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Courses

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

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

All courses are 1.0 credit unless otherwise stated.
 

Dance
  

  • DANC 190 SC - Senior Seminar in Dance

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


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

  • DANC 191 SC - Senior Thesis

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


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

  • DANC 193A SC - Production Experience

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

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


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

  • DANC 193B SC - Production Experience

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

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


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

  • DANC 193C SC - Production Experience

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

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


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

  • DANC 193D SC - Production Experience

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

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


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

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

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


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

Economics
  

  • ECON 040 SC - Personal Finance

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

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


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

  • ECON 051 SC - Principles of Macroeconomics

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

    Instructor: K. Odell
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 052 SC - Principles of Microeconomics

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

    Instructor: L. Chaudhary
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 101 SC - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

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

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


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

  • ECON 102 SC - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

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

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


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

  • ECON 111 SC - Behavioral Economics

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

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


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

  • ECON 113 SC - European Economic History

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

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


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

  • ECON 114 SC - The Development of American Markets

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

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


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

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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 120 SC - Statistics

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

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


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

  • ECON 121 PO - Economics of Gender and the Family

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: E. Brown
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 123 PO - International Economics

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

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


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

  • ECON 125 SC - Econometrics

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

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


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

  • ECON 126 PO - Economic Development

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: T. Andrabi
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 126 CM - Microeconometrics

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

    Prerequisite(s): Economics 125


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

  • ECON 127 CM - Special Topics in Econometrics

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

    Prerequisite(s): Economics 125


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

  • ECON 129 CM - Game Theory

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

    Prerequisite(s): Economics 101 and 120 or equivalent


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

  • ECON 129 PO - Health Economics

    Please see Pomona College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 135 SC - Monetary and Financial Economics

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

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


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

  • ECON 137 SC - Economics of Health and Health Policy

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

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


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

  • ECON 140 SC - International Economics

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

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


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

  • ECON 144 SC - Economic Development

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

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


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

  • ECON 154 PO - Game Theory for Economists

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

    Prerequisite(s): Economics 57 and 102


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

  • ECON 155 PZ - History of Economic Thought

    See Pitzer Catalog for more details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 155 PO - Law and Economics

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ECON 161 PO - Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis

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

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


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

  • ECON 162 PO - Advanced Microeconomic Analysis

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

    Prerequisite(s): Economics 57 and 102


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

  • ECON 169 PO - Advanced Econometrics

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

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


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

  • ECON 170 PZ - Environmental Economics

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

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


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

  • ECON 175 SC - Labor and Personnel Economics

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

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


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

  • ECON 184 SC - Behavioral Finance

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

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


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

  • ECON 191 SC - Senior Thesis in Economics

    In a seminar setting with other seniors in Economics, the thesis will require students to demonstrate the ability to define an economic question; survey the existing literature on that question; apply relevant economic models to the question; and locate and analyze data necessary to answer the question. The final thesis will be modeled on a typical academic journal article in the field of Economics.  

    Prerequisite(s): ECON101 SC  and ECON102 SC 
    Instructor: Two Members of Economics Faculty
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually in fall


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

  • ECON 191H SC - Honors Thesis in Economics

    In spring semester of their senior year, students eligible for Honors in Economics will revise and extend the shorter thesis written in fall semester, to include more sophisticated treatment of the model, data, and analysis. An oral defense of the thesis will be a component of the final course grade.

    Prerequisite(s):   ECON191 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually in spring


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

  • ECON 382 CG - Econometrics I

    See Claremont Graduate University catalog for details.


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

  • ECON 383 CG - Econometrics II

    See Claremont Graduate University catalog for details.


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

  • ECON 384 CG - Econometrics III

    See Claremont Graduate University catalog for details.


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

Environmental Analysis Program
  

  • EA 010 PO - Introduction to Environmental Analysis

    Examines the history of environmental change over the past century, the environmental ramifications of economic and technological decisions, lifestyles and personal choice and the need to evaluate environmental arguments critically. Taught at Pitzer College and Pomona College.


