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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.
 

French
  

  • FREN 154 SC - The 18th Century Novel: Experimentations in Form

    The 18th century in France marked one of the great periods in the development of the novel. The vitality characteristic of this genre was due to a great extent to the novelists’ awareness of narrative techniques and to their willingness to experiment with diverse modes of novelistic form. In this course, problems of narration will be studied in the works of L’Abbe Prevost, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, and Sade. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. 

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Instructor: D. Krauss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 155 SC - Nature/Culture; Government/Utopia: Political Writings of the 18th Century

    A study of attempts by 18th-century authors from Montesquieu to the Revolution to describe ideal forms of social and political organization, as well as “natural” alternatives to “cultural” systems. Political writings by Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire, and articles of the Encyclopédie, excerpts from L’Esprit des lois, and the Voyage de Bougainville will be discussed during the first half of the course; the latter half will be devoted to texts from the Revolutionary period, including selections from Danton, Robespierre, Sade, and Babeuf. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Instructor: D. Krauss
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 160 SC - Hugo, Women, and the French Revolution

    This class looks at the French Revolution through Victor Hugo’s novel Quatre-Vingt-Treize and the lives and writings of outstanding women of the era. It explores the representation of the guillotine as a “feminine” arm of justice and the rise of Marianne as a national symbol. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Instructor: F. Lemoine
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 165 SC - From Mermaids to Catwomen: Animal Transformations in French Literature and Culture

    This course will investigate shifting perspectives on animals in French literature, art, and society from the Middle Ages to today. We will examine allegorical animals in Le Bestiare, philosophical debates about animals (Montaigne, Descartes), the connections between evolution and Impressionism, and the myth of woman-to-animal metamorphoses (Rachilde, Darrieussecq). Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  
    Instructor: C. Nettleton
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 170 SC - The Mad Artist in French Literature (1830-1930)

    A misunderstood artist paints a materpiece, destroys it, and then ends his or her life. This myth of the mad artist is the basis of 19th century French novels by Balzac, Mirbeau, Zola, Rachilde, and Sand. This course investigates the perceived historical, literary, and neurological connections between insanity and creativity.

    Instructor: C. Nettleton
    Offered: Fall 2014


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

  • FREN 171 SC - Aesthetics, Society, and Thematic Structures in the 19th-Century Novel in France

    A study of the works of Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola. The course will examine such problems as the evolution in techniques of description and characterization, the relationship of the individual to society, and the representation of women. Emphasis will be placed on the novel as a work of art reflecting the social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic consciousness of an era. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Instructor: E. Haskell
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 172 SC - Baudelaire and the Symbolist Aesthetic

    A study of the poetic theories and practices of Baudelaire and the principal symbolist poets. This course will examine the origins, goals, realizations, and paradoxes of the symbolist movement as it distinguishes them from realist traditions and modernist modes. Readings from Baudelaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and the minor symbolists will frame the movement’s central themes and illuminate the function of language in art and thought. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. 

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Instructor: E. Haskell
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 173 SC - Wit and Ridicule in the French Salon

    This course will examine the role of wit and its counterpart, ridicule, in nineteenth century French society through an analysis of Stendhal’s novel Le Rouge et le noir, Balzac’s novel Illusions perdues, Patrice Leconte’s film Ridicule. We will explore how wit is characterized in these works and investigate the role of language in social success and self-definition. We will also consider the process by which France’s national identity became tied to its language and how wit arose as an aristocratic value and came to embody key cultural capital. The course will include critical readings as well (Hesse, Lilti, Corbin, Foucault). Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Instructor: F. Lemoine
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 175 PO - Writing the Exotic

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: M. Waller
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 176 SC - “Voyage et Exotisme”

    A search for a new definition of the poetic function, the expression of the quest for the reality of Self through the experience of the Other characterizes the renewal of the traditional theme of the journey as self-discovery in late 19th- and early 20th-century French literature. The significance of this trend will be studied in prose and poetic works of major writers. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. 

