2013-14 Pomona College Catalog

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Africana Studies
	AFRI 010A AF - Introduction to Africana Studies CrsNo AFRI010A AF Instructor(s): D. Schnyder Interdisciplinary exploration of key aspects of Black history, culture, and life in Africa and the Americas. Provides a fundamental, intellectual understanding of the global Black experience as it has been described and interpreted in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
	AFRI 010B AF - Introduction to Africana Studies: Research Methods CrsNo AFRI010B AF Instructor(s): D. Schnyder Introduces students to the methodologies used in research on topics pertinent to Africana studies. In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the field, introduces students to research methods in the humanities and social sciences including, but not limited to, interviewing; content analysis; archival, library and Internet research; and participant-observation.
	AFRI 120 AF - Prisons and Public Education CrsNo AFRI120 AF Instructor(s): D. Schnyder In this course we will analyze and deconstruct existing realities, and posit new ones with respect to interlocking violence that is levied against black people in the form of public education and the prison industrial complex.
	AFRI 144A AF - Black Women Feminism(s) and Social Change CrsNo AFRI144A AF When Offered: Last offered spring 2009. Instructor(s): P. Jackson Introduction to the theoretical and practical contributions of African American feminists who maintain that issues of race, gender, sexuality and social class are central, rather than peripheral, to any history, analysis, assessment or strategy for bringing about change in the United States.
	AFRI 149 AF - Africana Political Theory: Black Political Theory in the United States CrsNo AFRI149 AF Instructor(s): D. Schnyder Given the Black dispersal throughout the world, Africana Political Theory will analyze the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the formation of political structures through the African Diaspora. Utilizing the texts of Black scholars throughout the Diaspora, the course will provide a broad look into Black politics. Prerequisite: at least one course in Africana Studies.
	AFRI 190 AF - Senior Seminar CrsNo AFRI190 AF When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): E. Hurley Seminar for Africana studies majors. Compliments guidance of primary thesis advisor, by focusing on interdisciplinary research strategies and data collection methods; development of authorial voice for the interrogation of African/African Diasporan topics, notions of race, and manifestations of racism. Emphasis on writing, rewriting and peer review. Minors require instructor’s permission.
	AFRI 191 AF - Senior Thesis CrsNo AFRI191 AF When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff In the Senior Seminar, students undertake independent research culminating in a substantial thesis. The thesis work will be supervised by one faculty member chosen by the student. Each thesis will be read by one additional reader.
	AFRI 192 AF - Senior Project CrsNo AFRI192 AF When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Through the Senior Seminar, students engage in an independent reading, research, and participatory exercise on a topic agreed to by the student and the adviser. Normally, the project involves a set of short papers and/or culminates in a research paper or original work of substantial length based upon participation in a project or program, e.g. original play script, film or film script, or artwork.
	AFRI 193 AF - Senior Comprehensive Examination CrsNo AFRI193 AF When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff In the Senior Seminar, students will prepare for the exam to be taken during their senior year. The comprehensive examination consists of two field examinations that test the depth of the student’s knowledge of Africana studies. The student chooses two areas in Africana studies (e.g., history and literature) in which to be examined.
	AFRI 199DRAF - Africana Studies: Independent Research CrsNo AFRI199DRAF When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff 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.
	AFRI 199IRAF - Africana Studies: Independent Research CrsNo AFRI199IRAF When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff 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.
	AFRI 199RAAF - Africana Studies: Research Assistantship CrsNo AFRI199RAAF When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Research Assistantship. Lab notebook, research summary or other product appropriate to the discipline is required. Half-course credit only.
	HMSC 087F AF - Black France CrsNo HMSC087F AF See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
American Studies
	AMST 103 JT - Introduction to American Cultures CrsNo AMST103 JT Instructor(s): Staff This course, taught by an intercollegiate faculty team, introduces important themes and methods in American studies. Its interdisciplinary approach brings together such areas as art, music, politics, social history, literature and anthropology. Topics frequently covered include the origins of the American self, ethnic diversity, immigration, women, the West, modernism, consensus and dissent.
