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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.
 

Political Studies
  

  • POST 174 CH - U.S. Immigration Policy

    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.
  

  • POST 175 CH - Immigration and Race in 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.
  

  • POST 186 PZ - Technology and Politics

    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.
  

  • POST 190 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.
  

  • POST 198 PZ - God in the Barrio

    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.

Politics
  

  • EEP 191 SC - Senior Thesis in Environment, Economics, and Politics

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 001B PO - Modern Political Theory

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 005 PO - Introduction to Comparative Politics

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 007 PO - United States Foreign Policy

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 008 PO - Introduction to International Relations

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 033A PO - American Constitutionalism I: Structures of Power

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 033B PO - American Constitutionalism II: Rights and Liberties

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 060 PO - The Global Politics of Food and Agriculture

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 061 PO - The Global Politics of Water

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 086 PO - International Organization, Communication, and Power

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 097 PO - Writing about Justice

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 100 SC - Introduction to International Relations

    This course provides a broad survey of issues in and approaches to the study of relations between states. We will examine enduring topics, such as diplomacy and the balance of power, as well as more recent phenomena, including the rise of international organizations and humanitarian international law to prominence since the mid-20th century. Open to first-year students.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • POLI 101 SC - International Political Economy

    The central problematic in the international economy is “globalization”—pressures for integration and uniformity across national boundaries. This course examines the dynamics of the main forces for globalization—trade, finance, and investment, the major supporting institutions—WTO, IMF, IBRD, and a central consequence—concerns about national “competitiveness.”

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 102 SC - Cooperation and Rivalry in the European Union

    The European Union is a unique instance of extensive cooperation among sovereign states. This course provides an introduction to European politics by examining the historical development of the European Union, some of the distinctive characteristics of its member states, and the nature of their interactions.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 105 SC - NATO in the 21st Century: The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is often referred to as history’s most successful alliance. But NATO suffered a severe identity crisis after the Cold War, with its members divided in their attitudes towards both the Alliance’s traditional leader (the United States) and its traditional adversary (Russia). This course examines the history and prospects of the Atlantic alliance, focusing on the policies of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 108 SC - Political Europe and Monetary Europe

    Following World War II, most of the states of western Europe—including most prominently France and the Federal Republic of Germany— embarked on a process of political reconciliation and economic integration. Using both primary and secondary source materials, this course will examine why plans for monetary cooperation, and ultimately monetary union, came to play such a significant role in these efforts.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 110 SC - Introduction to Comparative Politics

    This survey course introduces students to the field of comparative politics by investigating cross-national similarities and differences in politics, economies and societies through several illuminating empirical case studies and examines the strengths and weaknesses of comparative analysis as a methodological tool. Topics may include: the formation of states and nations; the evolution of democratic and non-democratic political regimes; political development and culture; the role of culture and religion in modern politics; policymaking; and modes of political participation and protest.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • POLI 111 SC - Politics and Markets in Latin America

    This course is designed to introduce students to the political economy of Latin America. The course will be organized thematically with readings that draw on several country examples. Some of the central themes of the course include: democracy and growth, structural reform, trade, debt, and inequality.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 112 SC - Mobilizing Islam

    How have social and political actors mobilized Islam in the modern public sphere, and why? This course explores the intellectual origins of Islamic revivial movements through the writings of major thinkers, and considers how movements in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia, as well as transnational jihadi movements, have interpreted Islam for different political goals. Using the lenses of social movement theory, we will consider what drives Islamists to participate in elections, oppose established political regimes, promote conservative and activist interpretations of gender roles, give religious meaning to social activism, justify or oppose violence, expand their coalitions, and change their ideas.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • POLI 113 SC - People and Power in the Modern Middle East

    How have political identities, ideologies, institutions, public spheres and avenues for participation evolved in major Arab states, and how have people experienced power and exercised agency through them? This class explores opposition politics, social movements, youth politics, Islamism, gendered mobilizations, informal urban politics, cultural resistance, and the uprisings of 2011 Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Palestine, and the Gulf states.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • POLI 114 SC - Islam and Politics in the Middle East: Rulers, Reformers and Radicals

    Why is Islam such a potent political force in the Middle East? This course will assess Islam’s relationship with democracy in the modern Middle East. We will study how it has informed political ideologies, justified diverse forms of government, motivated revolutionaries, and inspired conservatives and reformers.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • POLI 115 SC - Politics of Identity in South Asia: Religion, Caste and Ethnicity

    Why are religion, caste and ethnolinguistic identity still vital to contemporary South Asian politics? How does democracy weaken some identities and strengthen others? How do social and economic liberalization and new media erode or reinforce the bonds of caste and religion? When and why do identities produce political conflict and violence? We will examine how national and subnational identities have been reinforced in constitutions, mobilized in party politics and social movements, influenced by transnational relations, and sustained through conflict, from the period of independence to the present, in India and Pakistan.
     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • POLI 116 SC - The Politics of God

