2018-19 Pomona College Catalog 
    
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English
  

  • ENGL102B SC - Survey 1865-Present: American Literature


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

  • ENGL103 PO - Literature of the Enlightenment

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): S. Raff
    Credit: 1

    Reason and unreason, ethics and aesthetics, high minds and low bodies in poetry, drama and prose by such writers as Dryden, Locke, Rochester, Congreve, Pope, Swift, Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Reynolds, Burke and Sheridan, with some attention to French authors such as Voltaire. (TH, H3, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL104 PO - English Literature of the Romantics: Revolution, Passion, Ecology

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): A.Reed
    Credit: 1

    The major poets-Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats-with some attention to both fictional and nonfictional prose. (H3, H4)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL106 PO - 19th-Century U.S. Women Writers

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): K. Tompkins
    Credit: 1

    Novels, anti- and pro-slavery tracts, domestic manuals and other forms of women’s writing during the 19th century. Special attention to critical and historical sources examining the role of women in the public spheres and spaces of 19th-century United States. Knowledge of literary, cultural or critical gender theory required. (H3, H4, RC, GS)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Analyzing Difference
  

  • ENGL108 PO - The Essay as Resistance: Writing, Photography, Film, and the Politics of Form

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): J. Nucho; K. Wittman
    Credit: 1

    I understood, writes Chris Marker of Sans Soleil, “that the whole film was a kind of exorcism for sixty years on this dubious planet…and a way to take leave of them.” His film essay is an exorcism of the world, a bitter, critical farewell…but Sans Soleil is also about the world, a visually stunning celebration of that world: at once exorcism and homage; a leave-taking and a reverent, fine-grained representation. That is the tension inherent in the form of the essay, a global, politically and culturally rich non-fiction form in writing, photography, and film that both makes the world strange and holds it intimately close, a form that criticizes the world, and also loves it. If we are conditioned by our education to think of the essay as academic, five-paragraph, caught up in the power, conventions, and privileges of the academy and belles lettres, this course explores a different way of thinking, writing, photographing, filming. Since its inception in the sixteenth century, the essay-associative, digressive, fragmentary; filled with the presence of the author-has been defined and redefined as everything from a stay against fascism to the “writing on the walls of the prison-house of culture,” a way of resisting the deadening status quo, a “matter of life and death.” We will study the history of the essay as a form and write, photograph, and film our own essays in order to understand what the essay is, how it works, and what social and political force it might, and does, have. A course in both literature and visual anthropology (taught by faculty from English and Anthropology), we will be working across disciplines and media, thinking about the relationship between representation, authority, aesthetics, and writing, photography, and film. Assignments will be both written and visual; you will learn to film, edit, and write for your own video or film essay. Possible authors/filmmakers (a partial list!) include James Baldwin, Gabriel Zaid, Virginia Woolf, Yi-yun Li, Teju Cole, Annie Dillard, Audre Lorde, Susan Sontag, Judith Butler, Arundhati Roy, J.M. Coetzee, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chris Marker, Catherine Chung, Hollis Frampton, Aram Saroyan, T. Minh-Ha Trinh. (TH)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL109 PO - Introduction to Performance Studies

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): K.Tompkins
    Credit: 1

    In this class we study performance as an object and as an interpretive lens through which to study the practice of everyday life, as well as exceptional creative texts such as performance art, plays, protest and political speech. We will work through the interdisciplinary history of the field, including its emergence from the fields of theatre studies, anthropology, sociology, dance, gender studies, critical race and ethnic studies and queer studies. (TH, H5, GS, RC, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ENGL110 PO - Inauthenticity: Appropriation, Sampling, Plagiarism, Fakery

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): K.Dettmar; J.Lethem
    Credit: 1

    If “authenticity” is a key term for high and popular art created under the sign of Romanticism, various kinds of “inauthenticities” characterize much of the most interesting and innovative art of the 20th and 21st centuries. This course will explore a series of case studies in appropriative art, from the realms of literature, music, film, television and the visual arts, including Modernists like Eliot, Postmodernists like Kathy Acker and vernacular artists such as Bob Dylan, Jack Kirby and Public Enemy. (TH, H5)
  

