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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.
 

History
  

  • HIST 166 SC - Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S

    This course focuses on political and cultural criticism in the U.S. since the turn of the 20th century as means of activism and critique. How did writers and other activists respond to the events of their day? What can we learn from them about our own? We will read fiction, memoirs, and social scientific, philosophical, and political essays that sought to understand and transform society. Topics include the relationship between the individual and society, the possibility of community, the challenge of democracy, aesthetics and politics, the rise of science and the cult of expertise, violence and technocracy, alienation and the desire for engagement, exile and national identity.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 167 PO - Early Modern Japan

    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.
  

  • HIST 168 PZ - Diaspora, Gender, and Identity

    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.
  

  • HIST 168 PO - Modern Japan

    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.
  

  • HIST 169 SC - Gender, Race, and US Education

    How have racism and sexism defined education systems in the United States in the past and present?  How did we get from predominantly gender-and race-segregated schools to our current moment?  Why did schools like Claremont Men’s College and Pitzer Women’s College decide to go co-ed?  What is the place of those who identify as genderqueer, nonbinary, trans, etc. at a women’s college like Scripps?  This course will explore these questions by looking at the history of gender and race in education in the United States, focusing on the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: One-time offering in Spring 2021


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

  • HIST 170 PZ - Hybrid Identities: Spanish Empire

    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.
  

  • HIST 171 AF - African American Women in the United States

    This course explores the distinctive and diverse experiences of women of West African ancestry in the United States from the 17th century to the present. Topics, including labor, activism, feminism, family and community, are examined within a theoretical framework. Narratives, autobiographies, letters, journals, speeches, essays, and other primary documents constitute most of the required reading.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race

    This course examines ideas about race, nationality, and citizenship in African American intellectual thought in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Taught as a reading/discussion seminar, students are introduced to major themes, controversies and contradictions among Black intellectuals engaged in public and scholarly conversations about the role and function of race in contemporary U.S. society.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 173 PZ - Religion, Violence, and Tolerance, 1450-1650

    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.
  

  • HIST 174 SC - The U.S. in the 1960s

    The Sixties has a particular hold on our present. Why? How do we disentangle history from memory, memory from nostalgia? To answer these questions, this course examines the hopes, struggles, and impact of the decade by focusing on conflicts over the meanings of “American” as a source of individual and collective identity and polemical purpose in the U.S. and in the international movements against war, racism and imperialism. Topics include liberalism, civil rights and nationalist movements, immigration, environmentalism, women’s liberation and the sexual revolution, the Vietnam War and the national security state, counterculture, and the rise of the New Right. Students will have the opportunity to do the work of historians in original sources.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 175 PZ - Magic, Heresy and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1400-1700

    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.
  

  • HIST 175 SC - War, Empire, and Society in the U.S., 1898-Present

    This course will investigate the roots and impact of war on American society since the Spanish-American War, with emphasis on social, ideological, and cultural issues. Topics include the relationship between ideals and ideology, national security and civil liberties, reform and dissent, imperialism and national identity.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 176 AF - Civil Rights Movement in the Modern Era

    Mainly through primary readings, film, and guest lecturers, this course explores the origins, development, and impact of the modern African American struggle for civil rights in the United States. Particular emphasis is placed on grassroots organizing in the Deep South.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 177 SC - The U.S. in the 1920s: Fords, Flappers, and Fundamentalists

    Conjuring up images of the Jazz Age, the decade between the Great War and the Great Depression saw the birth of modernity. This course will explore this contradictory transformation: The Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation; mass-consumer culture and the New Woman, the revolt against Victorianism and fundamentalism, pluralism, and nativism. By the end of the semester, we will be able to answer the question, “How did the 1920s roar?”

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 178 CM - Nation and Nationalism in the Global Middle East

    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.
  
  

  • HIST 180 SC - Proseminar: What is History?

