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 LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!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

Environmental Analysis Program
  

  • EA 090 PZ - Economic Change and the Environment in Asia

    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.
  

  • EA 095 PZ - U.S. Environmental Policy Approved

    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.
  
  

  • EA 100L KS - Global Climate Change w/Lab

    An introduction to the Earth Sciences, this course focuses on past and present global climate change. Topics include earth system science, climate change on geologic timescales, and recent climate change. Lectures will include a discussion of primary journal literature about climate change and relevant topics in the media. Labs will include an introduction to proxy methods used to reconstruct past climate variability.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 043L  and BIOL 044L ; or BIOL 040L   and BIOL 044L ; or CHEM 014L  and CHEM 015L  ;or CHEM 040L  and CHEM 015L  (or CHEM 029L ); or PHYS 030L  and PHYS 031L , or PHYS 033L  and PHYS 034L ; or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS 001AL , AISS 001BL , AISS 002AL , AISS 002BL ).
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • EA 103 KS - Soils and Society

    Soils are dynamic biological, chemical, and physical environments that have profoundly influenced human health and society. This course provides an overview of soils and the ways in which they define habitats, cycle water and carbon, support infrastructure, sustain agriculture, record paleoclimate, and exemplify the challenges of sustainable environmental management.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL043L KS  and BIOL044L KS  , or ( BIOL040L KS  and BIOL044L KS ); or both semesters of the AISS course, AND CHEM014L KS  and  CHEM015L KS  , or
    (CHEM029L KS ) or ( CHEM040L KS  and CHEM015L KS  ), or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS001ALKS  , AISS001BLKS  , AISS002ALKS  , AISS002BLKS  ); OR one laboratory course in environmental science or geology (e.g. EA 030L KS  , EA 055L KS  , GEOL020 PO etc.) AND one additional EA course; OR permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • EA 103L KS - Soils and Society w/Lab

    Soils are dynamic biological, chemical, and physical environments that have profoundly influenced human health and society. This course provides an overview of soils and the ways in which they define habitats, cycle water and carbon, support infrastructure, sustain agriculture, record paleoclimate, and exemplify the challenges of sustainable environmental management. Laboratory sessions will provide experience describing, sampling, and analyzing soils and conducting field work for environmental, biological, geological, agricultural, and other applications.
     

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL043L KS and BIOL044L KS , or ( BIOL040L KS and BIOL044L KS); or both semesters of the AISS course, AND CHEM014L KS and  CHEM015L KS , or
    (CHEM029L KS) or ( CHEM040L KS and CHEM015L KS ), or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS001ALKS , AISS001BLKS , AISS002ALKS , AISS002BLKS ); OR one laboratory course in environmental science or geology (e.g. EA 030L KS , EA 055L KS , GEOL020 PO etc.) AND one additional EA course; OR permission of the instructor.
    Fee: Laboratory $50
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • EA 104 PZ - Doing Natural History

    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.
  

  • EA 104 KS - Oceanography

    Oceanography is a multidisciplinary science that applies physics, geology, chemistry, and biology to the study of oceans. Topics covered in the course will include the formation of the oceans, the interaction of the ocean with the atmosphere, the influx and distribution of chemical compounds, the carbonate system and nutrient content.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL043L KS  and BIOL044L KS  , or BIOL040L KS  and BIOL044L KS ; CHEM014L KS  and  CHEM015L KS  , or CHEM040L KS  and CHEM015L KS  , or  CHEM029L KS ; or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS001ALKS  , AISS001BLKS  , AISS002ALKS  , AISS002BLKS  ).
    Fee: $50
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • EA 120 PZ - Global Environmental Politics and Policy

    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.
  

  • EA 133 PZ - Case Studies in Sustainable Built Environments

    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.
  

  • EA 134 PZ - Sustainable Place Studio

    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.
  

  • EA 141 PZ - Progress and Oppression

    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.
  

  • EA 146 PZ - Theory and Practice in Environmental Education

    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.
  

  • EA 150 PZ - Critical Environmental Analysis

    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.
  

  • EA 152 PZ - Nature through Film

    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.
  

  • EA 154 PZ - The Political Economy of Global Production and Natural Resources

    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.
  

  • EA 162 PZ - Gender, Environment and Development

    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.
  

  • EA 188L KS - EA Science Senior Thesis Research Project

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 189L KS - EA Science Summer Thesis Research

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 190 PO - Environmental Seminar

    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.
  

