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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.
 

Economics
  

  • ECON 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ECON 382 CG - Econometrics I

    See Claremont Graduate University catalog for details.


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

  • ECON 383 CG - Econometrics II

    See Claremont Graduate University catalog for details.


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

  • ECON 384 CG - Econometrics III

    See Claremont Graduate University catalog for details.


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

Environmental Analysis Program
  

  • EA 010 PO - Introduction to Environmental Analysis

    Examines the history of environmental change over the past century, the environmental ramifications of economic and technological decisions, lifestyles and personal choice and the need to evaluate environmental arguments critically. Taught at Pitzer College and Pomona College.


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

  • EA 020 PO - Nature, Culture, and Society

    This required class for all EA majors and minors is especially designed for sophomores and juniors. It will employ case studies to help analyze some key contemporary environmental dilemmas. Topics will vary, but will draw on an interdisciplinary array of sources in the humanities and social sciences, including history, philosophy and literature; religion, art, politics and sociology.


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

  • EA 030L KS - Science and the Environment

    This course is an introduction to the basic principles of environmental science with application in chemistry, ecology, and geology, and is part of the core course requirements for the Environmental Analysis major. Topics covered include a discussion of ecosystems, climate change, energy and food production, land resources, pollution, and sustainable development. A full laboratory accompanies the course and will include an emphasis on introduction to Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping and analysis. Enrollment limited to 24.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50.
    Instructor: C. Robins, B. Williams
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • EA 048 PZ - A Sense of Place

    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.
  

  • EA 055L KS - Physical Geography and Geomorphology

    This course is a survey and analysis of the interdependent physical, chemical, hydrological, and biological processes that shape terrestrial environments. Topics include climate dynamics, chemical and physical weathering, isostasy, and the evolution of mountains, rivers, deserts, coastlines, soils, groundwater/karst systems, and glaciers.

    Fee: Laboratory fee: $50
    Instructor: C. Robins
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • EA 068 PZ - Ethnoecology

    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.
  

  • EA 074 PZ - California’s Landscape: Diverse Peoples and Cultures

    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.
  

  • EA 086 PZ - Environmental Justice

    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.
  

  • EA 090 PZ - Economic Change and the Environment in Asia

    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.
  

  • EA 095 PZ - U.S. Environmental Policy Approved

    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.
  

  • EA 100L KS - Global Climate Change

    An introduction to the Earth Sciences, this course focuses on past and present global climate change. Topics include earth system science, climate change on geologic timescales, and recent climate change. Lectures will include a discussion of primary journal literature about climate change and relevant topics in the media. Labs will include an introduction to proxy methods used to reconstruct past climate variability.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 043L  and BIOL 044L ; or BIOL 040L   and BIOL 044L ; or CHEM 014L  and CHEM 015L  ;or CHEM 040L  and CHEM 015L  (or CHEM 029L ); or PHYS 030L  and PHYS 031L , or PHYS 033L  and PHYS 034L ; or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS 001AL , AISS 001BL , AISS 002AL , AISS 002BL ).
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50.
    Instructor: N. Williams
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • EA 103L KS - Principles of Soil Science

    This course is an intensive introduction to the properties and genesis of soils. Topics include: soil morphology, physical properties, phyllosilicate mineralogy, chemistry, biology, and C and N biogeochemical cycles. Key applications of soils to environmental science, ecology, geology, agriculture, and/or archaeology will be emphasized.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL043L KS  and BIOL044L KS  , or BIOL040L KS  and BIOL044L KS ; CHEM014L KS  and  CHEM015L KS  , or CHEM040L KS  and CHEM015L KS  , or  CHEM029L KS ; or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS001ALKS  , AISS001BLKS  , AISS002ALKS  , AISS002BLKS  ).
    Fee: Laboratory fee: $50
    Instructor: C. Robins
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every Year


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

  • EA 104 PZ - Doing Natural History

    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.
  

