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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.
 

Other Courses
  

  • 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.
  

  • FGSS 181 SC - Feminisms in Community: Community Engagement with Incarcerated Women

    This course will introduce students to the practice and principles of feminist community engagement. The course will focus on issues of gender, sexuality, race, class, and incarceration, and on critiques of the prison-industrial complex. Students will take part in a community-writing workshop in the California Institution for Women (prison). 

    Prerequisite(s): GWS 026 SC or by instructor permission
    Instructor: S. Castagnetto
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • SOSC 147S HM - Enterprise and Entrepreneurs

    See Harvey Mudd College catalog for more details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Accelerated Integrated Science Sequence
  

  • AISS 001AL KS - Accelerated Integrated Science Sequence

    This intensive, honors-level course sequence, co-taught by scientists from different disciplines, provides an integrative approach to the fundamentals of biology, chemistry, and physics. It is designed for first-year students with broad, interdisciplinary scientific interests and strong math backgrounds. The sequence will prepare students for entry into any majors offered by the department, and provides an alternative to the standard six-course introductory curriculum (BIOL 043L -BIOL 044L , CHEM 014L -CHEM 015L , PHYS 033L -PHYS 034L ). It will feature computer modeling, seminar discussions, lectures, interdisciplinary laboratories, and hands-on activities. AISS 001AL  and AISS 001BL  are designed to be taken concurrently (in the fall term), followed by AISS 002AL  and AISS 002BL  in the spring. Enrollment is by permission.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50 per course.
    Instructor: S. Gould, Z. Tang, M. Coleman, N. Williams
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AISS 001BL KS - Accelerated Integrated Science Sequence

    This intensive, honors-level course sequence, co-taught by scientists from different disciplines, provides an integrative approach to the fundamentals of biology, chemistry, and physics. It is designed for first-year students with broad, interdisciplinary scientific interests and strong math backgrounds. The sequence will prepare students for entry into any majors offered by the department, and provides an alternative to the standard six-course introductory curriculum (BIOL 043L -BIOL 044L , CHEM 014L -CHEM 015L , PHYS 033L -PHYS 034L ). It will feature computer modeling, seminar discussions, lectures, interdisciplinary laboratories, and hands-on activities. AISS 001AL  and AISS 002AL  are designed to be taken concurrently (in the fall term), followed by AISS 002AL  and AISS 002BL  in the spring. Enrollment is by permission.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50 per course.
    Instructor: S. Gould, Z. Tang, M. Coleman, N. Williams
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AISS 002AL KS - Accelerated Integrated Science Sequence

    This intensive, honors-level course sequence, co-taught by scientists from different disciplines, provides an integrative approach to the fundamentals of biology, chemistry, and physics. It is designed for first-year students with broad, interdisciplinary scientific interests and strong math backgrounds. The sequence will prepare students for entry into any majors offered by the department, and provides an alternative to the standard six-course introductory curriculum (BIOL 043L -BIOL 044L , CHEM 014L -CHEM 015L , PHYS 033L -PHYS 034L ). It will feature computer modeling, seminar discussions, lectures, interdisciplinary laboratories, and hands-on activities.   and AISS 001BL  are designed to be taken concurrently (in the fall term), followed by AISS 002AL and AISS 002BL  in the spring. Enrollment is by permission.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50 per course.
    Instructor: S. Gould, Z. Tang, M. Coleman, N. Williams
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AISS 002BL KS - Accelerated Integrated Science Sequence

    This intensive, honors-level course sequence, co-taught by scientists from different disciplines, provides an integrative approach to the fundamentals of biology, chemistry, and physics. It is designed for first-year students with broad, interdisciplinary scientific interests and strong math backgrounds. The sequence will prepare students for entry into any majors offered by the department, and provides an alternative to the standard six-course introductory curriculum (BIOL 043L -BIOL 044L , CHEM 014L -CHEM 015L , PHYS 033L -PHYS 034L ). It will feature computer modeling, seminar discussions, lectures, interdisciplinary laboratories, and hands-on activities.   and AISS 001BL  are designed to be taken concurrently (in the fall term), followed by AISS 002AL  and AISS 002BL in the spring. Enrollment is by permission.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50 per course.
    Instructor: S. Gould, Z. Tang, M. Coleman, N. Williams
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Africana Studies
  

  • AFRI 010A AF - Introduction to Africana Studies

    Interdisciplinary exploration of key aspects of Black history, culture, and life in Africa and the Americas. Provides a fundamental, intellectual understanding of the global Black experience as it has been described and interpreted in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. 

