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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.
 

Anthropology
  

  • ANTH 185P SC - Topics in Anthropology of the Middle East/North Africa: Palestine in Ethnography and Film

    Intensive and focused study of specific issues and themes in the Middle East and North Africa, drawing extensively on anthropological sources and modes of inquiry. Repeatable for credit with different topics. In spring 2015, the topical foci will be an overview of Palestinian society and culture, and the ways in which Palestine and Palestinians have been represented in ethnography and film.

    Instructor: L. Deeb
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • ANTH 185U SC - Topics in Anthropology of the Middle East/North Africa: The Uprisings of Winter 2011

    Intensive and focused study of specific issues and themes in the Middle East and North Africa, drawing extensively on anthropological sources and modes of inquiry. Repeatable for credit with different topics. In spring 2013, the topical focus will be the uprisings of winter 2011, including Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Libya, among others.

    Instructor: L. Deeb
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 190 SC - Senior Seminar in Anthropology and Ethnographic Writing

    This course has both practical and intellectual ends. Practically it aims to help students who plan to write theses on topics involving cultural representation to (a) formulate research questions; (b) situate their work in and against a relevant body of existing writing, and (c) structure their own descriptions and arguments. Intellectually, it aims to introduce students to some of the ways anthropologists have thought about the processes and politics of writing about culture(s) and people(s). Required for Scripps anthropology majors choosing the sociocultural track, the course is open (with the instructor’s permission) to students whose thesis or other major writing project would be enhanced by an examination of the issues and debates surrounding ethnographic writing.

    Instructor: L. Deeb, S. Park
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Fall


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

  • ANTH 191 SC - Senior Thesis Seminar

    Instructor: L. Deeb, S. Park
    Offered: Spring


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

Applied Women’s Studies
  

  • AWS 300 CG - Feminist Research Applications

    See Claremont Graduate University catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Perkins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AWS 301 CG - Feminist Theory

    See Claremont Graduate University catalog for details.

    Instructor: S. Snowiss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AWS 352 PO - Black Feminist Theory and Activism

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: P. Jackson
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Arabic
  

  • ARBC 001 CM - Introductory Arabic

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: B. Frangieh
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARBC 002 CM - Continuing Arabic

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: B. Frangieh
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARBC 033 CM - Intermediate Arabic

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: B. Frangieh
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARBC 120 CM - Arabic Grammar, Morphology, and Syntax (in Arabic)

    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.
  

  • ARBC 130 CM - Readings in Modern Arabic Prose (in Arabic)

    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.
  

  • ARBC 148 CM - Special Topics: Arabic Literature/Culture

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    May be repeated for credit as the topic varies.

    Prerequisite(s): ARBC044 CM or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARBC 166 CM - Readings in Modern Arab Culture and Thought (in Arabic)

    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.

Arabic in Translation
  

  • ARBT 110 CM - Modern Arabic Poetry in Translation

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: B. Frangieh
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Art
  

  • ART 020 PO - Black and White Photopgraphy

    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.
  

  • ART 021 PO - Foundations of Digital Design

    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.
  

  • ART 100A SC - Introduction to Studio Art

    Intensive introduction to formal aspects of two-dimensional art including drawing, design, color theory, perspective, elements of art, and principals of organization. These aspects are explored using various materials and media appropriate to two-dimensional artmaking. Required of all art majors. Offered annually.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 100B SC - Combined Media Art

    A studio course that frames primarily two-dimensional art experiences in combinations of technical, conceptual, aesthetic and analytical practice. A series of focused projects, readings, and discussions encourages varied but disciplined approaches to visual problem solving. Required of all art majors. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 100A  or written permission of instructor or departmental portfolio review.
    Fee: Laboratory fee $75.
    Instructor: S. Rankaitis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 101 SC - Introduction to Painting

    An examination and application of the fundamental techniques and concepts of painting with the study of color, form, and composition. Offered fall and spring.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $75.
    Instructor: A. Blizzard
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 102 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Painting

    A studio-discussion course that investigates the formal, intellectual, and conceptual aspects of painting. This course may be taken twice for credit. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 101 .
    Fee: Laboratory fee $75.
    Instructor: A. Blizzard
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 105 SC - Inroduction to Drawing