  • EA 104 KS - Oceanography

    Oceanography is a multidisciplinary science that applies physics, geology, chemistry, and biology to the study of oceans. Topics covered in the course will include the formation of the oceans, the interaction of the ocean with the atmosphere, the influx and distribution of chemical compounds, the carbonate system and nutrient content.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL043L KS  and BIOL044L KS  , or BIOL040L KS  and BIOL044L KS ; CHEM014L KS  and  CHEM015L KS  , or CHEM040L KS  and CHEM015L KS  , or  CHEM029L KS ; or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS001ALKS  , AISS001BLKS  , AISS002ALKS  , AISS002BLKS  ).
    Fee: $50
    Instructor: B. Williams
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • EA 120 PZ - Global Environmental Politics and Policy

    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.
  

  • EA 141 PZ - Progress and Oppression

    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.
  

  • EA 146 PZ - Theory and Practice in Environmental Education

    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.
  

  • EA 150 PZ - Critical Environmental Analysis

     [formerly Seminar: I Read the News Today, Oh
    Boy.] A seminar examination of how environmental issues are portrayed in the news
    media. Specific issues will be determined by the current news, but general concerns
    include representation of the environment, habitat destruction, consumerism,
    development, environmental justice, politics and the environment, local and global
    topics, media bias, and environmental perception.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 152 PZ - Nature through Film

    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.
  

  • EA 154 PZ - The Political Economy of Global Production and Natural Resources

    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.
  

  • EA 162 PZ - Gender, Environment and Development

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: M. Herrold-Menzies
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 190 PO - Environmental Seminar

    A capstone, team-based seminar in which senior majors focus their various curricular backgrounds on environmental issues and problems as defined by real-world clients. Past clients have included Pomona College’s Sustainability Integration Office, Scripps College, the City of Claremont, Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens, Sustainable Claremont, UnCommon Good, and USGS. Prerequisites: EA 010 PO, EA 030 PO and EA 191 PO.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 191 PO - Senior Thesis in Environmental Analysis

    Production of a senior research paper or project which culminates in a professional-quality public presentation. Open to senior EA majors only.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FS 005 PZ - The Price of Altruism

    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.

English
  

  • ENGL 009 AF - Community Poetry: Black Feminist

    See Pitzer College catalog for course details.

    Instructor: L. Harris
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 012 AF - Introduction to African American Literature

    This course is a survey of major periods, authors, and genres of the African American literary tradition. This is the second half of a two-semester course offered through IDBS faculty. This course covers the major literature produced from the turn-of-the-20th-century to the contemporary period.

    Instructor: L. Harris
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 053 PO - Twentieth Century American Women Writers

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: T. Clark
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 056 PO - Contemporary Native American Literature

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: V. Thomas
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 090 PO - Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    See Pomona College catalog for details.


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

  • ENGL 093 PZ - Modern Polish Literature and Film

    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.
  

  • ENGL 101A SC - A Survey of British Literature, Part I

    A survey of British literature from its Anglo-Saxon beginnings to the 18th century. Particular attention will be paid to major authors such as Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Pope, but students will undertake a broad range of readings in order to acquire a sense of both the variety and the historical development of the British literary traditions. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 101B SC - A Survey of British Literature, Part II

    A survey of British literature from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Particular attention will be paid to major authors such as Blake, Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Yeats, but students will undertake a broad range of readings in order to acquire a sense of both the variety and the historical development of the British literary tradition. Students are encouraged to take ENGL 101A  before 101b. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 102 SC - American Modernism

    This course covers late nineteenth- and twentieth- century literary Modernism, and can be taken to fulfill the second half of the survey requirement. Students will learn techniques of close reading and be asked to consider the historical and philosophical contexts of Modernism as well as literary works. Writers may include Whitman, Dickinson, Crane, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Hughes, Ellison, Ginsberg, and Kingston, among others.

    Instructor: C. Walker
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • ENGL 102A SC - Survey to 1865: American Literature in Search of Foundations

    An examination of the literature of America’s beginnings, culminating with the period of the American Renaissance. Using novels, poems, essays, personal narratives, and short stories, we will probe the development of America’s national literary sensibility. Writers to be read in this course will include the Puritans, Jefferson, Paine, Wheatley, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Douglass, and others.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 102B SC - Survey 1865 to Present: American Dreams, American Nightmares

    This course will include literature from a variety of American cultural and literary movements. Authors to be read will include Whitman, Twain, Dickinson, Cather, Williams, Faulkner, Cisneros, and others. Attention will be given to innovation in literary form and the multicultural backgrounds of American literature.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 103 SC - American Modernism

    This course, which can be taken to fulfill the second half of the survey requirement, covers late 19th and 20th century literary Modernism. Students will learn techniques of close reading and be asked to consider the historical and philosophical contexts of Modernism as well as literary works. Writers may include Whitman, Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Hughes, Ellison, Ginsberg, Morrison, Kingston, among others. 

