Sep 22, 2024

2020-2021 Scripps Catalog

2020-2021 Scripps Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!

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.

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Core Courses
	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 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	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 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	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 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	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 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	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.
	CORE 003 SC - Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic This course will explore the notion of culture, its representation and relativity, and its inextricable correlation with foreign language acquisition. In contrast to the common view that language is universal, the class will examine the cultural embeddedness and diversity of language in each of its language communities. In a practicum, students will team-teach a self-designed foreign language and culture mini-curriculum to elementary school pupils. They will also be challenged to instill tolerance in their charges as they present to them a new linguistic and cultural “history of the present.” Prerequisite(s): Native fluency, or completion of or enrollment in an upper-division course (numbered 100 or higher) in the chosen language. Students may teach any of the following: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, or any other language proposed by at least two native speakers. Instructor permission is required, and permission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Futuring This course considers the future as a means to re-center our world view. We will consider the future through a wide range of sources, such as indigenous perspectives and digital art and culture. What will the future look like 5, 10, 20, 50, or 100 years from now? How can we re-imagine the future, who will we be, what will we create, where will we be? Students complete group projects in various mediums including video, animation, computation, and design, exploring the relationship between content and aesthetics. Critical pedagogy is also examined. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every fall Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - History and Memory This course is about histories in the present. What is the relationship between individual and collective memories and history—what happened in the past and the stories we tell? All history is created in the present and says as much about that present as about the past. We will examine public representations in museums, memorials, movies and other contexts, focusing on official memory, vernacular memory, remembering and forgetting, digital remembrance, historical amnesia, counter memory, and the development of identity –individual, communal and national. Readings will focus on topics such as the U.S. Civil War, the Holocaust, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, AIDS activism, tourism, cultural heritage, and reparations for historic wrongs. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Home/Politics/Activism 19thC US This course explores how Americans mobilized home and domesticity for political ends during the 19th century. We’ll 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’ll also learn about archival research into 19thC home life and how historians, literary critics, and other scholars study forms of domestic activism that left trances not in published writing but rather in diaries, commonplace books, and material objects. Students will put this knowledge to practice through research on 19thC past points to opportunities for everyday activism in the present. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Landscapes of Plunder Plunder refers to systematic and coercive or violent theft of property, or to the fruits of such an act. This course uses interdisciplinary frameworks to ask: How does and analytical lens of plunder help us understand landscape in different ways? How do such relationships and histories endure and why does it matter? Through consideration of concepts including racial capitalism, extractivism, and decolonial ecologies, students will gain a critical understanding of how power operates through landscape in sites such as museums gardens, and universities, and build from course concepts to create an oppositional landscape history of their own choosing. 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 - Living in a World of Numbers In an age when we are bombarded with numbers, it is important to explore what stories are being told and how the numbers we observe are being formulated. We will investigate the interdisciplinary nature of dealing with numbers, considering a variety of disciplines and applications to life. Topics we will explore include social justice, journalism, disease outbreaks, politics, and more. Students will be encouraged to choose a field which interests them, then explore the field’s use of numbers to communicate findings. Together we will examine various uses of numbers, looking for similarities and differences. Students will learn some basic analysis tools used across many disciplines, allowing students to understand presented results. Additionally, students will learn about different basic methods to create their own numbers, models, and analyses. With these skills students will then formulate their own findings, creating their own interdisciplinary work. 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 - Making Radical Sense of Power This course explores the possibilities of counterhegemonic political action given the existence of racialized relationships of privilege and political quiescence in the face of obvious racial inequality. Building on the Core II course “Making Sense of Power,” it examines how our contemporary self-understandings emerge from our racialized practices and social consciousness. Students will work collectively to develop intentional political practices borne out of theoretical understandings, conduct site visits to organizations that engage in political campaigns for racial justice, examine current and historical campus-based efforts at activism focused on racial justice, and identify the texts necessary to support their collective efforts. Responsibility for the success of the course hinges on student commitment to political action in practice. 