    Prerequisite(s): FREN044 SC  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 179 SC - French Love Affairs: An Introduction to Proust

    This class presents Proust’s celebrated novel A la recherche du temps perdu  through the themes of women and love. The goal is to provide a lively and multi-faceted introduction to Proust that will foster understanding of his work, of early-century social culture, and of the novel as a genre.  Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Instructor: F. Lemoine
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 180 SC - Danse et littérature: de l’écrivain fascine au chorégraphe érudit

    In this course, we will examine philosophical debates about the dancing body from 19th-century representations of the female dancer as the “floating” creature of Modernity (Baudelaire, Gautier, Mallarme, and Zola) to contemporary choreographic adaptations of texts on stage (Beckett and Maguy Marin, Jean Genet and Prejlocaj, Christine Angot and Monnier). This will allow us to understand the connections between writing about performances and writing for performances. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  
    Instructor: L. Toth
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 182 SC - Contemporary Fiction in French

    What are Francophone people reading and writing about today? This course will examine works by major novelists writing in French in the latter part of the 20th century. These include Georges Perec, Patrick Modiano, Jean Echenoz, Jean-Marie Le Clézio, Annie Ernaux, (France), but also Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Anne Hébert (Quebéc), Marima Bâ (Sénégal), and Assia Djebar (Algeria). 

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Instructor: N. Rachlin
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 183 CM - The Novel in France Since 1945

    Please see the Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Instructor: M.D. Shelton
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 184 SC - Portrait of Two Voices: Marguerite Yourcenar and Marguerite Duras

    An in-depth study of 20th-century French literature through the works of two of its major writers. Although usually situated at opposite ends of the literary spectrum, the works of the neo-classicist Yourcenar and the unclassifiable Duras (novelist, essayist, film-maker) can both be defined and examined as the paradoxical attempt to create the “portrait of voices” now silent. Special attention will be given to their protagonists’ relation to the past, to the issues of private vs. public history, and the fictionalization of history. Discussion of novels, films, and interviews in book and video form. 

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Instructor: N. Rachlin
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 191 SC - Senior Thesis

     The culmination of a student’s French major, the thesis requires her to think creatively, analytically, and critically about a topic of her choice in consultation with the French faculty. Students propose their topic at an early fall thesis meeting and present a minimum of their first chapter upon return from winter recess. Whereas regular theses are generally 10,000 to 15,000 words (40-70 pages double-spaced), honors thesis are approximately 17,000 to 25,000 words (75-100 pages double-spaced).

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 199 SC - Independent Study in French Studies: Reading and Research

     In extraordinary circumstances and only for the most advanced student, an independent study course may be requested on a topic not available in the curriculum. Students must seek permission from the relevant faculty member.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Gender/Women’s Studies
  

  • FGSS 026 SC - Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    This course introduces students to the dynamic, interdisciplinary field of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Issues to be covered may include: the transnational and intersectional approaches and methodologies of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; the social construction of gender and sexuality; the gender and sexual politics of everyday life; the gender and sexual politics of colonialism, nationalism, and neoliberalism; and the relationship of feminism to freedom and consent.

    Instructor: P. Chatterjee, C. Guzaitis
    Offered: Every year


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

  • FGSS 036 SC - Introduction to Queer Studies

    This course introduces students to queer theory. Issues to be covered may include: heteronormativity, performativity, queer theory in a transnational context, and queer of color critique.

