Jun 16, 2024  
2017-2018 Scripps Catalog 
    
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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.

 

Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies

  
  • CHST 185A CH - Decolonial Love in U.S. Latina/o Literature


    This course considers how narratives of love are shaped by colonial histories and decolonial practices within U.S. Latino/a literature. We will examine how colonial legacies influence notions of self and the other through categories of race, gender, and sexuality and how Latina/o writers enact decolonial imaginaries in response. We will further consider what relation such intimate practices have to our understanding of social justice. We will read works by Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Junot Diaz, Arturo Islas, and others.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Fall


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


  
  • CHST 185B CH - Narratives of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands


    This course explores diverse processes affecting US/Mexico border culture and the way cultural products - in particular, fiction - critically respond to these processes. Twentieth-Century border narratives allow us to explore and examine issues of race, immigration, gender, community formation, economic deprivation, and the urban experience through the critical lens of geographical theories on space and place, cultural studies, critical race studies, and from a human rights perspective.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Spring


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


  
  • CHST 185C CH - Voices of the Tropics: Latina Literature of the Caribbean


    This course offers a solid introduction to Caribbean-origin Latina literature. Our engagement with literary renderings of the Latina experience will be informed by a recurrent emphasis on representations of history and issues of gender, terms that can be understood culturally, historically, economically, racially, and geographically. Writers seeking to reflect and inform the US immigrant experience have seized on the expressive and critical power of memoir, bildungsroman, historical fiction, and revolution narratives. Reading the literature of Latinas of Cuban, Dominican, Haitian, and Puerto Rican origin will show us how immigration and circular migration inform issues of gender, sexuality, maternity, and reproduction.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CHST 190 CH - Chicana/a Latina/o Senior Seminar


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Fall semester


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


  
  • CHST 191 CH - Chicana/a Latina/o Studies Senior Thesis


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Spring semester


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


  
  • CHST 192 CH - Chicana/a Latina/o Senior Project


    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.


  
  • GFS 061 CH - Contemporary Issues of Chicanas and Latinas


    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.


  
  • HIST 028 CH - Revolutions, Uprisings, Coups, and Interventions in the Americas since 1910


    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.



Chicana/o-Latina-/o Transnational Studies

  
  • CHLT 062 CH - Humor and the Chicana/o Artist


    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.


  
  • CHLT 110 PZ - Latina/o Community Health


    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.



Chinese

  
  • CHIN 001A PO - Elementary Chinese


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


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


  
  • CHIN 001B PO - Elementary Chinese


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 002 PO - Advanced Elementary Chinese


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary Chinese Language and Culture


    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.


  
  • CHIN 011A PO - Elementary Chinese


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 013 PO - Advanced Conversation


    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.


  
  • CHIN 051A PO - Intermediate Chinese


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 051B PO - Intermediate Chinese


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 051H PO - Intermediate Chinese for Bilinguals


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 111A PO - Advanced Chinese


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 111B PO - Advanced Chinese


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 124 PO - Readings in Current Japanese


    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.


  
  • CHIN 125 PO - Modern Chinese Literature


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 127 PO - Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese Literature


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 131 PO - Introduction to Classical Chinese


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 145 PO - Survey of Classical Chinese Literature


    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.


  
  • CHIN 192A PO - Senior Project


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 192B PO - Senior Project


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 199 PO - Reading and Research


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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



Chinese Literature in English Translation

  
  • CHNT 164 PO - Chinese Literature in English: Poetry and Poetics


    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.


  
  • CHNT 166 PO - Chinese Fiction, Old and New


    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.


  
  • CHNT 167 PO - Urban Imaginations: The City in Chinese Literature and Film


    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.


  
  • CHNT 168 PO - Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese Literature


    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.



Classics

  
  • CLAS 001 PO - Greek and Roman Classics


    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.


  
  • CLAS 008A SC - Introductory Latin


    Comprehensive study of Latin grammar and syntax with oral drills. Students who have completed 8a and 8b or the equivalent and any 100 course will have met the language requirement.

    This course is offered alternating years at Scripps and Pomona Colleges.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 008B SC - Introductory Latin


    Comprehensive study of Latin grammar and syntax with oral drills. Students who have completed 8a and 8b or the equivalent and any 100 course will have met the language requirement.