  • EA 190L KS - EA Science Second Semester Senior Thesis

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 191 KS - EA Science 1-semester Senior Thesis

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • EA 191 PO - Senior Thesis in Environmental Analysis

    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.

English
  

  • ENGL 009 AF - Community Poetry: Black Feminist

    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.
  

  • ENGL 012B AF - Introduction to African American Literature

    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.
  

  • ENGL 053 PO - Twentieth Century American Women Writers

    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.
  

  • ENGL 056 PO - Contemporary Native American 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.
  

  • ENGL 087F PO - Writing: Theories, Processes, Practices

    Please 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.
  

  • ENGL 087H PO - Writing: Theories, Processes, Practices

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

    Course Credit: .5 P/NC only


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

  • ENGL 093 PZ - Modern Polish Literature and Film

    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.
  

  • ENGL 101 SC - Readings in British Literature

    This course provides an introduction to British literature through in-depth readings of significant works from British literary history, with a particular focus on the centuries before the Restoration. We will read works written in very different styles, genres, and forms, by authors from a range of social and political backgrounds. The course will place special emphasis on close reading and on the craft of analytical writing. Readings may include Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare’s Othello, Donne’s Songs and Sonnets, Cavendish’s Blazing World, and Milton’s Paradise Lost.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • ENGL 102 SC - Readings in American Literature

    This course provides an introduction to American literature, with a focus on in-depth readings of significant works. Readings will be drawn from across American literary history, with particular attention to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The course will place special emphasis on developing skills in close reading and literary analysis.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • ENGL 104 SC - Introduction to Poetry and Poetics

    This course will introduce students to a wide range of modern and contemporary poetry representing an array of national traditions, aesthetic movements, socio-cultural contexts, and literary histories. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship between form and content. No prior knowledge of literary study is assumed or required; students will develop the skills necessary to read and interpret many poetic forms.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 106 PO - 19th Century U.S. Women Writers

    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.
  

  • ENGL 111 SC - Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories

    This course sets histories from Shakespeare’s two tetralogies alongside early and late comedies including The Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure, focusing on aspects of the plays that resist easy generic categorization. We will consider the complicated relationship between historical fact and historical drama, exploring the challenges and opportunities that Shakespeare faced in putting figures from the distant and the recent past on the early modern stage. In analyzing his range of comic modes, moreover, we will observe that farce and witty word-play go hand in hand with incisive social commentary that is often not very funny at all.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 112 PO - Early Modern Romance

    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.
  

  • ENGL 112 PZ - Rule Britannia: Imperialism in Victorian Literature and Culture

    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.
  

  • ENGL 112 SC - Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances

    This course focuses on Shakespeare’s four major tragedies and on the four plays now known as the “romances”. We will consider the influence of both classical and early modern revenge tragedy on Shakespeare, exploring the issues of governance and inheritance that are at the heart of his most famous works. We will also attend to the complex motivations of the protagonists who give these plays their names. In turning to the romances, we will consider how style and subject matter (as well as chronology) mark these late plays: should we read them as tragedies gone wrong-or gone right?

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 113 PO - Step Right Up: Race, Gender and Popular Culture, 1865-1917

    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.
  

  • ENGL 114 PO - Asian/American Forms

    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.
  

  • ENGL 114 PZ - British Women Writers Before 1900

    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.
  

  • ENGL 115 PO - Eating and Other: Race, Gender and Literary Food Studies

    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.
  

  • ENGL 115 SC - Milton

    This course will consider Milton’s major epics (Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes); his masterpieces of lyric poetry; his extensive political writings on subjects ranging from marriage to freedom of the press; and his vast influence on later British and American writers.

    [formerly ENGL121  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 116 SC - Early Modern Outsiders

    This course focuses on those positioned-by accident or design-on the margins of early modern English literary culture We will read polemical literature that has an explicit agenda against particular individuals or groups alongside texts that engage in more complex ways with racial, religious, and sexual difference. By considering famous Shakespearean “others” such as Shylock and Othello alongside authors who themselves lived marginalized or precarious lives, we will explore how different literary genres could both provide a voice to the vulnerable and be used as a weapon against them.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 118 PO - Nature of Narrative in Fiction 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.
  

