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Course Descriptions

Course descriptions are provided for course offerings at Scripps College and courses available 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 Chicanx-Latinx Studies.

Please refer to the Schedule of Courses on the Scripps Portal published each semester by the Registrar’s Office for real-time information on course offerings.

All courses are 1.0 credit unless otherwise stated.
 

Media Studies
  

  • MS 045 PZ - Documentary Media

    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.
  

  • MS 046 PZ - Feminist Documentary Production and Theory

    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.
  

  • MS 049 SC - Introduction to Media Studies

    This course presents a comprehensive view of the issues important to media studies, including the development of new technologies, visual literacy, ideological analysis and the construction of content. Students will read theory, history and fiction; view films and television programs; and write research and opinion papers. This course is offered in alternating years at Scripps, Pitzer, and Pomona Colleges.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 050 PZ - Introduction to 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.
  

  • MS 051 PZ - Introduction to Digital Media Studies

    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.
  

  • MS 051 SC - Introduction to Digital Media Studies

    An interdisciplinary introduction to digital and electronic media, exploring the relationships between “old” and “new” media forms, the historical development of computer-based communication and the ways that new technologies are reshaping literature, art, journalism, and the social world.
     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MS 057 SC - Introduction to Game Design

    This course serves as an introduction to the foundations of game design. Talking about games may conjure memories of Sonic and Mario, but gaming long precedes the digital forms we know today. Games are as old as any human art form and exist across every culture; playful behavior even precedes human language. In this course we will explore this question through a formal approach, focusing on game design as a creative and cultural practice with deep history and common principles that can be studied, practiced and effectively enacted. In this setting, game design does not require mastery of code nor a life-long obsession with games. Rather, like other aesthetic and experiential forms, game design has fundamentals that may apply across media, platforms and contexts.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MS 060 HM - Documentary: Fact and Fiction

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 069 PZ - Media Praxis Ontario

    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.
  

  • MS 070 PZ - Media and Social Change

    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.
  

  • MS 071 PZ - Video Art

    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.
  

  • MS 074 PZ - Sound Theory, Sound Practice

    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.
  

  • MS 076 PZ - Gender and Genre

    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.
  

  • MS 079 PZ - Silent 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.
  

  • MS 080 PZ - Video and Diversity

    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.
  

  • MS 082 PZ - Introduction to Video

    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.
  

  • MS 083 PZ - Contemporary Practices in Media

    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.
  

  • MS 084 PZ - Handmade 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.
  

  • MS 087 PZ - Media Sketchbook

    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.
  

  • MS 088 PZ - Mexican Visual Cultures

    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.
  

  • MS 091 PZ - History of American Broadcasting

    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.
  

  • MS 093 PZ - Experimental Media Practice

    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.
  

  • MS 099 PZ - Advanced Editing

    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.
  

  • MS 100 AA - Asian Americans in Media: A Historical Survey

    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.
  

  • MS 110 PZ - Media and Sexuality

    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.
  

  • MS 111 PZ - Perspectives on Photography

    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.
  

  • MS 112 PZ - Anthropology of Media

    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.
  

  • MS 114 PZ - Film Sound

    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.
  

  • MS 115 PZ - Topics in Sound 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.
  

  • MS 116 PZ - Screen 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.
  

  • MS 117 PZ - Fan Culture and Celebrity

    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.
  

  • MS 127S HM - Harmony of Sound and Light

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 130 SC - New Media Research Studio

    New Media Research Studio is a class dedicated to the applied and participatory study of new media, materials, environments and platforms.  It uses the term “new” to pivot around the historical conditions and everyday practices of contemporary media.  Students will explore the social, cultural, economic, and political dimension of phenomena such as social media, mobile gaming, live streaming, digital fabrication, internet art, automation, and augmented reality.  Through immersive independent investigations that will take the form of “travelogues,” they will learn how to define and develop projects that employ historical, ethnographic, and artistic methods of research and production.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 SC , MS 050 PZ , MS 051 SC , and an Introductory Production class in Media Studies
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MS 132 SC - Theories of Interaction: Games as Media