    This course is offered alternating years at Scripps and Pomona Colleges.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 010 SC - The Epic Tradition


    A survey of oral and written epic in Greek and Roman literature. Topics include the role of the hero; oral vs. written traditions; discussion of the roles of myth; traditional narrative and ritual; and the Classical epic as basis for later literature. Some attention to comparative materials (e.g., Beowulf and the Song of Roland). Readings from Homer, Vergil, Apollonius of Rhodes, Ovid, and others. Lecture and discussion.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 012 SC - Greek Tragedy


    This course explores selected Greek tragedies with attention to the literary, social, and performance contexts of the ancient theater. Topics include the origin of drama, dramatic festivals, theater architecture, acting styles, music, politics, and the idea of the tragic in ancient and modern times.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 014 SC - Ancient Comedy


    A survey of Greek and Roman comedy, this course explores the origins, architecture, staging techniques, and rituals of the ancient theatre in terms of its changing social, political, and historical contexts. Special attention is paid to the function(s) of comedy and the role(s) of humor in the ancient world.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 018 SC - The Ancient Novel and Romance


    The dominant modern literary genre, the novel, finds its origins in ancient popular romances of wanderings and happy endings. Students will read the novels and romances of Longus, Heliodorus, Chariton, Lucian, Apuleius, and others, with attention to historical context, the nature of the genre, readership, and narratology. Special emphasis will be placed on the origins and nature of the novel, with a look at Homer’s Odyssey and Euripides’ romances as well as theorists including Bakhtin.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 019 SC - The Ancient World in Film


    This course examines the reception of classical antiquity in cinema through a close reading of ancient texts and their transformation into film. Emphasis will be placed on how cinema has (mis)represented Roman history and Greek drama, and the ideological uses of the past in the 20th century.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 020 PZ - Fantastic Archaeology: Modern Myths, Pseudo-Science, and the Study of the Past


    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.


  
  • CLAS 022 PO - Intensive Introductory Greek


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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 032 PO - Advanced Introductory Latin


    Intensive course for students with some previous Latin who are too advanced for Latin 8a and not ready for Latin 100. Designed to place students in second semester Intermediate Latin (100 or 112) to meet the language requirement. Focus on review and mastery of basic grammar and vocabulary.

    This course is offered alternating years at Scripps and Pomona Colleges.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Each semester


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


  
  • CLAS 051A PO - Introductory Classical Greek


    Greek grammar and syntax for beginning students. Selected readings from such works as Plato’s Dialogues.

    This course is offered alternating years at Scripps and Pomona Colleges.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 051B PO - Introductory Classical Greek


    Greek grammar and syntax for beginning students. Selected readings from such works as Plato’s Dialogues.

    This course is offered alternating years at Scripps and Pomona Colleges.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 052 PO - Introductory Classical Greek Accelerated


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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Each semester


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


  
  • CLAS 052A PO - Elementary Classical Hebrew


    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.


  
  • CLAS 052B PO - Elementary Classical Hebrew


    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.


  
  • CLAS 052C PO - Classical Hebrew


    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.


  
  • CLAS 060 SC - Greek Civilization


    This course is intended as an introduction to Greek culture and society from Homer to Alexander the Great. It draws on poetic and historical texts (in English translation) and material culture. Topics may include daily life, social customs, politics, colonization, religious festivals, class, gender, and sexuality.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 061 PO - Roman Life and Literature


    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.


  
  • CLAS 064 PO - Gods, Humans, and Justice in Ancient Greece


    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.


  
  • CLAS 100 SC - Intermediate Latin


    For students with two or three years of secondary school Latin or one year of college Latin. Selections from Latin poetry and prose of the late Republic and early Empire. Reading and translation from texts; grammar review and composition. 

    This course is offered alternating years at Scripps and Pomona Colleges.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 008B  or Latin placement test results; test results valid for one year.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CLAS 101A SC - Intermediate Classical Greek


    The principal emphasis of this course will be learning to read Attic Greek prose, focusing on the conflicting portrayals of the historical Socrates in Plato and Xenophon. The second semester will focus on Greek poetry, including Homer and Greek tragedy. This course may be offered at Scripps College or Pomona College.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS052 PO   or permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 101B SC - Intermediate Classical Greek


    The principal emphasis of this course will be on learning to read Attic Greek prose, focusing on the conflicting portrayals of the historical Socrates in Plato and Xenophon. The second semester will focus on Greek poetry, including Homer and Greek tragedy. This course may be offered at Scripps College or Pomona College.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS052 PO  or permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 103 PO - Intermediate Latin: Medieval


    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.


  
  • CLAS 104 PO - Readings in Koine Greek


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

    Course Credit: 0.5


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


  
  • CLAS 108 SC - Latin Prose Composition


    This course is designed to teach students of Latin the fine points of Latin grammar by actively writing in the language. We will use the text Bradley’s Arnold Latin Prose Composition and write weekly exercises.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 110 PO - Cicero


    An introduction to Latin prose with readings from Cicero’s orations and rhetorical and prose works. Weekly prose composition and term paper. Prerequisite: Classics 8b, Classics 32, or Latin placement test results.

