May 11, 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 LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!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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History
	HIST 140B SC - Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean A survey that analyzes the historical forces which fostered nationalism, economic development, political turmoil, and social upheaval in modern Latin America. The course focuses on Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Offered annually. Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 141 PO - Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Khazeni Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 141 SC - Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor, and Organizing This course addresses workers who were slave and free, rural and urban, female and male, to understand the ways in which working people organized themselves and shaped the thinking of their leaders. Designed from the perspective of Latin American history, it explores struggles for dignity at different points in time. Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 143 SC - Cuba/Bolivia/Venezuela: Revolution We will explore how racial identities have shaped resistance in Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela, and analyze the nature of new freedoms in these contemporary revolutions. Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 143 AF - Slavery and Freedom in the New World See Pomona College catalog for more details. Instructor: A. Mayes Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 144 SC - Haiti & Colombia - Maroon Nations & Paramilitary States Haiti and Colombia across the centuries show deep-rooted commitments to justice among the poor. Metaphorically, those who break free from subjugation form maroon nations, Africans in the Americas. Ranged against them are slave elites and their descendents whose governments rely on extreme violence, exercised by paramilitaries, to protect transnational capital. Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every 3-4 semesters Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 145 PO - Afro-Latin America This course examines the social and political effects of racial and ethnic categorization for people of African descent in Latin America, with a particular focus on Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. We will look at the social organization of difference from a theoretical and historical perspective as it relates to colonialism, economic systems of production, such as slavery, issues of citizenship, national belonging and government services, and access to resources. Our questions include: what have been the experiences of African-descended people in Latin America? Who is “Black” or “African” in Latin America and why have the meanings of “blackness” changed over time? Instructor: A. Mayes Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 146 SC - Zapatistas/Mayan Rebels Through oral tradition and “people’s history,” this course looks at revolutionary movements in Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala. Mayan resistance has had repercussions far beyond the Lacandon rainforest or the mountains of Guatemala. Readings focus on the words and actions of the Maya as well as texts in film, poetry, history and political economy. Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 147 PO - Mughal India See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Khazeni Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 147 SC - The Church of the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 148 PZ - Gender in African History See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: H. O’Rourke Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 150 HM - Technology and Medicine This course explores the increasingly technological nature of medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, investigating the impact of new technologies on diagnostic practices, categories of disease, doctors’ professional identities and patients’ understanding of their own bodies. Technologies studied include the stethoscope, electrotherapy devices, X-rays, ultrasound and MRI. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 152 PZ - Down and Out: The Great Depression, 1929-1941 See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: S. McConnell Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America This course examines the role of power and race in the lives and experiences of slave women in antebellum United States mainly through primary and secondary readings. Topics include gender and labor distinctions, the slave family, significance of the internal slave trade, and regional differences among slave women’s experiences. The course ends with slave women’s responses during the Civil War. Offered alternate years. Instructor: R. Roberts Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 154 SC - The Old South and Modern Memory This course explores the complexity and diversity of the Old South and the way in which this period and region continue to fascinate Americans. An in-depth examination of relationships between slaveholders and slaves, slaveholders’ wives, and slave women and slave men is a critical part of the course. Readings include diaries, slave narratives, and monographs that reveal the character of Southern society. Instructor: R. Roberts Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 158 JT - Civil War and Reconstruction This course looks at the causes and consequences of the American Civil War on social, cultural, economic, and political structures. Although not neglecting military history, it places emphasis on the decisions leading up to the conflict and on the devastation it left in its wake. Instructor: R. Roberts and S. McConnell Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 159I CM - Travel and Encounter in the Islamic World See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: H. Ferguson Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 160L SC - History of Latinas in the U.S Instructor: A. Chavez Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 161 CM - Modern Korean History 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.
