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German
  

  • GERM101 PO - Introduction to German Culture

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): F. von Schwerin-High
    Credit: 1

    This course will introduce students to some of the most compelling issues and debates in German culture through fiction, criticism and philosophy, as well as film, the visual arts and music. The presentation of materials is exemplary rather than comprehensive and is based on thematic, historical, generic and other units. Prerequisite: GERM 044 PO  or Scripps 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
  

  • GERM102 PO - Intro to German Literature

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): Lisa Beesley
    In tracing the figure of the artist from Romanticism to the Postmodern, attention will be given to the ideal of creative genius, in both its heroic and decadent modes or forms. Readings will include theoretical texts, reflections on art and the self and literary texts. Prerequisite: GERM 044 PO  or Scripps equivalent.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • GERM103 PO - Intro to German Media and Film

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

    Introduces students to some of the most compelling issues and debates in German culture through various forms of media, including films and television, music, advertising and the visual arts. The presentation of materials is exemplary rather than comprehensive; based on thematic, historical, generic and other units. Prerequisite: GERM 044 PO  or Scripps equivalent.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  

  • GERM104 PO - Composition and Creative Writing

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): F. von Schwerin-High
    Credit: 1

    This course provides students with intensive practice in expository and critical creative writing , introducing them to German stylistics, the varieties of essay construction and general principles of short nonfiction and fiction writing. Students analyze, discuss, write about, emulate and produce a wide range of texts in different genres, thereby enhancing their writing skills as well as their reading, listening and speaking abilities. Prerequisites: GERM 044 PO   or Scripps equivalent.
    This course has been revised for fall 2018  .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6; Language Requirement; Writing Intensive
  

  • GERM105 SC - Berlin Stories


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  

  • GERM151 PO - Language at its Limits: German Poetry in Cultural Context

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): H. Rindisbacher; F. v. Schwerin-High
    Credit: 1

    Radically critiquing historical developments and envisioning alternatives, German lyric poetry has used formal and semantic experimentation to explore the limits of truth, beauty, meaning and the human experience. This course offers a survey of representative German lyric poetry with a particular emphasis on poetological innovations and their historical contexts in the twentieth century. Prerequisites: GERM 044 PO  or Scripps equivalent.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  

  • GERM152 PO - Drama as Experiment

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): F. von Schwerin-High
    Credit: 1

    German dramatists from the Enlightenment to the 20th-century struggled to create possibilities for human dignity in a hostile universe. Beginning with Naturalism, they also delved into new topics: class struggle, sexuality and the problematic nature of human communication. In the process, traditional forms were undermined and the very notions of character, plot and dramatic performance were questioned. Prerequisite: GERM 044 PO .
    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
  

  • GERM154 PO - Great Contemporary Fiction

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): H. Rindisbacher
    Credit: 0.5

    Germany is the world’s most popular country (BBC), the German government is holding up the West singlehandedly (various sources) – and German literary authors are doing just fine, thank you (Frankfurter Buchmesse). The only sad thing: they rarely get translated into English – you have to read them in German.This course introduces students to some of the best contemporary German prose fiction and contextualizes it. Close reading and interpretation; some secondary literature and criticism; discussion; written and oral student contributions.

    Prerequisite: GERM 044 PO .

    This course has been revised for spring 2018  .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  

  • GERM189 PO - German Language Component

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

    Integrates a German language component into German program courses taught in English. May also be taken without being enrolled in the main course. GERM 044 PO  or permission of the German instructor. Half-course credit. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • GERM191 PO - Senior Thesis in German

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

    Prerequisite: permission of the student’s advisor and the coordinator. Course or half-course.
  

  • GERM193 PO - German Comprehensive Exams

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

    Preparation for six-hour written and one-hour oral examinations for the major, testing the student’s general competence in the discipline. Half-course. Graded P/NC.
  

  • GERM199DRPO - German: 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.
  

  • GERM199IRPO - German: 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.
  

  • GERM199RAPO - German: 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.

