2017-18 Pomona College Catalog 
    
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Courses

Check major and minor requirement sections in the Departments, Programs and Areas of Study section to determine if specific courses will satisfy requirements. Inclusion on this list does not imply that the course will necessarily satisfy a requirement.

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Other Courses
  

  • CHST028 CH - Epicentro America: Intro to Central American Studies

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

    This course is an interdisciplinary survey of the social, historical, political, economic, educational, and cultural experiences of Central American diasporas in the United States. We will refer to the “epicentro” or “epicenter” to signal both a spatial and symbolic space that problematizes how Central American identities and subject-positions destabilize dominant understandings of the “Latino” experience in the United States. Focusing primarily on diasporas from the Northern Triangle, we will critically interrogate the relationship between the United States and Central America, examining how geopolitics and US-Central American international relations have shaped the trajectories of Central American immigrant communities and their presence/incorporation in U.S. society. Importantly, students will also gain a critical understanding of Central American identities, particularly as these have been constructed through the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and legal status and through transnational economic, political and cultural networks.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • CHST128 CH - The Politics of Citizenship: The Law, Belonging, & Borders

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

    This course examines the normative and political dilemmas around issues of citizenship, belonging, and national identity amongst US Latinos. Contesting this status (of citizenship) has been at the core of Latino politics for more than 150 years. Pursuing the goal of full, equal, and just inclusion has long been a major struggle that has been most recently impacted by globalization and migration, transnationalism, and immigrants’ rights movements which have challenged the US citizenship regime. The class will draw from a wide array of readings in political and legal theory, sociology, anthropology, and U.S. Latino studies. By the end of the class, students will be able to articulate and understand political theories of nation-state citizenship, including its historical, sociological, and legal underpinnings. Importantly, students will have an understanding of how citizenship is transformed by the demands of marginal and excluded communities, as both a legal status and a set of practices that constitute contemporary political and social membership.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • CHST136 CH - Chicano/a Latino/a Politics

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

    Latinos have historically used grassroots community organizing and social movement participation alongside more traditional politics to press for socio-political change, to claim rights and greater inclusion of Chicano/a Latino/as in the United States. In Part I of the course, we will study the politics and social movement participation of different Latino groups- including Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Central Americans. Part II will evaluate the formation of a pan-ethnic Latino/a identity in response to anti-immigrant politics, focusing on different regional, national, transnational and generational perspectives.By the end of the course, students will be able to articulate the structural forces, contextual factors, and power dynamics that have shaped Latinos? struggles for full inclusion and citizenship in the US, the ways in which grassroots social activism informs new models of Latina/o electoral politics, and the contributions Latino/as have made to civil and human rights United States more broadly.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3

Africana Studies
  

  • AFRI010A AF - Introduction to Africana Studies

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

    Interdisciplinary exploration of key aspects of Black history, culture and life in Africa and the Americas. Provides a fundamental, intellectual understanding of the global Black experience as it has been described and interpreted in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • AFRI010B AF - Introduction to Africana Studies: Research Methods


    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
  
  

  • AFRI120 AF - Prisons and Public Education


    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
  

  • AFRI144A AF - Black Women Feminism(s) and Social Change

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2009.
    Instructor(s): P. Jackson
    Introduction to the theoretical and practical contributions of African American feminists who maintain that issues of race, gender, sexuality and social class are central, rather than peripheral, to any history, analysis, assessment or strategy for bringing about change in the United States.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • AFRI149 AF - Africana Political Theory: Black Political Theory in the United States


    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
  
  

  • AFRI190 AF - Senior Seminar

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

    Seminar for Africana studies majors. Complements guidance of primary thesis advisor, by focusing on interdisciplinary research strategies and data collection methods; development of authorial voice for the interrogation of African/African Diasporan topics, notions of race and manifestations of racism. Emphasis on writing, rewriting and peer review. Minors require instructor’s permission.
  

  • AFRI191 AF - Senior Thesis

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

    In the Senior Seminar, students undertake independent research culminating in a substantial thesis. The thesis work will be supervised by one faculty member chosen by the student. Each thesis will be read by one additional reader.
  