    Instructor: C. Walker
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • ENGL 104 SC - American Naturalism: Marx, Darwin, Freud

    This course looks at late 19th and early 20th century American literature when Realism (whose documentary techniques were strongly inflected with moral passion) came up against Naturalism, its more radical step-child. In naturalism, sexuality, criminality, and an emphasis upon forces beyond the human will made this literature seem “immoral” or non-moral. For Realism: Melville, James, Howells, Wharton and others. For Naturalism: Dreiser, Norris, Crane, Chopin, Cather and others. Literature will be supplemented with theoretical readings.

    Instructor: C. Walker
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 105 SC - American Short Story

    Through close attention to a sequence of American texts, we will consider the short story as a genre. This course is designed to explore theoretical questions of narrative technique as well as issues of historical development and cultural focus. A variety of female as well as male authors—both traditional and experimental—will be read, including Hawthorne, Poe, Wharton, Jackson, Faulkner, Hemingway, Oates, Cheever, Erdrich, Baldwin, and Carver.

    Instructor: C. Walker
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 106 PO - 19th Century U.S. Women Writers

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: K. Wazana Tompkins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 107 SC - The “P-Word”: Reclaiming Poetry

    The course is an introduction to poetry as public or private utterances; as arranged imaginative shapes or worlds; and as political and epistemological tools. The class is an invitation to fall in love with poetry, and to understand why Audre Lord asserts that “Poetry is not a luxury.”

    Instructor: J. Wernimont
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 112 PO - Early Modern Romance

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: V. Thomas
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 112 PZ - Rule Britannia: Imperialism in Victorian Literature and Culture

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: S. Bhattacharya
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 113 PO - Step Right Up: Race, Gender and Popular Culture, 1865-1917

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: K. Wazana Tompkins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 114 PO - Asian/American Forms

    This course examines Asian/American literary texts that exhibit self-consciousness about their own formal characteristics as a means of engaging with and interrogating social and racial formations. Readings will include both texts written by Asian Americans and texts that address Asianness in an American context.

    Instructor: J. Jeon
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 114 PZ - British Women Writers Before 1900

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: S. Bhattacharya
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 115 PO - Eating and Other: Race, Gender and Literary Food Studies

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: K. Wazana Tompkins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 115 SC - Junior Seminar in Literary Theory

    This course provides an introduction to literary theory, covering a wide range of critical approaches (Formalist, Feminist, New Historicist, Psychoanalytic, Deconstructive, Marxist, among others), and exploring multiple frameworks for the intensive study of literary texts.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 118 PO - Nature of Narrative in Fiction and 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.
  

  • ENGL 119 PO - Graphic Novels

    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.
  

  • ENGL 121 SC - Milton’s “Dark Materials”: Nature, Knowledge, and Creation

    John Milton’s work inspires Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, in which reality and knowledge are radically altered. This course will introduce Milton’s explorations of the nature of knowledge, creation, and the place of fiction in a culture of science, as well as Pullman’s reworking of Milton’s epic poem.

    Instructor: J. Wernimont
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 122 AF - Healing Narratives

    This course examines how African Diaspora writers, filmmakers, and critical theorists respond to individual and collective trauma, and how their works address questions of healing mind, body, and spirit. We will take particular interest in Black feminist theory, the body as a construct of racial ideology, and the business of remedy.

    Instructor: V. Thomas
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 123A SC - The Elizabethan Shakespeare

    A study of major comedies, histories, and tragedies before 1603 in relation to their historical context. We will pay particular attention to the role of women as it varies in the different genres and as it evolves in the course of Shakespeare’s development.