German Literature in Translation
  

  • GRMT014 PO - Adventures in German Syntax for Reading and Translation

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): F. von Schwerin-High
    Credit: 0.5

    Starting with simplified newspaper texts but building up to texts of increasing sophistication and specialization, this course introduces students to German syntax and grammar in context. Recognizing syntactical markers, students learn how to make sense of a variety of German texts with just the help of a dictionary. No prior knowledge of German required but appropriate for all levels of German proficiency. Taught in English.
  

  • GRMT114 SC - Plotting Crime


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • GRMT115 SC - The Family and its Discontents


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • GRMT116 SC - The Decadents


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • GRMT130 SC - Schools of Cultural Criticism


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • GRMT131 PO - Topics in Public German Discourse

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): F. von Schwerin-High
    Credit: 1

    Explores current and emerging topics regarding the German-speaking countries in the European and transatlantic context. Topics may range from media and communication to literature, commemoration and education to ecology, policy and globalism. Course provides an up-to-date and comprehensive yet focused inquiry into specific developments relevant for contemporary society. Prerequisite: GERM 044 PO  for GERM 131 PO ; none for GRMT131. Course may be repeated for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • GRMT162 PO - Rich, Pretty, Orderly - Swiss?

    When Offered: Fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): H. Rindisbacher
    Credit: 1

    What Makes Switzerland Tick. The doughnut hole of Europe - in the middle but largely unfamiliar. This cultural studies course fills the knowledge gap about Switzerland through a comprehensive account of the country’s role in the European and global cultural and political frameworks via (literary) texts, films, historical and economic sources and in-depth analysis of this successful multicultural country’s political system, its neutrality and significant international presence. (German in Translation)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • GRMT170 PO - Culture of Nature: Green Movements

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): H. Rindisbacher
    Credit: 1

    Historical, cultural and political emergence of nature and green movements in their European and American contexts. Course traces their roots from Protestantism to Romanticism into the 21st-century global environmental crisis. Readings from history, politics, literature and the social sciences, with a special view to framing discourses and green aesthetics. (German in Translation)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • GRMT189 PO - English Language Component

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): H. Rindisbacher
    Credit: 0.5

    GRMT189 PO integrates an English language lecture and discussion component into select upper-division German program courses taught in German. May also be taken without being enrolled in the main course.
  

  • GRMT199DRPO - German St: Directed Readings

    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.
  

  • GRMT199IRPO - German St: Indep 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.
  

  • GRMT199RAPO - German St:Research Assistantship

    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.

History
  

  • HIST010 PO - Ancient Mediterranean

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

    This course surveys the political and cultural histories of the Mediterranean world from 3000 B.C.E. to 400 C.E., from the rise of the earliest Ancient Near Eastern empires through the decline of the Roman Empire. There will be a strong emphasis on critical engagement with ancient sources in translation, from the Epic of Gilgamesh and Code of Hammurabi through Homer’s Iliad, the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, and Augustus’ Res Gestae. Special attention will be paid to ancient imperialism, the development of Greco-Roman historiography and the many enduring legacies of these ancient Mediterranean cultures. (Core course, Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST011 PO - Medieval Mediterranean

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

    A survey of Mediterranean history from the first through the fourteenth centuries, focusing on the close interaction among the Latin, Greek and Arabic worlds. Special attention will be paid to how Jewish, Christian and Muslims scholars processed the ancient Greek and Roman intellectual and political ideas. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST012 PO - Saints and Society

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): K. Wolf
    Credit: 1

    A history of Christian sanctity from the first to the thirteenth centuries. It is predicated on the belief that you can tell a lot about a past culture by the way it conceived of its heroes. The bulk of the readings are saints’ lives written by Christian hagiographers whose collective task it was to construct a timeless sense of Christian perfection out of a seemingly infinite variety of individual cases. Learning how to read these curious texts for the information they contain about the late antique/medieval mind-set is the principal challenge of the course. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST014 PO - Medieval Europe and the World Outside

