May 27, 2024

2015-2016 Academic Catalog

2015-2016 Academic Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!

Courses

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

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

All courses are 1.0 credit unless otherwise stated.

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Core Courses
	CORE 003 SC - Education and Inequality Education was once regarded as the great equalizer, providing students from a variety of backgrounds with the opportunity to better themselves and achieve a higher degree of success than their parents. These beliefs are increasingly challenged by the data, as children’s academic success increasingly appears to track their parents’ social status. We will consider this conundrum closely, asking what reforms might make it possible for education to live up to its unfulfilled potential. Our focus will be on the U.S. experience since the mid-20th century, but we will frame this examination both comparatively and historically. Instructor: D. Andrews Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Once in two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Encountering the Middle East: Representations of Race, Gender, and Violence This course takes up the Core I theme “Histories of the Present” and applies it to the question: Where do the terms of the contemporary perceived conflict between “the Muslim world” and “the West” come from? We will examine how categories such as “Muslim,” “Christian,” ”Eastern,” “western,” “civilized,” and “barbaric” are racialized and gendered, and have been produced through a history of encounters between the U.S. and the Middle East. Students will then explore how these categories have been taken up in media and popular culture in the U.S. via representations of Muslims and Arabs at different geopolitical moments and in relations to different contexts of violence. Instructor: L. Deeb Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Fame & Happiness: French Women as Case Study This course focuses on French women as a case study and examines critically and sociologically the degree to which degree ambition, talent and happiness have been reconcilable for French women. The study of historical and cultural factors influencing French women’s lives from 1789 to this day will be used as a point of departure to compare and contrast our modern perceptions, values and expectations. Our study will include such famously transgressive public figures as Staël, Sand, Beauvoir, Chanel and Bardot. Instructor: F. Lemoine Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Fighting the Good Fight: Responding to Misogyny in Renaissance Italy This course will explore some of the complex issues concerning gender relations that existed in Renaissance Italy. It will focus on the ways dominant patriarchal ideology determined that women were inferior human beings, and accordingly shaped their lives by relegating them to subordinated roles in society. The course will also focus on the women writers who challenged the biases and resulting injustices of this ideology. Students will be offered a coherent historical perspective of the period (mid 1300’s to early 1600’s) as they explore the ways women’s writing developed over time. They will also gain an understanding of the relevant ways the present has evolved in ways far different from the past, as well as the ways the past has had an impact on shaping the present. Instructor: S. Adler Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic This course will explore the notion of culture, its representation and relativity, and its inextricable correlation with foreign language acquisition. In contrast to the common view that language is universal, the class will examine the cultural embeddedness and diversity of language in each of its language communities. In a practicum, students will team-teach a self-designed foreign language and culture mini-curriculum to elementary school pupils. They will also be challenged to instill tolerance in their charges as they present to them a new linguistic and cultural “history of the present.” Prerequisite(s): Native fluency, or completion of or enrollment in an upper-division course (numbered 100 or higher) in the chosen language. Students may teach any of the following: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, or any other language proposed by at least two native speakers. Instructor permission is required, and permission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Instructor: T. Boucquey Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - History and Memory This course is about histories in the present. What is the relationship between individual and collective memories and history—what happened in the past and the stories we tell? All history is created in the present and says as much about that present as about the past. We will examine public representations in museums, memorials, movies and other contexts, focusing on official memory, vernacular memory, remembering and forgetting, digital remembrance, historical amnesia, counter memory, and the development of identity –individual, communal and national. Readings will focus on topics such as the U.S. Civil War, the Holocaust, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, AIDS activism, tourism, cultural heritage, and reparations for historic wrongs. Instructor: J. Liss Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Mathematics in Our Culture This course pursues the theme of “Histories of the Present” through a focus on one particular part of our cultural “present”: mathematics. We will explore not simply a history of mathematics, as its own discipline, but the way it relates to a wide-ranging collection of other fields and various cultural episodes. We will focus our attention upon a number of major events in the history of mathematics and the effect they have had on the shaping of our culture and our ways of thinking about ourselves. Individuals such as Descartes, Napier, Newton, Hilbert, Gödel, and Wiles have had far-reaching influence. Similarly, world events and movements such as World War II, the Space Race, and multiculturalism have influenced the way we think about mathematics and mathematicians. What is math, as a fundamental human