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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.
 

Music
  

  • MUS 112 SC - Introduction to Ethnomusicology

    This course introduces students to the central theories, methods, and approaches used in the study of ethnomusicology. Students will become familiar with key issues and points of debate, resources for research and teaching, as well as a brief survey of the history of the discipline. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Instructor: C. Jáquez
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 118 SC - Music in the United States

    A survey of the history and development of music in the United States, this course will examine the diverse musical cultures and traditions, including European, African, Latin American, Native American, Asian, and others that have come to this country and have influenced the works of musicians and composers in the United States. Musical examples from American popular culture (jazz, rock, country, and pop), from religious services and practices of various denominations and sects, from ethnic groups and folk cultures within the United States, and from art music in the United States will be studied as expressions of important concerns and values in our society, and as influences on music in other countries as well. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Instructor: H. Huang, C. Jáquez, C. Kamm
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 119 SC - Women in Music

    This class will study the roles of women in music as composers, performers, writers on music, and as patrons. This class will also investigate how women’s active participation in music making and performance shapes the ways in which women are represented. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Instructor: A. Harley, C. Jaquez, Y. Kang
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 120 SC - Music in Christian Practice

    Music serves an essential role in Christian worship and devotional practices. This course examines the musical practices in various historical and present-day worship settings ranging from medieval European monasteries and American revival campus to contemporary mainline Protestant churches of various racial and ethnic groups in the United States. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Instructor: Y. Kang
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 120A PO - History of Western Music

    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.
  

  • MUS 120B PO - History of Western Music

    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.
  

  • MUS 121 SC - Music of the Spirits: Tewa Pueblo Indian, Hawaiian, and African American

    This course will involve three case studies of religious musical cultures in the United States: Tewa Pueblo ritual dance ceremonies, Hawaiian hula kahiko and auana, and African American gospel music. Ethnomusicological research methods, musical analysis, social function, and ritual significance will be discussed. No previous musical experience is required. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Instructor: H. Huang
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 122 SC - The Color of Music: Race in Blues and Jazz

    Jazz and blues are often represented as American musical traditions which transcend social barriers. Yet political divisions of race, class, and gender are manifest in disagreements as to whom the music belongs. This course focuses on how the concept of race has “colored” American popular music, and addresses the issue of expressive authenticity: are the kinds of understanding critical to authentic performance in a musical style accessible only to members of the community from which it originates? Relationships between race and gender in blues and jazz historical discourse will also be explored. Previous musical training is desirable but not required. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Instructor: H. Huang
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 123 SC - Music and the Performance of Identities: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender

    This course explores the ways in which individuals and groups represent, transform, and create their identities through musical performance and other performative acts. Several issues of “musical identity” are discussed: creation and expression of gender through music, musical expressions of ethnic and/or racial identity, musical creation of “official” identities (including U.S. nationalism), and the representation of the self through music. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Instructor: Y. Kang
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 126 SC - Music in East Asia and its American Diasporas

    This course introduces the “traditional” music of China, Korea, and Japan and explores the ways in which traditional performing arts have been transformed, adapted, and given new meanings in these modern nation-states and the East Asian diasporic communities of the United States. A survey of these musical traditions will be followed by a closer study of pungmul, kabuki, taiko, Chinese opera, and pansori. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Instructor: Y. Kang
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 127 HM - Harmony of Sound and Light

    This course examines the intersection between Asians and the politics of race and ethnicity. Central to the course is the claim that understanding race is critical to understanding American politics and that any sophisticated analysis of race must include the role of Asians in America.


