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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.
 

Dance
  

  • DANC 073 CH - Pre-Columbian Dance

    Introduction to Mexican dances since pre-Columbian times: La Danza de la Pluma, Danza de los Quetzoles, Danza de los Negritos and Pasacolas from Tarahumdra Indians. Aztec/Conchero dance with Alavanzas (songs by Concheros) along with Matachines from different parts of Mexico and their historical roots to pre-Aztec times covered. Students will learn to make Aztec and Matachine costumes and headdresses.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 076A SC - Modern Dance I

    Fundamentals of modern dance for the beginning student, including technique, improvisation, and composition. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. 

    Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance or movement experience recommended.
    Instructor: G. Abrams, S. Branfman, R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 076B SC - Modern Dance I

    Fundamentals of modern dance for the beginning student, including technique, improvisation, and composition. May be taken twice for credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance or movement experience recommended.
    Instructor: G. Abrams, S. Branfman, R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 077A SC - Modern Dance II

    Modern dance skills for the student with low intermediate competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. 

    Prerequisite(s): Previous dance experience required.
    Instructor: G. Abrams, S. Branfman, R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 077B SC - Modern Dance II

    Modern dance skills for the student with low intermediate competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. May be taken twice for credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): Previous dance experience required
    Instructor: G. Abrams, S. Branfman, R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 078A SC - Ballet I

    Fundamentals of ballet technique and theory. Includes barre, basic positions, and center floor work. Includes readings, video viewings, and written/oral assignments in ballet history. 

    Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance or movement experience recommended.
    Instructor: R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 078B SC - Ballet I

    Fundamentals of ballet technique and theory. Includes barre, basic positions, and center floor work.  May be taken twice for credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance or movement experience recommended.
    Instructor: R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 081A SC - Introduction to Jazz

    This course for students with limited dance experience covers a range of Jazz styles, including classical, commercial funk, lyrical and Broadway. Students will be introduced to a variety of techniques, with emphasis on rhythms, isolations, syncopation, and performance quality. Readings, video viewings and written assignments in historical, cultural and aesthetic issues pertaining to Jazz dancing augment studio experiences. 

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 081B SC - Introduction to Jazz

    This course for students with limited dance experience covers a range of Jazz styles, including classical, commercial funk, lyrical and Broadway. Students will be introduced to a variety of techniques, with emphasis on rhythms, isolations, syncopation, and performance quality. If space permits in DANC 081A ; may be taken twice for credit. 

    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 100A SC - Modern Dance III

    Modern dance skills for the student with high intermediate competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences.

    Prerequisite(s):  Permission of instructor.
    Instructor: K. Johansen
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 100B SC - Modern Dance III

    Modern dance skills for the student with high intermediate competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. May be taken twice for credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
    Instructor: K. Johansen
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 101 SC - History of Dance in Western Culture: 1600-present

    This course traces the evolution of dance as an art form in Europe and America from the late Renaissance through the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods, to the 21st century. The influence, appropriation, and subjugation of popular dance and the dance styles of other cultures will be considered.

    Instructor: R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 102 SC - Dynamics of Human Movement

    Provides students with fundamental knowledge of our physical structures and explores the meaning of movement as a reflection of mental states. Recognition of individual movement habits, tension patterns, and clues to inner states, as reflected by movement, will be approached through discussions, movement experiences, readings, and observations.

    Instructor: G. Abrams
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 103 SC - Laban Movement Analysis

    This course explores movement as a physical and mental phenomenon, functional movement in relation to developmental phases, and the expressive power of movement. The vehicle for this exploration is the system of movement analysis and observation developed by Rudolf Laban, a pioneer in movement, dance, and therapy.

    Instructor: G. Abrams
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 108A SC - Movement Improvisation

    Designed to develop non-verbal communication skills, stimulate creative thinking, and explore interdisciplinary group process. Includes structured explorations based on theater games, Laban’s Effort-Shape Theory, music/sound/breath/rhythm, spatial design, contact improvisation, etc. Includes research and performance.

    Instructor: S. Branfman
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 108B SC - Movement Improvisation

    Designed to develop non-verbal communication skills, stimulate creative thinking, and explore interdisciplinary group process. Includes structured explorations based on theater games, Laban’s Effort-Shape Theory, music/sound/breath/rhythm, spatial design, contact improvisation, etc.  Full course credit available in DANC 108A 

    Instructor: S. Branfman
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 110A SC - Ballet II

    Continuation of Ballet I, with emphasis on movement phrases and performance quality.  Includes readings, video viewings, and written/oral assignments in ballet history.

