Jun 15, 2024  
2015-2016 Academic Catalog 
    
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Courses


Descriptions are provided for courses offered at Scripps College and offered 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 Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies.

Please refer to the Schedule of Courses on the Scripps Portal published each semester by the Office of the Registrar for up-to-date information on course offerings.

All courses are 1.0 credit unless otherwise stated.

 

Chinese

  
  • CHIN 145 PO - Survey of Classical Chinese Literature


    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: A. Barr
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CHIN 192A PO - Senior Project


    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 192B PO - Senior Project


    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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


  
  • CHIN 199 PO - Reading and Research


    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


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



Chinese Literature in English Translation

  
  • CHNT 164 PO - Chinese Literature in English: Poetry and Poetics


    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: S. Hou
    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 Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: A. Barr
    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 Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: E. Cheng
    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 Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: E. Cheng
    Course Credit: 1.0


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



Classics

  
  • CLAS 001 PO - Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans


    Who were the Greeks? What was life like in ancient Rome? This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to the ancient world that draws upon literary and historical texts as well as material culture and archaeology.

    Instructor: C. Chinn
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 008A PO - Introductory Latin


    Comprehensive study of Latin grammar and syntax with oral drills. Students who have completed 008a and CLAS 008B  or the equivalent and any 100 course will have met the language requirement. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 008B PO - Introductory Latin


    Comprehensive study of Latin grammar and syntax with oral drills. Students who have completed CLAS 008A  and 008b or the equivalent and any 100 course will have met the language requirement. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 010 SC - The Epic Tradition


    A survey of oral and written epic in Greek and Roman literature. Topics include the role of the hero; oral vs. written traditions; discussion of the roles of myth; traditional narrative and ritual; and the Classical epic as basis for later literature. Some attention to comparative materials (e.g., Beowulf and the Song of Roland). Readings from Homer, Vergil, Apollonius of Rhodes, Ovid, and others. Lecture and discussion.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 012 SC - Greek Tragedy


    This course explores selected Greek tragedies with attention to the literary, social, and performance contexts of the ancient theater. Topics include the origin of drama, dramatic festivals, theater architecture, acting styles, music, politics, and the idea of the tragic in ancient and modern times.

    Instructor: D. Roselli
    Course Credit: 1.0


    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.

    Instructor: D. Roselli
    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.

    Instructor: E. Finkelpearl
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 019 SC - The Ancient World in Film


    This course examines the reception of classical antiquity in cinema through a close reading of ancient texts and their transformation into film. Emphasis will be placed on how cinema has (mis)represented Roman history and Greek drama, and the ideological uses of the past in the 20th century.

    Instructor: J. Valentine
    Course Credit: 1.0


    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


    An exploration of popular and fantastic interpretations of archaeological sites and finds. This course investigates pseudoscientific explanations of archaeological questions and the biases that underlie them.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 032 PO - Advanced Introductory Latin


    Intensive course for students with some previous Latin who are too advanced for Latin 8a and not ready for CLAS 100 . Designed to place students in second semester Intermediate Latin (CLAS 100  or CLAS 112 ) to meet the language requirement. Focus on review and mastery of basic grammar and vocabulary. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 051A PO - Introductory Classical Greek


    Greek grammar and syntax for beginning students. Selected readings from such works as Plato’s Dialogues. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 051B PO - Introductory Classical Greek


    Greek grammar and syntax for beginning students. Selected readings from such works as Plato’s Dialogues. Offered annually.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 052A PO - Elementary Classical Hebrew


    Basic elements of Hebrew grammar and translation of selected Biblical passages. Offered alternate years.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 052B PO - Elementary Classical Hebrew


    Basic elements of Hebrew grammar and translation of selected Biblical passages. Offered alternate years.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 052C PO - Classical Hebrew


    See Pomona College catalog for details.