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

  • MUS 130 SC - Rhythm and the Latina Body Politic

    This interdisciplinary course focuses on the construction of Latina bodies in contemporary US popular culture, in particular how dance movement is often ethnically defined along cultural and gendered stereotypes. Dance, music, and control of the body are used as key concepts in exploring this arena. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Instructor: C. Jáquez
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 131 SC - Mariachi Performance and Culture

    This course combines a musical ensemble with music history and the study of culture. Students will become familiar with the Mexican mariachi tradition through participation, lecture, readings, exams, multi-media materials and a final concert. Cultural representation and ethnicity help us explore the tradition’s rich history and its role in contemporary society. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Instructor: C. Jáquez
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 132 SC - Stravinsky: His Milieu and His Music

    A seminar studying Igor Stravinsky’s life, his ballets, other instrumental music, and vocal music. Study of Russia at the turn of the 20th century, Paris in the early 20th century, ballet and other arts contextualizes Stravinsky’s music. Mode of instruction includes frequent student presentations on topics and works. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Instructor: C. Kamm
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 151A SC - Conducting

    The study of the art of conducting, with emphasis on the five principal areas of expression within beat patterns, gestural vocabulary and communication, score study and phrase analysis, score reading at the keyboard, and repertoire studies. Over-arching consideration will be that of a philosophy of conducting.

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission.
    Instructor: D. Cubek, C. Kamm
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 151B SC - Conducting

    The study of the art of conducting, with emphasis on the five principal areas of expression within beat patterns, gestural vocabulary and communication, score study and phrase analysis, score reading at the keyboard, and repertoire studies. Over-arching consideration will be that of a philosophy of conducting.

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission.
    Instructor: D. Cubek, C. Kamm
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 151C SC - Conducting

    The study of the art of conducting, with emphasis on the five principal areas of expression within beat patterns, gestural vocabulary and communication, score study and phrase analysis, score reading at the keyboard, and repertoire studies. Over-arching consideration will be that of a philosophy of conducting.

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission.
    Instructor: D. Cubek, C. Kamm
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 151D SC - Conducting

    The study of the art of conducting, with emphasis on the five principal areas of expression within beat patterns, gestural vocabulary and communication, score study and phrase analysis, score reading at the keyboard, and repertoire studies. Over-arching consideration will be that of a philosophy of conducting.

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission.
    Instructor: D. Cubek, C. Kamm
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 162 SC - Musical Text-Setting, Analysis and Diction

    Students will study the ways in which composers have combined text and music in vocal music over the course of the European tradition, starting with Gregorian chant and ending with twentieth-century experiments in text-setting. They will explore the cultural contexts for these compositional strategies and become familiar with the practice of lyric diction in English, Italian, German, French, Spanish and Latin and transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Previous musical training is desirable, but not required. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Instructor: A. Harley
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 170A SC - Voice

    This course is a study of techniques of singing and their application to vocal literature. Participation in scheduled class meetings is required. Half-hour weekly lessons earn half-course credit per semester. One-hour weekly lessons (F) earn full-course credit per semester.  

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and MUS 003  (Fundamentals of Music) or equivalent required. MUS 003 may be taken concurrently first semester.
    Instructor: A. Harley, S. Murray, D. Wilson
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 170B SC - Voice

    This course is a study of techniques of singing and their application to vocal literature. Participation in scheduled class meetings is required. Half-hour weekly lessons earn half-course credit per semester. One-hour weekly lessons (F) earn full-course credit per semester. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and MUS 003 (Fundamentals of Music) or equivalent required. MUS 003 may be taken concurrently first semester. 
    Instructor: A. Harley, S. Murray, D. Wilson
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 170C SC - Voice

    This course is a study of techniques of singing and their application to vocal literature. Participation in scheduled class meetings is required. Half-hour weekly lessons earn half-course credit per semester. One-hour weekly lessons (F) earn full-course credit per semester. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and MUS 003 (Fundamentals of Music) or equivalent required. MUS 003  may be taken concurrently first semester.
    Instructor: A. Harley, S. Murray, D. Wilson
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 170D SC - Voice

    This course is a study of techniques of singing and their application to vocal literature. Participation in scheduled class meetings is required. Half-hour weekly lessons earn half-course credit per semester. One-hour weekly lessons (F) earn full-course credit per semester. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and MUS 003  (Fundamentals of Music) or equivalent required. MUS 003  may be taken concurrently first semester.
    Instructor: A. Harley, S. Murray, D. Wilson
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 171A SC - Piano

