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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 LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!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.
 

Theatre
  

  • THEA 100A PO - Acting Studio: Acting for the Realistic Theatre

    Intensive work in rehearsal and studio performance of selected scenes from dramatic literature. Primary focus on representational drama. Continued work on vocal, physical and imaginative skill.

    Prerequisite(s):  THEA 001A , THEA 001C , THEA 001E  or THEA 001F  and THEA 012 , or permission of instructor.
    Instructor: B. Bernhard, A. Blumenfeld, J. Lu
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 100B PO - Acting Studio: Acting for the Classical Theatre

    Continuation of the scene study approach with emphasis on presentational plays from major theatrical periods, including the Greeks, Shakespeare and Golden Age France and Spain.

    Prerequisite(s):  THEA 001A , THEA 001C , THEA 001E  or THEA 001F  and THEA 012 , or permission of instructor.
    Instructor: B. Bernhard, A. Blumenfeld, J. Lu
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 100E PO - Acting Studio: Acting for Film and Television

    This course develops technical and conceptual techniques for the interpretation and performance of comedy and drama for film, television and emerging technologies. Students will audition, rehearse and perform on camera in a variety of scenes from film and theatre. Students will analyze and critique their on-camera work as well as the work of classmates and established actors. 

    Prerequisite(s): THEA 001  THEA 001A , THEA 001C , THEA 001E  or THEA 001F  and THEA 012 , or permission of the instructor.
    Instructor: B. Bernhard, A. Blumenfeld, J. Lu
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 115D PO - Theatre and Dance of Asia

    A study of the traditional theatre, drama and dance of Asia, with special emphasis on the theatre and dance of India, Bali, China, and Japan.

    Instructor: L. Pronko
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 115J PO - Shakespeare in Performance

    The study of early Shakespeare performance conventions and traditions, with examination of some seminal interpreters and productions. Inquiry into the canon’s evolution over the past 400 years of adaptation and appropriation by diverse cultures and changing artistic, historical, political and social climates.

    Instructor: A. Horowitz
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 115M PO - Race and Contemporary Performance

    What is race and how does the meaning attached to racial categories shape culture and social structures in the United States? This course will examine how individuals and groups use their bodies and minds to identify, dis-identify, imagine and re-imagine racial dynamics on the America on the stage. 

    Instructor: J. Lu
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 115N PO - Contemporary Asian American Drama

    This course examines post-1960 performance works created by Asian Americans. We will look at how different artists respond to history, preserve old traditions, and create new ones. The course has both theoretical and practical artistic components, and includes attendance at live performance in the Los Angeles area. 

    Instructor: J. Lu
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 115O PO - Applied Theatre: Theatre of the Oppressed and Playback Theatre

    This course traces the evolution of Playback Theatre- non-scripted theatre developed by Jonathan Fox and Theatre of the Oppressed, methods of empowerment towards social justice formulated by Augusto Boal. Practical work may be applied on-campus and with anti-bullying programs in K-12 classrooms in Los Angeles. 

    Instructor: J. Lu
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 141 PO - Dramaturgy

    An exploration of the various roles of the dramaturg with emphasis on the dramaturg’s obligations to text, production and audience. Inquiry into the dynamics of the dramaturg’s relationship to playwrights, designers, performers and directors. Course work will include practical application of research tools and application of dramatic theory. 

    Instructor: A. Horowitz
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 170 PO - Writing for Performance

    Introduction to the techniques of creative writing for performance, structuring the basic idea, development of character and situation, and rewriting.

    Instructor: A. Horowitz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • THEA 188 PO - The Poetics of Performance

    A comprehensive analysis of dramatic theory and criticism from the Natyashastra and Aristotle to contemporary theatre works. Student will examine different attempts to tap the revolutionary power of theatre, including Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty, Jerzy Grotowski’s physical theatre, Bertolt Brecht’s alienation effect, Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, and various contemporary feminist and queer performers and performance theorists’ methodologies. Students will also develop their own manifestoes for theatre-making. Letter grade only.

    Prerequisite(s): Junior status or permission of instructor.
    Instructor: J. Lu
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Each spring


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

  • THEA 191F PO - Senior Thesis

    A formal academic investigation of a theatrical topic, written under the close supervision of Theatre faculty members. The thesis process includes traditional and non-traditional research, submission of drafts for revision, a public informal research/poster presentation and a formal thesis defense. Letter grade only.