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

  • EA 020 PO - Nature, Culture, and Society

    This required class for all EA majors and minors is especially designed for sophomores and juniors. It will employ case studies to help analyze some key contemporary environmental dilemmas. Topics will vary, but will draw on an interdisciplinary array of sources in the humanities and social sciences, including history, philosophy and literature; religion, art, politics and sociology.


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

  • EA 030 PO - Science and the Environment

    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.
  

  • EA 030L KS - Science and the Environment

    This course is an introduction to the basic principles of environmental science with application in chemistry, ecology, and geology, and is part of the core course requirements for the Environmental Analysis major. Topics covered include a discussion of ecosystems, climate change, energy and food production, land resources, pollution, and sustainable development. A full laboratory accompanies the course and will include an emphasis on introduction to Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping and analysis. Enrollment limited to 24.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • EA 048 PZ - A Sense of Place

    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.
  

  • EA 055L KS - Physical Geography and Geomorphology

    This course is a survey and analysis of the interdependent physical, chemical, hydrological, and biological processes that shape terrestrial environments. Topics include climate dynamics, chemical and physical weathering, isostasy, and the evolution of mountains, rivers, deserts, coastlines, soils, groundwater/karst systems, and glaciers.

    Fee: Laboratory fee: $50
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • EA 068 PZ - Ethnoecology

    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.
  

  • EA 074 PZ - California’s Landscape: Diverse Peoples and Cultures

    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.
  

  • EA 086 PZ - Environmental Justice

    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.
  

  • EA 090 PZ - Economic Change and the Environment in Asia

    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.
  

  • EA 095 PZ - U.S. Environmental Policy Approved

    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.
  

  • EA 100L KS - Global Climate Change

    An introduction to the Earth Sciences, this course focuses on past and present global climate change. Topics include earth system science, climate change on geologic timescales, and recent climate change. Lectures will include a discussion of primary journal literature about climate change and relevant topics in the media. Labs will include an introduction to proxy methods used to reconstruct past climate variability.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 043L  and BIOL 044L ; or BIOL 040L   and BIOL 044L ; or CHEM 014L  and CHEM 015L  ;or CHEM 040L  and CHEM 015L  (or CHEM 029L ); or PHYS 030L  and PHYS 031L , or PHYS 033L  and PHYS 034L ; or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS 001AL , AISS 001BL , AISS 002AL , AISS 002BL ).
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • EA 103 KS - Soils and Society

    Soils are dynamic biological, chemical, and physical environments that have profoundly influenced human health and society. This course provides an overview of soils and the ways in which they define habitats, cycle water and carbon, support infrastructure, sustain agriculture, record paleoclimate, and exemplify the challenges of sustainable environmental management.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL043L KS  and BIOL044L KS  , or ( BIOL040L KS  and BIOL044L KS ); or both semesters of the AISS course, AND CHEM014L KS  and  CHEM015L KS  , or
    (CHEM029L KS ) or ( CHEM040L KS  and CHEM015L KS  ), or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS001ALKS  , AISS001BLKS  , AISS002ALKS  , AISS002BLKS  ); OR one laboratory course in environmental science or geology (e.g. EA 030L KS  , EA 055L KS  , GEOL020 PO etc.) AND one additional EA course; OR permission of the instructor.
    Fee: Laboratory fee: $50
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • EA 104 PZ - Doing Natural History

    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.
  

  • EA 104 KS - Oceanography

    Oceanography is a multidisciplinary science that applies physics, geology, chemistry, and biology to the study of oceans. Topics covered in the course will include the formation of the oceans, the interaction of the ocean with the atmosphere, the influx and distribution of chemical compounds, the carbonate system and nutrient content.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL043L KS  and BIOL044L KS  , or BIOL040L KS  and BIOL044L KS ; CHEM014L KS  and  CHEM015L KS  , or CHEM040L KS  and CHEM015L KS  , or  CHEM029L KS ; or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS001ALKS  , AISS001BLKS  , AISS002ALKS  , AISS002BLKS  ).
    Fee: $50
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • EA 120 PZ - Global Environmental Politics and Policy

    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.
  

