Jun 03, 2024

2015-2016 Academic Catalog

2015-2016 Academic Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!

Courses

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

Please refer to the Schedule of Courses on the Scripps Portal published each semester by the Office of the Registrar for up-to-date information on course offerings.

All courses are 1.0 credit unless otherwise stated.

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Spanish
	SPAN 110 SC - Introduction to Spanish Civilization A historical survey of Spanish civilization from the Middle Ages to present day Spain through discussion of history and social science texts, films, visual presentations, music, art, and popular tradition. Special attention will be paid to the multicultural situation of Spain (Christians, Muslims, and Jews) and its contributions to European civilization. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 or permission of instructor. Instructor: C. López Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 114 SC - Gender and Identity Formation in Contemporary Mexican Literature Building on a broad range of theoretical discourses (gender studies, cultural, and postcolonial studies), this course is designed to study different forms of narrativization of sexual and historical identity formation in contemporary Mexican fiction. The novels included raise questions about (hetero)sexist hegemony in the construction of subject identities. Students will look at the epistemic and ontological choices these novels entail and their ideological and political implications at the time these fictional discourses were produced. We will also analyze the various textual strategies these authors use to debunk the precognitive literary and social foundations laid by a more traditional literature. We will read texts by Sara Sefchovich, Brianda Domecq, José Joaquin Blanco, Miguel Barbachano Ponce, Rosamaria Roffiel, Oscar de la Borbolla. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 . Instructor: M. Pérez de Mendiola Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 115 SC - Contemporary Spanish Women Writers: Gender, Politics, and The Self This course studies how women writers have defined their own subjecthood, and questionedned dominant formations of gender identity in Spain from the beginning of “modernity” (1898-1931) to nowadays. Other themes include the construction of collective memory, the representation of violence, and the negotiation of a multi-ethnic national identity. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 . Instructor: C. Sanjuan-Pastor Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 116 SC - Beyond Neoliberal Imaginaries This course studies literary and filmic representations of the neoliberal transformations of urban space in Chile and Cuba since the 1900s. We will analyze how the social production of urban space and the experience of walking and writing the city become important for social justice struggles in each context. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 . Instructor: G. Santizo Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 118 CM - Representations of Race and Religion in Spanish Literature See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 120A PO - Survey of Spanish Literature 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.
	SPAN 120A SC - Survey of Spanish Literature Survey of Spanish literature readings in selected literary masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the present, coordinated with lectures, films, and visual presentations and discussions. First semester: the jarchas through the Golden Age (poetry, narrative, and theater). Second semester: 18th century to the contemporary period (rationalism, romanticism, and the Generations of 98 and 27). Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 or permission of instructor. Instructor: C. López, J.Wood Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 120B PO - Survey of Spanish Literature 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.
	SPAN 120B SC - Survey of Spanish Literature Survey of Spanish literature readings in selected literary masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the present, coordinated with lectures, films, and visual presentations and discussions. First semester: the jarchas through the Golden Age (poetry, narrative, and theater). Second semester: 18th century to the contemporary period (rationalism, romanticism, and the Generations of 98 and 27). Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 or permission of instructor. Instructor: C. López, J.Wood Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 124 CM - Visions of Democracy: New Spanish Voices after the Fall of the Dictatorship See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: R. Vega-Duran Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 125A CM - Introduction to Latin American Literature and Civilization See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Velazco Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 125A PO - Survey of Spanish-American Literature 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.
	SPAN 125B CM - Introduction to Latin American Literature and Civilization See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Velazco Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 125B PO - Survey of Spanish-American Literature 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.
