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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.
 

Biology
  

  • BIOL 187 HM - HIV/AIDS: Science, Society, Service

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • BIOL 187 KS - Special Topics in Biology

    Through critical analysis of classic and current research papers, students will learn hypothesis generation, experimental design, and data analysis. Topics will vary from year to year, depending on instructor.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • BIOL 187A KS - Special Topics in Biology: Epigenetics

    Epigenetics “above genetics” is an exciting field of science that is beginning to explain the unexpected. This seminar style course allows students to read, analyze, and present the current literature in this quickly evolving field, as well as write a research grant proposal describing novel experiments of their own design. This course is cross-listed with Biology 164 at HMC.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 043L  or BIOL 040L ; CHEM 014L  and CHEM 015L ; or CHEM 040L  and CHEM 015L , or CHEM 029L , or CHEM042L KS 
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • BIOL 187B KS - Special Topics in Biology: Molecular Ecology

    An introduction to the use of molecular techniques in ecological research. Review of theory and current literature. Hands-on experience of molecular techniques, including protein electrophoresis and DNA markers. Highly recommended for students considering the study of ecology at the graduate level.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 043L  and BIOL 044L ; or  BIOL 040L   and BIOL 044L ; or BIOL042L KS  and BIOL044L KS ; CHEM 014L  and CHEM 015L ; or CHEM 040L  and CHEM 015L ; or CHEM 029L ; or CHEM042L KS .  BIOL 146L  or BIOL 169L  is recommended.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • BIOL 187C KS - Special Topics in Biology: Neural Organization of Behavior

    This seminar course focuses on central pattern generators (CPGs), neural circuits that underlie rhythmic or patterned behaviors. Discussion of articles will be combined with writing and observations of animal behavior to examine the development and implications of this important concept in neurobiology. Enrollment limited to 24.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 043L  and BIOL 044L ; or  BIOL 040L   and BIOL 044L ; or BIOL042L KS  and BIOL044L KS ;  and either NEUR095L JT  or an upper-division course in neurobiology, or instructor’s permission.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • BIOL 187F KS - Special Topics in Biology: Advanced Genetics

    This upper-level course will focus on advanced genetic phenomena, with emphasis on current discoveries and unsolved problems in the field. The learning approach will involve class discussions of landmark studies from the primary scientific literature.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL043L KS , or BIOL040L KS , or BIOL042L KS ;  CHEM014L KS  or CHEM040L KS ; and CHEM015L KS , or CHEM029L KS , or CHEM042L KS 
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • BIOL 187M KS - Special Topics in Biology: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    This is an upper division course that will take a practical approach to the use of UAV’s (“drones”) in organismal biology and environmental science. The course will consist of lectures, hands-on software and hardware tutorials, and field exercises in using drones to collect precision visible and hyperspectral imagery, and analyzing the data to address biological and environmental questions.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL044L KS 
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • BIOL 187P KS - Special Topics in Biology: Herpetology

    This is a taxon-oriented course that will focus on the biology of amphibians and reptiles. Within a phylogenetic context, we will learn about the evolution, ecology, behavior, morphology, and physiology of these highly successful animals. The course will comprise lectures, class discussion, and a field trip.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 043L  and BIOL 044L ; or  BIOL 040L   and BIOL 044L ; or BIOL042L KS  and BIOL044L KS ; or permission of instructor.

     

     
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • BIOL 187S KS - Special Topics in Biology: Microbial Life

    This is an upper-division course in which students will examine the structure, function, diversity, and relationship of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms in agriculture, industry and disease. An introduction to the immune system and its mechanism to defend against microbes will be explored. This course should appeal to a wide range of students with different backgrounds. Enrollment limited to 24.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 043L  and BIOL 044L ; or  BIOL 040L   and BIOL 044L ; or BIOL042L KS  and BIOL044L KS ; CHEM 014L  and CHEM 015L ; or CHEM 040L  and CHEM 015L ; or CHEM 029L ; or CHEM042L KS , or permission of the instructor.

