2012-13 Pomona College Catalog

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English
	ENGL 176 SC - Southern Women Writers CrsNo ENGL176 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 180 SC - Asian American Fiction CrsNo ENGL180 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 183 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality CrsNo ENGL183 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 183A PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction CrsNo ENGL183A PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): J. Lethem Student’s own work is principal content of the course; class meets weekly to read and discuss it. Occasionally other readings. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission. ENGL 064A PO strongly recommended. May be repeated for credit. ENGL183A PO: Fiction. ENGL 183B PO: Poetry. ENGL 183C PO: Screenwriting. ENGL 183D PO: The Literary Essay.
	ENGL 183B PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry CrsNo ENGL183B PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): C. Rankine Student’s own work is principal content of the course; class meets weekly to read and discuss it. Occasionally other readings. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission. ENGL 064B PO strongly recommended. May be repeated for credit. ENGL 183A PO: Fiction. ENGL183B PO: Poetry. ENGL 183C PO: Screenwriting. ENGL 183D PO: The Literary Essay.
	ENGL 183C PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Screenwriting CrsNo ENGL183C PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2010. Instructor(s): Staff Student’s own work is principal content of the course; class meets weekly to read and discuss it. Occasionally other readings. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission. ENGL 064C PO strongly recommended. May be repeated for credit. ENGL 183A PO: Fiction. ENGL 183B PO: Poetry. ENGL183C PO: Screenwriting. ENGL 183D PO: The Literary Essay.
	ENGL 183D PO - Literary Essay CrsNo ENGL183D PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2011. Instructor(s): V. Klinkenborg Student’s own work is principal content of the course; class meets weekly to read and discuss it. Occasionally other readings. Prerequisite: ENGL 064D PO strongly recommended. May be repeated for credit. ENGL 183A PO: Fiction. ENGL 183B PO: Poetry. ENGL 183C PO: Screenwriting. ENGL183D PO: The Literary Essay.
	ENGL 183E PO - Experiments in Creative Nonfiction CrsNo ENGL183E PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): Ms. Nelson In this course we will read several works of nonfiction, which will serve as an inspiration for our own writing. Categories explored will include autobiography, experimental journalism and critical reflection. Reading may include works by Lucille Clifton, Sarah Manguso, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Eula Biss, Janet Malcolm, John D’Agata, David Wojnarowicz and others. Letter grade only.
	ENGL 184 PO - New Poetics CrsNo ENGL184 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): C. Rankine
	ENGL 189A SC - American Film: Ford, Capra, Hitchcock CrsNo ENGL189A SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 189B SC - American Film: Welles, Sturges, Lang CrsNo ENGL189B SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 189C SC - Fifties Film: Pop Culture Society CrsNo ENGL189C SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 189D SC - Genre: The Art Film CrsNo ENGL189D SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ENGL 189J PO - Topics in Asian American Literature CrsNo ENGL189J PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): J. Jeon Topics in Asian American Literature. To be announced.
	ENGL 190 PO - Senior Exercise/Seminar Option CrsNo ENGL190 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): K. Dettmar Students electing this option take a second 170-series Advanced Studies Seminar to satisfy the senior exercise requirement. A grade and credit are assigned for the 170 seminar; enrollment in 190 confers no credit but will receive one of the following designations: No credit, pass or distinction. Students must receive at least a C-minus in the Advanced Studies Seminar in order to receive a pass in ENGL 190.
	ENGL 191 PO - Senior Thesis CrsNo ENGL191 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): K. Dettmar Students choosing this option enroll both semesters of the senior year. A grade will be assigned for the fall semester based upon the completion of a chapter of thesis (or approximately 20 to 25 pages of writing toward the thesis) and for the spring semester upon completion of the thesis. Eligibility based on grade point average and permission of the department
	ENGL 195 PO - Literary Criticism: Advanced Methods CrsNo ENGL195 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): K.Dettmar An advanced seminar in the research methods characteristic of literary criticism, this class will revolve around the questions and challenges raised by student thesis projects: what kind of knowledge does literary scholarship aim to produce? What is the relationship between literary studies and the methods and theories of other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences? P/NC only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO and any ENGL 170 PO . ENGL 170 PO may be taken concurrently.