    This course is designed to introduce students to the varieties of historical research, interpretation, and writing. Through a focus on recent and prominent works of history, drawn from different historical specialties and representing different methodological approaches, the course will address fundamental questions such as: Why do we study and write history? What defines history as a unique discipline of investigation and knowledge? What constitutes historical evidence, and what are the debates about the criteria for recognizing historical facts and evidence? What is the relationship between politics and historical writing (for example, race, colonialism, or gender)? Are pre-established ideas and values necessary for, commensurate with, or antithetical to the pursuit of historical research and writing? In order to guarantee the widest possible field for considering such questions, the course will be team taught, and the faculty will rotate regularly. Required of all history majors, and open to all students. Seminar format.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • HIST 181 PO - Sex, Drugs, and Revolution: The Global Sixties

    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.
  

  • HIST 182 CM - Human Health and Disease in American History

    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.
  

  • HIST 183 CM - The Fall of Rome and the End of Empire

    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.
  

  • HIST 185 PZ - Information Revolutions x.0 and z.0: the Printing Press and Internet

    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.
  

  • HIST 188 CM - Travel and Encounter in the Islamic World

    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.
  
  

  • HIST 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Fall enrollment for a one-semester thesis, or a two-semester thesis. Enroll for HIST192 SC  in the spring for a two-semester thesis.
     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • HIST 192 SC - Senior Thesis

    Spring enrollment for a two-semester thesis; enroll in HIST191 SC  for the fall semester.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Spring


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

  • HIST 197 SC - Topics in Historical Study

    Intensive and focused study of specific historical periods, nations, figures, problems, or themes. 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.
  

  • HIST 197D SC - Contagion! Historical Pandemics and the Globalized World

    This class will examine worldwide pandemics through the lens of globalization.  In what ways are pandemics a direct consequence of global exploration and trade?  Where do these diseases start and where do they spread?  But most important: how and why do they spread?  And in what ways does the lived experience of a pandemic influence and become influenced by other social and cultural trends across the globe, particularly in science trends across the globe, particularly in science and religion?  We will consider these questions zooming in on the following case studies: the Plague of Justinian, the Black Death, the Columbian Exchange, multiple outbreaks of Smallpox and Cholera in the 19th century, the Third Plague Pandemic, the ‘Spanish’ Flu of 1918, Polio, the Asian Flu of 1957, AIDS, and Ebola.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: One-time offering


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

  • HIST 197G JT - Rethinking Radicalism: Progress and Its Critics

    What else might radicalism mean? How and why did democrats abandon populism to the political right? Through these questions, we will consider whether or not there are inherent limits to much of contemporary progressive thought and action. Special attention will be given to the political and historical foundations of radical populism on the left and to the anti-progressive tradition of democracy. The diverse set of readings includes labor leaders, agrarian farmers, artists, religious figures, and civil rights organizers, as well as some major political thinkers.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HIST 199 SC - Independent Study in History: Reading and Research

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

Humanities

The Humanities Institute was founded in 1986 to promote interdisciplinary research and public discussion of important issues in culture and society. Each semester the Institute sponsors a series of events on a significant theme in the humanities. The programs of the Institute include conferences, lectures, readings, exhibitions, and film series and bring to Scripps College scholars, scientists, and artists who are of special interest to the community. Students can apply to participate in the work of the Institute. Fellows, who are appointed for one term, take a research seminar (Humanities 195J) in addition to attending all the events of the Institute and creating a final project.
  

  • HUM 195J SC - Fellowship in the Humanities Institute

    Fellows in the Scripps College Humanities Institute will work closely with the director on an experiential project related to the theme of the Institute in a given semester. The Fellowship in the Humanities Institute does not satisfy any general education requirement, but may be used once toward requirements of a major with approval of the faculty adviser in the major. Registration requires application. For information on applying, see www.scrippscollege.edu/campus/humanities-institute/indes.php. May apply to repeat once for credit.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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

