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Religious Studies
  

  • RLST161 CM - Gurus, Swamis and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST162 PO - Modern Jewish Philosophy

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): O. Eisenstadt
    Credit: 1

    An introduction to Jewish philosophy in the modern period, focusing on its relation to the wider philosophical tradition and to Christian thought.  We begin with early modern attempts to define Judaism as against secular society, and follow this concern as it evolves into contemporary theory about the role of dialogue with the other in the formation of the individual.  We read Spinoza, Mendelssoh, Rosenzweig, Buber, and Levinas.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST163 CM - Women and Gender in Jewish Tradition


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST164 PO - Engendering and Experience: Women in Islamic Traditions

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): Z. Kassam
    Credit: 1

    Explores the normative bases of the roles and status of women and examines Muslim women’s experiences in order to appreciate the situation of and the challenges facing Muslim women. (CWS, MES)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST165 CM - Religion and Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST166A PO - The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): Z. Kassam
    Credit: 1

    Sallie McFague calls the universe, and hence the Earth, the Body of God. How are we treating such a body? How have our religions treated the Earth? Is our environment at risk and if so, due to what factors? Are religions part of the problem or part of the solution with respect to sustaining and possibly nurturing our environment?
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST166B CM - Religion, Politics and Global Violence


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST169 CM - Christianity and Politics in East Asia


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST170 SC - Women and Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST171 CM - Religion and Film


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST173 CM - US Latino Religions and Politics


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST174 CM - Religion and the American Presidency


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST175 CM - Visions of the Divine Feminine in Hinduism and Buddhism


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST176 CM - Visionaries, Prophets, and Transformative Leadership


    Credit: 1

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST177 PO - Gender and Religion

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): E. Runions
    Credit: 1

    This course examines the complicated intersections of gender and religion. Neither gender, nor religion are straightforward categories, as the literatures on each attests and must be theorized as categories with particular histories and cultural contexts. This course will look at the ways in which “gender” and “religion” interact with various historical and cultural contexts to reinforce, contradict and also resist traditional notions of gender and religious experience. Attention will be paid to how religion affects experiences of gender; and how gender affects experiences of religion. More specifically, we will explore the way in which the intersection of gender and religion affects understandings, experiences and negotiations of religious origins, personal identities, religious experiences, agency, body shapes, images and disciplines, sexuality, race relations, cultural appropriations and power structures.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST179 HM - Special Topics in Religious Study


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST179S HM - Special Topics in Religious Study


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
  

  • RLST180 PO - Interpreting Religious Worlds

    When Offered: Each spring by rotation at the Claremont Colleges.
    Instructor(s): O. Eisenstadt
    Credit: 1

    Required for all majors and minors. Examines some current approaches to the study of religion as a legitimate field of academic discourse. This course is taught in alternating years at Scripps, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, and Harvey Mudd Colleges.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST180 SC - Interpreting Religious Worlds


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST181 PO - Prison, Punishment, Redemption

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): E. Runions; V. Thomas
    Credit: 1

    This course will explore ideologies of punishment and redemption in relation to the prison industrial complex. We will critique and redefine themes of redemption, correction, debt, virtue, shame, guilt, purity, atonement, damnation, hell and conversion as they influence, infuse and complicate popular understanding of prison, policy development and lived experience of prison. We will be analyzing religious teaching, literature, media, pop culture, policy, political discourse and art. The approach taken will be interdisciplinary with intersectional analysis that includes race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, age, mobility, literacy, education, nationality. Six times in the semester students will take part in a writing workshop in the prison California Institute for Women. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference
  

  • RLST183 HM - Ghosts and the Machines: Occult Mediumship and Modern Media


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST184 PO - Queer Theory and the Bible

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): E. Runions
    Credit: 1

    This course will look at how the Bible can be read productively through queer theory. We will examine biblical passages that are central to prohibitions on homosexuality and the larger discourses of heteronormativity (constructed around gender, sexuality, class, national identity, state formations, kinship, children, etc.) in which homophobic readings of the Bible emerge. We will also look at the ways in which these discourses and the identities they shore up can be “queered,” as well as at biblical texts that can be read as queer friendly. This process of queering will allow and require us to approach the biblical text in new ways.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference
  
  

