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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 LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!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.
 

Core Courses
  

  • CORE 002 SC - Making Sense of Power

    This course explores how relationships of power and inequality often are described and experienced as rational, reasonable, and therefore appropriate. Drawing from texts in politics, economics, philosophy, and law, the course examines how social institutions literally make “sense” out of power.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Marginalized Communities

    This course explores definitions of marginalization, mechanisms of marginalization, and experiences of marginalized communities in the United States, with specific attention paid to racial minority groups, women and children, immigrants, the LGBT community, and the poor. What hurdles exist for these communities as they attempt to navigate social, political and economic processes in the US? How have/do federal, state and local policies or proposed policies hurt or bolster these communities? We will mainly rely on readings from history, economics, politics, sociology, and psychology.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Misrepresentation of Women in Society and Science

    This course examines representations of women constructed from seemingly scientific evidence.  We will examine the way in which social and natural science studies from the 1800s to the present construct ideas of gender, female fragility and feminine normalcy, thus contributing to the objectification and devaluing of women.  We will critique the misuse of these studies and describe how such misuse contributes to harmful stereotypes that linger today.  Finally, we will examine how the idea of scientific “truth” shifts when those seeking the truth are women.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Nerds and Geeks

    The words “geek” and “nerd” are used to describe individuals with a range of behaviors from the socially awkward to the intellectually focused. In this course, we will examine how, in our high-tech age, these terms have crossed over from a subculture to pop culture. We will explore the rise and fall of historical intellectual periods as they relate to the present day emphasis on STEM and the concurrent anti-science movements. We will also discuss misogynist versus feminist trends, and transnational influences (e.g. Japan, Korea, Germany, Hungary). Students in the class will play a part in the direction and design of a class final project.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Old New Media

    Beginning with photography in the early nineteenth century and attending primarily to telegraphy, telephony, radio, television, and video, this seminar explores the history of the fascination, fear, and peculiar associations that have accompanied new technological developments. Do telephones provide direct lines to the next world? Are radio waves signals from Martians? Do new technologies help us communicate better with (and, consequently, understand) ourselves? This course uses fiction, nonfiction, film, and paranormal engagements to explore historical efforts in Europe and the United States to come to terms with new technologies and the kinds of communication they appear to provide.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Plantation Empires: Gender, Labor, Race and the Construction of “Difference”

    This course explores the contemporary and historical significance of the plantation complex in North America, the Caribbean, South and South East Asia. We will underscore its centrality not only to the production of vital commodities like sugar and tea but also to the constitution of dominant ideas of “difference” (of race, gender, and sexuality) that emerged through labor practices and brutal bondage. Resistance will also be explored. We will trace plantation pasts that continue to live in the present- pasts that continue to haunt our understandings of social difference, power, and inequality.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Poetry of the Revolution: The Manifesto

    As consumers of the artifacts of modern culture – paintings, architecture, movies, literature – we tend to be unaware that most artistic and political movements originated in one very specific idea. Embodying the quintessentially modern claim to nothing less than the capacity to change the world, the manifesto has captured the urgency of this idea for almost 200 years now. Beginning with the modern era’s archetypical manifesteers, Marx and Engels, this class explores proclamations by African-American abolitionists, Italian Futurists, and Riot Grrrl punkrockers. We will discuss declarations by women’s suffrage activists, Bauhaus architects, French filmmakers, and many other manifestos.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Riotous Americans: Los Angeles and the Poetics of Unrest

    This course focuses on three Los Angeles riots (“Zoot Suit,” Watts, Rodney King) with an eye towards understanding them as complex and multilayered “histories of the present.” By focusing on “riots,” we will explore how our built environments continue to produce and reproduce differential structures of class, race, gender, and citizenship.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Shakespeare’s Tragedies Then and Now

    The common wisdom that Shakespeare is inaccessible and obsolete misses something. We’ll study his tragedies to add historical perspective to themes introduced in Core 1 and to think about his relevance in our time. We’ll consider how his old plays script ideas and questions that we live with in a present tense, such as Hamlet’s concept of the tragic complex self, Othello’s treatment of race relations and power, Macbeth’s raw account of political terror and psychological trauma, and Lear’s astonishing, anguished vision of relentless cruelty, abjection, and suffering. Secondary readings will be drawn from literary criticism, history, psychology, and philosophy.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Subversive Selves