    Individual instruction at the intermediate and advanced levels. Participation in weekly class meetings is required. Half-hour weekly lessons earn half-course credit per semester. One-hour weekly lessons (F) earn full-course credit per semester. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
    Instructor: G. Blankenburg, H. Huang, J. Simon
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 171B SC - Piano

    Individual instruction at the intermediate and advanced levels. Participation in weekly class meetings is required. Half-hour weekly lessons earn half-course credit per semester. One-hour weekly lessons (F) earn full-course credit per semester. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
    Instructor: G. Blankenburg, H. Huang, J. Simon
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 171C SC - Piano

    Individual instruction at the intermediate and advanced levels. Participation in weekly class meetings is required. Half-hour weekly lessons earn half-course credit per semester. One-hour weekly lessons (F) earn full-course credit per semester. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
    Instructor: G. Blankenburg, H. Huang, J. Simon
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 171D SC - Piano

    Individual instruction at the intermediate and advanced levels. Participation in weekly class meetings is required. Half-hour weekly lessons earn half-course credit per semester. One-hour weekly lessons (F) earn full-course credit per semester. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
    Instructor: G. Blankenburg, H. Huang, J. Simon
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 172A SC - Chamber Music

    Weekly coaching by instructor as well as weekly rehearsal and independent practice will lead to on-campus performance. Repertory studied may range from 1600 to the present. Open to string players, pianists, harpsichordists, vocalists, wind, brass, and classical guitar players. 

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission.
    Instructor: R. Huang
    Course Credit: Half course per semester


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

  • MUS 172B SC - Chamber Music

    Weekly coaching by instructor as well as weekly rehearsal and independent practice will lead to on-campus performance. Repertory studied may range from 1600 to the present. Open to string players, pianists, harpsichordists, vocalists, wind, brass, and classical guitar players. 

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission.
    Instructor: R. Huang
    Course Credit: Half course per semester


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

  • MUS 172C SC - Chamber Music

    Weekly coaching by instructor as well as weekly rehearsal and independent practice will lead to on-campus performance. Repertory studied may range from 1600 to the present. Open to string players, pianists, harpsichordists, vocalists, wind, brass, and classical guitar players. 

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission
    Instructor: R. Huang
    Course Credit: Half course per semester


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

  • MUS 172D SC - Chamber Music

    Weekly coaching by instructor as well as weekly rehearsal and independent practice will lead to on-campus performance. Repertory studied may range from 1600 to the present. Open to string players, pianists, harpsichordists, vocalists, wind, brass, and classical guitar players. 

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission
    Instructor: R. Huang
    Course Credit: Half course per semester


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

  • MUS 173A JM - Claremont Concert Choir: 1st/2nd Year

    (Joint offering of CMC, HMC, PZ, and SC.) A study through rehearsal and performance of choral music selected from the 16th-century to the present, with an emphasis on larger, major works.  Singers will be invited to register after a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not reaudition.

    Instructor: C. Kamm
    Course Credit: Half course per semester
    Offered: Each semester


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

  • MUS 173B JM - Claremont Concert Choir: 1st/2nd Year

    (Joint offering of CMC, HMC, PZ, and SC.) A study through rehearsal and performance of choral music selected from the 16th-century to the present, with an emphasis on larger, major works. Singers will be invited to register after a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not reaudition.

    Instructor: C. Kamm
    Course Credit: Half course per semester
    Offered: Each semester


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

  • MUS 173C JM - Claremont Concert Choir: 3rd/4th Year

    (Joint offering of CMC, HMC, PZ, and SC.) A study through rehearsal and performance of choral music selected from the 16th-century to the present, with an emphasis on larger, major works. Singers will be invited to register after a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not reaudition.

    Instructor: C. Kamm
    Course Credit: Half course per semester
    Offered: Each semester


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

  • MUS 173D JM - Claremont Concert Choir: 3rd/4th Year

    (Joint offering of CMC, HMC, PZ, and SC.) A study through rehearsal and performance of choral music selected from the 16th-century to the present, with an emphasis on larger, major works. Singers will be invited to register after a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not reaudition.
     