  • RLST187 PO - Queering Religion

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): E. Runions
    Credit: 1

    Religion is often queerer than one might imagine. This course looks at religious practices, texts, and traditions that defy the usual assumption that religions insist on binary gender divisions and heteropatriarchal kinship models. Along the way we question what we mean by “religion” and what we mean by “queer.” We consider how sexualities and genders are shaped in and through religious practices, texts, and traditions. We consider the intersections of religion and sexuality with transnational politics, ethnicities, cultures, and power relations. We consider how religious traditions can push back on received norms and create space for queer gender expression, identity, and sexual practice. The course will pay particular attention to how we research and write about queer religious phenomena. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST189B PO - Animals and East Asian Religion

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): S. Hurley
    Credit: 1

    This course analyzes human-nonhuman animal relations in the context of Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, and folk religious practices and beliefs. It looks at the roles animals play in ritual, festivals, sacrifice, diet, divination, self-cultivation, and religious narrative. Moreover, it examines what ways if any nonhuman animals are seen as subjects rather than objects and thus addresses such issues as anthropomorphism, human exceptionalism (speciesism), nonhuman animal sentience, and ethical responsibility to nonhuman animals. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST189C PO - American Mysticism: East Asian Reigions, Psychedelics, and the Religion of No Religion

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): S. Hurley
    Credit: 1

    This course will investigate the history of the American countercultural religious milieu of the 1950s, 60s and 70s and its significance in the development of what has come to be known as the “religion of no religion.” It will examine the ways that Buddhist and Daoist thought and praxis, psychedelic drug use, alternative psychoanalysis, and Western scientific studies of the paranormal were fused together in an effort to create a way of knowing and being that could engender liberation. It will also assess the critique levied at intellectuals of this period for merely appropriating Buddhist, Daoist, and other religious and philosophical ideas, texts, and practices for their own personal and political agendas-agendas ultimately rooted in the Orientalist discourse of nineteenth and early twentieth century scholarship on Asian traditions. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST189D PO - Sociology, Race, and Religion

    When Offered: Fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    This course is motivated by an unconventional, though substantiated, claim: W. E. B. Du Bois is the founder of American sociology, instead of merely a theorist of race. This claim has massive implications for the social scientific study of religion. If understanding the development of American sociology requires an account of race in America, then understanding the development of the American sociology of religion, which is informed by American sociology, might require an account of Black religion in America. The course explores the field of sociology broadly through the lens of race and religion. The beginning of the course will offer theoretical touchstones for thinking about sociology, race and religion throughout the term. It will then proceed along historical lines, examining issues around and relationships between race, gender, sexuality, class, whiteness, sects/cults, identity, institutions, migration, secularism/ skepticism, and politics. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • RLST190 PO - Senior Seminar in Religious Studies

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): E. Runions
    Credit: 1

    Required for all senior majors. Advanced readings, discussion and seminar presentations on selected areas and topics in the study of religion.
  

  • RLST191 PO - Senior Thesis

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    Required of all senior majors in religious studies.
  

  • RLST199DRPO - Religious Studies: Directed Readings

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5-1

    Syllabus reflects workload of a standard course in the department or program. Examinations or papers equivalent to a standard course. Regular interaction with the faculty supervisor. Weekly meetings are the norm. Available for full- or half-course credit.

Romance Languages and Literatures
  

  • RLIT191 PO - Senior Thesis in Romance Literature

    When Offered: As needed.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5

    Senior Thesis in Romance Literature.

Russian
  

  • RUSS001 PO - Elementary Russian

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    Acquisition of basic oral and written communication. Introduction to the structure of the language. Intensive oral practice.
  

  • RUSS002 PO - Elementary Russian

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    Continues the acquisition of basic oral and written communication with a focus on Russian grammar in social and cultural contexts. Intensive oral and written practice. Prerequisite: RUSS 001 PO .
  

  • RUSS011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary Russian Language and Culture

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): R. Bashaw
    Credit: 0.25

    Open to all students except native speakers. Credit for satisfactory participation in Oldenborg Center activities and two conversation classes weekly. Cumulative, one-fourth course credit; graded P/NC. Does not satisfy the foreign language requirement. Limited to one enrollment per semester and a cumulative total of one course credit. Prerequisite: RUSS 002 PO .
  

  • RUSS013 PO - Advanced Conversation

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): R. Bashaw
    Credit: 0.25

    Open to all students except native speakers. Credit for satisfactory participation in Oldenborg Center activities and two conversation classes weekly. Prerequisite: two years of college-level language study or equivalent. Cumulative, one-quarter course credit; graded P/NC. Does not satisfy the foreign language requirement. Limited to one enrollment per semester and a cumulative total of one course credit. Each semester. Prerequisite: RUSS 033 PO .
  

