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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.
 

Chinese Literature in English Translation
  

  • CHNT 164 PO - Poetry and Poetics

    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.
  

  • CHNT 166 PO - Chinese Fiction, Old and New

    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.
  

  • CHNT 167 PO - Urban Imaginations: The City in Chinese Literature and Film

    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.
  

  • CHNT 168 PO - Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese Literature

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

Classics
  

  • CLAS 001 PO - Greek and Roman Classics

    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.
  

  • CLAS 010 SC - Epic Heroes and Form in Popular Culture

    Starting with cinematic superheroes (e.g., Black Panther, Superman) and stretching back to Homer’s Achilles and the Sumerian Gilgamesh, traditional epic heroism has been an important site for education, the sublime, and entertainment. Yet anti-epic and anti-heroes often critique the values woven into traditional epic form. This course surveys the role of epic heroes/heroines across ancient, medieval, and modern times in order to better understand the changing conceptions of heroes: what kinds of knowledge do epic heroes produce and how does this knowledge relate to our lives? Along with screening films, we read epic poems (e.g., Near Eastern, Greek, Roman, English, German), novels, and critical theory.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • CLAS 012 SC - Greek Tragedy/Modern World

    We explore the strange world of Greek tragedy through a reading of selected plays (e.g., Sophocles, Euripides) and modern adaptations (plays and films). Why have these ancient plays been so influential? Students also learn about Dionysiac rituals, performance styles, theater archaeology, and reception theory. No prior knowledge necessary. Students will also have the opportunity to act out/direct/assist with scenes from ancient/modern plays. 

    This course satisfies either the Fine Arts or Letters general education requirement but not both.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CLAS 014 SC - Ancient Comedy

    A survey of Greek and Roman comedy, this course explores the origins, architecture, staging techniques, and rituals of the ancient theatre in terms of its changing social, political, and historical contexts. Special attention is paid to the function(s) of comedy and the role(s) of humor in the ancient world.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 018 SC - The Ancient Novel and Romance

    The dominant modern literary genre, the novel, finds its origins in ancient popular romances of wanderings and happy endings. Students will read the novels and romances of Longus, Heliodorus, Chariton, Lucian, Apuleius, and others, with attention to historical context, the nature of the genre, readership, and narratology. Special emphasis will be placed on the origins and nature of the novel, with a look at Homer’s Odyssey and Euripides’ romances as well as theorists including Bakhtin.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 019 SC - Classical Myth in Film: Hollywood and Avant-garde Cinema

    From Cleopatra’s beguiling charms and Medea’s torrid love affair with Jason to Homer’s wily Odysseus and Oedipus’ complex, ancient culture still provides material for conceptualizing modern political, racial, social, and sexual issues as imagined in modern Hollywood films and European cinema. This course explores the relationship between modernity and antiquity through a study of cinematic adaptations of mythical narratives; central to these discussions are the relationship between aesthetics and politics and the shifting role of culture from common ground to culture industry and beyond. In addition to screening films, students will also read plays, poetry, historical narratives, film criticism, and works of critical theory.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • CLAS 020 PZ - Fantastic Archaeology: Modern Myths, Pseudo-Science, and the Study of the Past

    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.
  

  • CLAS 022 PO - Epic: Gods and Heroes

    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.
  

  • CLAS 113 SC - History of Sexuality: The Classical World

    The ancient Greeks and Romans categorized sexuality differently from modern Westerners. This course focuses on same-sex love, an area of maximal difference. Using ancient evidence—from literature, history, and art—as well as modern theories, we will study the history of sexuality in the Classical cultures.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 114 SC - Female and Male in Ancient Greece

    Using evidence from literature, oratory, law, medical writings, and the visual arts, this course will explore the legal and social position of women in ancient Greece; male attitudes toward women and the idea of the Female; sexuality; and the contrast between the myths of powerful women and the apparent reality.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 121 JT - Classical Mythology

    This class surveys some of the prominent myths of the ancient Greek and Roman world, with attention to material culture, literary interpretation, theory of myth and modern reception. How did Greeks and Romans live among their myths? The class is usually taught jointly by a literary Classicist and an archaeologist.  Readings include selections from Hesiod, Homer, the dramatists, Ovid and Apuleius.

    Change in course description pending faculty approval in fall 2019.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 125 PZ - Ancient Spectacle

    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.
  

  • CLAS 130 SC - Roman Decadence

    From the Augustan Age onward, the Roman World was sharply divided between a self-created image of order, stability, and propriety, based on Rome’s visible political and military achievements, and its increasing involvement with exotic, private, and unconscious forces of disruption and decay. This course will examine closely those so-called “enemies of Roman order”: religious cults, superstition, personal corruption and excess, popular violence, the Roman obsession with death, the radical decline from Classical models of life and art. Authors read include Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, Petronius, Tacitus, Juvenal, Apuleius.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 145 SC - Ancient Political Thought

    Students study the historical and theoretical construction of communities in antiquity (with particular attention to Greece) and its reception in critical theory. Topics include citizenship, class struggle, different political regimes, and the relationship between culture and the state.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 150 SC - Special Topics in Ancient Studies

    A research seminar that focuses on specific historical periods, societies, problems, or themes. Repeatable for credit with different topics.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CLAS 161 PZ - Greek Art and Archaeology

    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.
  

