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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.
 

Politics
  

  • POLI 143 SC - Civil Liberties and Fundamental Rights

    While civil liberties protect the individual from coercive power by outlining what the government must not do, civil rights protect the individual from coercive power by obligating the government to take positive action. This course examines civil liberties and civil rights in American public law and jurisprudence.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 144 SC - Legal Storytelling and the Rule of Law

    This course examines the competing claims of “legalism” (with its emphasis on formal rules and neutral principles) and “legal storytelling” (which prioritizes subjective experiences of the law as actually practiced) regarding questions of race, gender, and justice in American constitutional law. Through close readings of both literary and legal texts, the course adopts a humanistic approach to legal scholarship, locating the force of law within its discursive and rhetorical dimensions. Topics to be discussed include: rights to privacy, sexuality and reproductive freedom; sexual harassment and racist speech; anti-discrimination, integration, and affirmative action.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 145 SC - Race, Violence, and the Law

    This course investigates the relationship between race, violence and law in the American context. Law is often understood to derive its legitimacy from its opposition to violence. And yet, paradoxically, the enforcement of law is inseparably bound to acts of state violence, both threatened and enacted. What role has law played in organized movements to suppress race-based violence? How have appeals to law supplied tools of recourse, resistance, political struggle, and freedom? Alternatively, when and how might law create, sustain, or institutionalize violence against people of color? What roles do gender and sexuality play in negotiating the boundaries of violence and law? Drawing principally from African American political thought, this course considers the relationship between violence and law in three historical contexts: slavery and abolition, segregation and civil rights, and the rise of mass incarceration.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • POLI 149 AF - Africana Political Theory in the United States

    Given the Black dispersal throughout the world, Africana Political Theory will analyze the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the formation of political structures through the African Diaspora. Utilizing the texts of Black scholars throughout the Diaspora, the course will provide a broad look into Black politics. Prerequisite: at least one course in Africana Studies.

    Prerequisite(s): At least one course in Africana Studies.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 149 PO - Science, Technology, and Public Policy

    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.
  

  • POLI 150 SC - Introduction to Public Policy

     This course addresses the public policy process through policy formulation, implementation, and oversight in the United States. We will cover various dynamics of both formalized political institutions, particularly evinced through federalism and the separation of powers, as well as special interests and the prominence of “The Third House.” The first half of the semester will focus on processes, while the second half will evaluate government policies surrounding specific issues including climate change, poverty, and violence.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • POLI 151 SC - Women and Public Policy

    This course addresses social dynamics related to femininity and masculinity and the consequent politics and policy choices that evolve from notions of difference between men and women. We explore gendered representation as a central category of analysis, and focus on the concept of womenhood in the American policy process.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 152 SC - Women and the Law

    The purpose of this course is twofold: first, to broadly explore whether gender matters within the legal context; and second, to provide an introduction to the structure of constitutional and statutory legal doctrine that apply when claims of sex discrimination are made. The first part of the course will provide an overview of the American court system and the ways that gender has affected citizenship status. The second part will deal with the major constitutional themes that are invoked in sex discrimination cases and their evolution across time. We will also consider how alternative schools of legal thought address these issues. The final part of the course will examine more closely specific gender policy areas that have been brought before the judiciary. Particular attention will be paid to employment law, reproductive rights, family law and criminal law.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Intermittently


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

  • POLI 153 SC - Environmental Policy in the United States

    This course focuses on federal policy regarding the environment in the United States. It will provide a history of environmental protection as well as analysis of current policy and the politics of regulation and US participation in international efforts to stem carbon emissions. Close attention will be paid to issues of energy/fossil fuels, environmental justice, and epigenetics.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • POLI 154 SC - Future of Higher Education

    This seminar considers the past, present, and possible future organization of higher education in the United States. We will examine the origins of its current organization, the circumstances under which these features arose, and how issues such as the cost, access, and technological change are influencing debates about its future.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 156 SC - Women and Public Policy

    This course addresses social dynamics related to femininity and masculinity and the consequent politics and policy choices that evolve from notions of difference between men and women. We explore gendered representation as a central category of analysis, and focus on the concept of womenhood in the American policy process.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • POLI 157 SC - Black Feminist & Womanist Thought

    The purpose of this advanced seminar is to examine the social, political, economic, and religious/spiritual forces that shape the lives of Black women in America. Black feminism argues that the race/racism, gender identity, and class oppression are inextricably tied together. Womanist theology is a contemporary theological discipline that aims to place African American women at the center of God, The Bible, and life experience. This seminar seeks to place Black feminist thinkers in conversation with womanist theologians. The course aims to interrogate the rise of the first generation of womanist theologians and Black feminist thinkers; examine the coherence of key intellectual ideas; and analyze outstanding social, political, theological issues, and methodological approaches. Readings are exclusively and intentionally from the voices of African American/Black women.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • POLI 161 PO - Japanese Politics

    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.
  