Humanities Major: Culture
  

  • HMSC 123 SC - Introduction to the Philosophy and History of Culture

    This course will focus on some of the major works in post-Enlightenment (19th and 20th centuries) thinking about culture: Kant’s Third Critique, Schiller’s Aesthetic Education, Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy. As well, it will examine later works on the historical development of the relationship between culture and society paying attention to the ways in which culture has shaped the social categories and experience of class, race, nation, and gender.This course is cross listed as HIST 123  SC.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HMSC 130 SC - Schools of Cultural Criticism: Culture and Critique

    This team-taught course will examine the categories by which philosophers, social scientists, historians, and literary critics have understood culture. Topics may include historicism (the role of history in defining individual experience), the development of mass culture and new media, and post-colonialism. May be completed twice for credit with different topics. This course is cross listed as HIST 130  SC.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HMSC 133 SC - Modernity and the Unconscious

    Beyond the theme of sexuality, Freud’s discovery of repression and the unconscious has been enormously influential in challenging the foundations of modern experience. This course brings Freud’s central analytic concepts into conversation with those of the twentieth-century philosopher Jacques Derrida in order to explore how the vision of a mind characterized by the unconscious has profoundly shaped aspects of modern experience. Topics to be addressed: scientific thought, love, death, identity. 

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • HMSC 134 SC - Foundations in Postcolonial Theory

    This course provides an in-depth survey of key foundational texts in postcolonial theory. Students will learn the main tenets of theoretical paradigms advanced by postcolonial theorists and attain proficiency with the terminology of the field (ex. hegemony, subalternity, orientalism, hybridity, contamination, conviviality, etc.) emerging across geographies and disciplines from the 1950s to the present. The course will problematize the relationship of postcolonial theory as a field to discourses in feminist theory, globalization and transnationalism and application of the theories to real-world situations.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HMSC 136 SC - Critical Theory and Modern Culture

    This course explores historical and contemporary efforts to analyze and understand the complex relationship between culture and political economy. We will explore the emergence of the concept of culture and the critical discourses surrounding it from the rise of modern industry to contemporary crises. Topics include aesthetics and politics, literary genres, haunting, sexuality, cinema, and fascism.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HMSC 138 SC - Genet

    Among an impressive group of post-World War II European writers, Jean Genet stands out as perhaps the most versatile.  He was, at once, novelist, playwright, philosopher, filmmaker, memoirist, and polemicist. Is this the reason why Genet’s works, though lauded by both Sartre and Derrida, today occupy a “minor” position in both the academy and the literate world beyond? Through a close reading of some of his most important texts, this course will consider how Genet deployed and confronted sexuality, family, morality, and nation as interrelated aspects of the operations of inclusion/exclusion so central to modern Western societies. This course is designed for mature audiences.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • HMSC 148 SC - The Poetry and Science of Sleep

    This course looks at ways scientists, social scientists, and artists approach sleep, and at ways sleep is positioned in various cultures and societies. It draws on multiple perspectives: neuroscience, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, immunology, psychoneuroimmunology, endocrinology. Instructor permission required.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HMSC 167 SC - Metropolis: Imagining the City

    Whether pictured as labyrinth, stage set, utopian pleasure-dome or gigantic living room, the urban landscape has played a crucial role in the attempt of 20th-century writers and artists to come to terms with modernity. The course will move from the squares of 19th-century Berlin, the grid of Manhattan, to the malls and theme parks of Los Angeles, using fiction (Poe, Kafka, Wm. Gibson), film (Lang, Wenders, R. Scott), essays (Eco, Didion), and urban theory (Sennett, Choay) to investigate how changes in the perception of the city reflect the ways modernity sees itself. Cross listed as GRMT 167  SC. This course is taught in English.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • HMSC 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Fall enrollment for a one-semester thesis, or a two-semester thesis. Enroll for HMSC192 SC  in the spring for a two-semester thesis.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • HMSC 192 SC - Senior Thesis

    Spring enrollment for a two-semester thesis; enroll in HMSC191 SC  for the fall semester.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Spring