    This course is offered alternating years at Scripps and Pomona Colleges.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 112 SC - Vergil


    An introduction to Latin poetry with readings from Vergil’s Eclogues and Aeneid.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 008B , CLAS 032 , or Latin placement test results.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 113 PO - History of Sexuality: the Classical World


    The ancient Greeks and Romans categorized sexuality differently from modern Westerners. This course focuses on same-sex love, an area of maximal difference. Using ancient evidence—from literature, history, and art—as well as modern theories, we will study the history of sexuality in the Classical cultures.
     

    This course is offered alternating years at Scripps and Pomona Colleges.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 114 SC - Female and Male in Ancient Greece


    Using evidence from literature, oratory, law, medical writings, and the visual arts, this course will explore the legal and social position of women in ancient Greece; male attitudes toward women and the idea of the Female; sexuality; and the contrast between the myths of powerful women and the apparent reality.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 121 JT - Classical Mythology


    The structure and interpretation of Greek and Roman myth. Readings from ancient literature in English translation and modern mythologists. Lectures and discussions.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 125 PZ - Ancient Spectacle: Glory, Games and Gore in Ancient Greece and Rome


    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.


  
  • CLAS 130 SC - Roman Decadence


    From the Augustan Age onward, the Roman World was sharply divided between a self-created image of order, stability, and propriety, based on Rome’s visible political and military achievements, and its increasing involvement with exotic, private, and unconscious forces of disruption and decay. This course will examine closely those so-called “enemies of Roman order”: religious cults, superstition, personal corruption and excess, popular violence, the Roman obsession with death, the radical decline from Classical models of life and art. Authors read include Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, Petronius, Tacitus, Juvenal, Apuleius.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 145 SC - Ancient Political Thought


    Students study the historical and theoretical construction of communities in antiquity (with particular attention to Greece) and its reception in critical theory. Topics include citizenship, class struggle, different political regimes, and the relationship between culture and the state.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 150 SC - Special Topics in Ancient Studies


    A research seminar that focuses on specific historical periods, societies, problems, or themes. 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.


  
  • CLAS 161 PZ - Greek Art and Archaeology


    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.


  
  • CLAS 162 PZ - Roman Art and Archaeology


    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.


  
  • CLAS 164 PZ - Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius


    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.


  
  • CLAS 175 PZ - International Cultural Heritage


    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.


  
  • CLAS 181A SC - Advanced Latin Readings


    Great works of Latin prose and poetry from the writings of major authors of the Roman Republic and Empire, selected according to the needs of students. Authors and topics covered may include the Roman letter, satire, lyric poetry, historians, drama, philosophy, elegiac poets, Lucretius, Apuleius, and Medieval Latin. Each semester may be repeated for credit.

    This course is offered alternating years at Scripps and Pomona Colleges.

    Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: Classics 110, 112, or permission of instructor. 
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 181B SC - Advanced Latin Readings


    Great works of Latin prose and poetry from the writings of major authors of the Roman Republic and Empire, selected according to the needs of students. Authors and topics covered may include the Roman letter, satire, lyric poetry, historians, drama, philosophy, elegiac poets, Lucretius, Apuleius, and Medieval Latin. Each semester may be repeated for credit.

    This course is offered alternating years at Scripps and Pomona Colleges.

    Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: Classics 110, 112, or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 182A PO - Advanced Greek Readings


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

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 101B  or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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


  
  • CLAS 182B PO - Advanced Greek Readings


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

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 101B  or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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


  
  • CLAS 190 SC - Senior Seminar in Classics


    This course consists of an intensive study of selected topics within the larger field of Classical Studies leading to significant independent research. Required of majors in the senior year.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 191 SC - Senior Thesis


    The student will work closely and on an individual basis with the faculty to identify an area of interest, become familiar with basic bibliography and research tools, and define a topic to investigate. The student will submit the results of this research in writing and make an oral presentation to the Classics Department. Restricted to seniors majoring in classics. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 199 SC - Independent Study in Classics: Reading and Research


    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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



Computer Science

  
  • CSCI 000 HM - Intro to Computing and Programming


    See the Harvey Mudd 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.


  
  • CSCI 005 HM - Introducation to Computer Science


    See the Harvey Mudd 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.


  
  • CSCI 051 CM - Introduction to Computer Science


    See the Claremont McKenna 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.


  
  • CSCI 052 PO - Fundamentals of Computer Science


    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.



