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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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Studio Art
  

  • ART120 PO - Photographing People

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2011.
    Instructor(s): L. Auerbach
    Credit: 1

    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.
  

  • ART128 PO - Installation: Site, Time, Context

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2014.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    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: Any 5C ART course. Letter grade only. May be repeated for credit.
    This courses has been revised for spring 2016.  
  

  • ART129 PO - Performance in Contemporary Art

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2013.
    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.
  

  • 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.
  
  

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

    When Offered: Fall 2015.
    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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • ART189C PO - Sculptural Function Conceptual Design II

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2014.
    Instructor(s): M.O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    This is an extension of Art 131 Sculptural Function Conceptual Design with the goal of designing and building furniture for the new arts building. The class will work with artists and the WHY architects designing the building to articulate the design. Prerequisites: ART 027 PO . Letter grade only.
  

  • 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.
  

  • ARHI047 PO - Museum Collecting

    When Offered: Fall 2014.
    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 several 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.
  
  
  
  
  

  • ARHI133 PO - Art, Conquest and Colonization

    When Offered: Fall 2014.
    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.
  

  • ARHI135 PO - Picturing a Nation: Art and Nationalism in 19th-Century North America

    When Offered: Fall 2015.
    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.
  

  • ARHI137 PZ - Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
  

  • ARHI138 PZ - Native American Art Collections Research


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
  

  • ARHI139 PZ - Seminar Topics: Native American Art History


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
  

  • ARHI140 PO - The Arts of Africa

    When Offered: Spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): P. Jackson
    Credit: 1

    Survey of African art and architecture exploring ethnic and cultural diversity. Emphasis on the social, political and religious dynamics that foster art production at specific historic moments in West, Central and North Africa. Critical study of Western art historical approaches and methods used to study African arts.
  

  • ARHI141A PO - (Re)presenting Africa: Art, History and Film

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): P. Jackson
    Credit: 1

    The seminar centers on post-colonial 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 African and African Diasporic filmmakers. Recommended: one prior art history or Black studies or media studies course. Letter grade only.
  

  • ARHI141B PO - Africana Cinema: Through the Documentary Lens

    When Offered: Fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): P. Jackson
    Credit: 1

    This course examines documentary films and videos created by filmmakers from Africa and the African Diaspora (United States, Britain and Caribbean). Topics include: history and aesthetics of documentary filmmaking, documentary as art, the narrative documentary, docu-drama, cinema vérité, biography, autobiography and historical documentary.
  

  • ARHI141M PO - Representing Blackness: Music and Masculinities from Class to A$$

    When Offered: Offered alternate years: next offered fall 2014.
    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.
  

  • ARHI144B PO - Daughters of Africa: Art, Cinema, Theory, Love

    When Offered: Fall 2014.
    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. Suggested: previous course in either African or Chicano/a or gender and women’s studies.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • ARHI158 HM - Visualizing China: Chinese Art


    Credit: 1

    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
  

  • ARHI170 PO - The Early Renaissance of Italy

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2012.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    Credit: 1

    Painting, sculpture and architecture in 15th-century Italy. Emphasis on Florence and the princely courts as artistic centers of the new style. Artists and major works considered in their historical context.
  

  • ARHI171 PO - High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2013.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    Credit: 1

    Art and architecture in Florence, Rome and Venice during the 16th century. The invention of the High Renaissance style by Bramante, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione and Titian. Major works of the post-High Renaissance masters. The interaction of artists and patrons in historical context.
  

  • ARHI172 PO - Northern Renaissance Art

    When 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.
  

  • ARHI173 PO - Medieval and Renaissance City

    When Offered: Spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    Credit: 1

    The rise of Italian city-states and how their urban designs go hand-in-hand with their social, political and economic institutions. Compares Florence, Venice, Rome, Genoa, Pisa, Siena and the small princely courts. City dwellers’ civic, religious and family rituals.
  

  • ARHI174 PO - Italian Baroque Art

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2013.
    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.
  

  • ARHI175 PO - Baroque Art of Northern Europe

    When Offered: Fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    Credit: 1

    Painting, sculpture and architecture of the 17th century in Germany, France, Spain, England and the Low Countries. Poussin, Velásquez, Rembrandt, Leyster, Rubens, Vermeer, Wren, Neumann, Fischer von Erlach.
  

  • ARHI176 JT - Italian Cities

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2012.
    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.
  
  

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

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): P. Jackson
    Credit: 1

    The visual arts produced by people of African descent in the U.S. 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 that interrogates visual constructions of “Blackness” and “Whiteness,” gender and sexuality as a means of revisioning representational practices. Recommended prior course in art history, Africana studies, gender and women’s studies or media studies.
  

  • ARHI179 PO - Modern Architecture, City, Landscape and Sustainability

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next 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.
  