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

  • HMSC 199 SC - Independent Study in the Humanities major

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Interdisciplinary Studies
  

  • ID 099 SC - Mellon Mays Undergraduate Seminar

    This course is an academic research and leadership seminar for Mellon Mays undergraduate Fellows. It will prepare students for graduate school.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • ID 191D SC - Senior Thesis for Dual Majors

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • ID 191S SC - Senior Thesis for Self-Designed Majors

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • ID 199 SC - Independent Study

    This course number may be used to enroll a student approved to complete an independent study of an interdisciplinary nature that does not fit into one of the established majors or programs and is overseen by two or more faculty from different academic departments. Offered only when approved by petition.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

International and Intercultural Studies
  

  • IIS 050 PZ - Power 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.
  

  • IIS 075 PZ - Introduction to Postcolonial 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.
  

  • IIS 080 PZ - Introduction to Critical 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.
  

  • IIS 113 PZ - Science, Politics, and Alternative Medicine

    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.
  

  • IIS 128 PZ - The War on Terror

    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.
  

  • IIS 146 PZ - International Relations of the Middle East

    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.
  

  • IIS 167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture: Gender, Spirtuality, and Power

    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.

Italian
  

  • ITAL 001 SC - Introductory Italian

    Instruction in Italian grammar supplemented by extensive readings and conversations concerning Italian life and culture. Emphasis on mastery of oral communication as well as use of the written language. Offered annually. Note: This course may not be counted in the major.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ITAL 002 SC - Continued Introductory Italian

    Review of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary as covered in the preceding course. Continuation of grammar study, with presentation of more complex grammar structures. Continuation of emphasis on oral communication. Note: This course may not be counted in the major.

    Prerequisite(s): ITAL 001  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ITAL 033 SC - Intermediate Italian

    Review of first year grammar, conversation, composition, and readings based on literary sources. Concentration on syntax, style, and idiomatic phrases. Note: This course may not be counted in the major. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ITAL 002  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ITAL 044 SC - Advanced Italian: Readings in Literature and Civilization

    Literary analysis and cultural perspectives, based on short stories, excerpts from longer works, and films. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): ITAL 033  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ITAL 120 JT - Italian Cities

    This course will provide an interdisciplinary approach to the development of cities and urban spaces in Italy from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century. How have urban structures and social group identities changed from early city-states to modern metropolis with sprawling urbanization? What are the “narratives” produced around the city? Italian cities will be studied under the rubrics art history, architecture, literature and film. Taught in English.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ITAL 124 SC - La cultura del Fascismo

    This course will consider the texts, artifacts and documents that have accompanied the rise of Fascism in Italy (1919-22) and explore how these have contributed in creating a culture of Fascism. Students will consider texts surrounding the creation of the movement and party lead by Benito Mussolini, as well as its many forms of opposition we will also read contemporary texts and visual sources to reflect on the remnants of Fascist ideology in Italian culture and society after World War II.

    Prerequisite(s): ITAL044 SC  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • ITAL 131 SC - The Disunification of Italy: 1861-1921

    This course will explore the history, literature, and narratives surrounding the period from 1861-1921, from the Italian unification to the rise of Fascism. Material for class will consist of original texts and artistic expressions from the period, as well as contemporary revisitations of the time. Confronting the different ways of narrating an era, we will focus on themes such as class conflicts, the changing role of women and the family, the contemporaneous rise of anarchism, feminism, and colonialism.

    Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • ITAL 133 SC - Contemporary Italy

    This course explores recent trends in Italian literature, film and the arts. Organized around a different theme each time it is offered, it explores the current debates in literature, cinema, art, and popular culture, and their relation to Italian history and current events. Repeatable three times for credit with different topics.

    Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • ITAL 134 SC - Twentieth-Century Italian Women’s Literature

    Works by some of the most well known authors of the 20th century. What do these authors have to say about issues of social justice, and especially gender? How were these works received by various audiences? Who decides what books qualify as “great art,” and how? Authors to be read include: Sibilla Aleramo, Grazia Deledda, Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante, and Dacia Maraini.

