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 LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!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

English
  

  • ENGL 194S SC - Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop

    This advanced fiction workshop is intended for students who have taken at least one course in fiction writing (ENGL193 or an equivalent course at the Claremont Colleges). By the end of the semester students will complete at least two stories or a single longer work of fiction. 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 196 AF - Major Figures in 20th-Century American Literature: James Baldwin

    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 199 SC - Independent Study in English: Reading and Research

    Course Credit: .50 or 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • ENGL 199T SC - Senior Thesis

    Scripps senior English majors who are taking one of the seminars eligible for the senior requirement (course number ending in S) are concurrently enrolled in this course as well. ENGL199T SC refers to the 30-page thesis that emerges from those seminars.

    [formerly ENGL191  SC]

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Fall or spring, depending on the senior seminar


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

Foreign Languages
  

  • FLAN 101 SC - Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic 2

    This course enables students who have previously taken and successfully completed the Core 3 section entitled “Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic” to continue their teaching experience for one semester. Approval from the teaching site needs to be secured prior to registration.

    Prerequisite(s): CORE 003 Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic  
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FLAN 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FLAN 199 SC - Independent Study

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

French
  

  • FREN 001 SC - Introductory French

    Developing aural, oral, reading, and writing skills. Students taking FREN001 are also required to attend a weekly 45-minute conversation session with a native assistant.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 002 SC - Continued Introductory French

    Study of more advanced grammatical structures and syntax. Intensive practice in speaking, reading, and writing. Students taking FREN002 are also required to attend a weekly 45-minute conversation session with a native assistant.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 001  or French Placement Test
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FREN 022 SC - Intensive Introductory French

    Designed for students with some previous experience in the language who are too advanced for FREN 001 , but do not yet qualify for FREN 002 . Students will fulfill in one semester the equivalent of two semesters (1, 2) and upon completion will enroll directly in FREN 033 . Students taking FREN022 are also required to attend a weekly 45-minute conversation session with a native assistant.

    Prerequisite(s): French Placement Test or spring semester FREN001.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FREN 033 SC - Intermediate French

    Refinement of the four basic skills. Reading in literature. Students taking FREN033 are also required to attend a weekly 45-minute conversation session with a native assistant.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 002 , FREN 022 , or French Placement Test.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FREN 044 SC - Advanced French: Readings in Literature and Civilization

    This course examines the distinctions among literary genres and presents them within an analytical frame. Selections from classical and modern texts from France and the Francophone world as well as films will be discussed with focus on interpretation and comprehension. A review of advanced grammar as well as a weekly 45-minute conversation class will help improve correctness and proficiency in students’ written and oral work.
     

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 033  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FREN 100 SC - French Culture and Civilization

    Through a historical survey of the major characteristics of French civilization, this course will focus on interrelationships between trends in art, history of ideas, political institutions, and social traditions that have shaped modern France. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 104 SC - History, Memory, and Loss: Vichy (1940-45) in Contemporary France

    In the late 1960s, France started to come to terms with its Fascist past and its complicity with the Holocaust. This course examines why and how French collective memory was reshaped a generation after the end of World War II. We will look at works by historians like Paxton, Rousso, Azema and Wieviorka; writers like Modiano, Duras, Raczymov, Finkielkraut; and filmmakers like Malle, Ophüls, Resnais, Lanzmann, and Losey.  Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 106 SC - The French Business World and its Language

    While focusing on French business culture and familiarizing the students with Français des Affaires parlance, this course will be an introduction to the French economy, the French corporate ambience, marketing and management in France, the French business environment, and France’s international trade milieu. In addition to textbook materials, current articles from leading French magazines as well as French television programs and DVDs will be used. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 107 SC - Headline News: Advanced Oral Expression and Composition in Current Events and Culture

    This course aims to intensively upgrade oral and written skills at the advanced level, and is organized around a series of cultural readings as well as current events topics relating to France and the francophone world. Students will be exposed to various discursive modes and stylistic forms. French-language plays, newscasts, television programs, film clips, and websites, as well as newspaper and magazine articles will serve as the subject material for this speaking- and writing-intensive course. In semesters when French 100 is not offered, this course will fulfill the French 100 major requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 110 PO - Contemporary French 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.
  