    Instructor: T. H. Johnson
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Each Fall


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

  • AFRI 010B AF - Introduction to Africana Studies: Research Methods

    Introduce students to the methodologies used in research on topics pertinent to Africana studies. In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the field, introduces students to research methods in the humanities and social sciences including, but is not limited to, interviewing; content analysis; archival, library and Internet research; and participant observation. Offered each spring.

    Instructor: D. Sojoyner
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AFRI 055 AF - I Got Soul: Black Public Culture from 1980’s to the Turn of the Century

    The focus of this course is to analyze the multitude of artists who contributed to the development of Black communities in the 1980s and 1990s. Utilizing film, music, and written texts, the course will examine the contribution of cultural practitioners who have largely been forgotten in the annals of history and collective memory.

    Instructor: D. Sojoyner


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

  • AFRI 120 AF - Prisons and Public Education

    In this course we will analyze and deconstruct existing realities, and posit new ones with respect to interlocking violence that is levied against black people in the form of public education and the prison industrial complex.

    Instructor: D. Sojoyner
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AFRI 144A AF - Black Women Feminism(s) and Social Change

    Introduction to the theoretical and practical contributions of African American feminists who maintain that issues of race, gender, sexuality, and social class are central, rather than peripheral, to any history, analysis, assessment, or strategy for bringing about change in the United States.

    Instructor: P. Jackson
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AFRI 149 AF - Africana Political Theory: Black Political Theory in the United States

    Given the Black dispersal throughout the world, Africana Political Theory will analyze the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the formation of political structures throughout the African Diaspora. Utilizing the texts of Black scholars throughout the Diaspora, the course will provide a broad look into Black politics.

    Prerequisite(s): At least one course in Africana Studies.
    Instructor: D. Sojoyner
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AFRI 190 AF - Senior Seminar

    This seminar for Africana studies majors complements guidance of primary thesis adviser by focusing on interdisciplinary research strategies and data collection methods; development of authorial voice for the interrogation of African/African Diasporan topics, notions of race, and manifestations of racism. Emphasis on writing, rewriting, and peer review. Minors require instructor permission. 

    Instructor: V. Thomas
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Each Fall


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

  • AFRI 191 AF - Senior Thesis

    An independent research and writing project culminating in a substantial, original work. Directed by one faculty member chosen by the student. Each thesis is also read by one additional reader. Offered fall and spring.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AFRI 195 AF - Special Topics in Africana Studies

    Topics change from year to year.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AFRI 195E AF - Special Topics in Africana

    Topics change from year to year.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AFRI 199 AF - Independent Study: Reading and Research

    Permission of instructor required. Course or half-course. May be repeated. Offered fall and spring.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

American Studies
  

  • AMST 103 SC - Introduction to American Cultures

    This class analyzes the histories and cultures of the U.S., focusing on the experiences of people and communities of color. Topics change each year and included race and racism; migration and immigration; and culture (e.g., art, music, film) across a wide range of academic and popular texts. This is the introductory course in the five-colleges American Studies program, but is open to all students.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AMST 125 SC - Race in Popular Culture and Media

    This course will introduce you to the history of popular culture and media, focusing on the sociohistorical contexts of racial representations and the production and consumption of media and popular culture by people of color. We will consider examples from theater, films, advertising, music, television, public amusements, and digital media.

    Instructor: M. Delmont
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AMST 126 SC - Race in US Urban/Suburban History

    This course explores urban social and cultural history in the United States from 1900 to the present, focusing on the experiences of communities of color. Looking at case studies from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, Oakland, New York, and New Orleans, we will examine: rural to urban migration; public health; immigration and labor; suburbanization and housing discrimination; multi-ethnic neighborhoods; urban popular culture; urban poverty; and gentrification.