	AMST 125 SC - Race in Popular Culture and Media CrsNo AMST125 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	AMST 126 SC - Race in U.S. Urban History CrsNo AMST126 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	AMST 130SC - Multiracial People in U.S. History CrsNo AMST130 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	AMST 180 SC - American Studies Seminar CrsNo AMST180 SC Instructor(s): M. Delmont. See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	AMST 190 JT - Senior Thesis Seminar CrsNo AMST190 JT When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): Staff Exclusively for American studies majors who are preparing to write a senior thesis. Letter grade only.
	AMST 191 PO - Senior Thesis CrsNo AMST191 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): Staff Required of all majors in the senior year. The capstone project for majors in which they produce an original work in American studies.
	AMST 199DRPO - American Studies: Directed Readings CrsNo AMST199DRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff 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.
	AMST 199IRPO - American Studies: Independent Research CrsNo AMST199IRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff 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.
	AMST 199RAPO - American Studies: Research Assistantship CrsNo AMST199RAPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Lab notebook, research summary or other product appropriate to the discipline is required. Half-course credit only.
Anthropology
	ANTH 003 PZ - Language, Culture and Society CrsNo ANTH003 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 012 PZ - Native Americans and Their Environments CrsNo ANTH012 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 016 PZ - Intro to Nepal CrsNo ANTH016 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 023 PZ - China and Japan Through Film and Ethnography CrsNo ANTH023 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 025 PO - Anthropology of the Middle East CrsNo ANTH025 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): K.Eileraas Women in the Middle East and North Africa have played an active role in nationalist movements and anti-colonial revolution in the late 20th century. Yet a recurring theme of contemporary feminist literature, art, and theory from this region involves a critique of masculinist nationalist movements that have compromised women’s rights and promoted a sense of divided loyalties among women. We will begin by asking how analytical categories including the “Middle East” and “Muslim Women” tend to advance particular forms of knowledge production in the West. Taking as a point of departure the myriad voices that have “spoken for” women in the Middle East, this course will explore nationalism; colonization; veiling and the politics of appearance; anti-colonial revolution; human rights; religious identity and Islamic feminism; and exile, especially as expressed in literary memoir, critical theory and historiography, and film. We will focus on transnational feminist perspectives from the diaspora, paying particular attention to the experiences of women who have immigrated to North America and Europe in the wake of war and revolution, and who identify themselves as existing in the margins between nations. We will focus on women’s experiences in Iran, Egypt, and the Francophone Maghreb, especially Algeria. In conclusion, we will evaluate media coverage of the ongoing “Arab Spring” with respect to gender, sexual, ethnic, national and religious identities; the politics of solidarity: sexuality and/ as revolution; neo-Orientalism; post-9/11 Islamism; and the role of social media in the production and dissemination of cultures of dissent.
	ANTH 025 SC - Anthropology of the Middle East CrsNo ANTH025 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 028 PZ - Colonial Encounters: Asia CrsNo ANTH028 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 047 PO - Economic Anthropology CrsNo ANTH047 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2014. Instructor(s): L. Thomas Explorations of economies from ethnographic and historical perspectives. Attention to diversity in production, exchange, and consumption across societies; ways in which people make a living, looking at foraging, pastoralist, agricultural, industrial societies; attention to questions of self-involvement; gifts; debt; political economy; Wall Street; globalization; economy and environment. Previously offered as ANTH189H PO.
	ANTH 050 PZ - Sex, Body and Reproduction CrsNo ANTH050 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 051 PO - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology CrsNo ANTH051 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): S. Martin; D. Gladney Study of the structure and dynamics of human culture and social institutions from a comparative perspective. Diversity in ways of life and patterns of social organization explored through ethnographic materials from societies around the world. Letter grade only.