    An introduction to the concepts and fundamental techniques of drawing and design, using a variety of media. Offered annually.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 106 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Drawing

    A studio course that explores drawing techniques and concepts in objective and non-objective modes. This course may be taken twice for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 105  or written permission of instructor.
    Fee: Laboratory fee $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 120 SC - Introduction to Wheel Throwing

    This course is an introduction to the techniques and concepts that constitute the contemporary vessel in ceramics. Topics covered include basic pottery wheel techniques: centering throwing, and trimming, in addition to conceptual development, firing, glazing, and ceramic history past and present. Classes will consist of technical demonstrations, lectures, slides, work time, and critiques.

    Fee: Lab fee $75.
    Instructor: A. Davis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 121 SC - Introduction to Ceramic Sculpture

    This course is an introduction to the techniques that constitute contemporary sculptural ceramics. Topics covered include hand-building techniques: pinch, coil, slab, and modeling, conceptual development, firing, glazing, and ceramic history past and present. Classes will consist of technical demonstrations, lectures, slides, work time, and critiques.

    Fee: Lab fee $75.
    Instructor: A. Davis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 122 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Ceramics

    Students continue to explore the techniques and concepts that constitute contemporary ceramics. This will include a refinement of the basics, with the addition of wheel throwing, mold making/slip casting, and image transfers onto clay. Classes will consist of technical demonstrations, lectures, assigned and self-directed projects, and group and individual critiques. This course may be taken twice for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 121 .
    Fee: Lab fee $75.
    Instructor: A. Davis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 123 PO - Documentary Photography

    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.
  

  • ART 125 PZ - Digital Photography

    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.
  

  • ART 125 SC - Sculpture

    This course is an introduction to contemporary sculpture. Assignments will introduce a variety of materials and techniques while addressing and exploring various models indicative of current sculptural practice, which will include site, context, time, implementation of new media, process, aesthetics of the object, and relationships to the body. Class time will consist of lectures, demos, work time, and critiques.

    Fee: Lab fee $75.
    Instructor: A. Davis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 126 PZ - Intermediate Photography

    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.
  

  • ART 128 PO - Installation: Art and Context

    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.
  

  • ART 134 SC - Crossing Media: Moving Between Analog and Digital in Printmaking

    The digital print is considered something of a hybrid in the print and photo world. Crossing platforms between the etching studio and the digital art lab, students will create works that integrate both methodologies. Systems including etching, solar printing, monoprinting, digital transfer and analog and digital printing will be explored. This course may be taken twice for credit. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 141 .
    Fee: Laboratory fee $75.
    Instructor: N. Macko
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 135 SC - Typography and the Book Arts

    In this studio course at the Scripps College Press, students collaboratively create a limited edition artist book. Students write original texts, generate imagery for the book, hand set metal type, print by letterpress on Vandercook presses, and hand-bind an edition of about 100 copies of the student-produced artist book.

    Fee: $75.
    Instructor: K. Maryatt
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 141 SC - Introduction to Digital Art

    This course is designed to provide students with a working knowledge of digital art through the use of digital art software. Students will approach their artistic ideas from a fine arts perspective, drawing upon formal elements in art and on conceptual issues related to art and technology thus influencing and informing their creative process, projects and goals.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $75.
    Instructor: N. Macko
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 142 SC - Introduction to Design in the Visual Arts

    This course introduces design strategies for the arrangement of elements in visual art. Projects assigned will address a specific design problem, require sketches for a plan, and management of the project by Adobe’s Illustrator and/or InDesign programs. The assignments may include both visual and textual elements. Projects may include a work of art for a portfolio, an exhibition announcement, a graphic novel or e-book.