    This course focuses on the dynamic exchange between self and community, private and public, via an interdisciplinary approach to a variety of media, including photography, poetry, novels, films, memoir, fashion, and music. The syllabus will feature materials created by, for, or about women - and mostly by women of color from North America and Africa. Students will query the historical and cultural processes that make a seemingly neutral undertaking of “finding yourself,” “expressing yourself,” or “being yourself” especially fraught for these artists and writers, and the communities to which they belong.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Biannually


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Terms of Modernity

    This course examines the concepts that structure the possibilities of our (contemporary) world, especially how we “experience” it and attempt to transform it through social and political action. The course will focus most explicitly on the fundamental concept of the “individual” and the characteristics most commonly associated with it: understanding, freedom, equality, family, justice, rights, secularism, to name a few. Too often, we take these concepts and characteristics as givens, and reduce their imperfect realization to the relations and machinations of the material world. In doing so, have we not bought into a false binary between principle and context that has precluded us from understanding these concepts as constituent elements of political power and social organization, and thus from fully appreciating what their potential might be?

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Aesthetics of Justice: Race, Space, Architecture and Music

    As a follow-up to the question posed by Core 1, “What is a community?” this course examines the aesthetics of justice as practiced in contemporary urban communities. The Aesthetics of Justice: Race, Space, Architecture and Music challenges students to engage in discussions and debates regarding social justice and racialized practices of urban environmental design, urban street art (such as graffiti), and urban music (such as rap and hiphop) as responses to the challenges of living in contemporary urban communities. The intention is to critique the current educational model of art and music history that has been appropriated from the ecole des beaux arts. This course will address the topic of race and architecture beyond applies foci by referring to some of the philosophical insights of Foucault, Adorno, and Locke.

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Art of Medicine, Medicine in the Arts: the body in Italian Literature

    This course examines the relationship between Italian literature and the history of medicine, specifically anatomy and physiopathology. Medieval treatises on physiology, da Vinci’s contributions to the study of anatomy, and scientific developments between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries had an enormous impact on Italian writers, as evidenced in works by Cavalcanti, Boccaccio, Marino, Verga, Tarchetti, and Berto. Throughout this course, we will analyze how various literary works represent and interpret the human body, illness, disease, and death, and situate the texts in their social, historical, and political contexts. All materials for the course will be in English.

    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 - The Construction of Kinship

    Using texts from the fields of poetry, fiction, Marxism, psychoanalysis, post-colonial theory and post-structuralism, this course explores the ways that family and other social bonds that most of us take for granted are shaped by hegemonic forces. Texts include Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe” by Hortense Spillers, The Sympathizer, a recent Pulitzer Prize winner by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Dawn, a science fiction novel by Octavia Butler, Look, a book of poems by Iranian-American poet Solmaz Sharif, and excerpts from Franz Fanon’s Black Skin White Mask.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • CORE 002 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.


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Language of Music

    This course questions our tendency to consider music and literature as distinct art forms by exploring how they have historically been intertwined. We will read drama and fiction that includes musical performances alongside poems titled as “songs,” asking how references to music within literary texts influence our understanding of these works. In studying texts that have migrated from the page to the stage and screen, we will analyze the transformative effects of musical setting and adaptation. We will consider music as a tool of social formation, commentary, and protest, while also thinking critically about our own linguistic habits in talking about literature and music.