	HIST 162 CM - Traditional China See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Rosenbaum Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 163 CM - Modern China See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Rosenbaum Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 164 CM - People’s Republic of China See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Rosenbaum Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 165 CM - China and the U.S. in the Twentieth Century See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Rosenbaum Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 166 CM - Imperial China See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Rosenbaum Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 166 SC - Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S This course focuses on political and cultural criticism in the U.S. since the turn of the (20th) century as means of activism and critique. We will read fiction, memoirs, social scientific, philosophical and political essays to understand the efforts to understand and transform society. Topics include the relationship between the individual and society, the possibility of community, the challenge of democracy, aesthetics and politics, the rise of science and the cult of expertise, violence and technocracy, alienation and the desire for engagement, exile and national identity. Instructor: J. Liss Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 167 PO - Early Modern Japan See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Yamashita Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 167 SC - US Urban Space, Race, and Policy This course is an overview of the major themes and events in US history with a focus on demographic, geographic, political, ecomonic and social developments of US cities. Much of the emphasis will be from the age of urbanization (late 19th Century) through the 20th Century. The course touches on urban planning, the racialization of city spaces, ghettoization, racial tensions, urban riots, gentrification, and public policy. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: One time offering Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 168 PZ - Diaspora, Gender, and Identity See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: H. O’Rourke Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 168 PO - Modern Japan See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Yamashita Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 169 PO - State and Citizen in Modern Japan See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Yamashita Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 170 PZ - Hybrid Identities: Early Modern Spain, Spanish America, and the Philippines In the Spanish Empire, many distinct peoples coexisted under one king and together created a diverse imperial society. This seminar examines the ways that religion, ethnicity, language, law and space defined or failed to define people in the Spanish Empire. We will pay particular attention to the processes of cultural encounter, domination, resistance and adaptation that formed identity. The course begins in Spain, exploring interactions between “old Christian” Spaniards, Jewish people converted to Christianity and Muslims converted to Christianity. We then turn to colonial Latin America and the Philippines to consider interactions between Spaniards and indigenous peoples such as Aztec, Inca, Maya, and Tagalog Filipinos. Instructor: C. Johnson Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 171 AF - African American Women in the United States This course explores the distinctive and diverse experiences of women of West African ancestry in the United States from the 17th century to the present. Topics, including labor, activism, feminism, family and community, are examined within a theoretical framework. Narratives, autobiographies, letters, journals, speeches, essays, and other primary documents constitute most of the required reading. Instructor: R. Roberts Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 172 PZ - Empire and Sexuality The construction of gender and sexuality was central to British and French imperialism. This course examines the formation of genders in colonial Asia and Africa from the 18th through the early 20th-centuries. We will look at men and women, colonizers and colonized and hetero- and homosexualities in order to understand the connections between gender, sexuality, race, and power. Themes will include gendered discourses that defined political authority and powerlessness; the roles that women’s bodies played in conceptualizing domesticity and desire; and evolving imperial attitudes toward miscegenation, citizenship and rights. Instructor: C. Johnson Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race What does it mean to be a racialized “other” and how does one respond to such a label? This course explores the varied and complex ways black intellectuals in the United States addressed biological racism and the persistence of the idea of race from the mid-nineteenth into the twenty-first centuries through essays, novels, films, and books. Instructor: R. Roberts Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 173 PZ - Religion, Violence, and Tolerance, 1450-1650 This course examines religious and social transformations in Europe from 1450 to 1640. Focusing on common people’s experiences, we will explore the relationship of religion to social action and tolerance during an era when Latin Christendom broke apart into a religiously divided Europe. We will examine how religious ideas, practices and debates fueled social conflict and protest and under what circumstances religious toleration and intolerance were possible. Instructor: C. Johnson Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 174 SC - The American 1960s Other than the Civil War, no other period has so divided Americans as the 1960s. This course will examine the hopes, struggles, and legacies of the decade with an emphasis on social, political, cultural, and economic developments. Particular topics include liberalism, prosperity, the Vietnam War, civil rights movements, women’s liberation, the sexual revolution, the counter culture, and the conservative backlash. Instructor: J. Liss Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 175 PZ - Magic, Heresy and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1400-1700 