    Prerequisite(s): Some previous ballet experience required.
    Instructor: R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 110B SC - Ballet II

    Continuation of Ballet I, with emphasis on movement phrases and performance quality.  May be taken twice for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): Some previous ballet experience required.
    Instructor: R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 111A SC - Modern Dance IV

    Modern dance skills for the student with advanced competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences.

    Prerequisite(s):  Permission of instructor.

     
    Instructor: K. Johansen
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 111B SC - Modern Dance IV

    Modern dance skills for the student with advanced competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. May be taken twice for credit.

    Prerequisite(s):    Permission of instructor.
    Instructor: K. Johansen
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 112A SC - Jazz Dance

    Intermediate-level course will include a variety of styles from lyrical to hiphop and street dance. Emphasis on rhythms, isolations, flow, syncopation, style, and performance quality. Readings, video viewings, and written assignments in historical, cultural, and aesthetic issues pertaining to jazz dance will augment studio experiences. 

    Prerequisite(s): Minimum of one full year of college dance training.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 112B SC - Jazz Dance

    Intermediate-level course will include a variety of styles from lyrical to hiphop and street dance. Emphasis on rhythms, isolations, flow, syncopation, style, and performance quality. If space permits in DANC 112A ; may be taken twice for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): Minimum of one full year of college dance training. 
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 114A SC - Somatics of Yoga: An Integrated Approach

    This course utilizes yoga as a vehicle for deepening kinesthetic awareness, promoting ease and efficiency in the body, and integrating mind/body functioning. Embodied, experiential learning will be achieved through application of various somatic practices, such as Bartenieff Fundamentals, Ideokinesis (Constructive Rest), Breathwork, and Reciprocal Innervation, to the practice of yoga.  Readings, written assignments, and research project/presentation augment studio experiences.

    Instructor: G. Abrams
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 114B SC - Somatics of Yoga: An Integrated Approach

    This course utilizes yoga as a vehicle for deepening kinesthetic awareness, promoting ease and efficiency in the body, and integrating mind/body functioning.  Embodied, experiential learning will be achieved through application of various somatic practices, such as Bartenieff Fundamentals, Ideokinesis (Constructive Rest), Breathwork, and Reciprocal Innervation, to the practice of yoga. May take for half course if space permits in DANC 114A  .

    Instructor: G. Abrams
    Course Credit: 0.5


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

  • DANC 119 PO - Modern Dance III

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Cameron, J. Pennington, guest artists
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 120 PO - Modern Dance III

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Cameron, J. Pennington, guest artists
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 121 PO - Modern Dance IV

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Cameron, J. Pennington, guest artists
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 122 PO - Modern Dance IV

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Cameron, J. Pennington, guest artists
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 123 PO - Ballet III

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: V. Koenig
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 124 PO - Ballet III

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: V. Koenig
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 130 PO - The Language of the Body

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Cameron
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 131 SC - Critical Perspectives on Dance: Gender, Race, and Sexuality

    This course provides students an opportunity to critically investigate a variety of perspectives in current dance scholarship, as well as a platform to think, speak and write critically about dance as a cultural meaning-producing activity. Readings in feminism, post-modernism, semiotics and cultural studies are used to analyze the intersections of gender, race and sexuality, and the power structures reflected in, and enacted by, dance.

    Prerequisite(s): First-year students by permission of instructor only.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 135 SC - Introduction to West African Dance

    A movement-based study of the dances of West Africa (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Nigeria, Ghana). Includes investigation of similarities and differences among dances, and examination of historical and cultural influences. Videos, readings, and research papers augment studio experiences. Basic dance conditioning included. Open to all experience levels. 

    Instructor: P. Smith
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 135 PO - Traditions of World Dance

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: A. Shay
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 137 PO - Sex and Gender Differences in Performance

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: A. Shay
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 138 PO - Concert Dance in the Global Age

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: A. Shay
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 140 PO - Composition/Movement Exploration

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Cameron, J. Pennington
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 140 SC - Music for Dancers

    This is an interdisciplinary course that will introduce students to elementary music theory; explore the significance and impact of a soundscape in dance, video and film; and teach students to digitally compose original music to accompany dance or other sequential events.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 141 PO - Composition/Choreolab

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Cameron, J. Pennington
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 150A PO - Flamenco/Folklorico/Latin Rhythm

    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.
  

