2018-19 Pomona College Catalog 
    
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Courses


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

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Studio Art

  
  • ART027 PO - Wood Sculpture

    When Offered: Fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    This is a beginning level wood sculpture course devoted to the knowledge of wood, the tools used to shape it and the conceptual practices employed. Students will learn the shop, joinery, carving, lamination, pattern making and conventional fabrication techniques. Art majors given preference. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART028 PO - Digital Photography

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

    Introductory course explores digital photography as a tool for producing images. Assignments, lectures, and readings expose students to techniques, artists, and ideas ranging from early photographic history to the present. A final self-directed project allows students to articulate their specific interests. Digital SLR camera suggested, but not required.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART029B PO - Metals: The Alchemy of Pounding, Welding and Casting

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

    Metals: the alchemy of pounding, welding and casting explores the fundamental processes of manipulating metal from forging with a power hammer, to welding and fabrication to lost wax casting of aluminum/bronze. The material’s versatility and uniqueness pose unique possibilities for the artist. No previous experience necessary, but expect to get really dirty. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART 033 PO - Fiber Studio: Textile Practices in Art

    When Offered: Fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): M. Teixido
    Credit: 1

    Fiber Studio is an exploration of the practices of fiber and textile arts. This course will study the materials and methodologies of fiber arts in the context of varied and vast global practices and cultural traditions. An understanding developed in studio practice will consider the contemporary context of textile as art and its relationship to craft. Areas of concentration will be spinning, knitting, weaving, sewing, and embroidery. Exposure to textile work of the present and past in images and thru visiting artists, trips to see textile work as part of collections and in production will add to our understanding of the practice. Readings and invited speakers will add to our awareness of the socio-historical context of many forms of fiber art and its framing in culture past and present. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  
  
  • ART104 PO - Drawing as Improvisation

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

    Drawing is a way to see, describe, understand, explore and be. The act of drawing is largely an improvisational act. In emphasizing this aspect of making drawings we will explore historical and contemporary ideas of improvisation through exercises and readings. This course will invite a range of approaches including but not limited to, collaboration, context specific work and drawing as performance. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ART 005 PO  or another intro level studio art course. May be repeated twice for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART105A PO - Drawing II: Abstractions

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

    Abstraction comprises a rich area of artistic exploration. This course presents various cultural traditions of pattern, the history of mapmaking and how people have made diagrams to better grasp places and concepts. Students are involved deeply with form and a wide range of materials. Analysis of how abstraction manifests itself in contemporary art and how historical precedent informs that production. Prerequisite: ART 005 PO  or portfolio review by instructor. May be repeated once for credit. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART105B PO - Drawing II: Representation

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

    In-depth exploration of representation as a conceptual, cultural and technical activity. Projects from photorealism to the willful distortion and invention of form provide the basis for artistic exploration. A range of media will be utilized to realize the critical relationship of form and content. Artwork will be examined to better understand contemporary investigations and the historical precedents that inform them. Prerequisite: ART 005 PO  or portfolio review by the instructor. May be repeated once for credit. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART108 PO - Figurative Painting

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

    A course for intermediate and advanced students that explores both the technical problems of painting the figure and considers how artists have represented the body, past and present. Formal problems and conceptual frameworks intersect throughout each assigned project. Prerequisite: ART 005 PO  and ART 010 PO . Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART109 PO - Painting as Experiment

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

    A course for intermediate and advanced students that investigates the fundamental question: what is it to paint? Since painting finds its logic so keenly in experimentation, the course will include experiments related to the process, materiality and meaning of contemporary and historical painting practices. Projects will include the alternate use of materials, alternate representations through performance and painting’s relationship to site. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ART 010 PO . May be taken twice for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART111 PO - Contemporary Topics in Painting

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

    An intermediate painting class. Studio work is balanced with discussion of themes and issues in contemporary painting. Field trips. Prerequisites: ART 005 PO  or ART 010 PO , and permission of instructor.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART 115 PO - Distro! Self Publishing for Artists

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): L.Auerbach
    Credit: 1

    Self-published books, pamphlets, zines, tracts, and posters have long been part of the way artworks and ideas are distributed. In this class, we’ll look at historical and contemporary examples of artist-made publications and produce our own using both digital and analog technologies. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: Any previous art course. May be repeated twice for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART116 PO - Advanced Photography