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 - Mobilizing Art This course will survey and analyze activist and political art strategies, theories and case studies, from the 20th and 21st centuries. In parallel with our study of current and past models, we will construct a toolbox of techniques for addressing current issues, spanning multiple arts disciplines, and deploy them in activist art projects generated and led by class members. Some meetings of this class will take place in incarcerated spaces. Final class project: Members of the class will create a musical performance together with the women of Crossroads, a transitional housing project for formerly incarcerated women. Although musical skills are not a prerequisite for initial registration, the class will be creating and performing music together. Everyone in class will participate in the final project as performers. 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 - Narratives of Memory: Spain and Latin American This course explores the process of memory production: how it is recounted or repressed through a selection of key cultural products ranging from novels, to zines, comics, songwriting, photography, performance or films created in Spain and Latin America. Among other questions, the course will ask: Can cultural texts function as a mode of witnessing the traumatic past, whether in post-dictatorship Spain, Chile or Argentina? Are current debates on Spanish or Catalan national identity grappling with Spain’s colonial legacies? How can the corporeal function as a map of cultural memory and resistance, as in Astrid Hadad’s (de)construction of Mexicanidad? 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 - Neuroethics Neuroethics asks how our models about the mind and brain influence and should influence what we think is true about human beings. How should claims about the human brain inform our thinking about human freedom, intention, rationality, legal culpability, cognitive difference, mental illness, changing the brain via drugs or implants, whether a person owns their own neural signals, and whether nonhuman animals have preferences we should respect? This course explores these issues in neuroethics. 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 - Photography and the Archive This seminar investigates photographic archives as sites of memory and forgetting. Engaging a range of theoretical, critical, and art-historical texts, students will examine how photography participates in ideas about collective identity, surveillance, territorial imagination, and institutions of knowledge. The course will also discuss the work of artists and photographers whose practices draw from-and critically intervene in-archives and archival modes. 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 - Postcolonial Anxieties: Unpacking Europe/Unyoking Africa Through the study of English/Anglophone literature, this course pursues the postcolonial contention that Europe & Africa are philosophical, political and economic inventions. Textually, postcolonial critics as well as writers have sought to pierce the veneer of these imaginary constructions in order to demonstrate how Europe has been constructed through, and sometimes by, its antithesis, while Africa’s ideological invention (through Europe) has fallen apart with the rise of postcolonial nation-states within the African continent. This course thus examines, through juxtaposed pairings of colonial and postcolonial texts, how the former destabilize this yoking and explores the cultural, political, and social “anxieties” such deconstruction creates. 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 - Prescriptions and Debates on What Contributes to Health This course explores key historical and contemporary debates on what contributes to psychological and physical health. We will read and critique the literature from various fields, such as psychology and medicine. We will also explore the question of what contributes to health through popular press pieces and film. Topics of study include the study of sleep, relationships, exposure to nature, and the organization of one’s physical space (e.g. minimalism). Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Radical Cartographies Maps appear to be self-evident but, like all representations, are socially and historically constructed. Maps interpret the world, most commonly by delineating territory, nations, and boundaries. Accordingly, they have often been used as tools of power, conquest, and domination. This course questions common understandings of geographies of the present by deconstructing maps, developing a critical understanding of cartography, and ultimately, constructing alternative cartographies. Students will become familiar with critical geography literature on mapping and “counter-mapping,” as well as artistic, geographic, and activist approaches to radical cartographies. Assignments include counter-mapping exercises and development of a final project of the student’s choosing. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Once in two years Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Realism and Anti-Realism This course tackles one of the most enduring problems in the study of literature and art: the relation of fiction and painting to reality or “real life.” In the first part of the semester our focus will be on the pivotal era of realism in the novel and the visual arts in Europe, the nineteenth century. But we will then turn to the fate of realism in the twentieth century (especially in modernism’s frequent resistance to realist conventions) and finally to the status of the “real” in contemporary art and popular culture, from fiction to photography to television. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Representing LA: rock ‘n’ roll How does rock ‘n’ roll music produced in and about Los Angeles represent LA realities? In addition to touching on various genres of rock music that were created in this region, we will interrogate how and which LA “local truths” are perceived and communicated. The course will range from the theory of a monolithic popular culture industry proposed by Adorno and Marcuse to the theory of progressive cultural evolution that proposes a complex formation of discourses between producers and consumers. 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 - Resilience and Resistance: Women of Color in the United States This course will explore histories of the present that center the experiences of women of color in the United States. Through an intersectional feminist approach, we will study how the experiences of Asian, Black, Latin, and Native American women in the U.S. have been shaped by systems of power during the 20th and 21st centuries. We will explore how women of color have conceptualized and enacted resistance to oppression in different contexts. We will study documentary, testimonial, and fiction narratives that center the experiences of women of color in relation to immigration, labor, citizenship, incarceration, activism, decolonization, and identity formation. 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 - Snapshots, Portraits, Instagram This course uses Instagram to explore the prehistory of this popular technological and social medium. It examines the history of snapshots and photographic portraits since 1839, emphasizing the fascination with new technologies: photographic dissemination and circulation; and photography’s relation to traditional art forms, commercial exploitation, and construction of social communities. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 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 003 SC - The Life Story A coherent life narrative can serve to create resilience and meaning for individuals at different stages of development. This course will explore adult development through the readings/viewings of memoirs and life story narratives written at different points in development. These writings and films will explore the role that memory processes play in life stories. Additionally, students will be paired with older adults from the community and asked to assist them in developing and producing a life story narrative. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - The Meaning(?) of Life Does life have a purpose or a point? If so, what might it be? If not, where does that leave us? This course will examine questions, answers, and analyses regarding life’s meaning or meaninglessness, and the implication thereof, from philosophical, literary, psychological, and religious perspectives. The final project will be a paper or another kind of project decided upon in consultation with the instructor. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - The Mechanical Eye: Photography from Science to Art This course will explore changing ideas of the “real” in the history of photography. The readings will touch on the scientific promise once attributed to photographic images, attempts to regulate human differences (e.g., criminology and ethnography) though the photographic archive, the emergence of photography as a fine art, and the challenges presented by digital technologies to the objectivity of the “mechanical eye”. Through readings, hands-on demonstrations, and discussions students will learn to create and then contextualize their own photographic practice in relation to the historical use and misuse of photographic truth claims. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - The Twentieth-Century Music Schism In this course, students will reflect upon the origin of discrete (yet artificial) musical categories, including classical, popular, and contemporary music. The separation between art music and popular culture was largely caused by radical changes in the function/conceptualization of musical art in the early twentieth century. Through the study of representative works by composers such as Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Weill––and by examining how these works were interconnected with developments in the fields of dance, theater, literature, philosophy, psychology, politics, and history––we will revisit the categories that continue to shape our understanding of music, art, and popular culture in contemporary society. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - United: Women’s Work and Collective Action Blamed for a spectrum of societal ills, labor unions are commonly portrayed as impediments to progress. Such traditional values as collective bargaining have become bitterly contested. This course explores key moments in the history of the labor movement since the start of the century, with a focus on the development of organized labor and, given the rise in new employment opportunities for women created by the expansion of global capitalism, the categorization of certain jobs as “women’s work.” At stake in these battles are contemporary notions of justice, equality, and collectivity. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - VIR/GYN GODDESS: The Virgin and the Femme Fatale Departing from a social construction analysis of the Virgin Mary in the Catholic Church and the history of “virginity” in Western cultures, this course seeks to unpack the categories that define and limit debates around such questions as gender roles, female sexuality, and reproductive rights. On the one hand, we analyze the redefinition and re-symbolization of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the part of Chicana feminist artists, writers, and theorists. On the other hand, the archetype of the femme fatale is explored in a variety of contexts. Students engage a wide range of artistic literary, and cinematographic primary materials and interdisciplinary secondary texts. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Walls, Borders, Fences How can we think about borders, walls, and fences as both material boundaries and networks of historical, ideological, political, and economic conditions that define nation-states, communities, and collectivities? How are borders being reconfigured in the contemporary world in ways that change how we think about sovereignty, power, citizenship, and violence? How do borders shape the relationships between space and identity? This class explores the relationships between social, spatial, and political divisions in different historical and geographic contexts including the U.S. It addresses issues including ongoing forms of settler-colonialism, anti-immigration policies and rhetoric, and state-sponsored or sanctioned violence in border zones. Note: if this course was taken as Core 2 in spring 2019, it may not be enrolled in again. 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 - What is Happiness? The paradox of happiness is that most people want it, but few people can define it. Most people seem to agree that happiness is one of life’s most important goals, yet they do not know how to achieve it. What is it about happiness that makes the concept and perhaps its reality so elusive? The course starts with an examination of recent research on happiness done in the fields of positive psychology and behavioral economics. We then turn to the ways in which happiness was articulated 2500 years ago by ancient philosophers, such as Aristotle, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius who offered not only definitions of happiness but practical instructions on how to achieve it. Are these ancient “technologies of happiness” so different from the discoveries made by our current science of happiness? Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Women’s Rights: Does it Matter? Women’s Rights is an issue that many of us are passionate about. But do these rights even matter? Would the absence of these right make women worse off? Until recently, even in developed countries, women could not own property, acquire credit, have control over their own bodies, vote, or legally end a marriage. In this course, we will explore the expansion of some of the major changes that have empowered women and study the direct and indirect impact of these changes through an economic lens. We will also carefully analyze data to examine the changes in the gender gap in the United States over time. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CORE 003 SC - Women, Girls, and Mathematical Superstitions The course will examine the foundations, validity, and effects of various perceptions related to mathematics and the teaching of mathematics, including the beliefs that: 1. there exists a difference in innate mathematical ability between men and women; 2. mathematics is, or should be taught as, unquestioned and unquestionable algorithmic procedure; 3. mathematics is less a part of, or perhaps more alien to, human nature than language or letters; etc. Students will, in addition to writing papers, participate in the creation of a series of online lectures on junior high school mathematics with the goal of shifting these perceptions. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Creative Studies
	CREA 124 PZ - The Bible and Homer 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.
Critical Global Studies
	CGS 050 PZ - Power and Social Change See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CGS 075 PZ - Introduction to Postcolonial Studies See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CGS 080 PZ - Introduction to Critical Theory See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CGS 113 PZ - Science, Politics, and Alternative Medicine See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CGS 128 PZ - The War on Terror See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CGS 146 PZ - International Relations of the Middle East See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	CGS 167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture: Gender, Spirituality, and Power See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
Cultural Studies
	CLST 452 CG - Feminist and Queer Theory: Bodies of Knowledge See the Claremont Graduate University 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.
Dance
	DANC 010 PO - Beginning Modern Dance 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.
	DANC 012 PO - Beginning Ballet I See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 050 PO - Intermediate Modern Dance See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 051 PO - Intermediate Ballet Technique See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit:* 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 068 SC - Intro to Dance/Dance Studies Recommended for those students with no previous dance experience. Prepares the student for further study of a variety of dance styles. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 076A SC - Modern Dance I Fundamentals of modern dance including technique, improvisation, and composition. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance or movement experience recommended. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 076B SC - Modern Dance I Fundamentals of modern dance including technique, improvisation, and composition. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance or movement experience recommended. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 078A SC - Ballet I Fundamentals of ballet technique and theory. Includes barre, basic positions, and center floor work. Includes readings, video viewings, and written/oral assignments in ballet history. Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance or movement experience recommended. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 078B SC - Ballet I Fundamentals of ballet technique and theory. Includes barre, basic positions, and center floor work. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance or movement experience recommended. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 081A SC - Jazz Dance I This course for students with limited dance experience covers a range of Jazz styles, including classical, commercial funk, lyrical and Broadway. Students will be introduced to a variety of techniques, with emphasis on rhythms, isolations, syncopation, and performance quality. Readings, video viewings and written assignments in historical, cultural and aesthetic issues pertaining to Jazz dancing augment studio experiences. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 081B SC - Jazz Dance I This course for students with limited dance experience covers a range of Jazz styles, including classical, commercial funk, lyrical and Broadway. Students will be introduced to a variety of techniques, with emphasis on rhythms, isolations, syncopation, and performance quality. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 083 SC - West African Dance I A movement-based study of the dances of West Africa (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Nigeria, Ghana). Includes investigation of similarities and differences among dances, and examination of historical and cultural influences. Videos, readings, and research papers augment studio experiences. Basic dance conditioning included. Open to all experience levels. [Formerly: DANC135 Introduction to West African Dance] Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 083B SC - West African Dance I A movement-based study of the dances of West Africa (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Nigeria, Ghana). Includes investigation of similarities and differences among dances, and examination of historical and cultural influences. Videos, readings, and research assignments augment studio experiences. Basic dance conditioning included. Open to all experience levels. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 091 SC - Raqs Al Sharqi Level I This course is an introduction to a non-western tradition of dance improvisation, generated in a social dance context, but stylized and expanded to become a stage form primarily in Egypt and Lebanon throughout the 20th century. It is designed to enhance student’s creative and physical awareness, and familiarize them with basic movement vocabulary, and with musical forms utilized in performance. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 100A SC - Modern Dance II Modern dance skills for the student with intermediate competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. Formerly: DANC077A SC Prerequisite(s): Previous dance experience required. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 100B SC - Modern Dance II Modern dance skills for the student with intermediate competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. May be taken twice for credit. Formerly: DANC077B SC Prerequisite(s): Previous dance experience required Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 101 SC - History of Dance in Western Culture: 1600-present This class traces the evolution of dance in Europe, Russia and the USA from the late Renaissance through the Baroque, Romantic, and Classical, to the Modern, Post-Modern and contemporary eras. The course focuses on dance as both an art form and as cultural embodiment with particular attention to how norms of gender and sexuality arise, are reinforced, and challenged through dance. We will look principally at concert dance, but will also consider social, popular, cultural and ritual practices as they have influenced or been appropriated by the theatrical. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 102 SC - Dynamics of Human Movement Provides students with fundamental knowledge of our physical structures and explores the meaning of movement as a reflection of mental states. Recognition of individual movement habits, tension patterns, and clues to inner states, as reflected by movement, will be approached through discussions, movement experiences, readings, and observations. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 103 SC - Language of the Body: Analyzing Human Movement This course provides a comprehensive approach to the physical, emotional, and intellectual meaning of movement as a medium for non-verbal communication. The framework for this exploration is the evolving system of movement analysis, observation, and notation developed by Rudolf Laban and Irmgard Bartenieff. Students will move through categories of a system known as BESS (Body, Effort, Shape, Space) and discuss how these categories apply to their own body knowledge/body prejudice, movement potential, and various fields of application. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 106A SC - Modern Dance III Modern dance skills for the student with high intermediate competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. Formerly: DANC100A SC Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 106B SC - Modern Dance III Modern dance skills for the student with high intermediate competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. May be taken twice for credit. Formerly: DANC100B SC Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 108A SC - Movement Improvisation Designed to develop non-verbal communication skills, stimulate creative thinking, and explore interdisciplinary group process. Includes structured explorations based on theater games, Laban’s Effort-Shape Theory, music/sound/breath/rhythm, spatial design, contact improvisation, etc. Includes research and performance. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 108B SC - Movement Improvisation Designed to develop non-verbal communication skills, stimulate creative thinking, and explore interdisciplinary group process. Includes structured explorations based on theater games, Laban’s Effort-Shape Theory, music/sound/breath/rhythm, spatial design, contact improvisation, etc. Full course credit available in DANC 108A Course Credit: 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 110A SC - Ballet II Continuation of Ballet I, with emphasis on movement phrases and performance quality. Includes readings, video viewings, and written/oral assignments in ballet history. Prerequisite(s): Some previous ballet experience required. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 110B SC - Ballet II Continuation of Ballet I, with emphasis on movement phrases and performance quality. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Some previous ballet experience required. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 111A SC - Modern Dance IV Modern dance skills for the student with advanced competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. Readings and written assignments augment studio experiences. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 111B SC - Modern Dance IV Modern dance skills for the student with advanced competency. Emphasis on technique, with some improvisation and composition. May be taken twice for credit. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Every year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 112A SC - Jazz Dance II Intermediate-level course will explore a variety of styles identified under the umbrella term Jazz, including twentieth century vernacular dances, swing, Broadway style, lyrical, modern jazz, and hip-hop. The class emphasizes rhythm, isolation, flow, syncopation, style, and performance quality. Readings, video viewings, and written assignments in historical, cultural, and aesthetic issues pertaining to jazz dance will augment studio experiences. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other semester Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 112B SC - Jazz Dance II Intermediate-level course will explore a variety of styles identified under the umbrella term Jazz, including twentieth century vernacular dances, swing, Broadway style, lyrical, modern jazz, and hip-hop. The class emphasizes rhythm, isolation, flow, syncopation, style, and performance quality. Readings, video viewings, and written assignments in historical, cultural, and aesthetic issues pertaining to jazz dance will augment studio experiences. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Every other semester Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 114A SC - Yoga: Evolving Practices This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of yoga. Embodied, experiential learning will be accomplished through asana practice, somatic integration, meditation, philosophical/historical developments, and the study of biomechanics. Students will learn postures, Sanskrit names, alignment variations, and transitions for physical practice and be introduced to various yoga methodologies, pranayama, and apply beneficial qualities from other somatic systems to their yoga practice. Readings, written assignments, and a research project/presentation augment studio experience. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 114B SC - Yoga: Evolving Practices This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of yoga. Embodied, experiential learning will be accomplished through asana practice, somatic integration, meditation, philosophical/historical developments, and the study of biomechanics. Students will learn postures, Sanskrit names, alignment variations, and transitions for physical practice and be introduced to various yoga methodologies, pranayama, and apply beneficial qualities from other somatic systems to their yoga practice. Includes readings and written assignments. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 120 PO - Modern Dance Technique III See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 121 SC - Raqs Al Sharqi Level II - Egyptian Style Belly Dance This class builds upon the isolation technique, basic footwork, combinations and drills covered in level 1 to develop in-class group choreography and train in improvisational skills, layering, and advanced rhythms on finger cymbals (sagat). Students gain greater proficiency dancing to Arabic rhythms and musical styles. We also continue to expand upon the historical and analytical insights about the dance by focusing on texts discussing the dance in relation to race, gender, sexuality and circulation. Repeatable once for credit. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 122 PO - Modern Dance Technique IV See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 123 PO - Advanced Ballet Technique and 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.
	DANC 124 PO - Advanced Ballet Technique See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 130 PO - Language of the Body 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.
	DANC 131 SC - Critical Perspectives on Dance: Gender, Race, and Sexuality This course provides students an opportunity to critically investigate a variety of perspectives in current dance scholarship, as well as a platform to think, speak and write critically about dance as a cultural meaning-producing activity. Readings in feminism, post-modernism, semiotics and cultural studies are used to analyze the intersections of gender, race and sexuality, and the power structures reflected in, and enacted by, dance. Prerequisite(s): First-year students by permission of instructor only. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 134 SC - Movement as Culture: Dances from the Near and Middle East, North Africa, and the Diaspora This course focuses on exploration of social, folk, and stage dances from Egypt, the Levant (common to Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine), the Khaleeg (Persian Gulf), Morocco, Iraq, and Turkey – sources for what in the U.S. is known as belly dance. Through reading we will address questions that histories of colonialism and concerns around the performance of race, gender, and sexuality bring to the global spaces of performance and circulation of these dance forms. Readings draw from Dance Studies, Anthropology, Post-Colonial/Decolonial Studies, Dance Ethnography, and first-person accounts written by dancers, complimented by video and sound objects. We will investigate the concepts of Orientalism, authenticity, transnational feminisms, innovation in dance, Western vs. Eastern understandings of virtuosity in movement, cultural appropriation, sexuality and gender in dance, and the politics of representation through dance. The course will be 70% reading/writing; 30% movement/practice. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 135 PO - Traditions of World Dance 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.