    Why and how does religion continue to exercise political influence in a secular age? This course examines how religion is mobilized in democratic politics, by national and state elites, and by revolutionary and fundamentalist movements in global,comparative case contexts.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 117 SC - Nations and Nationalism

    This course examines the concepts of nations and nationalism and their relationships with modernity, the nation-state, and democracy. It investigates, from a comparative perspective, the production of politically salient identities around questions of national identity, language, religion, and ethnicity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the West and the non-West.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 118 SC - Korea and Korean Americans

    This course is an intensive introduction to North and South Korea, with their interlocking histories and greatly divergent economic, political, and social realities. The course pays special attention to the impact of U.S. foreign policy on Korean national formation and Korean American identity and community formation.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 119 SC - Public Policy in the European Union

    The members of the European Union have agreed to joint policies in some areas but not in others. This course examines EU policy in a number of different fields. Likely topics include: the Single Market; competition policy; trade policy; monetary union; and the Community budget.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 120 SC - Introduction to U.S. Politics

    This survey course introduces students to the major institutions and processes of American politics. Topics may include Congress, the Supreme Court, the Presidency, groups and movements, federalism, the role of the media, voter turnout, macroeconomic policy, and public discontent with government.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • POLI 121 SC - Ending Mass Incarceration

    This course engages in a grounded examination of how communities of color engage in political struggle over the ideologies and practices of mass incarceration in the United States. The focus is on understanding the relationship between race, social welfare, and the prison-industrial complex through text and direct engagement with individuals and organizations involved in social justice work that confronts mass incarceration.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • POLI 122 SC - The Power Elite

    This course explores the relationship between business and government domestically and internationally. Topics include: business influence over public policy; relative power of financiers within the business community; role of financial structure in development and growth; and growing tension between capital mobility and national monetary sovereignty.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 124 SC - Race in American Politics

    This course examines the centrality of race in American politics. The course examines how racial and ethnic interest groups pursue political power and the relative success of their efforts. Thematically, the course will focus on how these groups interact with strategic political actors working within established political institutions.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 125 SC - Voting, Campaigning, and Elections

    This course is designed to provide a strong theoretical background in understanding voting behavior, elite campaign strategies, and electoral systems. It also connects theory to the “real world” of elections.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 126 SC - Black Americans and the Political System

    This course focuses on the relationship between black Americans and the US government, as well as the continuing struggle for black empowerment since Reconstruction. Careful consideration and analysis will be given to the current social and economical conditions of the black community.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • POLI 127 SC - Politics and Public Policy of Asian Communities in the U.S

    This course examines the intersection between Asian Americans and the politics of race and ethnicity. Central to the course is the claim that understanding race is critical to understanding American politics and that any sophisticated analysis of race must include the role of Asians in America.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 128 SC - Race and American Capitalism

    This course engages in a grounded examination of the contemporary political struggle of communities of color negotiating capitalist ideologies and practices. Students directly engage with individuals and organizations involved in social justice work rooted in working-class communities of color. Foci include civil rights, environmental justice, public health, economic justice, and the criminal legal system.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 129 SC - Toward Economic Dignity in the Real World

    This seminar asks how individuals in the academy can contribute directly to sustained efforts for economic dignity and justice in Los Angeles and California more broadly. Students will study topics including but not limited to policy campaigns, strategy development, alliances between workers centers and organized labor, state politics, social media, and popular education. To the extent possible, students will have opportunities to directly engage ongoing policy campaigns and communications projects at the city and statewide level.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • POLI 130 SC - Introduction to Political Economy

    This course explores the ways in which the study of politics and economics are interrelated, and introduces students to several models that attempt to explain and analyze the ways in which politics and economics affect each other. These include public choice theory, game theory, new institutionalism, and neo-Marxism. Open to first-year students. Offered spring.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • POLI 132 SC - Wealth, Poverty and Inequality

    Income inequality is an important and complex issue that faces every society. The challenge of managing inequality from a policy perspective is not merely a political concern, but one that is fundamentally economic, psychological, sociological, historical, philosophical, and geographic in nature.  In this trans-disciplinary course, students will engage the diverse literature on income inequality to develop a nuanced understanding of the issue and, ultimately, develop a policy proposal to manage rising income inequality with a multifaceted approach.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: One-time offering


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

  • POLI 134 SC - Infrastructures of Justice

    This research seminar focuses on the question, “Do markets result in just outcomes?” Most answers to this question seem to be virtually predetermined, but focus little attention on the question, “Under what conditions do markets result in just or unjust outcomes?” The premise here, to be explored through the students’ original case study research projects, is that markets as deeply embedded societal structures simply perpetuate underlying social conditions, be they just or unjust. Examples include white supremacy, patriarchy, land and asset distribution derived from colonial and slave plantation systems. However, markets can also reinforce social justice whether through, for example, community-based development projects or marketable permits for industrial pollution.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 135 PO - Policy Implementation and Evaluation

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 135 SC - Political Economy of Food

    This course will focus on social, cultural, racial and gendered power relations around the production, distribution, consumption, and waste of food in the United States and globally. We will address these issues in an intergenerational partnership with elder co-learners from Pilgrim Place and other elders similarly committed to social justice. Students in this course will register for a ½-course credit (4-7 hours per week) co-requisite internship in which they will explore alternative food practices through community engagement projects.