    Instructor: C. Guzaitis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 182 SC - Feminist Intersectional Pedagogies: Learning Grassroots Leadership Practices

    This course is modeled on the democratic creative processes that brought about “INCITE!” and “This Bridge Called My Back.” Students will interact with grassroots organizing models of leadership that foster feminist intersectional pedagogies. This course discusses processes by which feminist intersectional spaces are constructed, negotiated, sustained, and also co-opted.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS187 SC  or POLI128 SC  or permission of Professor
    Instructor: Chatterjee, P.
    Offered: Every year


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

  • FGSS 183 SC - Sciences from “Below”: Feminist and Queer Conceptions

    This course engages how women of color feminisms and queer of color critique reorient conceptions of life from “below” to challenge discourses that pathologize minoritarian subjects. It will prepare students to consider the ethics of representing life within the Sciences and the Humanities.

    Instructor: J. Cheng
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Yearly


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

  • FGSS 184 SC - Feminist Theories: Antiracist, Postcolonial and Queer Critiques

    We will explore intersectional feminist and queer theories as produced by U.S. women and trans people of color, and native, transnational and postcolonial scholars. We will explore debates about “difference” (of race, gender, sexualities, class, religion, nation etc.) as emerging through colonial rule, settler colonialism, and contemporary imperialism. Required for majors.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 186 SC - The Imperial University: Antiracist Feminisms and Student Movements in U.S. Higher Education

    This course will focus on the organizational structures of U.S. college and university systems with comparative emphasis between public and private institutions. Secondly, it will explore historical and contemporary student-led social movements and the issues they have raised about war, foreign policy, labor, debt, institutional racism and academic freedom.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • FGSS 187 SC - Advanced Topics in Feminist Studies

    This course explores a current topic in feminist studies. Topics may include: gender and autobiography; feminism and the cultural politics of privacy; human rights and women’s human rights; race and reproductive freedom; feminist film theory and mass media; science, gender, and technology; transnational feminism; studies in sexualities; testimonial narratives and trauma studies.

    Instructor: P. Chatterjee
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 187J SC - Women and the Writing of Science

    This seminar course will consider the role of women in early modern and Enlightenment science as the objects of scientific inquiry and women as scientists or natural philosophers. Reading topics will include: anatomy, astronomy, mathematics, and physical sciences, along with contemporary theory on gender, science, and cultures of pre-1800 Europe. This course is cross-listed as ENGL178 SC .

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 188 SC - Advanced Topics in Queer Studies

    This course explores a current topic in queer studies and the history and cultural politics of sexualities. Topics of study include: queer histories/ historicizing queerness, queer of color critique, law and sexualities, queer popular culture, cinema, and media, queer nationalisms and transnationalisms. FGSS 026  / GWS 026 or FGSS 036  / GWS 026 required.

    Instructor: C. Guzaitis


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

  • FGSS 189 SC - Feminist & Queer Research Methods: Anti-Racist Perspectives

    This course introduces students to the ethics and methods of research through feminist, queer, and antiracist lenses.  Particular emphasis will be paid to what this means in fieldwork, community-engagement and advocacy in regional, national and transnational contexts. Required for majors.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Yearly


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

  • FGSS 190 SC - Feminist and Queer Pedagogies

    Geared toward seniors writing theses, this course examines antiracist, feminist, and queer pedagogies as praxes. We explore theories and practices that challenge racial, gendered, sexual, and other assumptions of knowing and authorship. We experiment with collective strategies for learning and writing to reconfigure power relations inside and outside the classroom.  Required for Majors.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC  or by instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Yearly


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

  • FGSS 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Thesis is an original investigation on a topic in Feminst, Gender, and Sexuality Studies within the discipline of concentration, completed under the guidance of the reader in the department of concentration and a reader in the Scripps Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

    Offered: Every year


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

  • FGSS 192 SC - Antiracist Feminist and Queer Praxis: Theory, Ethics and Social Action

    This course will explore intersectional, antiracist and queer feminist activisms as reflecting both theory and practice. It will interrogate concepts like altruism, “the savior complex,” coalitions, “internalized oppression,” allyship and solidarity. Feminist ethics and the geopolitics of the local/global will be emphasized.  Required for Majors.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC  or by instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Yearly


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

  • FGSS 193 SC - Field Work Experience

    Some fieldwork or internship experience involving women’s issues is required. In consultation with the adviser, students will select the most appropriate means by which to fulfill this requirement. It might be fulfilled during the school year or summer as an internship, independent study, volunteer work, fieldwork as part of a senior thesis, or as part of another course. Pass/Fail. Noncredit course.