endeavor? Why do we study math and why do we study it in the way that we do? Instructor: C. Towse Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Mobilizing Art: Creating Activist Performances The course will examine twentieth-century activist and political art in North America, Europe, and Asia, as it plays out in theatre, music, dance, and multimedia. We will examine various strategies for coming to creative terms with the struggle for social justice. The course culminates in the creation of student-directed and student-performed activist art works to be coordinated by members of the class and presented publicly. Although the choice of topic will be left to the students, there will be a particular focus on environmental activism and on working with faculty and students from related disciplines across the consortium to address current crises around the world. Instructor: A. Harley Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Each fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Oral History: Theory, Method, and Practice Oral historians use focused interviews to broaden and deepen the historical record, documenting the stories and experiences of a wide range of people and communities. We will examine the theories and methods of oral history, before embarking on our own oral history project with Scripps College alumnae. This course engages with the theme of “Histories of the Present” by examining debates over how to define, collect, organize, and communicate history. Most broadly, this course encourages students to reexamine the concept of “history” and to see all historical narratives as influenced by the contemporary “present” in which they were created. Instructor: M. Delmont Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Postcolonial Anxieties: Unpacking Europe/Unyoking Africa Through the study of English/Anglophone literature, this course pursues the postcolonial contention that Europe & Africa are philosophical, political and economic inventions. Textually, postcolonial critics as well as writers have sought to pierce the veneer of these imaginary constructions in order to demonstrate how Europe has been constructed through, and sometimes by, its antithesis, while Africa’s ideological invention (through Europe) has fallen apart with the rise of postcolonial nation-states within the African continent. This course thus examines, through juxtaposed pairings of colonial and postcolonial texts, how the former destabilize this yoking and explores the cultural, political, and social “anxieties” such deconstruction creates. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually three years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Radical Cartographies Maps appear to be self-evident but, like all representations, are socially and historically constructed. Maps interpret the world, most commonly by delineating territory, nations, and boundaries. Accordingly, they have often been used as tools of power, conquest, and domination. This course questions common understandings of geographies of the present by deconstructing maps, developing a critical understanding of cartography, and ultimately, constructing alternative cartographies. Students will become familiar with critical geography literature on mapping and “counter-mapping,” as well as artistic, geographic, and activist approaches to radical cartographies. Assignments include counter-mapping exercises and development of a final project of the student’s choosing. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Once in two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Reading and Writing LGBTQ Lives What are the politics of representing queer lives? This course explores literary expressions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer folks in the twentieth and twenty-first century United States. Considering a range of genres - essay, poetry, novel, and drama - our discussion will center on the relationship between aesthetic forms, sexual subjectivity, and intersections with gender, race, and class. Topics may include the influence of memo and “coming out”; mainstream v. subversive queer literature; hybrid forms; film adaptations; and intersections between art and activism. This is a reading-intensive course of primary sources, supplemented by secondary material from a range of disciplines. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Realism and Anti-Realism This course tackles one of the most enduring problems in the study of literature and art: the relation of fiction and painting to reality or “real life.” In the first part of the semester our focus will be on the pivotal era of realism in the novel and the visual arts in Europe, the nineteenth century. But we will then turn to the fate of realism in the twentieth century (especially in modernism’s frequent resistance to realist conventions) and finally to the status of the “real” in contemporary art and popular culture, from fiction to photography to television. Instructor: A. Matz Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Regarding the Pain of Others: Ethics and Documentary Representation “Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience,” as Susan Sontag writes. Focusing on contemporary documentary cinema, this course invites students to reflect on the production and consumption of images today, especially those that depict violence (war, genocide, torture, but also economic violence, domestic violence, or ecological degradation). We will discuss issues of visual politics (who represents whom? who is made visible or invisible?), documentary ethics (how does one represent other people’s suffering and why?), and spectatorship (how do we/should we consume, read, and experience images of violence or its aftermath?). Instructor: N. Rachlin Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Representations of the Male Body in Contemporary Art and Culture Images of the male body pervade our visual environment. Many artists have challenged and elaborated upon these images - as commentary and celebration of contemporary visual culture. These bodies are of different types: queer, foreign, adolescent, racialized, disabled, masculine, emasculated, and powerful. Each image is an aesthetic entity; each carries an ideological meaning, and when