  • DANC 150B PO - Dancing in the Balkans

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: A. Shay
    Course Credit: Variable


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

  • DANC 150C PO - Music and Dance of Bali

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: N. Wenten
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 150D PO - Indian Classical Dance

    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.
  

  • DANC 150E PO - Cultural Styles: Middle Eastern Dance

    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.
  

  • DANC 151 PO - African Aesthetics

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: K. Gadlin
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 152 PO - Hip-Hop Dance

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: K. Egusa
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 153 PO - Beginning/Intermediate Jazz Technique

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: K. Egusa
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 159 SC - Dance Composition I

    Composition and improvisation skills with emphasis on the fundamental principles of space, time, and energy. Students must be concurrently participating in a dance movement class.

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


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

  • DANC 160 PO - Anatomy and Kinesiology

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: M. Jolley
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 160 SC - Dance Composition II

    Composition and improvisation skills with an emphasis on understanding form. Students must be concurrently participating in a dance movement class.

    Prerequisite(s): DANC 159   or permission of instructor.
    Instructor: S. Branfman, R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 161 SC - Dancing the News: Choreographing Women’s Lives

    This course engages students in the process of looking at social issues (both contemporary and historic) and turning those issues into dance and/or performance. Issues will be examined from the perspectives of women living the news and those surrounding them. Culminates in public showing and community dialogue. 

    Instructor: S. Branfman
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 162A SC - Repertory

    Development of choreographic skill and/or performance quality and skill through choreographing or performing in dance faculty supervised productions. Does not meet fine arts breadth requirement. Two or more dances, average of 8 hours of rehearsal per week. May be taken twice for credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): Eligibility by audition. Permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 162B SC - Repertory

    Development of choreographic skill and/or performance quality and skill through choreographing or performing in dance faculty supervised productions. Does not meet fine arts breadth requirement. One dance, average of 4 hours of rehearsal per week. May be taken twice for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): Eligibility by audition. Permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 163 SC - Kinesiology as Related to Dance

    This course studies the science of human movement and includes the fields of anatomy, physiology, and physics. Emphasis is on understanding and appreciation of how dance movement is executed by the body, and how kinesiological ideas relate to training, injury prevention, rehabilitation, and daily life. 

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 165 PO - Somatic Movement Techniques

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: M. Jolley
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 166 PO - Somatic Movement Techniques

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: M. Jolley
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 168 SC - Dance Production

    This course provides experience and theoretical inquiry into the staging of dance including concert organization, audience development, publicity, budgeting, stage management, lighting, sound, and costuming. Students will assist in producing Scripps dance events as well as study dance productions and producing entities in the Los Angeles area. Includes investigation of economic, social, and political issues that impact dance production.

    Instructor: R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 170 PO - The Mind in Motion

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: M. Jolley
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 175 PO - Alexander Technique in Motion

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: M. Jolley
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 176 PO - Alexander Technique in Motion

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: M. Jolley
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 180 PO - Dance Repertory

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Cameron, faculty, and guests
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • DANC 181 PO - Dance Repertory

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Cameron, faculty, and guests
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 190 SC - Senior Seminar in Dance

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


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

  • DANC 191 SC - Senior Thesis

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


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

  • DANC 193A SC - Production Experience

    All dance majors are required to complete at least four different production/crew assignments on Scripps Dance events. Each assignment must be a minimum of four hours work. 

    Instructor: G. Abrams, R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: Non-credit; Pass/Fail
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • DANC 193B SC - Production Experience

    All dance majors are required to complete at least four different production/crew assignments on Scripps Dance events. Each assignment must be a minimum of four hours work. 

    Instructor: G. Abrams, R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: Non-credit; Pass/Fail
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • DANC 193C SC - Production Experience

    All dance majors are required to complete at least four different production/crew assignments on Scripps Dance events. Each assignment must be a minimum of four hours work.

    Instructor: G. Abrams, R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: Non-credit; Pass/Fail
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • DANC 193D SC - Production Experience

    All dance majors are required to complete at least four different production/crew assignments on Scripps Dance events. Each assignment must be a minimum of four hours work.

    Instructor: G. Abrams, R. Brosterman
    Course Credit: Non-credit; Pass/Fail
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • DANC 199 SC - Independent Study in Dance: Reading and Research

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


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

Economics
  

  • ECON 040 SC - Personal Finance

    This course covers the fundamentals of personal financial management: the principles and tools of saving, investing, managing credit, paying taxes, buying property and insurance, long-term planning. It emphasizes how the economy works and the economic environment that affects assets, including the role of government institutions and policies and how they impact private sector product and financial markets. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): No prerequisites.
    Instructor: P. Dillon
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 051 SC - Principles of Macroeconomics

    An introductory course in the workings of the national economy—how the level of GDP is determined and why it fluctuates, the causes of inflation and unemployment, and the factors that influence the economy’s growth rate. The model of the economy that is developed can be used to examine the role of government, the international implications of domestic policies, the importance of public debt and deficits, and other current macro policy issues. Offered annually.