  • RUSS033 PO - Intermediate Russian

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    Further study in the Russian language, including reading, conversation, grammar and composition. Prerequisite: RUSS 002 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Language Requirement
  

  • RUSS044 PO - Advanced Russian

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    Continues the study of the Russian grammatical system. Focus on oral communicative strategies, advanced syntax, study of short poems, prose and film. Prerequisite: RUSS 033 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Language Requirement
  

  • RUSS180 PO - Readings in 19th-century Russian Literature

    When Offered: Fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): K. Klioutchkine
    Credit: 1

    Masterworks of Russian prose and poetry in the context of cultural, social and political trends in 19th-century history. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: RUSS 044 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  

  • RUSS181 PO - Readings in Modern Russian Literature

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): A. Dwyer
    Credit: 1

    A survey of Russian and Soviet poetry, prose and film of the 20th century, covering major cultural movements including symbolism, futurism, ornamental prose, socialist realism, literature of the thaw, dissident and underground culture, and the post-Soviet scene. Class discussion in both Russian and English. Focus on composition in Russian. Prerequisite: RUSS 044 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  

  • RUSS182 PO - Post-Soviet Russian Culture and Society

    When Offered: Spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    The course explores the major changes in Russian society since the collapse of the U.S.S.R. through fiction, popular media and film. Topics include post-Soviet identity and nostalgia, nationalism, wars in Chechnya, terrorism, control of the media, ecological issues, new religiosity and popular culture. Readings from the Russian media and contemporary fiction. Films. Prerequisite: RUSS 044 PO . May be repeated twice for credit.
    This course has been revised for spring 2018  .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement; Speaking Intensive
  

  • RUSS183 PO - Russian Comedy in Film and Fiction

    When Offered: Spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    Introduction to comic works of film and fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries. Textual analysis, class discussion, oral reports, composition, advanced work on grammar and stylistics. Prerequisite: RUSS 044 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  

  • RUSS184 PO - The Art of Translation

    When Offered: Fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    Introduction to the practice of literary translation (primarily from Russian to English). Students will read a wide range of texts from 19th, 20th and 21st-century Russian literature (and some film) and practice translating these texts into English, paying close attention to matters of style, form and cultural specificity. Textual analysis, class discussion, oral reports, advanced work on grammar and stylistics. Prerequisites: RUSS 044 PO , permission of instructor, or equivalent.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6; Language Requirement
  

  • RUSS186 PO - Animated Russia: Cartoons and the Language of Culture

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): K. Klioutchkine
    Credit: 1

    In a country with a strong tradition of animation, cartoons define the ways in which Russians make sense of their experience. The course surveys Russian cartoons from the Soviet era to the present, focusing on how they disseminate cultural assumptions while lampooning them at the same time. Prerequisite: RUSS 044 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  

  • RUSS187 PO - Everyday Life in the U.S.S.R.

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): A. Dwyer
    Credit: 1

    Explores aspects of Soviet everyday life and the cultural mythologies surrounding them: housing (especially the communal apartment), youth culture, habits of work and leisure. Emphasis on developing listening and reading skills across speech genres. Continued work on Russian grammar and syntax. Prerequisite: RUSS 044 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  

  • RUSS189 PO - Russian Across the Curriculum

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5

    Integrates a Russian language component into Russian program courses taught in English. Syllabus reflects half the workload of a standard full-credit course in the department. May also be taken without being enrolled in the main course. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: RUSS 033 PO . May be repeated for credit.
  

  • RUSS190 PO - Research Seminar

    When Offered: Fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): Rudova
    Credit: 1

    Topics in Russian and East European Studies: Research Seminar. This course combines advanced work on Russian material with instruction in research methodologies across disciplines. Emphasis on Russian primary sources. Sophomores and juniors complete a research paper in preparation for thesis. Seniors present their thesis progress. Tailored to student research interests. Prerequisites: RUSS 033 PO . May be repeated once for credit.
  

  • RUSS191 PO - Senior Thesis

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5-1

    Course or half-course.
  

  • RUSS193 PO - Comprehensive Examinations

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5

    Five-hour written and one-hour oral examinations in the field of Russian language and literature, testing the student’s general competence in the discipline. Half-course. P/NC grading only.
  

  • RUSS199DRPO - Russian: Directed Readings

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5-1

    Directed Readings. Syllabus reflects workload of a standard course in the department or program. Examinations or papers equivalent to a standard course. Regular interaction with the faculty supervisor. Weekly meetings are the norm. Available for full- or half-course credit.
  