  • CLAS 162 PZ - Roman Art and Archaeology

    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.
  

  • CLAS 164 PZ - Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius

    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.
  

  • CLAS 190 SC - Senior Seminar in Ancient Studies/Classics

    This course consists of an intensive study of selected topics within the larger field of Ancient Studies leading to significant independent research. Required of majors in the senior year.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every fall


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

  • CLAS 191 SC - Senior Thesis

    Students will work closely and on an individual basis with their faculty advisers to identify an area of interest, become familiar with basic bibliography and research tools, and define a topic to investigate. Students will submit the results of this research in writing and make an oral presentation to the Ancient Studies/Classics Department. Restricted to seniors majoring in classics.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CLAS 199 SC - Independent Study in Classics: Reading and Research

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

Computer Science
  

  • CSCI 005 HM - Introduction to Computer Science

    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.
  

  • CSCI 051 CM - Introduction to Computer Science

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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CSCI 052 PO - Fundamentals of Computer 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.

Core Courses
  

  • CORE 001 SC - Histories of the Present: Truth

    The search for truth is often taken to be one of the goals of academic inquiry, as well as a touchstone for making political and social decisions. Yet despite it being something many of us seek, we do not all agree on what is true. This course examines some methods that are seen as offering access to universal truth, while also proposing additional ways of knowing that challenge such claims. Who decides what is true and false? What do we do when dominant powers insist on a version of truth that we do not believe? Is there such a thing as truth, and, if not, what does it mean for something to be a lie? In addressing these questions, we consider how institutions, socially constructed categories such as race and gender, and other cultural frameworks influence ways of evaluating truth.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Becoming Someone Else in American Culture

    American literary and cultural history is full of discarded selves. In a culture that celebrates both self-creation and especially, self re-creation, what happens to those selves we leave behind? Are they ever jettisoned fully? Do they conflict with our new selves? Ranging from the Colonial period through the 21st century, the course will take up a variety of acts of self-fashioning, self-transformation, and self-forgetting in order to explore questions of personal, racial, gender, and national identity. We will examine how writers, artists, and musicians explore the fluidity of these categories, as well as the social consequences that attend transgressing them.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Communities and Faultlines: Militarism and Building Anti-Racist Feminist and Queer Solidarities

    In this course, we will examine the ways in which notions and practices of “community” are shaped by the politics of exclusion and inclusion. In particular, we will focus on ways in which dominant practices of community building and engagement might reproduce exclusionary logics tied to capitalism and militarism through specific gendered, sexualized, racialized, classed and nationalist norms of kinship and family. Anti-racist, queer and feminist resistance and revisioning of these norms will be emphasized. Themes for exploration will include prison abolitionism, academia, transnational feminist praxis and the security state.

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Communities of Hate

    The Holocaust, ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda as well as the politics of hate in the United States will be some of the case studies used in this exploration of the causes of mass hate. Questions raised in the course will include: How are collective identities formed? How can aberrations of collective identity formulation lead to mass hate? How are communities of hate constructed (role of ideology, religion, propaganda, the media, etc.)? What are the social, economic, and political factors that contribute to the emergence of mass hate? What are the underlying psychological principles of mass hate? By which processes do groups and societies create the “Other”? Are race, ethnicity, and gender purely ideological notions? Finally, how do we combat the politics of hate when we know that appeals to our common humanity have not worked?

     

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Constructions of (Dis)Ability

    This course focuses on the ways our society is structured around particular norms for “ability” and on the different kinds of violence done to those who do not fit these norms. After discussing how “normal” and “abnormal” bodies have been defined and categorized throughout modern history in literature and science, we examine the current implications of those definitions and categories. We will discuss contemporary debates about the incorporation of non-normative bodies and behaviors into social spaces and consider whether we must modify our bodies or the institutional and social spaces that they inhabit.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Contract Enforcement: Histories of the Mafia, Past and Present

    This course will examine the nature of the mafia as an economic, cultural and political institution, one taking shape alongside the formation of the Italian state in the late nineteenth century, but with far more ancient and less localized roots. Through historic texts, fictional narratives, films and material on game theory and economic strategies to understand what determines the institutional boundaries of the mafia, the nature of contract enforcement within the mafia, and between the mafia and various nonmembers, students will learn about the historic and cultural reasons that allowed this organization to thrive, the representations of the mafia that have proliferated, and the details behind its economic structure. The course will also explore the development of mafia into a global phenomenon during the twentieth century and how it has been studied and represented as such in recent years.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Convergence: Women, Work and Alternative Media

    This course will look at two ideas of convergence (technological and social); two kinds of independents in the media (quasiindustry and community-based models); and a variety of sources that cover women and labor issues in and through alternative media. Additionally, the course addresses the increasing recognition of immigrant issues as women’s issues.

