Revised Courses Approved FA19
ANTH107 SC (change in description)
Medical Anthropology and Global Health
This course engages in the critical study of health, disease, and illness across cultural contexts. It will address the history, theory, methodology and application of anthropology in various health settings. It will examine implications for global health and health care policy.
ART 135 SC (change in title/description)
Letterpress Printing
Formerly: Typography & Book Arts
Through structured and open assignments, students will learn the basics of typesetting and printing on antique printing press in the Scripps Press studio. In library visits and class discussion, the class will explore how publishers, artists and activists in early manuscripts, printed books, fine press, and contemporary artist’s books and print portfolios use letterpress alone and with imagery to educate, entertain, shift consciousness, and present a story or narrative.
CLAS190 SC (change in title/description)
Senior Seminar in Ancient Studies/Classics
Formerly: 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.
CLAS191 SC (change in description)
Senior Thesis
Students will work closely and on an individual basis with their faculty advisers to identify an area of interest, become familiar with basic bibliography and research tools, and define a topic to investigate. Students will submit the results of this research in writing and make an oral presentation to the Ancient Studies/Classics Department. Restricted to seniors majoring in classics.
CORE002 SC (change in description)
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 conceptualizing of boundaries between human and animal in philosophy, literature, science, and religion, the “animal-industrial complex” and its environmental impact, animal rights, and the creative imagining of animal minds.
DANC114A SC/DANC114B SC (change in title/description)
Yoga: Evolving Practices
Formerly: Somatics of Yoga: An Integrated Approach
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 research project/presentation augment studio experiences.
ENGL183 SC (change in title/description)
Gendered Prose
Formerly: Women Explain Temselves: Gendered Prose
This course examines how gendered literary conventions have shaped and constrained women’s first-person prose across a variety of genres from the seventeenth century through the present, especially in writing by and about the Americas. We’ll investigate how women negotiated these conventions within conversion narratives, captivity narratives, novels, autobiography, and essays. We’ll learn about the methodologies and theoretical frameworks literary scholars use think intersectionally about how gender and power operate in these texts. And we’ll examine how contemporary writers – including non-binary and gender-nonconforming writers – have grappled with this literary history and sought to represent those who couldn’t, or chose not to, write their stories down. Assignments will include both critical and creative work.
HIST166 SC (change in title/description)
Self and Society: Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S.
Formerly: Political and Cultural Criticism in the U.S.
This course explores the relationship of individuals, communities, and social change through readings in autobiographical, social scientific, philosophical, and political essays. How did writers and activists connect self-understanding, social analysis, and political transformation? Topics include the meanings of identity, the formation of community, the challenge of democracy, violence and justice, and the possibilities of resistance and hope. Readings include works by Angela Davis, W.E.B. Du Bois, Horace Kallen, James Baldwin, Jose Antonio Vargas, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Boas, Meridel Le Sueur, Reinhold Niebuhr, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
HIST180 SC (change in title/description)
History in a Time of Crisis
Formerly: Proseminar: What is History?
References to “history” abound in the context of America’s current political crisis. But why and how is history especially relevant now? Is its lesson primarily instructive, to teach us that the past either repeats itself or is constituted by unique events? Does history provide critical distance to help us reflect on the present maelstrom of political rancor and division? Or might its uses even be emotional or psychological, offering comfort and shelter from a harsh contemporary reality? This course will consider these questions and others through a reading of historical monographs dealing with a variety of topics, time periods, and places.
MUS 121 SC (change in title/description)
Music of the Spirits: Hawaiian, Balinese and Tewa Pueblo Indian
Formerly: Music of the Spirits: Tewa Pueblo Indian, Hawaiian, and African American
In this course, we assess how systemic discrimination and exploitation of Asian/Pacific Islanders and Native Americans impacted sacred musical traditions by studying histories of cultural contact and conflict with dominant settler “civilization”. Readings draw upon writings and interviews by minority scholars speaking about their own cultures, in addition to respected local scholars in the area. These sacred musical practices are not only imbedded within indigenous religious traditions, they represent ongoing shifts in societal and religious perspectives.
POLI115 SC (change in title/description)
Politics of Identity in India: Religion, Caste, and Ethnicity
Formerly: Politics of Identity in South Asia
Why have the politics of religion, caste, and ethnolinguistic identity remained vital in the world’s largest democracy despite socioeconomic developments that should weaken them? How does democracy weaken some identities and strengthen others? How do urbanization and media reshape the bonds of caste and religion? What causes communal violence? We will examine how identities have been structured by state laws and institutions, mobilized in elections and social movements, reshaped by social media and transnational politics, and sustained through conflict, starting with the national movement and including contemporary debates around the rise of the BJP, cow protection politics, and caste-based reservations.