This course examines the history of witchcraft, magic and forbidden versus approved belief in the trans-Atlantic world from 1400 to 1700. We will begin in Europe and then turn to Spanish America and New England to examine the contributions of Africans and Native Americans to both the practice and ideas of witchcraft. Special focus will be given to the role of the devil and the ways that gender influenced decisions to condemn or accept ideas about magic and nature. Instructor: C. Johnson Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 175 SC - War, Empire, and Society in the U.S., 1898-Present This course will investigate the roots and impact of war on American society since the Spanish-American War, with emphasis on social, ideological, and cultural issues. Topics include the relationship between ideals and ideology, national security and civil liberties, reform and dissent, imperialism and national identity. Instructor: J. Liss Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 175 CM - Women and Politics in America See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: D. Selig Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era Mainly through primary readings, film, and guest lecturers, this course explores the origins, development, and impact of the modern African American struggle for civil rights in the United States. Particular emphasis is placed on grassroots organizing in the Deep South. Instructor: R. Roberts Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 177 SC - The U.S. in the 1920s: Fords, Flappers, and Fundamentalists Conjuring up images of the Jazz Age, the decade between the Great War and the Great Depression saw the birth of modernity. This course will explore this contradictory transformation: The Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation; mass-consumer culture and the New Woman, the revolt against Victorianism and fundamentalism, pluralism, and nativism. By the end of the semester, we will be able to answer the question, “How did the 1920s roar?” Instructor: J. Liss Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 179 CM - Researching the Holocaust See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: J. Petropoulos Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 179C HM - Special Topics in History: Science in Fiction See Harvey Mudd Catalog for more details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 180 SC - Proseminar: What is History? This course is designed to introduce students to the varieties of historical research, interpretation, and writing. Through a focus on recent and prominent works of history, drawn from different historical specialties and representing different methodological approaches, the course will address fundamental questions such as: Why do we study and write history? What defines history as a unique discipline of investigation and knowledge? What constitutes historical evidence, and what are the debates about the criteria for recognizing historical facts and evidence? What is the relationship between politics and historical writing (for example, race, colonialism, or gender)? Are pre-established ideas and values necessary for, commensurate with, or antithetical to the pursuit of historical research and writing? In order to guarantee the widest possible field for considering such questions, the course will be team taught, and the faculty will rotate regularly. Required of all history majors, and open to all students. Seminar format. Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 181 PO - Early Modern Japan See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: S. Yamashita Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 183 HM - Science and Technology in American Culture An exploration of the ways in which science and technology have shaped the American landscape and mindscape as well as the reciprocal ways in which American contexts have ?directed scientific and technological developments. Covers the colonial and early modern ?period during which the “inventory sciences,” including botany and geology were pursued for their presumed economic benefits and during which enlightenment scientific ideas helped to shape our governmental institutions. Discussion also includes the 19th and early 20th centuries, which saw the spread of railroads, electrification and automobiles and an obsession with evolution, efficiency and eugenics. Concludes with recent themes connected with military technologies, including the atomic bomb, energy sources, environmental issues and biotechnology. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 183 CM - The Fall of Rome and the End of Empire See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 184 PZ - Women and Gender, 1300-1650 See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: C. Johnson Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 189 CM - The Cultural Revolution See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Rosenbaum Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 190 SC - Senior Seminar in History A seminar for students writing a thesis with a substantial historical component. Required for history majors, the course is open to students from any field whose work on their senior theses would be enhanced by a study of the writing of history as well as by the ongoing discussion of practical problems in historical research and thesis writing. Offered fall. Instructor: R. Roberts Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 191 SC - Senior Thesis Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Spring Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 197 SC - Topics in Historical Study Intensive and focused study of specific historical periods, nations, figures, problems, or themes. Repeatable for credit with different topics. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HIST 199 SC - Independent Study in History: 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.