  • ARHI180 SC - Early 20th-Century European Avant-Gardes


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
  

  • ARHI181 PO - Modern Into Contemporary

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2014.
    Instructor(s): A. Katz
    Credit: 1

    An overview of significant issues and movements in art from 1945-1989. Mainstream and alternative art movements are discussed in relation to the cultural politics of the post-World War Two era. Topics include Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimalism, Performance and Conceptual Art, Process Art, Land Art, Site-Specificity, Institutional Critique, Feminist Art and the Culture Wars of the 1980s. Emphasis is on North America and Western Europe, with comparisons to emerging global art centers.
  
  
  

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

    When Offered: Spring 2015.
    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).
  
  

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

    When Offered: Fall 2014.
    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. Topic Fall 2014: The American Landscape in Photographs: 19th century to Contemporary Critique. Includes field trips. Letter Grade only. May be repeated twice for credit.
  

  • ARHI186A PO - Theories of Contemporary Art

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2014.
    Instructor(s): A. Katz
    Credit: 1

    Based on close readings of key writings by artists, critics, curators and scholars, this discussion-based seminar focuses on the evolving aesthetic, social-political and theoretical discourses that have informed the art world since World War II. Topics to be addressed include modernism, postmodernism, mass media, feminism and gender theory, censorship, notions of identity, multiculturalism, postcolonialism and globalization.
  

  • ARHI186B PZ - Seminar: Topics in Contemporary Art


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
  
  

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

    When Offered: Fall 2016.
    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.
  

  • ARHI186E PO - Art and Activism

    When 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.
  

  • ARHI186G PO - Gendering the Renaissance

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2014.
    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).
  
  

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

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2014.
    Instructor(s): P. Jackson
    Credit: 1

    Examines the role of law in constructing and maintaining racialized, gendered and classed disparities of justice, as well as the intellectual, aesthetic, scientific and political convergences of critical jurisprudence with representational practices in African Diasporic visual arts. Suggested: previous course in either Africana, Asian American, Chicano/a or gender and women’s studies.
  
  

  • ARHI186P PO - Women, Art and Ideology

    When Offered: Spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): F. Pohl
    Credit: 1

    Examines images of and by women and the critical writings that attempt to locate these images within the history of art. First-year students need permission. Letter grade only. May be repeated twice for credit.
  

  • ARHI186Q PO - Reading the Art Museum

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2013.
    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 they relate to intellectual history of “experience” as a form of knowledge, integration, consumption. Our field is the Euro-American museum from the 19th century to the present. Includes field trips. Instructor permission only. Letter grade only.
  

  • ARHI186T PO - Art and Time

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2013.
    Instructor(s): A. Reed
    Credit: 1

    Technological developments over the past 200 years have altered relations between art and time. How has moving from painting to lithography, photography, film and digital media influenced the creation of art and its relation to beholders? Considering North America and Europe since 1800, we explore relations between still and moving images and ask how artists manipulate our experience of time. First-year students require instructor permission to enroll.
  

  • ARHI186W PO - Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): P. Jackson
    Credit: 1

    Interrogation of linguistics, conceptual and practical solipsisms that contribute to the construction and normalization of  “Whiteness” in aesthetics and visual culture. Questions dialectics of “Blackness” and “Whiteness” that dominate Western intellectual thought and popular culture, thereby informing notions and representations of race, gender and women’s or media studies. Letter grade only.
  
  
  
  

  • ARHI190 PO - Senior Seminar

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): J. Koss; B. Anthes; F. Pohl; G. Gorse; E. Emerick
    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.
  

  • ARHI191 PO - Senior Thesis - Art History

    When Offered: Each spring.
    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: Each semester.
    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: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0.5-1

    A substantial and significant piece of original research or creative product produced. Pre-requisite course work required. Available for full- or half-course credit.
  

  • ARHI199RAPO - Art History: 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.

Asian American Studies
  
  
  
  

  • ASAM075 PZ - Asian American and Queer Zines


    Credit: 1

    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
  
  
  
  
  

  • ASAM090 PZ - Asian American and Multi-Racial Community Studies


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • ASAM110 PZ - (Mis)Representations: Near and Far East


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
  

  • ASAM111 PO - Pacific Islanders and Education

    When Offered: Spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): H. Thai
    Credit: 1

    This course will explore various topics within Indigenous education. Through a variety of mixed methods, this seminar will examine previous and current educational policy and its effects on diverse Indigenous peoples. It will also examine education as a tool for empowerment, resistance, and healing within varied Indigenous communities. Course topics covered include: Native/Indigenous epistemology, decolonizing methodologies, settler colonialism, cultural reclamation, and critical pedagogy. In addition to the course materials, students will engage in service learning by partnering with the Saturday Tongan Education Program (STEP). Participating in STEP will allow students to actively participate in an Indigenous educational initiative that directly relates to the course content and discussions. Letter grade only.
  
  
 

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