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): L. Auerbach
    Credit: 1

    Over the course of a semester, students will conceive, develop and produce a body of photographic work. The course will consist of discussion, critique, reading, looking and making. Projects will be conceptually- based and rigorous, taking their shape from the ideas that inform and inspire them. Students will further explore the craft of photography, using various digital and analog methods of production in order to best express their ideas and concerns. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ART 020 PO  or ART 028 PO . May be repeated for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART119 PO - Further Explorations in B&W Photography

    When Offered: Fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): L. Auerbach
    Credit: 1

    This darkroom-based course will introduce continuing photography students to new formats and processes in photography, including studio lighting and medium and large format cameras. Open-ended assignments will encourage experimentation, rigor, criticality, and a conceptual approach to the use of black and white photography as a means of expression and engagement. Prerequisites: ART 020 PO . Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART121 JT - Critical Design Studio

    When Offered: Spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): M. Allen
    Credit: 1

    Visual media is ubiquitous in our lives as a source of influence and pleasure, argumentation and control. It tells us what to buy, what to believe, and organizes societies in ways both beneficial and malignant. Critical Design Studio invites participants to consider how visual texts establish how information is understood, facts are revealed (or hidden), and how design, illustration, typography, and color impact how we perceive the world. In this hands-on studio class students will deconstruct, reconfigure, and critically analyze the methods of visual communication. An emphasis will be placed on the ability to use design to create forms which persuade, explain, make a claim, and invite the reader into a dialogue. Prerequisites: ART 021 PO  or equivalent. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART126B PO - Sculpture II-Casting: One & Many.

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

    Expands the technical, conceptual and expressive skills through individually designed projects. Students learn specific technical skills inherent to casting in a range of materials—plaster, wax, rubber, aluminum and bronze. Emphasis on pattern making and mold making using CNC Router and traditional techniques. Introduces a visual and theoretical awareness of contemporary art. Prerequisite: Any art course. 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 6
  
  • ART127 PO - The Chair - Explorations of the Speculative and the Pragmatic

    When Offered: Spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    The Chair is an upper level sculpture class that looks at the pragmatic and speculative traditions surrounding the chair. As both stand in and site for the body, the chair offers broad possibilities of representation. Using the narratives common to design and art, students will engage an iterative design process resulting in a series of chairs. Historical knowledge of tools and use of CAD and the CNC router will be employed. Prerequisites: ART 027 PO . Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART128 PO - Installation: Site, Time, Context

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

    Loosely categorized under the headings of site, time and context we will explore a range of different practices and expressions that constitute installation art work. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: Any 5C Art course. May be repeated for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART129 PO - Performance in Contemporary Art

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

    Performance in Contemporary Art is an introduction to performative practice in contemporary art, focused on direct group experience and participation. Class time will be dedicated to experimental activities lead by a diverse range of visiting artists with backgrounds in art, theatre, dance, music and poetry.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART130 PO - Artist as Curator, Artist as Organizer

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): M.Allen
    Credit: 1

    The practice of art has expanded out of the studio and into the creation of events, exhibitions and organizations. Students will work to create new contexts for the creation and dissemination of art, culture and politics. This class has frequent weekend, evening, and field trip responsibilities and should be undertaken only by students with flexible schedules and ability to commit to spending significant out of class time on projects. Prerequisites: Any previous art course. May be repeated twice for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART130 PZ - Design/Build Studio


    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 6
  
  • ART131C PO - Functional Sculpture Conceptual Design - Contemporary Fabrication Using Digital Technology: CNC Router

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): M.O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    This is an upper level sculpture course that investigates sculptural practice through the lens of contemporary fabrication. Using the CNC router, Computer Aided Design software and the Laser cutter the course will focus on how new technologies alter our imagination and output. Students will have needed to take the wood sculpture course as a prerequisite and be invested in learning new technologies. Object-making will span the pragmatic, functional and representational. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ART 027 PO . Previously offered as ART 131 PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART134 SC - Between Analog+Digital Printmaking