	ENGL 199DRPO - English: Directed Readings CrsNo ENGL199DRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff 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.
	ENGL 199IRPO - English: Independent Research CrsNo ENGL199IRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff A substantial and significant piece of original research or creative product produced. Pre-requisite course work required. Available for full- or half-course credit.
	ENGL 199RAPO - English: Research Assistantship CrsNo ENGL199RAPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Lab notebook, research summary or other product appropriate to the discipline is required. Half-course credit only.
Environmental Analysis
	EA 010 PO - Intro to Environmental Analysis CrsNo EA 010 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): R. Hazlett; B. Cutter An EAP introductory core course. Examines the history of environmental change over the past century, the environmental ramifications of economic and technological decisions, lifestyles and personal choice and the need to evaluate environmental arguments critically. (Taught at Pitzer and Pomona).
	EA 020 PO - Nature, Culture and Society CrsNo EA 020 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): C. Miller An EAP introductory core course. This required class for all EA majors and minors is especially designed for sophomores and juniors. It will employ case studies to help analyze some key contemporary environmental dilemmas. Topics will vary, but will draw on an interdisciplinary array of sources in the humanities and social sciences, including history, philosophy and literature; religion, art, politics and sociology.
	EA 027 PO - Cities by Nature CrsNo EA 027 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2009. Instructor(s): C. Miller A cross-cultural, multi-continental examination of urbanization from the ancient world to the present, exploring the changing nature of urban life and its rituals and the impact urban development has had upon environmental systems, and political, social and economic structures.
	EA 030 PO - Science and the Environment CrsNo EA 030 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): Staff This course is an introduction to the basic principles of environmental science with applications in chemistry, ecology and geology, and is part of the core course requirements for the Environmental Analysis major. Topics covered include a discussion of ecosystems, climate change, energy and food production, land resources, pollution and sustainable development. A full laboratory accompanies the course and will include an emphasis on introduction to Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping. Prerequisite: EA 010 PO . Letter grade only.
	EA 030L JS - Science and the Environment CrsNo EA 030L JS See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 068 PZ - Ethnoecology CrsNo EA 068 PO See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 085 PO - Food, Land and the Environment CrsNo EA 085 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): R. Hazlett An exploration of food production systems, including agriculture, pastoralism and fisheries, their biogeographical constraints, and their impact upon the natural environment. Field laboratory meets at the Pomona Organic Farm with hands-on training in horticulture, bee keeping, farm, improvements and agroecology as a local option for mainstream industrial food provision. Prerequisite: EA 010 PO .
	EA 086 PZ - Environmental Justice CrsNo EA 086 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 090 PZ - Environmental Change in China and East Asia CrsNo EA 090 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of the course.
	EA 091 PZ - Air Pollution: History and Policy CrsNo EA 091 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 095 PZ - U.S. Environmental Policy CrsNo EA 095 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 098 PZ - Urban Ecology CrsNo EA 098 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 100 PO - Urban Planning and Environment CrsNo EA 100 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): A. Kim An overview of planning issues that affect low-income and communities of color, focusing on how differences impact the construction and geographies of cities. The course will cover historical and social theory as framework for city planning; community/inequitable development and environmental justice; application of theories of culture, consumption and citizenship; analysis of various strategies for social change. Letter grade only.