	ANTH 052 PO - Human Sexuality CrsNo ANTH052 PO When Offered: Spring 2014. Instructor(s): R. Bolton Survey of knowledge about human sexual and reproductive behavior, attitudes, concepts and values, with attention to the biological, psychological and sociocultural dimensions of sexuality. Special consideration of “safer sex” and AIDS prevention, and an examination of controversial issues surrounding sexuality in contemporary America.
	ANTH 053 PO - Language, Thought and Culture CrsNo ANTH053 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): L.Thomas Explorations of proposals that language either determines or constrains thought, shapes perception or experience; reasoning and discourse; language and information processing; cross-cultural study; attention to universals.
	ANTH 055 PO - Power, Politics and Culture CrsNo ANTH055 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): L.Thomas Is it possible to create a more just world or are humans inherently competitive, violent and hierarchical? Do nation states reduce conflict or produce it? How do different socio-cultural systems influence politics? This course examines political arrangements in different settings, including those in the U.S. It also gives attention to new social movements that have arisen to challenge the dominance of states and ruling classes.
	ANTH 086 PZ - Anthropology and Public Policy CrsNo ANTH086 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 087SC - Contemporary Issues: Gender and Islam CrsNo ANTH087 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 088 PZ - China: Gender, Cosmology and the State CrsNo ANTH088 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 099 PZ - China in the 21st-Century CrsNo ANTH099 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 102 PO - Applied Anthropology CrsNo ANTH102 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2013. Instructor(s): P. Mahdavi This course is designed to provide an overview of the field of applied anthropology. Introduction to the history, theory, and methodology; uses of anthropology to solve social, economic, health and development problems domestically and internationally. Students will conduct their own fieldwork on an applied issue of their choice.
	ANTH 105 PO - Methods in Anthropological Inquiry CrsNo ANTH105 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): P. Mahdavi Introduction to ethnography, the major mode of investigation in anthropology. Emphasis on systematic inquiry and inference. The vicissitudes of fieldwork and what it means to learn about human ways of life using the “technology” anthropologists have developed to gather, record and use data.
	ANTH 107 PO - Medical Anthropology CrsNo ANTH107 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): P. Mahdavi History, theory, methodology and application of anthropology in various health settings. Concepts of health, illness and healing in diverse cultural contexts. Critical assessment of conventional biomedical assumptions. Use of anthropology to solve health problems.
	ANTH 109 PO - Theory in Anthropology CrsNo ANTH109 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): D. Gladney The history of anthropology in the context of the emergence of the social sciences and the division between the sciences and the humanities. Exercises in theory construction and evaluation. Letter grade only.
	ANTH 110 HM - Life: Knowledge and Practices CrsNo ANTH110 HM See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 110 PZ - Nature and Society in Amazonia CrsNo ANTH110 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 111 HM - Introduction to the Anthropology of Science and Technology CrsNo ANTH111 HM See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 119 SC - East Asia and Global Futures CrsNo ANTH119 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 121 SC - Science, Medicine & Technology CrsNo ANTH121 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 127 AA - Asian Amer in Ethnography/Film CrsNo ANTH127 AA Examines practices of ethnographic research and of cultural production beginning with a critical examination of the category of Asian Pacific Americans. The course will address historic formations of subjects, compare social science and filmic representations of Asian Pacific Americans, and explore contemporary issues of race, culture and politics through ethnography.
	ANTH 130 PO - Sexual Politics of the Modern Middle East CrsNo ANTH130 PO When Offered: Spring 2014. Instructor(s): P. Mahdavi Looks at emerging and changing sexual cultures and how they affect and are affected by changes in politics, culture, tradition and the question of modernity in the Middle East. Examines questions of gender, sexuality, health and human rights among peoples of the Middle East from an anthropological lens.
	ANTH 133 PZ - Indians in Action CrsNo ANTH133 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 135 PO - The Social Life of Media CrsNo ANTH135 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): S. Martin; L. Thomas Social and cultural nature of media. Special attention to problems of value and influence in aesthetic, moral and political terms, in news reporting and commentary, sitcoms and movies, advertising uses of media in education.