  • ENGL112 PO - Early Modern Romance

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

    Spanning prose, poetry and drama of the early modern period, the genre of “romance” describes perplexing, digressive narratives that revolve around cross-dressing, incest, the return of the dead and the dissolution of the family. We will read from Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Mary Wroth’s Urania and Shakespeare’s Pericles, Cymbeline and Winter’s Tale. Letter grade only. (H2, GS)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  

  • ENGL115 PO - On Form: Sonnets and Epigrams

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

    Classical and Renaissance poetic theory distinguished between the short verse forms of sonnet and epigram by imagining how they tasted in your mouth: sonnets were a surfeit of sugar; salty epigrams made you purse your lips. This class will read a wide range of sonnets and epigrams in the English Renaissance in order to ask: what kinds of knowledge do short verse forms produce and, what is the relation of this knowledge to the social and ethical lives of readers? Reading the sonnet and epigram as dynamic expressions of desire and indignation, this class will double as a critical history of the value of “form” in post-war literary studies. Readings will range from Cleanth Brooks to Bruno Latour and include important essays by Paul de Mann, Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu as well as more recent experiments in historical formalism, strategic formalism, and new formalism. Requirements include short response papers and a final essay (8-10) pages; all of our writing will be geared towards helping us think rigorously and precisely out loud as speakers. Letter grade only. (H2, TH)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive
  

  • ENGL118 PO - The Nature of Narrative of Fictions and Films

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): A. Reed
    Credit: 1

    Investigates narrative as a fundamental mode of understanding and organizing human experience. Practice of storytelling in writers like Calvino, Diderot, Kundera, Borges, Proust, Kafka, Dante, Sterne, Woolf and Sartre; and in filmmakers like Lynch, Hitchcock, Roeg, Malick and Allen. Theories of narrative from Aristotle through Freud to Barthes. (TH, H4, H5)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL120A PO - 19th Century American Literature: Cross-Dressing and Race Passing

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): L. Heintz
    Credit: 1

    This class examines nineteenth-century American literature with an emphasis on the theme of passing. We will become well versed in depictions of cross-dressing (men who pass for women, and women who pass for men) and depictions of race passing (black folks who pass for white, white folks who pass for black). This course will highlight the history and significance of race and gender constructs in early American literature. We will read fiction, autobiography, short stories, and we will watch early cinema. May be repeated once for credit. (TH; H4; RC/GS).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL121 SC - Milton: Nature, Knowledge, Creation


    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 1
  

  • ENGL122 AF - Healing Narratives

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

    This course examines how African Diaspora writers, filmmakers and critical theorists respond to individual and collective trauma, and how their works address questions of healing mind, body and spirit. We will take particular interest in Black feminist theory, the body as a construct of racial ideology and the business of remedy. Prerequisites: An English, Africana Studies, Black Studies or Asian American Studies course. (TH, H5, RC, GS, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL124 AF - AfroFuturisms

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): V. Thomas
    Credit: 1

    AfroFuturism articulates futuristic and Afro Punk cultural resistance and radical subversions of racism, sexism, liberal humanism and (neo)colonialism. Such texts also recall that Africans were not only subjected to and forced to maintain the technologies of enslavement but were regarded as technology. AF engages music, visual arts, cyberculture, science and philosophy. (TH, H5, PR, RC, GS, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL125C AF - Introduction to African-American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): V. Thomas
    Credit: 1

    This interdisciplinary course presents an overview of African American literary tradition from African retentions, slave narratives and oral tradition, through memoir, autobiography, anti-lynching and revolutionary protest tracts, essays, poetry, criticism and the beginnings of the Black novel in English. (TH, H3, H4, RC, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  