    Instructor: C. Kamm
    Course Credit: Half course per semester
    Offered: Each semester


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

  • MUS 174A JM - Claremont Chamber Choir: 1st/2nd Year

    (Joint offering of CMC, HMC, PZ, and SC.) A study of choral music from 1300 to the present, with emphasis on those works composed for performances of an unaccompanied, choral chamber nature. Singers will be accepted into the class on the basis of a successful audition. Singers will be invited to register after a successful audition.  Singers continuing from the previous semester need not reaudition.
     

    Instructor: C. Kamm
    Course Credit: Half course per semester
    Offered: Each semester


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

  • MUS 174B JM - Claremont Chamber Choir: 1st/2nd Year

    (Joint offering of CMC, HMC, PZ, and SC.) A study of choral music from 1300 to the present, with emphasis on those works composed for performances of an unaccompanied, choral chamber nature. Singers will be accepted into the class on the basis of a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not reaudition.

    Instructor: C. Kamm
    Course Credit: Half course per semester
    Offered: Each semester


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

  • MUS 174C JM - Claremont Chamber Choir: 3rd/4th Year

    (Joint offering of CMC, HMC, PZ, and SC.) A study of choral music from 1300 to the present, with emphasis on those works composed for performances of an unaccompanied, choral chamber nature. Singers will be accepted into the class on the basis of a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not reaudition.
     

    Instructor: C. Kamm
    Course Credit: Half course per semester
    Offered: Each semester


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

  • MUS 174D JM - Claremont Chamber Choir: 3rd/4th Year

    (Joint offering of CMC, HMC, PZ, and SC.) A study of choral music from 1300 to the present, with emphasis on those works composed for performances of an unaccompanied, choral chamber nature. Singers will be accepted into the class on the basis of a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not reaudition.

    Instructor: C. Kamm
    Course Credit: Half course per semester
    Offered: Each semester


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

  • MUS 175A JM - The Claremont Concert Orchestra

    (Joint offering of CMC, HMC, PZ, and SC.) The study, through lecture, discussion, rehearsal, and performance, of styles and techniques appropriate for the historically accurate performance of instrumental works intended for the orchestra. Repertoire will include works from mid-18th century to the present with special emphasis on the Classical and Romantic periods. Class enrollments permitted only after successful audition.

    Instructor: D. Cubek
    Course Credit: Half course per semester
    Offered: Each semester


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

  • MUS 175B JM - The Claremont Concert Orchestra

    (Joint offering of CMC, HMC, PZ, and SC.) The study, through lecture, discussion, rehearsal, and performance, of styles and techniques appropriate for the historically accurate performance of instrumental works intended for the orchestra. Repertoire will include works from mid-18th century to the present with special emphasis on the Classical and Romantic periods. Class enrollments permitted only after successful audition. 

    Instructor: D. Cubek
    Course Credit: Half course per semester
    Offered: Each semester


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

  • MUS 175C JM - The Claremont Concert Orchestra

    (Joint offering of CMC, HMC, PZ, and SC.) The study, through lecture, discussion, rehearsal, and performance, of styles and techniques appropriate for the historically accurate performance of instrumental works intended for the orchestra. Repertoire will include works from mid-18th century to the present with special emphasis on the Classical and Romantic periods. Class enrollments permitted only after successful audition. 

    Instructor: D. Cubek
    Course Credit: Half course per semester
    Offered: Each semester


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

  • MUS 175D JM - The Claremont Concert Orchestra

    (Joint offering of CMC, HMC, PZ, and SC.) The study, through lecture, discussion, rehearsal, and performance, of styles and techniques appropriate for the historically accurate performance of instrumental works intended for the orchestra. Repertoire will include works from mid-18th century to the present with special emphasis on the Classical and Romantic periods. Class enrollments permitted only after successful audition. 