     

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Death

    What is death? Why do we care about it? Is death bad? Why do we mourn the dead? What ought to be done with the dead? Has death changed? Can one be dead? The definition of death is not obvious and its criterion has changed over time (soul departure, cessation of breath, cessation of heartbeat, cessation of brain waves, etc.) for a variety of complex reasons (including religious, scientific, practical, political). Drawing upon philosophical, historical, psychological, religious, and pop culture perspectives, we will investigate death.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Decolonizing: First Nations Musics and Literatures

    This course focuses on contemporary Native American/First Nations literatures and musical arts as socio-cultural productions. Theories concerning settler/colonial issues and indigeniety help us analyze how these arts decolonize historical and contemporary narratives. Short stories, poetry, and music such as First Nations hip-hop and powwow drumming address important debates regarding violence against Native women, sovereignty, land rights, language retention, and environmental justice.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Desire and Decadence: Interdisciplinary Contexts in Fin-de-Siecle Europe

    This course will explore the fin-de-siècle aesthetic in the Symbolist and Decadent Movements that gave birth to new ideas at the threshold of Modernism. How did artists and writers from 1880 to 1914 reflect and reimagine new societal roles in such themes as the dandy and the femme fatale, virgins and vampires, or the sphinx and Salome? How do contemporary artists and writers reframe Symbolist and Decadent themes as they illuminate the ever-intriguing relationship of history to the present? We will compare our current attitudes toward change to those of a century ago.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Discord and Dialog

    People often disagree with each other on matters of great importance, including ethical, scientific, religious, political, and aesthetic issues. This discord, and the dialog or dispute that derives from it, is a fact of our social predicament. This course investigates the nature and significance of such disagreements and dialogs by examining their structure, content, and presuppositions. We will also consider the question of what value disagreement has for society and the history of some of these disagreements.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Display, Desire and Domination

    Using texts from the fields of political science, philosophy, international relations, and history, Justice in Theory and Practice examines the way that thinkers from a variety of disciplines have explored justice in theory and in practice. By investigating ways that philosophers have theorized about justice and scholars of politics and history have applied ideas about justice empirically, this course would fit the theme of truth by looking at how notions of justice differ by time period and area of application, including in war crimes, terrorism, human rights, and truth commissions. 

    Note: If you took FREN116 SC, you cannot earn credit for this Core 2 section.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Eat the Rich! Capitalism and Work

    We live in a world saturated by capitalism. As a result, we often fail to evaluate critically the conditions of exploitation, the drudgery of labor, and the role of class in our daily life. Is work inherently a social and political good? Is poverty just a given? Why is the working class sometimes demonized? This course examines labor under capitalism, the transformation of traditional values and practices set in motion by the triumphant march of capital, and the possibilities for change.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Ecological Justice

    This course focuses on sustainability, environmental racism, and ecological justice. We will examine key texts of environmentalism and environmental policy as artifacts of a history of the present. We will discuss the contingent and historical character of Enlightenment-derived conceptualizations of “nature” and “wilderness” that exclude humans, and how these conceptualizations shape responses to environmental problems, including the tendency to overlook human justice dimensions of environmental crisis. We will consider how our understandings of the environment are discursively produced even while we resist the political paralysis that sometimes accompanies such awareness. We will learn about ecological justice work in L.A. County.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Gender, Science and Knowledge

    This course examines how cultural values have historically shaped and continue to shape scientific inquiry, practice, and knowledge production, focusing specifically on gender. We will consider questions such as: What constitutes scientific knowledge, and how is that related to who gets to be a scientist? What barriers have women faced in entering the scientific community? What might feminist science look like, and what does it mean to be a feminist scientist? How might science education be changed to be more inclusive? To address these topics, we will read critical analyses of science, perspectives of working scientists, and proposals for change.

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Hunger

    Using hunger as its central metaphor, this course explores the construction of a modern self (physical, psychological, and social) through the perception or experience of lack. Readings from philosophy, literature, politics, and sociology will guide our inquiry into discourses of sexual desire, global food policy, famine in the Global South, eating disorders, capitalism, politics, and creative expression. In all cases, our approach will be intersectional, and will consider how gender, race, class, and sexual identity affect how hunger is embodied and interpreted.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Incentives Matter: The Economics of Gender and Choice

    This course will explore how gender construction and perceptions about gender have evolved over time and how current perceptions affect the choices that individuals, institutions, and governments make. We explore the very ideas of choice, gender roles, the relationship between social and biological functions, and the notion of equity that economic participation may promise. These are issues we will examine as we look at how economic opportunities for women are linked to issues of race and class and how education plays a key role in changing the economic calculus of women’s lives.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Interdisciplinary Core 2

    Core II continues—with sharper focus and through an array of course offerings—the interdisciplinary investigations begun in Core I. That is, we develop our examination of the ways in which our contemporary self-understandings (political, moral, economic, aesthetic, etc.) emerge from and express commitments and categories that are often regarded as given—so “natural” and “obvious” as to prevent us from thinking clearly about their complexities and ambiguities. Core II courses are taught by a faculty member with interdisciplinary research interests and may be team-taught by faculty whose complementary research interests make for fresh interdisciplinary dialogue. Consult the Scripps Portal for CORE II offerings for the current semester. Core II descriptions available Interdisciplinary Core Program .