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


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

  • ITAL 136 SC - Italians as Guests and Hosts: Intercultural Encounters in Current Italian Fiction

    This course examines the phenomenon of exchange between Italians and other cultures. Through their readings, students will gain an understanding of the experiences of Italian immigrants, who undergo the process of establishing themselves on foreign soil, as well as those of immigrants from abroad, who seek opportunities as “new Italians.” The course will take into account the changes in attitudes experienced by these guests as well as by their hosts. Authors to be read include: Erri de Luca, Laura Pariani, Carmine Abate, and Pap Khouma.

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


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

  • ITAL 137 SC - Italy as a Murder Mystery

    In this course, we will explore in detail all the characteristics of the “giallo” genre and subgenres related to it (such as horror stories and legal narratives), its widespread reception and its inherent multiple textuality, which includes novels, film and comic books. Such texts will open the way to the cultural analysis of the representation of real “gialli”, or violent episodes in Italian history that have been on the spotlight for different reasons and in different ways of investigation and have contributed to the formation of Italian modernity.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ITAL 140 SC - History of Italian Cinema

    This course will explore the history and criticism of Italian cinema from its origin to the 21st century through the showing of a number of iconic films and the criticism surrounding them. It will also help student better understand contemporary Italian history through film. Taught alternately in Italian and English.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

    ITAL 142 SC - Italian Cinema and Literature: The Decameron

    This course offers an introduction to Boccaccio’s Decameron, one of the masterpieces of Italian literature, through a close reading of Boccaccio’s collection of hundred tales, an investigation of the literary traditions (tradizioni) that converge in the most important prose work of the Italian Middle Ages, and its cinematic “translations” (traduzioni/tradimenti). During the semester, we will read all the novellas that have been adapted for the screen by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Decameron, 1971), and the Taviani brothers (Magnifico Boccaccio, 2015) identifying the challenges that such a classical Italian work presents to Italian filmmakers in their attempts to transcribe it into an audiovisual spectacle. By reading and analyzing a large selection of Boccaccio’s one hundred novelle, and watching and examining their corresponding filmic transpositions, we will address notions and problems of language, style, structure and content for each novella, together with the techniques of transposition of the written text to the movie screen.

    Syllabus  

    Prerequisite(s): ITAL044 SC  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • ITAL 145 SC - Italian Literature of Gastronomy

    The year 2020 marks the two hundredth anniversary of Pellegrino Artusi’s birth, author of La scienza in cucina e l’arte di mangiar bene (1891), the most prominent and famous Italian cookbook in the history of gastronomy. However, the centrality of food and the act of eating have been tackled long before and they have always played a pivotal role in Italian literature, as witnessed by their representations from Dante and Boccaccio to Dacia Maraini and Igiaba Scego. Depictions of food, and the many references to it, in Italian literature and cinema, carry more complex aesthetic and ethical messages that transcend the realm of the kitchen. Dante’s condemnation of gluttony, Collodi’s insatiable hungry Pinocchio, Pasolini’s La Ricotta, and Ferzan Ozpetek’s cinematic obsession with desserts, reveal how food can be a lens through which one can interpret Italy’s sociopolitical, religious, and cultural panorama, how it has become a crucial element in defining “Italianess”, and how its diversity reflects Italian identity whose dynamic and liquid nature is constantly shaped by its location as a Mediterranean crossroads. We will read short stories, poems, and prose extracts from but not limited to: Dante, Boccaccio, Giulio Cesare Croce, Pirandello, and Marinetti.

     

    Prerequisite(s): ITAL 044  or equivalent
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • ITAL 197 SC - Special Topics in Italian

    Specific course information available in pre-registration materials.

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


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

  • ITAL 199 SC - Independent Study in Italian Literature: Reading and Research

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

Japanese
  

  • JAPN 001A PO - Elementary Japanese

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • JAPN 001B PO - Elementary Japanese

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • JAPN 011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary Japanese Language and Culture

    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.
  

