of areas: communication, politics, law and ethics, interpersonal relations, business, work, education, identity formation, and even brain function. By taking an historical approach, we can better understand the significance of these changes and be more critical users, rather than simply consumers, of new digital technologies.

    Instructor: J. Wood
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Discord and Dialog

    People often disagree with each other on matters of great importance, including ethical, scientific, religious, political, and aesthetic issues. This discord, and the dialog or dispute that derives from it, is a fact of our social predicament. This course investigates the nature and significance of such disagreements and dialogs by examining their structure, content, and presuppositions. We will also consider the question of what value disagreement has for society and the history of some of these disagreements.

    Instructor: Y. Avnur
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Ecological Justice

    This course focuses on sustainability, environmental racism, and ecological justice. We will examine key texts of environmentalism and environmental policy as artifacts of a history of the present. We will discuss the contingent and historical character of Enlightenment-derived conceptualizations of “nature” and “wilderness” that exclude humans, and how these conceptualizations shape responses to environmental problems, including the tendency to overlook human justice dimensions of environmental crisis. We will consider how our understandings of the environment are discursively produced even while we resist the political paralysis that sometimes accompanies such awareness. We will learn about ecological justice work in L.A. County.

    Instructor: T. Kim
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Fame & Happiness: French Women as Case Study

    This course focuses on French women as a case study and examines critically and sociologically the degree to which degree ambition, talent and happiness have been reconcilable for French women. The study of historical and cultural factors influencing French women’s lives from 1789 to this day will be used as a point of departure to compare and contrast our modern perceptions, values and expectations. Our study will include such famously transgressive public figures as Staël, Sand, Beauvoir, Chanel and Bardot.

    Instructor: F. Lemoine
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Fighting the Good Fight: Responding to Misogyny in Renaissance Italy

    This course will explore some of the complex issues concerning gender relations that existed in Renaissance Italy. It will focus on the ways dominant patriarchal ideology determined that women were inferior human beings, and accordingly shaped their lives by relegating them to subordinated roles in society. The course will also focus on the women writers who challenged the biases and resulting injustices of this ideology. Students will be offered a coherent historical perspective of the period (mid 1300’s to early 1600’s) as they explore the ways women’s writing developed over time. They will also gain an understanding of the relevant ways the present has evolved in ways far different from the past, as well as the ways the past has had an impact on shaping the present.

    Instructor: S. Adler
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic

    This course will explore the notion of culture, its representation and relativity, and its inextricable correlation with foreign language acquisition. In contrast to the common view that language is universal, the class will examine the cultural embeddedness and diversity of language in each of its language communities. In a practicum, students will team-teach a self-designed foreign language and culture mini-curriculum to elementary school pupils. They will also be challenged to instill tolerance in their charges as they present to them a new linguistic and cultural “history of the present.”

    Prerequisite(s): Native fluency, or completion of or enrollment in an upper-division course (numbered 100 or higher) in the chosen language. Students may teach any of the following: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, or any other language proposed by at least two native speakers. Instructor permission is required, and permission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.
    Instructor: T. Boucquey
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - History and Memory

    This course is about histories in the present. What is the relationship between individual and collective memories and history—what happened in the past and the stories we tell? All history is created in the present and says as much about that present as about the past. We will examine public representations in museums, memorials, movies and other contexts, focusing on official memory, vernacular memory, remembering and forgetting, digital remembrance, historical amnesia, counter memory, and the development of identity –individual, communal and national. Readings will focus on topics such as the U.S. Civil War, the Holocaust, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, AIDS activism, tourism, cultural heritage, and reparations for historic wrongs.

    Instructor: J. Liss


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Islam versus the West? Representations of Race, Gender, and Violence

    This course takes up the Core I theme “Histories of the Present” and applies it to the question: Where do the terms of the contemporary perceived conflict between “the Muslim world” and “the West” come from? We will examine how categories such as “Muslim,” “Christian,” ”Eastern,” “western,” “civilized,” and “barbaric” are racialized and gendered, and have been produced through a history of encounters between the U.S. and the Middle East. Students will then explore how these categories have been taken up in media and popular culture in the U.S. via representations of Muslims and Arabs at different geopolitical moments and in relations to different contexts of violence.

    Instructor: L. Deeb


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Mathematics in Our Culture

    This course pursues the theme of “Histories of the Present” through a focus on one particular part of our cultural “present”: mathematics. We will explore not simply a history of mathematics, as its own discipline, but the way it relates to a wide-ranging collection of other fields and various cultural episodes. We will focus our attention upon a number of major events in the history of mathematics and the effect they have had on the shaping of our culture and our ways of thinking about ourselves. Individuals such as Descartes, Napier, Newton, Hilbert, Gödel, and Wiles have had far-reaching influence. Similarly, world events and movements such as World War II, the Space Race, and multiculturalism have influenced the way we think about mathematics and mathematicians. What is math, as a fundamental human endeavor? Why do we study math and why do we study it in the way that we do?