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Investigating Humor in Literature and Mass Media

    Some say that man is the animal who laughs. In other words, laughter is an essential part of human nature. Humor performs important social functions: for example, enforcing a society’s norms through ridicule of those who violate them, or offering a relatively harmless outlet for antisocial feelings that might threaten the social order. Many argue that the stereotypes associated with race, class, gender, sexuality, and physical and mental abnormality are essential to comedy. We will look at plays, movies, TV shows, standup comics, comic strips, and other modes of humor in light of theoretical work by Freud, Bergson, Bakhtin and others.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Justice in Theory and Practice

    Using texts from the fields of political science, philosophy, international relations, and history, Justice in Theory and Practice examines the way that thinkers from a variety of disciplines have explored justice in theory and in practice. By investigating ways that philosophers have theorized about justice and scholars of politics and history have applied ideas about justice empirically, this course would fit the theme of truth by looking at how notions of justice differ by time period and area of application, including in war crimes, terrorism, human rights, and truth commissions.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Lights, Camera, Murder! Crimes and Trials in France and the U.S

    This class takes a historical approach to the understanding and construction of different types of criminal personalities and crimes in eighteenth- to twentieth-century France and the United States. It examines current and past crimes from the points of view of serial killers and victims, the media, courtrooms, and capital punishment. Through fictional and non-fictional narratives, court transcripts, sociological studies, films and documentaries, it traces the historical and cultural approach of each nation to justice and, ultimately, seeks to bring to light the definition of human nature upon which each legal system is built.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Making Sense of Power

    This course explores how relationships of power and inequality often are described and experienced as rational, reasonable, and therefore appropriate. Drawing from texts in politics, economics, philosophy, and law, the course examines how social institutions literally make “sense” out of power.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Marginalized Communities

    This course explores definitions of marginalization, mechanisms of marginalization, and experiences of marginalized communities in the United States, with specific attention paid to racial minority groups, women and children, immigrants, the LGBT community, and the poor. What hurdles exist for these communities as they attempt to navigate social, political and economic processes in the US? How have/do federal, state and local policies or proposed policies hurt or bolster these communities? We will mainly rely on readings from history, economics, politics, sociology, and psychology.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Me and the Boys Come Back from Area 51

    Using texts from the fields of media studies, philosophy, English, Post-Colonial Theory, Psychology and Post-Structuralism, Me and the Boys Comes Back From Area 51 explores the way the way that memes and other digital media have changed our notions of truth, perhaps forever. In examining ways that we receive information, and how we are constructed by our interface with the digital, this course would fit the theme of truth by looking at how facts in our time, and truth itself, are now considered suspect.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Metropolis: Imagining the City

    Whether pictured as labyrinth, stage set, utopian pleasure-dome or gigantic living room, the urban landscape has played a crucial role in the attempt of 20th-century writers and artists to come to terms with modernity. The course will move from the squares of 19th-century Berlin, to the grid of Manhattan, to the malls and subdivisions of Los Angeles. Using fiction, film and urban history, we investigate how changes in the perception of the city reflect the ways modernity sees itself.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Misrepresentation of Women in Society and Science

    This course examines representations of women constructed from seemingly scientific evidence.  We will examine the way in which social and natural science studies from the 1800s to the present construct ideas of gender, female fragility and feminine normalcy, thus contributing to the objectification and devaluing of women.  We will critique the misuse of these studies and describe how such misuse contributes to harmful stereotypes that linger today.  Finally, we will examine how the idea of scientific “truth” shifts when those seeking the truth are women.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Nerds and Geeks

    The words “geek” and “nerd” are used to describe individuals with a range of behaviors from the socially awkward to the intellectually focused. In this course, we will examine how, in our high-tech age, these terms have crossed over from a subculture to pop culture. We will explore the rise and fall of historical intellectual periods as they relate to the present day emphasis on STEM and the concurrent anti-science movements. We will also discuss misogynist versus feminist trends, and transnational influences (e.g. Japan, Korea, Germany, Hungary). Students in the class will play a part in the direction and design of a class final project.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Old New Media

    Beginning with photography in the early nineteenth century and attending primarily to telegraphy, telephony, radio, television, and video, this seminar explores the history of the fascination, fear, and peculiar associations that have accompanied new technological developments. Do telephones provide direct lines to the next world? Are radio waves signals from Martians? Do new technologies help us communicate better with (and, consequently, understand) ourselves? This course uses fiction, nonfiction, film, and paranormal engagements to explore historical efforts in Europe and the United States to come to terms with new technologies and the kinds of communication they appear to provide.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Plantation Empires: Gender, Labor, Race and the Construction of “Difference”

    This course explores the contemporary and historical significance of the plantation complex in North America, the Caribbean, South and South East Asia. We will underscore its centrality not only to the production of vital commodities like sugar and tea but also to the constitution of dominant ideas of “difference” (of race, gender, and sexuality) that emerged through labor practices and brutal bondage. Resistance will also be explored. We will trace plantation pasts that continue to live in the present- pasts that continue to haunt our understandings of social difference, power, and inequality.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • CORE 002 SC - Poetry of the Revolution: The Manifesto

    As consumers of the artifacts of modern culture – paintings, architecture, movies, literature – we tend to be unaware that most artistic and political movements originated in one very specific idea. Embodying the quintessentially modern claim to nothing less than the capacity to change the world, the manifesto has captured the urgency of this idea for almost 200 years now. Beginning with the modern era’s archetypical manifesteers, Marx and Engels, this class explores proclamations by African-American abolitionists, Italian Futurists, and Riot Grrrl punkrockers. We will discuss declarations by women’s suffrage activists, Bauhaus architects, French filmmakers, and many other manifestos.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Riotous Americans: Los Angeles and the Poetics of Unrest

    This course focuses on three Los Angeles riots (“Zoot Suit,” Watts, Rodney King) with an eye towards understanding them as complex and multilayered “histories of the present.” By focusing on “riots,” we will explore how our built environments continue to produce and reproduce differential structures of class, race, gender, and citizenship.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • CORE 002 SC - Shakespeare Then and Now