	SPAN 126 PO - In Short: Latin American Story Telling See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: N. Montenegro Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 127 CH - Literatura Chicana en Español Analyzes 20th-century texts written in the U.S. in Spanish. Focusing primarily on the Mexican American experience, we will survey a wide array of genres dating to distinct historical periods, from crónicas published in Spanish-language newspapers to political treatises, poetry, drama, and narrative. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 . Instructor: R. Cano Alcalá Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 128 PO - Poverty, Literature and Social Justice See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: J. Cartagena-Calderón Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 129 PO - Early Modern Women Writers See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: J. Cartagena-Calderón Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 130 PO - Reading Bodies in Contemporary Latino/a American Literature and Culture See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: N. Montenegro Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 131 SC - Representations of Queer Lives in Latin America This course examines representations of queer lives within Latin American cultural production since the 1950s. The course will analyze how the works studied conceptualize queer lives in relation to social justice, historical memory, and various social transformations in Latin America. We will explore the intersections of sexuality, gender, race, class, and politics. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 Instructor: G. Santizo Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 133 SC - Translation and the Right to Language Is translation an impossible task? This course will first examine key theories of translation (Schopenhauer, Von Humboldt, Nietzche, Benjamin, Pax, Ortega y Gasset, Borges, Derrida) to help us think about the issues that surround the practice of translation. The second phase of the course will allow us to translate from Spanish into English parts of key literary texts by Asturias, Cabrera Infante, Valenzuela at the same time we compare our work to that of their “official” translations by translators such as Rabassa and Levine. Finally, we shall explore translation as a practice that often contributes to a history of inequality among languages and people from different ethnic backgrounds. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 Instructor: M. Perez de Mendiola Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 134 SC - Indigenous Women, Representations, and Struggles The course will focus on how current emancipatory thought and practice led by indigenous women have challenged ethnocentric and homogenizing assumptions embedded in certain scholarly studies and feminist traditions. It will explore a broad range of interdisciplinary theories and studies as well as literary and cinematic representations that have shaped readership and cultural analysis for indigenous women in Latin America. Instructor: C. Arteaga Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 135 PO - Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: N. Montenegro Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 140 PO - From the “Boom” to “Literatura Lite”: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Chavez-Silverman Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 140 SC - The Spanish Transition Through the Lens of Pedro Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most recognizable auteur directors in Europe today. This course studies Pedro Almodóvar’s development from his directorial debut to the present, from the “shock” value of the early films to the award-winning mastery of the later ones. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 101 . Instructor: C. Sanjuan-Pastor Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 141 PO - Woman as Sign and Subject in Contemporary Latino/a and Latin American Literature See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Chavez-Silverman Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 142 PO - Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Chavez-Silverman Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 145 PO - Twentieth-Century Spanish American Theatre See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: G. Davila-Lopez Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 146 PO - El Deseo de la Palabra: Poetry or Death See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Chávez-Silverman Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 150 PZ - In Quest of God in Latin America See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Machuca Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 151 SC - “Necropolis”: Detective Novels and Cities in Spain and Latin America This course will examine how writers from Spain and Latin America rethink the detective novel as a genre. We will analyze in particular how these authors, by drawing pictures of crime, vice and political intrigues create new urban portraits. Each of these novels could be read as the monograph of a city, a neighborhood, a suburb. The mystery lies also in the blurred boundaries between geographical space, between the real urban violence and fiction, humor and solemnity, nomadism and inertia, ordinary and extraordinary people. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 . Instructor: M. Pérez de Mendiola Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 152 PZ - Indios: Latin American Indigenous Peoples See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Machuca Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 155 SC - Short Fiction by Hispanic Women Writers This course will analyze the narrative techniques peculiar to the genre of the modern short story, while also studying the works in their historical, cultural, and literary contexts. Women writers from Spain and Latin America will include, among others, Ana María Matute, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Isabel Allende, and Angeles Mastretta. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 . Instructor: J. Wood Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 156 PZ - Ella y El: Gender in Latin America See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Machuca Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 156 SC - From Macondo to McOndo: Revisiting the Latin American Short Story This class will focus on rethinking one of the most cultivated genres in Latin American literature, the short story. We will take as a point of departure canonical texts by Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Juan Rulfo and analyze the evolution of the genre throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The new short story authored by writers such as Fugets, Baily, Montero, Obejas, Kam Wen and Kazumi Stahl will allow us to delve into issues as diverse as immigration, “estética queer” and gender and the urbanization of Latin America as well as reassess the question of magical realism. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 . Instructor: M. Pérez de Mendiola Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 157 SC - Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literature: Nation, Family, and Romance After the wars of Independence of the first half of the 19th century, Latin America’s most urgent concern was the development of new nations. One of the most interesting cultural representations of these nations “coming into being” was the historical romance or the national romance novel. During the course of the semester we will read several Latin American romances and we will study the “public function” of the romantic novel during this period of nation-building. We will analyze how passion, love, and marriage promoted harmony and order as well as the concept of “nation-family,” or the family as the projection of an ideal state. We will show how these novels contributed to contain the gender, racial, social, and economic conflicts that were imminent dangers to the utopian idea of the “natural family” on which national stability was based. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 . Instructor: M. Pérez de Mendiola Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 158 PZ - Banana Republics: Central America in the 20th Century and Beyond See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Machuca Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 159 CM - The Contemporary Latin American Novel See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 160 SC - Jews, Moors and Native Americans: Religious and Ethnic Minorities in the Spanish Empire Analysis of the largest minorities in early modern Spain, from the expulsions of 1492, the Spanish Inquisition, the conquest of the New World and the expulsion of 1609. The crown’s single-minded determination during this time to dominate and marginalize these minorities became an importan display of its stuatus as well as a factor in its decline. Prerequisite(s): SPAN044 SC Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 160 PO - Nation and Novel in Early 20th-Century Spain See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Coffey Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 161 CM - Contentious Fictions: The Spanish Civil War and the Novel See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 165 SC - History of the Spanish Language A comprehensive study of the development of Spanish from Latin into the modern, present-day language. Analysis of the influence of Germanic and Arabic languages on medieval Spanish, as well as the relationship of Spanish to other Romance Languages. Special attention will also be devoted to the different varieties of Latin-American Spanish, as well as to Peninsular dialects. Knowledge of languages other than Spanish is not necessary. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 . Instructor: C. López Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 166 CM - The Fictions of Realism See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 170 PO - Literature and Life: Don Quixote See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: J. Cartagena-Calderón Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 172 PO - Transvestite Drama of the Early Modern Period See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: J. Cartagena-Calderón Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 174 PZ - Lost in Translation: An Introduction to Translation See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Machuca Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 175 SC - From Freedom and Democracy to Dictatorship and Repression: The Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1975 The Spanish Civil War is the most dramatic event of modern Spanish history. The uprising of General Franco in 1936 produced a bloody conflict that shattered the effort of the Spanish intellectuals to create a new and modern nation. The war and the dictatorship that followed drove leading Spanish intellectuals into exile. This course will examine the causes of the war and its disastrous consequences for the intellectual life of Spain through the study of different forms of expression such as literature, cinema, painting, and graphic art of the period. Readings will include selected works by Machado, Garcia Lorca, Alberti, Miguel Hernandez, Guillén, Ayala, Goytisolo, Aldecoa, Mart’n Gaite, and Roig. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 110 or similar level. Instructor: C. López Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 175 PO - Romantics and Realists: 19th-Century Spanish Literature See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Coffey Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 176 SC - From Tyranny to Democracy: The Politics of Culture in Spain Between 1975-1992 The death of Franco in 1975 marks the end of 30 years of dictatorship and new beginnings for Spain. This course will examine the transitional period from dictatorship to democracy through the study of several forms of expressions such as cinema, the press, literature, and art. Readings will be selected from newspapers and literature of the period. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 . Instructor: M. Pérez de Mendiola Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 178 SC - Literary and Filmic Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Contemporary Spain. “Working through” Memory. This course explores the process of memory production: how it is recounted, repressed, rewritten or forgotten. Among other themes, the course will focus on the political currency of nostalgia in reconstructions of the war; the rehabilitation of marginal figures or groups; and debates about universal human rights principles versus national amnesty laws. Prerequisite(s): Spanish 44 Instructor: c. Sanjuan-Pastor Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 178 CM - The New Latin American Cinema: History, Politics, Gender, and Society See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Velazco Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 179 SC - Fe, Esperanza, Amor y Muerte: Women Writers of the Hispanic World An exploration of the contribution of women from Spain and Latin America to the world in the areas of spirituality, government, politics, sciences, and art, through the analysis of literary discourse. The scope of the course ranges from the Renaissance to the present time. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 120A or SPAN 120B , or permission of the instructor. Instructor: M. Pérez de Mendiola Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 179 CM - Mexican Cinema in the New Millennium See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 180 CM - A Time of Crisis: Spanish Literature from 1898 to 1936 See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 181 CM - Representations of Democracy in Latin American Literature and Cinema See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Velazco Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 182 PO - Contemporary Spanish Poetry See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: P. Cahill Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 182 SC - Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic: Towards an Interpretation of the Hispanic Caribbean through Its Short Stories This course will analyze central tropes that appear in short stories by authors from the nations the form the Hispanic Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Cuba) and their diasporas. Reading list will include works by Juan Bosch, Alejo Carpentier, Luis Rafael Sanchez, Ana Lydia Vega, Mirta Yanez, among others. Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 182 CM - Latin American Documentary Cinema See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Velazco Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 183 PZ - Pre-Hispanic Oral Traditions of Mexico See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Barcenas Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 184 CM - Literature of the Zapatista Rebellion: “To rule by obeying.” See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Velazco Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 184 SC - The Image and the Word/La imagen y la palabra The relation between writing, painting, photography and cinema might at first be viewed as a simple and familiar combination of visual and verbal art as felicitous interplay based on affinity and compatibility. However, it also generates numerous theoretical speculations with far-reaching implications for the theorization of art and literature. The potentially frictional relations between the visual image and the written text are especially pertinent for a discussion of the artworks of many Latin American and Spanish artists and writers. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 . Instructor: M. Pérez de Mendiola Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 185 PO - The Avant Garde in Spain: The Civil War and Its Effect on Spanish Literature See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Coffey Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 186 PZ - Latin American Cultural Diaspora See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: E. Jorge Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 187 PZ - Expressions of Latin American Popular Cultures See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: E. Jorge Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 188 PZ - Documenting Spanish Speaking Cultures in Our Community See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: E. Jorge Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 189 PZ - Seminar on Contemporary Issues in the Spanish Speaking World See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: E. Jorge, M. Machuca Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 191 SC - Senior Thesis Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	SPAN 199 SC - Independent Study in Latin American or Spanish Literature: Reading and Research Special topics for most advanced students. To be arranged with faculty. Offered annually. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Theatre
	THEA 001A PO - Basic Acting: Tools and Fundamentals This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization, and sensory and emotional-awareness. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation and performance of scenes. Instructor: B. Bernhard, A. Blumenfeld, J. Lu, T. Leabhart Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 001C PO - Basic Acting: Chicano Theatre and Performance This introductory course explores the fundamentals of acting using Chicano Theatre as its historical, aesthetic, and theoretical source. Taught in a workshop-style seminar format, the course examines the ‘realistic’ acting methodology of Konstantin Stanislavski and relates its influences on and application to Chicano dramatic texts and performance. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 001E PO - Acting for Social Change An introduction to the fundamentals of acting, drawing upon different techniques such as psychological realism and physical theatre. Students will perform a self-written monologue, a documentary monologue transcribed from a live interview, and a two or three person scene from a play. They will also be introduced to Playback Theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed, two forms of theater that are applied commonly today to create dialogue, heal conflict and trauma, and build community. Instructor: J. Lu Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 001F PO - Basic Acting: Performing Asia America This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of acting, drawing on different techniques, such as psychological realism and physical theater. These techniques will then be applied using Asian and Asian American historical, aesthetic, and theoretical source material. Students will be required to perform a self-written monologue, and a monologue and a two-person scene from a published script. Instructor: J. Lu Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 002 PO - The Dramatic Imagination The visual principles underlying design for live performance: theatre, dance, opera, and related fields. The course explores theatre architecture, staging conventions, and styles of historic and contemporary design. Readings, discussions, and writing are supplemented by creative projects, video showings, and attendance at live performances, both on campus and at professional venues in the Los Angeles area. Instructor: S. Linnell, J. Taylor Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 007 PO - Devising Performance This course provides participants with an interdisciplinary approach to devising performance appropriate to student actors, dancers, visual