PSYC183 SC (change in title/description)
Data Science Ethics and Justice
Formerly: Human Data Science Ethics
Data science is a set of interdisciplinary approaches that seeks to construct or extract knowledge from large collections of information, and then to communicate that knowledge for the purposes of implementing scientific, economic, environmental, educational, or political policies. This course will give students insight into ethical challenges to and approaches in doing data science.
Revised Courses Approved SP20
ART 142 SC (change in description/prerequisite)
Intermediate Digital Art
This intermediate level course will explore digital approaches, history, concepts and techniques within the realms of art and design. Assignments will develop proficiency in a range of programs including Adobe InDesign and Illustrator and an introduction to AutoDesk Freeware. This is not intended to be a technical training course. [Prerequisite: ART 141, $75 lab fee]
ART 143 SC (change in description/prerequisite)
Advanced Digital Art
This advanced level course will build upon techniques, methodologies and approaches developed in Intermediate and Introductory Digital Art. Assignments will develop proficiency in a range of software in conjunction with digital fabrication techniques. Advanced Digital Art will encourage cross-disciplinary experimentation; the relationship between physical and digital space will be interrogated. [Prerequisite: ART 141 and ART 142, $75 lab fee]
ART 145 SC (change in prerequisite)
Intro to Black and White Photo
A studio course in black-and-white photography with an emphasis on image production, developing, and printing 35mm film, in a wet darkroom. Instruction in basic camera operation, and darkroom techniques, and considers historical and contemporary uses of the photographic medium. Students should have access to a 35mm camera. Some cameras are available for check out from Scripps AV. [Prerequisite: NONE. $75 lab fee]
DANC180 SC (change in topics title)
Selected Topic in Dance (Studio) Tap
Topic for Fall ‘20 - Tap Dance: This course will provide students with the opportunity to study tap dance in a more advanced and academically rigorous context than currently exists in Claremont. Geared to dancers at the Intermediate level and higher, the course will survey rhythm tap, hoofing, Broadway styles and the study of historical, cultural, and aesthetic issues that underpin the movement styles. Students will explore the fusion of African and European aesthetics that make tap dance a uniquely American tradition while considering the social inequities and modes of resistance that contributed to its various styles and iterations as a social dance and performance idiom. By framing the process of analysis with an array of historical periods and cultural settings, students will engage in enlivened physical and social practice, while refining critical thinking, observing, reading, and writing skills. Students have expressed a strong desire to study the style at a more advanced level and with the same academic rigor that our department brings to other dance styles.
DS 001 SC (change in course number)
Intro to Python and Data Analysis
Formerly: MATH042 SC
This course is the first part of a two-semester flipped-course introduction to computer programming. Students will engage with interactive media to learn the fundamental programming constructs and data structures of Python (conditionals, loops, functions, lists, dictionaries, etc.) and use them to creatively design, test, and implement algorithms and programs while working on collaborative in-class projects based on real-world problems in graphics, image processing, cryptography, data analysis, astronomy, video games, and environmental simulation. Prior programming experience not required. This course is for non-CS majors only and does not fulfill the Scripps Math GE requirement.
FREN124 SC (change in title)
Women of Freedom and Desire
Formerly: Writings of Freedom & Desire
FREN160 SC (change in title)
Romancing the Revolution: Victor Hugo and Women
Formerly: Hugo, Women and the French Revolution
MS 059 SC (change in title/description)
“Hello, World!” An Introduction to Python Programming
Formerly: Alternative Computer Science: Analogs and Algorithms
This class begins by teaching students how to program a computer to print “Hello, World!” with Python. Students will build fluency and confidence by completing weekly exercises and practice collaboration using Google Colab, Slack, and GitHub. Final projects will use data analysis to visualize either climate data, social media webs, or local demographics. No programming experience is expected or assumed.
MS 159 SC (change in title/description)
Foundations of Computational Photography
Formerly: Computational Photography I
Introductory course in computation within the context of media and art with a focus on two- dimensional graphics. The potential of computer as medium will be considered through exercises, assignments, readings, and critiques. Both procedural and object-orientedprogramming will be explored, as well as, using input and output of files, generative techniques, and image creation through data processing.