    Instructor: C. Towse


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Oral History: Theory, Method, and Practice

    Oral historians use focused interviews to broaden and deepen the historical record, documenting the stories and experiences of a wide range of people and communities. We will examine the theories and methods of oral history, before embarking on our own oral history project with Scripps College alumnae. This course engages with the theme of “Histories of the Present” by examining debates over how to define, collect, organize, and communicate history. Most broadly, this course encourages students to reexamine the concept of “history” and to see all historical narratives as influenced by the contemporary “present” in which they were created.

    Instructor: M. Delmont
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Realism and Anti-Realism

    This course tackles one of the most enduring problems in the study of literature and art: the relation of fiction and painting to reality or “real life.” In the first part of the semester our focus will be on the pivotal era of realism in the novel and the visual arts in Europe, the nineteenth century. But we will then turn to the fate of realism in the twentieth century (especially in modernism’s frequent resistance to realist conventions) and finally to the status of the “real” in contemporary art and popular culture, from fiction to photography to television.

    Instructor: A. Matz


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Representations of the Male Body in Contemporary Art and Culture

    Images of the male body pervade our visual environment. Many artists have challenged and elaborated upon these images - as commentary and celebration of contemporary visual culture. These bodies are of different types: queer, foreign, adolescent, racialized, disabled, masculine, emasculated, and powerful. Each image is an aesthetic entity; each carries an ideological meaning, and when analyzed on numerous levels a variety of connections might be drawn between them. The central focus of this course will be on contemporary visual art, but we will also cover contemporary film, music, commercials, celebrities, and media representations in order to shed light on connections, cross pollinations, and appropriations.

    Instructor: A. Davis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Sites of Seduction: Aesthetic Contexts of the French Garden and its Others

    What does the built environment, and specifically landscape architecture, tell us about the culture that creates it? How can gardens be considered as barometers of the human condition, and how do they define the relationship between humankind and Nature as they reflect the aspirations of an era? Framed within the multiple contexts of art, architecture, literature, politics, and social history, this course will approach the French garden as a paradigm of interdisciplinary inquiry. Central to our concerns will be the evolution from order to chaos as Louis XIV’s seventeenth-century brand of absolutism gave way to eighteenth-century notions of exoticism, intimacy, and enlightenment. As our analysis shifts to twentieth- and twenty-first century landscapes, we will illuminate the ways in which modern gardens constitute new terrains for experimentation as they stand at the intersection of histories present and past.

    Instructor: E. Haskell
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Snapshots, Portraits, Instagram

    This course uses Instagram to explore the prehistory of this popular technological and social medium. It examines the history of snapshots and photographic portraits since 1839, emphasizing the fascination with new technologies: photographic dissemination and circulation; and photography’s relation to traditional art forms, commercial exploitation, and construction of social communities.

    Instructor: J. Koss


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Southern California and Hollywood Film: Human Dreams, Human Difference and Human Desire

    Real or imagined or somewhere hidden in between, the histories of Southern California and Los Angeles have been portrayed in popular film for almost 100 years. We will analyze how visual aspects of filmmaking, including editing, cinematography, and art direction, have been used to emphasize particular aspects of power relationships based on human differences such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, class and disability. This course includes the student-conceived and -directed Scripps College Core 3 Film Festival.

    Instructor: S. Rankaitis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Space/Place: Critical Human Geography

    This course will focus on critical human geography, a branch of geography that seeks to understand how our lived experience of space/ place shapes, defines, and even produces ideas of the individual (in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality) and the community (in terms of culture, history, politics). The course will seek to unearth the deeply embedded “histories of the present” (both visible and “invisible”) that structure the built environments of our present-day everyday lives, investigating how these histories might contribute to a more complex sense of both self and community, both in terms of exclusionary and inclusionary practices.

    Instructor: W. Liu
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - The Artist Book as an Agent of Social Change

    For more than 50 years, artists have increasingly turned to the medium of the book for artistic expression and to advocate for social change. This course provides an opportunity for students to survey the physical, textual and visual precursors to contemporary bookmaking and to examine historical contributions from a variety of cultures. From this perspective, students will identify, critique and exhibit contemporary artist books from the Denison Library collections which advocate social change. Students will select a topic early in the semester to develop and will create and exhibit their own artist books by the end of the semester.

    Instructor: K. Maryatt


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

  • CORE 003 SC - The Arts: Visions of Humanity

    This course utilizes visual and performing artworks to engage with contemporary themes and debates including justice, belief systems, equality, rights, freedom, autonomy, and tolerance. We will examine the work of twentieth/twenty-first century artists to illuminate concepts about human nature, human difference, and how, through their artistic creations, people contextualize themselves within their worlds (“worlds” meaning family, social circle, local/national environment, and place within the more global community) to create meaning and purpose in their lives. We will also explore how exposure to the arts can actually expand people’s awareness and understanding of issues and debates that affect all humankind.