artists, writers, musicians and social activists. Solo or group performances may be inspired by newspaper articles, interviews, visual and sculptural elements, music (pre-existing or created for the occasion), and other verbal or movements texts. Students meet to discuss readings, look at video of performance work and show work evolved outside of class. Participants will attend performances in Los Angeles. Work created in class will be given public performance on campus late in the semester. Instructor: T. Leabhart Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 008 PO - Collective Creation Participants will create a collaborative performance scheduled for presentation at the end of the semester in Seaver Theatre as well as other locations on the five college campuses. Collaborators from all backgrounds and with all levels of previous experience (or none at all) are encouraged to join the project, which will call upon students’ abilities and interests in vocal and instrumental music, writing, movement, mask-making, painting, and sculpture. This class encourages participants to give voice and form to their own stories; their political activism; their dreams and visions; and their aspirations for themselves and their communities. In fall 2013, students will work with Professor Leabhart and with guest artist and director Karen Christopher (PO’85) to create a new performance entitled “Free as Air,” as part of the Mellon elemental Arts Initiative. The performance will deal with contemporary issues of air quality/air pollution generally and in Southern California specifically, using perspectives derived from chemistry, aerodynamics (engineering), and sound production. Actors, movers, musicians, and all others, experienced or just interested, encouraged to participate. Performances in late November. Previously offered as THEA050. Instructor: T. Leabhart Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 012 PO - Intermediate Acting Advanced scene study and voice work. Students gain a heightened understanding of the actor’s work on character analysis through use of objectives, inner monologues and character research. Prerequisite(s): THEA 001A , THEA 001C , THEA 001E or THEA 001F , or THEA 008 , or permission of instructor. Voice Lab required. Instructor: J. Lu, Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 013 PO - Corporeal Mime The basic vocabulary of mime: counterweights, figures of style, walks, triple designs. Developing mastery of the technique and improvisation with the form. May be repeated for credit. Instructor: T. Leabhart Course Credit: .50 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 014 PO - Corporeal Mime and Pedagogy Same course as THEA 013 , but with reading of critical texts, discussion and written assignments. Instructor: T. Leabhart Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 017 PO - Make-up Intensive, creative workshop in design and application techniques of stage make-up. Course taught from both the actor’s and designer’s perspective. Instructor: S. Linnell Course Credit: .50 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 021 PO - Costume Construction A dynamic, hands-on introduction to the materials, equipment and techniques involved in the construction of costumes for the theatre and related performance forms. The course will begin with the various fabrics used in costuming. Students will subsequently learn and demonstrate basic hand and machine sewing skills. Through practical projects, students will explore the process of constructing theatrical costumes from patterning to the actual contruction of a costume garment. Prerequisite(s): Production lab and /or production crewing required. Instructor: S. Linnell Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Alternate fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 022 PO - Stage Lighting Technology A dynamic, hands-on introduction to the materials and equipment of lighting for the theatre and related performance forms. The course focuses on light and electricity, lenses and reflectors, instruments, lighting systems, and intensity control. The course also features an exploration of cutting-edge lighting technology, including the newer generation of computer control consoles, LED instruments, and intelligent fixtures. A brief history of stage lighting is included. Prerequisite(s): Production lab and/or production crewing required. Instructor: J. Taylor Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Alternate spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 023 PO - Theatre Crafts A dynamic, hands-on introduction to the materials, equipment and techniques of constructing scenery and properties for the theatre and related performance forms. The course focuses on stage spaces and nomenclature, scenic materials, hand and power tools, and a range of scene painting applications. The course also features an exploration of some types of scenic automation. Actual scenery and props are constructed and painted over the course of the semester. Prerequisite(s): Production lab and/or production crewing required. Instructor: J. Taylor Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Alternate years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 024 PO - Sound for the Theatre A dynamic, hands-on introduction to the equipment and techniques involved in creating sound for the theatre and related performance forms. The course explores the physics of sound, sound production, amplification and playback, and sound control. The course also features an exploration of cutting-edge sound technology, including a range of computerized application in live performance. Previously offered as THEA020B PO. Prerequisite(s): Production lab and/or production crewing required Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Alternate spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 030 PO - World Theatre and Drama I: Greeks to Restoration A dynamic exploration of World Theatre History and Dramatic Literature beginning with the ancients and ending with the Restoration. While focusing on classical periods and genres, the course will simultaneously explore modern works which demonstrate the influence and inspiration early tradition and practice have had upon more contemporary dramatic forms, design elements and performance strategies. Instructor: A. Horowitz, L. Pronko Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Each fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 031 PO - Word Theatre and Drama II: Kabuki to Contemporary A dynamic exploration of World Theatre History and Dramatic Literature from the 18th century to today. While focusing on classical periods and genres, the course will simultaneously explore modern works which demonstrate the influence and inspiration early tradition and practice have had upon more contemporary dramatic forms, design elements and performance strategies. Instructor: A. Horowitz, L. Pronko Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Each spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 041 PO - Stage and Theatre Management Exploration of the materials, theories and techniques of management. Stage management section focuses on the critical role of the stage manager. Theatre management section examines management as it relates to the many types of theatre extant today: i.e. Broadway and the Commercial Theatre, the Resident Professional Theatre, Community Theatre, College and University Theatre, and Theatre for Young Audiences. The course may have a practicum component in conjunction with theatre department productions. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 051C PO - Theatre Performance Rehearsal and public performance in Theatre Department productions. Enrollment dependent upon casting each semester. May be repeated for credit. Offered fall and spring. Instructor: B. Bernhard, A. Horowitz, T. Leabhart, J. Lu, L. Pronko Course Credit: .25 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 051H PO - Theatre Performance and Pedagogy Same course as THEA 051C with additional assignments. Enrollment dependent upon casting each semester. May be repeated for credit. Instructor: B. Bernhard, A. Horowitz, T. Leabhart, J. Lu, L. Pronko Course Credit: .50 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 052C PO - Theatre Production Practicum Participation in the production aspects (scenery, properties, costumes, lighting, sound and/or management) of Seaver Theatre productions. May be repeated for credit. Instructor: S. Linnell, J. Taylor Course Credit: .25 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 052H PO - Theatre Production Practicum and Pedagogy Same course as THEA 052C with additional assignments. Instructor: S. Linnell, J. Taylor Course Credit: .50 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 053C-G PO - Alexander Technique In Motion The Alexander Technique is a pragmatic method for exploring the basis of human movement, understanding how we interfere with our own coordination, and how we can change unconscious physical habits. Journals and outside practice periods are essential as an integral part of the course. Group class. Instructor: M. Jolley Course Credit: .25 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 053C-I PO - Alexander Technique and Pedagogy Same course as THEA 053C-G with additional assignments. Individual sections. Instructor: M. Jolley Course Credit: .25 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 053H-G PO - Alexander Technique in Motion Same course as THEA 053C-I . Group class. Instructor: M. Jolley Course Credit: .50 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 053H-I PO - Alexander Technique and Pedagogy Same course as THEA 053C-I with additional assignments. Individual sections. Instructor: M. Jolley Course Credit: .50 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 054C PO - Voice for the Actor Actors require special skills for speaking expressively and being understood easily in large spaces without artificial amplification. This course will give students a basic understanding of voice and speech for the theatre, help them engage their voices fully without injury to themselves, and allow them to become more expressive vocally. Correct breathing, good placement, and appropriate use of consonants become essential elements of scene study. This course may be repeated for credit up to 7 times. Prerequisite(s): THEA 012 Instructor: M. Kemp Course Credit: .25 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 060 PO - Theatre for Young Audiences A practicum-based examination of the theories and practice of creating dramatic work for young audiences. Working with local school groups, participants will develop a script and mount a production for performances on campus and/or in a school setting. Prerequisite(s): Prior theatre experience is desirable but not required. Instructor: R. Portillo Course Credit: .50 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 061 PO - Theatre for Young Audience Same course as THEA 060 , but with additional reading of critical text, discussion, and written assignments. Instructor: R. Portillo Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Fall and Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 080 PO - Scene Design for Stage and Screen An introduction to the creation of artistically appropriate environments for theatre, dance, opera, film and television. Dynamic, hands on, creative projects encourage the development of the conceptual, graphic and three-dimensional skills necessary for effective scene design practice. This project work is supplemented by reading, discussion, and play attendance. Instructor: J. Taylor Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 081 PO - Costume Design for Stage and Screen An introduction to the creation of artistically appropriate costumes for theatre, dance, opera, film and television. Dynamic, hands on creative projects encourage the development of the conceptual, graphic and painterly skills necessary for effective costume designs. This project work is supplemented by reading, discussion and play attendance. Prerequisite(s): Production laboratory required. Instructor: S. Linnell Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	THEA 082 PO - Lighting Design for Stage and Screen An introduction to the creation of artistically appropriate lighting for theatre, dance, opera, film and television. Once mastery of lighting equipment is achieved, students explore the artistic use of light through a variety of dynamic hands on creative projects. This project work is supplemented by reading, discussion, and play attendance. Instructor: J. Taylor Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

