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2017-2018 Scripps Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!

Courses

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

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

All courses are 1.0 credit unless otherwise stated.
 

Theatre
  

  • THEA 024 PO - Sound for the Theatre

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate spring


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

  • THEA 030 PO - World Theatre and Drama I: Greeks to Restoration

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Each fall


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

  • THEA 031 PO - Word Theatre and Drama II: Kabuki to Contemporary

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Each spring


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

  • THEA 041 PO - Stage and Theatre Management

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • THEA 051C PO - Theatre Performance

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .25
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 051H PO - Theatre Performance and Pedagogy

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 052C PO - Theatre Production Practicum

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .25
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 052H PO - Theatre Production Practicum and Pedagogy

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 053C-G PO - Alexander Technique In Motion

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .25
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 053C-I PO - Alexander Technique and Pedagogy

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .25
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 053H-G PO - Alexander Technique in Motion

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 053H-I PO - Alexander Technique and Pedagogy

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 054C PO - Voice for the Actor

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .25
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 060 PO - Theatre for Young Audiences

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 061 PO - Theatre for Young Audience

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 080 PO - Scene Design for Stage and Screen

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Spring


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

  • THEA 081 PO - Costume Design for Stage and Screen

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Spring


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

  • THEA 082 PO - Lighting Design for Stage and Screen

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Fall


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

  • THEA 091 PO - Musical Theatre Performance

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

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

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

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

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 100F PO - Acting Studio: No Acting Allowed

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 115D PO - Theatre and Dance of Asia

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 115J PO - Shakespeare in Performance

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 115M PO - Race and Contemporary Performance

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • THEA 115N PO - Contemporary Asian American Drama

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 131 PO - Directors/Actors Studio

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • THEA 141 PO - Dramaturgy

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • THEA 170 PO - Writing for Performance

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • THEA 188 PO - The Poetics of Performance

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Each spring


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

  • THEA 191F PO - Senior Thesis

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 191H PO - Senior Thesis

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 192H PO - Senior Project in Performance

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 193H PO - Senior Project in Design

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 194H PO - Senior Project in Dramaturgy

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

  • THEA 195H PO - Senior Project in Directing

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

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

    See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0 or .50
    Offered: Fall and Spring


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

Writing
  

  • WRIT 010 PZ - Writing Publics: Education, Literacies, and Culture

    Please see the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.


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

  • WRIT 016 PZ - The Writing Process

    Please see the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • WRIT 020 PZ - Writing Seminar: Representing Los Angeles

    Please see the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • WRIT 050 SC - Critical Analysis

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • WRIT 100 SC - Advanced Argumentative Writing

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

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


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

  • WRIT 100A PZ - Writing Center Theory & Praxis

    Please see the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .5


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

  • WRIT 100B PZ - Writing Center Theory & Praxis

    Please see the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • WRIT 109 SC - Writing Studio

    In this writing workshop, students will work on new and previously assigned essays and develop their understanding of all aspects of the academic writing process, including reflecting upon prompts and disciplinary conventions; invention, brainstorming, and prewriting; drafting, revision, and editing; peer response and critical thinking; research and documentation; and presentation. Students engage in nuanced discussions of academic genres and writing conventions as well as the rhetorical framing and audience expectations of individual essays. Writing Studio may be taken at any point in students’ academic careers (and may be repeated once for credit, or audited with instructor permission).

    Course Credit: .5
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • WRIT 110 SC - Introduction to Rhetoric

    This course combines canonical theories and contemporary practices of rhetoric.  We will study representative texts on the arts and techniques of persuasion from the classical, renaissance, and modern periods.  We will apply their ideas to current cases in politics and the media.  Assignments will include rhetorical analyses and creative arguments (advertisements, formal letters, propaganda, manifestos, policy briefs).

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two-three years


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

  • WRIT 113 SC - Prose Style and the Sentence

    This is a course about sentences. We will study how to appreciate and analyze them; how to expand and contract them; how to translate them from one register/style to another; and how to move their words around for rhetorical effect. We will read from a few style handbooks (with exercises), scrutinize sentences from a wide range of sources, imitate some major stylists, compose a couple of short papers, and even try our hand at diagramming sentences, as well as complete a course project. Mostly, though, we will take a workshop approach to crafting a wide range of sentences in which every word tells. 

    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every 3-4 years


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

  • WRIT 120 SC - Writing for Non-Profit Institutions

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

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


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

  • WRIT 132 SC - Arts + Culture Review

    This course is a writing workshop designed to enhance your skills in the journalistic review. Focusing on reviews of food, travel, books, film, music, and art and performance, we’ll read reviews from the best practitioners in each area as well as cultural theories of taste and aesthetics and discuss the politics of both. We’ll develop our critical palates by doing taste tests and short critiques in class. Finally, we’ll talk about the ethics and logistics of reviewing as well as issues of form. Assignments will include reviews in each area and critical responses to the reviews of others.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two-three years


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

  • WRIT 137 SC - The Newspaper Op-Ed

    This is a workshop-based course designed to enhance students’ skills in crafting arguments about contemporary political and ethical problems and to develop their awareness of language’s possibilities. We will examine the editorial as the most economical and condensed example of argumentative writing that exploits the full range of rhetorical techniques. We will read editorials on a variety of topics (some chosen by the class). For these readings, our main task will be to scrutinize each argument’s logic and its author’s strategies to gain credibility. Assignments will include exercises on logic and logical flaws, imitations of prose styles, and a portfolio of editorials.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every 3-4 years


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

  • WRIT 140 SC - Creative Nonfiction

    This workshop-based course focuses on creative nonfiction, defined as prose focusing on actual events or circumstances in the author’s experience depicted using the techniques of creative genres (fiction, poetry, drama). Subfields of the genre include literary or lyric essays, memoir, and literary journalism. We will read examples of the genre from highly regarded practitioners as well as more theoretical work, and we will talk about the ethics and formal conventions of working in each area. Assignments will include writing in each area of this genre and critical responses to the work of others (both published work and that of peers).

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two-three years


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

  • WRIT 160 SC - Theories and Pedagogies of Writing

    This course introduces composition theory and prepares students to be tutors in the Writing Center and mentors in Writing Intensive (WI) courses. Students will read major texts in writing theory and case studies in composition as well as conduct seminars on the practical knowledge, strategies, and techniques needed to be an effective writing guide for other students.

    Course Credit: .5


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

  • WRIT 175 SC - Protest Writing and Rhetoric

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • WRIT 197 SC - Special Topics in Writing

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

    SP18 topic - Looking and Listening:  Our focus will be on refining our powers of observation to tell stories that reflect something true and particular. We will read selected texts (by, among others, Denis Johnson, Anne Carson, and Carson McCullers), work on short pieces of our own fiction, and embark on a few field outings.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: One semester per year


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

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