    Instructor: G. Abrams
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - The Life Story

    A coherent life narrative can serve to create resilience and meaning for individuals at different stages of development. This course will explore adult development through the readings/viewings of memoirs and life story narratives written at different points in development. These writings and films will explore the role that memory processes play in life stories. Additionally, students will be paired with older adults from the community and asked to assist them in developing and producing a life story narrative.

    Instructor: S. Wood
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - The Mechanical Eye: Photography from Science to Art

    This course will explore changing ideas of the “real” in the history of photography. The readings will touch on the scientific promise once attributed to photographic images, attempts to regulate human differences (e.g., criminology and ethnography) though the photographic archive, the emergence of photography as a fine art, and the challenges presented by digital technologies to the objectivity of the “mechanical eye”. Through readings, hands-on demonstrations, and discussions students will learn to create and then contextualize their own photographic practice in relation to the historical use and misuse of photographic truth claims.

    Instructor: K. Gonzales-Day
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - The Twentieth-Century Music Schism

    In this course, students will reflect upon the origin of discrete (yet artificial) musical categories, including classical, popular, and contemporary music. The separation between art music and popular culture was largely caused by radical changes in the function/conceptualization of musical art in the early twentieth century. Through the study of representative works by composers such as Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Weill––and by examining how these works were interconnected with developments in the fields of dance, theater, literature, philosophy, psychology, politics, and history––we will revisit the categories that continue to shape our understanding of music, art, and popular culture in contemporary society.

    Instructor: D. Cubek
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - United: Women’s Work and Collective Action

    Blamed for a spectrum of societal ills, labor unions are commonly portrayed as impediments to progress. Such traditional values as collective bargaining have become bitterly contested. This course explores key moments in the history of the labor movement since the start of the century, with a focus on the development of organized labor and, given the rise in new employment opportunities for women created by the expansion of global capitalism, the categorization of certain jobs as “women’s work.” At stake in these battles are contemporary notions of justice, equality, and collectivity.

    Instructor: T. Tran
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Virgins and Goddesses

    Students explore the ways in which the Virgin Mary has been constructed socially and historically at key moments in the Catholic Church’s history and how these values have been used to categorize womanhood. By examining this model of femininity and maternity, we will unpack the categories that define and limit current debates around such questions as gender roles, sexuality, and reproductive rights. A main focus will be on how Chicana feminist artists and theorists recuperate the goddess in an attempt to redefine the most widely recognized female religious icon.

    Instructor: R. Alcala


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

  • CORE 003 SC - What is Genius? The Evolution of a Concept

    This class closely examines the historical antecedents of the term “genius”and scrutinizes the categorizing of individuals as such in the 19th and 20th centuries. By studying primary texts, films, and works of popular fiction and non-fiction, we will explore: the changing ideas about genius as it is related to creativity and mental illness; the science of genius and the brain; impact of race and gender on the identification of genius; and the connection drawn between genius and the natural or Divine.

    Instructor: N. Macko


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

  • CORE 003 SC - What is Happiness?

    The paradox of happiness is that most people want it, but few people can define it. Most people seem to agree that happiness is one of life’s most important goals, yet they do not know how to achieve it. What is it about happiness that makes the concept and perhaps its reality so elusive? The course starts with an examination of recent research on happiness done in the fields of positive psychology and behavioral economics. We then turn to the ways in which happiness was articulated 2500 years ago by ancient philosophers, such as Aristotle, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius who offered not only definitions of happiness but practical instructions on how to achieve it. Are these ancient “technologies of happiness” so different from the discoveries made by our current science of happiness?

    Instructor: N. Rachlin
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Women, Girls, and Mathematical Superstitions

    The course will examine the foundations, validity, and effects of various perceptions related to mathematics and the teaching of mathematics, including the beliefs that: 1. there exists a difference in innate mathematical ability between men and women; 2. mathematics is, or should be taught as, unquestioned and unquestionable algorithmic procedure; 3. mathematics is less a part of, or perhaps more alien to, human nature than language or letters; etc. Students will, in addition to writing papers, participate in the creation of a series of online lectures on junior high school mathematics with the goal of shifting these perceptions.

    Instructor: W. Ou
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Creative Studies
  

  • CREA 124 PZ - The Bible and Homer

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: A Wachtel
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Dance
  

  • DANC 010 PO - Beginning Modern Dance

    This course may not be counted in the major or minor.

    Instructor: L. Cameron
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 012 PO - Ballet I

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: V. Koenig
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 050 PO - Intermediate Modern Dance

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: J. Pennington
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 051 PO - Ballet II

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: V. Koenig
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 068 SC - Beginning Dance

    Recommended for those students with no previous dance experience. Prepares the student for further study of particular dance styles such as modern, ballet, and jazz. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. May be taken twice for credit.  

    Instructor: G. Abrams, S. Branfman, R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 070 CH - Regional Dances of Mexico

    An introduction to Mexican dance in its most traditional manner. A practical study of choreography for the Sones, Jarabes, and Huapangos from principal folk regions of Mexico. Includes history and meaning of dances.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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