  • EA 133 PZ - Case Studies in Sustainable Built Environments

    Please see the 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.
  

  • EA 134 PZ - Sustainable Place Studio

    Please see the 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.
  

  • EA 141 PZ - Progress and Oppression

    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.
  

  • EA 146 PZ - Theory and Practice in Environmental Education

    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.
  

  • EA 150 PZ - Critical Environmental Analysis

    Please see the 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.
  

  • EA 152 PZ - Nature through Film

    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.
  

  • EA 154 PZ - The Political Economy of Global Production and Natural Resources

    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.
  

  • EA 162 PZ - Gender, Environment and Development

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: M. Herrold-Menzies
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 188L KS - EA Science Senior Thesis Research Project

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 189L KS - EA Science Summer Thesis Research

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 190 PO - Environmental Seminar

    A capstone, team-based seminar in which senior majors focus their various curricular backgrounds on environmental issues and problems as defined by real-world clients. Past clients have included Pomona College’s Sustainability Integration Office, Scripps College, the City of Claremont, Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens, Sustainable Claremont, UnCommon Good, and USGS. Prerequisites: EA 010 PO, EA 030 PO and EA 191 PO.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 190L KS - EA Science Second Semester Senior Thesis

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 191 KS - EA Science 1-semester Senior Thesis

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 191 PO - Senior Thesis in Environmental Analysis

    Production of a senior research paper or project which culminates in a professional-quality public presentation. Open to senior EA majors only.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FS 005 PZ - The Price of Altruism

    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.

English
  

  • ENGL 009 AF - Community Poetry: Black Feminist

    See Pitzer College catalog for course details.

    Instructor: L. Harris
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 012 AF - Introduction to African American Literature

    This course is a survey of major periods, authors, and genres of the African American literary tradition. This is the second half of a two-semester course offered through IDBS faculty. This course covers the major literature produced from the turn-of-the-20th-century to the contemporary period.

    Instructor: L. Harris
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 053 PO - Twentieth Century American Women Writers

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: T. Clark
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 056 PO - Contemporary Native American Literature

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: V. Thomas
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 090 PO - Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    See Pomona College catalog for details.


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

  • ENGL 093 PZ - Modern Polish Literature and Film

    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.
  

  • ENGL 101 SC - Readings in British Literature

    This course provides an introduction to British literature through in-depth readings of significant works from British literary history, with a particular focus on the centuries before the Restoration. We will read works written in very different styles, genres, and forms, by authors from a range of social and political backgrounds. The course will place special emphasis on close reading and on the craft of analytical writing. Readings may include Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare’s Othello, Donne’s Songs and Sonnets, Cavendish’s Blazing World, and Milton’s Paradise Lost.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • ENGL 101A SC - A Survey of British Literature, Part I

    A survey of British literature from its Anglo-Saxon beginnings to the 18th century. Particular attention will be paid to major authors such as Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Pope, but students will undertake a broad range of readings in order to acquire a sense of both the variety and the historical development of the British literary traditions. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 101B SC - A Survey of British Literature, Part II

    A survey of British literature from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Particular attention will be paid to major authors such as Blake, Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Yeats, but students will undertake a broad range of readings in order to acquire a sense of both the variety and the historical development of the British literary tradition. Students are encouraged to take ENGL 101A  before 101b. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 102 SC - Readings in American Literature

    This course provides an introduction to American literature, with a focus on in-depth readings of significant works. Readings will be drawn from across American literary history, with particular attention to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The course will place special emphasis on developing skills in close reading and literary analysis.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ENGL 102A SC - Survey to 1865: American Literature in Search of Foundations