    Instructor: G. Greene
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 123B SC - The Jacobean Shakespeare

    A study of Shakespeare’s dark comedies, tragedies, and romances (1603-1611) in relation to their historical context. We will trace the development of Shakespeare’s dramatic art through his increasingly tragic vision to the magical transformations of the final romances, with special attention to the roles of women in the various genres.

    Instructor: G. Greene
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 124 AF - AfroFuturisms

    AfroFuturism articulates futuristic and Afro Punk cultural resistance, and radical subversions of racism, sexism, liberal humanism, and (neo)colonialism. Such texts also recall that Africans were not only subjected to and forced to maintain the technologies of enslavement, but were regarded as technology. AF engages music, visual arts, cyberculture, science, and philosophy.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 125C AF - Introduction to African American Literature: In the African-Atlantic Tradition

    Survey of 18th- and 19th-century Black Atlantic literary production, including oral and song texts, slave and emancipation narratives, autobiographical writing, early novels and poetry, with attention to cultural and political contexts, representations of race, gender and class, cultural political contexts, aesthetics of resistance, and African-centered literary constructions and criticisms.

    Instructor: V. Thomas
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 125D AF - Film and Literature of the African Diaspora

    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.
  

  • ENGL 128 PO - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

    See Pomona College catalog for details.


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

  • ENGL 128 PZ - Writing the Body

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: B. Armendinger
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 129 SC - Possible Worlds: Literature, Science, and Games

    There is reality and then there is possibility. The hope of an election, the possibility of social change, and visions of unknown galaxies are all tied to our ability to create possible worlds. In this course we will investigate the theoretical and practical implications of literary, scientific, and new media possible worlds.

    Instructor: J. Wernimont
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 130 AF - Topics in 20th Century African Diaspora Literature

    Topics change from year to year

    Instructor: V. Thomas
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 131 SC - Eighteenth-Century British Literature

    The 18th century was a period of benevolent geniality and vicious satire, stern moralism and weepy sentimentality, the worship of reason, and the fear of madness. It saw the rise of the novel, the near death of the drama, and the stirrings of a new poetry. We shall investigate this age through a reading of major authors, including Pope, Swift, Fielding, Richardson, Sheridan, Johnson, and Austen.

    Instructor: J. Peavoy
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 132 AF - Black Queer Narratives and Theories

    This course examines the cultural productions of black queer artists and scholars whose focus on race and sexuality at the intersections of Black, feminist and queer history and thought shape the content and form of a black queer narrative in the latter twentieth century (approximately 1985-2005).

    Instructor: L. Harris
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 134 SC - Gothic Fiction

    A study of the Gothic novel, a literature of extreme emotion that subverted the earlier 18th-century emphasis on reason and helped inaugurate the Romantic period. Readings include works by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew G. Lewis, Charles Robert Maturin, Mary Shelley, William Godwin, Emily Brontë, and Jane Austen.

    Instructor: J. Peavoy
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 135 SC - The Satirical Imagination

    Exploration of the long tradition of satire: literature dedicated to exposing folly, hypocrisy, and human error, and to holding them up for ridicule. Focus on the crucial era of English satire, the eighteenth century, especially Swift and Pope. Consideration also of the history of satire, its forms in twentieth-century English fiction and contemporary popular culture, and its moral and political uses and implications.

    Instructor: A. Matz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 140 PO - Literature of Incarceration: Writings from No Man’s Land

    Focusing on writing by women within prison systems worldwide including the United States and South Africa, the course seeks to frame and analyze their confrontations and experiences where conflicts of gender, ethnicity, class, and state authority produce inmates of policed and criminalized landscapes.

    Instructor: V. Thomas
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 143 SC - Victorian Novel

    This course studies the English novel from 1840 to 1900, the era of its greatest cultural authority in Britain. Emphasis both on the development of novelistic form (the Victorian narrator, the multi-plot novel, experiments in point of view, the representation of consciousness) and on the novel’s centrality in the representation and critique of nineteenth-century English culture and society (with regard to industrialization, urban experience, political representation, poverty and wealth, imperialism, the role of women in private and public life). Authors include the Brontës, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy.