    Instructor: M. Delmont
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AMST 130 SC - Multiracial People and Relations in US History

    This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in the U.S. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring historical, literary, and ethnographic writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments of the subject. We will examine: Relations among Native Americans, whites, and blacks in the colonial era and nineteenth century; the legal formation of race through miscegenation cases; the regulation and representation of multiracial themes in film; the concept of mestizaje; contemporary debates surrounding the Mixed-race/Multiracial movement; and the racial identity of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.

    Instructor: M. Delmont
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AMST 180 SC - American Studies Seminar

    This course aims to introduce students to the history, methods, and topics frequently covered in interdisciplinary American studies. Required of all majors. Taken in the junior year (preferred) or senior year. Offered each fall.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AMST 190 SC - Senior Thesis Seminar

    The seminar will introduce students to issues in interdisciplinary research to assist them in developing their own thesis projects. Each student will produce one chapter by the end of the semester. Students enroll in AMST 191  in the spring semester to complete the thesis. Required of all majors. Offered each fall.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • AMST 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Seniors must register for this course in the spring.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Spring


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

  • AMST 199 SC - Independent Study in American Studies: Reading and Research

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

Anthropology
  

  • ANTH 001 PZ - Introduction to Archaeology and Biological Anthropology

    An introduction to the basic concepts, theories, methods, and discourses of these fields. The course includes an examination of human evolution as well as a survey of human cultural development from the Stone Age to the rise of urbanism. Each student is required to participate in one lab session per week in addition to the regular lecture meetings.

    Instructor: S. Miller
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 002 PZ - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

    See ANTH002 SC   for course information.


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

  • ANTH 002 SC - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

    An introduction to the basic concepts, theories, and methods of social and cultural anthropology. An investigation of the nature of sociocultural systems using ethnographic materials from a wide range of societies. This course may also be offered at Pitzer College as ANTH002 PZ  . Offered annually.

    Instructor: L. Deeb; L. Martins; S. Park; Staff
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 003 PZ - Language, Culture, and Society

    How speech and writing reflect and create social and cultural differences (and universals). We will consider factors that can lead to miscommunication between speakers with different cultural expectations including speakers who seem to share the same language but use it very differently, whether language shapes thought, how social ideologies and relations of status and power are reflected in language use, and the politics of language use (e.g., who decides that a particular language variety is “standard”).

    Instructor: C. Strauss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 009 PZ - Anthropology of Food

    Food is a source of our collective passion. This course will examine individual and collective food memories and social histories of food. We will focus on local and global modes of food production, distribution, and consumption as well as alternative food culture and eating disorders.

    Instructor: D. Basu; E. Chao; M. Soldatenko
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 011 PZ - The World Since 1492

    This course explores the last 500 years of world history. In examining this large expanse of time, the focus is on four closely related themes: (1) struggles between Europeans and colonized peoples, (2) the global formation of capitalist economies and industrialization, (3) the formation of modern states, and (4) the formation of the tastes, disciplines, and dispositions of bourgeois society. This course is cross listed as HIST 011  PZ.Offered annually.

    Instructor: C. Johnson, D. Segal
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 012 PZ - Native Americans and Their Environments

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: S. Miller
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 016 PZ - Introduction to Nepal

    This course provides an introduction to the history and cultures of Nepal. Drawing on ethnographic accounts and anthropological framings, the class explores gender, literacy, class, caste, consumption, and recent political changes in contemporary Nepal. This course is appropriate for, but not limited to, students interested in study abroad in Nepal.

    Instructor: E. Chao
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 023 PZ - China and Japan Through Film and Ethnography

    This course will use feature films as ethnographic sources for exploring the cultures of China and Japan. It will juxtapose the examination of historical and anthropological material with films and recent film criticism. Includes weekly film screenings. Enrollment is limited.

    Instructor: E. Chao
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 025 SC - Anthropology of the Middle East

    Drawing on a variety of ethnographies, films, and theoretical perspectives, this course simultaneously provides an overview of the Middle East (broadly defined) from an anthropological perspective and a critical exploration of the ways anthropology has contributed to the construction of the Middle East as a region in the first place.