    Offered: Every year


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

  • GWS 180 PO - Transnational Feminist Theory

    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.
  

  • GWS 181 PO - Feminist Community Engagement: Bridging Theory with Praxis

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

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS 026  or permission of instructor.
    Instructor: C. Guzaitis.K. Wazana Tompkins
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GWS 190 PO - Senior Seminar in Gender and Women’s Studies

    An overview and intergration of work in Gender and Women’s Studies through readings, student-led discussion and analysis of interdisciplinary issues. Guidance on research and writing the thesis.

    Instructor: E. Runions
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GWS 301 CG - Introduction to Women and Gender Studies

    See Claremont Graduate University catalog for details.

    Instructor: C. Jáquez
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GWS 304 CG - Intro to Women’s Studies in Religion

    See Claremont Graduate University catalog for details.

    Instructor: K. Torjesen
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GWS 325 CG - Masculinities and Race

    See Claremont Graduate University catalog for details.

    Instructor: E. Flores
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GWS 352 CG - Feminist and Queer Theory: Bodies of Knowledge

    See Claremont Graduate University catalog for details.

    Instructor: E. Oishi
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Geology
  

  • GEOL 110 PO - Looking at the Earth: Using GIS and Images from Space to Explore our 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.
  

  • GEOL 111A PO - Introduction to GIS

    Introduction to GIS. Geospatial analysis of data obtained from numerous sources is a critical way to learn about the Earth’s environment, for example the interplay between geological, biological, hydrological and human/social elements. Extensive hands-on learning of basic GIS techniques paves the way for a project in which students explore a complex (normally environmental) problem.

    Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: Area 4 course, or permission of instructor.
    Instructor: E. Grosfils
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GEOL 112 PO - Remote Sensing

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: E. Grosfils
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GEOL 125 PO - Earth History

    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.

German
  

  • GERM 001 SC - Introductory German

    Acquisition of basic oral communication, survey of German grammar, practice in reading and writing. Meets five days a week. Language laboratory three times a week. Offered annually.

    Instructor: R. H. Rindisbacher, F. von Schwerin-High
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 002 SC - Introductory German

    Acquisition of basic oral communication, survey of German grammar, practice in reading and writing. Meets five days a week. Language laboratory three times a week. Offered annually.

    Instructor: R. H. Rindisbacher, F. von Schwerin-High
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 010 PO - Introduction to the Study of Language

    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.
  

  • GERM 022 SC - Accelerated Introductory German

    For students with some background in the language. Accelerated introduction to basic structure; intensive practice in reading and writing. Meets five days a week. Listening comprehension exercises in language laboratory three times a week. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): Placement examination.
    Instructor: R. M. Katz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 033 SC - Intermediate German

    Emphasis on developing reading ability. Extensive review of grammar; continuing acquisition of new vocabulary and conversational skills. Meets four days a week. Listening comprehension exercises in language laboratory twice a week. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 002 , GERM 022 , or equivalent.
    Instructor: R. M. Katz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 044 SC - Advanced German

    Emphasis on correct idiomatic writing. Essays every other week, oral work, and grammar review. Meets three days a week. Small conversation groups with native speaker once a week. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 033  or equivalent.
    Instructor: R. M. Katz, H. Rindisbacher, F. von Schwerin-Hig
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 101 SC - Introduction to German Culture

    Concepts of culture have long been the object of intellectual inquiry. The course will introduce students to some of the most compelling issues and debates in German culture through fiction, criticism, and philosophy, as well as film and the visual arts. The presentation of materials is exemplary rather than comprehensive and is based on thematic, historical, generic, etc., units.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 101B SC - Introduction to German Culture: Vienna Modernism