    Instructor: A. Matz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 145 SC - Romantic Literature

    The principal focus of this course will be on the relationship between Romanticism and both the Industrial and French Revolutions. We shall read the poetry, manifestoes and theoretical works of the major Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. We shall also read novels by Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, as well as prose by Edmund Burke, De Quincey, Hazlitt and William Godwin.


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

  • ENGL 147 PO - Contemporary Critical Theory

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 147 SC - Victorian Literature

    This course covers the period from approximately 1837 to 1900 and dwells on the major Victorian writers of poetry, non-fiction prose, and the novel. Victorian society experienced as shattering and rapid a transformation as any the West has known. We shall pay particular attention to the writers’ often ambivalent reactions to their society’s faith in religion, in culture, in technological and scientific progress, and in political solutions to a bewildering array of crises.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 149 SC - Literature of the Fin de Siècle

    This course examines the fiction, poetry, and drama of 1880-1905, a period of enormous innovation in literary form and expression. Study of the major schools and movements of the fin de siècle—symbolism, naturalism, aestheticism, decadence— with emphasis on how the major writers of the period transformed 19th-century conventions into a new modernist vocabulary. The focus is on British literature, with consideration of Continental writers as well. Authors include Zola, Schreiner, Hardy, Ibsen, Shaw, Huysmans, Wilde, James, and Conrad.

    Instructor: A. Matz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 150 SC - Character and the Novel

    This course studies representations of the individual from ancient to contemporary literature, with primary focus on 19th- and 20th-century fiction. Emphasis on recurring themes and problems inherent in literary characterization: formation of individual identity, representation of consciousness, solitude and the relation of self to society, heroism and anti-heroism, political implications of “representation,” realism of fictional personhood. Readings in theory and philosophy as well as in fiction and drama. Authors include Austen, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Hardy, Freud, Joyce, Woolf, and Ishiguro.

    Instructor: A. Matz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 151 SC - Modern British Novel

    A study of British fiction of the Modernist period, 1900-1940. Emphasis on the novels’ formal innovations (in perspective, chronology, language, and frankness) and on their representation of a society in extreme transformation (in light of new theories of self, and of world war). Authors include Conrad, Ford, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Waugh, and Rhys.

    Instructor: A. Matz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 152 SC - Hardy and Lawrence

    This course studies the novels and poems of perhaps the only two writers in the English tradition to be masters of both genres. Emphasis on the interrelations of fiction and poetry: the ways in which the study of the novel and the analysis of verse can be mutually reinforcing rather than discrete. Other topics include sex, obscenity, and censorship; the subject of Englishness and the specifically English literary tradition; modernity and modernism; the problem of influence, especially Hardy’s complex influence on Lawrence.

    Instructor: A. Matz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 153 PO - Chaucer and His World

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 155 SC - Contemporary British Literature

    The course will focus upon the British experience of the 1970s and 1980s as expressed in the literature of the period. Readings will concentrate upon the novel (e.g., Kingsley Amis, Beryl Bainbridge, Malcolm Bradbury, A.S. Byatt, Len Deighton, Margaret Drabble, John Fowles, Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch).

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 158 PO - Jane Austen and the Reader

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: S. Raff
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 160 PO - Theories of Authorship

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 161 SC - The Slave Narrative and the Novel of Slavery

    This course explores representations of slavery in slave narratives and novels about slavery from the 17th through the 21st century, paying particular attention to the antebellum period. We will consider the terms on which each genre establishes its authority and claims to be an ideal genre for depicting slavery.

    Instructor: T. Koenigs
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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  • ENGL 163 PO - Eliot and Virginia Woolf

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: T. Clark
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 163 SC - Hawthorne, Melville, and James

    These three major writers shaped American traditions of the novel in significant ways. The intensity of Hawthorne’s guilt, Melville’s pessimism, and James’ psychological intrigue will be explored, paying special attention to the way the darkness of these writers is relieved by humor and irony.

    Instructor: C. Walker
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 164 AF - Harlem Renaissance

    This course is a survey of African American literature and culture produced during or linked to the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. Central to the course is an ongoing survey and analysis of popular cultural forms, such as the blues, social dance, film, and musical theatre.