    Fee: $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 143 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Digital Photography

    This course will provide students with an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of digital color photography. Working with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, students will learn advanced image editing skills and image management, and will create a digital image database and a digital portfolio website. Issues of digital printing, digital photography and contemporary photographic practice will be discussed. Related readings on contemporary photography and digital art practice. Digital SLR recommended.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 141 SC , ART 145 SC  .
    Fee: $75.
    Offered: Every year


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

  • ART 144 SC - Advanced Web Projects

    This studio course builds on students’ web design experience and introduces them to animation and motion graphics for the web using Macromedia Flash software. Production is augmented by critiques and discussions of conceptual and formal ideas. This course may be taken twice for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 141 .
    Fee: Laboratory fee $75.
    Instructor: T. Tran
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 145 SC - Introduction to Black-and-White Photography

    A studio course in black-and-white photographic with an emphasis on image production, developing, and printing 35mm film, in a wet darkroom. Instruction in basic camera operation, and darkroom techniques, and considers historical and contemporary uses of the pohotographic medium. Students should have access to a 35mm camera. Some cameras are available for check out from Scripps AV.

    Fee: $75.
    Instructor: K. Gonzales-Day
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 146 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Black-and-White Photography

    This course continues training in traditional darkroom black-and-white photography, and may include alternative processes, large and medium format cameras, and studio lighting. The course includes readings on photography, student presentations, self-directed projects, and group critiques.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 145 SC 
    Fee: $75.
    Instructor: K. Gonzales-Day
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 147 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Digital Photography

    This course will provide the student with an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of digital color photography. Working with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, students will learn advanced image editing skills and image management, and be given the opportunity to combine digital with film, large format, and wet darkroom techniques. Course will include readings and student presentations on contemporary photography. Digital SLR camera recommended.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 141 SC  , ART 145 SC  
    Fee: $75
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 148 SC - Introduction to Video Art

    A studio course introducing students to the basic techniques of digital video production: camerawork and non-linear editing. Production is augmented by critiques, screenings, and discussions of conceptual and formal ideas.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 145 .
    Instructor: T. Tran
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 149 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Video

    Students continue to develop digital projects and begin to create motion graphics for video using Adobe After Effects software. Production is augmented by critiques, screenings, and discussions of conceptual and formal ideas. This course may be taken twice for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): One of the following courses—MS 049 , MS 050 , MS 051  or ART 100A .
    Corequisite(s): MS 082  PZ.
    Instructor: T. Tran
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 181 SC - Topics Seminar in Studio Art

    This upper-division course provides an in-depth look at the history and methodologies underlying contemporary art practices and is intended to provide students with an opportunity to explore, research, and write on visual culture. Connecting contemporary art practice to the wider history of art, topics may include uses of photography in the 19th century, the avant-garde in Europe, Performance Art, Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Installation Art, Pop Art,Feminist Art and/or contemporary practices. Repeatable for credit with different topics.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 148  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 181G SC - Topics Seminar in Studio Art: From Beauty to the Abject, Race, Whiteness and Modernism

    Looking at various aesthetic models, this course will highlight the intersection of modern and contemporary art criticism with issues related to social and cultural constructions of difference as manifested within the visual arts.

    Instructor: K. Gonzales-Day
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 181M SC - Topics Seminar in Studio Art: Feminist Concepts and Strategies in Studio Art and Media Studies

    This seminar examines the recent history and current trends of women’s roles and contributions in media studies and studio art through readings and projects with an emphasis on gender in relationship to media culture. Analysis of and experimentation with visual media including print, photography and digital art in relation to the theory and practice of media studies and studio art is informed by a feminist perspective and critique.

    Instructor: N. Macko


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

  • ART 192 SC - Senior Project and Seminar in Art

    Devoted to aspects of research and professionalism within the visual arts, this seminar will emphasize the development of a senior project in conjunction with a major paper about each student’s work or area of concentration. This seminar will also emphasize graduate school preparation, resume writing, and arts career preparation. Enrollment limited to senior art majors. Offered annually fall.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $75.
    Instructor: S. Rankaitis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 193 SC - Advanced Senior Project and Seminar in Art

    This course is devoted to continued development of a serious and accomplished body of artwork to be displayed in the May Senior Art Exhibition. Course activities include exhibition preparation, art proposal and statement writing, career development and the business of art. Offered annually spring.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 192  with positive jurying by art faculty.
    Fee: Laboratory fee $75.
    Instructor: S. Rankaitis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ART 199 SC - Independent Study in Art: Reading and Research

    This course may be taken twice for credit.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $75.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