     

     

    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 - The Question of the Animal, Ancient and Contemporary

    This course examines human interaction with non-human animals, focusing on two periods, mostly in the West: the ancient and the contemporary. Topics include: the “animal-industrial complex”; the conceptualizing of boundaries between human and animal in philosophy; literature and science; the visual representation of animals; the incorporation of animals in religious practice; and the enjoyment/exploitation of animals in zoos and gladiatorial spectacle.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Self and the Origins of the State in the Western World

    How did the development of the state condition selfhood in the West? Drawing on economic, sociological, and historical perspectives, this course examines the nature of the modern state, its historical origins (c. 1100-1850), and its effects on the individual. We will consider the ways in which the state has made people more secure while aggravating their capacity for collective violence; and how it has made individuals freer in some ways while confining them to less visible ethical, cultural, and institutional prisons.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Travel, Encounter, and the History of Religion

    Through close reading of both travel texts and theoretical texts, from the present moment to the premodern past, we will ask how “religion” (as an abstract concept) and “religions” (as specific objects of Western study) emerged, and continue to be produced, out of the contact between “West” 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 - Urban Nights: Gender, Work, and Experiences

    We explore how our experiences of nighttime have been shaped through the rise of modern cities and expand our understanding of gender, sexuality, and modernity introduced in Core I by articulating these concepts with discussions about the division of labor, global outsourcing, urban crowd, and sustainability. By looking at various nighttime landscapes such as gentrification and urban planning in New York, call center labors in Mumbai, and take-back-the-night campaigns in London, we will come to understand how our ideas and experiences of urban nights are deeply associated with the culturally constructed divisions between men/women, public/private, and productive/non-productive.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Walls, Border, Fences

    How can we think about borders, walls, and fences as both material boundaries and networks of historical, ideological, political, and economic conditions that define nation-states, communities, and collectivities? How are borders being reconfigured in the contemporary world in ways that change how we think about sovereignty, power, citizenship, and violence? How do borders shape the relationships between space and identity? This class explores the relationships between social, spatial, and political divisions in different historical and geographic contexts including the U.S. It addresses issues including ongoing forms of settler-colonialism, anti-immigration policies and rhetoric, and state-sponsored or sanctioned violence in border zones.

    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 - Why Punish?

    Given the fact that, in 2009, in excess of seven million Americans were subject to some form of “correctional supervision,” and over two million Americans were incarcerated, we might think that there must be very compelling answers to the question that serves as this course’s title; and while most of us will agree that particular impositions of punishment are unjust, few of us are likely dispute the justification of the institution of legal punishment, per se. We aim during the semester to investigate the telling and disorientating relationship between various theories of legal punishment and the realities of legal punishment. We begin with an investigation of a number of influential justifications of punishment and then turn to various accounts and analyses of the shape legal punishment takes in contemporary America. Course includes participation in three Tuesday evening writing workshops at the nearby state women’s prison.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annualy


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Animal Rights and Speciesism

    Through weekly lectures, discussions, visual presentations, movies, and culinary arts, this course examines the present day treatment of animals. We will develop an understanding of speciesism by looking at how humans treat, use, consume and exploit animals; and explore the contested issue of animal welfare vs. rights. The course employs philosophical, economic, sociological and scientific perspectives to analyze industrial practices and their impacts on global economics and planetary health. By surveying ideas and practices from antiquity to the present, we will analyze how moral attitudes have shifted through time and helped to create today’s animal rights movement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Antiracist and Transnational Feminist Coalitions

    This course will introduce the visionary work of diverse U.S., indigenous, transnational women and trans-people of colors who work with coalitional practices of community building.  Antiracist, multiracial, and transnational feminist perspectives will be underscored. Focusing on notions of bridges, border crossings, and solidarity, we will explore such questions as: What does it mean to build trust and solidarity across seemingly insurmountable fault lines of difference and power? How do our positions of privilege and marginalization inform such attempts to build community?