	DANC 136B SC - West African Dance II West African Dance II expands and builds upon the dance movement skills developed in DANC083 SC West African Dance I . The course is designed to strengthen and refine student knowledge and acquisition of complex West African dances and their rhythms. Course objectives include student development of West African dance musicality and practice and rehearsal of West African dance techniques at performance level quality. Study of historical and cultural context for the West African dances learned in the course will also be included. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. Course Credit: 0.5 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 137 SC - Latin American Dance Practices In this intermediate-level dance class, students will be introduced to the fundamentals of Latin dance practices, particularly from Brazil and Cuba. Students will learn about the African roots of these dances and the common threads that connect a wide range of people and practices across the Afro-Latin Diaspora— culturally, physically, musically, and spiritually. Such common threads include concepts like: orishas (deities of the Yoruba West African tradition that represent varying archetypes and forces of nature), ashé (a multifaceted Yoruba word meaning sacred energy/life force present throughout the Afro-Latin diaspora), playful improvisation, polyrhythmic music, call and response as community-building, dance and music as social resistance, and the intrinsic relationship between the sacred and the profane. Prerequisite(s): Some previous dance experience required. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 137 PO - Performing Arts: Issues of Sexuality and Gender in Music, Theatre and Dance 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.
	DANC 138 PO - Concert Dance in the Global Age 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.
	DANC 139 PO - Choreographic Politics: Dance, Ethnicity, Nationalism 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.
	DANC 140 PO - Beginning Creative Movement Exploration 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.
	DANC 140 SC - Music for Dancers This is an interdisciplinary course that will introduce students to elementary music theory; explore the significance and impact of a soundscape in dance, video and film; and teach students to digitally compose original music to accompany dance or other sequential events. Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 141 PO - Dance Composition 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.
	DANC 142 SC - Feminist Ethnography and Performance This course explores transnational feminist epistemologies alongside performance studies research methods. It investigates the impact of a feminist approach to ethnography in performance studies and the opportunities afforded by performance making and analysis to a feminist ethnographic practice. Texts exemplifying feminist ethnographic methods in dance and performance studies explore intercontinental connections through media, geography, and collective aesthetic and political impulses. The course focuses on feminist research concerns and methodologies of women of color. Additionally, through case studies we approach topics addressed by feminist artists in their work (blackness, passing, environmental concerns, sexual violence, lesbian and trans identity, immigration, disability, among others). Students will train in feminist theory and methods in critical performance ethnography and engage in thoughtful performance making and criticism. Prerequisite(s): First-year students by permission of instructor only. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Occasionally Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 150A PO - Cultural Styles 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.
	DANC 150C PO - Music and Dance of Bali 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.
	DANC 151 PO - African Aesthetics See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 151 SC - Dancing Social Justice Dance has long served as a locus for social change work in the United States. This has been true in times past and is increasingly the case locally, nationally, and globally. This course aims to bring together students with an interest in investigating and investing in social change through Dance. Our classroom community will engage in discussion of readings and video viewings, will host and visit local choreographers and leaders of social justice movements, and engage in choreographic creation and presentation as required parts of the course. Prerequisite(s): First year students by permission of instructor only. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other spring semester Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 152 PO - Hip-Hop Dance See the Pomona College Catalog for a description of this course. Course Credit: 0.5 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 152IO SC - Choreographing Our Stories This course provides students with an opportunity to create dance and performance based on what is happening in the world around them through collaboration while focusing on the issues that affect the communities that they live in. Emphasis will be on the creative processes that are employed in generating dance and performance, while engaging in contemporary issues from the news. Taught inside the California Rehabilitation Center, Norco, CA, this course is an unusual opportunity for Claremont College students to understand society through creating dance/storytelling collaborations together with incarcerated students. Participants will study history(s) of dance and performance as a catalyst for social change and performances that comes from social movements. The course culminates in a showing/performance and interactive dialogue with the audience, made up of both non-participating incarcerated men and outside invited guests. The course concludes with written reflections. Prerequisite(s): Permission on instructor Course Credit: 1.0 Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 159 SC - Dance Composition I Composition and improvisation skills with emphasis on the fundamental principles of space, time, and energy. Students must be concurrently participating in a dance movement class. Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every other year Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
	DANC 160 PO - Anatomy and Kinesiology 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.