    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 6
  
  • ART141 SC - Introduction to Digital Imaging


    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 6
  
  • ART142 SC - Intermediate/Advanced Digital Imaging


    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 6
  
  • ART143 SC - Digital Color Photography


    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 6
  
  • ART144 SC - Advanced Web Projects


    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 6
  
  • ART148 SC - Introduction to Video


    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 6
  
  • ART149 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Video


    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 6
  
  
  • ART155 PO - Ideas in Art Now

    When Offered: Spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): C. van Ginhoven Rey
    Credit: 1

    This seminar focuses on theories and ideas that inform much of contemporary art. Readings, discussions and field trips will provide students with the conceptual tools to further understand and unpack work being made since the start of the 21st century and into the present. Though this class may be of particular interest to art students, who will learn to understand their own art production in relationship to the ideas and issues discussed within this course, it is open to all who are interested in deepening their relationship to art being made now. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  
  • ART181G SC - From Beauty to the Abject


    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
  
  • ART181M SC - Feminist Concepts and Strategies


    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
  
  
  • ART190 PO - Junior/Senior Art Major Seminar

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

    For Pomona art majors, to be taken in the fall of the junior and senior years. A more in-depth examination of the theories and issues relevant to contemporary art practice. Exploration takes the form of art production and its critique and response papers to visiting artists, readings and field trips. Letter grade only.
  
  • ART192 PO - Advanced Projects in Art

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

    Seminar meets twice weekly during the spring semester for critique and discussion of advanced student work in art. Include visiting speakers, readings and intensive work on independent art projects. This class is mandatory for senior art majors in preparation for their senior exhibit. Letter grade only. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • ART 199DRPO - Art: 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.
  
  • ART 199IRPO - Art: 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.
  
  • ART199RAPO - Art: 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.

Art History

  
  • ARCN130 SC - Unraveling the Gordian Knot: Archaeological Conservation and Tomb of King Midas


    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
  
  • ARHI001A PO - Introduction to the History of Art: Prehistory to c. 1400

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

    A critical introduction to the discipline of art history through a chronological survey of selected works from Paleolithic/Neolithic through Mesopotamia, the Egyptian dynasties, classical Greece, Persia, and Rome, and the cultures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Mediterranean basin. Asks how visual cultures of the past relate to those of the present. Previously offered as ARHI051A PO and ARHI051B PO. ARHI001A PO and ARHI001B PO may be taken in any order.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI001B PO - Introduction to the History of Art: c. 1400 to the present

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

    A critical introduction to the discipline of art history through a chronological survey of a selection of works from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe from the fifteenth century to the present. Asks how visual cultures of the past relate to those of the present. Previously offered as ARHI051C PO. ARHI001A PO and ARHI001B PO may be taken in any order.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  
  • ARHI047 PO - Museum Collecting

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): K. Howe
    Credit: 0.5

    This course is an introduction to and practical exercise in the decision process guiding museums when they acquire art works. Students will learn about the Pomona College Museum’s mission, standard curatorial practice and the ethics and best practices in making art purchases. Working in teams and under the guidance of the museum director and professional staff, they will review the work of contemporary artists and select an artist on whom to focus. Through research, studio and gallery visits, and an evaluative process considering both curatorial and curricular criteria, each student team will propose an art work for purchase. Teams will present their recommendation in a public forum. The class, with advice of museum staff, will award one proposal with purchase for the Pomona College Museum’s permanent collection. The permanent collection record will carry the names of all members of the class. P/NC grading only. May be repeated twice for credit.
  
  • ARHI051C PZ - Intro Art History: 1200 to Present


    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
  
  • ARHI120 PO - Introduction to Islamic Art

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

    This course surveys the art and architecture of societies where Muslims were dominant or where they formed significant minorities from the 7th century to the present. It examines the form and function of architecture and works of art as well as the social, historical and cultural contexts, patterns of use, and evolving meanings attributed to art by the users. Themes include the creation of a distinctive visual culture in the emerging Islamic polity; the development of urban institutions; key architectural types such as the mosque, madrasa, caravanserai, dervish lodge and mausoleum; art objects and the arts of the illustrated book; self-representation; cultural interconnections along trade and pilgrimage routes; westernization and modernization in art and architecture. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI121 PO - Islamic Painting: Landscape, Body, Power