	HIST` 144 SC - Haiti & Colombia - Maroon Nations & Paramilitary States Haiti & Colombia - Maroon Nations & Paramilitary States. Haiti and Colombia across the centuries show deep-rooted commitments to justice among the poor. Metaphorically, those who break free from subjugation form maroon nations, Africans in the Americas. Ranged against them are slave elites and their descendents whose governments rely on extreme violence, exercised by paramilitaries, to protect transnational capital. Instructor: C. Forster Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every 3-4 semesters Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Humanities The Humanities Institute was founded in 1986 to promote interdisciplinary research and public discussion of important issues in culture and society. Each semester the Institute sponsors a series of events on a significant theme in the humanities. The programs of the Institute include conferences, lectures, readings, exhibitions, and film series and bring to Scripps College scholars, scientists, and artists who are of special interest to the community. Students can apply to participate in the work of the Institute. Fellows, who are appointed for one term, take a research seminar (Humanities 195J) in addition to attending all the events of the Institute and creating a final project.
	HUM 195J SC - Fellowship in the Humanities Institute Fellows in the Scripps College Humanities Institute will work closely with the director on a project related to the theme of the Institute in a given semester. The one-credit Fellowship in the Humanities Institute does not satisfy any general education requirement, but may be used once toward requirements of a major with approval of the faculty adviser in the major. Registration requires application. For information on applying, see www.scrippscollege.edu/campus/humanities-institute/index.php. May apply to repeat once for credit. Offered fall and spring. Instructor: H. Huang Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Humanities Major: Culture
	HMSC 123 SC - Introduction to the Philosophy and History of Culture This course will focus on some of the major work in post-Enlightenment (19th and 20th centuries) thinking about culture: Kant’s Third Critique, Schiller’s Aesthetic Education, Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy. As well, it will examine later works on the historical development of the relationship between culture and society paying attention to the ways in which culture has shaped the social categories and experience of class, race, nation, and gender.This course is cross listed as HIST 123 SC. Instructor: A. Aisenberg Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 130 SC - Schools of Cultural Criticism: Culture and Critique This team-taught course will examine the categories by which philosophers, social scientists, historians, and literary critics have understood culture. Topics may include historicism (the role of history in defining individual experience), the development of mass culture and new media, and post-colonialism. May be completed twice for credit with different topics. This course is cross listed as HIST 130 SC. Instructor: A. Aisenberg, M. Katz, M. Pérez de Mendiola, D. Roselli Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 133 SC - Freud/Derrida This course will examine key concepts common to Freudian psychoanalysis and Derridean deconstruction: repression and meaning, the limit of knowledge, and sexual difference and the self. A consideration of the significance of Freud’s work beyond the theme of sexuality will be pursued through an engagement with the critical insights of Derrida, so as to think differently about intellectual influence, the filiation of disciplines, and the aims/possibilities of knowledge. Instructor: A. Aisenberg Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 136 SC - Cultural Critique and Capitalism This course explores historical and contemporary efforts to analyze and understand the relationship between “culture” and “capitalism.” We will focus on the emergence of the concept of culture and the critical discourses surrounding it from the rise of industrial capitalism to contemporary crises in capital. Instructor: D. Roselli Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 138 SC - Genet Among an impressive group of post-World War II European writers, Jean Genet stands out as perhaps the most versatile. He was, at once, novelist, playwright, philosopher, filmmaker, memoirist, and polemicist. Is this the reason why Genet’s works, though lauded by both Sartre and Derrida, today occupy a “minor” position in both the academy and the literate world beyond? Through a close reading of some of his most important texts, this course will consider how Genet deployed and confronted sexuality, family, morality, and nation as interrelated aspects of the operations of inclusion/exclusion so central to modern Western societies. This course is designed for mature audiences. Instructor: A. Aisenberg Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 148 SC - The Poetry and Science of Sleep This course looks at ways scientists, social scientists, and artists approach sleep, and at ways sleep is positioned in various cultures and societies. It draws on multiple perspectives: neuroscience, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, immunology, psychoneuroimmunology, endocrinology. Instructor permission required. Instructor: G. Greene Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 167 SC - Metropolis: Imagining the City Whether pictured as labyrinth, stage set, utopian pleasure-dome or gigantic living room, the urban landscape has played a crucial role in the attempt of 20th-century writers and artists to come to terms with modernity. The course will move from the squares of 19th-century Berlin, the grid of Manhattan, to the malls and theme parks of Los Angeles, using fiction (Poe, Kafka, Wm. Gibson), film (Lang, Wenders, R. Scott), essays (Eco, Didion), and urban theory (Sennett, Choay) to investigate how changes in the perception of the city reflect the ways modernity sees itself. Cross listed as GRMT 167 SC. This course is taught in English. Instructor: M. Katz Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 185 SC - Humanities Major Junior Seminar Provides intensive instruction to majors in the study of culture, using both theoretical and archival materials in the investigation of a specific assigned topic. Students will develop skills in critical thinking and in archival and bibliographical research. In the second half of the semester, they will apply these skills by choosing and researching their own topic in the area of culture. Prerequisite(s): Two of the following: HMSC 123 , HMSC 130 , an introductory course related to discipline. Permission of instructor required. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 190 SC - Senior Seminar The course will consider issues in the field of Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture as they are presented in classic and contemporary scholarship in the humanities and the interpretative social sciences. The aim will be to prepare students to write the thesis in the Humanities major. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 191 SC - Senior Thesis Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	HMSC 199 SC - Independent Study in the Humanities major Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Interdisciplinary Studies