MUS 101 SC (change in description/prerequisite)
Music Theory I
The study of tonal harmony and counterpoint primarily based on 18th century principles. Students will analyze examples from music literature of the 18th through 20th centuries and learn ·the rudiments of composition. This course will culminate in the composition of short works based on tonal models. Prerequisite: Music 3 or equivalent musical experience. This course should be taken in conjunction with MUS 071 Musicianship I. Offered annually in the fall. Prerequisite: Music 3 or equivalent; Co-requisite: MUS 071 Musicianship I.
MUS 102 SC (change in description/prerequisite)
Music Theory II
The continuation of Theory I with a study of basic chromatic harmony and the analysis of 18th century forms. This course should be taken in conjunction with MUS 072 Musicianship II. Prerequisite: Music 101 or equivalent; Co-requisite: MUS 072 Musicianship II. Offered annually in the spring.
NEUR182 SC/PSYC182 SC (change in prerequisite/cross-listing)
Machine Learning Using Neural Signals
This course teaches students the theory and practice of computational analyses of machine learning applied to neural signals for cognitive and neural classification. We will use real neural signals (e.g., spikes, EEG data, fMRI data, diffusion MRI data) in Python, Matlab, and R, so some computer programming experience is required (e.g., BIOL133L, PHYS108, PSYC123L, or equivalent). In this course, students will receive an overview of machine learning theory, an introduction to the concepts and practices of primary machine learning algorithms, and how to apply machine learning to information resulting from signal processing of neural signals. Each class meeting will involve theory and practical applications using active learning, giving students conceptual and computational capabilities that they can use for their own scholarly inquiry and computational applications. (Prerequisites: Introduction to Computer Programming (preferably python or Matlab); Introduction to Probability and Statistics OR Calculus 2; Linear Algebra)
POLI121 SC (repeatable for credit)
Ending Mass Incarceration
This course engages in a grounded examination of how communities of color engage in political struggle over the ideologies and practices of mass incarceration in the United States. The focus is on understanding the relationship between race, social welfare, and the prison-industrial complex through text and direct engagement with individuals and organizations involved in social justice work that confronts mass incarceration. This course is twice repeatable for credit. It is project-based, with different projects each semester it is offered, as such, will not cover the same material from year to year.
POLI155 SC (change in course number)
Marginalized Communities
Formerly: CORE002
This course explores definitions, mechanisms, and experiences of marginalized communities in the United States, with specific attention paid to racial minority groups, women and children, immigrants, the LGBT community, and the poor. What hurdles exist for these communities as they attempt to navigate social, political and economic processes in the US? How do federal, state and local policies hurt or bolster these communities? Readings will be drawn from across the social sciences.
PSYC103 SC (change in prerequisite)
Psychological Statistics
Introduction to the logic of hypothesis testing. Emphasis will be on basic statistical terms, gaining familiarity with computational procedures of both parametric and nonparametric techniques, and utilizing available computer programs for the analysis of data in the behavioral sciences.[Prerequisite: PSYC52 or equivalent]
PSYC112 SC (change in title/description)
Clinical Geropsychology
Formerly: Adult Development and Aging
Geropsychology is the field within psychology that applies the knowledge and methods of psychology to understanding and helping older persons and their families maintain well-being, overcome problems, and achieve maximum potential during later life. As with younger adults, a variety of treatable mental health disorders affect older adults. In addition, stressors common in late life such as loss of loved ones, relocation, health conditions, caregiving demands, change in employment status, and poverty significantly affect the health and independence of older adults. Geropsychologists address these and other issues such as discrimination, sexuality, capacity assessment, health promotion and substance abuse. This course will cover the historical and foundational issues of adult development and aging and the core areas of geropsychology of assessment, consultation, and therapy. This course will require a 4 hour /week for 10 week practicum placement with older adults. (Prerequisite: PSYC52 or equivalent)
PSYC128 SC (change in title)
Psychological Disorders
Formerly: Abnormal Psychology
WRIT120 SC (change in title/description)
Tech Rhetorics
Formerly: Writing for Nonprofit Orgs
In this course, we examine theoretical and practical approaches to technical and nonprofit writing. These overlapping subgenres involve presenting technical and expert knowledge to a lay audience based on the particular rhetorical situation of the project, a task that directly engages translation, aesthetics, narrative, and ethics. We also track the various ways our technical and philanthropic rhetorics rely upon and help normalize socially oppressive structures.