    We will study Shakespeare’s plays by pushing against the common wisdom that they are inaccessible and obsolete. We will read closely to add historical perspective to themes introduced in Core, and imagine how his dramas might come to life in our time. We will consider how these old plays script ideas and questions that we live with today, such as Twelfth Night’s festive yet skeptical presentation of gender and love, Henry V’s exploration of the strange and bloody pull of nationalism, Othello’s treatment of race relations and rhetorical power, Macbeth’s raw account of political terror and psychological trauma, and Lear’s astonishing, anguished vision of relentless cruelty, abjection, and suffering. (The exact reading list will vary each year.) Secondary readings will be drawn from literary criticism, history, psychology, and philosophy.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every spring


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  • CORE 002 SC - Subversive Selves

    This course focuses on the dynamic exchange between self and community, private and public, via an interdisciplinary approach to a variety of media, including photography, poetry, novels, films, memoir, fashion, and music. The syllabus will feature materials created by, for, or about women - and mostly by women of color from North America and Africa. Students will query the historical and cultural processes that make a seemingly neutral undertaking of “finding yourself,” “expressing yourself,” or “being yourself” especially fraught for these artists and writers, and the communities to which they belong.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Terms of Modernity

    This course examines the concepts that structure the possibilities of our (contemporary) world, especially how we “experience” it and attempt to transform it through social and political action. The course will focus most explicitly on the fundamental concept of the “individual” and the characteristics most commonly associated with it: understanding, freedom, equality, family, justice, rights, secularism, to name a few. Too often, we take these concepts and characteristics as givens, and reduce their imperfect realization to the relations and machinations of the material world. In doing so, have we not bought into a false binary between principle and context that has precluded us from understanding these concepts as constituent elements of political power and social organization, and thus from fully appreciating what their potential might be?

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • CORE 002 SC - The Aesthetics of Justice: Race, Space, Architecture and Music

    As a follow-up to the question posed by Core 1, “What is a community?” this course examines the aesthetics of justice as practiced in contemporary urban communities. The Aesthetics of Justice: Race, Space, Architecture and Music challenges students to engage in discussions and debates regarding social justice and racialized practices of urban environmental design, urban street art (such as graffiti), and urban music (such as rap and hiphop) as responses to the challenges of living in contemporary urban communities. The intention is to critique the current educational model of art and music history that has been appropriated from the ecole des beaux arts. This course will address the topic of race and architecture beyond applies foci by referring to some of the philosophical insights of Foucault, Adorno, and Locke.

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Art of Medicine, Medicine in the Arts: the body in Italian Literature

    This course examines the relationship between Italian literature and the history of medicine, specifically anatomy and physiopathology. Medieval treatises on physiology, da Vinci’s contributions to the study of anatomy, and scientific developments between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries had an enormous impact on Italian writers, as evidenced in works by Cavalcanti, Boccaccio, Marino, Verga, Tarchetti, and Berto. Throughout this course, we will analyze how various literary works represent and interpret the human body, illness, disease, and death, and situate the texts in their social, historical, and political contexts. All materials for the course will be in English.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Arts and Literature of Zen Buddhism

    From Beat poets to Bart Simpson, Zen Buddhism has been influential in contemporary cultures worldwide, although few “Zen-inspired” American authors or artists have studied the history of Zen or examined how the ideas and practices of Zen have been represented in the visual arts, performing arts, or literatures of East Asia. This course will survey the arts and literatures of Zen as they developed over the last 1500 years, with particular attention to Chan in China and Zen in Japan. By considering the historical development of Zen, recent American versions can be more fully evaluated and understood. Students will read and interpret texts (in translation) by Chan and Zen masters, examine paintings and calligraphy done by Chan and Zen monks, and experience architecture and gardens through field trips to a local Buddhist temple and the Huntington Botanic Gardens.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • CORE 002 SC - The Construction of Kinship

    Using texts from the fields of poetry, fiction, Marxism, psychoanalysis, post-colonial theory and post-structuralism, this course explores the ways that family and other social bonds that most of us take for granted are shaped by hegemonic forces. Texts include Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe” by Hortense Spillers, The Sympathizer, a recent Pulitzer Prize winner by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Dawn, a science fiction novel by Octavia Butler, Look, a book of poems by Iranian-American poet Solmaz Sharif, and excerpts from Franz Fanon’s Black Skin White Mask.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every two years


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Detective in the City

    In the dark corners of the popular imagination, crime virtually defines the modern city. We will go back to the nineteenth-century origins of detective fiction (Poe’s Paris, Conan Doyle’s London), before looking at classic and contemporary versions of “noir.” By combining literary and urban history, we consider how city settings shape the moral imagination—in particular, our sense of private and public life.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Language of Music

    This course questions our tendency to consider music and literature as distinct art forms by exploring how they have historically been intertwined. We will read drama and fiction that includes musical performances alongside poems titled as “songs,” asking how references to music within literary texts influence our understanding of these works. In studying texts that have migrated from the page to the stage and screen, we will analyze the transformative effects of musical setting and adaptation. We will consider music as a tool of social formation, commentary, and protest, while also thinking critically about our own linguistic habits in talking about literature and music.