    Instructor: D. Cubek
    Course Credit: Half course per semester
    Offered: Each semester


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

  • MUS 177A SC - Violin

    Individual instruction on the violin. Half-hour lessons earn half-course credit per semester; hour lessons earn full-course credit.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
    Instructor: R. Huang
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 177B SC - Violin

    Individual instruction on the violin. Half-hour lessons earn half-course credit per semester; hour lessons earn full-course credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
    Instructor: R. Huang
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 177C SC - Violin

    Individual instruction on the violin. Half-hour lessons earn half-course credit per semester; hour lessons earn full-course credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
    Instructor: R. Huang
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 177D SC - Violin

    Individual instruction on the violin. Half-hour lessons earn half-course credit per semester; hour lessons earn full-course credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
    Instructor: R. Huang
    Course Credit: Half or full
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 187 SC - Special Topics in Music

    This course is designed to explore music through musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, composition, performance practice and research, or interdisciplinary studies. Repeatable for credit with different topics.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 187A SC - The Relationship between Sacred Music and Sacred Spaces of Italy.

    This course aims to immerse the students in a “virtual voyage” to Italy, through the interrelated mediums of music and architecture. The imposing architectural presence of temples, churches, palazzos, gardens and ruins and their relationships to music provide a lense to explore issues of aesthetics. Students will engage in comparatively identifying and critically understanding the categories of architectural artifact and musical work.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 189 SC - Junior Recital

    This course is open only to performance concentration majors. The recital must feature a minimum of 30 minutes of repertoire representing several style periods.

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 170A , MUS 170B , MUS 170C , MUS 170D , MUS 171A , MUS 171B , MUS 171C , MUS 171D , MUS 177A , MUS 177B , MUS 177C , MUS 177D  or equivalent music study, and approval of performance concentration status by full music faculty and teacher of performance area by the end of sophomore year. Instructor permission required. 
    Course Credit: Half course


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

  • MUS 190 SC - Senior Music Colloquium

    This course will give practical experience in research methods in music and will feature presentations by faculty on current music scholarship. Students will prepare a thesis/project proposal and bibliography and start work on their senior thesis/project. 

    Course Credit: Half course
    Offered: Fall


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

  • MUS 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Students will register for senior thesis in spring of their senior year. Full music faculty approval of performance or composition concentration required by spring of sophomore year. For general music majors: written thesis, 50 pages minimum. For performance concentration majors: Senior Recital (minimum 50 minutes of repertoire representing several style periods with comprehensive program notes). For composition concentration majors: Senior Recital of original compositions and portfolio of composition manuscripts (minimum 30 minutes with comprehensive program notes).

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 199 SC - Independent Study in Music: Reading and Research

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Neuroscience
  

  • NEUR 95L JT - Foundations of Neuroscience

    An introduction to the nervous system and behavior that explores fundamental issues in neuroscience from a variety of perspectives. Emphasis will be placed on technological advances, experiments and methodologies that have most influenced our understanding of the nervous system. The class will be divided into three groups that will rotate through four 3-week modules covering the history and philosophy of neuroscience, the electrical nature of the nervous system, the chemical nature of the nervous system, and cognition and the nervous system. The course will end with a final integrative module that brings together fundamental principles developed throughout the course. Intended primarily for first- and second-year students. Permission of instructor required for third- and fourth-year students. Lecture, discussion, and laboratory. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Philosophy
  

  • PHIL 034 PO - Philosophy of Law

    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.
  

  • PHIL 037 PO - Values and the Environment

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: N. Davis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 038 PO - Bioethics

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: N. Davis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 039 PO - Women, Crime and Punishment

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: S. Castagnetto
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 040 PO - Ancient Philosophy

    A study of the origins of Western philosophy through reading and discussion of its classical sources, including the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle. Lectures and discussion.

    Instructor: R. McKirahan
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 043 PO - Continental Thought

    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.
  