    This course explores cultural techniques and technologies of interaction, including but not limited to games, motion capture, and virtual reality.  This semester, we will use the topic of games to unpack notions of interaction within a productive set of limits.  Games are interactive media.  And more and more, they are everywhere.  While Eric Zimmerman calls our present moment the “ludic century,” Alex Galloway describes it as “an era of ludic capitalism.”  In this moment, making and playing games ranges across the personal, political, professional, prescribed, and performative.  Students will explore central questions in media theory and game studies while developing projects about formal, material, technical, social, and theoretical understandings of interaction.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 SC , MS 050 PZ , or MS 051 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MS 135 PZ - Learning from YouTube

    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.
  

  • MS 136 PZ - Online Feminist Spaces

    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.
  

  • MS 137 PZ - Media Archives

    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.
  

  • MS 147 PO - Topics in Media Theory I

    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.
  

  • MS 147D PO - Theories of the Visual

    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.
  

  • MS 147H PO - Reality, Realism, and the Real

    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.
  

  • MS 148A PO - Surveillance and the Media: Observation, Power, and Control

    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.
  

  • MS 148A PO - Topics in Media Theory 1

    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.
  

  • MS 148B PO - Drone 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.
  

  • MS 148C PO - Media, Space, and Power: Cultural and Political Geographies of the Media

    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.
  

  • MS 149 PO - Topics in Media 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.
  

  • MS 149E PO - The Brief History of Film 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.
  

  • MS 149S PO - Street Theories, Precarious Desires (CP)

    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.
  

  • MS 170 HM - Digital Cinema

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 173 HM - Exile in Cinema

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 179 HM - Special Topics in Media Studies

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 179D HM - Special Topics in Media Studies: Species of Cinema

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 180 SC - Junior Seminar in Media Studies Production

    The Junior Seminar in Media Studies Production is a studio/seminar course that prepares majors for their senior thesis project and exhibition. The course surveys contemporary practices, explores current issues, and fosters interdisciplinary thinking and production in film/video and digital/electronic art. Course material (including readings, screenings, discussions, guest speakers, and off-campus field trips) will enable students to situate their own work within the larger context of the independent media art world. Research, writing methods and critiques will help students to better understand, give meaning to, and publicize their practice. Students will be expected to make presentations and produce a final research paper or a final project with an accompanying paper.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Once Annually


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

  • MS 182 HM - Introduction to Video Art

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 182S HM - Introduction to Video Production

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 190 JT - Senior Seminar in Media Studies

    This is a team-taught thesis- and project-based seminar to be taken during the fall semester of the senior year. This seminar will emphasize the development of a senior exercise in one of the three tracks: film/video, critical studies, and digital/ electronic. Students in the critical studies or critical studies: film studies option will develop a major writing project that may be used in conjunction with their senior thesis in the spring. Students in the film/video and digital/electronic tracks will complete an approved project and a major paper about their work or area of concentration. The course prepares students with the skills and knowledge to continue their Media Studies practice and research post-graduation.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 191 JT - Senior Thesis in Media Studies

     This course meets the senior thesis requirement for those Scripps’ Media Studies majors chosen to attempt honors in the major and completing concentrations in Critical Studies or Critical Studies: Film Studies option. Prerequisites: MS 190 JT and Media Studies faculty approval of honors proposal.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 190 JT  and Media Studies faculty approval of honors proposal.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 192 JT - Senior Project in Media Studies

    This course meets the senior project requirement for those Scripps Media Studies majors chosen to attempt honors in the major and completing concentrations in Film/Video or Digital/Electronic Media.  

    Prerequisite(s):   MS 190 JT  and Media Studies faculty approval of honors proposal.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 192H SC - Honors Senior Project in Media Studies

    This course meets the senior project requirement for those Scripps’ Media Studies majors chosen to attempt honors in the major and completing concentrations in film/video or digital/electronic media.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 190  JT and Media Studies faculty approval of honors proposal.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 193 PZ - Directed Reading or Study in Media

    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.
  

