Revised Courses FA20 and SP21
CHEM014CL KS (change in title/description)
Former title: Basic Principles of Chemistry
New Title: Basic Principles of Chemstry C
A condensed version of CHEM 014L KS; taught as a 1-unit course in the first half of the semester. See CHEM 014L KS for a more complete description*. Lectures and labs will be twice as many hours per week as CHEM 014L. Any changes in the CHEM 014L KS course automatically apply to this course.
*CHEM 014L KS: The first semester of a year-long study of the structure of matter and the principles of chemical reactions. Topics covered include stoichiometry, periodicity, atomic and molecular structure, bonding theory, enthalpy, and phases of matter.
CHEM015CL KS (change in title/description)
Former Title: Basic Principles of Chemistry
New Title: Basic Principles of Chemistry C
A condensed version of CHEM 015L KS; taught as a 1-unit course in the first half of the semester. See CHEM 015L KS for a more complete description*. Lectures and labs will be twice as many hours per week as CHEM 015L. Any changes in the CHEM 015L KS course automatically apply to this course.
DANC111A/B SC (change in title/description)
Former Title: Modern Dance IV
New Title: Advanced Contemporary Dance Practice
For advanced dancers who want to broaden their knowledge of contemporary dance styles and influences from an eclectic perspective. Students will expand their movement repertoire and expressive range with focus on efficient use of effort and joint articulation. The class emphasizes technique and progressions with improvisation and compositional elements. For full credit (111A), readings and written assignments augment studio experiences.
ECON197W SC Special Topics in Economics: Regional and Urban Economics (change in prerequisite)
Prerequiste: change from ECON 51 and 52 to ECON 101
ENGL194 SC Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop (change in description)
This advanced fiction workshop is intended for students who have taken at least one course in fiction writing (ENGL193 or an equivalent course at the Claremont Colleges). In it, students will become familiar with a wide range of prose storytelling techniques, both traditional and experimental. They will also engage with a variety of storytelling genres, including not only fiction and memoir but also film, photography, and song, and though this process of creative discovery, they will hone their intuition for narrative craft and explore what animates them as writers. Over the semester students will draft and revise a portfolio of short stories or a single longer work of narrative prose.
FREN100 SC (change in title, description, prerequisite)
Former Title: French Culture and Civilization
New Title: Intro to Francophone Studies
Prerequisite: FR44 or placement above FR44
This gateway course introduces students to Francophone Studies, a deeply interdisciplinary field informed by approaches from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Students will acquire a range of conceptual tools and ideas that they will apply through traditional and non-traditional analysis of visual, written, and performative practices of the French-speaking world. Conducted in French.
FREN182 SC (change in title, description)
Former Title: Contemporary Fiction in French
New Title: Untimely Meditations: Contemporary Fiction and Non-fiction in French
Our world seems to be changing more rapidly than ever and in ways that are more and more difficult to understand, let alone predict. our reflections on our present condition can feel out of step, out of place, or, to use Nietzsche’s term, untimely. This course will examine works by major novelists and essayists writing in French in the late 20th century and early 21st century whose “untimely meditations” try to make sense of and react to our bewildering contemporary condition. These authors include Annie Ernaux, Sophie Calle, Alain Mabanckou, Marc Augé, Patrick Modiano, Alice Zeniter, Laurent Gaudé, Patrick Chamoiseau, Michel Houellebecq, Stephane Hessel, Mona Chollet, Georges Perec, Virginie Despentes, Pap Ndiaye, Fatou Diome, Natacha Appanah. Pre-requisite: one course after French 44. Taught in French.
GRMT102 SC Poetry of the Revolution: The Manifesto (change in description)
As consumers of modern culture’s artifacts—paintings, architecture, movies, literature—we tend to be unaware that most artistic and political movements originated in one very specific idea. Em-bodying the quintessentially modern claim to nothing less than the capacity to change the world, the manifesto has captured the urgency of this idea for almost 200 years.
Beginning with the modern era’s archetypical manifesteers, Marx and Engels, this class explores proclamations by the abolitionist movement, Italian Futurists, and Riot Grrrl punk rockers. We will discuss declarations by women’s suffrage activists, Bauhaus architects, the Chicanx Student Movement, Soviet filmmakers, and many other manifestos.