  • FREN 110 SC - Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité? France and the Crises of Globalization

    As elsewhere in the world, neoliberal globalization in France has created winners and losers, resulting in the exacerbation of economic, social, and racial inequalities. The backlash against globalization has taken many forms, from the rise of nationalist populism and its anti-immigrant, anti-European Union sentiments on the far-right, to protest movements such as “Nuit-Debout” on the far-left. To understand these developments, we will explore: recent industrial dislocations; immigration in the postwar period; the legacy of French colonialism; Islam in France; the “banlieues” as a site of contestation; the recent refugee crisis; Charlie-Hebdo and other recent terrorist attacks and their aftermaths. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every three years


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

  • FREN 111 SC - French Cinema: Images of Women in French Film

    This course will concentrate on three aspects of the role of women in French film in order to define the relationship between women as icons (larger-than-life images in the collective fantasy of a certain “Frenchness”), women as subjects, and, finally, women as creators of film. Appropriate readings in French will be assigned. Some films may be shown without subtitles; discussion and written work will be in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 113 SC - Banned in France: Censorship Debates in Eighteenth-Century France

    This course considers key ideas and cultural debates of the French Enlightenment by pivoting between the eighteenth century and the present day. Three questions guide our readings and discussions: “Can religion be laughed at?” “How and why is sex and sexual violence discussed in public?” “Can theater change, or merely reflect ideas?” Our purpose is not to find definitive answers, but to understand and critically assess how texts grapple with these questions in the eighteenth century and today. Readings will include Diderot, Gouges, Rousseau, Voltaire, and a range of current texts, from press articles to scholarly essays.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every three years


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

  • FREN 114 SC - Reality Matters: Exploring “Le Cinéma du Réel”

    Nonfiction cinema does not simply represent our historical world. It makes claims about it. It engages with reality. And like many other forms of art, it aspires to transform reality by changing the way we see it. Using French and Francophone films as examples, this course will explore the diversity of ways in which, since its inception in 1895 and the Lumiere brothers’ 50 second films, ”Le Cinéma du Réel” has not ceased to reinvent itself, becoming today one of the most protean forms of cultural intervention. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN100 SC  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every three years


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

  • FREN 117 CM - Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 118 SC - Being French From Paris to Montreal

    This course explores Quebec’s cultural identity and its relationship to French culture through novels, films, humorists, singers, poets and cultural guides. This class investigates the relationship of France and Quebec via a multi-faceted analysis and uncovers what, in their respective system of values, makes both societies remarkably and perhaps intolerably French. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s):  FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 120 CM - Order and Revolt in French Literature

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 121 SC - The Politics of Love

    Through a survey of classic works of French literature and cinema, we will examine how the social functions and economic imperatives of the institution of marriage evolved from the Middle-Ages to the present. The course will underscore the different ways in which these great French love stories reflect upon, and at times overtly critique, the policing of human desire and love according to patriarchal and exclusionary norms. Literary texts include Tristan & Yseut, Don Juan, Manon Lescaut, Madame Bovary, and L’Amant; theorists include De Beauvoir, Foucault, Irigaray, Barthes, Bourdieu. Films include Le Retour de Martin Guerre, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Les Enfants du Paradis, Ma Vie en rose, and La Captive. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 122 SC - French Women Writers from Marie de France to Madame de La Fayette

    A survey of women writers of Medieval, Renaissance, and Classical France, including Christine de Pisan, Marie de France, Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labe, Madame de La Fayette and Madame de Sevigne. Poetry, novels, short stories, and fairy tales will exemplify the status of women and its evolution from the Middle Ages to 1700. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent. 
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 123 SC - Representations of the Self: From Rousseau to Lévi-Strauss