	EA 100L JS - Global Climate Change CrsNo EA 100L JS See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 101 PZ - Environmental Internships CrsNo EA 101 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 102 PO - Community Mapping: Immigrant Geographies (CP) CrsNo EA 102 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): A. Kim This course is an introduction to Community Mapping, using Geographic Information Systems software (ArcGIS). The theme for this semester is “Immigrant Geographies” and we will be using a limited set of available secondary data to analyze and visualize the urban experiences of immigrants in Los Angeles. Students will gain a basic understanding of the software as a tool for social mapping. By the end of the course each student will create maps illustrating a variety of aspects of city-life, including but not limited to socio-economic status, immigration patterns, housing rents and land values, educational attainment, and poverty levels in different communities. This year our community partner is the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance and the class will go on at least one field trip to the study site.
	EA 120 PZ - Global Environmental Politics and Policy CrsNo EA 120 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 125 PZ - Power and Social Change CrsNo EA 125 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 131 PZ - Restoring Nature: The Pitzer Outback CrsNo EA 131 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 132 PZ - Practicum in Exhibiting Nature: The Pitzer Outback CrsNo EA 132 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 140 PZ - The Desert as a Place CrsNo EA 140 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 141 PZ - Progress and Oppression: Ecology, Human Rights, and Development CrsNo EA 141 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 146 PZ - Environmental Education CrsNo EA 146 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 147 PZ - Community, Ecology, and Design CrsNo EA 147 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 149 PZ - Ecology and Culture Change CrsNo EA 149 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 150 PZ - Critical Environmental News CrsNo EA 150 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 152 PZ - Nature Through Film CrsNo EA 152 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 154 PZ - Commodifying Nature CrsNo EA 154 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 162 PZ - Gender, Environment & Development CrsNo EA 162 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	EA 170 PO - U.S. Environmental History CrsNo EA 170 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2013. Instructor(s): C. Miller An examination of the idea of nature and wilderness in American history, from colonial visions to contemporary ideologies. It will draw from the work of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and Mary Austin; Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson and Michael Pollan, as well as environmental documentaries and material culture.
	EA 171 PO - Water in the West CrsNo EA 171 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): C. Miller Explores how communities, states and the federal government developed the legal precedents, physical infrastructure, financial mechanisms, environmental engineering, political will and social desire for the construction of a hydraulic empire in the Trans-Mississippi West.
	EA 172 PO - Crisis Management CrsNo EA 172 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): C. Miller This seminar assesses the history of public lands in the U.S. since the late 19th century, and the environmental, legal, political and cultural forces that have shaped the federal land management agencies’ often controversial operations on the national forests, parks and grasslands. Topics will include, among others, these bureaus’ intellectual origins, political histories, fire-management practices, and the social pressures and environmental dilemmas that have shaped their actions.
	EA 180 PO - Green Urbanism CrsNo EA 180 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): W. Well; T. Bardacke A discussion-based seminar restricted to senior EA majors. The incorporation of nature into urban design; a reassessment of traditional notions about the interrelationship of the built and natural environments with a look at environmental architecture exemplified by Green Corps, LEED and other radical initiatives.Prerequisite: EA 010 PO .
	EA 189A PO - Research Methods: Food Justice Fieldwork (CP) CrsNo EA 189A PO When Offered: One-time only; spring 2013. Instructor(s): A. Kim An introduction to qualitative research methods, including ethnography, participant observation, and survey research, interrogating the boundaries of ethical social-science research, and research design. Students will spend 8 weeks conducting fieldwork with various Food Justice organizations in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire. During the semester students will craft a research proposal and spend up to 5 hours per week working closely with community partners to collect data and report back on different stops in the food chain production process (i.e. farms, community gardens, labor unions, restaurants, markets). Letter grade only. (Community Partnership)