  • ENGL132 AF - Black Queer Narrative and Theories


    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 1
  

  • ENGL132 PO - Contemporary Speculative Fiction

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): J. Jeon
    Credit: 1

    Contemporary Speculative Fiction. This course examines the genre of speculative fiction with a particular emphasis on alternative histories and stories of imagined futures. Although this genre has generally been associated with Science Fiction, recent writers have appropriated these modes for what is sometimes regarded as “serious” literature, thereby undermining distinctions between low-brow and high-brow cultural production. Letter grade only. (TH, H5, PR)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  

  • ENGL135 PO - The “American” Century

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): J. Jeon
    Credit: 1

    The “American” Century. This course examines twentieth-=century representations of America by both American and non-American writers, thinkers, and artists in literature, criticism, and other visual modes. A heuristic device, all texts in this class have the world “American” in their titles. The course will investigate the changing meaning of the word as the United States emerges globally as an economic, cultural, and military power. Letter grade only. (H5, PR)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL138 PO - Henry James on Art and Society

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

    Henry James on Art and Society. How does art make life? How do you use a novel to love the world? We will try to answer these questions by studying James’s novels and tales. We will also consider some writings by Eliot, Adams, Wilde, Wharton, and William James. Letter grade only. (H4, PR, SA)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL140 PO - Literature of Incarceration

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): V. Thomas
    Credit: 1

    This course investigates the world’s largest Prison Industrial Complex as narrated from the inside out. We focus on memoirs, novels, essays and poetry by and about inmates and critical writings on the prison system. Some argue that it’s a system of “corrections” and paying a debt to society; others view it as the New Slavery. (TH, H5, RC, GS, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL142 PO - How to Live Together: Literature and the Commons

    When Offered: Spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): K. Wittman
    Credit: 1

    How to Live Together: Literature and the Commons December 1976, philosopher and literary critic Roland Barthes watches a mother pulling her young child, who cannot keep up, along a walkway. He is struck by the scene; he makes a note of it: “she walks at her own pace, unaware of the fact that her son’s rhythm is different.” A year later, the scene inspires the first of his final lecture courses, which he called “How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces.” At the heart of the course was Barthes’ concept of idiorrhythmy, a monastic term, the idea of “individual rhythms” that exist-nonetheless-in and with a sense of community. To explore this idea, he turned to literature. This course will do that also. We will take up Barthes’ notion of idiorrhythmy and expand it into broader interdisciplinary theories of the commons: “spaces, experiences, resources, memories, or forms of sharing and living.” How does literature, we will ask, offer us ways to think about common spaces and experiences, about individual rhythms and efforts (and their failure) to bring those rhythms into community? Literature is also a commons: we’ll consider literary form, aesthetics, and poetics even as we look to literary representation, to “content.” Our literary focus will be literature in Britain from roughly 1700-1900, the period in which the Enclosure Acts took enormous common swaths of land and privatized them, the period in which rampant colonial ambitions, rising industrial capitalism, and rapid urbanization altered permanently the global landscape of common spaces and resources. Our theoretical reading, however, will range far more broadly: work on the commons moves across economics, politics, ecology and biology, aesthetics, philosophy, sociology, and, of course, literary and cultural theory. Literary authors may include: Daniel Defoe, Oliver Goldsmith, Mary Shelley, Margaret Cavendish, Olaudah Equiano, Christina Rossetti, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Smith, John Ruskin, E.M.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1;Writing Intensive
  
  

  • ENGL146 PO - Asian American Poetry: 1960s to the Present

    When Offered: Fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): P. Sharma
    Credit: 1

    This course will focus on canonical and non-canonical Asian American poetry; particularly, how that body of work has been read, regarded, and taught, as well how it has been included or excluded more generally in American Studies. We will examine discussions and scholarship regarding Asian American poetry and poetics that have deepened in the last twenty-five years. In addition, the course will engage with the emergent and established communities that have formed by and for Asian American poets from the mid-twentieth century to the present. This class will also examine and situate the work of Asian American poets as located both inside and outside a mainstream white culture. We will explore the poetry and poetics of Asian American poets from the second half of the twentieth-century to contemporary twenty first-century poetry, particularly following three categories of poetic form: narrative, lyric, and nontraditional writing. This focus on form will include work off the page, performance, spoken word, and avant-garde work. Not only will the course explore multifaceted traditions in poetry but we will also look at both the theories of categorization and the politics that are always at stake for the poetries and poets. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL149 PO - Korea’s IMF-Crisis Cinema