  • MS 194 PZ - Media Arts for Social Justice

    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.
  

  • MS 196 PZ - Media Internship

    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.
  

  • MS 197 HM - Directed Reading/Research

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MS 197 PZ - Media Praxis

    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.
  

  • MS 199 SC - Independent Study: Media Studies

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Music
  

  • MUS 003 SC - Fundamentals of Music

    In this course the student learns elementary concepts of melody, rhythm, harmony, and notation. Basic principles of sight-singing and reading music are included. No previous musical experience is required. This course, or its equivalent, is a prerequisite for MUS 101 SC - Music Theory I , and also will satisfy the fine arts requirement. Offered fall and spring.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall semester


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

  • MUS 035 PO - Pomona College Band

    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.
  

  • MUS 037 PO - Jazz Ensemble

    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.
  

  • MUS 041 PO - Balinese Gamelan Ensemble

    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.
  

  • MUS 049 HM - American Gamelan Ensemble

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 058 PO - Beethoven/Sphere of Influence

    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.
  

  • MUS 060 PO - History of Jazz

    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.
  

  • MUS 061 PO - Musical Theatre in America

    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.
  

  • MUS 062 PO - Survey of American Music

    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.
  

  • MUS 063 HM - Music and Peoples of the World

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 065 PO - Introduction to World Music

    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.
  

  • MUS 066 SC - Music Cultures of the World

    This course offers an introductory survey of selected musical traditions from geographical areas such as Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. It examines structure, content, materials, and performance contexts of local musics, and the broader role music plays in society as it relates to ethnicity, gender, religion, and politics.  This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 068 PO - Listening to American Popular Music

    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.
  

  • MUS 070 PO - Introduction to Ethnomusicology

    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.
  

  • MUS 081 JM - Introduction to Music: Sound and Meaning

    This course explores important works of western music from diverse historical epochs through listening and selected readings. Elements of music, basic musical terminology, and notation are discussed. Attention is given to the relation of the arts—especially music—to culture and society. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 085 SC - Group Piano

    Beginning and intermediate instruction in a digital piano lab setting with groups consisting of no more than nine students. Emphasis on performing solo and duet repertoire as well as learning to sight read, transpose, and provide harmonic accompaniment. Repeatable for credit 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits.

    Formerly MUS 085A, 085B, 085C, and 085D.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • MUS 088 HM - Introduction to Computer Music

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • MUS 089 SC - Group Voice

    Voice instruction classes consisting normally of four to six students. A study of vocal literature and technique with emphasis on the fundamentals of music necessary for the beginning to intermediate singer. Repeatable for credit 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits.


    Formerly MUS 089A, 089B, 089C, 089D.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • MUS 091 PO - Perception, Mind and Modern Sound

    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.
  

  • MUS 092 SC - Voice for Musical Theatre

    This course is a study of techniques of applied voice and their application to American musical theatre and American popular song traditions. Participation in scheduled class meetings and performance labs is required. Half-hour weekly lessons(H)earn half-course credit per semester. Repeatable 8 times for a maximum of 4.0 course credits. Credits do not count toward the music major.

    Prerequisite(s): Audition/permission of instructor required.
    Corequisite(s): MUS 003 SC  is recommended, but not required.
    Fee: $75.00 course fee
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • MUS 096A PO - Electronic Music Studio

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 096B PO - Electronic Music Studio

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 101 SC - Music Theory I

    The study of tonal harmony and counterpoint primarily based on 18thcentury principles. Analyses of examples from literature and written exercises leading to the composition of short works based on models are combined with basic musicianship skills (ear training, sight-singing, and keyboard harmony). This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 003 SC  or equivalent
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually in the fall


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

  • MUS 102 SC - Music Theory II

    The continuation of Theory I with a study of basic chromatic harmony and introduction to the analysis of 18th century forms.