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Bad Writing

    This course asks students to think critically about the notion of “bad writing.” We will discuss what writers, critics, and teachers have stood to gain by labeling certain styles or writers as “bad” and why some authors have welcomed, even courted, the label. We will look in depth at how different categories of bad writing – including bad language, taboo-breaking, and bad-faith portrayals of race and history – have inflected popular and academic conversations about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and other novels. And we will research what is at stake in how definitions of “bad writing” continue to change in the present day.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Between the Image and the Word

    The relation between writing, painting, photography, cinema, comics, and electronic media might at first be viewed as a familiar combination of visual and verbal art as an interplay of affinities. However, it also generates numerous theoretical speculations with far-reaching implications for the conceptualization of art, literature and electronic media and its relation to the histories of the present. The potentially frictional relations between the visual image and the written text are especially pertinent for a discussion of the cultural productions in Europe and the Americas during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The course will also examine the critique that new forms of media generate particularly when it comes to the growing popularity of the image.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year; first offering Fall 2017


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Blues Jazzlines: Past and Present Tense

    This course will focus on connections between music and poetry through jazz, a seminal American cultural performance practice. We will initially explore the complex relationship of jazz and blues to Harlem Renaissance concepts of New Negro art, folk authenticity, and modernist cosmopolitanism. Students will then engage in guided listening to music and reading poetry. The blurred boundaries between aural, oral and written art will be investigated within a historical context of past and present cultural practices.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Bodies in Motion: Representation and Simulation

    This course departs from Aristotle’s dictum that, “to be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.” Through readings, screenings, and museum visits, we will explore how the movement of human and non-human bodies has been understood historically, and experiment with contemporary methods of representing, simulating, and capturing bodies in motion used in the arts, sciences, and humanities. Turning to sport and dance, we will ask: what are the aesthetics, politics, and economies of motion and its apparent opposites: stillness, rest, sleep? In our ever more carefully tracked world, what does motion mean and how is it made meaningful?

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Intermittent


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Building Los Angeles

    A lot of what we think we know about our (Western) world is derived from Hollywood’s seemingly infinite reservoir of iconic imagery. This especially applies to the one empirical topography most closely associated with the studio system - the city of Los Angeles. We will examine LA’s fictional as well as its actual cityscape; we will explore its streets, neighborhoods, architecture, and its long history of aggressive real-estate boosterism and displacement. Special attention will be given to how Los Angeles has been - and still is - mythologized and even altered by Hollywood’s fictionalities. This class includes at least one field trip.

     

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Capitalism and Critique

    Capitalism is the air we breathe. As a result, we often fail to evaluate critically the role of class in our daily life. Why does poverty exist? What is the relationship between capitalism and culture? What are the connections between capitalism and race? Engaging with foundational texts on capitalism and Marxist critiques, this course examines the origins of capitalism, the organization of labor, the transformation of values and practices by the market, and possibilities for change. We will explore these issues primarily in the context of the US and Europe through a consideration of the ways in which works of literature, political theory, and philosophy narrate and critique capitalism.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Caribbean Women’s Literature

    This course examines Caribbean women’s literature from the Anglophone, Francophone and Spanish Caribbean. Our purpose will be to explore the historical and contemporary contexts that have produced innovative texts by women writers of the Caribbean who seek not only to record their cultural existence but also to challenge both the stereotypes and limitations placed upon them from within and without the Caribbean. We will consider the effects of enslavement, imperialism/colonialism, and neo-colonialism in addition to issues of multiple oppression such as race, color, class, gender, sexuality, and exile, upon the literary production of contemporary writers.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually 3 years


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Challenges from the global south - “America”

    This class addresses challenges from the global south in the western hemisphere. It is organized around questions raised by struggles for freedom in locations ranging from Haiti to Chile. Each week we will focus on a discrete problem in a discrete geographic location. Most of these struggles draw on ancient Indigenous or African conceptions. They challenge contemporary corporate projects and elite conceptions. Our texts include films (subtitled in English), print media, essays, and oral histories. In order to explore issues of perspective, writers form the regions we are studying will be favored.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Collective Songwriting: Theory and Knowledge Production

    This course will engage in the study and embodied practice of the collective songwriting method. In this course collective creative expression through song becomes the vehicle by which we will engage in discussions about greater social issues pertaining to gender, race, class, sexuality and nationhood. We consider the historical, political, and economic significance that song has played in social movements through African-American, Chicana/o, Latina/o, Native American, Asian American and poor Anglo communities in the 20th and 21st centuries, and how song has played a vital role in their collective and individual struggle for self determination and social justice in the history of this country.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Creating and Recreating Genji