    Prerequisite(s): THEA 188 PO - The Poetics of Performance 
    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 191H PO - Senior Thesis

    A formal academic investigation of a theatrical topic, written under the close supervision of Theatre faculty members. The thesis process includes traditional and non-traditional research, submission of drafts for revision, a public informal research/poster presentation and a formal thesis defense. Letter grade only.

    Prerequisite(s): THEA 188 PO - The Poetics of Performance 
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 192H PO - Senior Project in Performance

    A continuation of thesis work in THEA 191H PO - Senior Thesis . Individually planned reading, creative activity, and writing centered around the performance of a role (or roles) for public performance.

    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 193H PO - Senior Project in Design

    A continuation of thesis work begun in THEA 191H PO - Senior Thesis .  Individually planned reading, creative activity and writing centered around the design of a work (or works) for public performance.

    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 194H PO - Senior Project in Dramaturgy

    A continuation of the thesis work begun in THEA 191H PO - Senior Thesis . Individually planned reading, creative activity, and writing centered around the dramaturgy of a work (or works) for public performance.

    Instructor: A. Horowitz
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 195H PO - Senior Project in Directing

    A continuation of the thesis work begun in THEA 191H PO - Senior Thesis . Individually planned reading, creative activity, and writing centered around the direction of a work (or works) for public performance.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 199 PO - Reading and Research: Special Projects in Theatre

    Reading, research and production projects. For advanced students only.  May be repeated. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. THEA 099 , lower-level; THEA199, advanced work.
    Course Credit: 1.0 or .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

Writing
  

  • WRIT 050 SC - Critical Analysis

    WRIT 050 is required of all first-year students. Each WRIT 050 section emphasizes writing as process; hence the class requires pre-draft work as well as drafts of all papers. Each student writes and revises short essays as well as a research paper that demonstrate the formulation of a persuasive and logical argument, skillful analysis of evidence to support ideas, and understanding of audience. WRIT 050 sections are small—a maximum of 15 students in each—and thus create an environment fostering discussion and preparing students for serious oral and written discourse.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • WRIT 100 SC - Advanced Writing

    This course is an intensive workshop/seminar designed to enhance students’ rhetorical skills. While topics vary, the class always exposes students to a wide variety of writing strategies and forms and encourages students to develop a greater sensitivity to language as they become more competent and confident thinkers and writers. Using the written argument as a starting point, students write in several genres and critique peers and other writers. Repeatable for credit with different topics.

    Prerequisite(s): WRIT 050  or equivalent or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • WRIT 100S SC - Advanced Writing: Style and the Sentence

    This course, primarily workshop-based, involves the close study of sentences: how to appreciate and analyze them; how to translate them from one register to another; how to move their words around for rhetorical effect; and even how to diagram them.

    Prerequisite(s): WRIT 050  or instructor permission.
    Instructor: G. Simshaw
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • WRIT 120 SC - Writing for Non-Profit Institutions

    This is an advanced writing course focused on written argument in the context of how to write grants, proposals, fellowship applications, and other documents for non-profits. Each student will write a series of grant proposals and will also peer-review classmates’ proposals. Open to Scripps students only.

    Prerequisite(s): WRIT 050 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • WRIT 175 SC - Protest Writing and Rhetoric

    Students will examine the rhetoric, ideology, and context of protest genres and then create pieces in these genres. Texts include speeches, literature, zines, and social media pieces by American Indian, African American, and white writers/artists/activists protesting issues relating to gender inequity, settler colonialism, race- and class-based oppression, homophobia, and ableism.

    Instructor: K. Drake
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • WRIT 197 SC - Special Topics in Writing

    Courses under this number will vary from year to year, and will focus on a close analysis of a given genre (the essay, the short story, the poem, the newspaper article, the screenplay, the review) by an established practitioner of the form. May be repeated for credit. 

     

    Instructor: Mary Routt Chair of Writing
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: One semester per year


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

  • WRIT 197H SC - Topics in Writing: The Point of Departure

    This course will explore the gray area between autobiography and fiction, emphasizing why and how fiction writers must depart from the facts in order to find the story. Using our own lives as points of departure, we will search for “…the story that didn’t happen within the story that did” (Gardener).

    Instructor: D. Senna
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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