	ANTH 140 PO - Love, Labor and Law Across Borders CrsNo ANTH140 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2014. Instructor(s): P. Mahdavi Over the past quarter century, women and men have migrated across borders to engage in different forms of intimate labor. They have done so formally and informally, as spouses, domestic workers, and sex workers. This seminar invites students to question received categories for classifying and understanding these forms of migration by examining them as types of intimate labor that fundamentally reshape constructions of family, citizenship, labor, gender, and sexuality across borders. The framework of intimate labor requires one to rethink scholarly, policy, and activist formulations of migration and the phenomenon of ‘human trafficking’ premised on artificial distinctions between forced and voluntary movement, formal and informal migration and labor, and legitimate and illegitimate statuses in host and receiving countries. The course will look at readings in various transnational contexts to question ways in which intimate labor is being reconfigured through gendered migration practices and policies. The seminar will primarily look at these issues through an anthropological lens, but we will engage other disciplines such as economics, sociology and politics to enhance our understandings of convergences across modes of intimate labor and reduce gaps between policy and lived experience.
	ANTH 149 SC - Anthro of the (Extra)Ordinary CrsNo ANTH149 SC See the Scrippps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 150 PO - Understanding Religion CrsNo ANTH150 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): L.Thomas Religious experience in differing societies. Questions about religious practices in relation to practitioners’ thoughts, feelings, values and social circumstances: development of approaches helpful in exploring religious life; attention to worldview, myth, ritual, witchcraft, taboo, shamanism and pollution; special attention to new, revitalizing and politicizing religious movements.
	ANTH 152 PO - Ethnic Nationalism CrsNo ANTH152 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2014. Instructor(s): D. Gladney Contemporary theories of ethnic and cultural nationalism from social science perspectives. Issues of nation-states, power hierarchies, modernity and identity in contemporary societies. Letter grade only.
	ANTH 153 PZ - History of Anthropological Theory CrsNo ANTH153 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 155 PO - Globalization CrsNo ANTH155 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): L.Thomas The nature of globalization and of claims made about it; examination of neoliberalism; transnational labor, media, tourism and youth culture; regional and world systems historically and cross-culturally; globalization of protest; impacts on local communities.
	ANTH 156 PO - Comparative Muslim Societies in Asia CrsNo ANTH156 PO When Offered: Spring 2015. Instructor(s): D. Gladney Course surveys and analyzes the wide diversity found among Muslim communities and Islamic societies. The course also looks at issues of the requirement of the pilgrimage, the centrality of the mosques, the finding of Muslim mates in many non-Muslim areas and religio-political movements.
	ANTH 157 PO - Anthropology of Chinese Society CrsNo ANTH157 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2013. Instructor(s): D. Gladney Examines China as a nation in transition; the critical junctures in Chinese history: 1949, the Cultural Revolution, post-Mao economic reforms, Tiananmen Square and their impact on Chinese cultural and social life. How Chinese culture and society are ‘represented’ by different authors; China as an ideological construction; minority identity; effects of global and mass mediated popular culture; Chinese diaspora in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore; resistance to Chinese identity by Tibetans, Uyghurs and Taiwanese. Letter grade only.
	ANTH 158 PO - The Anthropology of Sports CrsNo ANTH158 PO When Offered: Spring 2014. Instructor(s): D. Gladney Theory of sports and the body in socio-cultural anthropology. Survey of premodern and non-western forms such as the first Olympic Games, the ball courts of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the ritual kickball at the earliest Japanese court, Afghan buzkashi, and Native American lacrosse. Tracks how modern team sports were disseminated through the circuits of Western imperialism. Attention to the social structures, cultural meanings and historical pathways by which sporting practices take distinctive form and significance. Letter grade only.
	ANTH 159 PO - Anthropology of Food CrsNo ANTH159 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2014. Instructor(s): D. Gladney This course is intended to introduce students to the social practices and meanings, symbolic, biological, and political, that surround food and food-related practices. Food is at the heart of most cultures around the world and we will look closely at the ways in which food is used as prescription, taboo, or social solidarity. Feasts, fasts, and diets will be viewed in historical and social context with close attention to issues of gender, class, and religion. Consumption in the global context will be linked to local tastes and food practices. Letter grade only.