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

    This seminar focuses on the production of paintings, mostly but not exclusively miniatures in books, in the Islamic world. A particular focus will lie on the Muslim empires of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, namely the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal realms, stretching from the Balkans to Bengal. During this period, illustrated books were popular objects of high-level patronage, and numerous examples have survived that allow a detailed study of the implications of these images. Themes discussed will include: figural representation in Islam; patronage and court culture; gender and the body; illustrations of literature and history; images of Sufis ceremonies; portraiture; images of animals and nature; the impact of European prints and paintings; space and landscape. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI122 PO - Sensory Spaces, Tactile Objects: The Senses in Art and Architecture

    When Offered: Spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): P. Blessing
    Credit: 1

    This course examines the role of the senses in art and architecture to move beyond conceptions of art history that prioritize vision. While the experience of art is often framed in terms of seeing, the other senses were crucially involved in the creation of buildings and objects in the medieval and early modern periods, just as they are in the work of present-day artists: think Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms. Textiles and ceramic vessels invite touch, gardens involve the smell of flowers, sacred spaces were built to amplify the sound of prayers and chants. This class will examine how multisensory experience operates in the medieval and early modern arts of Eurasia, and how it can be experienced today, both in historical objects and contemporary art. Readings will range from medieval poetry and multisensory art histories to contemporary discussions of the senses in design and anthropology. Digital Humanities will be part of the course experience. Prerequisites: One prior ARHI, LAMS, CLAS, PHIL, or MES course. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  
  
  • ARHI133 PO - Art, Conquest and Colonization

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): F. Pohl
    Credit: 1

    Examines how images were enlisted in and helped shape the systematic exploration, conquest and colonization of North America (Canada, the U.S. and Mexico) by Europeans from ca. 1500 to 1800. Considers how images were used by indigenous populations to resist attempts to erase their cultures and to control the manner in which they assimilated into European settler cultures.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Analyzing Difference
  
  • ARHI135 PO - Picturing a Nation: Art and Nationalism in 19th-Century North America

    When Offered: Spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): F. Pohl
    Credit: 1

    Examines how 19th-century North American artists and art institutions were involved in shaping the “imagined communities” that constituted the nations of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Includes works in a variety of media—paintings, sculpture, prints, architecture—and museums, art markets and mass media. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI137 PZ - Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art


    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
  
  • ARHI138 PZ - Native American Art Collections Research


    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
  
  • ARHI139 PZ - Seminar Topics: Native American Art 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 1
  
  • ARHI140 PO - The Arts of Africa

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

    Survey exploring aesthetic, formal, cultural and national diversity of African arts and architecture. Emphasis on the social, political and religious dynamics fostering art production, iconographic themes, and aesthetic philosophies at specific historic moments in West, Central and North Africa. Critical study of Western art historical approaches and methods used to study diverse traditional African arts and post-independence cinema. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI141A PO - (Re)presenting Africa: Art, History and Film

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

    Seminar centers on independent African films to examine (re)presentations of the people, arts, cultures and socio-political histories of Africa and its Diaspora. Course critically examines the cinematic themes, aesthetics, styles and schools of post-independence African and African Diasporic filmmakers. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI141M PO - Representing Blackness: Music and Masculinities from Class to A$$

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): P. Jackson
    Credit: 1

    Examines constructions of Blackness and notions of Black masculinity through study of documentary films and related visual arts representing key musical innovators of the African diaspora. Explores the aesthetic influence of musical genres (e.g., spirituals, ragtime, blues, jazz, folk, gospel, rock and roll, soul, funk, reggae, Afrobeat, mbalax, disco, opera, hip hop, rap and neo-soul) on the interdependent visual vocabularies of arts movements, values of political movements and representational codes of popular commodity culture from 1900 to present. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI144B PO - Daughters of Africa: Art, Cinema, Theory, Love

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

    Examines visual arts and cultural criticism produced by women from Africa and the African Diaspora (North America, Caribbean and Europe). Students analyze aesthetic values, key representational themes, visual conventions, symbolic codes and stylistic approaches created from feminism’s spirited love of Blackness, Africanness and justice. Complement to AFRI 144A AF , Black Women Feminism(s) and Social Change. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI150 SC - The Arts of China