  • PHIL 046 PO - Feminism and Science

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: S. Castagnetto
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 052 PZ - Philosophy of Religion

    The philosophy of religion is concerned with philosophical reflection on a broad range of questions concerning religious belief. The nature of religious belief is quite varied across cultures. In Western theism belief in God and a belief in personal immortality are two central religious beliefs. So philosophy of religion in the West is largely concerned with explicating and clarifying the concept of God and life after death, as well as considering the alleged reasons for supposing God exists or that there is life after death. However, in other traditions belief in reincarnation and karma are central beliefs and so questions regarding the nature, meaning and justification of the concepts of reincarnation and karma are important for an Eastern philosophy of religion. In this course, we will examine similar philosophical questions from Western and Eastern religious traditions as well as African, Native American and a variety of other world religions.
     

    Instructor: A. Alwishah
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 062 PZ - Chance and Scientific Reasoning

    How should we reason in conditions of uncertainty?  We confront this question often, but particularly in the sciences, where we routinely need to reason using probabilities or make use of inductive methods. 
    The probability calculus, inductive logic, conditional probability and Bayes’ Theorem for updating our beliefs based on new evidence will all be explored. Fall, B. Keeley.*

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 084 PZ - Islamic Philosophy

    From the ninth century CE to the present day, a set of philosophical topics has been systematically discussed and developed by philosophers in the Islamic world. In this course, we will examine a number of topics which include the nature of the universe (matter, space, and time), being and necessity, the existence and attributes of God, the nature and individuation of the soul, knowledge and perception, and free will. Through selective readings of philosophical texts, we will introduce the main figures, including Kindi, Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ghazali, Ibn Bajjah, Ibn Tufayl, Ibn Rushd, Tusi and Mulla Sadra.
     

    Instructor: A. Alwishah
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 090 SC - Introduction to Philosophy

    Introduction to the basic questions and investigations of modern Western philosophy, including: the nature of knowledge, truth, and reality; the existence of god; the possibility of free will; the nature of morality; the requirements of morality; the relative merit of various political theories; and the meaning of life.

    Instructor: Y. Avnur, D. Scott-Kakures, R. Weinberg
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 096 JT - God and Philosophy: A Conflict in Reason

    This course will critically examine arguments, assumptions, and concepts central to the monotheistic traditions. Topics include religious belief, religious experience, the problem of evil, God and Goodness, the immortality of the soul, religious certainty and terrorism, and the Paradox of God’s Attributes.

    Instructor: Y. Avnur, A. Alwishah
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 100 CM - Classical Philosophy

    This course introduces students to some of the earliest, most profound, and most influential thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition. The focus of the course is methodological, its goal to teach students skills which will enable them to develop their own interpretation and critiques of classical philosophical texts. We will focus on the works of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and the Skeptics. Some of the questions we will address will be what philosophy is, what one should aim at in life, what kinds of things exist, and what can be known.

    Instructor: S. Obdrzalek
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 101 HM - History of Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy

    A survey of Western philosophy from antiquity to the present. Representative philosophers are read and their thoughts are discussed in relation to the historical background of each period.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 101B CM - Classical Ethical Theory: Plato

    Plato is considered the first philosopher in the Western tradition to propose significant theories in ethics, moral psychology and political philosophy. This course will focus on a close reading of Platonic dialogues such as the Protagoras, the Republic and the Statesman. We will examine Plato’s views on virtue and vice, psychological conflict, our moral obligations to others, and the political role of the philosopher. We will assess Plato’s views for their philosophical merit, as well as discuss their influence on subsequent philosophers.

    Instructor: S. Obdrzalek
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 101C CM - Classical Ethical Theory: Aristotle

    Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most significant texts in the history of philosophy; it has also proved enormously influential in 20th-century ethical theorizing. This course will focus on a close reading of Aristotle’s Ethics. We will also assess Aristotle’s views for their philosophical merit and discuss their relation to contemporary virtue ethics. Some topics we will focus on will be the relation of virtue to happiness, the role of intellectual activity in the good life, the doctrine of the mean, Aristotle’s analysis of weakness of will, and the nature and significance of friendship.