analyzed on numerous levels a variety of connections might be drawn between them. The central focus of this course will be on contemporary visual art, but we will also cover contemporary film, music, commercials, celebrities, and media representations in order to shed light on connections, cross pollinations, and appropriations. Instructor: A. Davis Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Sites of Seduction: Aesthetic Contexts of the French Garden and its Others What does the built environment, and specifically landscape architecture, tell us about the culture that creates it? How can gardens be considered as barometers of the human condition, and how do they define the relationship between humankind and Nature as they reflect the aspirations of an era? Framed within the multiple contexts of art, architecture, literature, politics, and social history, this course will approach the French garden as a paradigm of interdisciplinary inquiry. Central to our concerns will be the evolution from order to chaos as Louis XIV’s seventeenth-century brand of absolutism gave way to eighteenth-century notions of exoticism, intimacy, and enlightenment. As our analysis shifts to twentieth- and twenty-first century landscapes, we will illuminate the ways in which modern gardens constitute new terrains for experimentation as they stand at the intersection of histories present and past. Instructor: E. Haskell Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Snapshots, Portraits, Instagram This course uses Instagram to explore the prehistory of this popular technological and social medium. It examines the history of snapshots and photographic portraits since 1839, emphasizing the fascination with new technologies: photographic dissemination and circulation; and photography’s relation to traditional art forms, commercial exploitation, and construction of social communities. Instructor: J. Koss Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Southern California and Hollywood Film: Human Dreams, Human Difference and Human Desire Real or imagined or somewhere hidden in between, the histories of Southern California and Los Angeles have been portrayed in popular film for almost 100 years. We will analyze how visual aspects of filmmaking, including editing, cinematography, and art direction, have been used to emphasize particular aspects of power relationships based on human differences such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, class and disability. This course includes the student-conceived and -directed Scripps College Core 3 Film Festival. Instructor: S. Rankaitis Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Space/Place: Critical Human Geography This course will focus on critical human geography, a branch of geography that seeks to understand how our lived experience of space/ place shapes, defines, and even produces ideas of the individual (in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality) and the community (in terms of culture, history, politics). The course will seek to unearth the deeply embedded “histories of the present” (both visible and “invisible”) that structure the built environments of our present-day everyday lives, investigating how these histories might contribute to a more complex sense of both self and community, both in terms of exclusionary and inclusionary practices. Instructor: W. Liu Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - The Artist Book as an Agent of Social Change For more than 50 years, artists have increasingly turned to the medium of the book for artistic expression and to advocate for social change. This course provides an opportunity for students to survey the physical, textual and visual precursors to contemporary bookmaking and to examine historical contributions from a variety of cultures. From this perspective, students will identify, critique and exhibit contemporary artist books from the Denison Library collections which advocate social change. Students will select a topic early in the semester to develop and will create and exhibit their own artist books by the end of the semester. Instructor: K. Maryatt Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - The Arts: Visions of Humanity This course utilizes visual and performing artworks to engage with contemporary themes and debates including justice, belief systems, equality, rights, freedom, autonomy, and tolerance. We will examine the work of twentieth/twenty-first century artists to illuminate concepts about human nature, human difference, and how, through their artistic creations, people contextualize themselves within their worlds (“worlds” meaning family, social circle, local/national environment, and place within the more global community) to create meaning and purpose in their lives. We will also explore how exposure to the arts can actually expand people’s awareness and understanding of issues and debates that affect all humankind. Instructor: G. Abrams Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - The Detective in the City In the dark corners of the popular imagination, crime virtually defines the modern city. We will go back to the nineteenth-century origins of detective fiction (Poe’s Paris, Conan Doyle’s London), before looking at classic and contemporary versions of noir. By combining literary and urban history, we consider how city settings shape the moral imagination in particular, our sense of private and public life. Instructor: M. Katz Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - The Life Story A coherent life narrative can serve to create resilience and meaning for individuals at different stages of development. This course will explore adult development through the readings/viewings of memoirs and life story narratives written at different points in development. These writings and films will explore the role that memory processes play in life stories. Additionally, students will be paired with older adults from the community and asked to assist them in developing and producing a life story narrative. Instructor: S. Wood Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - The Mechanical Eye: Photography from Science to Art This course will explore changing ideas of the “real” in the history of photography. The readings will touch on the