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): J.Jeon
    Credit: 1

    This course examines the remarkable moment of Korean Cinema in the decade following the so-called International Monetary Fund Crisis in South Korea which began in 1997. Global in orientation, the films of the period not only help make sense of the changing economic climate in the region, but also offer insight into the operations and effects of neoliberal economics worldwide. To this end, this class will consider the formal, artistic, and narrative aspects of filmmaking in relation to the geopolitical social contexts they engage. Students in the course will attend a weekly required screening and read theoretical texts that will give critical context to the films. All films have English subtitles; neither language background nor familiarity with Asian cinema is required. Letter grade only. (TH, H5, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL151 PO - Medieval Proof: Test, Trial, Experiment

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    An exploration of literary culture in England and continental Europe, with an emphasis on the ways that literature interacts with political, religious and economic forces. Special topics vary from year to year. Course may be retaken for credit with instructor’s permission. (TH, H1)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL152 PO - Medieval Roots of Modern Theory

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): J.Kirk
    Credit: 1

    Recent scholarship has demonstrated a surprising fact: that much of the most forward-thinking critical theory of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries looks back for its inspiration to the philosophy and literary culture of the Middle Ages. This seminar consists of an inquiry into this phenomenon. We will read crucial works of critical and literary theory alongside their medieval sources: nominalist philosophy, scholastic hermeneutics, mystical theology, speculative grammar, the heresy of the free spirit. No background in either the modern or the medieval texts is presumed; the class will double as a crash course in both. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL153 PO - The Beyond of Language

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

    It goes without saying that there is nothing outside of language. But the question is what sort of thing that nothing might be? And whether it can be known or experienced. In this seminar we will investigate some or all of the following: birdsong and other animal utterances; the grammar of colonialism; mystical languages of unsaying; the task of the translator; the transmission of the incomprehensible; the writing of the disaster; speaking in tongues. Although we will be reading ancient and modern texts, our particular emphasis will be on materials from the Middle Ages, that is, the last era before the capitalist schism that has led to the technocratic dream in which we now toil. Readings may include works by Plato, Aristotle, Porphyry, Pseudo-Dionysius, Anselm, Ibn Arabi, Marie de France, Dante, Chaucer, the anonymous author of the Cloud of Unknowing, Nebrjia, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Agamben.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL154 PO - Shakespeare: The Comedies and Histories

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

    An examination of Shakespeare’s earlier plays. Emphasis on the formal, religious and political significance of love, sex and marriage in the comedies. Consideration of various uses and modes of history writing, as well as intersections between religion and politics (political theology) in the histories. (H2, SA)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL155 PO - Shakespeare: The Tragedies and Romances

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

    An examination of Shakespeare’s later plays, with emphasis on traditional and newly emerging ideas about political, religious and gender relationships, including the analogy between family and state and alternative notions of contract and consent. The course considers how the literary genres of tragedy and romance can perform political critique and imagine political reform. (H2, SA)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL156 PO - Milton and Visual Culture

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): A. Kunin
    Credit: 1

    Milton’s poetry and prose in the context of visual culture: primacy and shame of the visible; blindness; iconoclasm; and “dissociation of sensibility.” Some attention to theories of image-making in other early modern poetry, painting, fashion and design. Letter grade only. (H2, PO, SA)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL158 PO - Jane Austen

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): S. Raff
    Credit: 1

    Austen’s novels and related texts, with attention to Austen’s place in literary tradition. (H4, SA, GS)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL159 PO - Supernatural Century: Victorian Fear from Frankenstein to Dracula

