2018-19 Pomona College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Use the dropdown above to select the current 2023-24 catalog.
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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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Gender and Women’s Studies |
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GWS142 PO - Queering ChildhoodWhen Offered: Spring 2019.
Instructor(s): A. Apgar
Credit: 1
This interdisciplinary course examines the figure of the Child and how this figuration is used by politics, law, and medicine to justify continued cultural investment in reproductive heteronormativity and productive ablebodiedness. In doing so, we examine the queer and crip children and childhoods against which the figure of the Child is articulated. This course draws on work in gender studies, childhood studies, disability studies, and queer theory, including Julian Gill-Peterson, Alison Kafer, Lee Edelman, and Katherine Boyd Stockton. Prerequisites: GWS 026 PO or equivalent.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3; Writing Intensive; Analyzing Difference
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GWS180 PO - Queer and Feminist TheoriesWhen Offered: Each fall.
Instructor(s): K. Tompkins
Credit: 1
This class provides an overview of recent critical work in the field of feminist and queer theory. It is a necessary course for both the GWS major and minor. Emphasis on intersections with critical race and transnational theory; materials will be drawn from a broad range of disciplines including anthropology, history, political philosophy, literature and others. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: GWS 026 PO . 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 3
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Media Studies |
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MS149T PO - Junior Seminar: Critical StudiesWhen Offered: Each spring.
Instructor(s): Staff
Credit: 1
An overview of core traditions in Critical Media Studies through in-depth engagement with key texts. This course serves as preparation for the Senior Seminar by consolidating a foundation in critical theory. Areas of focus include the following: The Frankfurt School, The Chicago School, Pragmatism, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Semiotics, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Psychoanalytical Theory, Postcolonial Theory, and Critical Race Theory. Prerequisites: MS 049 PO , MS 050 PO , or MS 051 PO , and one upper level theory class (MS 147 PO - MS 149 PO).
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Religious Studies |
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RLST184 PO - Queer Theory and the BibleWhen Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2019.
Instructor(s): E. Runions
Credit: 1
This course will look at how the Bible can be read productively through queer theory. We will examine biblical passages that are central to prohibitions on homosexuality and the larger discourses of heteronormativity (constructed around gender, sexuality, class, national identity, state formations, kinship, children, etc.) in which homophobic readings of the Bible emerge. We will also look at the ways in which these discourses and the identities they shore up can be “queered,” as well as at biblical texts that can be read as queer friendly. This process of queering will allow and require us to approach the biblical text in new ways.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3; Analyzing Difference
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Spanish |
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SPAN103 PO - La Felicidad: Queer Fictions & Realities in Spain and Latin(o) America.When Offered: Spring 2019.
Instructor(s): J. Cartagena-Calderón
Credit: 1
This course will explore queer representations in Spain and Latin(o) America through analysis of a wide range of visual and textual cultural products from the Middle Ages to the present. Samples analyzed come from narrative prose, plays, autobiographies, poetry, paintings, television and films. We will explore the specificities of same-sex and transgender experiences in Spain and Latin(o) America as well as the evolving significance and successive forms of their expression and repression in literature and the visual arts. Students will develop their skills in reading, writing and thinking about gender and sexuality in Spanish while gaining a basic knowledge of feminist and queer theory. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: SPAN 044 PO or equivalent.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 1; Language Requirement; Speaking Intensive
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