    An examination of autobiography and its claim to autonomy as a literary genre. The point of departure for the course will be a selection of the autobiographical writings of Rousseau. Other texts to be studied will include works by Stendhal, Valles, Gide, and Sartre. We will also discuss contemporary developments in the genre that are taking it in a completely nontraditional direction. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 124 SC - The Novelist and Society in France

    A study of the major trends in the French novel from the 17th-century to the present. Particular attention will be given to the social and intellectual factors that influenced the evolution of the tradition of the novel in France. Readings and discussions may include novels by Madame de La Fayette, Diderot, Constant, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Stendhal, Maupassant, Gide, Camus, and Duras. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent. 
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 125 SC - The French Detective and Classic Crime Fiction

    French mystery novels are steeped in crime, grime, and wine. And they abound in evocative detective figures. Some of these sleuths, such as Vidocq (1809), are felons turned policemen while others, such as Arsène Lupin (1905), are themselves masters of the caper. Maigret from the 1930s emerged as the compassionate lawman of the people, Nestor Burma from the 1950s as the ultimate hard-boiled private detective whereas Commissaire Adamsberg, from the 1990s, is the puzzle-solving dreamer. Through a selection of short stories, novel and graphic novels, TV and film, we will examine how French mystery novels explore and construct Gallic wit, personality, and social mores from the 1800s to today. Course is taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN044 SC  or equivalent required.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every three years


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

  • FREN 127 SC - Films de Femmes: French Contemporary Women Directors

    The first film director ever in the history of narrative cinema was a French woman, Alice Guy-Blaché who, starting in 1896, made over a thousand films. Even though early precursors like Guy-Blaché were often erased from film history, women directors in France have a long tradition to draw from. It is this tradition of women film-making that we will explore in this course, focusing in particular on a new generation of women directors who today are revitalizing contemporary French cinema. Directors to be studied will include: Dulac, Duras, Varda, Akerman, Kurys, Sciamma, Denis, Zlotowski, Labrune, Maïwenn, Jaoui, Hansen-Love, Quillevéré, Benguigui.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every three years


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

  • FREN 130 SC - French Theater from Text to Stage I: Theatricality and “Mise en Scène.”

    This course will examine major plays of the French theatrical canon from a performance perspective. The role of the characters as actors inside their play will be central to our investigation. Textual analysis as well as performance of selected scenes constitute the focus of this course. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 131 SC - French Theater from Text to Stage II: The Tragic and Comic Muse

    This course proposes to investigate the nature of tragedy and comedy and their subsequent fusion in the Nouveau Theatre phenomenon of the post-war period in France. Major plays from the French dramatic canon will be the object of our study. In addition to examining analytical and theoretical issues related to tragedy and comedy, students will perform scenes from the plays studied in the course. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 132 CM - Introduction to North African Literature (after Independence)

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 137 CM - The Algerian War and the French Intelligentsia

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 141 SC - Medieval French Literature, Culture, and Language

    A survey of some of the major texts in French Medieval narrative literature. Each text will be studied for its intrinsic literary merits, and for the particular aspect of medieval culture it reflects. Modern French versions of the texts will be used, but for each text an excerpt will be studied linguistically in the original. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 151 PO - Men, Women, and Power

    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.
  

  • FREN 154 SC - The 18th Century Novel: Experimentations in Form

    The 18th century in France marked one of the great periods in the development of the novel. The vitality characteristic of this genre was due to a great extent to the novelists’ awareness of narrative techniques and to their willingness to experiment with diverse modes of novelistic form. In this course, problems of narration will be studied in the works of L’Abbe Prevost, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, and Sade. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 155 SC - Nature/Culture; Government/Utopia: Political Writings of the 18th Century

    A study of attempts by 18th-century authors from Montesquieu to the Revolution to describe ideal forms of social and political organization, as well as “natural” alternatives to “cultural” systems. Political writings by Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire, and articles of the Encyclopédie, excerpts from L’Esprit des lois, and the Voyage de Bougainville will be discussed during the first half of the course; the latter half will be devoted to texts from the Revolutionary period, including selections from Danton, Robespierre, Sade, and Babeuf. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 160 SC - Hugo, Women, and the French Revolution