scientific promise once attributed to photographic images, attempts to regulate human differences (e.g., criminology and ethnography) though the photographic archive, the emergence of photography as a fine art, and the challenges presented by digital technologies to the objectivity of the “mechanical eye”. Through readings, hands-on demonstrations, and discussions students will learn to create and then contextualize their own photographic practice in relation to the historical use and misuse of photographic truth claims. Instructor: K. Gonzales-Day Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - The Twentieth-Century Music Schism In this course, students will reflect upon the origin of discrete (yet artificial) musical categories, including classical, popular, and contemporary music. The separation between art music and popular culture was largely caused by radical changes in the function/conceptualization of musical art in the early twentieth century. Through the study of representative works by composers such as Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Weill––and by examining how these works were interconnected with developments in the fields of dance, theater, literature, philosophy, psychology, politics, and history––we will revisit the categories that continue to shape our understanding of music, art, and popular culture in contemporary society. Instructor: D. Cubek Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - United: Women’s Work and Collective Action Blamed for a spectrum of societal ills, labor unions are commonly portrayed as impediments to progress. Such traditional values as collective bargaining have become bitterly contested. This course explores key moments in the history of the labor movement since the start of the century, with a focus on the development of organized labor and, given the rise in new employment opportunities for women created by the expansion of global capitalism, the categorization of certain jobs as “women’s work.” At stake in these battles are contemporary notions of justice, equality, and collectivity. Instructor: T. Tran Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Virgins and Goddesses Students explore the ways in which the Virgin Mary has been constructed socially and historically at key moments in the Catholic Church’s history and how these values have been used to categorize womanhood. By examining this model of femininity and maternity, we will unpack the categories that define and limit current debates around such questions as gender roles, sexuality, and reproductive rights. A main focus will be on how Chicana feminist artists and theorists recuperate the goddess in an attempt to redefine the most widely recognized female religious icon. Instructor: R. Alcala Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - What is Genius? The Evolution of a Concept This class closely examines the historical antecedents of the term “genius”and scrutinizes the categorizing of individuals as such in the 19th and 20th centuries. By studying primary texts, films, and works of popular fiction and non-fiction, we will explore: the changing ideas about genius as it is related to creativity and mental illness; the science of genius and the brain; impact of race and gender on the identification of genius; and the connection drawn between genius and the natural or Divine. Instructor: N. Macko Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - What is Happiness? The paradox of happiness is that most people want it, but few people can define it. Most people seem to agree that happiness is one of life’s most important goals, yet they do not know how to achieve it. What is it about happiness that makes the concept and perhaps its reality so elusive? The course starts with an examination of recent research on happiness done in the fields of positive psychology and behavioral economics. We then turn to the ways in which happiness was articulated 2500 years ago by ancient philosophers, such as Aristotle, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius who offered not only definitions of happiness but practical instructions on how to achieve it. Are these ancient “technologies of happiness” so different from the discoveries made by our current science of happiness? Instructor: N. Rachlin Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Wilderness in American Life This course explores the varied philosophical, artistic, and scientific discourses that underpin the idea of wilderness in 21st-century America. We start from the paradox that wilderness, typically defined as places unmarked by human existence, depends on the identification of human culture, even urban culture, as its Other. Wilderness policy can at times reproduce existing patterns of social inequality. The substantial transformations of nature by humans, including indigenous peoples, are often unrecognized in Euro-American concepts of wilderness. We will examine classic writings of North-American wilderness advocacy and critical histories of nature and take field trips to local wilderness areas and museums. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Women, Girls, and Mathematical Superstitions The course will examine the foundations, validity, and effects of various perceptions related to mathematics and the teaching of mathematics, including the beliefs that: 1. there exists a difference in innate mathematical ability between men and women; 2. mathematics is, or should be taught as, unquestioned and unquestionable algorithmic procedure; 3. mathematics is less a part of, or perhaps more alien to, human nature than language or letters; etc. Students will, in addition to writing papers, participate in the creation of a series of online lectures on junior high school mathematics with the goal of shifting these perceptions. Instructor: W. Ou Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Creative Studies
	CREA 124 PZ - The Bible and Homer See Pitzer College catalog for details. Instructor: A Wachtel Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Dance