  • AFRI192 AF - Senior Project

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

    Through the Senior Seminar, students engage in an independent reading, research and participatory exercise on a topic agreed to by the student and the advisor. Normally, the project involves a set of short papers and/or culminates in a research paper or original work of substantial length based upon participation in a project or program, e.g. original play script, film or film script or artwork.
  

  • AFRI193 AF - Senior Comprehensive Examination

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

    In the Senior Seminar, students will prepare for the exam to be taken during their senior year. The comprehensive examination consists of two field examinations that test the depth of the student’s knowledge of Africana studies. The student chooses two areas in Africana studies (e.g., history and literature) in which to be examined.
  
  

  • AFRI199DRAF - Africana 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.
  

  • AFRI199IRAF - Africana 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.
  

  • AFRI199RAAF - Africana 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.
  

American Studies
  

  • AMST103 JT - Introduction to American Cultures


    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
  

  • AMST125 SC - Race in Popular Culture and Media


    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
  
  

  • AMST127 SC - Women and War


    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
  

  • AMST180 SC - American Studies Seminar


    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
  

  • AMST190 JT - Senior Thesis Seminar

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

    Exclusively for American studies majors who are preparing to write a senior thesis. Letter grade only.
  

  • AMST191 PO - Senior Thesis

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

    Required of all majors in the senior year. The capstone project for majors in which they produce an original work in American studies.
  

  • AMST199DRPO - American 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.
  

  • AMST199IRPO - American 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.
  

  • AMST199RAPO - American Studies: Research Assistantship

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

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

Anthropology
  

  • ANTH002 PO - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney; P. Mahdavi
    Credit: 1

    Study of the structure and dynamics of human culture and social institutions from a comparative perspective. Diversity in ways of life and patterns of social organization explored through ethnographic materials from societies around the world. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference; Speaking Intensive
  
  

  • ANTH012 PZ - Native Americans and Their Environments


    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
  

  • ANTH016 PZ - Intro to Nepal


    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
  

  • ANTH023 PZ - China and Japan Through Film and Ethnography


    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
  

  • ANTH025 SC - Anthropology of the Middle East


    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 2
  

  • ANTH028 PZ - Colonial Encounters: 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
  

  • ANTH050 PZ - Sex, Body and Reproduction


    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
  

  • ANTH052 PO - Human Sexuality

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

    Survey of knowledge about human sexual and reproductive behavior, attitudes, concepts and values, with attention to the biological, psychological and sociocultural dimensions of sexuality. Special consideration of “safer sex” and AIDS prevention, and an examination of controversial issues surrounding sexuality across the globe.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ANTH053 PO - Language, Thought and Culture

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

    Explorations of proposals that language either determines or constrains thought, shapes perception or experience; reasoning and discourse; language and information processing; cross-cultural study; attention to universals.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ANTH055 PO - Power, Politics and Culture

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

    Is it possible to create a more just world or are humans inherently competitive, violent and hierarchical? Do nation states reduce conflict or produce it? How do different socio-cultural systems influence politics? This course examines political arrangements in different settings, including those in the U.S. It also gives attention to new social movements that have arisen to challenge the dominance of states and ruling classes.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ANTH086 PZ - Anthropology and Public Policy


    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
  

  • ANTH087 SC - Contemporary Issues: Gender and Islam


    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 2
  

  • ANTH088 PZ - China: Gender, Cosmology and the State


    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
  

  • ANTH099 PZ - China in the 21st-Century


    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
  

  • ANTH102 PO - Applied Anthropology

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

    This course is designed to provide an overview of the field of applied anthropology. Introduction to the history, theory and methodology; uses of anthropology to solve social, economic, health and development problems, domestically and internationally. Students will conduct their own fieldwork on an applied issue of their choice.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ANTH105 PO - Methods in Anthropological Inquiry