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 101 SC  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually in the spring


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

  • MUS 103 SC - Music Theory III

    A study of chromatic harmony, analysis of musical forms of the 19th and early 20th centuries (e.g. piano prelude, sonata, lied, Broadway song), and composition of original works based on formal models.

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 102 SC  or equivalent
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • MUS 104 SC - Music Literature and Analysis Since 1900

    A historical and analytical study of music composed after 1900, focusing on harmonic and contrapuntal practices as well as advanced analytic techniques.

    Prerequisite(s): MUS 102  or by permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • MUS 110A SC - Music in Western Civilization

    In the first semester, this course will be a study of music from the Ancient World through the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. In the second semester, this course will be a study of music from the Classical, Romantic, and 20th-century periods. Interdisciplinary relationships to other arts will be examined in a historical context. Semesters may be taken in reverse order. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): Music reading ability (MUS 003  or equivalent).
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 110B SC - Music in Western Civilization

    In the first semester, this course will be a study of music from the Ancient World through the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. In the second semester, this course will be a study of music from the Classical, Romantic, and 20th-century periods. Interdisciplinary relationships to other arts will be examined in a historical context. Semesters may be taken in reverse order. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Prerequisite(s): Music reading ability (MUS 003  or equivalent).
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • MUS 112 SC - Introduction to Ethnomusicology

    This course introduces students to the central theories, methods, and approaches used in the study of ethnomusicology. Students will become familiar with key issues and points of debate, resources for research and teaching, as well as a brief survey of the history of the discipline. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • MUS 118 SC - Music in the United States

    A survey of the history and development of music in the United States, this course will examine the diverse musical cultures and traditions, including European, African, Latin American, Native American, Asian, and others that have come to this country and have influenced the works of musicians and composers in the United States. Musical examples from American popular culture (jazz, rock, country, and pop), from religious services and practices of various denominations and sects, from ethnic groups and folk cultures within the United States, and from art music in the United States will be studied as expressions of important concerns and values in our society, and as influences on music in other countries as well. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • MUS 119 SC - Women and Gender in Music

    This class will study the role of gender in music as reflected by women composers, performers, writers on music, and patrons. This class will also investigate how active participation in music making and performance by women shapes the ways in which gender is represented. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Once per year


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  • MUS 120 SC - Music in Christian Practice

    Music serves an essential role in Christian worship and devotional practices. This course examines the musical practices in various historical and present-day worship settings ranging from medieval European monasteries and American revival campus to contemporary mainline Protestant churches of various racial and ethnic groups in the United States. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • MUS 121 SC - Music of the Spirits: Tewa Pueblo Indian, Hawaiian, and African American

    This course will involve three case studies of religious musical cultures in the United States: Tewa Pueblo ritual dance ceremonies, Hawaiian hula kahiko and auana, and African American gospel music. Ethnomusicological research methods, musical analysis, social function, and ritual significance will be discussed. No previous musical experience is required. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • MUS 122 SC - The Color of Music: Race in Blues and Jazz

    Jazz and blues are often represented as American musical traditions which transcend social barriers. Yet political divisions of race, class, and gender are manifest in disagreements as to whom the music belongs. This course focuses on how the concept of race has “colored” American popular music, and addresses the issue of expressive authenticity: are the kinds of understanding critical to authentic performance in a musical style accessible only to members of the community from which it originates? Relationships between race and gender in blues and jazz historical discourse will also be explored. Previous musical training is desirable but not required. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • MUS 123 SC - Music and the Performance of Identities: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender

    This course explores the ways in which individuals and groups represent, transform, and create their identities through musical performance and other performative acts. Several issues of “musical identity” are discussed: creation and expression of gender through music, musical expressions of ethnic and/or racial identity, musical creation of “official” identities (including U.S. nationalism), and the representation of the self through music. This course satisfies the fine arts requirement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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