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Course Descriptions

CORE 003 SC - Essay, Film, and Theory

CORE 003 SC - Ethics Truth Postmodern Metaphysics

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

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

CORE 003 SC - Forced Displacement, Migration, and Resettlement

CORE 003 SC - Foreign Language and Culture Teaching Clinic

CORE 003 SC - Futuring

CORE 003 SC - History and Memory

CORE 003 SC - Home/Politics/Activism 19thC US

CORE 003 SC - Landscapes of Plunder

CORE 003 SC - Living in a World of Numbers

CORE 003 SC - Making Radical Sense of Power

CORE 003 SC - Mobilizing Art

CORE 003 SC - Narratives of Memory: Spain and Latin American

CORE 003 SC - Neuroethics

CORE 003 SC - Photography and the Archive

CORE 003 SC - Postcolonial Anxieties: Unpacking Europe/Unyoking Africa

CORE 003 SC - Prescriptions and Debates on What Contributes to Health

CORE 003 SC - Radical Cartographies

CORE 003 SC - Realism and Anti-Realism

CORE 003 SC - Representing LA: rock ‘n’ roll

CORE 003 SC - Resilience and Resistance: Women of Color in the United States

CORE 003 SC - Snapshots, Portraits, Instagram

CORE 003 SC - The Detective in the City

CORE 003 SC - The Life Story

CORE 003 SC - The Meaning(?) of Life

CORE 003 SC - The Mechanical Eye: Photography from Science to Art

CORE 003 SC - The Twentieth-Century Music Schism

CORE 003 SC - United: Women’s Work and Collective Action

CORE 003 SC - VIR/GYN GODDESS: The Virgin and the Femme Fatale

CORE 003 SC - Walls, Borders, Fences

CORE 003 SC - What is Happiness?

CORE 003 SC - Women’s Rights: Does it Matter?

CORE 003 SC - Women, Girls, and Mathematical Superstitions

CREA 124 PZ - The Bible and Homer

CGS 050 PZ - Power and Social Change

CGS 075 PZ - Introduction to Postcolonial Studies

CGS 080 PZ - Introduction to Critical Theory

CGS 113 PZ - Science, Politics, and Alternative Medicine

CGS 128 PZ - The War on Terror

CGS 146 PZ - International Relations of the Middle East

CGS 167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture: Gender, Spirituality, and Power

CLST 452 CG - Feminist and Queer Theory: Bodies of Knowledge

DANC 010 PO - Beginning Modern Dance

DANC 012 PO - Beginning Ballet I

DANC 050 PO - Intermediate Modern Dance

DANC 051 PO - *Intermediate Ballet Technique

DANC 068 SC - Intro to Dance/Dance Studies

DANC 076A SC - Modern Dance I

DANC 076B SC - Modern Dance I

DANC 078A SC - Ballet I

DANC 078B SC - Ballet I

DANC 081A SC - Jazz Dance I

DANC 081B SC - Jazz Dance I

DANC 083 SC - West African Dance I

DANC 083B SC - West African Dance I

DANC 091 SC - Raqs Al Sharqi Level I

DANC 100A SC - Modern Dance II

DANC 100B SC - Modern Dance II

DANC 101 SC - History of Dance in Western Culture: 1600-present

DANC 102 SC - Dynamics of Human Movement

DANC 103 SC - Language of the Body: Analyzing Human Movement

DANC 106A SC - Modern Dance III

DANC 106B SC - Modern Dance III

DANC 108A SC - Movement Improvisation

DANC 108B SC - Movement Improvisation

DANC 110A SC - Ballet II

DANC 110B SC - Ballet II

DANC 111A SC - Modern Dance IV

DANC 111B SC - Modern Dance IV

DANC 112A SC - Jazz Dance II

DANC 112B SC - Jazz Dance II

DANC 114A SC - Yoga: Evolving Practices

DANC 114B SC - Yoga: Evolving Practices

DANC 120 PO - Modern Dance Technique III

DANC 121 SC - Raqs Al Sharqi Level II - Egyptian Style Belly Dance

DANC 122 PO - Modern Dance Technique IV

DANC 123 PO - Advanced Ballet Technique and Theory

DANC 124 PO - Advanced Ballet Technique