Art Conservation
  

  • ARCN 101 SC - Science in Art, Archaeology, and Architecture

    Art conservation raises important questions that will confront future generations. What is the role of permanence in a change-driven society? Who decides what to conserve? This course provides an introduction to this young field to future artists, art historians, architects, archaeologists, applied scientists, and public resource managers.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARCN 110 SC - Artists’ Materials and Technologies-Ancient and Modern

    Through materials science, this course considers current conservation questions: What should be preserved? What are the vulnerabilities of different materials? How can the lifespan of stone, paint, or plastic be extended? How compatible are proposed interventions? Answers will involve discussions of environmental and human influences, as well as sustainability and ethics of intervention.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARCN 115 SC - Art and Crime: Plunder, Fakes & Forensics

    This course explores the increasing use of forensic science to evaluate issues of authentication, sourcing and repatriation of works of art. From the uncovering of forgeries and looted antiquities, to the return of art stolen during WWII, history and science come together in this interdisciplinary art conservation course.


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

  • ARCN 120 SC - Global Tourism and Preservation Technology

    International tourism has increased fortyfold over the past 60 years. Tourism can strain limited resources and cause damage at popular museums, archaeological sites and world heritage cities. To prevent future loss of world cultural heritage, interdisciplinary teams are developing solutions to challenging art conservation problems based on diverse preservation technologies.

    Prerequisite(s): ARCN 101 ; 1 year of college-level natural science.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARCN 130 SC - Unraveling the Gordian Knot: Archaeological Conservation and the Tomb of King Midas

    This course will examine the different phases involved in archaeological conservation by studying the exploration and excavation of King Midas’s tomb in Anatolia, Turkey. Investigative techniques of testing and analysis will be explored that contribute to our knowledge of material science, attribution and dating, and deterioration of the archaeological record.

    Instructor: A. Paterakis


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

Art History
  

  • ARHI 051A PO - Introduction to the History of Art: The Ancient World

    Asks how the visual cultures of past times relate to those of the present and critically examines the modern notion of “art.” Courses proceed chronologically with examples from Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Courses may be taken in any order. 51a runs from prehistory through ancient times in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Fertile Crescent; offered alternate years.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 051B PO - Introduction to the History of Art: Medieval

    Asks how the visual cultures of past times relate to those of the present and critically examines the modern notion of “art.” Courses proceed chronologically with examples from Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Courses may be taken in any order. 51b treats the European Middle Ages, offered alternate years.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 051C PO - Introduction to the History of Art

    Asks how the visual cultures of past times relate to those of the present and critically examines the modern notion of “art.” Courses proceed chronologically with examples from Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Courses may be taken in any order. 51c from c. 1200 to the present, offered each semester.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 133 PO - Art, Conquest and Colonization

    Examines how images and architecture were enlisted in and helped shape the systematic exploration, conquest and colonization of North America (Canada, the US and Mexico) by Europeans from ca. 1500 to 1800. Considers how cultural production was used by indigenous populations to resist attempts to erase their cultures and to control the manner in which they assimilated into European settler cultures. Also addresses the connection between early representations of Africans and the establishment of a slave economy. Letter grade only.

    Instructor: F. Pohl
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 135 PO - Art and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century North America

    Examines how nineteenth-century North American artists and art institutions were involved in shaping the “imagined communities” that constituted the nations of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Includes works in a variety of media—paintings, sculpture, prints, architecture—and museums, art markets and mass media. Letter grade only.

    Instructor: F. Pohl
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 137 PZ - Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art

    An introductory survey of the visual and material culture of the Native peoples of North America in terms of material, technique, and cultural, historical, and philosophical/spiritual contexts. This class will also consider patterns of cultural contact and transformation, the collecting of Native American art, Federal government Indian policy and educational institutions, and modern and contemporary Native American art and cultural activism.

    Instructor: B. Anthes
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 138 PZ - Native American Art Collections Research

    This seminar focuses on original student research with Native American artworks from the collection of the Pomona College Museum of Art. Working collaboratively, students will study these artworks in detail, develop bibliographies in relevant secondary literature, write weekly research progress reports, make a formal research presentation, and a final paper.