	EA 190 PO - Environmental Senior Seminar CrsNo EA 190 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): R. Hazlett; C. Miller A capstone, modular-based seminar in which senior majors focus their various curricular backgrounds on environmental issues and problems, including projects of practical nature developed by the College’s Sustainability Integration Office. Exchange of interdisciplinary perspectives is encouraged throughout, with participants learning intensively from one another in the process of undertaking research. Simulates “real world” team-based investigations. Prerequisites: EA 010 PO , EA 030 PO and EA 191 PO .
	EA 191 PO - Thesis in Environmental Analysis CrsNo EA 191 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): R. Hazlett; C. Miller Production of a senior research paper or project which culminates in a professional-quality public presentation. Open to senior EA majors only.
	EA 191H PO - Thesis in Environmental Analysis CrsNo EA 191H PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): R. Hazlett; C. Miller Same as EA 191 PO, but taken in both semesters of the senior year for half-credit each semester; grade and credit awarded at the conclusion of the second semester.
	EA 199DRPO - Environmental Analysis: Directed Readings CrsNo EA 199DRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff 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.
	EA 199IRPO - Environmental Analysis: Independent Research CrsNo EA 199IRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff A substantial and significant piece of original research or creative product produced. Pre-requisite course work required. Available for full- or half-course credit.
French
	FREN 001 PO - Introductory French CrsNo FREN001 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): Staff Development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Intensive conversation and oral and written exercises. Pictures, videos, films, stories and realia from Francophone culture. Increased emphasis on reading and writing skills in second semester.
	FREN 002 PO - Introductory French CrsNo FREN002 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): Staff Development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Intensive conversation and oral and written exercises. Pictures, videos, films, stories and realia from Francophone culture. Increased emphasis on reading and writing skills in second semester. Prerequisite: FREN 001
	FREN 011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary French Language and Culture CrsNo FREN011 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): R. Bashaw Open to all students except native speakers. Credit for satisfactory participation in Oldenborg Center activities and two conversation classes weekly. Prerequisite: one year of college-level language study. Cumulative credit; graded P/NC. Does not satisfy the foreign language requirement. Limited to one enrollment per semester and a cumulative total of one course credit. Prerequisite: FREN 002 PO .
	FREN 013 PO - French Conversation, Advanced CrsNo FREN013 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): R. Bashaw Open to all students except native speakers. Credit for satisfactory participation in Oldenborg Center activities and two conversation classes weekly. Prerequisite: two years of college-level language study or equivalent. Cumulative, one-quarter course credit; graded P/NC. Does not satisfy the foreign language requirement. Limited to one enrollment per semester and a cumulative total of one course credit. Prerequisite: FREN 033 PO .
	FREN 015 PO - Advanced Plus Conversation CrsNo FREN015 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): R.Bashaw Open to all students except native speakers. Credit for satisfactory participation in Oldenborg Center activities and weekly course attendance and participation. P/NC only. Prerequisites: FREN 101 PO or higher; instructor permission required. May be repeated four times for credit.
	FREN 022 PO - Intensive Elementary French CrsNo FREN022 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): Staff Covers first-year material in a single semester. Intensive work on oral expression and comprehension, writing and reading. Pictures, videos, films, stories and realia from Francophone culture.
	FREN 033 PO - Intermediate French CrsNo FREN033 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Review of basic grammar; development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills through films, discussion, articles and literary texts, language tables and compositions. Prerequisite: FREN 002 PO or FREN 022 PO .
	FREN 044 PO - Advanced French CrsNo FREN044 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Discussions of films, photographs and novels from France and Francophone culture. Interviews, songs, poetry and Web surfing. Development of skills and knowledge for living and studying abroad. Review of grammar. Emphasis on speaking but course content varies. Prerequisite: FREN 033 PO .