    Instructor: L. Deeb
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 028 PZ - Colonial Encounters

    This course will examine anthropological studies of colonialism. It is an introductory course that will focus on how the process of colonization altered both colonized subjects and colonizers. Particular attention will be paid to issues of gender, sexuality, race, national identity, religion, and the interconnections between colonial (and imperial) practices and the formation of a broader world system.

    Instructor: E. Chao
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 047 SC - Other People’s Beliefs: The Anthropology of Religion

    How do we know when we are encountering the religious? And how can it be studied? This course will address these questions and others by examining the major themes in the anthropology of religion: magic, belief, symbols, ritual, morality, spirit possession, conversion, and secularization. Students will learn about a variety of religious practices while critically probing the question of studying other people’s beliefs.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 050 PZ - Sex, Body, Reproduction

    Is there a line between nature and culture? Drawing on historical, ethnographic, and popular sources, this course will examine the cultural roots of forms of knowledge about sex, the body, and reproduction and the circulation of cultural metaphors in medical, historical, and colonial discourse. Letter grades only.

    Instructor: E. Chao
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 051 PO - Social Anthropology

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Thomas
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 052 PZ - Indigenous Societies: Histories of Encounters

    The course gives an overview of the current lives of indigenous societies in different parts of the world [North America, South America, Africa, and Asia]. We will examine major topics that mark their encounters with nation-states: political power, economic development, gender relations, collective rights, health, formal education, and religion. The course compares a variety of ethnographic cases (through movies and texts) to expose the difference and similarities between ‘indigenous peoples.”

    Instructor: L. Martins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 055 PO - Power, Politics and Culture

    See Pomona College catalog for course details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 058 PZ - Doing Research Abroad

    Designed to prepare students to conduct independent research projects in the Pitzer study abroad programs. This course will assist students in conducting research in unfamiliar or less familiar cultures than their own. We will focus on issues related to the scope of the research, methodology, and ethics. The course will also provide a general basis for the encounter and understanding of other societies. Open and relevant to students in all areas. Offered annually.

    Instructor: L. Martins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 059 PO - Archaeology

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: J. Perry
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 062 PZ - Embodying the Voice of History

    This course will examine various testimonials such as the education of Little Tree, the life of Rigoberta Menchu, Burundian refugee accounts, descriptions of satanic ritual possession, and post-revolutionary Chinese narratives known as “speaking bitterness.” Do these testimonials unproblematically inform us about the historical contexts they describe? Issues of veracity and authenticity will be examined as well as processes of politicization.

    Instructor: E. Chao
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 070 PZ - Psychological Anthropology

    This course examines the way emotions, cognition and motivations are shaped by culture. Topics will include cultural differences in child rearing and conceptions of the life course, whether there are any universal emotions, cultural models analysis, dreams, and mental illness cross-culturally.

    Instructor: C. Strauss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 074 PZ - The City

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: C. Strauss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 076 PZ - American Political Discourses

    This course will examine individualist discourses and alternatives to them (e.g., populist, religious, ethnic/racial identity, socialist, New Age) in the United States. We will study how these discourses have been used in the past and present by elites and average citizens, including their key words, metaphors, rhetorical styles, and unspoken assumptions. The focus of the class will be original research projects examining the ways these discourses are used in discussions of politics and public policy.

    Instructor: C. Strauss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 077 PZ - Great Revolutions in Human History?

    The Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions compared. This seminar examines and compares the complex changes in human existence known, respectively, as “the agricultural revolution” and the “industrial revolution.” Topics include: (i) the received understanding of each of these “revolutions” in “developmental” or “social evolutionary” terms; (ii) the environmental history of each; (iii) how these two historical complexes have been framed as similar, despite divergences in their forms and structures, in terms of independent invention, diffusion, and sustainability. This course is cross listed as HIST 077  PZ.

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH 011  PZ or HIST 011  PZ.
    Instructor: D. Segal
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 083 PZ - Life Stories

    We cannot just tell any story about ourselves. This course examines life stories from various societies and time periods, including our own. The focus is on the cultural concepts of self, linguistic resources, and aspects of autobiographical memory that shape how we represent and imagine our lives.