	DANC 010 PO - Beginning Modern Dance This course may not be counted in the major or minor. Instructor: L. Cameron Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 012 PO - Ballet I See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: V. Koenig Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 050 PO - Intermediate Modern Dance See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: J. Pennington Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 051 PO - Ballet II See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: V. Koenig Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 068 SC - Beginning Dance Recommended for those students with no previous dance experience. Prepares the student for further study of particular dance styles such as modern, ballet, and jazz. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. May be taken twice for credit. Instructor: G. Abrams, S. Branfman, R. Brosterman Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 070 CH - Regional Dances of Mexico An introduction to Mexican dance in its most traditional manner. A practical study of choreography for the Sones, Jarabes, and Huapangos from principal folk regions of Mexico. Includes history and meaning of dances. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 073 CH - Pre-Columbian Dance Introduction to Mexican dances since pre-Columbian times: La Danza de la Pluma, Danza de los Quetzoles, Danza de los Negritos and Pasacolas from Tarahumdra Indians. Aztec/Conchero dance with Alavanzas (songs by Concheros) along with Matachines from different parts of Mexico and their historical roots to pre-Aztec times covered. Students will learn to make Aztec and Matachine costumes and headdresses. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 076A SC - Modern Dance I Fundamentals of modern dance for the beginning student, including technique, improvisation, and composition. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance or movement experience recommended. Instructor: G. Abrams, S. Branfman, R. Brosterman Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 076B SC - Modern Dance I Fundamentals of modern dance for the beginning student, including technique, improvisation, and composition. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance or movement experience recommended. Instructor: G. Abrams, S. Branfman, R. Brosterman Course Credit: .50 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 077A SC - Modern Dance II Modern dance skills for the student with low intermediate competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. Prerequisite(s): Previous dance experience required. Instructor: G. Abrams, S. Branfman, R. Brosterman Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 077B SC - Modern Dance II Modern dance skills for the student with low intermediate competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Previous dance experience required Instructor: G. Abrams, S. Branfman, R. Brosterman Course Credit: .50 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 078A SC - Ballet I Fundamentals of ballet technique and theory. Includes barre, basic positions, and center floor work. Includes readings, video viewings, and written/oral assignments in ballet history. Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance or movement experience recommended. Instructor: R. Brosterman Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 078B SC - Ballet I Fundamentals of ballet technique and theory. Includes barre, basic positions, and center floor work. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance or movement experience recommended. Instructor: R. Brosterman Course Credit: .50 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 081A SC - Introduction to Jazz This course for students with limited dance experience covers a range of Jazz styles, including classical, commercial funk, lyrical and Broadway. Students will be introduced to a variety of techniques, with emphasis on rhythms, isolations, syncopation, and performance quality. Readings, video viewings and written assignments in historical, cultural and aesthetic issues pertaining to Jazz dancing augment studio experiences. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 081B SC - Introduction to Jazz This course for students with limited dance experience covers a range of Jazz styles, including classical, commercial funk, lyrical and Broadway. Students will be introduced to a variety of techniques, with emphasis on rhythms, isolations, syncopation, and performance quality. If space permits in DANC 081A ; may be taken twice for credit. Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 100A SC - Modern Dance III Modern dance skills for the student with high intermediate competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Instructor: K. Johansen Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 100B SC - Modern Dance III Modern dance skills for the student with high intermediate competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Instructor: K. Johansen Course Credit: .50 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 101 SC - History of Dance in Western Culture: 1600-present This course traces the evolution of dance as an art form in Europe and America from the late Renaissance through the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods, to the 21st century. The influence, appropriation, and subjugation of popular dance and the dance styles of other cultures will be considered. Instructor: R. Brosterman Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 102 SC - Dynamics of Human Movement Provides students with fundamental knowledge of our physical structures and explores the meaning of movement as a reflection of mental states. Recognition of individual movement habits, tension patterns, and clues to inner states, as reflected by movement, will be approached through discussions, movement experiences, readings, and observations. Instructor: G. Abrams Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 103 SC - Laban Movement Analysis This course explores movement as a physical and mental phenomenon, functional movement in relation to developmental phases, and the expressive power of movement. The vehicle for this exploration is the system of movement analysis and observation developed by Rudolf Laban, a pioneer in movement, dance, and therapy. Instructor: G. Abrams Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 108A SC - Movement Improvisation Designed to develop non-verbal communication