	FREN 100 SC - French Culture and Civilization CrsNo FREN100 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 101 PO - Introduction to Literary Analysis CrsNo FREN101 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): V. Duzer; J. Abecassis Analysis of various literary genres and styles in poetry, prose and theatre. Close textual readings. Introduction to some critical methods and practice in the interpretation of texts. Written and oral work. Required of majors. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 103 PO - Frenchness: May ‘68-2008 CrsNo FREN103 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): V. Duzer Social, cultural, political and literary determinants of the notion of “Frenchness.” From the famous “Events of May ’68” through May 2008 and beyond, the evolution and transformation of ideas about what it means to be French. Stereotypes of French identity analyzed and discussed through newspaper articles, excerpts from novels, interviews, songs and films. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 104 SC - History, Memory and Loss: Vichy CrsNo FREN104 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 105 PO - Culture, Phonetics and Style CrsNo FREN105 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): C. Rolland A hands-on course to improve written and oral fluency using a variety of sources, including contemporary French films and popular culture. Learn slang, develop vocabulary and improve pronunciation through role playing, translation and creative writing, as well as practical lessons for studying abroad. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 107 SC - Headline News: Advanced Oral Expression and Composition of Current Events and Culture CrsNo FREN107 SC When Offered: Spring 2013. See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 108 PO - Language and Power in the Francophone World CrsNo FREN108 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): D. Divita An investigation of the complex relationship between language and identity in the French-speaking world. Who speaks French, how they speak it and why it matters. Increased oral and written proficiency and awareness of sociolinguistic issues through the analysis of primary documents regarding the history and politics of standardization; language policy in France and abroad, and the meaning of regional and stylistic variation. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 110 PO - Contemporary French Film CrsNo FREN110 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): C. Rolland A study of the cultural, psychological and political aspects in French film from the 90s to the present,with special attention to the role and representation of men and women. Featured filmmakers include: Jeunet, Klapisch, Leconte, Chatiliez, and Lioret. Emphasis on oral and written expression through essays, oral exposés, and discussion. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 111 SC - French Cinema: Images of Women CrsNo FREN111 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 114 SC - Documenting the French CrsNo FREN114 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 117 CM - Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean CrsNo FREN117 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 120 CM - Order and Revolt in French Literature CrsNo FREN120 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 121 SC - The Politics of Love CrsNo FREN121 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 124 SC - The Novelist and Society in France CrsNo FREN124 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 128 PO - The Fantastic CrsNo FREN128 PO When Offered: Spring 2014. Instructor(s): J. Abecassis The fantastic as a literary and cultural phenomenon. Study of myth, fairy tales and fantastic tales of the Romantic period. Emphasis on psychoanalytic and archetypal criticism. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 129 PO - Who’s Afraid of Marcel Proust? CrsNo FREN129 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): V. Duzer Who’s afraid of Marcel Proust? What does Marcel Proust’s monumental project teach us about French literature? How did his pastiches and references to the literary canon help Proust write? This course connects close readings of passages from “La Recherche” and their direct and indirect sources (Marie de France, Ronsard, Racine, Chateaubriand, Nerval, Sand, Bergson, etc.) as a way to review the spectrum of French literature. Prerequisites: FREN 101 PO .
	FREN 130 SC - French Theater from Text to Stage I: Theatricality and “Mise en Scene” CrsNo FREN130 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 133 CM - Beur: Immigration/Citizenship/Maghreb CrsNo FREN133 CM When Offered: Spring 2013. See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 139 PO - Framing Urban Violence in France CrsNo FREN139 PO When Offered: Spring 2014. Instructor(s): C. Rolland Urban violence has become a major player in international media coverage of the French banlieues. Using a variety of sources, including rap songs, podcasts, online videos, documentary films and autobiographical texts, this course will examine the nature of violent behavior on a structural and individual level.Prerequisites: FREN 044; FREN 101 and/or FREN 105 recommended.