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

    Serious century: so one critic characterizes nineteenth-century Britain, understood through its literature. Bourgeois, every day, dour, realistic. Filled with very-long novels about banks and dinners. And then at the window, Frankenstein’s creature; a spectral woman in the garden; a hyena with human hands; a revenant nun; a malevolent vampire. This course examines the simmering undercurrents of fear in Victorian Britain through the supernatural beings populating its novels, poetry, short stories, and non-fiction prose. We will ask three questions: first, what is 19th-century Britain-powerful, wealthy, imperial-so afraid of, and why do those fears (of colonial uprising, of modern science, of women’s rights, of working-class insurrection, of sexual desire) take shape in literature as reanimated corpses, vampires, specters, immortal libertines, and human-animal hybrids? Second, how do the ascendant literary forms of this era try to manage that fear or, conversely, what literary innovations emerge from the failure to manage it? And finally, we will ask about the changing nature of fear itself in nineteenth-century Britain, from the cathartic fear that complements Romantic sublimity through the disciplinary fear imposed by institutional capitalism to the hysteria, anxiety, and neurosis of late century psychoanalytic thinking.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1 ; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL161 PO - James Joyce

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
    Credit: 1

    Examinations of Joyce’s works: Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Exiles and Ulysses. Close reading of the texts and consideration of aspects of Joyce’s personal background, relation to previous literary history and great influence upon contemporary literature. (H5, SA)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL161 SC - Futures of Asian/America


    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 1
  

  • ENGL162 PO - Race and Ethnicity in Nineteenth Century American Literature

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): D. Berton Emerson
    Credit: 1

    This course brings canonical works together with U.S. minority literatures to examine the representations of race and ethnicity in 19th-century American national culture. Readings take a comparative approach that considers multiple races and ethnicitieis; for instance, Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” and its representation of an African American slave insurrection will be studied in conjunction with John Rollin Ridge’s contemporaneous “The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta,” a novel depicting a Mexican hero-turned-bandit in Gold Rush California. All readings will be contextualized with and illuminated by a variety of historical discourses and more recent critical theory. Final assignment include a research project on outside material.
  

  • ENGL162 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality


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

  • ENGL166 AF - James Baldwin


    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 1
  

  • ENGL166 PZ - Literature, Illness and Disability


    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 1
  

  • ENGL170 PO - Advanced Studies Seminar English

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

    Advanced Studies Seminar. Advanced analysis and writing of an extended research paper. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO  and, for English majors, approval of the major path proposal. English majors taking a second 170-series seminar for completion of the senior exercise must also enroll in ENGL 190 PO , Senior Exercise/Seminar Option.
    This course has been revised for spring 2019.  
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170A PO - Making it New: Anglo-American Literary Modernism

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

    The great modernist writers–T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, &c–were at the same time brilliant propagandists, creating the aesthetic system by which their works would be enjoyed. They also, along the way, created the first self-conscious literary period. In this course we’ll read fiction, poetry, and critical prose by the founders of Anglo-American literary modernism, looking at the values it supported as well as those it occluded–the voices it supported and those it made much more difficult to hear. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
  

  • ENGL170B PO - Dickens and the Role of the Author

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

    Close study of David Copperfield, Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend, with attention to their adumbrations of author/reader relations and their rich reception in literary criticism and theory, Topics include law and literature, theories of realism, and Charles Dickens’s visibility among his contemporaries as performer, stage-manager and creator of popular culture. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only. (H4, RC, 170)
  

  • ENGL170G PO - Shakespeare Seminar

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

    We will spend the entire semester studying a single play by Shakespeare, working that play from the full variety of critical angles and concerns available to us, including a range of literary and theatrical paradigms. The play will also serve as an index to a history of the early modern period, its central questions and its tentative answers. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only. (H2, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL170I PO - Tragedy and Philosophy

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): P. Mann
    Credit: 1

    Advanced analysis and research. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . (TH, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170J PO - Special Topics in American Literature