    Corequisite(s): POLI 135L .
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • POLI 135L SC - Political Economy of Food Lab

    This is a required lab involving off-campus community engagement work that is directly connected to classroom discussion and reading for POLI 135 . Students will attend one or two established programs that meet weekly at regular times for a minimum 3 hours a week. The professor is on site for both of these programs during the entire required lab time.

    Corequisite(s): POLI 135 .
    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Spring


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

  • POLI 136 PO - Environmental Justice and Public Policy

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 140 SC - Introduction to Political Theory

    This survey course examines the evolution of central political concepts in the western tradition through close readings of major texts in political theory. Students will be introduced to the political thought of authors such as Plato, Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, and Mill, as well as contemporary writings. Special attention will be given to changing understandings of liberty and authority, equality and rights, legitimacy, and democracy.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • POLI 141 SC - Politics of Race and American Popular Film

    This seminar investigates the social, political, and ethical issues surrounding representations of race in American popular film. Premised upon the insight that “race” is a social rather than a biological category, it examines racial identities as products of political relationships as well as sources of powerful political claims. The seminar uses film texts to gain a sharper understanding of the role of race in American politics as well as exploring the significance of popular film in constructing and defining racialized public memory.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 142 SC - Marxist and Post-Marxist Political Thought

    In American public discourse, news media, and academic institutions, political discussion is almost always circumscribed by the limits of liberal ideology. The language of political liberalism is so ubiquitous that many students will be unaware of how their own moral sensibilities and political intuitions are products of liberal thought. In contrast, this course draws upon Marxist, post-modern, and post-colonial theory to explore radical perspectives on politics, economics, culture, and power. A basic familiarity with liberal political philosophy, while helpful, is not required.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 143 SC - Civil Liberties and Fundamental Rights

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

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

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

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


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

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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 150 SC - Introduction to Public Policy

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • POLI 151 SC - Women and Public Policy

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 152 SC - Women and the Law

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • POLI 153 SC - Environmental Policy in the United States

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • POLI 154 SC - Future of Higher Education

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 156 SC - Women and Public Policy

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • POLI 157 SC - Black Feminist & Womanist Thought

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every 1-2 years


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

  • POLI 180 SC - Research Design

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 187 SC - Special Topics in Politics

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 187D SC - Gender Politics and Public Policy

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 187I SC - Race, Education and Law

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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

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

    Fee: Varies
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 187M SC - Feminist Political Thought

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 190 SC - Senior Seminar

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

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • POLI 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • POLI 195A SC - Politics Practicum: Food Justice

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • POLI 199 SC - Independent Study

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Portuguese
  

  • PORT 022 SC - Intensive Introductory Portuguese

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Psychology
  

  • PSYC 012 AF - Introduction to African American Psychology

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 051 PO - Introduction to Psychological Science

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 052 SC - Introduction to Psychology

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

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


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

  • PSYC 084 CH - Psychology of the Chicanx Latinx Experience

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 095 JT - Foundations of Neuroscience

    For description, see NEUR 95L 

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 102 SC - Psychology of Women

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

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • PSYC 103 SC - Psychological Statistics

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

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


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

  • PSYC 103 PZ - Social Psychology

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 104 SC - Research Design in Psychology

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

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


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

  • PSYC 104L SC - Research Design in Psychology Laboratory

    Must be taken concurrently with PSYC 104 . 

    Course Credit: 0.5
    Offered: Every year


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

  • PSYC 105 SC - Personality

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

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • PSYC 109 SC - Psychology of Work and Family

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

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 110 SC - Child Development

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

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • PSYC 111 SC - Adolescent Development

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

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


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

  • PSYC 111 PZ - Physiological Psychology

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 112 SC - Adult Development and Aging

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

    Prerequisite(s): PSYC 052 
    Course Credit: 1.0


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

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

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 117 PZ - Children and Families in South Asia

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 118 PZ - Health Psychology

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • PSYC 120 SC - Cognitive Development

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

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


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

  • PSYC 122 SC - Cognitive Psychology

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

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


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

  • PSYC 122L SC - Cognitive Psychology Laboratory

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

    Corequisite(s): PSYC 122 
    Course Credit: 0.5


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

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