     

     
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • BIOL 188L KS - Senior Thesis Research Project in Biology

    Seniors may apply to do laboratory or field investigation with a faculty member. The topic should be chosen by the end of the junior year. In this course, library and lab materials are developed, research begun, and seminar discussions held with faculty and students in the field of concentration. This is the first course for students doing a two-semester senior project. Registration in this course will be followed by registration in BIOL 190L .

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • BIOL 189L KS - Senior Thesis Summer Research Project in Biology

    Students who intend to satisfy a two-semester senior thesis project by conducting a substantial research project during the summer after their junior year, should enroll in this course in the fall semester following their research. No credit towards graduation will be awarded for this course. Typically, registration in this course would be followed by registration in BIOL 190L . This course will be graded Pass/Fail. There is no lab fee for this course.

    Course Credit: No course credit
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • BIOL 190L KS - Senior Thesis Research Project in Biology, Second Semester

    Senior laboratory or field investigation research is culminated and results are summarized in a written thesis and formal presentation. This is the second semester course for those doing a two-semester research thesis.

    Fee: $50
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • BIOL 191 KS - One-Semester Thesis in Biology

    All students who intend to complete a one-semester thesis should enroll in this course. Students are required both to submit a substantive written thesis–which may involve experimental work, analysis of datasets previously collected by other researchers, or a critical analysis of the literature–and to make a formal presentation. Students register for this course during the semester in which the one-semester thesis is written and due. There is no lab fee for this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • BIOL 199 KS - Independent Study in Biology, Chemistry, Physics

    Students who have the necessary qualifications, and who wish to investigate in depth an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses, may arrange with a faculty member for independent study under his or her direction. A limited opportunity open to all students with permission of instructor. Full or half course. Offered annually.

    The faculty and the areas in which they are particularly willing to direct independent study are as follows:

    • J. Armstrong: Genetics, cell and molecular biology; chromatin dynamics and gene regulation in the fruit fly.
    • K. Black: Organic chemistry; reaction mechanisms studied by computational techniques.
    • S. Budischak: Disease ecology; host-parasite interactions; immunology; physiological ecology; co-infection and community ecology.
    • P. Chandrangsu: Microbiolgy; molecular biology; biochemistry; microbial stress response.
    • M. Coleman: Neurobiology, neurophysiology, neural basis of behavior, neural control of auditoryvocal learning in songbirds.
    • G. Edwalds-Gilbert: Cell and molecular biology; pre-mRNA splicing in yeast.
    • P. Ferree: Genetics, molecular biology, and early development of Drosophila (fruit flies) and Nasonia (jewel wasps); chromosome structure and evolution; host-pathogen interactions.
    • F. Finseth: Genomics; evolutionary biology; genetics; selfish evolution, sexual selection, adaptation and speciation in Mimulus (monkeyflowers).
    • A. Fucaloro: Physical chemistry, especially emission and absorption; molecular spectroscopy; electron impact.
    • S. Gilman: Marine ecology; invertebrate biology; climate change ecology; biophysical ecology; population biology.
    • S. Gould: Scanning probe microscopy; physics of sports.
    • M. Hatcher-Skeers: Applications of nuclear resonance spectroscopy in determining the structure of DNA and other biological macromolecules.
    • J. Higdon: Astrophysics; fluid dynamics; biophysics.
    • A. Landsberg: Non-linear systems: pattern formation, bifurcation theory, chaos, Josephson Junctions.
    • A. Leconte: Biochemical investigation of evolutionary intermediates.
    • S. Marzen: Reinforcement learning, biophysics, rate-distortion theory, prediction.
    • D. McFarlane: Evolutionary ecology; biogeography; late Quaternary paleoecology and extinctions.
    • J. Monroy: Neural control and mechanics of animal movement; muscle physiology; comparative animal physiology.
    • M. Preest: Physiology and ecology of animal energetics; thermal biology of terrestrial ectotherms; osmoregulatory physiology; herpetology; muscle physiology.
    • K. Purvis-Roberts: Chemistry of urban air pollution, primarily aerosol; public policy aspects of air pollution.
    • C. Robins: Applications of soil science research to challenges in geomorphology, plant ecology, and environmental science.
    • B. Sanii: Experimental physical chemistry; self-assembly and bio-inspired folding of soft materials.
    • L. Schmitz: Functional and evolutionary vertebrate morphology; paleobiology; evolution of vertebrate vision.
    • J. Sheung:
    • T. Solomon-Lane: Neural and developmental basis of behavior, neuroendocrinology, social behavior.
    • Z. Tang: Cell and molecular biology, biochemistry; cell cycle control in yeast.
    • D. Thomson: Conservation biology, population modeling, ecology of biological invasions, plant ecology and plant/pollinator interactions.
    • E. Van Arnam: Natural products chemistry and chemical ecology; structure, function, and evolution of microbial metabolites.
    • A. Wenzel: Catalysis, asymmetric synthetic methodology.
    • E. Wiley: Molecular biology; genetics; chromatin structure in the ciliate Tetrahymena.
    • B. Williams: Paleoceanographic reconstructions on recent timescales from marine climate archives.
    • N. Williams: Fundamental late-metal organometallic chemistry, mechanisms of basic organometallic reactions.