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

    This senior seminar explores the complexities of Toni Morrison’s fiction and criticism in the contexts of Black feminist theory, African Diaspora literacies and American literary and social history. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . (TH, H5, RC, GS, DG, 170)
    This course has been revised for spring 2019.  
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170K PO - The Canterbury Tales

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): J.Kirk
    Credit: 1

    Intensive study of Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Canterbury Tales. Advanced analysis of the poem, research into its modern interpretations, introduction to Middle English. Chaucer’s poem will also serve us as a master text as we inquire more generally into the intellectual culture of the Middle Ages. With special emphasis on the dirty jokes. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only. (TH, H1, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL170L PO - The Other Chaucer

    When Offered: Offered alternate years;next offered Fall 2019
    Instructor(s): J. Kirk
    Credit: 1

    The fourteenth-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, a bureaucrat, spy, and initiate of the cult of Love, is most famous today for his Canterbury Tales. But among his other writings are: the first scientific treatise in English; an account of a meeting of the birds that he happened to overhear one day; a collection of life-stories of prominent women in history; descriptions of visions that appeared to him in dreams; and his masterpiece, the finely-wrought monstrosity called Troilus and Criseyde. Characteristic of all of the poet’s works is an uncompromising irony; a filthy sense of humor; and, perhaps, a mystical knowledge of the true nature of things. This course consists of an introduction to Chaucer’s language (Middle English); advanced analysis of his writings; and research into their modern interpretations. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL170Q PO - Wordsworth and Proust

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): A. Reed
    Credit: 1

    Advanced analysis and research. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . (TH, H4, H5, GS, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170R PO - Literary Worlding

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2014.
    Instructor(s): J. Jeon
    Credit: 1

    This course examines contemporary literary representations of the world in planetary terms, which we will read alongside prevalent theoretical models designed to make sense of the increasingly complex global circuits of exchange, shifting affiliations and emergent conflicts that characterize our world today. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . (TH, H5, RC, DG, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170T PO - Law and Literature

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): S. Raff
    Credit: 1

    In this seminar, we will examine literary treatments of matters pertaining to law (such as justice, jurisprudence, equity, norms, customs, civil disobedience, evidence, and bearing witness) and ask whether insights or techniques deriving from literature can contribute to legal reasoning. Areas of focus may include legal personhood, legal fictions, copyright, and military justice. Readings may include Sophocles, Plato, Shakespeare, Johnson, Kleist, Trollope, Melville, Kafka, Capote, Márquez, and Morrison, as well as William Blackstone, Peter Brooks, Robert Cover, Jacques Derrida, Richard Posner, Kenji Yoshino, Nomi Stolzenberg, Richard Weisberg, Robin West, and Martha Woodmansee. (TH; H4)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170U PO - The Faerie Queene

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

    This senior seminar will be devoted to writing and thinking about Edmund Spenser’s poem, The Faerie Queene (1596). Possible areas of interest include: allegory, poetic form, rhetoric, early modern theories of language, gender and sexuality, torture and justice, and the history of reading. Seminar Participants will read deeply and broadly in post-war criticism of the poem as well as the history of poetics; requirements include a series of writing exercises culminating in one 25-page seminar paper. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . (H2, GS, 170)
  

  • ENGL170Y PO - Metaphysical Poets

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

    Intensive study of the religious and erotic lyrics of the 17th-century Metaphysical poets. Some attention to their influence on modernist poetry and criticism. Serious consideration of exchanges between poetry and speculative philosophy. Readings will include poems by Donne, Herbert, Philips, Cowley, Hutchinson, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell, Traherne and Finch. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . (H2, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  
  

  • ENGL176 SC - Southern Women Writers


    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 1
  

  • ENGL180 SC - Asian American Fiction


    Credit: 1.0

    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 1
  

  • ENGL183 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality


    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 1
  

  • ENGL183A PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction

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

    Student’s own work is principal content of the course; class meets weekly to read and discuss it. Occasionally other readings. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission. ENGL 064A PO  strongly recommended. May be repeated for credit. ENGL183A PO: Fiction. ENGL 183B PO : Poetry. ENGL 183C PO: Screenwriting. ENGL 183D PO : The Literary Essay. (E)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ENGL183B PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry

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

    Student’s own work is principal content of the course; class meets weekly to read and discuss it. Occasionally other readings. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission. ENGL 064B PO  strongly recommended. May be repeated for credit. ENGL 183A PO : Fiction. ENGL183B PO: Poetry. ENGL 183C PO: Screenwriting. ENGL 183D PO : The Literary Essay. (E)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  

  • ENGL189A PO - John Ashbery

    When Offered: One-time only; spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): E.Kindley
    Credit: 1

    John Ashbery was one of the most acclaimed and significant American poets of the second half of the twentieth century. This course will cover the whole of Ashbery’s career, with particular attention to his debts to modernism and surrealism, the relation of his sexuality to his poetics, and the broader historical context of postwar American culture. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  
  
  

  • ENGL189D PO - Literature and Social Theory

    When Offered: One-time only; fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): E. Kindley
    Credit: 1

    How do literary forms and genres develop over time? What factors motivate authors and other figures in the literary world, and what role do institutions like the market, the state, and the educational system play in this process? How is literary value assessed and perpetuated? How do readers interact with literary texts in order to create meaning? And how do theories of society and the social influence literary authors directly? This course will introduce students to some of the most influential sociological theories of literature developed over the course of the past century and a half. Theorists studied may include Georg Lukács, Theodor Adorno, René Girard, Raymond Williams, Janice Radway, Pierre Bourdieu, Wendy Griswold, and Bruno Latour.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  

  • ENGL189J PO - Topics in Asian American Literature

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): J. Jeon
    Credit: 1

    Topics in Asian American Literature. To be announced. (H5, RC, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL190 PO - Senior Exercise/Seminar Option

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
    Credit: 0

    Students electing this option take a second 170-series Advanced Studies Seminar to satisfy the senior exercise requirement. A grade and credit are assigned for the ENGL 170 PO  seminar; enrollment in 190 confers no credit but will receive one of the following designations: No credit, pass or distinction. Students must receive at least a C-minus in the Advanced Studies Seminar in order to receive a pass in ENGL 190.
  

  • ENGL191 PO - Senior Thesis

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

    Students choosing this option enroll both semesters of the senior year. A grade will be assigned for the fall semester based upon the completion of a chapter of thesis (or approximately 20 to 25 pages of writing toward the thesis) and for the spring semester upon completion of the thesis. Eligibility based on grade point average and permission of the department
  

  • ENGL195 PO - Literary Criticism: Advanced Methods

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

    An advanced seminar in the research methods characteristic of literary criticism, this class will revolve around the questions and challenges raised by student thesis projects: what kind of knowledge does literary scholarship aim to produce? What is the relationship between literary studies and the methods and theories of other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences? P/NC only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO  and any ENGL 170 PO . ENGL 170 PO  may be taken concurrently.
  

  • ENGL199DRPO - English: 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.
  

  • ENGL199IRPO - English: 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.
  

  • ENGL199RAPO - English: 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.
  

  • ENGL406 CG - American Literature and Political Theory


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont Graduate University catalog for a description of this course.
  

  • LIT 075 CM - Vladimir Nabokov


    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 1

Environmental Analysis
  

  • EA010 PO - Intro to Environmental Analysis

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): M. Los Huertos; B. Cutter
    Credit: 1

    An EA Program introductory core course, which critically examines the history of environmental change over the past century, the environmental ramifications of economic and technological decisions, lifestyles and personal choice and the need to evaluate environmental arguments. (Taught at Pitzer and Pomona).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference
  

  • EA020 PO - Nature, Culture and Society

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): C. Miller; N. Davis
    Credit: 1