    Instructor: K. Odell
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 052 SC - Principles of Microeconomics

    An introductory course about how markets set prices and thereby allocate goods, services, labor, and financial resources in an economy. Models of consumer and seller interaction are used to examine the effects of government intervention and to consider the efficiency and equity impacts of the market system. Microeconomics provides powerful analytic tools that are applicable to any choice situation. Offered annually.

    Instructor: L. Chaudhary
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 101 SC - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

    An intermediate-level study of how markets organize the allocation of goods and services in the economy. The course provides a rigorous analysis of consumers’ and producers’ behavior and the roles of these agents in both input and output markets. Different market structures are explored—competition, oligopoly, monopoly, etc. Questions of economic efficiency and equity and the role of government are addressed. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 052 , MATH 030 .
    Instructor: R. Pedace
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 102 SC - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

    A more advanced treatment of the subject matter of introductory macroeconomic theory, with emphasis on the development and manipulation of models of the economy. These models help us study the determination of national output, inflation, employment, growth, and business cycles. They are also used to analyze current economic issues and policies. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051 .
    Instructor: S. Flynn
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 111 SC - Behavioral Economics

    This class will introduce students to the field of behavioral economics, which combines ideas from psychology with experimental and empirical results to get a better handle on human behavior than has been supplied by traditional economic theory.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051  and ECON 101 .
    Instructor: S. Flynn
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 113 SC - European Economic History

    This course will cover economic change and growth in Western Europe from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It focuses on specific institutions necessary to ensure long-run economic success. Topics include agriculture and trade in the medieval economy, political institutions in early modern England, and the Industrial Revolution.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051  and ECON 052 .
    Instructor: L. Chaudhary
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 114 SC - The Development of American Markets

    The economic history of the United States is one of the extension of markets over a vast geographical space. This course will examine both input and output markets in the 200 years after the American Revolution. How did those markets first form and how did they evolve over time? When were they efficient, and when did they fail? How was the pace and pattern of growth affected?

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051  and ECON 052 .
    Instructor: K.Odell
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 116 PO - Race and the U.S. Economy

    Examination of the impact of race on economic status from Jim Crow to the present; historic patterns of occupational and residential segregation; trends in racial inequality in income and wealth; economic theories of discrimination; and strategies for economic advancement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 120 SC - Statistics

    Introduction to statistical analysis, focusing on causal relationships, experimental design, and statistical reasoning. The course develops tools for problem solving and interpretation of real-world data. Computer-based analysis of data rather than computational recipes will be emphasized. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051  and ECON 052 .
    Instructor: R. Pedace
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 121 PO - Economics of Gender and the Family

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: E. Brown
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 123 PO - International Economics

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: T. Andrabi, S. Marks
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 125 SC - Econometrics

    Statistical techniques for testing economic models and evaluating data. Includes regression models, time series, and cross-section data analysis. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 101  and ECON 120 .
    Instructor: R. Pedace
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 126 PO - Economic Development

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: T. Andrabi
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 126 CM - Microeconometrics

    An advanced course in the application of econometric techniques for analyzing micro-level data (entities such as individuals, firms, states, countries, etc.). Topics include instrumental variable estimation, panel dtat models with fixed effects, maximum likelihood estimation, and dependent variables such as indicators (binary variables), categories, counts, and durations.

    Prerequisite(s): Economics 125


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

  • ECON 127 CM - Special Topics in Econometrics

    An introduction to time seried models with applications to macroeconomics and finance. Topics include single equation forecasting techniques (ARIMA) and system (VAR) estimation, unit roots estimation and testing, and GARCH models.

    Prerequisite(s): Economics 125


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

  • ECON 129 CM - Game Theory

    Introduction to economics decision-making in strategic interdependent settings where the outcome of your actions depends also on the actions of others. This course will introduce and develop various concepts, including: Strategies, Payoffs, Players, Rationality and various concepts of Equilibrium which will help us analyze strategic behavior by individuals and firms. These concepts will be illustrated using a variety of economic models from industrial organization such as: oligopoly, bankruptcy law, takeover deterrents, collusion in the stock market, patent races, auctions, bargaining and models of asymmetric information such as principal-agent and the “lemon” problem. We will analyze famous games like the prisoner’s dilemma, the battle of the sexes, and the voting decision.