  • RUSS199IRPO - Russian: Independent Research

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5-1

    Independent Research or Creative Project. A substantial and significant piece of original research or creative product produced. Pre-requisite course work required. Available for full- or half-course credit.
  

  • RUSS199RAPO - Russian: Research Assistantship

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5

    Research Assistantship. Lab notebook, research summary or other product appropriate to the discipline is required. Half-course credit only.

Russian Literature in Translation
  

  • RUST075 PO - From Pushkin to Pussy Riot: Modern Russian Culture and Society

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): A. Dwyer
    Credit: 1

    An introduction to the highlights of modern Russian culture from the nineteenth century to the present day. Explores Russia’s contribution to our understanding of problems central to modern life: revolution, capitalism, social justice, the individual in society. We will sample the visual arts (from realism to the revolutionary avant-garde to actionist Petr Pavlensky); film (Vertov, Eisenstein, Tarkovsky); literature (short works by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pelevin); music and dance (from Swan Lake to Pussy Riot’s punk performances). In English. For majors and non-majors alike. Students will give oral presentations, lead discussion, and write midterm and final exams. No papers.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1 ; Speaking Intensive
  

  • RUST079 PO - Russian Short Fiction: Tales of Passion, Crime, Wars and Revolutions

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): L.Rudova
    Credit: 1

    A survey of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century Russian fiction, focusing on the individual, social and political dilemmas faced by central characters in the context of Russian culture and history. Theoretical issues of narrative strategies and literary techniques. Authors include Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak, Petrushevskaia and Pelevin. All readings in English.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • RUST080 PO - Russian Literature and Culture from 1900 to the Present

    When Offered: Spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    Major movements and trends in Russian literature and culture with critical readings and cultural theory. Topics include Russian figurations of the utopia, avant-garde literature and art, social engineering, Stalinist terror, environmental issues, family and gender politics, post-Soviet popular culture. All readings in English. (Russian in Translation)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • RUST100 PO - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): K. Klioutchkine
    Credit: 1

    Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov captured the human experience in the context of modernity, in which we continue to live today. The modern age emerged with the development of the media in the 19th century, when relations between people, previously based on personal contact, came to be mediated by the press, as today they are mediated by film, television and the internet. The writers whose prose we explore were fascinated by modernity and articulated salient insights into the human experience in media society. We read a selection of their major works addressing the problems of personal identity, social involvement and relations between men and women in a rapidly changing world. All readings in English. (Russian in Translation)  
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • RUST103 PO - Dostoevsky and Popular Culture

    When Offered: Fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): K. Klioutchkine
    Credit: 1

    Media culture, youth movement, burgeoning city life, technological progress and acute political developments, such as nihilism, anarchism and terrorism–these circumstances brought to life Dostoevsky’s masterpieces. Popular culture fashioned the rich context for Dostoevsky’s existential questions about love, life and death. By placing Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Possessed in the context of their time, remarkably similar to our own, the course highlights the links between Dostoevsky’s novels and our experience today. All readings in English. (Russian in Translation)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • RUST111 PO - Russian Cinema

    When Offered: Spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    The history of Russian cinema from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Topics include cultural politics under the Soviets; censorship; confrontation between the real world and the fictional reality created by the Soviets; masterpieces of Soviet and post-Soviet cinema; sex and violence of new Russian cinema. Readings on film theory, film criticism and history of Russia. All readings in English. (Russian in Translation)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • RUST112 PO - Politicizing Magic: Classic, Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    Explores the evolution of the fairy tale. Classic fairy tales. Russian folk tales and their role in the creation of Soviet mythology. Study of different critical approaches and structure of the genre. All readings in English. (Russian in Translation)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • RUST175 PO - Russia: Empire and Identity

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): A. Dwyer
    Credit: 1

    Russia today sprawls over eleven time zones and is home to many different national, ethnic, and religious groups. This course examines the last two centuries of cultural production in Russia and the Soviet Union through the lens of empire. Emphasis on the formation of national and imperial identities; imperial expansion (and national resistance); ethnic and religious strife and coexistence. Topics include: Russian Orientalism in the Caucasus; Jews, Ukrainians and Poles in the western borderlands; Russia’s eastern frontier.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • RUST176 PO - Moscow-Berlin

    When Offered: Fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): A. Dwyer
    Credit: 1