  • POLI 163 PO - Comparative Asian Politics

    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.
  

  • POLI 167 JT - The Arab Spring and the Remaking of the Middle East

    Why did the Arab Spring end in authoritarian reassertion or state disintegration (with Tunisia as the sole success)?  Starting with the lineages of state formation and divergent trajectories of populist-authoritarianism, rentierism, praetorianism, and Islamist-secular polarization, we explore how various Arab states adapted to challenges in the 1980s-1990s and explore what led to the 2011 uprisings.  We ask what structural legacies and key choices set states on track for democratization, coups, civil war or monarchical reassertion after 2011, assess the influence of outside actors, and consider prospects for stability and democracy in the region.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every 1-2 years


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

  • POLI 167 PO - Whither/Wither the Arab Spring?

    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.
  

  • POLI 178 PO - Political Economy of Development

    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.
  

  • POLI 180 SC - Research Design

    This course provides an introduction to methodology in the social sciences generally, and political science in particular. The aim is to enhance understanding of both qualitative and quantitative analyses of political phenomena, and to assist students in employing suitable methodologies when conducting research of their own.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 183 PO - America’s Pacific Century: The United States and East Asia in a Changing 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.
  

  • POLI 187 SC - Special Topics in Politics

    An undergraduate course designed to cover various aspects of politics. Possible topics are drawn from political theory, public law, and jurisprudence, American politics, comparative politics, political economy, and international relations. Repeatable for credit with different topics.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 187B SC - Race, Gender, and Welfare State Politics

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 187D SC - Gender Politics and Public Policy

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 187I SC - Race, Education and Law

    This course will explore how race, American jurisprudence, and state and federal laws impact education in the U.S. More specifically, the course will explore education as a “commodity”, as a “right”, and whether various court decisions and laws support one classification or the other. The course will utilize lectures and the Socratic method. Course materials will include a review and analysis of selected caselaw, statutes, articles and book excerpts.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 187K SC - Race, Nation, and Baseball

    This seminar examines the formation of the United States through the lens of baseball. From Dodger Blue to the Cuban national team to the World Baseball Classic, we will consider how race, class, ethnicity, nation, and gender dynamics have determined the business and practice of the game, how baseball itself shapes the contours of race and nation, and how it has been a force for globalizing the political economy. The course will use a variety of material for its texts ranging from historical studies, documentary and feature films, web sites, and visits to baseball games and parks.

    Fee: Varies
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 187M SC - Feminist Political Thought

    Feminist political thinkers shed light on the role of gender in shaping our social position and experience of the world. In this course, we will read authors who take up questions of gender-based oppression in order to make visible marginalized persons and groups, and seek out practices of political empowerment and solidarity. We consider themes and episodes including the women’s, black feminist, and Chicana liberation movements; the evolving problem of gender and capitalism - from women’s relegation to the domestic sphere to the contemporary exploitation of care work in neoliberal economies; racialized sexuality and governmental power; experiences of inheritance, depression, anxiety, and anger; and reparative strategies of care and resistance.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 190 SC - Senior Seminar

    Students will assess goals for thesis and pursue them via active research and writing, become familiar with conventions of research article writing in political science, learn how to craft an argument situated in an academic literature, and learn how to revise an argument to make it more persuasive.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • POLI 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • POLI 195A SC - Politics Practicum: Food Justice

    This course will examine alternatives to dominant food practices and will explore such practices through experiential projects and involvement in community organizations. Groups of students will work each week directly in local middle and high schools, the Chino Women’s Correctional facility, and a transitional home for women recently released from prison.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 199 SC - Independent Study

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Portuguese
  

  • PORT 022 SC - Intensive Introductory Portuguese

    Designed for students with a strong background in Spanish, this course provides a fast-paced introduction to the Portuguese language, with an emphasis on grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation in the context of Brazilian culture. Instructor permission required. Taught in Portuguese.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Psychology
  

  • PSYC 012 AF - Introduction to African American Psychology

    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.
  