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Question of the Animal, Ancient and Contemporary

    This course examines human interaction with non-human animals, focusing on two periods, mostly in the West: the ancient and the contemporary. Topics include: the “animal-industrial complex”; the conceptualizing of boundaries between human and animal in philosophy; literature and science; the visual representation of animals; the incorporation of animals in religious practice; and the enjoyment/exploitation of animals in zoos and gladiatorial spectacle.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - The Self and the Origins of the State in the Western World

    How did the development of the state condition selfhood in the West? Drawing on economic, sociological, and historical perspectives, this course examines the nature of the modern state, its historical origins (c. 1100-1850), and its effects on the individual. We will consider the ways in which the state has made people more secure while aggravating their capacity for collective violence; and how it has made individuals freer in some ways while confining them to less visible ethical, cultural, and institutional prisons.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Travel, Encounter, and the History of Religion

    Through close reading of both travel texts and theoretical texts, from the present moment to the premodern past, we will ask how “religion” (as an abstract concept) and “religions” (as specific objects of Western study) emerged, and continue to be produced, out of the contact between “West” and “others.”

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Urban Nights: Gender, Work, and Experiences

    We explore how our experiences of nighttime have been shaped through the rise of modern cities and expand our understanding of gender, sexuality, and modernity introduced in Core I by articulating these concepts with discussions about the division of labor, global outsourcing, urban crowd, and sustainability. By looking at various nighttime landscapes such as gentrification and urban planning in New York, call center labors in Mumbai, and take-back-the-night campaigns in London, we will come to understand how our ideas and experiences of urban nights are deeply associated with the culturally constructed divisions between men/women, public/private, and productive/non-productive.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Where We Live & What We Live For

    In this course, students will encounter various ways of thinking about place: how and why cities form and decline, why people in some places have higher material standards of living than others, who has access to what places, and how the places we live affect our world view. As communication and transportation technologies advance, and our economic and social interactions become increasingly digital, does place become irrelevant? Or does it matter more than ever?

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: One-time offering in SP2020


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

  • CORE 002 SC - Why Punish?

    Given the fact that, in 2018, nearly seven million Americans were subject to some form of “correctional supervision,” and over two million Americans were incarcerated, we might think that there must be very compelling answers to the question that serves as this course’s title; and while most of us will agree that particular impositions of punishment are unjust, few of us are likely to dispute the justification of the institution of legal punishment, per se. We aim during the semester to investigate the telling and disorientating relationship between various theories of legal punishment and the realities of legal punishment. We begin with an investigation of a number of influential justifications of punishment and then turn to various accounts and analyses of the shape legal punishment takes in contemporary America. Coursework includes attending writing workshops at the local women’s prison on several Tuesday evenings. Students must be available on Tuesdays, 4:30-8:30 p.m.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - “America” in recent music & literature

    This section of Core 3 will examine the construction of “American” identities through selected music, film, poetry, and novels of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will question what America do these artist and writers envision? What America do they fear? How do different American identities coexist? Building on the concepts studied through the semester, students will complete a final paper or project exploring an “American” identity or the intersection of identities.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Animal Rights and Speciesism

    Through weekly lectures, discussions, visual presentations, movies, and culinary arts, this course examines the present day treatment of animals. We will develop an understanding of speciesism by looking at how humans treat, use, consume and exploit animals; and explore the contested issue of animal welfare vs. rights. The course employs philosophical, economic, sociological and scientific perspectives to analyze industrial practices and their impacts on global economics and planetary health. By surveying ideas and practices from antiquity to the present, we will analyze how moral attitudes have shifted through time and helped to create today’s animal rights movement.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Antiracist and Transnational Feminist Coalitions

    This course will introduce the visionary work of diverse U.S., indigenous, transnational women and trans-people of colors who work with coalitional practices of community building.  Antiracist, multiracial, and transnational feminist perspectives will be underscored. Focusing on notions of bridges, border crossings, and solidarity, we will explore such questions as: What does it mean to build trust and solidarity across seemingly insurmountable fault lines of difference and power? How do our positions of privilege and marginalization inform such attempts to build community?

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Bad Writing

    This course asks students to think critically about the notion of “bad writing.” We will discuss what writers, critics, and teachers have stood to gain by labeling certain styles or writers as “bad” and why some authors have welcomed, even courted, the label. We will look in depth at how different categories of bad writing – including bad language, taboo-breaking, and bad-faith portrayals of race and history – have inflected popular and academic conversations about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and other novels. And we will research what is at stake in how definitions of “bad writing” continue to change in the present day.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Between the Image and the Word

    The relation between writing, painting, photography, cinema, comics, and electronic media might at first be viewed as a familiar combination of visual and verbal art as an interplay of affinities. However, it also generates numerous theoretical speculations with far-reaching implications for the conceptualization of art, literature and electronic media and its relation to the histories of the present. The potentially frictional relations between the visual image and the written text are especially pertinent for a discussion of the cultural productions in Europe and the Americas during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The course will also examine the critique that new forms of media generate particularly when it comes to the growing popularity of the image.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every other year


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Blues Jazzlines: Past and Present Tense

    This course will focus on connections between music and poetry through jazz, a seminal American cultural performance practice. We will initially explore the complex relationship of jazz and blues to Harlem Renaissance concepts of New Negro art, folk authenticity, and modernist cosmopolitanism. Students will then engage in guided listening to music and reading poetry. The blurred boundaries between aural, oral and written art will be investigated within a historical context of past and present cultural practices.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Bodies in Motion: Representation and Simulation

    This course departs from Aristotle’s dictum that, “to be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature.” Through readings, screenings, and museum visits, we will explore how the movement of human and non-human bodies has been understood historically, and experiment with contemporary methods of representing, simulating, and capturing bodies in motion used in the arts, sciences, and humanities. Turning to sport and dance, we will ask: what are the aesthetics, politics, and economies of motion and its apparent opposites: stillness, rest, sleep? In our ever more carefully tracked world, what does motion mean and how is it made meaningful?