    Course Credit: 1.0 or 0.5


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

Chemistry
  

  • CHEM 014L KS - Basic Principles of Chemistry

    The first semester of a year-long study of the structure of matter and the principles of chemical reactions. Topics covered include stoichiometry, periodicity, atomic and molecular structure, bonding theory, enthalpy, and phases of matter.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • CHEM 015L KS - Basic Principles of Chemistry

    The second semester of a year-long study of the structure of matter and the principles of chemical reactions. Topics covered include free energy, equilibrium, kinetics, electrochemistry, acid-base chemistry, and descriptive chemistry.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 014L .
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • CHEM 029L KS - Accelerated General Chemistry with Lab

    A one-semester accelerated general chemistry course as an alternative to the year-long CHEM 014L  and CHEM 015L  sequence for students with a strong chemistry background. This course will cover atomic and molecular structure, spectroscopy, chemical bonding, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, kinetics, equilibria, transition metals, nuclear chemistry and descriptive inorganic chemistry. Three lectures and one four-hour laboratory per week.

    Prerequisite(s): 4 or 5 on the Chemistry Advanced Placement test (or completion of comparable honors chemistry course in high school), MATH 030  (or concurrent), and permission of instructor. Students must sign up with instructor during fall semester pre-registration to be eligible.
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • CHEM 040L KS - Introduction to Biological Chemistry

    This course is designed for first-year students and must be taken concurrently with BIOL 040L . The two courses together provide an alternative to General Chemistry (CHEM 014L ) and Introductory Biology (BIOL 043L ) and highlight areas of overlap between the two disciplines. Chemistry topics covered include stoichiometry, periodicity, atomic and molecular structure, bonding theory, enthalpy, and phases of matter. Biology topics include introductory material in the fields of cell biology, biochemistry and genetics, including cell structure, metabolism, gene expression, and inheritance. In total, BIOL 040L  and CHEM 040L will include 6 hours of lecture and 8 hours of lab per week. Enrollment is by permission of the instructors.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $50.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • CHEM 042L KS - Integrated Biology and Chemistry

    This course is designed for first-year students and must be taken concurrently with BIOL042L KS. The two courses together cover the topics in and provide an alternative to General Chemistry II (CHEM015L KS) and Introductory Biology (BIOL043L KS) and highlight areas of overlap between the two disciplines. For example, Chemistry topics would include free energy, equilibrium, kinetics, electrochemistry, and acid-base chemistry. Biology topics would include introductory material in the fields of cell biology, biochemistry and genetics, including cell structure, metabolism, gene expression, and inheritance. In total, BIOL042L KS and CHEM042L KS will include 6 hours of lecture and 6-8 hours of lab per week.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM014L KS  
    Corequisite(s): Students must enroll in this course and BIOL042L KS  concurrently.
    Fee: Laboratory fee: $50
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CHEM 051L KS - Topics in Forensic Science