    Moscow-Berlin/Berlin-Moscow: Art and Politics in the Twentieth Century. The German-Russian encounter produced great, often utopian, artistic innovations, yet Hitler and Stalin also knew how to aestheticize their regimes and have artists do their bidding. This course explores the relationship of culture, politics and society in one of the most vibrant and violent transnational encounters of the 20th century. Prerequisites: One previous course in German or Russian studies recommended.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • RUST185 PO - The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): A. Dwyer
    Credit: 1

    Emphasis on Nabokov’s cultivation of his reader, metafiction and the role of cross-cultural experience in literary creativity. Equal time spent on Russian and American periods. Texts include The Defense; Lolita; Pale Fire. All readings in English. (Russian in Translation)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • RUST191 PO - Senior Thesis in Russian

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5-1

    An independent research project supervised by a department faculty member and read by one additional reader. Students present the results of their research in writing and make an oral presentation to the department at the end of the second semester. Half course each semester of the senior year. The thesis is graded at the end of the second semester. 
  

  • RUST199DRPO - Russian Studies: Directed Readings

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5-1

    Directed Readings. Syllabus reflects workload of a standard course in the department or program. Examinations or papers equivalent to a standard course. Regular interaction with the faculty supervisor. Weekly meetings are the norm. Available for full- or half-course credit.
  

  • RUST199IRPO - Russian Studies: Independent Research

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5-1

    Independent Research or Creative Project. A substantial and significant piece of original research or creative product produced. Pre-requisite course work required. Available for full- or half-course credit.
  

  • RUST199RAPO - Russian Studies: Research Assistantship

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5

    Research Assistantship. Lab notebook, research summary or other product appropriate to the discipline is required. Half-course credit only. (Russian in Translation)

Science, Technology and Society
  

  • STS010 HM - Introduction to Science, Technology and Society


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • STS080 PO - Science and Technology in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): R. McKirahan
    Credit: 1

    Conceptual and institutional development of the scientific enterprise. The changing content of scientific thought in its intellectual context provides the major focus, but substantial attention is also directed towards the relation between scientific developments and social and economic conditions. STS 080-Science and Technology in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds; STS081 PZ - Science and Technology in the Early Modern World ; HIST 082 HM .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • STS081 PZ - Science and Technology in the Early Modern World


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • STS114 HM - Social and Political Issues in Clinic


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • STS124S HM - U.S. Science and Technology Policy


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
  

  • STS179 HM - Spec Topics: Sci, Tech, Society


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • STS179C HM - Where Food Comes From /Spec Topics: Sci, Tech, Society


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • STS185 HM - Science/Engineering from Other Perspective


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • STS187 HM - HIV/AIDS: Science, Society and Service


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • STS 190 PO - Senior Integrative Seminar

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    Students read and discuss seminal and provocative works on STS. Each student conducts an independent project in an area of interest and competence. Discussions of research in progress, oral presentations of final product, written paper.
  

  • STS191 PO - Senior Thesis

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    Exercise in thought, research and effective prose writing in which seniors are expected to demonstrate competency in working with select data, ideas, techniques and sources that characterize and inform their major area of study within STS.
  

  • STS199DRPO - Science, Technology and Society: Directed Readings

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5-1

    Syllabus reflects workload of a standard course in the department or program. Examinations or papers equivalent to a standard course. Regular interaction with the faculty supervisor. Weekly meetings are the norm. Available for full- or half-course credit.
  

  • STS199IRPO - Science, Technology and Society: Independent Research

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5-1

    A substantial and significant piece of original research or creative product produced. Pre-requisite course work required. Available for full- or half-course credit.

Sociology
  

  • SOC030 CH - Chicanos/as and Latinos/as in Contemporary Society (CP)

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): G. Ochoa
    Credit: 1

    Sociological analysis of theoretical and methodological approaches used to study Chicano/a and Latino/a communities. Race, class, gender, immigration, migration, work, education, health and politics are examined. Course includes a community partnership.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference
  

  • SOC051 PO - Introduction to Sociology

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): C. Beck; J. Grigsby; L. Rapaport; H. Thai
    Credit: 1

    Characteristics of groups, institutions, society and culture. Social interaction, self-image, status. Brief consideration of social change, ethnicity, the urban environment and demography.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference
  

  • SOC051 PZ - Class, Caste and Colonialism: Film


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC055 PO - Population and Environment

    When Offered: Fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): J. Grigsby
    Credit: 1

    Introduction to demographic issues related to health and environment using U.S. data and case studies from other countries. Topics include human population growth and environmental impacts, mortality and fertility declines, urbanization and segregation, migration, population aging and the relationship between education and demographic processes. A field trip to downtown Los Angeles is required, along with a final project connecting demographic and environmental issues.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC059 PZ - Sociology of Gender