    Instructor: L. Harris
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 165 SC - Contemporary American Graphic Novels

    This course explores the emergence of the graphic novel as a newly “serious” genre, appropriate for literary study. A primary question will be: what is distinctive about the way a graphic novel uses narrative form? Authors may include Alan Moore, Alison Bechdel, Marjane Satrapi, and Chris Ware, among others.

    Instructor: W. Liu
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 166 PZ - Writing the Body/Writing Community

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: B. Armendinger
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 169 SC - Contemporary American Fiction

    Because there is no canon of recent American fiction—no generally accepted list of the “great” works—we will draw our readings from prize winners, or runners-up, for literary awards in the last five years. Awards may include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Edgar Award, the Hugo Award, the Pen/Faulkner Award, and the Newbery Prize.

    Instructor: J. Peavoy
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 170A PO - History of the Book

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 170J PO - Special Topics in American Literature: Toni Morrison

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: V. Thomas
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 174 SC - Contemporary Women Writers

    This course will study several major women novelists writing today—British, American, and Canadian. Authors include Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, Sandra Cisneros.

    Instructor: G. Greene
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 175 SC - American Women Poets

    This course looks at five poets including Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Sylvia Plath. Each of these poets has been extensively written about. We will consider how creativity is affected by culture, personal experience, politics, and artistic convention, reflecting upon the changes in critical appreciation of their work and recent approaches to their poems. Each student will keep a reading journal and direct one of the classes.

    Instructor: C. Walker
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 177 SC - The Memoir

    Why is the memoir the most popular form for modern readers today? Does the genre have special relevance to women? We’ll read several memoirs, mainly (though not exclusively) by women, mainly by unknown writers, looking at the ways the writers negotiate their lives and life crises, their cultures, their construction of selves and a narrative they can live with. Students will write a memoir of their own.

    Instructor: G. Greene
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 178 SC - Women and the Writing of Science

    This seminar course will consider the role of women in early modern and Enlightenment science as the objects of scientific inquiry and women as scientists or natural philosophers. Reading topics will include: anatomy, astronomy, mathematics, and physical sciences, along with contemporary theory on gender, science, and cultures of pre-1800 Europe. This course is cross-listed as FGSS187J SC  .

    Instructor: J. Wernimont
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 179 SC - Advanced Studies in Contemporary Women Writers: Memory, Reconstruction, and Representation

    An in-depth study of several major novels by contemporary women writers— British, American, and Canadian. Works include Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners, Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye.

    Instructor: G. Greene
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 180 SC - Asian American Fiction

    This course will focus on Asian American fiction, and will explore the function of representation (both political and aesthetic) in relation to questions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. The course will involve readings in both primary and secondary texts, including critical and theoretical work in Asian American studies.

    Instructor: W. Liu
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 181P SC - Asian American Poetry 1900-Present

    This course will provide a historical overview and theoretical framework through which to understand the development of Asian American poetry, particularly in relation to larger questions of nation, citizenship, territory (physical and literary), history, and subjectivity. The course will also emphasize analyses of poetic form and the politics of interpretation.

    Instructor: W. Liu
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 183 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality

    This course will explore questions of gender and sexuality in the context of Asian American literature and will investigate how these key terms undergird even the earliest formations of Asian America. The course will investigate this idea through a variety of lenses, focusing on both creative and critical texts.

    Instructor: W. Liu
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • ENGL 184A CH - Chicano Movement Literature

    Readings in Chicano literature from the 1940s to the 1970s. Special emphasis will be placed on the historical context within which texts are written, i.e., post-World War II and the civil rights era. Recently discovered novels by Americo Paredes and Jovita Gonzalez and the poetry, narrative, and theatre produced during the Chicano/a Movement will be our subjects of inquiry. This course is cross listed as CHLT 126A  CH. Taught in English.

    Instructor: R. Alcalá
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 184B CH - Contemporary Chicana/o Literature

    Beginning with the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back (1981), this survey examines how contemporary Chicana/o literature focuses on questions of identity, specifically gender and sexuality. Theoretical readings in feminism and gay studies will inform our interpretation of texts by Anzaldua, Castillo, Cisneros, Cuadros, Gaspar de Alba, Islas, Moraga, and Viramontes, among others. Cross listed as CHLT 126B  CH. Taught in English.

    Instructor: R. Alcalá
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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