skills, stimulate creative thinking, and explore interdisciplinary group process. Includes structured explorations based on theater games, Laban’s Effort-Shape Theory, music/sound/breath/rhythm, spatial design, contact improvisation, etc. Includes research and performance. Instructor: S. Branfman Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 108B SC - Movement Improvisation Designed to develop non-verbal communication skills, stimulate creative thinking, and explore interdisciplinary group process. Includes structured explorations based on theater games, Laban’s Effort-Shape Theory, music/sound/breath/rhythm, spatial design, contact improvisation, etc. Full course credit available in DANC 108A Instructor: S. Branfman Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 110A SC - Ballet II Continuation of Ballet I, with emphasis on movement phrases and performance quality. Includes readings, video viewings, and written/oral assignments in ballet history. Prerequisite(s): Some previous ballet experience required. Instructor: R. Brosterman Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 110B SC - Ballet II Continuation of Ballet I, with emphasis on movement phrases and performance quality. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Some previous ballet experience required. Instructor: R. Brosterman Course Credit: .50 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 111A SC - Modern Dance IV Modern dance skills for the student with advanced competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Instructor: K. Johansen Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 111B SC - Modern Dance IV Modern dance skills for the student with advanced competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Instructor: K. Johansen Course Credit: .50 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 112A SC - Jazz Dance Intermediate-level course will include a variety of styles from lyrical to hiphop and street dance. Emphasis on rhythms, isolations, flow, syncopation, style, and performance quality. Readings, video viewings, and written assignments in historical, cultural, and aesthetic issues pertaining to jazz dance will augment studio experiences. Prerequisite(s): Minimum of one full year of college dance training. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 112B SC - Jazz Dance Intermediate-level course will include a variety of styles from lyrical to hiphop and street dance. Emphasis on rhythms, isolations, flow, syncopation, style, and performance quality. If space permits in DANC 112A ; may be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Minimum of one full year of college dance training. Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 114A SC - Somatics of Yoga: An Integrated Approach This course utilizes yoga as a vehicle for deepening kinesthetic awareness, promoting ease and efficiency in the body, and integrating mind/body functioning. Embodied, experiential learning will be achieved through application of various somatic practices, such as Bartenieff Fundamentals, Ideokinesis (Constructive Rest), Breathwork, and Reciprocal Innervation, to the practice of yoga. Readings, written assignments, and research project/presentation augment studio experiences. Instructor: G. Abrams Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 114B SC - Somatics of Yoga: An Integrated Approach This course utilizes yoga as a vehicle for deepening kinesthetic awareness, promoting ease and efficiency in the body, and integrating mind/body functioning. Embodied, experiential learning will be achieved through application of various somatic practices, such as Bartenieff Fundamentals, Ideokinesis (Constructive Rest), Breathwork, and Reciprocal Innervation, to the practice of yoga. May take for half course if space permits in DANC 114A . Instructor: G. Abrams Course Credit: 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 119 PO - Modern Dance III See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: L. Cameron, J. Pennington, guest artists Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 120 PO - Modern Dance III See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: L. Cameron, J. Pennington, guest artists Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 121 PO - Modern Dance IV See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: L. Cameron, J. Pennington, guest artists Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 122 PO - Modern Dance IV See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: L. Cameron, J. Pennington, guest artists Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 123 PO - Ballet III See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: V. Koenig Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 124 PO - Ballet III See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: V. Koenig Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 130 PO - The Language of the Body See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: L. Cameron Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 131 SC - Critical Perspectives on Dance: Gender, Race, and Sexuality This course provides students an opportunity to critically investigate a variety of perspectives in current dance scholarship, as well as a platform to think, speak and write critically about dance as a cultural meaning-producing activity. Readings in feminism, post-modernism, semiotics and cultural studies are used to analyze the intersections of gender, race and sexuality, and the power structures reflected in, and enacted by, dance. Prerequisite(s): First-year students by permission of instructor only. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 135 SC - Introduction to West African Dance A movement-based study of the dances of West Africa (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Nigeria, Ghana). Includes investigation of similarities and differences among dances, and examination of historical and cultural influences. Videos, readings, and research papers augment studio experiences. Basic dance conditioning included. Open to all experience levels. Instructor: P. Smith Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 135 PO - Traditions of World Dance See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Shay Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 137 PO - Sex and Gender Differences in Performance See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Shay Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 138 PO - Concert Dance in the Global Age See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Shay Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 140 PO - Composition/Movement Exploration See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: L. Cameron, J. Pennington Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 140 SC - Music for Dancers This is an interdisciplinary course that will introduce students to elementary music theory; explore the significance and impact of a soundscape in dance, video and film; and teach students to digitally compose original music to accompany dance or other sequential events. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 141 PO - Composition/Choreolab See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: L. Cameron, J. Pennington Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 150A PO - Flamenco/Folklorico/Latin Rhythm 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.
	DANC 150B PO - Dancing in the Balkans See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: A. Shay Course Credit: Variable Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 150C PO - Music and Dance of Bali See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: N. Wenten Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 150D PO - Indian Classical Dance 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.
	DANC 150E PO - Cultural Styles: Middle Eastern Dance 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.
	DANC 151 PO - African Aesthetics See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: K. Gadlin Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 152 PO - Hip-Hop Dance See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: K. Egusa Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 153 PO - Beginning/Intermediate Jazz Technique See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: K. Egusa Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 159 SC - Dance Composition I Composition and improvisation skills with emphasis on the fundamental principles of space, time, and energy. Students must be concurrently participating in a dance movement class. Instructor: S. Branfman, R. Brosterman Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 160 PO - Anatomy and Kinesiology See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Jolley Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 160 SC - Dance Composition II Composition and improvisation skills with an emphasis on understanding form. Students must be concurrently participating in a dance movement class. Prerequisite(s): DANC 159 or permission of instructor. Instructor: S. Branfman, R. Brosterman Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 161 SC - Dancing the News: Choreographing Women’s Lives This course engages students in the process of looking at social issues (both contemporary and historic) and turning those issues into dance and/or performance. Issues will be examined from the perspectives of women living the news and those surrounding them. Culminates in public showing and community dialogue. Instructor: S. Branfman Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 162A SC - Repertory Development of choreographic skill and/or performance quality and skill through choreographing or performing in dance faculty supervised productions. Does not meet fine arts breadth requirement. Two or more dances, average of 8 hours of rehearsal per week. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Eligibility by audition. Permission of instructor. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 162B SC - Repertory Development of choreographic skill and/or performance quality and skill through choreographing or performing in dance faculty supervised productions. Does not meet fine arts breadth requirement. One dance, average of 4 hours of rehearsal per week. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Eligibility by audition. Permission of instructor. Course Credit: .50 Offered: Annually Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 163 SC - Kinesiology as Related to Dance This course studies the science of human movement and includes the fields of anatomy, physiology, and physics. Emphasis is on understanding and appreciation of how dance movement is executed by the body, and how kinesiological ideas relate to training, injury prevention, rehabilitation, and daily life. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 165 PO - Somatic Movement Techniques See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Jolley Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 166 PO - Somatic Movement Techniques See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Jolley Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 168 SC - Dance Production This course provides experience and theoretical inquiry into the staging of dance including concert organization, audience development, publicity, budgeting, stage management, lighting, sound, and costuming. Students will assist in producing Scripps dance events as well as study dance productions and producing entities in the Los Angeles area. Includes investigation of economic, social, and political issues that impact dance production. Instructor: R. Brosterman Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 170 PO - The Mind in Motion See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Jolley Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 175 PO - Alexander Technique in Motion See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Jolley Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 176 PO - Alexander Technique in Motion See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: M. Jolley Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 180 PO - Dance Repertory See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: L. Cameron, faculty, and guests Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 181 PO - Dance Repertory See Pomona College catalog for details. Instructor: L. Cameron, faculty, and guests Course Credit: .50 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.