    Instructor: C. Strauss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 086 PZ - Anthropology of Public Policy

    Cultural assumptions help determine debates about public policy, as well as what is not even considered a subject for debate. This course will focus on the way past and current cultural assumptions have shaped policies in the United States and other nations about the environment, abortion, welfare, immigration, and other issues.

    Instructor: C. Strauss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 087 SC - Contemporary Issues in Gender and Islam

    This course explores a variety of issues significant to the study of gender and Islam in different contexts, which may include the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and the U.S. Various Islamic constructions and interpretations of gender, masculinity and femininity, sexuality, and human nature will be critically examined.

    Instructor: L. Deeb
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 088 PZ - China: Gender, Cosmology, and the State

    This course examines the anthropological literature on Chinese society. It will draw on ethnographic research conducted in the People’s Republic of China. Particular attention will be paid to the genesis of historical and kinship relations, gender, ritual, ethnicity, popular practice, and state discourse since the revolution.

    Instructor: E. Chao
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 089 PZ - The U.S. Sixties

    This course will examine the now much mythologized period of American history known as “the sixties.” It will inevitably deal with the sordid history of “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll,” as well as histories of revolting youth. But just as importantly, the course will be driven by three theoretical questions. First, what is the relationship between the political activism of bourgeois youth in the “the sixties” and ritualized processes of social reproduction, experienced as the transition from “childhood” to “adulthood”? Second, what is the relationship between the leftist politics of “the sixties” and the historical formation of professional managerial classes in U.S. and world history? And third, how do singular events—such as the decade’s iconic assassination of President John F. Kennedy—articulate with cultural schemas?

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH 011  PZ/HIST 011  PZ or concurrent enrollment in ANTH 011 /HIST 011 .
    Instructor: D. Segal
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 090 PZ - Schooling

    This course examines the history of mass schooling, the undergraduate curriculum, and professional education from the mid-19th through the end of the 20th century. The course is primarily concerned with the relationship of schooling at all these levels to the state, capitalism, and popular belief. The geographic focus will be on the U.S., but comparisons will be made with schooling elsewhere, notably in Caribbean and European societies.

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH 011 /HIST 011  or permission of instructor.
    Instructor: D. Segal
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 095 PZ - Folk Arts in Cultural Context

    This course will investigate the nature of folk arts, along with the roles of the folk artist in a variety of cultures. We will discuss various media of folk expression such as ceramics, basketry, and textiles; many of these are made by women, and gender issues will be central to discussion. The course will consider traditional cultural controls over techniques and designs, as well as the impact of outside influence such as tourist demands for “ethnic” arts. Enrollment is limited.

    Instructor: S. Miller
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 097G SC - Political Anthropology

    This courses examines politics and power from an anthropological perspective. It explores the impact of the recognition of the importance of colonialism and capitalism on political anthropology; new ways of understanding “formal” and everyday forms of power, domination and resistance; and globalization in relation to identity, the state and political action.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 098 PZ - The Modern State and History: The Israeli Case

    This seminar examines relationships between the Israeli state and historical remembering of four moments: (i) the reported exile following the Bar Kokhba revot of the second century, (ii) the Holocaust, (iii) the establishment of the Israeli state, and (iv) the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.  It includes consideration of (i) the scholarly literature on the social construction of races, nations, and peoples, and (ii) debates about the desirability of “neutrality” and “balance” in courses on controversial, potentially incendiary, topics.  The course considers how much the Israeli case is distinctive and how much it tells us about the relationship between modern states and history more generally.

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH011 PZ , or permission of the instructor
    Instructor: D. Segal
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 099 PZ - China in the 21st Century

    This class will examine China in the 21st Century. Particular attention will be paid to the shift from communist to nationalist discourse; labor unrest and the declining state sector economy; land seizures and rural protest; generational differences and tensions; sex and gender; consumer culture; the rule of law; popular ritual practice; and modernity.

    Instructor: E. Chao
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 100 PZ - Cannibalism, Shamanism, Alterity

    Students will read and discuss contemporary theories on alterity (otherness), focusing on indigenous forms of producing otherness involving humans, nonhumans, and non material subjects. Alterity and subjectivity in Amerindian societies are produced through the manipulations of bodies; cannibalism and shamanism are particular forms of creating the social body and different types of subjects. 