    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
  
  • ARHI151 SC - The Arts of Japan


    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
  
  • ARHI152 SC - Arts of Late Imperial China


    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
  
  • ARHI154 SC - Japanese Prints


    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
  
  • ARHI155 SC - History of Gardens, East and West


    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
  
  • ARHI158 HM - Visualizing China: Chinese Art


    Credit: 1

    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 1
  
  • ARHI166 PO - The Crusades: A Cross-Cultural History

    When Offered: Spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): P. Blessing
    Credit: 1

    This seminar follows the trajectory of the Crusades in Europe and the Middle East from the late eleventh to the fifteenth century. A particular emphasis will be placed on cultural developments in both regions; the depiction of the other in Latin and Arabic chronicles; the cultural assimilation of the Crusaders into the Holy Land as they settled there, became acquainted with local customs, and transformed holy places, Jerusalem in particular. Once Jerusalem returned to Muslim rule in the twelfth century, some of these changes were undone, while others remained in place. This direct contact also had a profound impact on art in medieval Europe, through pilgrims’ accounts and objects such as glass, metalwork, and textiles produced in Syria or Egypt that became part of church treasuries. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive
  
  • ARHI172 PO - Northern Renaissance Art

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    Credit: 1

    Painting, sculpture and architecture in northern Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Developments in painting emphasized; special attention to the Low Countries and Germany.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI174 PO - Italian Baroque Art

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    Credit: 1

    Painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. Rome and the development of the Baroque style in the works of Caravaggio, the Carracci, Gentileschi, Bernini, Borromini and Pietro da Cortona. Church and social history as background.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI176 JT - Italian Cities

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse; S. Ovan
    Credit: 1

    An interdisciplinary approach to the development of cities and urban spaces in Italy from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century. How have urban structures and social group identities changed from early city states to modern metropolis with sprawling urbanization? What are the “narratives” produced around the city? Italian cities under the rubrics art history, architecture, literature and film.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI177 SC - Eighteenth Century European Arts


    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
  
  • ARHI178 PO - Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation

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

    Course examines the visual arts (including painting, sculpture, photography, prints, textiles, mixed media, installations, performance, independent film and video) produced by people of African descent in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Emphasis on Black artists’ changing relationship to African arts and cultures, the emergence of an oppositional aesthetic tradition interrogating visual constructs of “Blackness” and “Whiteness,” gender, sexuality and class as a means of revisioning representational pratices. Course provides a social-historical frame for the interpretation and analysis of form, content and the production of historically situated cultural criticism. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI179 PO - Modern Architecture, City, Landscape and Sustainability

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    Credit: 1

    Survey of “Modernist” traditions of architecture and city planning (19th – 21st centuries), tracing the “roots” of “sustainability” from the Spanish tradition through Arts and Crafts Movement to Bauhaus machine aesthetic to “post-modernism” and “sustainable architecture”—the new “Gesamtkunstwerk” (“total work of art”). Los Angeles within these global contexts.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  
  • ARHI180 SC - Early 20th-Century European Avant-Gardes


    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
  
  
  • ARHI181 PZ - Modern Into Contemporary


    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
  
  • ARHI183 PZ - The Art World Since 1989


    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
  
  • ARHI184 PO - Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History of North American Art

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

    A comparative analysis of artistic production in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico in the 20th and 21st centuries. Examines issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and the relationships between artistic theories and practices, economic developments and social and political movements (e.g., the Mexican Revolution, the Depression, the Women’s Movement).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Analyzing Difference
  
  • ARHI185 SC - History of Photography


    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
  
  • ARHI185K PO - Topics: History of Photography: American Landscape

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): K. Howe
    Credit: 1

    Seminar: Topics in the History of Photography. Intensive investigation of the production, distribution and reception of photographs through the lens of a specific theme, region or historical moment. Includes field trips. Letter Grade only. May be repeated twice for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI186B PZ - Seminar: Topics in Contemporary Art


    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
  
  • ARHI186CSC - Seminar: Topics in Asian Art


    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
  
  • ARHI186D PO - Cairo and Istanbul: Urban Space, Memory, Protest

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): P. Blessing
    Credit: 1