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

    Introduction to ethnography, the major mode of investigation in anthropology. Emphasis on systematic inquiry and inference. The vicissitudes of fieldwork and what it means to learn about human ways of life using the “technology” anthropologists have developed to gather, record and use data.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Writing Intensive
  

  • ANTH107 PO - Medical Anthropology

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

    History, theory, methodology and application of anthropology in various health settings. Concepts of health, illness and healing in diverse cultural contexts. Critical assessment of conventional biomedical assumptions. Use of anthropology to solve health problems.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference
  

  • ANTH110 HM - Life: Knowledge and Practices


    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
  

  • ANTH110 PZ - Nature and Society in Amazonia


    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
  

  • ANTH111 HM - Introduction to the Anthropology of Science and Technology


    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
  

  • ANTH119 SC - East Asia in Ethnography and Film


    Credit: 1

    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 2
  

  • ANTH121 SC - Science, Medicine & Technology


    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 2
  
  

  • ANTH133 PZ - Indians in Action


    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
  

  • ANTH140 PO - Love, Labor and Law Across Borders

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

    Over the past quarter century, women and men have migrated across borders to engage in different forms of intimate labor. They have done so formally and informally, as spouses, domestic workers and sex workers. This seminar invites students to question received categories for classifying and understanding these forms of migration by examining them as types of intimate labor that fundamentally reshape constructions of family, citizenship, labor, gender and sexuality across borders. The framework of intimate labor requires one to rethink scholarly, policy and activist formulations of migration and the phenomenon of ‘human trafficking’ premised on artificial distinctions between forced and voluntary movement, formal and informal migration and labor, and legitimate and illegitimate statuses in host and receiving countries. The course will look at readings in various transnational contexts to question ways in which intimate labor is being reconfigured through gendered migration practices and policies. The seminar will primarily look at these issues through an anthropological lens, but we will engage other disciplines such as economics, sociology and politics to enhance our understandings of convergences across modes of intimate labor and reduce gaps between policy and lived experience.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ANTH149 SC - Anthro of the (Extra)Ordinary


    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 2
  

  • ANTH150 PO - Anthropology of Religion

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    Religious experience in differing societies. Questions about religious practices in relation to practitioners’ thoughts, feelings, values and social circumstances: development of approaches helpful in exploring religious life; attention to worldview, myth, ritual, witchcraft, taboo, shamanism and pollution; special attention to new, revitalizing and politicizing religious movements.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  

  • ANTH152 PO - Ethnic Nationalism

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

    Contemporary theories of ethnic and cultural nationalism from social science perspectives. Issues of nation-states, power hierarchies, modernity and identity in contemporary societies. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ANTH153 PO - Theory in Anthropology

    When Offered: Each year.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    The history of anthropology in the context of the emergence of the social sciences and the division between the sciences and the humanities. Exercises in theory construction and evaluation. Prerequisites: Previous ANTH course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ANTH153 PZ - History of Anthropological 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
  

  • ANTH155 PO - Globalization

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

    The nature of globalization and of claims made about it; examination of neoliberalism; transnational labor, media, tourism and youth culture; regional and world systems historically and cross-culturally; globalization of protest; impacts on local communities.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2 ; Writing Intensive
  

  • ANTH156 PO - Comparative Muslim Societies in Asia

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    Course surveys and analyzes the wide diversity found among Muslim communities and Islamic societies. The course also looks at issues of the requirement of the pilgrimage, the centrality of the mosques, the finding of Muslim mates in many non-Muslim areas and religio-political movements.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ANTH157 PO - Anthropology of Chinese Society

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    Examines China as a nation in transition; the critical junctures in Chinese history: 1949, the Cultural Revolution, post-Mao economic reforms, Tiananmen Square and their impact on Chinese culture and social life. How Chinese culture and society are “represented” by different authors; China as an ideological construction; minority identity; effects of global and mass mediated popular culture; Chinese diaspora in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore; resistance to Chinese identity by Tibetans, Uyghurs and Taiwanese. 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
  