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Courses

SPAN 110 SC - Introduction to Spanish Civilization

SPAN 114 SC - Gender and Identity Formation in Contemporary Mexican Literature

SPAN 115 SC - Contemporary Spanish Women Writers: Gender, Politics, and The Self

SPAN 116 SC - Beyond Neoliberal Imaginaries

SPAN 118 CM - Representations of Race and Religion in Spanish Literature

SPAN 120A PO - Survey of Spanish Literature

SPAN 120A SC - Survey of Spanish Literature

SPAN 120B PO - Survey of Spanish Literature

SPAN 120B SC - Survey of Spanish Literature

SPAN 124 CM - Visions of Democracy: New Spanish Voices after the Fall of the Dictatorship

SPAN 125A CM - Introduction to Latin American Literature and Civilization

SPAN 125A PO - Survey of Spanish-American Literature

SPAN 125B CM - Introduction to Latin American Literature and Civilization

SPAN 125B PO - Survey of Spanish-American Literature

SPAN 126 PO - In Short: Latin American Story Telling

SPAN 127 CH - Literatura Chicana en Español

SPAN 128 PO - Poverty, Literature and Social Justice

SPAN 129 PO - Early Modern Women Writers

SPAN 130 PO - Reading Bodies in Contemporary Latino/a American Literature and Culture

SPAN 131 SC - Representations of Queer Lives in Latin America

SPAN 133 SC - Translation and the Right to Language

SPAN 134 SC - Indigenous Women, Representations, and Struggles

SPAN 135 PO - Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction

SPAN 140 PO - From the “Boom” to “Literatura Lite”: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture

SPAN 140 SC - The Spanish Transition Through the Lens of Pedro Almodóvar

SPAN 141 PO - Woman as Sign and Subject in Contemporary Latino/a and Latin American Literature