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Building Los Angeles

    A lot of what we think we know about our (Western) world is derived from Hollywood’s seemingly infinite reservoir of iconic imagery. This especially applies to the one empirical topography most closely associated with the studio system - the city of Los Angeles. We will examine LA’s fictional as well as its actual cityscape; we will explore its streets, neighborhoods, architecture, and its long history of aggressive real-estate boosterism and displacement. Special attention will be given to how Los Angeles has been - and still is - mythologized and even altered by Hollywood’s fictionalities. This class includes at least one field trip.

     

     

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Capitalism/Anti-Capitalism

    Capitalism is the air we breathe. It can thus be easy not to evaluate critically the role of capital and class relations in daily life. Topics include the origins of capitalism. Marxist critiques, neoliberalism, the transformation of values and practices by the free market, the relationship between capitalism and culture, and possibilities for change (primarily in the context of the US and Europe). Students will have the opportunity to work with campus groups and community organizations.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Caribbean Women’s Literature

    This course examines Caribbean women’s literature from the Anglophone, Francophone and Spanish Caribbean. Our purpose will be to explore the historical and contemporary contexts that have produced innovative texts by women writers of the Caribbean who seek not only to record their cultural existence but also to challenge both the stereotypes and limitations placed upon them from within and without the Caribbean. We will consider the effects of enslavement, imperialism/colonialism, and neo-colonialism in addition to issues of multiple oppression such as race, color, class, gender, sexuality, and exile, upon the literary production of contemporary writers.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year-3 years


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Challenges from the global south - “America”

    This class addresses challenges from the global south in the western hemisphere. It is organized around questions raised by struggles for freedom in locations ranging from Haiti to Chile. Each week we will focus on a discrete problem in a discrete geographic location. Most of these struggles draw on ancient Indigenous or African conceptions. They challenge contemporary corporate projects and elite conceptions. Our texts include films (subtitled in English), print media, essays, and oral histories. In order to explore issues of perspective, writers form the regions we are studying will be favored.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Collective Songwriting: Theory and Knowledge Production

    This course will engage in the study and embodied practice of the collective songwriting method. In this course collective creative expression through song becomes the vehicle by which we will engage in discussions about greater social issues pertaining to gender, race, class, sexuality and nationhood. We consider the historical, political, and economic significance that song has played in social movements through African-American, Chicanx-Latinx, Native American, Asian American and poor Anglo communities in the 20th and 21st centuries, and how song has played a vital role in their collective and individual struggle for self determination and social justice in the history of this country.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Creating and Recreating Genji

    Written in the 11th century by Lady Murasaki Shikibu as a fictional account of Japanese court life, The Tale of Genji has influenced Japanese literature and the visual and performing arts for over a 1000 years. This course will examine the original text and then explore various new versions, focusing on how the text has been recreated by later generations, through Buddhist interpretations in 14th century noh plays, working class satires in 17th century short stories, political parodies in 19th century prints, imperialist propaganda in the early 20th century and social commentary in late 20th century movies, anime and manga.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Creating Archives: Archives, Disciplinary Knowledge, and Research

    We will examine the long history of the “archive,” including classical libraries, monastic collections, wonder-cabinets, modern archives, and new digital archives. We will explore the ways in which collection practices shape and are shaped by disciplinary practice. Archives from a range of different disciplines will be considered, including biological and mathematical sciences, corporate and national archives, literary archives and libraries, and perhaps even the long geological archive of the earth. Readings will help us theorize and problematize the concept of “archive” as a transparent, natural, and neutral space. Students will develop their own “small-archive” based on their research interests.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • CORE 003 SC - Cyberculture and the Posthuman Age

    Since 1990, when the first web browser was created, the Internet has revolutionized every aspect of life, even our notion of what it means to be human. The purpose of this course is to identify the radical and controversial shifts that the Internet era has brought about in a variety of areas: communication, politics, law and ethics, interpersonal relations, business, work, education, identity formation, and even brain function. By taking an historical approach, we can better understand the significance of these changes and be more critical users, rather than simply consumers, of new digital technologies.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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

  • CORE 003 SC - Democracy in Theory and Practice

    Democracy In Theory and Practice will interrogate the ideals of democratic theory in light of what actually ends up happening in campaigns, elections, and government policy. The class will confront students with key critiques of democracy to help them understand the current American political scene from the vantage point of competing (and often conflicting) “histories of the present”-including forms of political activism that reject electoral politics or which go beyond the two major American political parties. The class will also provide students with the chance to dialogue in class with local politicians and require that each student to do substantial volunteer work on a local political campaign of their choice.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • CORE 003 SC - Domestic Life and Political Activism in the 19th-century U.S.