    This course will explore chemical and physical methods used in modern crime detection. Topics as diverse as microscopy, toxicology, serology, fingerprinting, document examination, DNA analysis, and arson investigation will be examined. Students will use case studies, collaborative work, and online resources extensively throughout the course. Enrollment limited to 36.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $30.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 052L KS - From Ancient to Modern Science

    This course traces the development of science from Ancient Greek traditions through the birth of modern science to the present. It will explore the methods and findings of the Ancients and of modern science, including the Newtonian Synthesis, relativity, and quantum mechanics. Students will participate in laboratory exercises and demonstrations. Enrollment limited to 45.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $30.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 070L KS - Land, Air, and Ocean Science

    This course is an introduction to basic principles of environmental science with application to air and water pollution. Topics including global warming, the ozone hole, acid rain, energy production, sustainable development, etc., will be discussed. We will concentrate on both the scientific explorations and the political implications of such issues.

    Fee: Laboratory fee $30.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 081L JT - The Science and Business of Medicinal Chemistry

    An introduction to the basic concepts of medicinal chemistry and the methods of biochemical analysis such as: drug discovery, development and commercialization; a discussion of chemical bonding and the organic functional groups found in drug molecules; and an examination of the physiochemical properties related to drug action (e.g., acid-based properties, equilibria, and stereochemistry).

    Fee: Laboratory fee $30.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 116L KS - Organic Chemistry

    The chemistry of organic compounds developed from considerations of bonding, structure, synthesis, and mechanisms of reaction. Selected application of those principles to biological systems. Enrollment limited to 50.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 015L , or CHEM 040L  and CHEM 015L , CHEM042L KS . CHEM116L is the prerequisite for CHEM 117L .
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50 per semester.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • CHEM 117L KS - Organic Chemistry

    The chemistry of organic compounds developed from considerations of bonding, structure, synthesis, and mechanisms of reaction. Selected application of those principles to biological systems. Enrollment limited to 50.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 116L 
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50 per semester.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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

  • CHEM 119 KS - Natural Products Chemistry

    This course covers the field known as natural products chemistry. It will explore the main biological sources of natural products, methods for finding, classifying, and identifying potential pharmaceuticals, and the biochemical basis for the production of these compounds through the use of lectures, case studies, and hands-on experience in the laboratory. One-half course credit. Enrollment limited to 24.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 117L .
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 121 KS - Principles of Physical Chemistry

    A course designed to investigate physio-chemical systems through classical thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, kinetics, quantum mechanics, and spectroscopy. Enrollment limited to 20.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 015L , or CHEM 040L  and CHEM 015L , or CHEM042L KS , or equivalent; PHYS 031L  or PHYS 034L , and MATH 031 . CHEM 121 is not the prerequisite to CHEM 122 .

     

     
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CHEM 122 KS - Principles of Physical Chemistry

    A course designed to investigate physio-chemical systems through classical thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, kinetics, quantum mechanics, and spectroscopy. Enrollment limited to 20.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 015L , or CHEM 040L  and CHEM 015L , or CHEM042L KS , or equivalent; PHYS 031L  or PHYS 034L , and MATH 031 . CHEM121 is not the prerequisite to CHEM 122 .

     

     
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CHEM 123 KS - Advanced Organic Chemistry

    Organic chemistry is the study of carbon-containing compounds, which are ubiquitous to everyday life. From pharmaceuticals to plastics, the structure of an organic module determines its function. This course is designed to introduce students to advanced topics in the field of organic chemistry. Topics covered will expand upon material on stereoelectronic effects in organic reaction mechanisms.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 117L , or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 124 KS - Bioanalytical Chemistry

    This course will examine modern analytical and instrumental techniques as applied to biological systems. Particular focus will be placed on methods that elucidate protein structure and function as well as characterization of nucleic acids. The scope of the course will include fundamental theory and practical applications of spectroscopic methods, electrophoresis, biosensors, centrifugation, immunochemical methods, chromatography, mass spectrometry, and calorimetry. Enrollment limited to 24.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 043L , or BIOL 040L , or BIOL042L KS ; and CHEM 116L .
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 125L KS - Advanced Laboratory in Biochemistry

    This course will be a survey of modern laboratory techniques in biochemistry such as enzyme assay development, protein purification, and the development and application of high-throughput approaches.