    Instructor: E. Runions
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 060 SC - Greek Civilization


    This course is intended as an introduction to Greek culture and society from Homer to Alexander the Great. It draws on poetic and historical texts (in English translation) and material culture. Topics may include daily life, social customs, politics, colonization, religious festivals, class, gender, and sexuality.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 061 PO - Roman Life and Literature


    Literary texts organized around topics of importance to the study of Roman culture from c. 300 B.C. to 200 A.D.: poetry and politics, rhetoric, Roman self-definition, the family and gender roles, the influence of Greek philosophy, religion, and contact with the East. Readings from Lucretius, Vergil, Livy, Cicero, and Apuleius, among others.

    Instructor: C. Chinn
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 064 PO - Gods, Humans, and Justice in Ancient Greece


    Introductory course focusing on fundamental questions in ancient Greek moral thinking: What is the best kind of life for a human? Should I be good? Can I be good? Is morality objective, subjective, or relative to one’s society? What is the relation between gods and humans? Are we at the mercy of Fate? Readings from Greek literature and philosophy.

    Instructor: R. McKirahan
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 065 SC - Pagans and Christians


    An interdisciplinary examination and contrasting of pagan and Christian modes of self-understanding in the Greco-Roman world as represented in a variety of primary sources such as medical and philosophical writings, religious documents, ancient novels, accounts of the martyrs, and dream literature.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 100 PO - Intermediate Latin


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

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 008B  or Latin placement test results; test results valid for one year.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 101A SC - Intermediate Classical Greek


    The principal emphasis of this course will be learning to read Attic Greek prose, focusing on the conflicting portrayals of the historical Socrates in Plato and Xenophon. The second semester will focus on Greek poetry, including Homer and Greek tragedy. This course may be offered at Scripps College or Pomona College.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 051B  or permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 101B SC - Intermediate Classical Greek


    The principal emphasis of this course will be on learning to read Attic Greek prose, focusing on the conflicting portrayals of the historical Socrates in Plato and Xenophon. The second semester will focus on Greek poetry, including Homer and Greek tragedy. This course may be offered at Scripps College or Pomona College.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 051B  or permission of the instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 102 PO - Readings in Classical Hebrew


    Review of grammar and readings of selected prose and poetic texts from the Hebrew Bible and the Qumran Library.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 052A , CLAS 052B  or equivalent.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 103 PO - Intermediate Latin: Medieval


    Selections from medieval Latin prose: historical, literary, and liturgical. Emphasis on translation and historical contextualization. Half credit. Offered annually.

    Prerequisite(s): Classics 8b (or equivalent) and permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 104 PO - Readings in Koine Greek


    Koine Greek was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. This course allows students to hone their skills by translating selections from important Koine texts (the Septuagint and the New Testament) and authors (such as Philo and Josephus). Grading is P/No Credit only.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS051B PO  or permission of instructor
    Course Credit: 0.5


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


  
  • CLAS 108 SC - Latin Prose Composition


    This course is designed to teach students of Latin the fine points of Latin grammar by actively writing in the language. We will use the text Bradley’s Arnold Latin Prose Composition and write weekly exercises.

    Instructor: E. Finkelpearl
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 110 PO - Cicero


    An introduction to Latin prose with readings from Cicero’s orations and rhetorical and prose works. Weekly prose composition and term paper.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 008B , CLAS 032 , or Latin placement test results.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 112 PO - Vergil


    An introduction to Latin poetry with readings from Vergil’s Eclogues and Aeneid.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 008B , CLAS 032 , or Latin placement test results.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 113 PO - 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.

    Instructor: J. Valentine
    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.

    Instructor: J. Valentine
    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


    The structure and interpretation of Greek and Roman myth. Readings from ancient literature in English translation and modern mythologists. Lectures and discussions.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld and E. Finkelpearl
    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: Glory, Games and Gore in Ancient Greece and Rome


    Spectacles offered ancient Greeks and Romans countless opportunities to define and present themselves to others—as individuals, as communities, even as kings and emperors. Using archaeological and literary evidence, this course will explore topics such as ancient theater and other types of performance, parades and triumphs, athletic competitions, gladiatorial contexts and wild beast games, mock battles, and even public protests. We will also look at domestic spectacles, from pleasure boats and county houses to fantastic dinner parties.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld
    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.