    Instructor: B. Anthes
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 139 PZ - Seminar: Topics in Native American Art History

    Examines in depth one or more themes or critical issues in Native American art history, or artworks from a local collection or cultural center.

    Instructor: B. Anthes
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 140 PO - The Arts of Africa

    Survey of African art and architecture exploring ethnic and cultural diversity. Emphasis on the social, political, and religious dynamics that foster art production at specific historical moments in West, Central, and North Africa. Critical study of Western art historical approaches and methods used to study African arts.

    Instructor: P. Jackson
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 141A PO - (Re)presenting Africa: Art, History, and Film

    The seminar centers on post-colonial African films to examine (re)presentations of the people, arts, cultures, and socio-political histories of Africa and its diaspora. Course critically examines the cinematic themes, aesthetics, styles and schools of African and African diasporic filmmakers. Recommended: previous course in Art History, Black Studies or Media Studies. Letter grade only.

    Instructor: P. Jackson
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 141B PO - Africana Cinema: Through the Documentary Lens

    This course examines documentary films and videos created by filmmakers from Africa and the African Diaspora (United States, Britain and Caribbean). Topics include: history and aesthetics of documentary filmmaking, documentary as art, the narrative documentary, docu-drama, cinema vérité, biography, autobiography and historical documentary.

    Instructor: P. Jackson
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 141M PO - Representing Blackness: Music and Masculinities from Class to A$$

    Examines constructions of Blackness and notions Black masculinity through study of documentary films and related visual arts representing key musical innovators of the African diaspora. Explores the aesthetic influence of musical genres (e.g., spirituals, ragtime, blues, jazz, folk, gospel, rock and roll, soul, funk, reggae, Afrobeat, mbalax, disco, opera, hip hop, rap and neo-soul) on the interdependent visual vocabularies of arts movements, values of political movements, and representational codes of popular commodity culture from 1900 to present.

    Instructor: P. Jackson
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 144B PO - Daughters of Africa: Art, Cinema, Theory, Love

    Examines visual arts and cultural criticism produced by women from Africa and the African Diaspora (North America, Caribbean, and Europe). Students analyze aesthetic values, key representational themes, visual conventions, symbolic codes and stylistic approaches created from feminism’s spirited love of Blackness, Africaness and justice. Complement to AFRI 144A AF - Black Women Feminism(s) and Social Change . Recommended: previous course in Africana Studies, Chicano/a Studies, or Gender and Women’s Studies.

    Instructor: P. Jackson
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 150 SC - The Arts of China

    A survey of artistic traditions in China from Neolithic to modern times. Architecture, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, ceramics, and metalwork will be discussed in their cultural contexts.

    Instructor: B. Coats
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 151 SC - The Arts of Japan

    The development of Japanese art and civilization from prehistoric through the Meiji periods. Major art forms will be examined in their cultural contexts.

    Instructor: B. Coats
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 152 SC - Arts of Late Imperial China

    Ming and Qing Dynasty arts and literature will be examined with special attention to literati and imperial court tastes. Students will help prepare an exhibition using Chinese art objects from the Scripps College collections.

    Instructor: B. Coats
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 154 SC - Japanese Prints

    A seminar that treats the subject matter and techniques of Japanese prints. Examines woodblock printing in Japan from 1600 to the present, using the Scripps College Collection of Japanese Prints.

    Instructor: B. Coats
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 155 SC - The History of Gardens, East and West

    From sacred groves to national parks, this survey focuses on the functions and meanings of gardens, on the techniques of landscape architecture, and on the social significance of major parks and gardens in Asia, Europe, and North America.

    Instructor: B. Coats
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 158 HM - Visualizing China: Contemporary Chinese Art and Culture

    Explores the political, social and cultural landscape of contemporary China through art (painting, sculpture/installation, photography, performance and videos). Theories of modern and postmodern art will be introduced in the analysis of visual materials.