  • ANTH158 PO - The Anthropology of Sports

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

    Theory of sports and the body in socio-cultural anthropology. Survey of premodern and non-western forms such as the first Olympic Games, the ball courts of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the ritual kickball at the earliest Japanese court, Afghan buzkashi and Native American lacrosse. Tracks how modern team sports were disseminated through the circuits of Western imperialism. Attention to the social structures, cultural meanings and historical pathways by which sporting practices take distinctive form and significance. 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
  

  • ANTH159 PO - Anthropology of Food

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

    This course is intended to introduce students to the social practices and meanings, symbolic, biological and political, that surround food and food-related practices. Food is at the heart of most cultures around the world, and we will look closely at the ways in which food is used as prescription, taboo or social solidarity. Feasts, fasts and diets will be viewed in historical and social context with close attention to issues of gender, class and religion. Consumption in the global context will be linked to local tastes and food practices. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ANTH171 SC - Seminar in Sexuality and Religion


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
  

  • ANTH185P SC - Topics in Anthropology


    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 2
  

  • ANTH189L PO - Production and Reception of Icons

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2013.
    Credit: 1

    This course will examine how icons are constructed and commodified by markets, myths, memories and media. What do icons reveal about identity formation, community belonging and strategies of resistance? How do icons become appropriated? The course will address concepts such as global capitalism, public space, transnationalism, modernity, nationalism and ethnicity.

     

  

  • ANTH189P PO - Visual Anthropology

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    This course focuses on the history and development of documentary film and the emergence of ethnographic film within the discipline of anthropology. We will begin with an overview of the use of visual material, film and photography in both anthropological fieldwork as well as popular documentary films of the early 20th century. While the formal and aesthetic language of documentary film is often taken to signal “reality” in popular understandings of the genre, how has this framing been challenges within visual anthropology? Students will learn about the changing relationship of anthropology to visual practices through a number of screenings, readings and lectures that explore issues of power and representation and the visual medium.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ANTH189Q PO - Anthropology of Environmental Justice

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): J. Nucho
    Credit: 1

    This course is a critical examination of the entangled political, economic, social and environmental impacts of mundane and large-scale infrastructures like sanitation systems that deal with sewage, recycling or trash, telecommunications, roads, bridges, electricity grids, dams, canals and others. By taking infrastructures seriously as processes that can be made to enable (or impede) certain kinds of relations or movements, as well as devices that can function as important symbolic projects, this class will raise a number of interrelated questions. What sorts of histories become apparent when looking at the emergence of particular kinds of infrastructures? How can we approach questions of environmental justice by studying the mundane infrastructures of daily life? Which communities are made more vulnerable to risk by particular kinds of infrastructure planning, and how can we address these questions using qualitative, ethnographic methods? Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ANTH190 PO - Senior Research Design Seminar

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): P. Mahdavi
    Credit: 1

    Planning and research design, literature review, ethical issues in human subjects’ research; funds management and reporting; dissemination of research findings. Construction of a research proposal, typically leading to the senior thesis. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ANTH051 PO and ANTH105 PO.
  

  • ANTH191 PO - Senior Thesis

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

    May be taken for half-course in both semesters of the last year or as full course in either semester of the senior year.
  

  • ANTH192 PO - Senior Project

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

    May be taken for half-course in both semesters of the last year or as full course in either semester of the senior year.
  

  • ANTH199DRPO - Anthropology: Directed Readings

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

  • ANTH199IRPO - Anthropology: 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. Otherwise, student should take Directed Reading/199DR. Available for full- or half-course credit.
  