	ANTH 162 PO - Andean Cultures CrsNo ANTH162 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2014. Instructor(s): R. Bolton Focusing on highland South America, this course explores cultural continuities and changes in contemporary Andean communities, with special emphasis on the Lake Titicaca region of the Peruvian Altiplano. Ethnographic readings and lectures will cover religion, gender, subsistence, health, environment, politics, tourism and ethnohistory.
	ANTH 171 SC - Seminar in Sexuality and Religion CrsNo ANTH170 SC Instructor(s): L. Deeb Please see the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ANTH 189L PO - Production and Reception of Icons CrsNo ANTH189L PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2012. Instructor(s): S. Martin This course will examine how icons are constructed and commodified by markets, myths, memories, and media. What do icons reveal about identity formation, community belonging and strategies of resistance? How do icons become appropriated? The course will address concepts such as global capitalism, public space, transnationalism, modernity, nationalism and ethnicity.
	ANTH 191 PO - Senior Thesis CrsNo ANTH191 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff May be taken for half-course in both semesters of the last year, or as full course in either semester of the senior year.
	ANTH 192 PO - Senior Project CrsNo ANTH192 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff May be taken for half-course in both semesters of the last year or as full course in either semester of the senior year.
	ANTH 199DRPO - Anthropology: Directed Readings CrsNo ANTH199DRPO 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.
	ANTH 199IRPO - Anthropology: Independent Research CrsNo ANTH199IRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff A substantial and significant piece of original research or creative product produced. Pre-requisite course work required. Otherwise, student should take Directed Reading/199DR. Available for full- or half-course credit.
	ANTH 199RAPO - Anthropology: Research Assistantship CrsNo ANTH199RAPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Lab notebook, research summary or other product appropriate to the discipline is required. Half-course credit only.
Arabic
	ARBC 001 CM - Introductory Arabic CrsNo ARBC001 CM Instructor(s): Staff See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ARBC 002 CM - Continuing Introductory Arabic CrsNo ARBC002 CM Instructor(s): Staff See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ARBC 033 CM - Intermediate Arabic CrsNo ARBC033 CM Instructor(s): Staff See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ARBC 044 CM - Continuing Intermediate Arabic CrsNo ARBC044 CM Instructor(s): Staff See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ARBC 130 CM - Modern Arabic Prose and Poetry CrsNo ARBC130 CM Instructor(s): Staff See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ARBC 166 CM - Modern Arab Culture and Thought CrsNo ARBC166 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ARBT 110 CM - Modern Arabic Poetry in Translation CrsNo ARBT110 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ARBT 190 CM - Trends/Movements in Mod Mid-East CrsNo ARBT190 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
Studio Art
	ART 005 PO - Drawing I CrsNo ART 005 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): M. Teixido Introduction to observational drawing with attention to the articulation of line, shape, form, gesture, value and composition. Studio work introduces a range of traditional drawing materials and subjects while exploring a variety of conceptual approaches to image making and visual expression. Letter grade only.
	ART 010 PO - Painting I CrsNo ART 010 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): S. Mukherjee Painting from observation to increase technical skills, visual sophistication and critical awareness. Includes work from the figure, the self-portrait, sketches and the still life. No experience necessary, but ART 005 PO recommended. Letter grade only.
	ART 020 PO - Black and White Photography CrsNo ART 020 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): L. Auerbach Introductory photography course focuses on traditional black and white processes. Readings and lectures about issues, ideas and photographers give students the opportunity to contextualize their own work within the trajectory of photographic history. Emphasis falls equally on questions of “how?” and “why?”, and a final self-directed project allows students to explore their specific interests.
	ART 021 PO - Foundations of 2D Design CrsNo ART 021 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): M. Allen Foundations of 2D Design is a hands on introduction to the principles of visual design.