    Instructor: L. Martins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 101 PZ - Theory and Method in Archaeology

    This course considers theoretical approaches in archaeology and compares their assumptions, methods, and results. Problems of interpreting archaeological data will be discussed. Students will have practical experience with field methods of excavation and laboratory analysis of artifacts. Enrollment is limited.

    Instructor: S. Miller
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 102 PZ - Museums and Material Culture

    Material culture consists of artifacts that represent the behaviors of humans who create, utilize, value, and discard things in culturally significant ways. This course will investigate the cultural and individual meanings of objects from several different groups. A major section of the course will focus on museums: how they present cultural materials (and possibly misrepresent). In required lab section meetings throughout the semester, students will cooperate to design and mount an exhibition of early American material culture.

    Instructor: S. Miller
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 103 PZ - Museums: Behind the Glass

    The focus of this course is on the museum as a cultural institution. In the class we will consider why our society supports museums, and why we expect that a museum will conserve materials which are deemed of cultural value and exhibit these for the education of the public. A significant part of each student’s experience in the course will consist of a working internship in a nearby museum.

    Instructor: S. Miller
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 105 PO - Field Methods in Anthropology

    See ANTH105 PZ  for course information.


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

  • ANTH 105 PZ - Field Methods in Anthropology

    An investigation of various methods used in the study of culture, e.g., participant observation, key informant interviewing, linguistic analysis. Students will learn techniques of both collecting and analyzing sociocultural data and will carry out a range of research projects during the course of the semester. This course may also be offered at Pomona College as ANTH105 PO . Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH 002 .
    Instructor: C. Strauss, L. Martins, P. Mahdavi
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 107 PO - Medical Anthropology

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: N. Barkey
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 108 PZ - Kinship, Family, Sexuality

    See ANTH108 SC  for course information.


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

  • ANTH 108 SC - Kinship, Family, Sexuality

    How do cultures organize human reproduction and integrate it into social life? Because of the universality of biological reproduction, anthropology has used kinship to compare greatly diverse cultures and societies. Tracing the history of anthropology’s concern with kinship, the course examines marriage patterns, descent, and family structure in Western and non-Western societies. It also considers emerging forms of kinship involving new reproductive technologies and queer kinship ties in a global perspective. This course may also be offered at Pitzer College as ANTH108 PZ  .

    Instructor: L. Deeb; D. Segal
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 110 PO - Archaeological Methods

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: J. Perry
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 110 HM - Life: Knowledge and Practices

    In this course we explore cultural attitudes toward life and the human body: from Melanesian origin myths to the human genome project; from the first autopsies to cloning and genetic manipulation; from early body snatchings to the trade in bodies and body parts in the global economy. The question of what constitutes life is subject to controversies, revealing cultural differences in practices, knowledges, and beliefs. This course aims to help students develop a sophisticated and informed attitude towards cultural difference.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 110 PZ - Nature and Society in Amazonia

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Martins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 111 PZ - Historical Archaeology

    This course examines the goals and methods of historical archaeology, as well as the archaeology of specific sites. Its focus is North America and the interactions of European immigrants with Native Americans and peoples of African and Asian ancestry. Archaeological data are used to challenge accepted interpretations (based on written documents) of such sites as Monticello and the Little Bighorn Battlefield. We will look at early Jamestown’s relationship with the Powhatan Indians, the lives of Thomas Jefferson’s slaves, and other examples as seen through the archaeological evidence.

    Instructor: S. Miller
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 111 HM - Introduction to the Anthropology of Science and Technology

    See Harvey Mudd College catalog for details.

    Instructor: M. De Laet
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 113 SC - Ethnographic Tales of the City: Anthropological Approaches to Urban Life

    Students in this course will examine the ways ethnographic fieldwork methods have been applied to research in urban settings, explore global patterns of urbanization and urban sociality, and consider the distinct theoretical and epistemological issues that arise from the cultural analysis of urban life. Seminar participants will critically engage a range of recent and classic urban ethnographies from around the world and conduct their own investigations.