    An examination of the literature of America’s beginnings, culminating with the period of the American Renaissance. Using novels, poems, essays, personal narratives, and short stories, we will probe the development of America’s national literary sensibility. Writers to be read in this course will include the Puritans, Jefferson, Paine, Wheatley, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Douglass, and others.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 102B SC - Survey 1865 to Present: American Dreams, American Nightmares

    This course will include literature from a variety of American cultural and literary movements. Authors to be read will include Whitman, Twain, Dickinson, Cather, Williams, Faulkner, Cisneros, and others. Attention will be given to innovation in literary form and the multicultural backgrounds of American literature.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 103 SC - Survey of American Literature: 1900-1945

    This course, which can be taken to fulfill the second half of the survey requirement, covers late 19th and 20th century literary Modernism. Students will learn techniques of close reading and be asked to consider the historical and philosophical contexts of Modernism as well as literary works. Writers may include Whitman, Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Hughes, Ellison, Ginsberg, Morrison, Kingston, among others. 

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • ENGL 104 SC - Introduction to Poetry and Poetics

    This course will introduce students to a wide range of modern and contemporary poetry representing an array of national traditions, aesthetic movements, socio-cultural contexts, and literary histories. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship between form and content. No prior knowledge of literary study is assumed or required; students will develop the skills necessary to read and interpret many poetic forms.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other fall


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

  • ENGL 105 SC - American Short Story

    Through close attention to a sequence of American texts, we will consider the short story as a genre. This course is designed to explore theoretical questions of narrative technique as well as issues of historical development and cultural focus. A variety of female as well as male authors—both traditional and experimental—will be read, including Hawthorne, Poe, Wharton, Jackson, Faulkner, Hemingway, Oates, Cheever, Erdrich, Baldwin, and Carver.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 106 PO - 19th Century U.S. Women Writers

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: K. Wazana Tompkins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 111 SC - Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories

    This course sets histories from Shakespeare’s two tetralogies alongside early and late comedies including The Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure, focusing on aspects of the plays that resist easy generic categorization. We will consider the complicated relationship between historical fact and historical drama, exploring the challenges and opportunities that Shakespeare faced in putting figures from the distant and the recent past on the early modern stage. In analyzing his range of comic modes, moreover, we will observe that farce and witty word-play go hand in hand with incisive social commentary that is often not very funny at all.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 112 PO - Early Modern Romance

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: V. Thomas
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 112 PZ - Rule Britannia: Imperialism in Victorian Literature and Culture

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: S. Bhattacharya
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 112 SC - Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances

    This course focuses on Shakespeare’s four major tragedies and on the four plays now known as the “romances”. We will consider the influence of both classical and early modern revenge tragedy on Shakespeare, exploring the issues of governance and inheritance that are at the heart of his most famous works. We will also attend to the complex motivations of the protagonists who give these plays their names. In turning to the romances, we will consider how style and subject matter (as well as chronology) mark these late plays: should we read them as tragedies gone wrong-or gone right?

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 113 PO - Step Right Up: Race, Gender and Popular Culture, 1865-1917

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: K. Wazana Tompkins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 114 PO - Asian/American Forms

    This course examines Asian/American literary texts that exhibit self-consciousness about their own formal characteristics as a means of engaging with and interrogating social and racial formations. Readings will include both texts written by Asian Americans and texts that address Asianness in an American context.

    Instructor: J. Jeon
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 114 PZ - British Women Writers Before 1900

    See Pitzer College catalog for details.

    Instructor: S. Bhattacharya
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 115 PO - Eating and Other: Race, Gender and Literary Food Studies

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: K. Wazana Tompkins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 115 SC - Seminar in Literary Theory

    This course provides an introduction to literary theory, covering a wide range of critical approaches (Formalist, Feminist, New Historicist, Psychoanalytic, Deconstructive, Marxist, among others), and exploring multiple frameworks for the intensive study of literary texts.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 118 PO - Nature of Narrative in Fiction and Film

    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.
 

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