    This class looks at the French Revolution through Victor Hugo’s novel Quatre-Vingt-Treize and the lives and writings of outstanding women of the era. It explores the representation of the guillotine as a “feminine” arm of justice and the rise of Marianne as a national symbol. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 170 SC - The Mad Artist in French Literature (1830-1930)

    A misunderstood artist paints a materpiece, destroys it, and then ends his or her life. This myth of the mad artist is the basis of 19th century French novels by Balzac, Mirbeau, Zola, Rachilde, and Sand. This course investigates the perceived historical, literary, and neurological connections between insanity and creativity.

    Offered: Fall 2014


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

  • FREN 171 SC - Aesthetics, Society, and Thematic Structures in the 19th-Century Novel in France

    A study of the works of Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola. The course will examine such problems as the evolution in techniques of description and characterization, the relationship of the individual to society, and the representation of women. Emphasis will be placed on the novel as a work of art reflecting the social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic consciousness of an era. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 173 SC - Wit and Ridicule in the French Salon

    This course will examine the role of wit and its counterpart, ridicule, in nineteenth century French society through an analysis of Stendhal’s novel Le Rouge et le noir, Balzac’s novel Illusions perdues, Patrice Leconte’s film Ridicule. We will explore how wit is characterized in these works and investigate the role of language in social success and self-definition. We will also consider the process by which France’s national identity became tied to its language and how wit arose as an aristocratic value and came to embody key cultural capital. The course will include critical readings as well (Hesse, Lilti, Corbin, Foucault). Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 175 PO - Writing the Exotic

    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.
  

  • FREN 176 SC - “Voyage et Exotisme”

    A search for a new definition of the poetic function, the expression of the quest for the reality of Self through the experience of the Other characterizes the renewal of the traditional theme of the journey as self-discovery in late 19th- and early 20th-century French literature. The significance of this trend will be studied in prose and poetic works of major writers. Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. 

    Prerequisite(s): FREN044 SC  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 179 SC - French Love Affairs: An Introduction to Proust

    This class presents Proust’s celebrated novel A la recherche du temps perdu  through the themes of women and love. The goal is to provide a lively and multi-faceted introduction to Proust that will foster understanding of his work, of early-century social culture, and of the novel as a genre.  Satisfies the pre-1900 requirement. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 182 SC - Contemporary Fiction in French

    What are Francophone people reading and writing about today? This course will examine works by major novelists writing in French in the latter part of the 20th century. These include Georges Perec, Patrick Modiano, Jean Echenoz, Jean-Marie Le Clézio, Annie Ernaux, (France), but also Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Anne Hébert (Quebéc), Marima Bâ (Sénégal), and Assia Djebar (Algeria). Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 183 CM - The Novel in France Since 1945

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 184 SC - Portrait of Two Voices: Marguerite Yourcenar and Marguerite Duras

    An in-depth study of 20th-century French literature through the works of two of its major writers. Although usually situated at opposite ends of the literary spectrum, the works of the neo-classicist Yourcenar and the unclassifiable Duras (novelist, essayist, film-maker) can both be defined and examined as the paradoxical attempt to create the “portrait of voices” now silent. Special attention will be given to their protagonists’ relation to the past, to the issues of private vs. public history, and the fictionalization of history. Discussion of novels, films, and interviews in book and video form. Taught in French.