  

  • PSYC 051 PO - Psychological Approaches to the Study of People

    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.
  

  • PSYC 052 SC - Introduction to Psychology

    A consideration of critical issues in psychology and methods of studying human behavior. Analysis of evidence and theory from a variety of approaches to psychology, including experimental and clinical approaches. 

    Prerequisite(s): Required as prerequisite for all psychology courses.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 084 CH - Psychology of the Chicanx-Latinx Experience

    Examines a number of selected topics in Psychology dealing with the affective and intellectual aspects of behaviors among Chicanx and Latinx populations. The psychological development of Chicanxs and Latinxs will be evaluated against traditional psychological theories and variations in Chicanx’s and Latinx’s sociocultural environment. Empirical research in each of the areas selected for discussion will be analyzed and evaluated critically. The identification of causal relationships will constitute a central theme throughout the course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 095 JT - Foundations of Neuroscience

    For description, see NEUR 95L 

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 102 SC - Psychology of Women

    A critical examination of current psychological approaches to the study of women’s behavior and experience. The course will emphasize empirical ways of knowing and will address psychological questions of central concern to women. The nature and development of gender differences also will be explored. Students will conduct group and individual projects. 

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 103 SC - Psychological Statistics

    Introduction to the logic of hypothesis testing. Emphasis will be on basic statistical terms, gaining familiarity with computational procedures of both parametric and nonparametric techniques, and utilizing available computer programs for the analysis of data in the behavioral sciences. 

    Prerequisite(s): None. Permission of instructor required for cross-registration.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 103 PZ - Social Psychology

    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.
  

  • PSYC 104 SC - Research Design in Psychology

    Design and analysis of scientific research in psychology including both experimental and nonexperimental methods. The student will gain experience at generating and testing hypotheses about human behavior and preparing scientific reports of findings. Recommended in the sophomore or junior year as preparation for the senior thesis and further research participation. 

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 , PSYC 103 .
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 104L SC - Research Design in Psychology Laboratory

    Must be taken concurrently with PSYC 104 . 

    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 105 SC - Personality

    A comprehensive summary of the major contemporary theories of personality and their application to research, assessment, and treatment. 

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 109 SC - Psychology of Work and Family

    The most common family type in the United States today is dual-earner (mother and father). However, there have been relatively few adjustments to the way work and family life are aligned to promote strong families and a strong economy. Whether the metaphor is one of work-family conflict, balance, collaboration, or integration, the dynamics at the intersection of work and family are in need of examination.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 110 SC - Child Development

    A description and analysis of human development during infancy and childhood, including such topics as the development of motor behaviors, the acquisition of language, and cognitive development. 

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 111 SC - Adolescent Development

    A description and analysis of human development during the second decade of life. Discussion topics include pubertal development, identity processes, and sexuality. 

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 ; PSYC 110  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 111 PZ - Physiological Psychology

    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.
  

  • PSYC 112 SC - Adult Development and Aging

    A survey of major contemporary theories of adult human development from young adulthood through old age. Topics will include late adolescence, marriage, career, mid-life development, and late-life development.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 116 SC - Identity Development in Minority Children and Adolescent

    This course will examine identity development among children and adolescents from the following populations: African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. Readings will include the major theoretical writings on identity development in general, papers presenting models for identity development specifically in minority populations, and various empirical studies.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 117 PZ - Children and Families in South 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.
  

  • PSYC 118 PZ - Health Psychology

    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.
  

  • PSYC 120 SC - Cognitive Development

    An examination of cognitive development from infancy to adolescence. Topics include conceptual development, memory, and developing theories of mind.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052  and junior or senior standing.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 122 SC - Cognitive Psychology

    Cognitive Psychology provides insight into how the mind works. The major topics include perception, attention, memory, learning, imagery, language, knowledge and categorization, and decision-making. The course will give you the ability to 1) think about the human mind in terms of mental processes; and 2) understand how science can build models of these mental processes using simple behaviors in highly creative ways.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052  or instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 122L SC - Cognitive Psychology Laboratory

    Gives opportunities to see how key experiments in cognitive psychology are designed by actually doing those experiments, and by engaging in simple data analysis and reports of experimental findings. Students will discover counterintuitive facts about how the human mind works by actually looking at what the mind does via behavior.