    This course introduces the works of the large variety of writers, philosophers, visual artists, architects, physicians, and composers that helped render turn-on-the-century Vienna on e of the hotbeds of European modernism. Decadence and psychoanalysis, aesteticism, and Kaffehausliteratur are but four of the essentially Viennese and radically modern keywords the course will explore. Taught in German.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM044 SC 
    Instructor: K. Vennemann


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

  • GERM 101C SC - Introduction to German Culture: Pop and Protest in Fiction and Film

    This course will examine German-language film and fiction that emerged out of the student movements and countercultures from the 1960s onwards. We will consider the ways in which new models of artistic expression sought to combine political engagement and consumerist enjoyment.

    Instructor: P. Buccholz
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • GERM 102 SC - Introduction to German Literature

    This course introduces major literary movements in the German language from the 18th to the 21st century. Through close readings of short prose, poetry, and drama, we will consider how German literature has engaged with social and cultural upheavals including the Englightenment, industrialization, war, revolution, and consumerism. Readings and discussions in German.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044  or instructor permission 
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 103 SC - Introduction to German Media and Film

    This course introduces students to some of the most compelling issues and debates in German culture through various forms of media, including film and television, music, advertising and the visual arts. The presentation of materials is exemplary rather than comprehensive and based on thematic, historical, generic and other units.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044  or equivalent. For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 104 PO - Introduction to German Composition

    This course will provide the students with intensive practice in expository writing. Introduction to German stylistics and the varieties of essay construction. Wide range of texts analyzed, discussed, and written about. Frequent essays.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044  or equivalent. For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Instructor: F. von Schwerin-High
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 105 SC - Berlin Stories

    This literature and film course explores diverse roles played by Berlin in recent cultural history: a laboratory for urban modernity, a flashpoint of cold war politics, a haven for counter cultures, and a site of cross-cultural encounters in a multicultural Europe. We will study short prose and films.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 . For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Instructor: P. Buchholz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 128 PO - Multicultural Germany

    Course explores the history and culture of Turkish-Germans and other minority communities residing in Germany with emphases on political, legal, social, cultural, and religious aspects of multicultural life. Course materials include historical accounts, newspaper and internet articles, autobiographical narratives, fiction, poems, and films.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 . For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Instructor: F. Von Schwerin-High
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 151 PO - Modern German Poetry

    More radically than any other literary and artistic tradition, 20thcentury German lyric poetry has used formal and semantic experiments to explore the extreme limits of truth, beauty, meaning, and human experience. Offered in alternate years.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044  or equivalent. For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 152 PO - Drama as Experiment

    Beginning with the Naturalists, 20th-century dramatists delved ever further into topics previously considered off limits: class war, sexuality, and the problematic nature of human communication. The formal elements traditional to drama were also continually undermined, until the very notions of character, plot, and dramatic performance were themselves called into question. Works by Hauptmann, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Wedekind, Sternheim, Kaiser, Brecht, Borchert, Frisch, Duerrenmatt, Weiss, and Handke. Lectures, discussion, oral reports.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Instructor: F. von Schwerin-High
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 154 SC - Great German Fiction

    This course introduces students to some of the greatest works of 19th-and 20th-century German literature. Close reading of literary works by such authors as Kleist, Keller, Mann, Rilke, Kafka, Hesse, Böll, Frisch, Grass, Wolf, and others is combined with key ideas of selected representatives of the German intellectual tradition: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, and others.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 . For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 177 SC - The Pact with the Devil

    No other figure in Western literature has so embodied the intellectual and moral conditions of modern Europeans as has Faust; and nowhere else is the fascination—and ambivalence regarding evil—more prevalent than in the artistic and literary incarnations of this legendary character. In addition to works by Marlowe, Goethe, and Bulgakov, the many faces of evil will be traced in the visual arts, opera, and folk tales. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 189 SC - German Across the Curriculum (GAC)

    Offered as a German language component to courses in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences at The Claremont Colleges. Also offered as a German language component to German Department courses taught in English. May be repeated for credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044  or permission of the German instructor. For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Annually


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

  • GERM 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Permission of the student’s adviser and the program coordinator is required. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 193 PO - German Comprehensive Exams

    Preparation for six-hour written and one-hour oral examinations for the major, testing the student’s general competence in the discipline. Graded P/NC.