    Prerequisite(s): Students must have successfully completed or be co-enrolled in BIOL177 KS /CHEM177 KS Biochemistry , or have the permission of the instructor.
    Fee: This course has a laboratory fee.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CHEM 126L KS - Advanced Laboratory in Chemistry

    A survey of advanced laboratory techniques including physical chemistry methods, analytical chemistry (especially instrumental methods), and synthesis and characterization of compounds. Enrollment limited to 18. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 015L , or CHEM 040L  and CHEM 015L , or CHEM042L KS ; CHEM 117L ; PHYS 031L  or PHYS 034L , and MATH 031 . CHEM 126L is not the prerequisite for CHEM127L except with permission of instructor.

     

     
    Corequisite(s): CHEM 121 , CHEM 122  recommended as co-requisite.
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CHEM 127L KS - Advanced Laboratory in Chemistry

    A survey of advanced laboratory techniques including physical chemistry methods, analytical chemistry (especially instrumental methods), and synthesis and characterization of compounds. Enrollment limited to 18. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 015L , or CHEM042L KS ; CHEM 117L ; PHYS 031L  or PHYS 034L , and MATH 031 . CHEM 126L is not the prerequisite for CHEM127L except with permission of instructor.

     

     
    Corequisite(s): CHEM 121 , CHEM 122  recommended as co-requisite.
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHEM 128 KS - Inorganic Chemistry

    A survey of the bonding, structure, reactions, mechanisms, and properties of inorganic compounds. Special emphasis will be placed upon transition metal chemistry. Topics will include elementary group theory, atomic structure, ionic and covalent bonding, spectroscopy, molecular orbital theory, periodic trends, bioinorganic chemistry, and organometallic chemistry. Enrollment limited to 20.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 117L , CHEM 121  (or concurrent).
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 130L KS - Inorganic Synthesis

    This laboratory course will include a variety of synthetic techniques for inorganic compounds. Emphasis will be on transition metal complexes, including organometallic compounds, and some main group compounds will also be prepared. Students will use appropriate spectroscopic methods and chromatography to characterize products. Use of original journal references will be stressed. Meets for entire semester. Enrollment limited to 12.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 117L  and CHEM 121  (or concurrent). 
    Fee: Lab fee $50.
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 134 KS - Introduction to Molecular Modeling

     This course provides an introduction to both the theory and practice of current molecular modeling methods. Students use molecular mechanics, molecular orbital theory, and molecular dynamics to study chemical systems ranging from small organic structures to large biomolecules. The computational work is carried out using Spartan, MacroModel, and Gaussian software. Meets for entire semester. Enrollment limited to 12.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 117L , CHEM 121 .
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 139 KS - Environmental Chemistry

    The course is designed to apply the fundamental ideas of chemistry to environmental concepts. Major topics include water, air, and land pollution, industrial ecology, and chemical techniques for environmental analysis and remediation.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 014L  and CHEM 015L , or CHEM 040L  and CHEM 015L , or CHEM 029L , or CHEM042L KS 
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 172 KS - NMR Spectroscopy

    Examines fundamental concepts in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy including the physical basis of magnetic resonance and one- and two-dimensional techniques for the elucidation of structure and dynamics. The course includes hands-on experience with data collection and analysis. Meets for entire semester. Lecture.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of or concurrent enrollment in CHEM 117L  and CHEM 122 .
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 174L KS - Solution Thermodynamics

    This course applies the laws of chemical thermodynamics to liquid solutions with particular emphasis on volumetric and refractometric studies. It includes both lecture and laboratory. For the latter, the students will work in groups on research projects devised by the instructor using an Anton Paar density meter and refractometer. Students will be required to present their findings in written form.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 121 .
    Fee: Laboratory fee $50.
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 175 KS - Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry

    This course will emphasize the chemistry and biochemistry vital to drug design and drug action. Clinically important compounds will be used as examples throughout the course, with special emphasis on neurochemical aspects. Structural activity and rational drug design concepts will also be discussed.