HUM195J SC (change in title, description)
Former Title: Fellowship in the Humanities Institute
New Title: Humanities Institute Seminar
Fellows in the Scripps College Humanities Institute will work closely with the director on a project related to the theme of the Institute in a given semester. The Fellowship in the Humanities Institute does not satisfy any general education requirement but may be used once toward requirements of a major with approval of the faculty adviser in the major. Registration requires application. For information on applying and on the current theme, see https://www.scrippscollege.edu/hi/. May apply to repeat once for credit.
MS 059 SC (change in title, description)
FormerTitle: ”Hello World”
New Title: CS1: Intro to Python and Viz
This is an introduction to computer programming that supports Scripps College’s interdisciplinary vision. It is for everyone–visual designers, data scientists, and fine artists–who wants to create interactive media and computer graphics. This course links software concepts to principles of visual form, motion, and interaction. Students learn the fundamentals of Python programming (data structures, sequencing, selection and sorting, iteration and recursion, functions, object-oriented code) and use Processing.py to analyze and visualize data, generate drawings and sounds, manipulate images, create interactions for games, use network communication to collect data, and learn how to work with remote data to create environmental simulations.
SPAN139 SC (change in title, description)
Former Title: Plants, Magic, and Race: Intercultural Translations of Shamanism
New Title: Plants, Land, and Food: Community Clinic
In this community engaged clinic, students will design a human-based project that responds to a need in their/our communities based around agriculture and food cultivation. In the first part of the course, students will identify and research a community organization that serves Spanish-speaking communities. Potential organizations in Claremont/Pomona include Uncommon Good, the Pomona Community Farmer Alliance, and Buena Vista Community Garden. In the second part of the course, students will reach out to their organization of choice and design a project. And in the third part of the course, students will carry out the project and then review and revise it. This process will help students to build humility and empathy as they address a need in their communities. A sustained engagement in an agricultural practice, in turn, will help students develop an appreciation for the land and sustainable land use. Conversations with the professor will be in Spanish and students will write four reflections papers in Spanish that document their efforts and address any challenges or breakthroughs.
PSYC233 SC (change in title, description)
Former Title: Science of Emotions & Positive Psychology
New Title: Positive Psychology
Positive psychology is the scientific study of optimal human functioning. The course will examine various conceptions of well-being, the measurement of well-being, and the determinants of well-being.
CORE002 SC Sec 08 (change in description)
This transdisciplinary course begins with the empirical premise that the planet is in an environmental crisis and recognizes the normative imperative to stop the ongoing catastrophe. The course explores the material and discursive origins and ongoing production of this catastrophe, and how this in turn influences our responses to environmental challenges. We interrogate contingent concepts including nature and wilderness while being attentive to multiple axes of difference and domination to better understand how systems of power are (re)produced, challenged, and dismantled. Finally, we explore the work of the constellation of organizations and movements seeking to halt the catastrophe.
ARCN110 SC (change in title, description)
Former Title: Artists’ Materials and Technologies-Ancient and Modern
New Title: Artist Materials: Ancient and Modern
This interdisciplinary course focuses on artists’ materials and the intersection of modern materials science and art conservation. The discovery, invention and use of new materials and technologies traces back in time from today’s modern alloys and high-strength concrete to carved stone and the red and yellow ochre, black manganese oxide and charcoal pigments used in Paleolithic cave paintings. This course provides an understanding of materials such as stone, plastic and paint, in the context of creative and scientific questions that currently confront artists, curators, conservators and scientists: What materials are most valuable and why? What lessons in sustainability can we draw from ancient and modern materials?
ARHI177 SC (change in title, description, course number)
Former Title: Seminar in 20th-Century Art
NewTitle: Dada and Surrealism
Politically subversive and aesthetically explosive, Dada and Surrealism each set out to revolutionize Western culture and succeeded in transforming the world of art. Working in painting, sculpture, performance, still photography, motion pictures, literature, and readymades, the Dadaists and Surrealists redefined these mediums while also pioneering tactics of abstraction, automatism, and montage that remain vital, relevant, and widespread. This seminar considers the history of the two movements, beginning with Dada’s emergence in New York and Zurich in the mid 1910s and that of Surrealism in 1920s Paris, and addresses their ongoing impact around the world.
FGSS188B SC (change in title, description)
FormerTitle: Queer Representations in Film/Media
New Title: Queer Representations in Media
This course explores the ties between queer theory and activism, and audiovisual media technologies and productions since the late-19thc. It considers how media has facilitated and challenged the globalization of LGBT identities. We apply intersectional and interdisciplinary analyses while foregrounding issues such as race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, settler colonialism, militarism, systemic exclusions, and the paradoxical desires, needs, and dangers for queer and trans visibility.