    Written in the 11th century by Lady Murasaki Shikibu as a fictional account of Japanese court life, The Tale of Genji has influenced Japanese literature and the visual and performing arts for over a 1000 years. This course will examine the original text and then explore various new versions, focusing on how the text has been recreated by later generations, through Buddhist interpretations in 14th century noh plays, working class satires in 17th century short stories, political parodies in 19th century prints, imperialist propaganda in the early 20th century and social commentary in late 20th century movies, anime and manga.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Creating Archives: Archives, Disciplinary Knowledge, and Research

    We will examine the long history of the “archive,” including classical libraries, monastic collections, wonder-cabinets, modern archives, and new digital archives. We will explore the ways in which collection practices shape and are shaped by disciplinary practice. Archives from a range of different disciplines will be considered, including biological and mathematical sciences, corporate and national archives, literary archives and libraries, and perhaps even the long geological archive of the earth. Readings will help us theorize and problematize the concept of “archive” as a transparent, natural, and neutral space. Students will develop their own “small-archive” based on their research interests.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Cyberculture and the Posthuman Age

    Since 1990, when the first web browser was created, the Internet has revolutionized every aspect of life, even our notion of what it means to be human. The purpose of this course is to identify the radical and controversial shifts that the Internet era has brought about in a variety of areas: communication, politics, law and ethics, interpersonal relations, business, work, education, identity formation, and even brain function. By taking an historical approach, we can better understand the significance of these changes and be more critical users, rather than simply consumers, of new digital technologies.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Democracy in Theory and Practice

    Democracy In Theory and Practice will interrogate the ideals of democratic theory in light of what actually ends up happening in campaigns, elections, and government policy. The class will confront students with key critiques of democracy to help them understand the current American political scene from the vantage point of competing (and often conflicting) “histories of the present”-including forms of political activism that reject electoral politics or which go beyond the two major American political parties. The class will also provide students with the chance to dialogue in class with local politicians and require that each student to do substantial volunteer work on a local political campaign of their choice.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Dream Factories: cinema in theory and in practice

    This course will expose the students to the basic tools of critical film analysis, and to different styles of filmmaking in the world. Examples will come from Hollywood, Bollywood, Chinese, European, Iranian and African cinema. The course will also explore the idea of film industry and its implications on labor and the use of technology. Finally, the course will include the shooting and editing of a short film as a group project.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every three years


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

  • 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.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Embodying Illness

    How do our bodies feel, act, and respond when we are ill? This seminar considers how the body is not just a biological entity, but one also profoundly shaped by social and historical circumstance. We trace how the embodiment of illness connects to cultural norms, practices, and understandings of the self. Importantly, we consider the body as existing within relations of power, including forms of surveillance and normative framings of the able body. The course ultimately challenges us to rethink divisions between “the body” and “society” by exploring how illness experiences are embedded in cultural and political processes.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.
    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.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Making Racial Sense of Power

    This course explores the possibilities of counterhegemonic political action given the existence of racialized relationships of privilege and political quiescence in the face of obvious racial inequality.  Building on the Core II course “Making Sense of Power,” it examines how our contemporary self-understandings emerge from our racialized practices and social consciousness. Students will work collectively to develop intentional political practices borne out of theoretical understandings, conduct site visits to organizations that engage in political campaigns for racial justice, examine current and historical campus-based efforts at activism focused on racial justice, and identify the texts necessary to support their collective efforts.  Responsibility for the success of the course hinges on student commitment to political action in practice.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Intermittent


    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?

    Course Credit: 1.0


    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.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Narratives of Memory: Spain and Latin American

    This course explores the process of memory production: how it is recounted or repressed through a selection of key cultural products ranging from novels, to zines, comics, songwriting, photography, performance or films created in Spain and Latin America. Among other questions, the course will ask: Can cultural texts function as a mode of witnessing the traumatic past, whether in post-dictatorship Spain, Chile or Argentina? Are current debates on Spanish or Catalan national identity grappling with Spain’s colonial legacies? How can the corporeal function as a map of cultural memory and resistance, as in Astrid Hadad’s (de)construction of Mexicanidad?   