    Corequisite(s): PSYC 122 
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • PSYC 123 SC - Cognitive Neuroscience

    A thorough introduction to the concepts and findings of the field. Cognitive neuroscience seeks to understand mental processes in terms of brain mechanisms linking behavior and cognitive models to neural signals and models of neural processing. Areas of inquiry include perception, imagery, attention, learning, prominent computational models of brain/mind, decision-making, valuations, braid adaptation in evolution, and brain-machine interfaces for neural enhancement. Course also listed under NEUR123 SC; optional lab offered under PSYC123L SC/NEUR123L SC.
     

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC103 SC  or equivalent; NEUR095L JT  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually, or every other year


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

  • PSYC 123L SC - Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory

    Provides introduction to computer programming in Matlab and R for computational cognitive modeling using Bayesian approaches, and for the analysis of neural signals, including EEG and fMRI, along with the theoretical framework, justification, and limitations of these analyses. Also offered under NEUR123L SC.

     

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC123 SC  
    Corequisite(s): PSYC123 SC  (if not yet taken)
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Annualloy, or every other year


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

  • PSYC 125 AF - Culture and Human Development: 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.
  

  • PSYC 125 PO - Culture/Human Development: 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.
  

  • PSYC 127 SC - Neuroscience of Decision-Making

    This seminar will examine decision-making behavior from a neuroscience perspective. Topics will include intuitive judgments, analytical reasoning, emotion and decision-making, heuristics and biases, neuroeconomics, and estimates of risk. The course will cover basic research as well as practical applications of decision theory.

    Prerequisite(s): Any neuroscience or cognitive psychology course.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 128 SC - Abnormal Psychology

    This course will focus on the description of abnormal behavior in human beings and the various theoretically based explanations for it, both past and present. Intervention strategies relevant to the prevention or reduction of psychological suffering due to different disorders will also be explored. 

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 129 SC - Social Neuroscience

    Social neuroscience investigates how the brain helps make decisions about other people. We will learn how the human brain is involved in social gaze: drawing social inferences from bodily cues; empathy, attachment, and cooperation; imitation; social reward and punishment; stereotyping and prejudice; economic and political decision-making; moral decision-making; and autism.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052  and PSYC 103  or instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 130 SC - Emotion

    A seminar on the dominant psychological models, methods, and findings relating to emotion. Covers the following topics: 1) emotion and its relation to cognition; 2) basic theories of emotion; 3) research methods for investigating human emotion; 4) emotion in relation to the self; 5) emotion in relation to social understanding; 6) emotion and memory; 7) the social emotions, such as embarrassment, guilt, and shame; 8) disorders of emotion and mood, such as anxiety disorders, depression, anger disorders, self-harm and eating disorders; 9) direct intervention into the brain and central nervous system for emotional disorders; 10) emotion and creativity; 11) emotion and music; and 12) emotion and forensic psychology.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052  and PSYC 103 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 131 SC - Clinical Neuropsychology

    This course will study human clinical neuropsychology with an emphasis on clinical disorders, including learning disorders, dementias, and traumatic brain injuries. There will be an emphasis on integrating theory and research related to brain functioning and applying this knowledge to clinical populations.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 131L SC - Clinical Neuropsychology Lab

    This lab complements the content of PSYC 131 .

    Corequisite(s): PSYC 131 
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • PSYC 132 SC - Autism Spectrum: Neuroscience, Psychology, Disabilities Studies

    Autism spectrum affects the lives of about 1 child in 70, along with the lives of family members. Formally named in English in 1943 by Leo Kanner, autism spectrum is a neuroatypical range of perspectives, experiences, and neural and behavioral patterns. This course will explore the historical antecedents of autism and its formal description under a wave of psychiatric support for eugenics in the United States. We will explore current understandings of autism spectrum, and the neuroscientific and psychological methods used to research autism spectrum. In our work together, we will be guided by the voices of people with autism.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC052 SC  or NEUR095L JT  or equivalent; and PSYC103 SC  or equivalent; and PSYC104 SC /PSYC104L 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.
  

  • PSYC 133 SC - Science of Emotions and Positive Psychology

    This course explores key topics in the areas of emotions and positive psychology including the measurement of emotions and well-being, the behavioral determinants of well-being, the genetics of well-being, interventions to increase positive emotions and well-being, and positive individual differences (e.g. resilience, self-compassion).