FGSS188E SC (change in title, description)
Former Title: The Queer Transpacific: Sinophone Cultures and Race/Ethnicity in Asian America
New Title: The Queer Transpacific: Race/Ethnicity and Sinophone Cultures across the Americas and Asia
This course draws together emergent scholarship in transpacific studies and Sinophone studies with Asian American studies and queer studies. It attends to how the hemispheric Americas and Asia Pacific regions have been shaped by the United States and the People’s Republic of China, respectively and concomitantly. We trace overlapping histories of U.S.-European interventions into Asia Pacific, Pacific militarizations, Chinese empire, and modern Chinese nation-state building led by Han ethnonationalisms. Focusing on transpacific crossings and the production of “Sinophone cultures” in history, popular culture, science, and tourism, this course applies queer analyses to investigate how the U.S. and P.R.C. produce one another as analogous “others.
HIST072 SC (change in title, description, cross listing)
Former Title: History of Women in the United States
New Title: Women and Gender in U.S. History
Approved for American Studies, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
This course explores the experiences of women and gender minorities in the 19th to 21st centuries. It emphasizes how identity categories of sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, etc. intersect with gender and affected their lives and histories. Is it possible or even useful to talk about “women” or “gender minorities” as a group? We will explore the continuities of and variations in their lives in the face of rapid changes. Topics we will consider include education, work, politics, and feminisms.
MS 159 SC (change in title, description)
Former Title: Foundations of Computational Photography
New Title: Introduction to Computational Photography
Computers can correct flaws in traditional photography, and photographers are happy to use some or all of these tools to improve their images. Focus, aperture, and shutter may be automated alone or in concert. These fixes are just the beginning of the ways that computation will change photography. Soon cameras will make images without optics, manipulate time to sharpen the image, even see around corners to recover faces. We will study the impacts that computational photography will make on the arts, consider the consequences of new propaganda, and proposed tactics to deal with these disruptions.
POLI121 SC(change in title)
Former Title: Ending Mass Incarceration
New Title: Practicing Abolition Democracy
SPAN134 SC (change in description, prerequisite)
Throughout this current post-colonial era, we have witnessed emergent indigenous initiatives that have sought to challenge dominant social, economic and gender structures in Latin America. Among the range of approaches that study these initiatives, the field of “indigenous feminism” has remained an era of contention among indigenous and non-indigenous scholars as well as activists. The course will focus on how current emancipatory thought and practice led by indigenous women has challenged the ethnocentric and homogenizing assumptions embedded in certain critical perspectives and feminist traditions. This course will explore a broad range of interdisciplinary theories and studies (across the social sciences and humanities) as well as literary and cinematic representations that have shaped leadership and cultural analysis for indigenous women in Latin America, specifically Peru, Bolivia, Mexico and Guatemala. Along with representation of indigenous peoples by nonindigenous critics or authors, we will also study initiatives of self-representations in testimonio and films in order to analyze how the use of different media has become a key factor for conveying memories of struggle and for the ongoing reformulation of past legacies in the context of the neoliberal era.
Prerequisite: Any early 100-level Spanish course
CORE003 SC: Home Politics Activism 19thC US (change in description)
This course explores how Americans mobilized home and domesticity for political ends during the 19th century. We’ll read works by writers who conceived of home as a space for transformative political change. These include residents of the utopian community Brook Farm, who hoped their example could remake labor relations throughout the country, as well as Black and Indigenous writers for whom home was a space of resistance to racism, slavery, and colonization. We’ll also learn about how historians, literary critics, and other scholars have conducted archival research into forms of domestic activism that left traces not in published writing but rather in diaries, commonplace books, photographs, songs, and material objects. And throughout the course we’ll think carefully about what these different ways of imagining, practicing, and performing activism and domesticity can teach us about the potentials – and pitfalls – of domestic activism today. Students will put these lessons into practice in a final project that combines research into your current home with your own present-day domestic activism.
CORE003 SC (change in title, description)
Former Title: Prescriptions and Debates on How to be Healthy
New Title: Debates on Health
This course explores key historical and contemporary debates on what contributes to mental and physical health. We will read and critique the literature from various fields (e.g. psychology, medicine) with an emphasis on texts from the social sciences. We will also explore the question of what contributes to health through popular press pieces and film. Topics of study include relationships, stress, sleep, and meditation. Course format will be split between in-class discussion, lecture, student presentations and in-class activities. For the final project, students will choose to make one healthy change to their lifestyle, document their experience, and write a final paper summarizing their journey.