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    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 - Prescriptions and Debates on What Contributes to Health

    This course explores key historical and contemporary debates on what contributes to psychological and physical health. We will read and critique the literature from various fields, such as psychology and medicine. We will also explore the question of what contributes to health through popular press pieces and film. Topics of study include the study of sleep, relationships, exposure to nature, and the organization of one’s physical space (e.g. minimalism).

    Course Credit: 1.0


    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 - 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.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    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?). 

    Course Credit: 1.0


    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.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Resilience and Resistance: Women of Color in the United States

    This course will explore histories of the present that center the experiences of women of color in the United States. Through an intersectional feminist approach, we will study how the experiences of Asian, Black, Latin, and Native American women in the U.S. have been shaped by systems of power during the 20th and 21st centuries. We will explore how women of color have conceptualized and enacted resistance to oppression in different contexts. We will study documentary, testimonial, and fiction narratives that center the experiences of women of color in relation to immigration, labor, citizenship, incarceration, activism, decolonization, and identity formation.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    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.

    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.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    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.

    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.

    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.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - The Meaning(?) of Life

    Does life have a purpose or a point? If so, what might it be? If not, where does that leave us? This course will examine questions, answers, and analyses regarding life’s meaning or meaninglessness, and the implication thereof, from philosophical, literary, psychological, and religious perspectives. The final project will be a paper or another kind of project decided upon in consultation with the instructor.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - VIR/GYN GODDESS: The Virgin and the Femme Fatale

    Departing from a social construction analysis of the Virgin Mary in the Catholic Church and the history of “virginity” in Western cultures, this course seeks to unpack the categories that define and limit debates around such questions as gender roles, female sexuality, and reproductive rights. On the one hand, we analyze the redefinition and re-symbolization of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the part of Chicana feminist artists, writers, and theorists. On the other hand, the archetype of the femme fatale is explored in a variety of contexts. Students engage a wide range of artistic literary, and cinematographic primary materials and interdisciplinary secondary texts.

    Course Credit: 1.0


    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?

    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
    Offered: One time offering


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Women’s Rights: Does it Matter?

    Women’s rights is an issue that many of us are passionate about. But do these rights even matter? Would the absence of these rights make women worse off? In this course, we focus on some of the major legal rights that have empowered women. Until recently, even in developed countries, women could not own property, acquire credit, have control over their own body, vote, and legally end a marriage. We explore the expansion of women’s rights and study the impact of these changes. We also delve into the indirect impact of women’s rights in both developed and developing countries.

    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.

    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 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.

Dance
  

  • DANC 010 PO - Beginning Modern Dance

    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.
  

  • DANC 012 PO - Beginning Ballet I

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

    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 the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: .50


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

  • DANC 051 PO - Intermediate Ballet Technique

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

    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.  

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • DANC 073 CH - Pre-Columbian Dance

    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.
  

  • 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.
    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.
    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.
    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
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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 class traces the evolution of dance in Europe, Russia and the USA from the late Renaissance through the Baroque, Romantic, and Classical, to the Modern, Post-Modern and contemporary eras. The course focuses on dance as both an art form and as cultural embodiment with particular attention to how norms of gender and sexuality arise, are reinforced, and challenged through dance. We will look principally at concert dance, but will also consider social, popular, cultural and ritual practices as they have influenced or been appropriated by the theatrical.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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 

    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.
    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.
    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.

     
    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.
    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 II

    Intermediate-level course will explore a variety of styles identified under the umbrella term Jazz, including twentieth century vernacular dances, swing, Broadway style, lyrical, modern jazz, and hip-hop. The class emphasizes rhythm, isolation, 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.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other semester


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

  • DANC 112B SC - Jazz Dance II

    Intermediate-level course will explore a variety of styles identified under the umbrella term Jazz, including twentieth century vernacular dances, swing, Broadway style, lyrical, modern jazz, and hip-hop. The class emphasizes rhythm, isolation, 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.

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Every other semester


    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.

    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  .

    Course Credit: .50


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

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