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  
  

  • SOC075 PO - Social and Political Movements

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): C. Beck
    Credit: 1

    The study of social movements is one of the largest areas of focus in sociology. The course covers major movements of the field’s beginnings in the 1960s, developments through the late 20th century and concerns of the contemporary era, with a special emphasis on the parallels between right-wing and left-wing activism and global-transnational social movements. The course covers major research traditions, theories and methods of study.
    This course has been revised for fall 2018 .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference
  

  • SOC080 PZ - Secularism: Local/Global


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC082 PZ - Racial Politics of Teaching


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC084 AA - Nonviolent Social Change


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC089A PO - Science of Life-Changing Events

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): A. Goffman
    Credit: 1

    Movies and literature have been obsessed with the idea that small and seemingly random events can profoundly alter the course our lives take. What can scholarship tell us about how and when these life-changing events occur? Drawing from anthropology, philosophy, and sociology, this course investigates the small experiences that alter the trajectory of people’s lives. We will read about shocks, accidents, and micro-aggressions; time, chance, and unintended consequences; rites of passage ceremonies and life course transitions; phenomenology and the sociology of emotions. Assignments will draw from students’ own experiences. Students who have never taken a sociology course will do just fine.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC090 PO - Global Systems and Society

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): C. Beck
    Credit: 1

    Global and transnational sociology is one of the fastest growing areas of research on contemporary social problems. The course covers major sociological perspectives on transnational processes and the international dynamics of and effects on phenomena like civil society, economy, conflict, the environment and social change. Special emphasis on the parallels between historical and contemporary eras of globalization. The course is partially taught in tutorial style. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  

  • SOC093 PZ - From the 60’s to the Obama Era


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC 095 PZ - Contemporary Central Asia


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC102 PO - Qualitative Research Methods

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    Methods and techniques employed in the collection, analysis and presentation of qualitative data. Focus on ethnographic observation, interviewing and the use of focus groups. Attention to issues of validity, reliability and the researcher’s role in analysis of social action across a variety of contexts. Includes speaking intensive and presentation requirements. Prerequisite: SOC 051 PO . Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC104 PO - Survey and Quantitative Research Methods

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): C. Beck
    Credit: 1

    Techniques of collecting and analyzing quantitative data from social surveys. Attention to research design, questionnaire construction, sampling, coding and statistical analysis. Presentation of survey data in tables and graphs, use of descriptive and inferential statistics. Includes speaking and presentation requirements. Satisfies Area 5 of the Breadth of Study Requirements. Prerequisite: SOC 051 PO ; Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 5
  

  • SOC 109 PZ - African American Social Theory


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC114 CH - Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequality and Activism

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): G. Ochoa
    Credit: 1

    Use of case study approach to explore the interplay between economic and demographic transformations and community dynamics. Review of most recent scholarship in Los Angeles; consideration of economic transformations, (im)migration, class divisions, race and ethnic, community organizing, women and activism, strategies for change. Prerequisites: SOC 030 CH  ro SOC 051 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC114 PZ - Sociology of Religion


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC116 PO - American Families

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): J. Grigsby
    As the most basic social institution, the family is important not only to individual members, but also to other social institutions and society as a whole.  Understanding human behavior in the context of the family, therefore, includes the individual, group, institutional, and societal levels of analysis. First we will see how the family as a social institution has changed over time in the United States and in particular, how immigration affects families. Social processes that take place in the context of the family (as a social institution), such as dating, forming intimate partnerships, parenting, and providing care comprise another aspect of this course. We will also look at social situations that challenge families and family members, such as work - both inside and outside the home, poverty, and domestic violence. While most of the course readings emphasize theory and empirical research, we will also examine public debate about family structure and processes that have appeared recently in the popular media. Throughout the semester we will address the roles of race, gender, age, social class, and sexual orientation in the family as a social institution.
    This course has been revised for spring 2018  .
  

  • SOC 119 PO - Fascist!

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): C. Beck
    Credit: 1

    Through social science, history, literature, film, music, and art, the course explores the phenomenon of fascism. Covers classic 20th century fascism, contemporary parallels and contrasts, and imagined future and alternate fascisms. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • SOC119 PO - Fascist!

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): C. Beck
    Credit: 1

    Through social science, history, literature, film, music, and art, the course explores the phenomenon of fascism. Covers classic 20th century fascism, contemporary parallels and contrasts, and imagined future and alternate fascisms. May be repeated 1 time for credit. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
 

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