    Prerequisite(s): CHEM 117L .
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHEM 177 KS - Biochemistry

    A study of structure and function in living systems at the molecular level. Discussion centers on intermediary metabolism, cellular control mechanisms, and energy flow, with particular emphasis on how this information is developed. Enrollment limited to 24.Cross-listed as BIOL177 KS.

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 043L  or BIOL 040L , or BIOL042L KS ; CHEM 116L , CHEM 117L , or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every semester


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

  • CHEM 180 KS - Applied Molecular Evolution

    This half-course discusses the application of evolutionary principles to the development of new biological medicines and materials. It will be a literature-focused survey providing an overview of the theories, methodologies, and applications of molecular evolution in the laboratory.

    Prerequisite(s): One of the following: BIOL  /CHEM177 KS , or CHEM115  PO, or CHEM182  HM, or permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • CHEM 188L KS - Senior Thesis Research Project in Chemistry

    Seniors may apply to do laboratory or field investigation with a faculty member. The topic should be chosen by the end of the junior year. In this course, library and lab materials are developed, research begun, and seminar discussions held with faculty and students in the field of concentration. This is the first course for students doing a two-semester senior project. Registration in this course will be followed by registration in CHEM 190L .

    Fee: $50
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHEM 189L KS - Senior Thesis Summer Research Project in Chemistry

    Students who intend to satisfy a two-semester senior thesis project by conducting a substantial research project during the summer after their junior year, should enroll in this course in the fall semester following their research. No credit towards graduation will be awarded for this course. Typically, registration in this course would be followed by registration in CHEM190L KS . This course will be graded Pass/Fail. There is no lab fee for this course.

    Course Credit: No course credit


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

  • CHEM 190L KS - Senior Thesis Research Project in Chemistry, Second Semester

    Senior laboratory or field investigation research is culminated and results are summarized in a written thesis and formal presentation. This is the second semester course for those doing a two-semester research thesis.

    Fee: $50
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHEM 191 KS - One Semester Senior Thesis in Chemistry

    All students who intend to complete a one-semester thesis should enroll in this course. Students are required both to submit a substantive written thesis–which may involve experimental work, analysis of datasets previously collected by other researchers, or a critical analysis of the literature–and to make a formal presentation. Students register for this course during the semester in which the one-semester thesis is written and due. There is no lab fee for this course.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHEM 199 KS - Independent Study in Chemistry

    See BIOL199 KS  for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0 or 0.5


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

Chicanx Latinx Studies
  

  • CHST 015 CH - Introduction to Chicanx Latinx Studies

    This course focuses on the Chicano Movement within the context of political uprisings in Latin America and other civil rights struggles in the U.S. Introduction to CLS orients students to carrying out research using the interdisciplinary framework of Chicanx Latinx Studies by examining the Chicano Movement through various themes that remain central to the field, such as migrations, social movements, and cultural Renaissance. The course incorporates the three areas that constitute the major, 1) Literature, Music and Representation; 2) Identities, Cultures and Communities; and 3) Latinx Experiences in the Americas.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every three semesters


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

  • CHST 028 CH - Epicentro America: Introduction to Central American Studies

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 064 CH - Chicanx Music from Genre to Experience

    A critical examination of Chicanx-Latinx music circa 1930s into the present, this course focuses on music as an experience. Rather than approaching music from the categories of genre, the goal is to redirect our understanding of music, in general, as we study the material reality of Chicanxs-Latinxs in the U.S.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 066 CH - Fandango as a De-Colonial Tool