    Course Credit: .50


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  • GERM 197 SC - Directed Studies in German

    Offered as a German language component to courses taught in English in the German Studies Program. Individual instruction. Cumulative credit. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of German studies adviser. For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 199 SC - Independent Study in German Studies: Reading and Research

    Open to students capable of independent study. Permission of instructor required. Course or half course. May be repeated. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

German Literature in English Translation
  

  • GRMT 114 SC - Plotting Crime

    This course covers various “genres” of criminality in modern European fiction and film, including murder, criminal vice, theft, sex crimes, white-collar corporate conspiracy, crimes of passion, and domestic violence. We explore two related (but distinct) topics: how crimes are planned and executed; and how they are then turned, step-by-step, into compelling literary and cinematic storylines. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Instructor: M. Katz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GRMT 115 SC - The Family and it Discontents

    Not everyone feels “at home” within the nuclear family. This course examines central European thinkers and artists who criticize traditional family structures on the grounds that they limit human autonomy and perpetuate inequality. We will consider philosophy, fiction, filmmaking and feminist theory that point the way toward alternative forms of kinship. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Instructor: P. Buchholz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GRMT 116 SC - The Decadents

    The 19th-century “decadents” treated art as an intoxicant. Theirs was a cult of extremes: theaters of cruelty, art for art’s sake, celebrations of criminality, and deliberate derangement of the senses. Course begins with 19th-century fiction, visual arts and criticism, and then turns to their “after-images” among 20th-century avant-gardes. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Instructor: M. Katz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GRMT 117 SC - Berlin in the ’20s: An Experiment in Modernity

    Expressionist painting. The glass architecture of the Bauhaus. The rise of photojournalism. The cult of the aerodynamic body. Dadaism. Cyborgs. Cabaret. Berlin in the 1920s has helped define modernization for decades. The course will examine the competing practices and principles of Weimar-era culture, drawing on fiction and film, as well as journalism and the visual arts. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Instructor: M. Katz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GRMT 119 SC - Modern Times

    In the years that followed World War I, Europe experienced an extraordinary degree of both social upheaval and creative experimentation. Expressionist violence, stream of consciousness narrative, fractured imagery: writers used whatever means they could to come to terms with the period’s rapid-fire modernization. This course will cover key works of European literature from the early 20th-century (Kafka, Brecht, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Rilke, and Proust, among others), as well as examples of pre-World War II avant-garde film. Course and course materials entirely in English.

    Instructor: M. Katz
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • GRMT 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. (Taught in English)

    Instructor: A. Aisenberg, M. Katz, M. Perez de Mendiola, D. Roselli


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

  • GRMT 134 PO - National Stereotypes in Advertising

    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.
  

  • GRMT 146 SC - Fairy Tales and the Female Storyteller

    In the oral tradition of fairy tales women create a female discourse by regendering patriarchal myths, transforming domestic space into imaginary territories of hollow trees and magic kingdoms. Desires and constraints are represented in multifaceted characterizations of mother, stepmother and witch, orphaned daughters, and wicked stepsisters. Male scholars, such as the Brothers Grimm, reappropriate the fairy tale and domesticate it into children’s stories.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GRMT 161 PO - Nationbuilding and Nationalism: A German Cultural History