  • JAPN 012A PO - Intermediate Kanji

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • JAPN 012B PO - Intermediate Kanjii

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • JAPN 013 PO - Advanced Conversation

    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.
  

  • JAPN 051A PO - Intermediate Japanese

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • JAPN 051B PO - Intermediate Japanese

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • JAPN 111A PO - Advanced Japanese

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • JAPN 111B PO - Advanced Japanese

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • JAPN 124 PO - Readings in Current Japanese

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • JAPN 125 PO - Readings in Modern Japanese Literature

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • JAPN 131 PO - Introduction to Classical Japanese

    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.
  

  • JAPN 192 PO - Senior Research Paper

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

    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every year


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

  • JAPN 199IR PO - Japanese: Independent Research Project

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

    Course Credit: 0.5 or 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

Japanese Literature and Culture in English Translation
  

  • JPNT 170 PO - Pre-Modern Japanese Literature in English Translation

    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.
  

  • JPNT 174 PO - Modern Japanese Literature in English: Literary Reconfigurations of Japanese Identity, 1868 to Present

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

  • JPNT 176 PO - Time and Space in Modern Japanese Literature

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • JPNT 177 PO - Japanese and Japanese American Women Writers

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • JPNT 179 PO - Graphically Speaking: Japanese Manga and Its Buds

    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.

Korean
  
  

  • KORE 002 CM - Continuing Introductory Korean

    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.
  
  
  

  • KORE 100 CM - Readings in Korean Literature and Culture

    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.

Korean Literature and Culture in English Translation
  

  • KRNT 130 CM - Korean Cinema and Culture

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Alternate years


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

Latin
  

  • LATN 001 SC - Introductory Latin

    Students will learn the basics of Latin grammar and syntax along with some aspects of ancient Roman culture and literature. This is a two-semester sequence followed by LATN002 SC  . First semester will cover most of the grammar along with doctored elementary readings from love poetry, epic, and history.

    Formerly: CLAS008A SC

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • LATN 002 SC - Introductory Latin

    This is the second semester of the Introductory Latin sequence. In the first half of the course (LATN001 SC ), students will complete the study of the basic grammar. In the second half, they will read original Latin texts from such authors as Cicero, Caesar, Ovid, and Vergil.

    Formerly: CLAS008B SC

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • LATN 022 SC - Advanced Introductory Latin

    Intensive course for students with some previous Latin who are too advanced for LATN001 and not ready for LATN 033 . Designed to place students in Intermediate Latin (LATN033) to meet the language requirement. Focus on review and mastery of basic grammar and vocabulary.

    Formerly: CLAS032  SC

    Prerequisite(s): Exam or speak with Classics department chair.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • LATN 033 SC - Intermediate Latin

    For students with two or three years of secondary school Latin or one year of college Latin. Selections from Latin poetry and prose of the late Republic and early Empire. Reading and translation from texts; grammar review and composition. Repeatable once for credit.

    Formerly: CLAS100, CLAS110, CLAS112

    Prerequisite(s): LATN001 SC , LATN002 SC , LATN022 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • LATN 044 SC - Advanced Latin Readings

    Great works of Latin prose and poetry from the writings of major authors of the Roman Republic and Empire, selected according to the needs of students. Authors and topics covered may include the Roman letter, satire, lyric poetry, historians, drama, philosophy, elegiac poets, Lucretius, Apuleius, and Medieval Latin. Repeatable up to 4 times for credit.

    Formerly: CLAS181A/B SC

    Prerequisite(s): LATN033 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • LATN 057 SC - Intermediate/Advanced Readings in Latin

    This is a half-credit course with rotating Classical Latin authors. The class will include translation, grammar, discussion of cultural and historical context, and literary interpretation.

    Prerequisite(s): LATN022 SC  or equivalent proficiency in Latin, or instructor permission.
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Most semesters


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

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