    Prerequisite(s): FREN 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 191 SC - Senior Thesis

     The culmination of a student’s French major, the thesis requires her to think creatively, analytically, and critically about a topic of her choice in consultation with the French faculty. Students propose their topic at an early fall thesis meeting and present a minimum of their first chapter upon return from winter recess. Whereas regular theses are generally 10,000 to 15,000 words (40-70 pages double-spaced), honors thesis are approximately 17,000 to 25,000 words (75-100 pages double-spaced). Senior theses are written in French. If a student is a dual major, the requirement to write in French may be waived if the second reader does not read French.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FREN 199 SC - Independent Study in French Studies: Reading and Research

     In extraordinary circumstances and only for the most advanced student, an independent study course may be requested on a topic not available in the curriculum. Students must seek permission from the relevant faculty member.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  

  • FGSS 026 SC - Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

    This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Issues to be covered may include: transnational, intersectional and antiracist approaches and methodologies; the social construction of gender and sexuality; the gender and sexual politics of everyday life; and the gender and sexual politics of colonialisms, imperialisms, nationalisms and decoloniality. Required for Majors and Minors.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FGSS 036 SC - Introduction to Queer Studies

    This course introduces students to queer theory. Issues to be covered may include: heteronormativity, performativity, queer theory in a transnational context, and queer of color critique.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 179 SC - South Asian Feminisms

    This class will explore feminist, queer and gender-justice movements in contemporary South Asian contexts paying special attention to intersectional questions of caste, class, religion, nationalisms, state violence and militarism. It will examine various regional and national social movements organized from Muslim, Dalit, Adivasi, queer, transgender feminist perspectives. Working class and rural experiences will also be emphasized. Tensions and faultiness between various kinds of feminisms in specific “women’s movements” will be analyzed. Particular attention will be paid to critiques and revisionings offered through the perspectives of historically marginalized communities.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • FGSS 181 SC - Feminisms in Community: Community Engagement with Incarcerated Women

    This course will introduce students to the practice and principles of feminist community engagement. The course will focus on issues of gender, sexuality, race, class, and incarceration, and on critiques of the prison-industrial complex. Students will take part in a community-writing workshop in the California Institution for Women (prison). 

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC   or by instructor permission
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 182 SC - Feminist Intersectional Pedagogies: Learning Grassroots Leadership Practices

    This course is modeled on the democratic creative processes that brought about “INCITE!” and “This Bridge Called My Back.” Students will interact with grassroots organizing models of leadership that foster feminist intersectional pedagogies. This course discusses processes by which feminist intersectional spaces are constructed, negotiated, sustained, and also co-opted.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS187 SC  or POLI128 SC  or permission of Professor
    Offered: Every year


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

  • FGSS 183 SC - Sciences from “Below”: Feminist and Queer Conceptions

    This course engages how women of color feminisms and queer of color critique reorient conceptions of life from “below” to challenge discourses that pathologize minoritarian subjects. It will prepare students to consider the ethics of representing life within the Sciences and the Humanities.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Yearly


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

  • FGSS 184 SC - Feminist Theories: Antiracist, Postcolonial and Queer Critiques

    We will explore intersectional feminist and queer theories as produced by U.S. women and trans people of color, and native, transnational and postcolonial scholars. We will explore debates about “difference” (of race, gender, sexualities, class, religion, nation etc.) as emerging through colonial rule, settler colonialism, and contemporary imperialism. Required for majors.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC   or by instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 186 SC - The Imperial University: Antiracist Feminisms and Student Movements in U.S. Higher Education

    This course will focus on the organizational structures of U.S. college and university systems with comparative emphasis between public and private institutions. Secondly, it will explore historical and contemporary student-led social movements and the issues they have raised about war, foreign policy, labor, debt, institutional racism and academic freedom.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • FGSS 187J SC - Women and the Writing of Science

    This seminar course will consider the role of women in early modern and Enlightenment science as the objects of scientific inquiry and women as scientists or natural philosophers. Reading topics will include: anatomy, astronomy, mathematics, and physical sciences, along with contemporary theory on gender, science, and cultures of pre-1800 Europe. This course is cross-listed as ENGL178 SC .