  • ENGL 118S SC - Rhyme and Reason in the Renaissance

    This course takes as its focus the growing centrality of literary writing (and specifically poetry) to social, political, and religious commentary in early modern England. We will read texts by authors including Francis Bacon, Margaret Cavendish, John Milton, and George Puttenham with reference to contemporaneous works produced in different geographical (primarily European) locations. Our discussions will consider the role of humanist philosophy and pedagogy in shaping how prominent authors of the period theorized literary writing, and will examine their attempts to use poetry sometimes in making polemical public arguments, and sometimes in retreating from such argumentation altogether.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 119 PO - Graphic Novels

    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.
  

  • ENGL 120 SC - Eighteenth-Century British Literature

    The 18th century was a period of benevolent geniality and vicious satire, stern moralism and weepy sentimentality, the worship of reason, and the fear of madness. It saw the rise of the novel, the near death of the drama, and the stirrings of a new poetry. We shall investigate this age through a reading of major authors, including Pope, Swift, Fielding, Richardson, Sheridan, Johnson, and Austen.

    [formerly ENGL131  SC)

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGl 121 SC - The Satirical Imagination

    Exploration of the long tradition of satire:  literature dedicated to exposing folly, hypocrisy, and human error, and to holding them up for ridicule.  Focus on the crucial era of English satire, the eighteenth century, especially Swift and Pope.  Consideration also of the history of satire, its forms in twentieth-century English fiction and contemporary popular culture, and its moral and political uses and implications.

    [formerly ENGL135  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 122 SC - Gothic Fiction

    A study of the Gothic novel, a literature of extreme emotion that subverted the earlier 18th-century emphasis on reason and helped inaugurate the Romantic period. Readings include works by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew G. Lewis, Charles Robert Maturin, Mary Shelley, William Godwin, Emily Bronte, and Jane Austen.

    [formerly ENGL134  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 122 AF - Healing Narratives

    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.
  

  • ENGL 123 SC - Romantic Literature

    The principal focus of this course will be on the relationship between Romanticism and both the Industrial and French Revolutions. We shall read the poetry, manifestoes and theoretical works of the major Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.  We shall also read novels by Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, as well as prose by Edmund Burke, De Quincey, Hazlitt and William Godwin.

    [formerly ENGL145  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 124 AF - AfroFuturisms

    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.
  

  • ENGL 125 SC - Victorian Novel

    This course studies the English novel from 1840 to 1900, the era of its greatest cultural authority in Britain. Emphasis both on the development of novelistic form (the Victorian narrator, the multi-plot novel, experiments in point of view, the representation of consciousness) and on the novel’s centrality in the representation and critique of nineteenth-century English culture and society (with regard to industrialization, urban experience, political representation, poverty and wealth, imperialism, the role of women in private and public life). Authors include the Brontes, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy.

    [formerly ENGL143  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 125C AF - Introduction to African American Literature: In the African-Atlantic Tradition

    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.
  

  • ENGL 125D AF - Film and Literature of the African Diaspora

    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.
  

  • ENGL 128 PZ - Writing the Body

    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.
  

  • ENGL 129 SC - Literature of the Fin de Siècle

    This course examines the fiction, poetry, and drama of 1880-1905, a period of enormous innovation in literary form and expression.  Study of the major schools and movements of the fin de siecle-symbolism, naturalism, aestheticism, decadence-with emphasis on how the major writers of the period transformed 19th-century conventions into a new modernist vocabulary.  The focus is on British literature, with consideration of Continental writers as well. Authors include Zola, Schreiner, Hardy, Ibsen, Shaw, Huysmans, Wilde, James, and Conrad.

    [formerly ENGL149  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 130 SC - Character and the Novel

    This course studies representations of the individual from ancient to contemporary literature, with primary focus on 19th- and 20th-century fiction. Emphasis on recurring themes and problems inherent in literary characterization: formation of individual identity, representation of consciousness, solitude and the relation of self to society, heroism and anti-heroism, political implications of “representation,” realism of fictional personhood.  Readings in theory and philosophy as well as in fiction and drama. Authors include Austen, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Hardy, Freud, Joyce, Woolf, and Ishiguro.

    [formerly ENGL150  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 130 AF - Topics in 20th Century African Diaspora 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.
  

  • ENGL 131 SC - Modern British Novel

    A study of British fiction of the Modernist period, 1900-1940.  Emphasis on the novels’ formal innovations (in perspective, chronology, language, and frankness) and on their representation of a society in extreme transformation (in light of new theories of self, and of world war).  Authors include Conrad, Ford, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Waugh, and Rhys.