    Instructor: C. Tan
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 159 PO - History of Art History

    Theories of art history in modern times, from Winckelmann and Hegel to Burckhardt, Riegl and Wölfflin, to Warburg and Panofsky. Postmodern challenges to traditional art historiography, especially Foucault’s. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

    Instructor: J. Emerick
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 161 PZ - Greek Art and Archaeology

    An introductory survey of Greek sculpture, architecture, and vase painting from their beginnings to 350 B.C. Considerable attention is given to the major archaeological sites and their historical positions.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 170 PO - The Early Renaissance in Italy

    Painting, sculpture and architecture in 15th–century Italy. Emphasis on Florence and princely courts as artistic centers of the new style. Artists and major works considered in their historical context.

    Instructor: G. Gorse
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 171 PO - High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy

    Art and architecture in Florence, Rome and Venice during the 16th century. The invention of the High Renaissance style by Bramante, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, and Titian. Major works of the post-High Renaissance masters. The interaction of artists and patrons in historical context.

    Instructor: G. Gorse
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 172 PO - Northern Renaissance Art

    Painting, sculpture, and architecture in northern Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Developments in painting emphasized; special attention to the Low Countries and Germany.

    Instructor: G. Gorse
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 173 PO - Medieval and Renaissance City

    Interdisciplinary approach to the Medieval and Renaissance city in Italy, 1250-1600, with emphasis on architecture and urbanism. Treats the rise of Italian city-states and shows how their urban designs go hand in hand with their social, political, and economic institutions. Compares Florence, Venice, Rome, Genoa, Pisa, Siena, and the small princely courts. Focuses on city dwellers’ civic, religious, and family rituals.

    Instructor: G. Gorse
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 174 PO - Italian Baroque Art

    Painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. Rome and development of the Baroque style in the works of Caravaggio, the Carracci, Bernini, Borromini, and Pietro da Crotona. Church and social history as background.

    Instructor: G. Gorse
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 175 PO - Northern Baroque and Rococo Art

    Painting, sculpture and architecture of the 17th century in Germany, France, Spain, England, and the Low Countries. Poussin, Velásquez, Rembrandt, Leyster, Rubens, Vermeer, Wren, Neumann, Fischer von Erlach.

    Instructor: G. Gorse
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 176 JT - Italian Cities

    See Pomona College catalog for details.


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

  • ARHI 177 SC - Eighteenth-Century European Arts

    The European Enlightenment will be explored, with a focus on the visual and performing arts, and with concern for the popularization of the arts through public displays and performances. Field trips to see original 18th-century works are planned.

    Instructor: B. Coats
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 178 PO - Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation

    The visual arts produced by people of African descent in the U.S. from the colonial era to the present. Emphasis on Black artists’ changing relationship to African arts and cultures, the emergence of an oppositional aesthetic tradition that interrogates visual constructions of “Blackness” and “whiteness,” gender and sexuality as a means of revisioning representational practices. Recommended: previous course in Art History, Asian-American Studies, Africana Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies or Media Studies.

    Instructor: P. Jackson
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 179 PO - Modern Architecture, City, Landscape and Sustainability

    Survey of “Modernist” traditions of architecture and city planning (19th-21st centuries), tracing the “roots” of “sustainability” from the Spanish tradition through the Arts and Crafts Movement to the Bauhaus machine aesthetic to “post-modernism” and “sustainable architecture”—the new Gesamtkunstwerk (“total work of art”). Los Angeles within these global contexts.

    Instructor: G. Gorse
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 180 SC - Early Twentieth-Century European Avant-Gardes

    This course examines some of the major movements of early 20th-century European art, including cubism, Dadaism, surrealism, futurism, constructivism, and productivism, to explore how the historical avant-garde irrevocably altered traditional ideas about the definition and function of art.

    Prerequisite(s): One previous art history course or permission of the instructor.
    Instructor: J. Koss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 180R SC - Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes

    This course explores Russian and Soviet avant-garde art and culture from 1910 to 1938. It examines how artists responded to western European achievements, contended with the approach and aftermath of the October Revolution, engaged with sociopolitical changes in their country, and reworked traditional ideas about the definition and function of art. Open to juniors and seniors.