    In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, Cairo has become a place of social and political upheaval. In Istanbul, the Gezi protests centered on contested public space. This seminar introduces the architectural and urban history of both cities, focusing on the tension between historical centers and recent urban development; social issues; and reactions of scholars, architects and artists. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive
  
  • ARHI186E PO - Art and Activism

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): F. Pohl
    Credit: 1

    Examines ways in which North American (Canada, the U.S. and Mexico) artists have used their work in the 20th and 21st centuries to engage in political activism, either on the street through performances and protests, or at specific physical and/or virtual sites through murals, paintings, posters, prints, sculptures, installations or websites.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI186G PO - Gendering the Renaissance

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

    Takes up historian Joan Kelly’s challenge, “Did women have a Renaissance?” Expands the question to cultural constructs of the male and female body, sexuality, identity, homosexuality and lesbianism and their implications for the visual arts, literature and the history of early modern Europe (14th – 17th centuries).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive
  
  • ARHI186KSC - Seminar in Modern Art


    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
  
  • ARHI186L PO - Critical Race Theory, Representation and the Rule of Law

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

    Examines the role of The Rule of Law in constructing and maintaining racialized, gendered and classed disparities of justice, as they shape and inform the intellectual, aesthetic, scientific and political convergences of critical jurisprudence with representational practices in African Diasporic visual arts. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI186MSC - Seminar in 20th-Century Art


    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
  
  • ARHI186Q PO - Reading the Art Museum

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

    Investigation of the art museum through history. The emphasis is on reading the ways in which museums structure the experience of art as a form of knowledge, social integration, and consumption. Our field is the Euro-American museum from the 19th century to the present, with special attention on the contemporary. Includes field trips. Instructor permission only. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI186W PO - Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): P. Jackson
    Credit: 1

    Interrogation of linguistics, conceptual and practical solipsisms that contribute to the construction and normalization of “Whiteness” in aesthetics, visual culture and cultural criticism. Questions dialects of “Blackness” and “Whiteness” that dominate Western intellectual thought and popular culture, thereby informing notions and visual representations of race, gender, sexuality, class and nationality. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  
  • ARHI188 SC - Representing the Metropolis


    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
  
  • ARHI189 SC - European Modernism 1840-1940


    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
  
  • ARHI189L PO - American Art 1900-present

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

    This course will examine various works of art produced in the U.S. from 1900 to the present. Students will learn to conduct a critical analysis of how visual images and the written texts that describe them function within society at different moments in time. Themes will include, among others, the Ashcan School and urban life; the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement; public art and the Great Depression; abstract expressionism and the Cold War; art and activism; and postmodernism and consumer culture.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI189S PO - Contested Spaces in 19th Century American Art and Architecture

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

    This course will look at the ways in which artists and architects engaged in redefining public and private spaces in the U.S. during the 19th century. These shifts were the result, in large part, of wars, industrialization, immigration, and urbanization, and were impacted by race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Topics will include, among others: the architecture and landscapes of plantations; the representation of territorial conquests and western expansion; the creation of a touristic landscape; the architecture and landscape design of urban beautification and social reform; and domestic spaces and notions of gender. Throughout the semester, we will examine the pressures of class, gender, race, ethnic and immigrant identity - these issues are inseparable from considering which spaces were contested and how these spaces were ultimately shaped in real and imaginary ways. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • ARHI190 PO - Senior Seminar

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    Credit: 1

    An examination of methodological and theoretical issues in art history through readings and student-led discussions. Guidance on research and writing the thesis. Students also meet outside of class with their primary thesis readers throughout the semester and turn in one thesis chapter at the end of the semester.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Speaking Intensive
  
  • ARHI191 PO - Senior Thesis - Art History

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

    The continuation of the researching and writing of an original investigation of a topic in art history begun in ARHI 190 PO . Students will work independently, but in constant contact with their thesis readers. Letter grade only. “C” or better required to satisfy the major requirement.
  
  • ARHI199DRPO - Art History: Directed Readings

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    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.
  
  • ARHI199IRPO - Art History: Independent Research

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    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.
  
  • ARHI199RAPO - Art History: Research Assistantship

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5

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

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