Core Courses

  
  • CORE 001 SC - Histories of the Present: Community


    Core I takes up this task through an examination of communities. Starting with the question “What is a community?” we look at both large imagined communities such as modern nation-states and religious groups and smaller, more intimate groups that we regularly label as a “community.” We ask: How are communities formed and transformed? What role does historical memory and forgetting play in the creation of community? How are communities at once inclusive and exclusionary? What role do performance and memory play in the formation and transformation of communities? And when are communities beneficial and when are they potentially harmful?

    In this course, we examine the ways in which communities are created and transformed through political acts, religious practices, military intervention, cultural performances, social networks, and bonding. In conjunction with this, we critique the ways in which practices of overt and implicit exclusion along the lines of birth, class, race, gender, sexuality, ability, and religious beliefs limit the possibility of belonging. We explore the ways in which individuals and communities define and represent themselves in accordance with and in resistance to the dominant powers that often determine a community’s boundaries. We also explore how communities work in resistance to transform their own and other’s political, economic and social condition.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Becoming Someone Else in American Culture


    American literary and cultural history is full of discarded selves. In a culture that celebrates both self-creation and especially, self re-creation, what happens to those selves we leave behind? Are they ever jettisoned fully? Do they conflict with our new selves? Ranging from the Colonial period through the 21st century, the course will take up a variety of acts of self-fashioning, self-transformation, and self-forgetting in order to explore questions of personal, racial, gender, and national identity. We will examine how writers, artists, and musicians explore the fluidity of these categories, as well as the social consequences that attend transgressing them.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Communities and Faultlines: Militarism and Building Anti-Racist Feminist and Queer Solidarities


    In this course, we will examine the ways in which notions and practices of “community” are shaped by the politics of exclusion and inclusion. In particular, we will focus on ways in which dominant practices of community building and engagement might reproduce exclusionary logics tied to capitalism and militarism through specific gendered, sexualized, racialized, classed and nationalist norms of kinship and family. Anti-racist, queer and feminist resistance and revisioning of these norms will be emphasized. Themes for exploration will include prison abolitionism, academia, transnational feminist praxis and the security state.

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Constructions of (Dis)Ability


    This course focuses on the ways our society is structured around particular norms for “ability” and on the different kinds of violence done to those who do not fit these norms. After discussing how “normal” and “abnormal” bodies have been defined and categorized throughout modern history in literature and science, we examine the current implications of those definitions and categories. We will discuss contemporary debates about the incorporation of non-normative bodies and behaviors into social spaces and consider whether we must modify our bodies or the institutional and social spaces that they inhabit.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Contract Enforcement: Histories of the Mafia, Past and Present


    This course will examine the nature of the mafia as an economic, cultural and political institution, one taking shape alongside the formation of the Italian state in the late nineteenth century, but with far more ancient and less localized roots. Through historic texts, fictional narratives, films and material on game theory and economic strategies to understand what determines the institutional boundaries of the mafia, the nature of contract enforcement within the mafia, and between the mafia and various nonmembers, students will learn about the historic and cultural reasons that allowed this organization to thrive, the representations of the mafia that have proliferated, and the details behind its economic structure. The course will also explore the development of mafia into a global phenomenon during the twentieth century and how it has been studied and represented as such in recent years.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Death


    What is death? Why do we care about it? Is death bad? Why do we mourn the dead? What ought to be done with the dead? Has death changed? Can one be dead? The definition of death is not obvious and its criterion has changed over time (soul departure, cessation of breath, cessation of heartbeat, cessation of brain waves, etc.) for a variety of complex reasons (including religious, scientific, practical, political). Drawing upon philosophical, historical, psychological, religious, and pop culture perspectives, we will investigate death.


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Decolonizing: First Nations Musics and Literatures


    This course focuses on contemporary Native American/First Nations literatures and musical arts as socio-cultural productions. Theories concerning settler/colonial issues and indigeniety help us analyze how these arts decolonize historical and contemporary narratives. Short stories, poetry, and music such as First Nations hip-hop and powwow drumming address important debates regarding violence against Native women, sovereignty, land rights, language retention, and environmental justice.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Desire and Decadence: Interdisciplinary Contexts in Fin-de-Siecle Europe


    This course will explore the fin-de-siècle aesthetic in the Symbolist and Decadent Movements that gave birth to new ideas at the threshold of Modernism. How did artists and writers from 1880 to 1914 reflect and reimagine new societal roles in such themes as the dandy and the femme fatale, virgins and vampires, or the sphinx and Salome? How do contemporary artists and writers reframe Symbolist and Decadent themes as they illuminate the ever-intriguing relationship of history to the present? We will compare our current attitudes toward change to those of a century ago.