	ART 025 PO - Sculpture I CrsNo ART 025 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): M. O’Malley Addresses a wide range of materials and processes to investigate issues of form and presentation. Materials include wire, clay, plastic, plaster, wax and aluminum castings. Assigned projects introduce a variety of techniques while offering the student an opportunity to explore his/her own unique pragmatic, expressive, critical and intuitive sensibilities. Letter grade only.
	ART 027 PO - Wood Sculpture CrsNo ART 027 PO When Offered: Fall 2013. Instructor(s): M. O’Malley 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.
	ART 028 PO - Digital Photography CrsNo ART 028 PO When Offered: Spring 2014. Instructor(s): L. Auerbach 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 intersts. Digital SLR camera suggested, but not required.
	ART 029 PO - Introduction to Metal Casting CrsNo ART 029 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2013. Instructor(s): M. O’Malley Expands the technical, conceptual and expressive skills through the process of traditional metal casting. Students learn specific technical skills inherent to casting in a range of material-plaster, wax, aluminum and bronze. Emphasis on pattern making and mold making along with traditional techniques. Introduces a visual and theoretical awareness of contemporary art. Letter grade only. Previously offered as ART 126B PO.
	ART 037 PZ - Environments and Art CrsNo ART 037 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ART 103 PZ - Environments Workshop CrsNo ART 103 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ART 104 PO - Drawing as Improvisation CrsNo ART 104 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2013. Instructor(s): M.Teixido Drawing is a way to see, describe understand, explore, and be. The act of drawing is largely an improvisation act. In emphasizing this aspect of making drawings we will explore historical and contemporary ideas of improvisation thru 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.
	ART 105A PO - Drawing II: Abstractions CrsNo ART 105A PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): M. Teixido 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.
	ART 105B PO - Drawing II: Representation CrsNo ART 105B PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2013. Instructor(s): M. Teixido 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 to 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.
	ART 108 PO - Figurative Painting CrsNo ART 108 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): S. Mukherjee 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.
	ART 111 PO - Contemporary Topics in Painting CrsNo ART 111 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): S. Mukherjee 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.
	ART 119 PO - Landscape/Placescape/Spacescape CrsNo ART 119 PO When Offered: Spring 2014. Instructor(s): A. Lepore An emphasis on exploration and expansion of the representation of outdoor space and land use through photography. Assignments, readings and self-directed projects allow students the freedom to engage with a variety of topics, while technical instruction introduces medium and large format cameras. Students should expect some Friday/Saturday field trips and some potentially strenuous walks. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ART 020 PO .
	ART 120 PO - Photographing People CrsNo ART 120 PO When Offered: Fall 2013. Instructor(s): L. Auerbach Photographing People. This studio course investigates the tradition of photographic portraiture. Technical skills will be honed and expanded, lighting techniques will be introduced, and discussion will revolve around the portrait within photographic history. A semester long portraiture project will culminate in a book project or website. Prerequisite: ART 020 PO or ART 028 PO . Letter grade only.
	ART 123 PO - Documentary Photography CrsNo ART 123 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): S. Pinkel Explores approaches to visual documentation through in-depth group photo/text projects. Includes black and white and color photography, computer generation of image/text pages and practice in “reading” of photographic images in the news media, advertising and the photographic essay. Prerequisite: ART 020 PO . Letter grade only.
	ART 128 PO - Installation: Site, Time, Context CrsNo ART 128 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): M. O’Malley An upper level course that explores how site, time and context inform both the conception and reception of an art work. Students will work with a range of materials and contexts dependent on the ideas at stake. Skills learned will be tailored to the students individually. Installations and/or performances, maquettes, readings, images and field trips will structure student learning. Prerequisite: ART 025 PO or equivalent. Letter grade only. May be repeated for credit.
	ART 129 PO - Performance in Contemporary Art CrsNo ART 129 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2013. Instructor(s): M. Allen 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.
	ART 130 PZ - Design/Build Studio CrsNo ART 130 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.