	ID 020 PO - Science and Religion: Friends, Enemies, or Strangers? See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: T.A. Moore Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ID 099 SC - Mellon Mays Undergraduate Seminar This course is an academic research and leadership seminar for Mellon Mays undergraduate Fellows. It will prepare students for graduate school. Course Credit: .25 Offered: Every semester Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ID 191D SC - Senior Thesis for Dual Majors Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ID 191S SC - Senior Thesis for Self-Designed Majors Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ID 199 SC - Independent Study This course number may be used to enroll a student approved to complete an independent study of an interdisciplinary nature that does not fit into one of the established majors or programs and is overseen by two or more faculty from different academic departments. Offered only when approved by petition. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
International and Intercultural Studies
	IIS 050 PZ - Power and Social Change See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: J. Parker Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	IIS 075 PZ - Introduction to Postcolonial Studies An exploration of the ways in which resistance to colonization has shaped colonized peoples and colonizers alike past and present. Social movement websites, films analytical readings, and short fiction will survey various perspectives (Marxism, postmodernism, feminism, queer theory) on postcolonial studies. The course will introduce methods of constructing seemingly “natural” objects (nation, landscape, historical fact, women) in ways that decolonize social and material relations and knowledge. Instructor: J. Parker Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	IIS 080 PZ - Introduction to Critical Theory See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: J. Parker Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	IIS 113 PZ - Science, Politics, and Alternative Medicine See Pitzer Catalog for more details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	IIS 128 PZ - The War on Terror This course is taught by members of the intercollegiate program in Religious Studies. Instructor: J. Parker Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	IIS 146 PZ - International Relations of the Middle East See Pitzer College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	IIS 167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture In this course we will examine theoretically and experientially models of historical and contemporary resistance to monocultural patterns of knowledge and social relations. This resistance historically has been and continues to be produced and/or molded in large measure by imperial and capitalist relations and by selected European scientific systems. Instructor: J. Parker Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Italian
	ITAL 001 SC - Introductory Italian Instruction in Italian grammar supplemented by extensive readings and conversations concerning Italian life and culture. Emphasis on mastery of oral communication as well as use of the written language. Offered annually. Note: This course may not be counted in the major. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 002 SC - Continued Introductory Italian Review of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary as covered in the preceding course. Continuation of grammar study, with presentation of more complex grammar structures. Continuation of emphasis on oral communication. Note: This course may not be counted in the major. Offered annually. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 001 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 033 SC - Intermediate Italian Review of first year grammar, conversation, composition, and readings based on literary sources. Concentration on syntax, style, and idiomatic phrases. Note: This course may not be counted in the major. Offered annually. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 002 or equivalent. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 044 SC - Advanced Italian: Readings in Literature and Civilization Literary analysis and cultural perspectives, based on short stories, excerpts from longer works, and films. Offered annually. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 033 or equivalent. Instructor: S. Adler, S. Ovan Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 120 JT - Italian Cities This course will provide an interdisciplinary approach to the development of cities and urban spaces in Italy from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century. How have urban structures and social group identities changed from early city-states to modern metropolis with sprawling urbanization? What are the “narratives” produced around the city? Italian cities will be studied under the rubrics art history, architecture, literature and film. Taught in English. Instructor: G. Gorse, S. Ovan Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 121 SC - Readings in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Literature The course will focus on some of the major works of Italian medieval and Renaissance literature, and on the ways they present a lens through which to understand this fertile era of pre-modernity. To be included are excerpts from Dante’s Divine Comedy, Boccaccio’s Decameron, Petrarch’s lyric sonnets and the tradition they generated, and Ariosto’s epic fantasy, The Orlando Furioso. Taught in English. Instructor: S. Adler, S. Ovan Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 123 SC - Renaissance Italian Literature Selections from the writings of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and Ariosto. Analysis of these works as milestones in the evolution of Renaissance literature. Emphasis will be placed on the stylistic and intellectual contributions of these authors. The course is also designed to make the student aware of the interrelationships between literature and other aspects of life in Renaissance Italy, such as politics, religion, social trends, and culture in a general sense. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Instructor: S. Adler Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 131 SC - Early Twentieth-Century Italian Literature Italian literary production from the early 20th century in the context of contemporary historical conditions and events. Various literary genres will be covered in the course materials. Authors to be examined include Matilde Serao, Sibilla Aleramo, Aldo Palazzeschi, Luigi Pirandello, Eugenio Montale, and Grazia Deledda. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Instructor: S. Adler, S. Ovan Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 132 SC - Modern Italian Literature Literary perspectives of 20th-century Italy with a particular focus on World War II and its aftermath. Authors to be read include Elio Vittorini, Cesare Pavese, Italo Calvino, Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi, Carlo Levi, Ignazio Silone, Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe Ungaretti, and Umberto Saba. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Instructor: S. Adler, S. Ovan Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 133 SC - Contemporary Italian Literature In this course we will explore recent trends in Italian literature. Authors vary, but may include: Erri de Luca, Carmine Abate, Alessandro Baricco, Andrea de Carlo, Dacia Maraini, Wu Ming, Giancarlo De Cataldo. Repeatable three times for credit with different authors. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Instructor: S. Adler, S. Ovan Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 134 SC - Twentieth-Century Italian Women’s Literature Works by some of the most well known authors of the 20th century. What do these authors have to say about issues of social justice, and especially gender? How were these works received by various audiences? Who decides what books qualify as “great art,” and how? Authors to be read include: Sibilla Aleramo, Grazia Deledda, Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante, and Dacia Maraini. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Instructor: S. Adler, S. Ovan Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 135 SC - The Legacy of the Past: Appreciating History in Contemporary Italian Fiction A current trend in Italian literature is the memoir or the family saga. In this course, students will read contemporary novels in which narrators recall their own past and revisit their parents’ and ancestors’ experiences. They will not only have the opportunity to learn about Italian history, but because the texts convey a contemporary point of view, they will also explore the past in ways that have been revised and re-appraised. The authors to be read include: Abate, De Carlo, Ginzburg, Loy, Maraini, and Tabucchi. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Instructor: S. Adler, S. Ovan Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 136 SC - Italians as Guests and Hosts: Intercultural Encounters in Current Italian Fiction This course examines the phenomenon of exchange between Italians and other cultures. Through their readings, students will gain an understanding of the experiences of Italian immigrants, who undergo the process of establishing themselves on foreign soil, as well as those of immigrants from abroad, who seek opportunities as “new Italians.” The course will take into account the changes in attitudes experienced by these guests as well as by their hosts. Authors to be read include: Erri de Luca, Laura Pariani, Carmine Abate, and Pap Khouma. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Instructor: S. Adler Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 137 SC - Italy as a Murder Mystery In this course, we will explore in detail all the characteristics of the “giallo” genre and subgenres related to it (such as horror stories and legal narratives), its widespread reception and its inherent multiple textuality, which includes novels, film and comic books. Such texts will open the way to the cultural analysis of the representation of real “gialli”, or violent episodes in Italian history that have been on the spotlight for different reasons and in different ways of investigation and have contributed to the formation of Italian modernity. Instructor: S. Ovan Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 140 SC - History of Italian Cinema This course will explore the history and criticism of Italian cinema from its origin to the 21st century through the showing of a number of iconic films and the criticism surrounding them. It will also help student better understand contemporary Italian history through film. Taught in Italian. Instructor: S. Ovan Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 197 SC - Special Topics in Italian Specific course information available in pre-registration materials. Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044 or equivalent. Instructor: S. Adler, S. Ovan Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	ITAL 199 SC - Independent Study in Italian Literature: Reading and Research Instructor: S. Adler, S. Ovan Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Japanese
	JAPN 001A PO - Elementary Japanese See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	JAPN 001B PO - Elementary Japanese See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	JAPN 011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary Japanese Language and Culture .25 course. Pass/fail only. Offered annually. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	JAPN 012A PO - Japanese Kanji Class See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	JAPN 012B PO - Japanese Kanji Class See Pomona College catalog for details. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