    Instructor: D. Roselli
    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


    An introduction to the art, architecture, and other material culture of the ancient Greek world, from the Bronze Age through the rise of Alexander the Great.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld
    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


    An introduction to the art and architecture of the ancient Roman world, from the late Republic through the High Empire and up until the reign of Constantine. The course will include discussion of material both from the city of Rome and around the empire.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld
    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


    Explores the archaeology, history, and art and architecture of the ancient Roman towns of the Bay of Naples buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79CE, including Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as the villas and estates in the area. Examines the evidence for daily life in an ancient Roman city through the unusually well preserved remains of these sites and considers them in the context of the wider Roman world.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 175 PZ - International Cultural Heritage


    Cultural heritage can be defined as physical signs of the human past that exist in the present. This course focuses on cultural heritage as part of the built environment and its role in the effort to create a sustainable future. Students will be introduced to key concepts and examine theories and methods in the field today, particularly how these intersect with scholarship, international law, and policy.

    Instructor: M. Berenfeld
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 181A PO - Advanced Latin Readings


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

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 110 , CLAS 112 , or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 181B PO - Advanced Latin Readings


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

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 110 , CLAS 112 , or permission of instructor.
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 182A SC - Advanced Greek Readings


    Works of Greek prose and poetry selected from the writings of the major authors according to the needs of students. This course may be offered at Scripps College or Pomona College.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 101B  or 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.


  
  • CLAS 182B SC - Advanced Greek Readings


    Works of Greek prose and poetry selected from the writings of the major authors according to the needs of students. This course may be offered at Scripps or Pomona Colleges.

    Prerequisite(s): CLAS 101B  or 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.


  
  • CLAS 190 SC - Senior Seminar in Classics


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

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CLAS 191 SC - Senior Thesis


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

    Course Credit: 1.0


    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: Annually


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



Computer Science

  
  • CSCI 000 HM - Intro to Computing and Programming


    See Harvey Mudd College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CSCI 005 HM - Introducation to Computer Science


    See Harvey Mudd College catalog for details.

    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 Claremont McKenna College catalog for details.

    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 Pomona College catalog for details.

    Course Credit: 1.0


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



Core Courses

  
  • 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.

    Instructor: T. Koenigs
    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.

    Instructor: J. Armstrong, K. Drake


    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.

    Instructor: L. Chaudhary, S Ovan


    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.

    Instructor: R. Weinberg


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Decolonize: 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.

    Instructor: C. Jaquez
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Once every two years


    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.

    Instructor: E. Haskell, M. MacNaughton


    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.

    Instructor: D. Roselli


    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.

    Instructor: T. Kim
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Feminisms and Anti/Nonviolence


    This course explores the motivations and effects of ethno-racial, class, religious, and colonial institutional violence. Equally significantly, it explores anti-racist feminist resistance, negotiations and strategies of antiviolence and nonviolence. Topics of discussion will include: international women’s human rights and intersectional anti-racist feminist perspectives on conquest and colonization in the United States and transnationally.

    Instructor: P. Chatterjee
    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.

    Instructor: S. Flynn, N. Macko


    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.

    Instructor: D. Krauss, J. Peavoy.


    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.

    Instructor: J. Groscup, F. Lemoine


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  • CORE 002 SC - Misrepresenting Women


    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.

     

    Instructor: M. Hatcher-Skeers; J. LeMaster
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    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.

    Instructor: J. Koss


    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.

    Instructor: P. Chatterjee


    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.

    Instructor: W. Liu, R. Roberts


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Shakespeare and Selfhood


    What is the self, and in what ways does Shakespeare script our modern understanding of what makes us who we are?  We’ll examine the playwright’s treatment of the identities and events that shape and disrupt selfhood:  gender and sexuality (Twelfth Night), psyche and consciousness (Hamlet), trauma and anxiety (Macbeth), the strange and sometimes bloody pull of community and nation (Henry V), and the tension between civility and savagery (The Tempest).  Plays will be paired with theoretical texts to draw a complex picture of our interior natures and our exterior roles as participants in, and challengers to, our society.

    Instructor: G. Simshaw
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    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?

    Instructor: A. Aisenberg, M. Pérez de Mendiola
    Course Credit: 1.0


    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.