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  • CORE 002 SC - Discord and Dialog


    People often disagree with each other on matters of great importance, including ethical, scientific, religious, political, and aesthetic issues. This discord, and the dialog or dispute that derives from it, is a fact of our social predicament. This course investigates the nature and significance of such disagreements and dialogs by examining their structure, content, and presuppositions. We will also consider the question of what value disagreement has for society and the history of some of these disagreements.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Eat the Rich! Capitalism and Work


    We live in a world saturated by capitalism. As a result, we often fail to evaluate critically the conditions of exploitation, the drudgery of labor, and the role of class in our daily life. Is work inherently a social and political good? Is poverty just a given? Why is the working class sometimes demonized? This course examines labor under capitalism, the transformation of traditional values and practices set in motion by the triumphant march of capital, and the possibilities for change.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Ecological Justice


    This course focuses on sustainability, environmental racism, and ecological justice. We will examine key texts of environmentalism and environmental policy as artifacts of a history of the present. We will discuss the contingent and historical character of Enlightenment-derived conceptualizations of “nature” and “wilderness” that exclude humans, and how these conceptualizations shape responses to environmental problems, including the tendency to overlook human justice dimensions of environmental crisis. We will consider how our understandings of the environment are discursively produced even while we resist the political paralysis that sometimes accompanies such awareness. We will learn about ecological justice work in L.A. County.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Gender, Science and Knowledge


    This course examines how cultural values have historically shaped and continue to shape scientific inquiry, practice, and knowledge production, focusing specifically on gender. We will consider questions such as: What constitutes scientific knowledge, and how is that related to who gets to be a scientist? What barriers have women faced in entering the scientific community? What might feminist science look like, and what does it mean to be a feminist scientist? How might science education be changed to be more inclusive? To address these topics, we will read critical analyses of science, perspectives of working scientists, and proposals for change.

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Hunger


    Using hunger as its central metaphor, this course explores the construction of a modern self (physical, psychological, and social) through the perception or experience of lack. Readings from philosophy, literature, politics, and sociology will guide our inquiry into discourses of sexual desire, global food policy, famine in the Global South, eating disorders, capitalism, politics, and creative expression. In all cases, our approach will be intersectional, and will consider how gender, race, class, and sexual identity affect how hunger is embodied and interpreted.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Incentives Matter: The Economics of Gender and Choice


    This course will explore how gender construction and perceptions about gender have evolved over time and how current perceptions affect the choices that individuals, institutions, and governments make. We explore the very ideas of choice, gender roles, the relationship between social and biological functions, and the notion of equity that economic participation may promise. These are issues we will examine as we look at how economic opportunities for women are linked to issues of race and class and how education plays a key role in changing the economic calculus of women’s lives.

    Offered: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Interdisciplinary Core 2


    Core II continues—with sharper focus and through an array of course offerings—the interdisciplinary investigations begun in Core I. That is, we develop our examination of the ways in which our contemporary self-understandings (political, moral, economic, aesthetic, etc.) emerge from and express commitments and categories that are often regarded as given—so “natural” and “obvious” as to prevent us from thinking clearly about their complexities and ambiguities. Core II courses are taught by a faculty member with interdisciplinary research interests and may be team-taught by faculty whose complementary research interests make for fresh interdisciplinary dialogue. Consult the Scripps Portal for CORE II offerings for the current semester. Core II descriptions available Interdisciplinary Core Program .

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Investigating Humor in Literature and Mass Media


    Some say that man is the animal who laughs. In other words, laughter is an essential part of human nature. Humor performs important social functions: for example, enforcing a society’s norms through ridicule of those who violate them, or offering a relatively harmless outlet for antisocial feelings that might threaten the social order. Many argue that the stereotypes associated with race, class, gender, sexuality, and physical and mental abnormality are essential to comedy. We will look at plays, movies, TV shows, standup comics, comic strips, and other modes of humor in light of theoretical work by Freud, Bergson, Bakhtin and others.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Lights, Camera, Murder! Crimes and Trials in France and the U.S


    This class takes a historical approach to the understanding and construction of different types of criminal personalities and crimes in eighteenth- to twentieth-century France and the United States. It examines current and past crimes from the points of view of serial killers and victims, the media, courtrooms, and capital punishment. Through fictional and non-fictional narratives, court transcripts, sociological studies, films and documentaries, it traces the historical and cultural approach of each nation to justice and, ultimately, seeks to bring to light the definition of human nature upon which each legal system is built.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


 

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