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CORE 003 SC - Education and Inequality

CORE 003 SC - Encountering the Middle East: Representations of Race, Gender, and Violence

CORE 003 SC - Fame & Happiness: French Women as Case Study

CORE 003 SC - Fighting the Good Fight: Responding to Misogyny in Renaissance Italy

CORE 003 SC - Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic

CORE 003 SC - History and Memory

CORE 003 SC - Mathematics in Our Culture

CORE 003 SC - Mobilizing Art: Creating Activist Performances

CORE 003 SC - Oral History: Theory, Method, and Practice

CORE 003 SC - Postcolonial Anxieties: Unpacking Europe/Unyoking Africa

CORE 003 SC - Radical Cartographies

CORE 003 SC - Reading and Writing LGBTQ Lives

CORE 003 SC - Realism and Anti-Realism

CORE 003 SC - Regarding the Pain of Others: Ethics and Documentary Representation

CORE 003 SC - Representations of the Male Body in Contemporary Art and Culture

CORE 003 SC - Sites of Seduction: Aesthetic Contexts of the French Garden and its Others

CORE 003 SC - Snapshots, Portraits, Instagram

CORE 003 SC - Southern California and Hollywood Film: Human Dreams, Human Difference and Human Desire

CORE 003 SC - Space/Place: Critical Human Geography

CORE 003 SC - The Artist Book as an Agent of Social Change

CORE 003 SC - The Arts: Visions of Humanity

CORE 003 SC - The Detective in the City

CORE 003 SC - The Life Story

CORE 003 SC - The Mechanical Eye: Photography from Science to Art

CORE 003 SC - The Twentieth-Century Music Schism

CORE 003 SC - United: Women’s Work and Collective Action

CORE 003 SC - Virgins and Goddesses

CORE 003 SC - What is Genius? The Evolution of a Concept

CORE 003 SC - What is Happiness?

CORE 003 SC - Wilderness in American Life

CORE 003 SC - Women, Girls, and Mathematical Superstitions

CREA 124 PZ - The Bible and Homer

DANC 010 PO - Beginning Modern Dance

DANC 012 PO - Ballet I

DANC 050 PO - Intermediate Modern Dance

DANC 051 PO - Ballet II

DANC 068 SC - Beginning Dance

DANC 070 CH - Regional Dances of Mexico

DANC 073 CH - Pre-Columbian Dance

DANC 076A SC - Modern Dance I

DANC 076B SC - Modern Dance I

DANC 077A SC - Modern Dance II

DANC 077B SC - Modern Dance II

DANC 078A SC - Ballet I

DANC 078B SC - Ballet I

DANC 081A SC - Introduction to Jazz

DANC 081B SC - Introduction to Jazz

DANC 100A SC - Modern Dance III

DANC 100B SC - Modern Dance III

DANC 101 SC - History of Dance in Western Culture: 1600-present

DANC 102 SC - Dynamics of Human Movement

DANC 103 SC - Laban Movement Analysis

DANC 108A SC - Movement Improvisation

DANC 108B SC - Movement Improvisation

DANC 110A SC - Ballet II

DANC 110B SC - Ballet II

DANC 111A SC - Modern Dance IV

DANC 111B SC - Modern Dance IV

DANC 112A SC - Jazz Dance

DANC 112B SC - Jazz Dance

DANC 114A SC - Somatics of Yoga: An Integrated Approach

DANC 114B SC - Somatics of Yoga: An Integrated Approach

DANC 119 PO - Modern Dance III

DANC 120 PO - Modern Dance III

DANC 121 PO - Modern Dance IV

DANC 122 PO - Modern Dance IV

DANC 123 PO - Ballet III

DANC 124 PO - Ballet III

DANC 130 PO - The Language of the Body

DANC 131 SC - Critical Perspectives on Dance: Gender, Race, and Sexuality

DANC 135 SC - Introduction to West African Dance

DANC 135 PO - Traditions of World Dance

DANC 137 PO - Sex and Gender Differences in Performance

DANC 138 PO - Concert Dance in the Global Age

DANC 140 PO - Composition/Movement Exploration

DANC 140 SC - Music for Dancers

DANC 141 PO - Composition/Choreolab

DANC 150A PO - Flamenco/Folklorico/Latin Rhythm

DANC 150B PO - Dancing in the Balkans