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC052 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 143 SC - Advanced Statistics I: Analysis of Variance and Regression

    A second course in applied statistics emphasizing analysis of variance and covariance for analyzing complex experiments as well as correlational methods such as multiple regression, factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. Students will develop an intuition for the logic of each statistic and will become skilled at selecting the appropriate tests, using the computer to carry out the calculations, and interpreting the results. Recommended for students planning graduate work in the social and natural sciences or for those involved in research projects that go beyond topics covered in the first course in statistics.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 103  or an equivalent course.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 144 SC - Advanced Statistics II: Structural Equation Modeling

    Intensive experience in techniques for fitting complex quantitative models to behavioral and social data. Principal focus on structural equation modeling.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 143  or ECON 125 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 150 AF - Psychology of the Black Experience

    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.
  

  • PSYC 151 CH - Psychology of Multicultural Education

    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.
  

  • PSYC 152 SC - Cultural Psychology

    An examination of the dialectical relationship between human behavior and its social, historical, and cultural contexts. Topics of discussion include language socialization, cultural construals of the self, and cognitive and moral development.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 153 AA - Introduction to Asian American Psychology

    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.
  

  • PSYC 153 PZ - The Socialization of Gender: A Developmental Perspective

    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.
  

  • PSYC 155 CM - Seminar in Ethnic Minority Psychology and Mental Health

    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.
  

  • PSYC 156 SC - Native American Psychology

    This course examines the psychological research conducted with indigenous peoples of North America. Course topics include identity, mental health, and family issues. These topics and others will be discussed within the context of the particular historical conditions that have given rise to the behavioral patterns under discussion (e.g., genocide, displacement, cultural loss).

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 157 SC - Psychology of the Black Woman in America

    This course explores black women’s lives by examining various psychological phenomena from a black feminist perspective. Emphasis will be placed on the multiplicity of experience and how it is shaped by oppression and struggle. Discussion topics will include identity; mental health; sexuality; academic achievement and work.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 162 SC - Psychology and the Law

    This course will survey issues in psychology and law including an introduction to the legal system, eyewitness identification, confessions, competence and insanity, jury decision making, victims, and sentencing issues. Basic psychological theory, relevant case law, and methodological issues associated with conducting research in psychology and law will be covered.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 .
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 162L SC - Psychology and Law Lab

    Psychology and Law Lab covers advanced methods in psychological research involving behavior and decision making in the legal system. Students will be introduced to various methods of conducting psycholegal research including observation, surveys, field research, and experimental methods. There will be opportunities for designing and conducting studies in psychology and law and analyzing the data collected.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 
    Corequisite(s): PSYC 162 
    Course Credit: .50


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

  • PSYC 163 SC - Social Psychology and the Legal System

    Judge, jury, and executioner—what are the ways in which these and other legal players are influenced by their social environment? Are their decisions influenced in the same way ours are? In this course, we will investigate how social psychology can help us better understand the legal system.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 162  recommended.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 166 SC - Psychology, Sustainability, and Environmental Decision-Making

    The 21st Century poses complex challenges to concepts, decisions, and policies involving human and nonhuman nature. Climate change, sustainability, species extinctions, equitable access to clean air, water, and land, along with pollution, environmental injustice, and zero-sum thinking all depend in large part on human emotions, concepts, attitudes, actions, and especially decision-making. In this course, we will study the psychological processes on which decisions about sustainability, climate change, and our environmental futures depend. This seminar course will explore and analyze how changes in human psychology influence environmental decision-making, creating understanding that will facilitate new visions for future decisions.

    Prerequisite(s): Introductory Statistics (e.g. PSYC103 SC , ECON120 SC , or equivalent), or instructor’s permission
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Once every 2-3 years


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

  • PSYC 167A JT - Applied Social Psychological Research

    This class will bring together students and faculty members at various stages of academic and professional development, as well as community collaborators, to pursue theoretically and practically relevant research in applied settings. The class is divided into three phases (Project Development, Implementation, and Dissemination) and is intended as a full-year (2-semester) class.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 ; PSYC167A is prerequisite to PSYC168B. Instructor permission required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 167B JT - Applied Social Psychological Research

    This class will bring together students and faculty members at various stages of academic and professional development, as well as community collaborators, to pursue theoretically and practically relevant research in applied settings. The class is divided into three phases (Project Development, Implementation, and Dissemination) and is intended as a full-year (2-semester) class.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 ; PSYC 167A  JT. Instructor permission required.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 168 SC - Social Psychology

    An examination of major topics in social psychology including social cognition, social influence (conformity and persuasion), aggression, prejudice, attraction, and interpersonal and intergroup conflict. Some topics in applied psychology (e.g., psychology and the law) will be discussed. 