	FREN 150A PO - Les Moralistes: Public and Private Selves CrsNo FREN150A PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2010. Instructor(s): J. Abecassis Study of late 16th- and 17th-century French moral thought in the essays, plays, satire and dialogues of Montaigne, Molière, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld and Pascal. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 150B PO - Les Philosophes: Paradoxes of Nature CrsNo FREN150B PO When Offered: Fall 2013. Instructor(s): J. Abecassis Enlightenment thought through the reading of tales, dialogues and essays of Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau and Sade. Prerequisite: FREN 001 PO or FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 150C PO - Moralistes/Philosophes: Advanced Topics CrsNo FREN150C PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): J. Abecassis In-depth study of a single author or theme in early French literature, e.g. Diderot’s fiction, The Confessions of Rousseau, the tragedies of Racine. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 151 PO - Men, Women and Power CrsNo FREN151 PO When Offered: Fall 2014. Instructor(s): M. Waller The representation of power, gender and sexuality by female and male writers in 17th- and 18th-century France. How sexuality is used to maintain or subvert relationships between men and women. How texts implicate the reader in those struggles for power. Sensibility, pre-Romanticism and libertinism. Racine, Moliere, Prevost, Graffigny, Rousseau and Laclos. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 152 PO - Masters, Servants and Slaves CrsNo FREN152 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): M. Waller Literary works that foreground servants and slaves to rethink who is and should be master. Uppity servants in comedies by Moliére. Marivaux and Beaumarchais, women coming to voice despite “Oriental” harem despotism and French paternalism in novels by Montesquieu and Mme de Graffigny: the universal “Declaration of the Rights of Man” of 1789. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 154 SC - The 18th-Century Novel CrsNo FREN154 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 172 SC - Baudelaire and Symbolist Aesthetic CrsNo FREN172 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 173 PO - Reading Bodies CrsNo FREN173 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): M. Waller Personal appearance as a manifestation of gender, nationality, race, class, status, sexuality and personality in 19th-century French literature, art and popular culture. Marie Antoinette and Republican masculinity, fashion plates and cross-dressers, manual laborers, prostitutes and sexual hermaphrodites. Prerequisite: FREN 001 PO or FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 173 SC - Within the French Salon CrsNo FREN173 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	FREN 174 PO - The Romantic Other CrsNo FREN174 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): M. Waller A study of the construction of self and other in French Romantic novels by Mme. de Staël, Hugo, Balzac and Sand in their post-Revolutionary social and political context. Forms of otherness include gender, race, class, region and historical period. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 175 PO - Writing the Exotic CrsNo FREN175 PO When Offered: Fall 2014. Instructor(s): M. Waller Colonialism and the fascination with “exotic” lands and peoples in 19th-century France. What do novels and other cultural texts tell us about nationalist fantasies and anxieties on the domestic front? A study of noble savages, savage slaves, racial ostracism, sex tourism and Orientalism in works by Chateaubriand, Duras, Hugo, Flaubert, Nerval and others. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 178 PO - Writing the Painter, Painting the Writer CrsNo FREN178 PO When Offered: Spring 2014. Instructor(s): V. Duzer The relation between painting and literature, 1870-1939: What happens when writers and painters meet every day in cafés, fall in love with the same muses, share a similar passion for strolling through the crowd? Texts by Baudelaire, Flaubert, Zola, Mallarmé, Valéry, Proust; paintings by Courbet, Manet, Monet, Van Gogh. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 182 PO - Cannibalizing Surrealism CrsNo FREN182 PO When Offered: Fall 2013. Instructor(s): V. Duzer The evolution of the French surrealist movement from the dawn of World War I through the 1960s. How Surrealism continues to be embedded, cannibalized and commercialized today. Readings include manifestos, poems and novels. Aesthetic focus includes paintings, photographs and movies. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .
	FREN 185 PO - The Art of Modern Fiction CrsNo FREN185 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): J. Abecassis; D. Duzer What happens when the almighty realist narrator disappears? What is new about “Le Nouveau Roman”? How can “the death of the author” keep the novel alive? Readings from the 20th-century and contemporary French and Francophone authors such as Proust, Sartre, Gide, Sarraute, Perec, Confiant, Modiano, Duras, Nothomb, Le Clézio. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO .

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ENGL 176 SC - Southern Women Writers

ENGL 180 SC - Asian American Fiction

ENGL 183 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality

ENGL 183A PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction

ENGL 183B PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry

ENGL 183C PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Screenwriting

ENGL 183D PO - Literary Essay

ENGL 183E PO - Experiments in Creative Nonfiction

ENGL 184 PO - New Poetics

ENGL 189A SC - American Film: Ford, Capra, Hitchcock

ENGL 189B SC - American Film: Welles, Sturges, Lang

ENGL 189C SC - Fifties Film: Pop Culture Society

ENGL 189D SC - Genre: The Art Film

ENGL 189J PO - Topics in Asian American Literature

ENGL 190 PO - Senior Exercise/Seminar Option

ENGL 191 PO - Senior Thesis

ENGL 195 PO - Literary Criticism: Advanced Methods

ENGL 199DRPO - English: Directed Readings

ENGL 199IRPO - English: Independent Research

ENGL 199RAPO - English: Research Assistantship

EA 010 PO - Intro to Environmental Analysis

EA 020 PO - Nature, Culture and Society

EA 027 PO - Cities by Nature

EA 030 PO - Science and the Environment

EA 030L JS - Science and the Environment

EA 068 PZ - Ethnoecology

EA 085 PO - Food, Land and the Environment

EA 086 PZ - Environmental Justice

EA 090 PZ - Environmental Change in China and East Asia

EA 091 PZ - Air Pollution: History and Policy

EA 095 PZ - U.S. Environmental Policy

EA 098 PZ - Urban Ecology

EA 100 PO - Urban Planning and Environment

EA 100L JS - Global Climate Change

EA 101 PZ - Environmental Internships

EA 102 PO - Community Mapping: Immigrant Geographies (CP)

EA 120 PZ - Global Environmental Politics and Policy

EA 125 PZ - Power and Social Change

EA 131 PZ - Restoring Nature: The Pitzer Outback

EA 132 PZ - Practicum in Exhibiting Nature: The Pitzer Outback

EA 140 PZ - The Desert as a Place

EA 141 PZ - Progress and Oppression: Ecology, Human Rights, and Development

EA 146 PZ - Environmental Education

EA 147 PZ - Community, Ecology, and Design

EA 149 PZ - Ecology and Culture Change

EA 150 PZ - Critical Environmental News

EA 152 PZ - Nature Through Film

EA 154 PZ - Commodifying Nature

EA 162 PZ - Gender, Environment & Development

EA 170 PO - U.S. Environmental History

EA 171 PO - Water in the West

EA 172 PO - Crisis Management

EA 180 PO - Green Urbanism

EA 189A PO - Research Methods: Food Justice Fieldwork (CP)

EA 190 PO - Environmental Senior Seminar

EA 191 PO - Thesis in Environmental Analysis

EA 191H PO - Thesis in Environmental Analysis

EA 199DRPO - Environmental Analysis: Directed Readings

EA 199IRPO - Environmental Analysis: Independent Research

FREN 001 PO - Introductory French

FREN 002 PO - Introductory French

FREN 011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary French Language and Culture

FREN 013 PO - French Conversation, Advanced

FREN 015 PO - Advanced Plus Conversation

FREN 022 PO - Intensive Elementary French

FREN 033 PO - Intermediate French

FREN 044 PO - Advanced French

FREN 100 SC - French Culture and Civilization

FREN 101 PO - Introduction to Literary Analysis

FREN 103 PO - Frenchness: May ‘68-2008

FREN 104 SC - History, Memory and Loss: Vichy

FREN 105 PO - Culture, Phonetics and Style

FREN 107 SC - Headline News: Advanced Oral Expression and Composition of Current Events and Culture

FREN 108 PO - Language and Power in the Francophone World

FREN 110 PO - Contemporary French Film

FREN 111 SC - French Cinema: Images of Women

FREN 114 SC - Documenting the French

FREN 117 CM - Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean

FREN 120 CM - Order and Revolt in French Literature