    Instructor: S. Park
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 117 PZ - Language and Power

    What is power and how is it reflected in and created through talk and writing? For example, who takes control of a conversation? Do women do more conversational work than men? How do immigrants feel about non-native speakers using their language? How are ideological differences reflected in the way “facts” are reported? When is language discriminatory? We will examine the theories of Bourdieu, Bakhtin, and Foucault through our own analyses of power dynamics in language use.

    Instructor: C. Strauss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 119 SC - East Asian Connections and Global Futures

    Drawing on various ethnographies, literatures, films and theoretical perspectives, this course explores contemporary East Asian societies around themes related to global mobility and new cultural landscapes. Materials include anthropological approaches to emerging labor subjectivities, migration, the construction of sexuality through popular culture, and environmental crises and social movements.

    Instructor: S. Park


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

  • ANTH 120 PZ - Studying Up: The Anthropology of Elites and Other Dominant Social Groups

    This course surveys ethnographic studies of elites and other dominant class groups, bureaucracies, institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations, etc. Through lectures, discussion of readings, and individual ethnographic research projects, students will explore the particular ethical, methodological, theoretic, political, critical, and moral dimensions of such work.

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH 002  or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 121 SC - Science, Medicine, and Technology

    For description, see Anthropology .

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 124 PZ - Illness and Health: Anthropological Perspectives

    This course provides an introduction to the study of medical anthropology, with emphasis on the human rather than the biological side of things. It examines medicine from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the relationship between culture, health and illness in various contexts. Students will learn how to analyze medical practice as cultural systems. The course also looks at how Western medicine (bio-medicine) conceptualizes disease, health, body, and mind, and how they intersect with national and international organizations and processes.

    Instructor: L. Martins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 125 PZ - U.S. Social and Immigration Discourses

    How do Americans arrive at their beliefs about public policy? We will analyze interviews with diverse Americans (African American, European, American, and Mexican American men and women from different backgrounds) about such issues as national health insurance, welfare, and immigration. What ideologies have affected the way Americans talk about these issues? How are people’s views on these issues related to their personal identities? We’ll read the work of other scholars on Americans’ social policies views, but our focus in this seminar will be learning how to analyze what people say to uncover implicit and possibly conflicting cultural assumptions, ideologies, and identities. Seminar, limited enrollment.

    Instructor: C. Strauss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 126 PZ - Gangs

    What are gangs? Who joins them and why? Why are they so violent? While answers to these questions are often laden with political rhetoric, this class takes an ethnographic and community-based approach to the study of gangs, positioning gang culture within the complex social forces that necessitate alternative strategies for survival in urban arenas.

    Instructor: S. Phillips
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 129 SC - Gender, Nationalisms, and the State

    This seminar examines the centrality of gender to identities produced in the modern world through participation in (or exclusion from) state, nation, and nationalist and/or anti-colonial movements. Critical analyses of concepts such as “gender,” “citizenship,” “imperialism,” “nationalism,” “power,” and “militarism” will be integrated with specific case studies.

    Instructor: L. Deeb
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 130 PO - Sexuality and Sexual Politics of the Middle East

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 133 PZ - Indians in Action

    Understanding of the indigenous cultures in the Americas have been shaped profoundly by cinematic images. Representations of and by Native Americans have much to say not only about the people they depicture but also about the complex relationships between them and national societies. This class studies a selection of iconic films: including ethnographies, mainstream narrative films, as well as the work of indigenous film and videomakers. Our focus will be on understanding the constructed nature of these cultural artifacts as they become important elements in the production of history and historical agents. This course considers that what is put into images is as important as what is left out.

    Instructor: B. Anthes, L. Martins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 135 PZ - Plants and People

    Plants play an important role in nearly all areas of human activities and are the basis of human culture. Topics to be covered include plants used for food, medicine, clothing, shelter, and poisons; past and present uses of indigenous and introduced plants by Native Americans; current uses of plants growing in California; and sustainable plant communities. Course activities include field trips, field identification, and preparation and consumption of certain plants.

    Instructor: S. Miller, M. Herrold-Menzies
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 135 PO - Social Life of the Media

    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.
  

  • ANTH 136 PZ - Race in Brazil and the U.S.