    [formerly ENGL151  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 132 AF - Black Queer Narratives and Theories

    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.
  

  • ENGL 132S SC - Hardy and Lawrence

    This course studies the novels and poems of perhaps the only two writers in the English tradition to be masters of both genres. Emphasis on the interrelations of fiction and poetry: the ways in which the study of the novel and the analysis of verse can be mutually reinforcing rather than discrete. Other topics include sex, obscenity, and censorship; the subject of Englishness and the specifically English literary tradition; modernity and modernism; the problem of influence, especially Hardy’s complex influence on Lawrence. This course meets the senior seminar requirement for Scripps English majors (please see “Senior Requirement in the English major” in the catalog) but is open to all students.

    [formerly ENGL152  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 133S SC - Virginia Woolf

    This seminar provides a comprehensive study of Woolf’s novels and major essays. Topics include: tradition and experiment; time and consciousness; feminism, androgyny, and the woman artist; war and pacifism; Bloomsbury, modernism, and the avant-garde; and Woolf’s immense influence on the course of the English novel. This course meets the senior seminar requirement for Scripps English majors (please see “Senior Requirement in the English major” in the catalog) but is open to all students.

    [formerly ENGL153  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 140 PO - Literature of Incarceration: Writings from No Man’s Land

    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.
  

  • ENGL 141 SC - The Slave Narrative and the Novel of Slavery

    This course explores representations of slavery in slave narratives and novels about slavery from the 17th through the 21st century, paying particular attention to the antebellum period. We will consider the terms on which each genre establishes its authority and claims to be an ideal genre for depicting slavery.

    [formerly ENGL161  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 142 SC - The Early American Novel

    This seminar explores the development of the novel in the United States before 1850 with particular attention to the early national period. The course will focus on the relationship between the novel and early American political culture, considering how the novel’s emergence in the US both shaped and was shaped by contemporary debates about democratic governance. We will consider the rise of the novel in the US in relation to the widespread anxieties about fiction, worries about transgressive sexual behavior, debates about female education, competing theories of national history, discussions of religious difference, and the struggle over slavery.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 143S SC - Literature and Popular Culture in the Antebellum United States

    The years preceding the Civil War saw both the emergence of a distinctive national literature in the US and the rise of mass consumer culture. This upper-level seminar will explore how popular culture shaped American literature: how this era’s literature both grew out of popular culture and defined itself in contradistinction to it. The course will attend to such issues as the emergence of modern social movements, the explosion of writing by and for women, and the popularity of gothic and sensational fiction in the penny press. Readings will encompass both “classic” American literature and the ephemera of antebellum print culture. This course meets the senior seminar requirement for Scripps English majors (please see “Senior Requirement in the English major” in the catalog) but is open to all students.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 144 SC - Melville & Douglass

    This course will focus on an in-depth reading of two major nineteenth-century American writers: Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville. We will explore their writing in relation to the rapidly changing social and political world of the antebellum United States, including the struggle over slavery, the rise of the popular press, the emergence of modern social movements, and the expansion of American empire. We will pay particular attention to these writers’ engagement with different understandings of American democracy. The course will also include readings from other antebellum writers with whom Douglass and Melville were in conversation.

    [formerly ENGL164  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every third year


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

  • ENGL 145 SC - American Women Writers

    This course offers an overview of American women writers of the long nineteenth century (1780s-1930s), with particular attention to the rapid expansion of women’s writing in the antebellum period. Writers studied may include Wheatley, Stowe, Jacobs, Alcott, Dickinson, Wharton, Chopin, Cather, Moore, Hurston, and Stein.

    [formerly ENGL145  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 147 PO - Contemporary Critical Theory

    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.
  

  • ENGL 151 SC - American Modernism

    This seminar will be an in-depth exploration of American literary modernism. We will consider how modernist writers experimented with new literary forms in an attempt to capture the experience of living in a rapidly changing world. Writers studied will include Eliot, Faulkner, Hughes, Stein, Fitzgerald, Hurston, and Barnes.

    [formerly ENGL166  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 153 PO - Chaucer and His World

    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.
  