    Prerequisite(s): Economics 101 and 120 or equivalent


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

  • ECON 135 SC - Monetary and Financial Economics

    This course examines financial assets and markets, and the unique positions of money and banks in those markets. The roles of money and financial markets in the macro economy are investigated, with particular emphasis on monetary policy and the finance of government deficits.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 052  and ECON 102 .
    Instructor: K. Odell
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 137 SC - Economics of Health and Health Policy

    This course utilizes basic microeconomic theory to analyze the impact of various government policies as well as market forces on the provision of health care services in the United States and other countries. Topics include the market for private health insurance; government insurance programs such as Medicare and Medicaid; the effects of pharmaceutical patents; the effects of price controls; government licensing requirements for physicians and nurses; planning, budgeting, and monitoring mechanisms; and the efficiency and ethics of various systems of health care provision.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON052 SC  
    Instructor: S. Flynn, D. Freund


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

  • ECON 140 SC - International Economics

    A survey of topics in international trade and finance. Included are studies of the law of comparative advantage, patterns of trade between nations, and the financial relationships involved in transactions in international markets. The course also examines the motivation and form of government policies which influence international flows of money and goods. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 052  and ECON 102 , or permission from instructor.
    Instructor: K. Odell
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 144 SC - Economic Development

    This course provides an introduction to mainstream neoclassical economic models of development as well as a survey of central debates within the economic development literature. Alternative approaches to development will be discussed within the context of several underdeveloped country cases. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051  and ECON 052 .
    Instructor: L. Chaudhary
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 154 PO - Game Theory for Economists

    Introduces the main tools of noncooperative game theory as used in current economics literature. Topics include formalities of modeling competitive situations, various solution concepts such as Nash equilibrium and its refinements, signaling games, repeated games under different informational environments, bargaining models, issues of cooperation and reputation. Applications from economics, politics, law, corporate and business strategy.

    Prerequisite(s): Economics 57 and 102


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

  • ECON 155 PZ - History of Economic Thought

    See Pitzer Catalog for more details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 155 PO - Law and Economics

    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.
  

  • ECON 161 PO - Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis

    Selected issues in macroeconomic theory, empirical analysis, and policy including growth, unemployment, consumption, investment, inflation, budget deficits, and monetary policy rules. Covers rational expectations, real business cycles, sticky price models, endogenous growth, financial crises, and macroeconometrics. 

    Prerequisite(s): Economics 101, 102, and either 107 or 167


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

  • ECON 162 PO - Advanced Microeconomic Analysis

    Selected topics in modern microeconomic theory, including constrained optimization, decision making under uncertainty, market failures under imperfect information and their remedies and strategic behavior. 

    Prerequisite(s): Economics 57 and 102


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

  • ECON 169 PO - Advanced Econometrics

    An overview of state-of-the-art econometric modeling methodologies. Estimation and inference techniques for cross-section, time-series, and panel data. Empirical applications in the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, and financial economics using modern statistical software.

    Prerequisite(s): Economics 107 or 167 and Math060, or permission of the instructor


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

  • ECON 170 PZ - Environmental Economics

    Application of theories of externalities, public goods, and cost-benefit analysis to environmental policy and regulation. Topics include air and water pollution, global warming, environmental health, economic development and the environment, the trade-off between production and environmental amenities, non-market valuation, and command-and-control regulation versus market mechanisms.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 101 , or permission from instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 175 SC - Labor and Personnel Economics

    This course presents theoretical models and empirical evidence on employment-related issues such as unions, segmented labor markets, discrimination, immigration, and personnel management. Strategies associated with worker selection, task assignment, and compensation will be analyzed as the outcomes of market conditions.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051 , ECON 052 , ECON 101 , and ECON 120 .
    Instructor: R. Pedace
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 184 SC - Behavioral Finance

    In contrast to traditional courses in finance which deal with how investors should behave, this class will introduce students to behavioral finance, which deals with how investors actually behave.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 101 , ECON 125 , and ECON 135 .
    Instructor: S. Flynn
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 190 SC - Senior Seminar

    This seminar is intended to develop and improve research skills. Seniors will produce research reports, both oral and written, while examining topics and methodology in economics. Each student will complete a senior thesis outline, research design, bibliography and overview chapter. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 101  and ECON 102 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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