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AFRI 010A AF - Introduction to Africana Studies

AFRI 010B AF - Introduction to Africana Studies: Research Methods

AFRI 120 AF - Prisons and Public Education

AFRI 144A AF - Black Women Feminism(s) and Social Change

AFRI 149 AF - Africana Political Theory: Black Political Theory in the United States

AFRI 190 AF - Senior Seminar

AFRI 191 AF - Senior Thesis

AFRI 192 AF - Senior Project

AFRI 193 AF - Senior Comprehensive Examination

AFRI 199DRAF - Africana Studies: Independent Research

AFRI 199IRAF - Africana Studies: Independent Research

AFRI 199RAAF - Africana Studies: Research Assistantship

HMSC 087F AF - Black France

AMST 103 JT - Introduction to American Cultures

AMST 125 SC - Race in Popular Culture and Media

AMST 126 SC - Race in U.S. Urban History

AMST 130SC - Multiracial People in U.S. History

AMST 180 SC - American Studies Seminar

AMST 190 JT - Senior Thesis Seminar

AMST 191 PO - Senior Thesis

AMST 199DRPO - American Studies: Directed Readings

AMST 199IRPO - American Studies: Independent Research

AMST 199RAPO - American Studies: Research Assistantship

ANTH 003 PZ - Language, Culture and Society

ANTH 012 PZ - Native Americans and Their Environments

ANTH 016 PZ - Intro to Nepal

ANTH 023 PZ - China and Japan Through Film and Ethnography

ANTH 025 PO - Anthropology of the Middle East

ANTH 025 SC - Anthropology of the Middle East

ANTH 028 PZ - Colonial Encounters: Asia

ANTH 047 PO - Economic Anthropology

ANTH 050 PZ - Sex, Body and Reproduction

ANTH 051 PO - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

ANTH 052 PO - Human Sexuality

ANTH 053 PO - Language, Thought and Culture

ANTH 055 PO - Power, Politics and Culture

ANTH 086 PZ - Anthropology and Public Policy

ANTH 087SC - Contemporary Issues: Gender and Islam

ANTH 088 PZ - China: Gender, Cosmology and the State

ANTH 099 PZ - China in the 21st-Century

ANTH 102 PO - Applied Anthropology

ANTH 105 PO - Methods in Anthropological Inquiry

ANTH 107 PO - Medical Anthropology

ANTH 109 PO - Theory in Anthropology

ANTH 110 HM - Life: Knowledge and Practices

ANTH 110 PZ - Nature and Society in Amazonia

ANTH 111 HM - Introduction to the Anthropology of Science and Technology

ANTH 119 SC - East Asia and Global Futures

ANTH 121 SC - Science, Medicine & Technology

ANTH 127 AA - Asian Amer in Ethnography/Film

ANTH 130 PO - Sexual Politics of the Modern Middle East

ANTH 133 PZ - Indians in Action

ANTH 135 PO - The Social Life of Media

ANTH 140 PO - Love, Labor and Law Across Borders

ANTH 149 SC - Anthro of the (Extra)Ordinary

ANTH 150 PO - Understanding Religion

ANTH 152 PO - Ethnic Nationalism

ANTH 153 PZ - History of Anthropological Theory

ANTH 155 PO - Globalization

ANTH 156 PO - Comparative Muslim Societies in Asia

ANTH 157 PO - Anthropology of Chinese Society

ANTH 158 PO - The Anthropology of Sports

ANTH 159 PO - Anthropology of Food

ANTH 162 PO - Andean Cultures

ANTH 171 SC - Seminar in Sexuality and Religion

ANTH 189L PO - Production and Reception of Icons

ANTH 191 PO - Senior Thesis

ANTH 192 PO - Senior Project

ANTH 199DRPO - Anthropology: Directed Readings

ANTH 199IRPO - Anthropology: Independent Research

ANTH 199RAPO - Anthropology: Research Assistantship

ARBC 001 CM - Introductory Arabic

ARBC 002 CM - Continuing Introductory Arabic

ARBC 033 CM - Intermediate Arabic

ARBC 044 CM - Continuing Intermediate Arabic

ARBC 130 CM - Modern Arabic Prose and Poetry

ARBC 166 CM - Modern Arab Culture and Thought

ARBT 110 CM - Modern Arabic Poetry in Translation

ARBT 190 CM - Trends/Movements in Mod Mid-East