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 188 SC - Advanced Topics in Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies

    This course explores a current topic in feminist and/or queer studies and the history and cultural politics of genders and sexualities. Topics of study may include: queer feminists of color critique; indigeneities; antiracisms and intersectionality; colonialism and decoloniality; law and the criminal justice system; race, law and sexualities, queer popular culture, queer nationalisms and transnationalisms. Required for FGSS Majors.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC  or by instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FGSS 188E SC - The Queer Transpacific: Sinophone Cultures and Race/Ethnicity in Asian America

    This course draws together emergent scholarship in transpacific studies and sinophone studies with Asian American studies and queer studies. It attends to how the hemispheric Americas and Asia Pacific regions have been shaped by the United States and China, respectively and concomitantly. We trace overlapping histories of U.S.-European interventions into Asia Pacific, Pacific militarizations, Chinese empire, and modern Chinese nation-state building led by Han ethnonationalisms. Focusing on transpacific crossings and the production of “sinophone cultures” in history, popular culture, science, and tourism, this course applies queer analyses to investigate how the U.S. and China produce one another as analogous “others.”

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • FGSS 189 SC - Feminist & Queer Research Methods: Anti-Racist Perspectives

    This course introduces students to the ethics and methods of research through feminist, queer, and antiracist lenses.  Particular emphasis will be paid to what this means in fieldwork, community-engagement and advocacy in regional, national and transnational contexts. Required for FGSS Majors.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC  or by instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FGSS 190 SC - Feminist and Queer Pedagogies

    Geared toward seniors writing theses, this course examines antiracist, feminist, and queer pedagogies as praxes. We explore theories and practices that challenge racial, gendered, sexual, and other assumptions of knowing and authorship. We experiment with collective strategies for learning and writing to reconfigure power relations inside and outside the classroom. Required for Majors.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC   or instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FGSS 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Thesis is an original investigation on a topic in Feminst, Gender, and Sexuality Studies within the discipline of concentration, completed under the guidance of the reader in the department of concentration and a reader in the Scripps Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FGSS 192 SC - Antiracist Feminist and Queer Praxis: Theory, Ethics and Social Action

    This course will explore intersectional, antiracist and queer feminist activisms as reflecting both theory and practice. It will interrogate concepts like altruism, “the savior complex,” coalitions, “internalized oppression,” allyship and solidarity. Feminist ethics and the geopolitics of the local/global will be emphasized. Required for Majors.

    Prerequisite(s): FGSS026 SC   or by instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • FGSS 193 SC - Field Work Experience

    Some fieldwork or internship experience involving women’s issues is required. In consultation with the adviser, students will select the most appropriate means by which to fulfill this requirement. It might be fulfilled during the school year or summer as an internship, independent study, volunteer work, fieldwork as part of a senior thesis, or as part of another course. Pass/Fail. Noncredit course.

    Offered: Every year


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

  • FGSS 199 SC - (Un/Re) Learning STEM Education

    The objective of this student self-designed course is to examine and deconstruct science, technology, engineer, and math (STEM) education through an anti-racist, anti-imperialist, intersectional feminist lens to address systems of power and difference, such as race, gender, sexuation, class, and dis/ability.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: One-time


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

  • GWS 180 PO - Transnational Feminist 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.
  

  • GWS 181 PO - Feminist Community Engagement: Bridging Theory with Praxis

    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.
  

  • GWS 190 PO - Senior Seminar in Gender and Women’s 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.
  
  
  
  

Geology
  

  • GEOL 110 PO - Looking at the Earth: Using GIS and Images from Space to Explore our Environment

    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.
  

  • GEOL 111A PO - Introduction to GIS

    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.
  

  • GEOL 112 PO - Remote Sensing

    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.
  

  • GEOL 125 PO - Earth History

    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.

German
  

  • GERM 001 SC - Elementary German 1

    Acquisition of basic oral communication, survey of German grammar, practice in reading and writing, weekly conversation classes with a native speaker.
     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • GERM 002 SC - Elementary German 2

    Acquisition of basic oral communication, survey of German grammar, practice in reading and writing, weekly conversation classes with a native speaker.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM001 SC  or the equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • GERM 010 PO - Introduction to the Study of Language

    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.
  

  • GERM 022 SC - Accelerated Introductory German

    Accelerated introduction to basic structure; intensive practice in reading and writing, weekly conversation with a native speaker. 