    This course explores how Americans mobilized home and domesticity for political ends during the 19th century. We will read writers who conceived of home as a space for transformative political change, including women of color for whom home was a space of resistance and Transcendentalists who founded the experimental Brook Farm Community. We will also learn about archival research into 19thC home life and how historians, literary critics, and other scholars study forms of domestic activism that left traces not in published writing but rather in diaries, commonplace books, and material objects. Students will put this knowledge to practice through research on 19thC items from Denison’s archives and by exploring ways this 19thC past points to opportunities for everyday activism in the present.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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  • CORE 003 SC - Dream Factories: cinema in theory and in practice

    This course will expose the students to the basic tools of critical film analysis, and to different styles of filmmaking in the world. Examples will come from Hollywood, Bollywood, Chinese, European, Iranian and African cinema. The course will also explore the idea of film industry and its implications on labor and the use of technology. Finally, the course will include the shooting and editing of a short film as a group project.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every three years


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  • CORE 003 SC - Education and Inequality

    Education was once regarded as the great equalizer, providing students from a variety of backgrounds with the opportunity to better themselves and achieve a higher degree of success than their parents.  These beliefs are increasingly challenged by the data, as children’s academic success increasingly appears to track their parents’ social status. We will consider this conundrum closely, asking what reforms might make it possible for education to live up to its unfulfilled potential. Our focus will be on the U.S. experience since the mid-20th century, but we will frame this examination both comparatively and historically.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • CORE 003 SC - Embodying Illness

    How do our bodies feel, act, and respond when we are ill? This seminar considers how the body is not just a biological entity, but one also profoundly shaped by social and historical circumstance. We trace how the embodiment of illness connects to cultural norms, practices, and understandings of the self. Importantly, we consider the body as existing within relations of power, including forms of surveillance and normative framings of the able body. The course ultimately challenges us to rethink divisions between “the body” and “society” by exploring how illness experiences are embedded in cultural and political processes.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Every year


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  • CORE 003 SC - Encountering the Middle East: Representations of Race, Gender, and Violence

    This course takes up the Core I theme “Histories of the Present” and applies it to the question: Where do the terms of the contemporary perceived conflict between “the Muslim world” and “the West” come from? We will examine how categories such as “Muslim,” “Christian,” ”Eastern,” “western,” “civilized,” and “barbaric” are racialized and gendered, and have been produced through a history of encounters between the U.S. and the Middle East. Students will then explore how these categories have been taken up in media and popular culture in the U.S. via representations of Muslims and Arabs at different geopolitical moments and in relations to different contexts of violence.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • CORE 003 SC - Essay, Film, and Theory

    While the essay is often viewed as something suffered by students, the essay form can also register a different way of thinking about the world and one’s place in it. Drawing on a broad range of materials this course investigates the relationship between narrative form and the kind of stories we like to tell/experience. We explore various examples of the essay form and consider how the essay film in particular breaks down boundaries between academic and aesthetic pursuits.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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  • CORE 003 SC - Ethics Truth Postmodern Metaphysics

    This course engages with a range of canonical and marginalized ancient sources on ethics and truth in the Greek, Arabic, and Ethiopic traditions and examines modern and postmodern challenges to, engagements with, and interrogation of (some of) those sources, especially regarding their construction of normativity. We probe the connection between ethics, truth, and metaphysics in philosophical, religious, literary, and political sources to articulate compelling visions of ethics and truth today.

     

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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  • CORE 003 SC - Fame & Happiness: French Women as Case Study

    This course focuses on French women as a case study and examines critically and sociologically the degree to which degree ambition, talent and happiness have been reconcilable for French women. The study of historical and cultural factors influencing French women’s lives from 1789 to this day will be used as a point of departure to compare and contrast our modern perceptions, values and expectations. Our study will include such famously transgressive public figures as Staël, Sand, Beauvoir, Chanel and Bardot.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • CORE 003 SC - Fighting the Good Fight: Responding to Misogyny in Renaissance Italy

    This course will explore some of the complex issues concerning gender relations that existed in Renaissance Italy. It will focus on the ways dominant patriarchal ideology determined that women were inferior human beings, and accordingly shaped their lives by relegating them to subordinated roles in society. The course will also focus on the women writers who challenged the biases and resulting injustices of this ideology. Students will be offered a coherent historical perspective of the period (mid 1300’s to early 1600’s) as they explore the ways women’s writing developed over time. They will also gain an understanding of the relevant ways the present has evolved in ways far different from the past, as well as the ways the past has had an impact on shaping the present.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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  • CORE 003 SC - Forced Displacement, Migration, and Resettlement

    Forced displacement, migration, and resettlement, caused and influenced by several global, contextual, intra- and inter-personal sociocultural realities, enact dynamic and multilevel life changes for individuals affected by such situations. Contexts of oppression and discrimination incite violence, genocide, and pervasive loss that in turn influence the well-being and lived experience of those made to endure such conditions. Trauma endured as a function of forced displacement and migration, however, does not end at the point of resettlement as individuals are then made to endure new contexts that are also often fraught with discrimination, economic difficulty, and other substantial life changes. This class will adopt an inter disciplinary approach to understand the global history of forced displacement, migration, and resettlement to better conceptualize present realities for individuals made to endure these conditions. As such, we will also turn attention to present realities of resettlement in our own surrounding area.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Occasionally


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

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