  • ENGL 157 SC - James Baldwin: Influences and Legacy

    This course examines the work of James Baldwin, his influences, and legacy both in the United States and internationally. It examines Baldwin’s enduring relevance and legacy as one of America’s most foremost 20th century writers whose political ideas continue to be widely cited in an age of unresolved racial tensions in the US.  His works have influenced Nobel laureates (Japan), as well as contemporary writers, playwrights, essayists and filmmakers internationally who continue to see in his corpus a guide, artistically, stylistically and ideologically.  The course thus explores the aesthetics and politics of the James Baldwin in historical and contemporary contexts.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 158 PO - Jane Austen and the Reader

    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.
  

  • ENGL 160 PO - Theories of Authorship

    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.
  

  • ENGL 160S SC - Postwar American Poetry

    This course will examine a variety of influential schools of post-1945 American poetry, including (among others) the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York School, the Black Arts Movement, the Confessional poets, and LANGUAGE poetry. We’ll explore American poetry through a variety of lenses, with the goal of understanding how aesthetic and social practices shape our understanding of the very category of American poetry. This course meets the senior seminar requirement for Scripps English majors (please see “Senior Requirement in the English major” in the catalog) but is open to all students.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 161 SC - The Futures of Asian/America

    This course explores speculative imaginations of Asian/American futures, covering works of classic science fiction, contemporary popular culture, and newer work in “slipstream” literary science fiction. Central to our exploration will be the question of how Asian/America is imagined as a contested site of future hyper-modernity, even as Asia represents a place mired in a timeless past. We’ll explore texts that speculate on transnational futures in relation to imperial pasts, on ecological disasters both global and local, on artificial intelligence and the “post-racial” future, and more, paying particular attention to questions of racial formation and the specific material histories of Asian/Americans.

    [formerly ENGL180  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 162 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality

    This course will explore questions of gender and sexuality in the context of Asian American literature and will investigate how these key terms undergird even the earliest formations of Asian America. The course will investigate this idea through a variety of lenses, focusing on both creative and critical texts.

    [formerly ENGL183  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 163 SC - Contemporary American Graphic Novels

    This course explores the emergence of the graphic novel as a newly “serious” genre, appropriate for literary study. A primary question will be: what is distinctive about the way a graphic novel uses narrative form? Authors may include Alan Moore, Alison Bechdel, Marjane Satrapi, and Chris Ware, among others.

    [formerly ENGL165  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 163 PO - Eliot and Virginia Woolf

    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.
  

  • ENGL 164 AF - Harlem Renaissance

    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.
  

  • ENGL 166 PZ - Writing the Body/Writing Community

    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.
  

  • ENGL 167A CH - Chicano Movement Literature

    Readings in Chicano literature from the 1940s to the 1970s. Special emphasis will be placed on the historical context within which texts are written, i.e., post-World War II and the civil rights era. Recently discovered novels by Americo Paredes and Jovita Gonzalez and the poetry, narrative, and theatre produced during the Chicano/a Movement will be our subjects of inquiry. This course is cross listed as CHLT 126A CH. Taught in English.

    [formerly ENGL184A CH]

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 167B CH - Contemporary Chicana/o Literature

    Beginning with the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back (1981), this survey examines how contemporary Chicana/o literature focuses on questions of identity, specifically gender and sexuality. Theoretical readings in feminism and gay studies will inform our interpretation of texts by Anzaldua, Castillo, Cisneros, Cuadros, Gaspar de Alba, Islas, Moraga, and Viramontes, among others. Cross listed as CHLT 126B CH. Taught in English.

    [formerly ENGL184B CH]

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 167C CH - Contemporary Chicana Literature Seminar

    This seminar analyzes how Chicana writers have negotiated with and against the symbolic inheritance (and the material social consequences) of four Mexican cultural icons of womanhood: La Malinche, La Virgen de Guadalupe, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and La Llorona. Furthermore, the process of icon construction in Mexicano-Chicano culture will be explored by studying post-mortem representations of Selena Quintanilla. Cross-listed as CHLT186 CH. Taught in English.

    [formerly ENGL184C CH]

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 167D CH - Chicana/o Short Fiction

    A wide compendium of short stories written by Mexican Americans or Chicanos will be analyzed, dating from the 1930s to the present day. Diverse approaches—historic, thematic, or regional—will be employed, as well as a focus on subgenres such as adolescent literature or detective fiction. Authors include Daniel Cano, Sandra Cisneros, Jovita Gonzales, Américo Paredes, Albert A. Rios, Gary Soto, and others. Cross listed as CHST184D CH. Taught in English.

    [formerly ENGL184D CH]

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 170A PO - History of the Book

    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.
  