    Instructor: S. Obdrzalek
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 101D CM - Classical Ethical Theory: Stoics, Skeptics, and Epicureans

    How should I live my life? What are my moral obligations? How do I sustain my moral commitments in situations of temptation and duress? The Greek and Roman philosophers of the Hellenistic period (4th century BC to 2nd century AD) pursued these questions in one of the most vigorous and probing debates in the history of Western philosophy. The Stoics identified happiness with virtue, the Epicureans with pleasure, and the Skeptics with the acceptance of one’s intellectual limitations. This course will focus on a close study of these three schools of philosophy. We will study the writings of figures ranging from Epictetus, a freed slave, to Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor.

    Instructor: S. Obdrzalek
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 102 PO - Science and Values

     Please see Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: N. Davis
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 103 PO - Philosophy of Science: Historical Survey

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Perini
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 103 PZ - Philosophy of Science: History

    For more details see Pitzer Catalog

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 104 HM - History of Philosophy: Contemporary Period

    Please see Harvey Mudd College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 104 PO - Philosophy of Science: Topical Survey

    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Perini
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 105 CM - The Holocaust

    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.
  

  • PHIL 106 PO - Philosophy of Biology

     Please see Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: L. Perini
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 109 SC - The New Science and New Social Order in Early Modern Philosophy

    (CGU) This course is an introduction to early modern philosophy through the study of selected influential philosophical works of thinkers in the Western tradition such as Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, John Locke, David Hume, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. We will begin with an examination of the role of skepticism in the challenge to the authority of the Scholastic scientific model, and the importance of finding a rational method for the “New (mechanical) Science.” The theme of skepticism and the challenge to divine authority will reemerge in our study of the social-political writing of the period, which culminated in the American and French revolutions at the end of the 18th century.

    Instructor: P. Easton
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 112 SC - History of Philosophy: Ancient

    The following movements and figures in ancient philosophy are considered: the Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Skepticism. 

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 113 SC - Early Modern Philosophy: The Rationalists

    (CGU) The basic aim in this course is to study the ideas, texts, and arguments of the “Rationalists” (Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche and Leibniz) of the seventeenth century. Arguments concerning the nature of ideas, bodies, minds, laws and the proper method of philosophical and scientific enquiry will be examined.

    Instructor: P. Easton
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 114 SC - History of Analytic Philosophy

    The course introduces students to early 20th-century Analytic philosophy, including works by Anscombe, Ayer, Austin, Carnap, Frege, Moore, Quine, Russell, and Wittgenstein. We will examine different methods of analysis and how these were employed to address philosophical problems regarding knowledge, reality, and language.

    Instructor: J. Ramsey
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 118 SC - History of Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant

    This is an introduction to some of the great modern philosophers, including Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. We will focus on their distinctive approaches to the nature of the self, experience, reason, imagination, understanding, knowledge, and reality.

    Instructor: Y. Avnur
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 119 SC - History of Existentialism

    In this course, we will read and analyze the major works of important figures in the existentialist and phenomenological movements, focusing on the questions of human freedom, subjectivity, and meaning. Readings may include works by Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Heidegger, Husserl, and many other thinkers of this time period to gain an understanding of existentialist thought.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 125 SC - Classical Chinese Philosophy

    This course examines representative schools of Chinese philosophical thought from the classical period: Confucianism, proto-Daoism, and their critics. We will read selections from both primary texts and contemporary scholarship, and discuss early Chinese conceptions of cosmology, human nature, moral cultivation, and epistemology.

    Instructor: J. Ramsey


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  • PHIL 125 HM - Ethical Issues in Science and Engineering

    See Harvey Mudd College catalog for details.

    Instructor: D. Wright
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 126 CM - Metaphysics

    Please 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.
  

  • PHIL 128 CM - The Metaphysics of Persons

    Please see Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 130 SC - Philosophy of Mind

    What is the nature of mind? In this course we investigate the traditional mind/body problem as well as the following issues: Individualism in psychology, self-knowledge, mental causation, and the philosophical significance of recent work in the cognitive sciences.

    Instructor: D. Scott-Kakures
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 132 SC - The Substance of the Soul

    This course will survey a peculiar branch of modern philosophy, “Rational Psychology.” Rational psychology postulated the existence of a simple, immaterial substance responsible for sensation, perception, judgment, and volition. This substance has variously been referred to as “thinking substance,” or simply as “the soul.”