  • ANTH199RAPO - Anthropology: Research Assistantship

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

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

Arabic
  
  
  

  • ARBC033 CM - Intermediate Arabic


    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:
    Language Requirement
  

  • ARBC044 CM - Continuing Intermediate Arabic


    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:
    Language Requirement
  
  
  
  
  

Studio Art
  

  • ART005 PO - Drawing I

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

    Introduction to observational drawing with attention to the articulation of line, shape, form, gesture, value and composition. Studio work introduces a range of traditional drawing materials and subjects while exploring a variety of conceptual approaches from image making to visual expression. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART010 PO - Painting I

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): S. Mukherjee, S. Wright
    Credit: 1

    Painting from observation to increase technical skills, visual sophistication and critical awareness. Includes work from the figure, the self-portrait, sketches and the still life. No experience necessary, but ART 005 PO  recommended. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART020 PO - Black and White Photography

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

    Introductory photography course focuses on traditional black and white processes. Readings and lectures about issues, ideas and photographers give students the opportunity to contextualize their own work within the trajectory of photographic history. Emphasis falls equally on questions of “how?” and “why?”, and a final self-directed project allows students to explore their specific interests.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART021 PO - Foundations of 2D Design

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

    Foundations of 2D Design is a hands on introduction to the principles of visual design.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART022 PO - Video Art

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

    This hands on course introduces students to the theories and practices of video art, with an emphasis on non-narrative, experimental video. This semester will be divided between production, screenings, readings and discussion. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART025 PO - Sculpture I

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley, C. Lin
    Credit: 1

    Addresses a wide range of materials and processes to investigate issues of form and presentation. Materials include wire, clay, plastic, plaster, wax and aluminum castings. Assigned projects introduce a variety of techniques while offering the student an opportunity to explore his/her own unique pragmatic, expressive, critical and intuitive sensibilities. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART027 PO - Wood Sculpture

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    This is a beginning level wood sculpture course devoted to the knowledge of wood, the tools used to shape it and the conceptual practices employed. Students will learn the shop, joinery, carving, lamination, pattern making and conventional fabrication techniques. Art majors given preference. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART028 PO - Digital Photography

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

    Introductory course explores digital photography as a tool for producing images. Assignments, lectures, and readings expose students to techniques, artists, and ideas ranging from early photographic history to the present. A final self-directed project allows students to articulate their specific interests. Digital SLR camera suggested, but not required.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART029 PO - Introduction to Metal Casting

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2014.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    Expands the technical, conceptual and expressive skills through the process of traditional metal casting. Students learn specific technical skills inherent to casting in a range of material—plaster, wax, aluminum and bronze. Emphasis on pattern making and mold making along with traditional techniques. Introduces a visual and theoretical awareness of contemporary art. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART029B PO - Metals: The Alchemy of Pounding, Welding and Casting

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    Metals: the alchemy of pounding, welding and casting explores the fundamental processes of manipulating metal from forging with a power hammer, to welding and fabrication to lost wax casting of aluminum/bronze. The material’s versatility and uniqueness pose unique possibilities for the artist. No previous experience necessary, but expect to get really dirty. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  
  

  • ART104 PO - Drawing as Improvisation

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): M.Teixido
    Credit: 1

    Drawing is a way to see, describe, understand, explore and be. The act of drawing is largely an improvisational act. In emphasizing this aspect of making drawings we will explore historical and contemporary ideas of improvisation through exercises and readings. This course will invite a range of approaches including but not limited to, collaboration, context specific work and drawing as performance. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ART 005 PO  or another intro level studio art course. May be repeated twice for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART105A PO - Drawing II: Abstractions

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): M. Teixido
    Credit: 1

    Abstraction comprises a rich area of artistic exploration. This course presents various cultural traditions of pattern, the history of mapmaking and how people have made diagrams to better grasp places and concepts. Students are involved deeply with form and a wide range of materials. Analysis of how abstraction manifests itself in contemporary art and how historical precedent informs that production. Prerequisite: ART 005 PO  or portfolio review by instructor. May be repeated once 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 6
  

  • ART105B PO - Drawing II: Representation

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): M. Teixido
    Credit: 1

    In-depth exploration of representation as a conceptual, cultural and technical activity. Projects from photorealism to the willful distortion and invention of form provide the basis for artistic exploration. A range of media will be utilized to realize the critical relationship of form and content. Artwork will be examined to better understand contemporary investigations and the historical precedents that inform them. Prerequisite: ART 005 PO  or portfolio review by the instructor. May be repeated once 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 6
 

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