    Through readings, discussion, and lessons in fandango (a music/dance tradition from Veracruz, Mexico), this interdisciplinary course aims to progressively deconstruct how we understand music and the role that social institutions have played in our conceptions of music and dance in society. Students must be Spanish literate.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN044 SC  
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 067 CH - Chicanx Art and Its Antecedents

    Chicanx art as an autonomous offspring of Mexican art. The influence of Mexican muralists and other Mexican artists depicting the dramatic changes brought by the revolution.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 074 CH - Women Who Rock: The Archive, Pop Music and New Media

    This course introduces students to popular music studies through the practice of archive building, oral history analysis and digital scholarship. Drawing from alternative and oral history archives, students will investigate how race, ethnicity, gender, class and region fit into the stories we tell about particular genres of music.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 077 CH - Chicana-Latina, Gender, and Popular Culture

    In the digital media age, popular culture saturates many aspects of everyday life. This course is a critical examination of the ways popular culture generates and shapes images of Chicanas and Latinas and how gender, race/ethnicity, class, and sexuality all intersect to shape Chicana-Latina popular understandings in the U.S and beyond.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 120 CH - Fronteras/Borders: Methods and Research

    “Fronteras/Borders” is the metaphor that guides our exploration across the three general areas of the Chicanx Latinx Studies major in order to comprehend the interdisciplinary nature of the field. It will also allow the student (majors in Chicanx Latinx Studies or other related fields) to imagine, propose and ultimately design their own inquiries sowing new questions into the academic, social and community landscape of Chicanx Latinx Studies.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CHST 121 CH - Artivistas in the Americas

    As part of the Mellon Interdisciplinary Humanities Initiative and the Intercollegiate Department of Chican/o Latina/x Studies, I propose a course titled “Artivistas in the Americas” for the spring of 2020. A conflation of two words artista (artist) and activista (activist), artivista is a central concept in the course.  We will examine how artivistas across the hemisphere are utilizing music and other forms of creative expression to center dialogue and critical social change.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CHST 125 CH - Latinxs in the 20th Century

    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.
  

  • CHST 126B CH - Contemporary Chicanx Literature

    Beginning with the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back (1981), this survey examines how contemporary Chicanx literature focuses on questions of identity, specifically gender and sexuality. Theoretical readings in feminism and gay studies will inform our interpretation of texts by Anzaldua, Castillo, Cisneros, Cuadros, Gaspar de Alba, Islas, Moraga, and Viramontes, among others. Cross listed as ENGL167B CH .

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 128 CH - The Politics of Citizenship: The Law, Belonging, and Borders

    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.
  

  • CHST 130 CH - (Re)Claiming Voices and Sharing Stories in Chicanx Latinx Communities

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

    Prerequisite(s): Any Chicanx-Latinx Studies course.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 132 CH - Immigrant Youth: Education Access and Activism

    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.
  

  • CHST 136 CH - Chicanx Latinx Social Movements

    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.
  

  • CHST 182 CH - Death Squads and Dictators

    The Cold War was arguably the longest conflict in U.S. history, the defining event of the second half of the twentieth century. This course places this history, its literature and in particular the overlooked impact on Latin American and Latino/a communities at the center of our investigation.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: One-time only


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

  • CHST 184D CH - Chicanx Short Fiction

    A wide compendium of short stories written by Mexican Americans or Chicanxs will be analyzed, dating from the 1930s to the present day. Diverse approaches—historic, thematic, or regional—will be employed, as well as a focus on subgenres such as adolescent literature or detective fiction. Authors include Daniel Cano, Sandra Cisneros, Jovita Gonzales, Américo Paredes, Albert A. Rios, Gary Soto, and others. Cross listed as ENGL167D CH  .