    Prerequisite(s): One previous art history course or permission of the instructor.
    Instructor: J. Koss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 181 PZ - Modern into Contemporary: Art from 1945-1989

    An overview of significant issues and movements in art from 1945-1989. Mainstream and alternative art movements are discussed in relation to the cultural politics of the post-World War Two era. Topics include Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimalism, Performance and Conceptual Art, Process Art, Land Art, Site- Specificity, Institutional Critique, Feminist Art, and the Culture Wars of the 1980s. Emphasis is on North American and Western Europe, with comparisons to emerging global art centers.

    Instructor: B. Anthes
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 183 PZ - The Art World Since 1989

    An examination of contemporary art in the context of economic and cultural globalization. Topics include the impact of the end of the Cold War and the rise of economic neoliberalism on the arts; the emergence of new global art centers in the wake of major political transformations, such as the fall of South African Apartheid; contemporary Native American and Australian Aboriginal artists in the global marketplace; and artists’ response to issues of nationalism, ethnic violence, terrorism, and war.

    Instructor: B. Anthes
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 184 PO - Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History

    A Social History of North American Art. A comparative analysis of artistic production in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico in the 20th and 21st centuries. Examines issues of race, class, gender, sexuality; the relationships between artistic theories and practices; economic developments; and social and political movements (e.g., the Mexican Revolution, the Depression, the Women’s Movement).

    Instructor: F. Pohl
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 185 PO - History of Photography

    Photography from the nineteenth century to the present. The camera as a tool for documentation, portraiture, social comment, journalism, advertising, and as a pure vehicle for personal expression and a point of departure for allied art forms.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 185K PO - Seminar: Topics in History of Photography

    Intensive investigation of topics relating to the production, distribution and reception of photographs. Letter grade only. Includes field trips.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
    Instructor: K. Howe
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 186A PZ - Seminar: Theories of Contemporary Art

    Based on close readings of key writings by artists, critics, curators, and scholars, this discussion-based course focuses on the evolving aesthetic, social-political, and theoretical discourses that have informed the art world since World War Two.

    Instructor: B. Anthes
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 186B PZ - Seminar: Topics in Contemporary Art

    Examines in-depth one or more themes or critical issues in contemporary art history or a collection of artworks from a local collection.

    Instructor: B. Anthes
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 186C SC - Topics in Asian Art

    Designed as “hands-on” experience with interpreting works of Asian art through investigative research and educational presentation. Topics of this seminar will change but the focus will be on art works and their cultural contexts.The topic for Fall 2013 is Meiji Art.

    Instructor: B. Coats
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 186E PO - Art and Activism

    Examines ways in which North American (Canada, the U.S. and Mexico) artists have used their work in the 20th and 21st centuries to engage in political activism, either on the street through performances and protests, or at specific physical and/or virtual sites through murals, paintings, posters, prints, sculptures, installations or websites.

    Instructor: F. Pohl
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 186F PO - Seminar: Topics in North American Art

    Intensive investigation of a wide variety of topics relating to the production and reception of art in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Course may be repeated for credit as topics vary. Letter grade only.

    Instructor: F. Pohl
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 186G PO - Gendering the Renaissance

    Takes up historian Joan Kelly’s challenge, “Did women have a Renaissance?” Expands the question to cultural constructs of the male and female body, sexuality, identity, homosexuality and lesbianism and their implications for the visual arts, literature and the history of early modern Europe (14th-17th centuries).

    Instructor: G. Gorse
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 186K SC - Seminar in Modern Art

    The seminar examines in depth one theme or set of themes in 19th- and 20th-century art and related fields. Topic changes each year. Repeatable for credit with different topics.

    Prerequisite(s): One previous art history course or the permission of the instructor.
    Instructor: J. Koss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 186L PO - Critical Race Theory, Representation, and the Rule of Law

    classed disparities of justice, as well as the intellectual, aesthetic, scientific and political convergences of critical jurisprudence with representational practices in African Diasporic visual arts. Recommended: previous course in Africana Studies, Chicano/a Studies, or Gender and Women’s Studies.

    Instructor: P. Jackson
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ARHI 186M SC - Seminar in Twentieth-Century Art

    The seminar will examine in depth one movement, artist, or other selected topic within the art of the 20th century. Open to juniors and seniors. Offered annually. Topic changes each year.

    Instructor: M. MacNaughton
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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