    This course comparatively analyzes the social construction of race in Brazil and the United States. We draw on popular media, and interdisciplinary research to examine how race is constructed and contested in these societies. This course explores the conditions that may make racial democracies in both societies a reality.

    Instructor: L. Martins, A. Pantoja
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 137 SC - Food and Culture

    Food is at the heart of most cultures and this course examines the social practices and meanings that surround food and food rituals. Feasts, fasts, and diets will be viewed in historical and social context with close attention to issues of gender and class. Consumption and industrial foodways in the global context will be linked to local tastes and food practices.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 148 PZ - Ethnoecology

    This course investigates the ecological priorities and concepts of various peoples, from so-called “fourth world” hunters and gatherers to “first world” scientists. What we isolate and consider as ecological knowledge includes those aspects of culture that relate to environmental phenomena directly (e.g., resource exploitation) and indirectly (e.g., totemic proscriptions). Thus, this ecological knowledge affects subsistence and adaptation. Ethnoecology—the study of cultural ecological knowledge—begins, like the science of ecology itself, with nomenclatures and proceeds to considerations of processes. In this course we study beliefs about the relationship between humans and the environment as expressed in both Western science and the traditions of Native peoples, and we explore where these cultural systems of knowing intersect and diverge.

    Instructor: P. Faulstich
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 150 PO - Religion, Myth and Ritual

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Thomas
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 151 PO - Gender in Prehistory

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: J. Perry
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 153 PZ - History of Anthropological Theory

    See ANTH153  SC for course information.

     

     

    Prerequisite(s): When taught by D. Segal: ANTH 011 /HIST 011 .
    Instructor: L. Deeb, E. Chao, D. Segal
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ANTH 153 SC - History of Anthropological Theory

    This course will provide a survey of the history of anthropological theory and method through a combination of theoretical writings and ethnographic monographs. It will examine how different historical moments and theories of knowledge have informed anthropological objectives and projects. Close attention will be paid to the changing content, form and sites addressed throughout the history of the discipline. This course is offered in alternating years at Pitzer College as ANTH153 PZ.

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH002 PZ  or ANTH011 PZ  / HIST 011 PZ
    Instructor: L. Deeb
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year at Scripps


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

  • ANTH 156 PO - Comparative Muslim Societies in Asia

    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.
  

  • ANTH 164 PZ - North American Archaeology

    This course will cover the evidence for early human arrival in the Americas and subsequent cultural developments. Areas of emphasis will include prehistoric big-game hunters of the plains, cliff-dwellers of the southwestern U.S., and the mound builders of the Mississippi River region. Enrollment is limited.

    Instructor: S. Miller
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 168 PZ - Prehistoric Humans and Their Environments

    The prehistoric development of human cultures occurred in a variety of environmental contexts. How did these environments shape the cultures? How did human cultures utilize and even try to control their environments? In this course we will consider examples from around the world, investigating the interaction of culture and environment in the prehistoric period.

    Instructor: S. Miller
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 170 PZ - Seminar in Human Evolution

    The course will investigate recent discoveries and theories concerning our evolution. We will emphasize the interrelationships of environment and behavior, anatomical structure and function, technological advance and social change.  Enrollment is limited.

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH 001 , or equivalent.
    Instructor: S. Miller
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 171 SC - Seminar in Sexuality and Religion

    This advanced seminar examines a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to questions of the relationship between religion and sexuality cross-culturally. Questions addressed may include the production and nature of categories, discipline, bodies, submission, marriage and juridical regulation, moralities, kinship, politics, and the state.

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH 002  or  FGSS 026 .
    Instructor: L. Deeb
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 178 PZ - Prisons: Theory, Ethnography, and Action

    This seminar critically analyzes past and present issues in juvenile detention, mass incarceration, and the prison-industrial complex in the United States. Although the class is primarily focused on juvenile detention, we familiarize ourselves with readings about the current state of our penal system as a whole. This semester, the class will create and pilot a curriculum designed as a rapid-fire, three-week literacy intervention. The class will consist of readings and discussion, as well as planning curriculum development and implementation.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ANTH 185 SC - Topics in Anthropology of the Middle East/North Africa

    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.

    Instructor: L. Deeb
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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