    Prerequisite(s): Placement examination. Students who have completed either GERM001 or GERM002 are not eligible to enroll.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasional fall


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

  • GERM 033 SC - Intermediate German

    Emphasis on developing reading ability. Extensive review of grammar; continuing acquisition of new vocabulary and conversational skills, weekly conversation classes with a native speaker.
     

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 002  , GERM 022  , or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • GERM 044 SC - Advanced German

    Emphasis on correct idiomatic writing. Essays every other week, oral work, and grammar review.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 033  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • GERM 101 SC - Introduction to German Culture

    Concepts of culture have long been the object of intellectual inquiry. The course will introduce students to some of the most compelling issues and debates in German culture through fiction, criticism, and philosophy, as well as film and the visual arts. The presentation of materials is exemplary rather than comprehensive and is based on thematic, historical, generic, etc., units.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 101B SC - Vienna Modernism

    In the decades between 1880 and 1910, Vienna emerged as one of the birthplaces of European modernism. This class offers an introduction to the city’s vibrant turn-of-the-century culture. We will discuss the work of playwrights, poets, and philosophers, visual artists, composers, and architects against the backdrop of the political and social climate of the Hapsburg monarchy’s final years. Décadence and psychoanalysis, aestheticism and Kaffeehausliteratur are but a few of the many essentially Viennese and radically modern ideas the course will explore. Taught in German.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM044 SC  
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • GERM 101C SC - Introduction to German Culture: Pop and Protest in Fiction and Film

    This course will examine German-language film and fiction that emerged out of the student movements and countercultures from the 1960s onwards. We will consider the ways in which new models of artistic expression sought to combine political engagement and consumerist enjoyment.

    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • GERM 102 SC - Introduction to German Literature

    This course introduces major literary movements in the German language from the 18th to the 21st century. Through close readings of short prose, poetry, and drama, we will consider how German literature has engaged with social and cultural upheavals including the Englightenment, industrialization, war, revolution, and consumerism. Readings and discussions in German.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044  or instructor permission 
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 103 SC - Introduction to German Media and Film

    This course introduces students to some of the most compelling issues and debates in German culture through various forms of media, including film and television, music, advertising and the visual arts. The presentation of materials is exemplary rather than comprehensive and based on thematic, historical, generic and other units.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044  or equivalent. For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 104 PO - Introduction to German Composition

    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.
  

  • GERM 105 SC - Berlin Stories

    This literature and film course explores diverse roles played by Berlin in recent cultural history: a laboratory for urban modernity, a flashpoint of cold war politics, a haven for counter cultures, and a site of cross-cultural encounters in a multicultural Europe. We will study short prose and films.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 . For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 128 PO - Multicultural Germany

    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.
  

  • GERM 151 PO - Modern German Poetry

    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.
  

  • GERM 152 PO - Drama as Experiment

    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.
  

  • GERM 154 SC - Great German Fiction

    This course introduces students to some of the greatest works of 19th-and 20th-century German literature. Close reading of literary works by such authors as Kleist, Keller, Mann, Rilke, Kafka, Hesse, Böll, Frisch, Grass, Wolf, and others is combined with key ideas of selected representatives of the German intellectual tradition: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, and others.

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044 . For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 177 SC - The Pact with the Devil

    No other figure in Western literature has so embodied the intellectual and moral conditions of modern Europeans as has Faust; and nowhere else is the fascination—and ambivalence regarding evil—more prevalent than in the artistic and literary incarnations of this legendary character. In addition to works by Marlowe, Goethe, and Bulgakov, the many faces of evil will be traced in the visual arts, opera, and folk tales. This course is taught in English.

    Prerequisite(s): For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • GERM 189 SC - German Across the Curriculum (GAC)

    Offered as a German language component to courses in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences at The Claremont Colleges. Also offered as a German language component to German Department courses taught in English. May be repeated for credit. 

    Prerequisite(s): GERM 044  or permission of the German instructor. For admission to literature and culture courses, GERM 044  or the equivalent is normally required.
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Annually


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

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