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 .
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 168L SC - Social Psychology Laboratory

    Advanced methods in social psychological research involving the observation and categorization of behavior. Students will be introduced to unobtrusive measures, survey results, field research, and some applied social psychological methods. In addition, students will be introduced to a variety of advanced statistical tools for evaluating psychological research. There will be opportunities for designing and conducting studies and analyzing the data collected using advanced statistical tools. 

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 , PSYC 103 , PSYC 168 . Satisfies the laboratory course requirement for the psychology major.
    Course Credit: .50
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 169 SC - Topics in Personality and Social Psychology

    Repeatable for credit with different topics.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 , PSYC168 SC , or permission of instructor
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 170 SC - Close Relationships Across the Lifespan

    Close relationships from infancy through adulthood will be examined from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Topics include: attachment, attraction, gender roles, hook-up culture, sex in relationships, relationships and the internet, break-ups, cohabitation, changes in the institution of marriage, marital conflict, divorce, and gay and lesbian relationships. Credit disallowed for students who have completed PSYC150 HM.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 173 AA - Asian American Mental Health

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 174 SC - Is Freud Really Dead?

    This course provides an introductory discussion of psychoanalysis. Beginning with classic theories of Freud and his immediate followers and continuing with modern object relations and self-psychology, this course seeks to place contemporary psychoanalytic thought in a historical context. Contribution of psychoanalysis to psychology as well as the humanities will be addressed.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052  for psychology majors.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 176 PO - The Psychology of Health and Medicine

    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.
  

  • PSYC 180M CH - Chicanx-Latinx Cultural Psychology

    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.
  

  • PSYC 180N CH - Latinx Mental Health

    This seminar will explore current issues related to Latinx Mental Health. Using a culturally-informed, bio-psycho-social framework, this course will expose students to the risk and protective factors that impact the etiology, development, and treatments of psychological disorders and related conditions among Latinx populations in the United States. Students are expected to contribute to a class project focused on identifying and addressing a gap in culturally-informed mental health resources and services among the greater Los Angeles area Latinx communities. Letter grade only.

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC131  PO or PSYC084 CH  
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 181 SC - Topics in Clinical Psychology

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 , PSYC 128 , or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 182 SC - Network Science and Machine Learning Using Neural Signals

    This course teaches students the theory and practice of computational analyses of neural networks and neural classification. We will use real neural signals (e.g., spikes, EEG data, fMRI data, diffusion MRI data) in Python, Matlab, and R, so some computer programming experience is required (e.g., BIOL133, PHYS108, PSYC123L, or equivalent). In this course, students will learn how to identify and analyze neural networks and how those systems relate to information processing, conceptual classification, and decision-making. Each class will involve theory and practical applications, giving students conceptual and computational capabilities that they can use for their own scholarly inquiry.  

    Prerequisite(s): NEUR095L JT  or equivalent AND (BIOL133L KS , PHYS108 KS , PSYC123L SC , or equivalent)
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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

  • PSYC 183 SC - Human Data Science Ethics

    Data science is a set of interdisciplinary approaches that seeks to construct or extract knowledge from large collections of information and then to communicate that knowledge for the purposes of implementing scientific, economic, environmental, educational, or political policies. This course will give students insight into ethical approaches to human data science. It will provide students with the ability to identify, question, and respond to potential challenges to ethical action in human data science.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually, or every other year


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

  • PSYC 183 SC - Human Data Science Ethics

    Data science is a set of interdisciplinary approaches that seeks to construct or extract knowledge from large collections of information and then to communicate that knowledge for the purposes of implementing scientific, economic, environmental, educational, or political policies. This course will give students insight into ethical approaches to human data science. It will provide students with the ability to identify, question, and respond to potential challenges to ethical action in human data science.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually, or every other year


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

  • PSYC 184 SC - Computational Psychiatry

    This course in Computational Psychiatry will help students learn, understand, and use cognitive models in clinically relevant contexts, such as addiction, attention differences, depression, and post-traumatic stress. Students will also encounter and learn from peer-reviewed research papers and from disabilities studies perspectives. The course is ideal for students interested in computational approaches and in data science approaches to understanding clinical conditions.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • PSYC 188 AF - Seminar in African American Psychology

    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.
  

  • PSYC 188 PZ - Seminar in Body Weight Regulation and Obesity

    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.
 

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