    Historical, cultural, political, and psychological inquiry into nationalism, that central and controversial aspect of German (cultural) history. German unifications, then and now. The shifts and rifts between community and society, town and country, native and foreign that marked Germany’s transition to modernity. The Germans’ sense of regional belonging and the creation of a national identity. Analysis of the concept of “Heimat.” Materials include film as well as written accounts from history, politics, culture, and literature, from around 1800 to the present. Emphasis on the 20th century. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Instructor: H. Rindisbacher
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GRMT 162 PO - Rich, Pretty, and Orderly? - What Makes Switzerland Tick

    The doughnut hole of Europe - in the middle but largely unfamiliar. This interdisciplinary course provides a comprehensive account of the role of Switzerland in the European as well as global cultural and political framework. We will study (literary) texts, films, historical and economic sources and analyze the country’s political system, its neutrality and significant international presence. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Instructor: H. Rindisbacher
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GRMT 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 20thcentury 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 HMSC 167  SC. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required. Cross listed as HMSC 167  SC.
    Instructor: M. Katz
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GRMT 170 PO - The Culture of Nature

    Historical, cultural, and political constructions of nature and human roles in nature, from romanticism to the present. Ambivalence about naturalness and artificiality, preservation and exploitation, economy and ecology. Emergence of modern ecological-political movements and their roots in 18th-century romanticism, 19th-century nationalism, and 20thcentury political correctness. Readings from history, politics, literature, and the social sciences. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Instructor: H. Rindisbacher
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Government
  

  • GOVT 070 CM - Introduction to International Relations

    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.
  

  • GOVT 090 CM - Intro Constitutional Law

    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.
  

  • GOVT 095 CM - Legal Studies: Intro to Law

    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.
  

  • GOVT 105 CM - Organization of Healthcare and Public Policy

    Please see Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: 1.0


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

  • GOVT 111 CM - Politics and Population

    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.
  

  • GOVT 112 CM - Public Policy Process

    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.
  

  • GOVT 118 CM - The Processes of Environmental Policymaking

    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.
  

  • GOVT 119 CM - Introduction to Environmental Law and Regulation

    This weekly seminar will focus on the intellectual and philosophical bases for modern environmental policy, law, and regulation, including a historical review of the major elements of the American conservation movement, and an analysis of the regulatory responses to these elements leading to the development of modern environmental statutory and regulatory law.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GOVT 120 CM - Environmental Law

    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.
  

  • GOVT 121 CM - Organization and Management

    Basic concepts of organization theory and organizational behavior. Systems of organizational design and task management and their relation to issues of productivity improvement, motivation and morale, and organizational adaptation and change. Management methods in government and business; ethical problems of management.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GOVT 135 CM - Comparative Politics of the Middle East

    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.
  

  • GOVT 140 CM - Korean Politics and Economy

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: C.J. Lee
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GOVT 142 CM - Governments and Politics of East Asia

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: C. Lee
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GOVT 144 CM - Political and Social Movements

    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.
  

  • GOVT 145 CM - Conflict and Cooperation in Southeast Asia

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: D. Elliott
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GOVT 146 CM - Chinese Foreign Policy

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: C.J. Lee
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GOVT 147 CM - Japanese Foreign and Defense Policy

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: C.J. Lee
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GOVT 151 CM - The United States, Israel, and the Arabs

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: E. Haley
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GOVT 152 CM - The Pacific Rim and the United States

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: C. Lee
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GOVT 154 CM - International Relations of Asia

    See Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Instructor: D. Elliott
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GOVT 164 CM - Political Rhetoric

    Devoted principally to examining the classical understanding of political rhetoric and the problems and possibilities connected with it. Readings will be Plato’s Gorgias and Aristotle’s Rhetoric. In the final part of the course, some famous speeches from the American political tradition will be examined.

    Instructor: J. Nichols
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GOVT 165 CM - Political Philosophy and 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.
  

  • GOVT 173 CM - Worlds in Collision

    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.
 

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