    Instructor: B. Coats


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - The Nature of “Nature.”


    What concepts about the nature of “nature” and about the natural landscape are revealed in the gardens and collections at Scripps College? This course will examine how concepts of nature developed between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries in Western Europe and the United States, and interrogate the representations of nature in the visual and performing arts and in botanical studies. Through such investigation we will come to analyze how concepts of nature and representations of the natural landscape in the Western traditions of arts and sciences point to social, political and moral issues within particular contexts of time and space.

    Instructor: B. Coats


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  • 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.

    Instructor: E. Finkelpearl


    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.

    Instructor: C. Tazzara


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - Tragedy and National Narratives


    This course focuses on the Core I theme of human nature and human difference by turning to the relations between tragedy, human suffering, and our identities as individual and communal beings. Beginning with the Greeks’ conception of tragic heroes and the polis, we will explore how tragedians in a variety of disciplines create myths and histories that connect to personal and national narratives and counter-narratives. Then we will consider how the meaning of tragedy has changed in the modern period, as it now encompasses the lives of everyday people and the impact of events or circumstances such as war, slavery, poverty, systems of social oppression, natural disasters, and massacres.

    Instructor: K. Drake, G. Simshaw
    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.”

    Instructor: A. Jacobs
    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.

    Instructor: S. Park


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - What is Avant-Garde?


    This course will examine the shifting character of the avant-garde in modern movements in art, literature, cinematography, and performance, as well as the different meanings of the word in everyday language. We will explore how the notion of avant-garde shaped the modern imagination and changed the ways in which we perceive works of art and the world itself.

    Instructor: M. MacNaughton, S. Ovan
    Course Credit: 1.0


    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 2009, in excess of 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 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.
     

    Instructor: S. Castagnetto, D. Scott-Kakures


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


  
  • CORE 002 SC - “Once Upon a Time”: Psychological and Literary Approaches to the Fairy Tale


    Fairy tales explore social conditions, families in crisis, the human search for the meaning of life, coming of age, the path to the self. A critical analysis of familiar categories such as gender, sexuality, race, and class can demonstrate how fairy tales both support and subvert the dominant ideology implicit in the tales. In the course we trace these tensions from the earliest myths to their modern re-telling in popular culture, architecture, film and advertisements.

    Instructor: J. LeMaster


    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.

    Instructor: A. Davis
    Course Credit: 1.0
    Offered: Annually


    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: First offering Fall 2017


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


  
  • CORE 003 SC - Biblical Fictions and the Religious Imagination


    Since antiquity, Jews and Christians have rewritten biblical narratives, creating new media out of the Bible. By exploring these biblical fictions across three genres—drama, fiction, and film—we ask how religious identity is rearticulated out of a static textual canon. How do such biblical fictions engage with and subvert the limits of human personhood in the realm of religion? How have people, from antiquity to the present, from Africa to North America, used the Bible to reimagine their own social worlds, and how is the Bible itself reshaped in these acts of imagination?

    Instructor: A. Jacobs
    Course Credit: 1.0


    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.

    Instructor: H. Huang
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 003 SC - Capitalism and Critique


    Capitalism is the air we breathe. As a result, we often fail to evaluate critically the role of class in our daily life. Why does poverty exist? What is the relationship between capitalism and culture? What are the connections between capitalism and race? Engaging with foundational texts on capitalism and Marxist critiques, this course examines the origins of capitalism, the organization of labor, the transformation of values and practices by the market, and possibilities for change. We will explore these issues primarily in the context of the US and Europe through a consideration of the ways in which works of literature, political theory, and philosophy narrate and critique capitalism.

    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 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.

    Instructor: C. Forster
    Offered: Annually


    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, Chicana/o, Latina/o, 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.

    Instructor: M. Gonzalez
    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.

    Instructor: B. Coats


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  • 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.

    Instructor: J. Wernimont
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • 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.

    Instructor: J. Wood
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • CORE 003 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.

    Instructor: Y. Avnur
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


  
  • 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


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


  
  • CORE 003 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.

    Instructor: T. Kim
    Course Credit: 1.0


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


 

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