    Instructor: P. Easton
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 134 SC - Knowledge and Mind

    This course is a philosophical investigation of knowledge and mind. What is rational belief? What is truth? What are sensory or perceptual states? When is a sensory or a perceptual state a rational warrant for belief? Readings from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Hegel, Lewis, Sellars, Wittgenstein, Rorty, Davidson, and others.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 137 SC - Skepticism

    In this course we will discuss various arguments (old and new) for different versions of skepticism, the view that our beliefs about some subject matter are ungrounded, unjustified, irrational, or otherwise defective. These skeptical arguments oblige us to clarify the nature of evidence, probability, rationality, and the significance of disagreement among peers.

    Prerequisite(s): One philosophy course or permission of instructor.
    Instructor: Y. Avnur
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 138 SC - Introduction to the Philosophy of Language and Mind

    A philosophical investigation into thought and reference and the relations between language and mind. How are these abilities possible, and how are they best to be understood? Readings from Mill, Husserl, Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kripke, Kaplan, Putnam, Dummett, Evans, Burge, Dretske, Fodor, Grice, Searle and Derrida.

    Instructor: D. Scott-Kakures
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 139 CM - Language and Reality

    An exploration of issues in the philosophy of language and, in particular, the relation between language and the world. Topics to be discussed include: the nature of meaning, the nature of thought, and the reference of proper names and definite descriptions. Readings will be drawn primarily from late 19th-century and 20th-century sources.

    Prerequisite(s): At least one previous course in philosophy or permission of instructor.
    Instructor: A. Kind
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 140 HM - Environmental Philosophy

    See Harvey Mudd College catalog for more details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 144 SC - Logic and Argumentation

    An introduction to the identification and formal evaluation of arguments as they naturally occur. We will, in addition, investigate scientific and probabilistic reasoning, though no prior technical competence is assumed.

    Instructor: C. Young
    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • PHIL 145 CM - Fundamentals of Logic

    An introduction to formal techniques for evaluating arguments. These techniques include truth tables, natural deduction for propositional logic, natural deduction for predicate logic, and introductory and model theory. The goal of the course is not only for students to develop skills with these formal systems, but also for them to develop an understanding of what it means to reason logically. Offered annually.

    Instructor: A. Kind
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 146 SC - History of Analytic Philosophy

    The course introduces students to early 20th-century Analytic philosophy, including works by Anscombe, Ayer, Austin, Carnap, Frege, Moore, Quine, Russell, and Wittgenstein. We will examine different methods of analysis and how these were employed to address philosophical problems regarding knowledge, reality, and language.

    Instructor: J. Ramsey
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 146 SC - Temptation and the Will

    Since before Plato, philosophers have been puzzled by how it is that an individual can act freely and deliberately against better judgment. Yet acting against our better judgment, and “giving in to temptation,” would appear to be facts it makes little sense to dispute. In this course, we aim to investigate such patterns of self-defeating behavior-addictions, “bad habits,” etc., with an eye towards a consideration of such questions as: What is self-control? What makes a “will” strong or weak? Is the self unified? Readings will be drawn from historical and contemporary philosophical sources as well as from the contemporary behavioral sciences.

    Instructor: D. Scott-Kakures
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PHIL 149 JT - Topics in Philosophy: Agency and Action

    The distinction we draw between what we do and what we undergo—between the active and the passive in our lives—is fundamental to our self-understanding. In this course we investigate the nature of and the puzzles and problems associated with agency and action. Topics to be considered will be drawn from: the causal theory of action, reasons explanation and the role of the normative in the understanding of action, the will and weakness of will, the relation between intention and action, mental action and mental agency, and the relevance of work in the cognitive and the neurosciences to an understanding of agency. This course should be of interest to students of the social, cognitive, and behavioral sciences as well as to students of philosophy.

    Prerequisite(s): One course in philosophy.
    Instructor: D. Scott-Kakures and M. Yamada (CGU)
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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