  • ENGL 170J PO - Special Topics in American Literature: Toni Morrison

    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.
  

  • ENGL 171S SC - The Postcolonial Novel

    This course will study the formation of a “postcolonial canon” within English literary studies through examining the form and content of the postcolonial novel. We will query the filiation between the form of the novel and nationalist narratives, as well as how the postcolonial novel has been commodified as “world literature” for Europe and the US. Additionally, we will attend to the way in which historical and political events from the postcolonial (or neocolonial) era are critiqued or registered. The syllabus will include texts by prominent and outsider voices from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, and South Asia. This course meets the senior seminar requirement for Scripps English majors (please see “Senior Requirement in the English major” in the catalog) but is open to all students.

    [formerly ENGL188C SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 172S SC - Queer Postcolonial Literature and Theory

    This course brings together the insights of two theoretical fields—queer studies and postcolonial studies—and examines how race, gender, and sexuality have been (and continue to be) sites of attempted colonial control, as well as anti-colonial contestation. We will read canonical texts in both traditions, as well as new literary representations and critical views from Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. Students will study novels, poetry, film, and photography alongside criticism that engages nationalism, human rights, citizenship, migration, tourism, and performance.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 173 SC - Human Rights and World Literature

    This course introduces human rights via the declarations and legal texts that helped shape them, and the fictional texts that have represented and questioned their violations. Our exploration of how “rights” (and “the human”) have been defined begins in the West and extends to Asia, Africa, and South America.

    [formerly ENGL186  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 175 PZ - Contemporary Chicano/a Literature

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


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

  • ENGL 177 SC - Caribbean Literature and Postcolonial Theory

    This course provides students with the basic tools to apprehend and deploy the main tenets of postcolonial theory as applied to Caribbean Literature. We will read one primary text every one to two weeks along with excerpts of theoretical essays. Our aim will be to ascertain the extent to which theory has informed Caribbean Literature or, conversely, how literature in this area has produced theory. By the semester’s end, students will have acquired an overview of major strands in postcolonial theory and a specific catalogue of achievements in the corpus of Caribbean writers’ literary output.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 180 SC - Seminar in Literary Theory

    This course provides an introduction to literary theory, covering a wide range of critical approaches (Formalist, Feminist, New Historicist, Psychoanalytic, Deconstructive, Marxist, among others), and exploring multiple frameworks for the intensive study of literary texts.

    [formerly ENGL115  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ENGL 182 SC - Politics and Aesthetics

    This course examines how art has been used and theorized in relation to society in the West, Africa, and the Middle East. Through reading aesthetic and political theory, as well as exploring literature and art created for political ends (the protest novel, Black Consciousness poetry, Third Cinema) and “apolitical” art (lyric poetry, the experimental novel), students will analyze the conjuncture of the art work and society, and the ways that the “political” and the “beautiful” fluctuate according to poetic and intellectual tradition.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Biannually


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

  • ENGL 183 SC - Women Explain Themselves: Gendered Prose

    This course examines how gendered literary conventions have shaped and constrained women’s first-person prose across a variety of genres, both fictional and non-fictional, from the seventeenth century through the present. We will investigate how women negotiated these conventions within conversion narratives, slave narratives, novels, autobiography, and essays. And we will pay special attention to how contemporary writers - including non-binary and gender-nonconforming writers - have invoked this literary history in their work. For the final assignment, students will draft and workshop an essay - modeled on readings by Rebecca Solnit, Alice Walker, and others - that fuses literary criticism with personal narrative grounded in gendered experience.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • ENGL 189J PO - Topics in Asian American 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.
  

  • ENGL 191 SC - Poetry Writing Workshop

    This course focuses on the art and craft of writing poetry, with emphasis on the evolution of poetic forms and the relationship between form and content. While the primary work will be on the active, rigorous production of poems, there will also be a good deal of investigative reading.

    [formerly ENGL185P SC]

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission. Interested students should email instructor for details.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ENGL 193 SC - Fiction Writing Workshop

    This course introduces students to the fundamental elements of writing fiction.  Using modern and contemporary stories as a guide, students generate their own work and learn to critique it and revise it in a workshop setting, with an eye toward the completion of two stories at the end of the semester.  Readings include the work of David Sedaris, Lydia Davis, George Saunders, Flannery O’Connor, Amy Hempel, Junot Diaz, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

    [formerly ENGL185F SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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