Dec 26, 2024

2020-2021 Scripps Catalog

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Core Courses

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Core I: Histories of the Present: Truth

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

Core II: Histories of the Present

Core II continues—with sharper focus and through an array of course offerings—the interdisciplinary investigations begun in Core I. Core II courses are taught by a faculty member with interdisciplinary research interests and may be team-taught by faculty whose complementary research interests make for fresh interdisciplinary dialogue. Consult the Scripps Portal for CORE II offerings for the current semester. Core II offerings vary each year and may include:

The Aesthetics of Justice: Race, Space, Architecture and Music

The Art of Medicine, Medicine in the Arts: the body in Italian Literature

The Arts and Literature of Zen Buddhism

The Construction of Kinship

The Language of Music

The Question of the Animal, Ancient and Contemporary

Becoming Someone Else in American Culture

Constructions of (Dis)Ability

Convergence: Women, Work and Alternative Media

Death

Discord and Dialog

Display, Desire and Domination

Gender, Science and Knowledge

Hunger

Incentives Matter: The Economics of Gender and Choice

Justice in Theory and Practice

Marginalized Communities

Making Sense of Power

Me and the Boys Come Back from Area 51

Metropolis: Imagining the City

Misrepresentation of Women in Society and Science

Nerds and Geeks

Poetry of the Revolution: The Manifesto

Riotous Americans: Los Angeles and the Poetics of Unrest

Shakespeare Then and Now

Subversive Selves

Terms of Modernity

Urban Nights: Gender, Work, and Experiences

Where We Live & What We Live For

Why Punish?

Core III: Histories of the Present

Core III courses are small seminars designed to foster innovation and collaboration among students and faculty. The seminars involve considerable student participation and afford the opportunity to do more individualized, self-directed scholarship in association with a single faculty member working in the area of expertise from an interdisciplinary perspective. The work of the seminars culminates in a self-designed project exploring a particular topic through the lens of “histories of the present.” Exceptional student work will be disseminated to the wider College community. Depending on instructor and subject matter, the Core III seminars involve research, internships with fieldwork, exhibits, performances, conferences, and multimedia projects. Consult the Scripps Portal for Core III offerings for the current semester. Core III course offerings vary each year and may include:

“America” in recent music & literature

Animal Rights and Speciesism

Antiracist and Transnational Feminist Coalitions

Bad Writing

Bodies in Motion: Representation and Simulation

Building Los Angeles

Capitalism/Anti-Capitalism

Caribbean Women’s Literature

Challenges from the global south - “America”

Collective Songwriting: Theory and Knowledge Production

Creating and Recreating Genji

Democracy in Theory and Practice