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 185B CH - Narratives of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    This course explores diverse processes affecting U.S.-Mexico border culture and the way cultural products - in particular, fiction - critically respond to these processes. Twentieth-Century border narratives allow us to explore and examine issues of race, immigration, gender, community formation, economic deprivation, and the urban experience through the critical lens of geographical theories on space and place, cultural studies, critical race studies, and from a human rights perspective.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 185C CH - Voices of the Tropics: Latina Literature of the Caribbean

    This course offers a solid introduction to Caribbean-origin Latina literature. Our engagement with literary renderings of the Latina experience will be informed by a recurrent emphasis on representations of history and issues of gender, terms that can be understood culturally, historically, economically, racially, and geographically. Writers seeking to reflect and inform the US immigrant experience have seized on the expressive and critical power of memoir, bildungsroman, historical fiction, and revolution narratives. Reading the literature of Latinas of Cuban, Dominican, Haitian, and Puerto Rican origin will show us how immigration and circular migration inform issues of gender, sexuality, maternity, and reproduction.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 186 CH - Contemporary Chicana Literature Seminar

    This seminar analyzes how Chicanx writers have negotiated with and against the symbolic inheritance (and the material social consequences) of four Mexican cultural icons of womanhood: La Malinche, La Virgen de Guadalupe, Sor Juana Inées de la Cruz, and La Llorona. Furthermore, the process of icon construction in Mexicanx-Chicanx culture will be explored by studying post-mortem representations of Selena Quintanilla. Cross listed as ENGL167C CH .

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 190 CH - Chicanx Latinx Studies Senior Seminar

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 191 CH - Chicanx Latinx Studies Senior Thesis

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

    Prerequisite(s): CHST190 CH  
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHST 192 CH - Chicanx Latinx Studies Senior Project

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

    Prerequisite(s): CHST190 CH  
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Chicanx Latinx Transnational Studies
  

  • CHLT 009 CH - Food, Culture, 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.
  

  • CHLT 060 CH - Women in the Third World

    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.
  

  • CHLT 061 CH - Contemporary Issues of Chicanas and Latinas

    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.
  

  • CHLT 068 CH - Rock in Las Americas

    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.
  

  • CHLT 072 CH - Central Americans in the United States

    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.
  

  • CHLT 085 PZ - Gender, Radicalism and Revolution

    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.
  

  • CHLT 105 PZ - Undocumented Los Angeles: The Untold Story of Organizing

    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.
  

  • CHLT 110 PZ - Latinx Community 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.
  

  • CHLT 115 CH - Gender, Race and Class: Women of Color in the U.S.

    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.
  

  • CHLT 120 PZ - Immigration from the ‘Tropics’ to the Borderlands: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

    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.
  

  • CHLT 153 CH - Rural and Urban Social Ethnic Movements

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

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 PZ  or SOC 030 CH  
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CHLT 154 CH - Latinas in the Garment Industry

    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.
  

  • CHLT 157 CH - Latina Activists Work and Protest

    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.
  

  • CHLT 160 CH - Queering (Im)Migration: LGBTI & Gender Nonconforming Migration from Central America

    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.
  

  • CHLT 166 CH - Chicana Feminist Epistemologies

    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.

Chinese
  

  • CHIN 001A PO - Elementary Chinese

    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.
  

  • CHIN 001B PO - Elementary Chinese

    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.
  

  • CHIN 002 PO - Elementary Chinese for Bilinguals

    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.
  

  • CHIN 011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary Chinese 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.
  

  • CHIN 013 PO - Chinese Conversation, Advanced

    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.
  

  • CHIN 051A PO - Intermediate Chinese

    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.
  

  • CHIN 051B PO - Intermediate Chinese

    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.
  

  • CHIN 051H PO - Intermediate Chinese for Bilinguals

    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.
  

  • CHIN 111A PO - Advanced Chinese

    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.
  

  • CHIN 111B PO - Advanced Chinese

    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.
  

  • CHIN 125 PO - Modern Chinese 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.
  

  • CHIN 127 PO - Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

    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.
  

  • CHIN 131 PO - Introduction to Classical Chinese

    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.
  

  • CHIN 192A PO - Senior Project

    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.
  

  • CHIN 192B PO - Senior Project

    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.
 

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