2018-19 Pomona College Catalog 
    
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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; Analyzing Difference
  
  

  • 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 2018.
    Instructor(s): P. Jackson
    Credit: 1

    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
  

  • AMST103 SC - 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
  

  • AMST110 SC - Migrant Memoir


    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
  

  • AMST120 HM - Hyphenated Americans


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

  • 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
  

  • AMST128 SC - Race, Space, and Difference


    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.
  

  • AMST190 PO - Senior Thesis Seminar

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): V. 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): T. Hecht
    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
  
  

  • ANTH009 PZ - Food, Culture, Power


    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
  

  • 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: Last offered fall 2016.
    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: Last offered fall 2014.
    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.
    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; Speaking Intensive
  

  • ANTH055 PO - Power, Politics and Culture

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2014.
    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
  

  • ANTH080 PZ - Anthropology of the United States


    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
  

  • 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: Last 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: Fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): T. Hecht
    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; Speaking Intensive
  

  • ANTH107 PO - Medical Anthropology

    When Offered: Fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): C. Bejarano
    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 PO - Science, Medicine, and Technology

    When Offered: Spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): C. Bejarano
    Credit: 1

    This course will engage in critical studies of medicine, science, and technology from an anthropological perspective. Recent ethnographic research will examine configurations of knowledge and practice with special attention to social justice, community interventions, and the study up of institutions. Course is equivalent to ANTH 121 SC .
    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
  

  • ANTH122 PO - Cooperative Filmmaking for Social Change

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): J. Nucho
    Credit: 1

    This course focuses on the theory and practice of collaborative filmmaking, both within the discipline of Anthropology and outside of academia. We will begin with an overview of the use of cooperative filmmaking efforts and community-based history projects in various contexts. Students will learn about the ways in which cooperative and collaborative filmmaking practices can challenge the paradigms of commercial filmmaking in terms of content, production and distribution. Students will also have the opportunity to collaborate with a community-based organization in the city of Pomona to produce short videos as part of an ongoing filmmaking practice for social change.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  
  

  • ANTH127 SC - Settler Colonialism


    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: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    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
  

  • ANTH141 PZ - Land, City, State - Latin America


    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
  

  • ANTH142 SC - Culture and Politics in Latin 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 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: 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: 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 - History of Anthropological Theory

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    This course will provide a survey of the history of anthropological theory and method through a combination of theoretical writings and ethnographic monographs. It will examine how different historical moments and theories of knowledge have informed anthropological objectives and projects. Close attention will be paid to the changing content, form and sites addressed throughout the history of the discipline. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ANTH 002 PO .
    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: Last offered spring 2018.
    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: 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: Last offered spring 2014.
    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: 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
  

  • ANTH189A PO - Culture and Mental Health

    When Offered: Spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): T. Hecht
    Credit: 1

    In a few swift decades, psychiatry has become less a treatment of the mind and the disarray of human experience than a means of managing the brain, conceived of as an organ like any other in the body and responsive to chemical regulation. Beginning with a familiar vantage point (say, the college campus), the course casts a wide net and asks, is what we call depression in the suburbs of Los Angeles fundamentally the same thing in Mumbai and in the rural areas of South Africa? What does the burgeoning number of children in the United States diagnosed with ADHD say about changes in American childhood and in the medical profession, in cultural understandings of the brain and of human behavior? How does the proliferating use of psychoactive drugs affect conceptions of the self and of well-being? This course examines, in short, the intersections of mental health with lived experience in a cross-cultural context, juxtaposing the writings of medical professionals with the narratives of those experiencing mental illness in the most varied circumstances from the residence halls in Claremont to the streets of Brazil. It introduces students to the idea that the science of mental health is itself a culturally informed and shifting terrain. Yet the course may also lead one to wonder whether certain manifestations of suffering and the desire for health are not also intrinsic to a shared human experience that transcends our moment in time and our most familiar surroundings.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ANTH189L PO - Linguistic Anthropology

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

    This course provides an intensive introduction to selected theories, methods, and themes in linguistic anthropology, one of the discipline’s four subfields. The primary aim of the course is to familiarize students with the linguistic anthropological approach to language, according to which language is a social tool with significance for sociopolitical processes, on the one hand, and basic research methods in linguistic anthropology, on the other. The course has two interwoven parts. The first is the sequence of readings, which will be analyzed in particular for the evidence and methods on which they draw. These readings trace the development of linguistic anthropology chronologically, beginning with the branching of linguistics into the fields of theoretical linguistics and linguistic anthropology, then examining early linguistic anthropologists’ inquiries into linguistic relativism and whether language shapes thought, before turning finally to contemporary semiotic approaches to language, illustrated through selected ethnographic examples. The second part of the course is a field practicum in which students will observe language in the social setting of their choice, produce field notes, and draft written analyses guided by questions that we will consider at length. Via their fieldwork students will become adept at using a range of methods for collecting data and analyzing how people use language, including participant observation, interviews, field notes, audio recordings, and discourse analytic transcriptions. The course also has a writing-intensive overlay; accordingly, throughout the semester students will write up a series of shorter ethnographic analyses that they will then revise and collate into an original research paper. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2;Writing Intensive
  

  • ANTH189P PO - Visual Anthropology

    When Offered: Fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): J. Nucho
    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 2019.
    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.
    This course has been revised for fall 2019 .
    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
    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; Speaking Intensive
  

  • 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: One-time only; fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): K. Ye
    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: Last offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): 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
 

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