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HIST 140B SC - Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean

HIST 141 PO - Environmental History of the Middle East and North Africa

HIST 141 SC - Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor, and Organizing

HIST 143 SC - Cuba/Bolivia/Venezuela: Revolution

HIST 143 AF - Slavery and Freedom in the New World

HIST 144 SC - Haiti & Colombia - Maroon Nations & Paramilitary States

HIST 145 PO - Afro-Latin America

HIST 146 SC - Zapatistas/Mayan Rebels

HIST 147 PO - Mughal India

HIST 147 SC - The Church of the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean

HIST 148 PZ - Gender in African History

HIST 150 HM - Technology and Medicine

HIST 152 PZ - Down and Out: The Great Depression, 1929-1941

HIST 153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America

HIST 154 SC - The Old South and Modern Memory

HIST 158 JT - Civil War and Reconstruction

HIST 159I CM - Travel and Encounter in the Islamic World

HIST 160L SC - History of Latinas in the U.S

HIST 161 CM - Modern Korean History

HIST 162 CM - Traditional China

HIST 163 CM - Modern China

HIST 164 CM - People’s Republic of China

HIST 165 CM - China and the U.S. in the Twentieth Century

HIST 166 CM - Imperial China

HIST 166 SC - Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S

HIST 167 PO - Early Modern Japan

HIST 167 SC - US Urban Space, Race, and Policy

HIST 168 PZ - Diaspora, Gender, and Identity

HIST 168 PO - Modern Japan

HIST 169 PO - State and Citizen in Modern Japan

HIST 170 PZ - Hybrid Identities: Early Modern Spain, Spanish America, and the Philippines

HIST 171 AF - African American Women in the United States

HIST 172 PZ - Empire and Sexuality

HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race

HIST 173 PZ - Religion, Violence, and Tolerance, 1450-1650

HIST 174 SC - The American 1960s

HIST 175 PZ - Magic, Heresy and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1400-1700

HIST 175 SC - War, Empire, and Society in the U.S., 1898-Present

HIST 175 CM - Women and Politics in America

HIST 176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era

HIST 177 SC - The U.S. in the 1920s: Fords, Flappers, and Fundamentalists

HIST 179 CM - Researching the Holocaust

HIST 179C HM - Special Topics in History: Science in Fiction

HIST 180 SC - Proseminar: What is History?

HIST 181 PO - Early Modern Japan

HIST 183 HM - Science and Technology in American Culture

HIST 183 CM - The Fall of Rome and the End of Empire

HIST 184 PZ - Women and Gender, 1300-1650

HIST 189 CM - The Cultural Revolution

HIST 190 SC - Senior Seminar in History

HIST 191 SC - Senior Thesis

HIST 197 SC - Topics in Historical Study

HIST 199 SC - Independent Study in History: Reading and Research

HIST` 144 SC - Haiti & Colombia - Maroon Nations & Paramilitary States

HUM 195J SC - Fellowship in the Humanities Institute

HMSC 123 SC - Introduction to the Philosophy and History of Culture

HMSC 130 SC - Schools of Cultural Criticism: Culture and Critique

HMSC 133 SC - Freud/Derrida

HMSC 136 SC - Cultural Critique and Capitalism

HMSC 138 SC - Genet

HMSC 148 SC - The Poetry and Science of Sleep

HMSC 167 SC - Metropolis: Imagining the City

HMSC 185 SC - Humanities Major Junior Seminar

HMSC 190 SC - Senior Seminar

HMSC 191 SC - Senior Thesis

HMSC 199 SC - Independent Study in the Humanities major

ID 020 PO - Science and Religion: Friends, Enemies, or Strangers?

ID 099 SC - Mellon Mays Undergraduate Seminar

ID 191D SC - Senior Thesis for Dual Majors

ID 191S SC - Senior Thesis for Self-Designed Majors

ID 199 SC - Independent Study

IIS 050 PZ - Power and Social Change

IIS 075 PZ - Introduction to Postcolonial Studies

IIS 080 PZ - Introduction to Critical Theory

IIS 113 PZ - Science, Politics, and Alternative Medicine

IIS 128 PZ - The War on Terror

IIS 146 PZ - International Relations of the Middle East

IIS 167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture

ITAL 001 SC - Introductory Italian