    An EA Program core course, which is a required class for EA majors and designed for sophomores and juniors. It employs case studies to enable students to analyze some key contemporary environmental dilemmas. Topics will vary but will draw on an interdisciplinary array of sources in the humanities and social sciences, including history, philosophy and literature; religion, art, politics and sociology.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  

  • EA030 PO - Environmental Science

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): R. Los Huertos
    Credit: 1

    This Environmental Analysis Program core course introduces the basic principles of environmental science with applications in chemistry, ecology and geology. It is part of the core course requirements for the Environmental Analysis major. The course provides a natural science foundation for Environmental Science. Topics covered include a discussion of ecosystems, climate change, energy and food production, land resources, pollution and sustainable development. A full laboratory accompanies the course and includes field and laboratory work and introduces Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping and statistics. Letter grade only. May be repeated once for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Writing Intensive
  

  • EA030L KS - Science and the Environment


    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
  

  • EA031 PO - Environmental Science- East Asia

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): M. Los Huertos
    Credit: 1

    This Environmental Analysis Program core course introduces the basic principles of environmental science with applications in chemistry, ecology and geology. It is part of the core course requirements for the Environmental Analysis major and designed to prepare students to work in East Asia. The course provides a natural science foundation for Environmental Science. Topics covered include a discussion of ecosystems, climate change, energy and food production, land resources, pollution and sustainable development. A full laboratory accompanies the course and includes field and laboratory work and introduces Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping and statistics. Letter grade only.
    Prerequisite: EA 010 PO  or by permission of the instructor. Co-requisite: EA  021  CM.
    This course has been revised for spring 2019.   
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Writing Intensive
  

  • EA 055L KS - Phys Geography & Geomorphology


    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
  

  • EA085 PO - Food, Land and the Environment

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): M. Los Huertos
    Credit: 1

    An exploration of the co-evolution of humans and their food systems, agroecology (sustainable food production), and the environmental and nutritional issues associated with selected types of agriculture. The course combines a seminar and practical, hands-on training in horticulture, arborculture, and bee keeping. Using the Pomona Organic Farm, students will manage their own beds using ecologically sustainable methods. Prerequisite: EA 010 PO  or by permission of the instructor.
    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
  

  • EA086 PZ - Environmental Justice


    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
  

  • EA090 PZ - Environmental Change in China and East 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
  

  • EA091 PZ - Air Pollution: History and 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
  

  • EA095 PZ - U.S. Environmental 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
  

  • EA098 PZ - Urban Ecology


    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
  

  • EA099 PO - Introduction to Urban Health Equity: Unconvering Local and Global Disparities

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): G. Douglass-Jaimes
    Credit: 1

    Where you live impacts how well and how long you live. Yet the social, political, and environmental processes that determine who gets to live where, and what the conditions are in those places provide insights into the drivers for global health disparities. By examining how race, identity, and place operate in the US and Brazil, we can better understand the social processes that create disparities in health. Further, focusing on informal settlements, places that are thought to embody these disparities (areas often referred to as slums, shantytown, favelas), helps to highlight these the complex interrelated themes of place, health and identity. This course is designed to provide a broad investigation of urban health equity while focusing the key role that identity formation and place-making have in both creating health disparities and community responses to ameliorate those disparities. In this course, students will engage with theoretical and practical tools that serve to unmask local and global health disparities. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA100 KS - Global Climate Change


    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
  

  • EA100L KS - Global Climate Change


    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
  

  • EA101 PO - GIS in Environmental Analysis

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): G. Douglass-Jaimes
    Credit: 1

    Introduction to GIS and it’s applications and analysis of environmental resources and hazards that differentially affect populations. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: EA 010 PO . Corequisite: EA 030 PO . May be repeated once for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA101 PZ - Environmental Internships


    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
  

  • EA 103 KS - Soils and Society


    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
  

  • EA 103L KS - Principles of Soil Science


    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
  

  • EA 104 KS - Oceanography


    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
  

  • EA104 PZ - Doing Natural History


    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
  

  • EA120 PZ - Global Environmental Politics and 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
  
 

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