SPAN 142 PO - Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad

SPAN 145 PO - Twentieth-Century Spanish American Theatre

SPAN 146 PO - El Deseo de la Palabra: Poetry or Death

SPAN 150 PZ - In Quest of God in Latin America

SPAN 151 SC - “Necropolis”: Detective Novels and Cities in Spain and Latin America

SPAN 152 PZ - Indios: Latin American Indigenous Peoples

SPAN 155 SC - Short Fiction by Hispanic Women Writers

SPAN 156 PZ - Ella y El: Gender in Latin America

SPAN 156 SC - From Macondo to McOndo: Revisiting the Latin American Short Story

SPAN 157 SC - Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literature: Nation, Family, and Romance

SPAN 158 PZ - Banana Republics: Central America in the 20th Century and Beyond

SPAN 159 CM - The Contemporary Latin American Novel

SPAN 160 SC - Jews, Moors and Native Americans: Religious and Ethnic Minorities in the Spanish Empire

SPAN 160 PO - Nation and Novel in Early 20th-Century Spain

SPAN 161 CM - Contentious Fictions: The Spanish Civil War and the Novel

SPAN 165 SC - History of the Spanish Language

SPAN 166 CM - The Fictions of Realism

SPAN 170 PO - Literature and Life: Don Quixote

SPAN 172 PO - Transvestite Drama of the Early Modern Period

SPAN 174 PZ - Lost in Translation: An Introduction to Translation

SPAN 175 SC - From Freedom and Democracy to Dictatorship and Repression: The Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1975

SPAN 175 PO - Romantics and Realists: 19th-Century Spanish Literature

SPAN 176 SC - From Tyranny to Democracy: The Politics of Culture in Spain Between 1975-1992

SPAN 178 SC - Literary and Filmic Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Contemporary Spain. “Working through” Memory.

SPAN 178 CM - The New Latin American Cinema: History, Politics, Gender, and Society

SPAN 179 SC - Fe, Esperanza, Amor y Muerte: Women Writers of the Hispanic World

SPAN 179 CM - Mexican Cinema in the New Millennium

SPAN 180 CM - A Time of Crisis: Spanish Literature from 1898 to 1936

SPAN 181 CM - Representations of Democracy in Latin American Literature and Cinema

SPAN 182 PO - Contemporary Spanish Poetry

SPAN 182 SC - Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic: Towards an Interpretation of the Hispanic Caribbean through Its Short Stories

SPAN 182 CM - Latin American Documentary Cinema

SPAN 183 PZ - Pre-Hispanic Oral Traditions of Mexico

SPAN 184 CM - Literature of the Zapatista Rebellion: “To rule by obeying.”

SPAN 184 SC - The Image and the Word/La imagen y la palabra

SPAN 185 PO - The Avant Garde in Spain: The Civil War and Its Effect on Spanish Literature

SPAN 186 PZ - Latin American Cultural Diaspora

SPAN 187 PZ - Expressions of Latin American Popular Cultures

SPAN 188 PZ - Documenting Spanish Speaking Cultures in Our Community

SPAN 189 PZ - Seminar on Contemporary Issues in the Spanish Speaking World

SPAN 191 SC - Senior Thesis

SPAN 199 SC - Independent Study in Latin American or Spanish Literature: Reading and Research

THEA 001A PO - Basic Acting: Tools and Fundamentals

THEA 001C PO - Basic Acting: Chicano Theatre and Performance

THEA 001E PO - Acting for Social Change

THEA 001F PO - Basic Acting: Performing Asia America

THEA 002 PO - The Dramatic Imagination

THEA 007 PO - Devising Performance

THEA 008 PO - Collective Creation

THEA 012 PO - Intermediate Acting

THEA 013 PO - Corporeal Mime

THEA 014 PO - Corporeal Mime and Pedagogy

THEA 017 PO - Make-up