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): K.Wolf
    Credit: 1

    The crusades and the Spanish reconquista opened the door to a deeper Medieval European experience of Asia and Africa and laid the groundwork for the European expansion of the Americas. This course will focus on firsthand accounts of those medieval European soldiers, sailors, chaplains, missionaries and merchants who found themselves in such uncharted territory. We will use these primary sources to reconstruct medieval European perceptions of non-Europeans in an effort to appreciate the formative role that such “imagining” of the other played in the construction of European identity. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST016 PZ - Environmental History


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST017 CH - Chicano/Latino History

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): T. Summers Sandoval
    Credit: 1

    Survey introduction to Chicana/o and Latina/o historical experiences across the span of several centuries but focused on life in the United States. Analyzes migration and settlement; community and identity formation; and the roles of races, gender, class and sexuality in social and political histories. Letter grade only. (Core course, United States)
    This course has been revised for fall 2018 .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference
  

  • HIST017 PZ - History and Political Economy of Natural Resources


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

  • HIST020 PO - The United States from the Colonial Era to the Gilded Age

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): H. Wall
    Credit: 1

    Development of the United States from colonial times to the late 19th century, emphasizing the social, political and socioeconomic conflicts that shaped its development. (Core course, United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST020 PZ - Greece and Rome


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST021 PO - Dynamics of Power in the US

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

    US history in the last 150 years has revolved around battles over equity in the economy, the control of government, the fighting of wars and the possibilities for social justice. This course introduces students to the study of these conflicts through an examination of power in politics, society and the economy. Students will learn key historical methods as they consider four crucial periods: The disappointing aftermath of the Civil War, the fight over corporate industrial capitalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the triumph of the statist New Deal order in the 1930s and the return of inequality in the neoliberalism of recent decades. Because historical questions are informed by contemporary issues and debates, the class will also address current events that emerge from the way Americans settled these older conflicts. (Core Course: United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference
  

  • HIST025 CH - All Power to the People

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): T. Summers Sandoval
    Credit: 1

    All Power to the People! Social Movements for Justice. A survey of 20th-century movements for change, with a focus on those created by and for communities of color. Examines issues of race, gender and class in U.S. society while investigating modern debates surrounding equity, equality and social justice. Letter grade only. (United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference
  

  • HIST028 CH - Revolutions, Uprisings, Coups, and Interventions in the Americas since 1910

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): M. Tinker Salas; V. Silverman
    Credit: 1

    Revolutions shook the world repeatedly over the course of the twentieth century. The ways that the great powers, particularly the United States, reacted to these momentous events have been central to making the modern world. Efforts to create new societies and power structures or reimpose elite rule have been met with wildly different from reactions from the United States and are key to understanding how our world came to be. From the Mexican Revolution in 1910 to the Honduran Coup 100 years later, this course traces political, social and economic upheavals and interventions that have determined the course of history.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST031 CH - Colonial Latin American History

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

    Examines the rise of the Aztec and Incan empires; the Spanish conquest and settlement of the Americas; the evolution and consolidation of colonial institutions; the significance of race, gender and sexuality in shaping the culture of the colonial society from the perspectives of Indigenous, European and African peoples; and the settlement of Brazil and the impact of the Age of Revolution, especially the Haitian Revolution, on the process of independence. (Core course, Latin America and the Caribbean)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST032 CH - Latin America Since Independence

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): M. Tinker Salas
    Credit: 1

    The history of Latin America from 1820s to the present, including the complex process of national consolidation, the character of new societies, the integration of Latin American nations into the world market, the dilemma of mono-export economies, political alternatives to the traditional order and relations with the United States. (Core course, Latin America and the Caribbean)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST034 CH - Mexico; from Indigenous Societies to Modern State

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): M.Tinker Salas
    Credit: 1

    The course traces Mexican history from pre-Columbian times to the present. It explores the character of Indigenous societies, the nature of the encounter, the colonial legacy, the tumultuous nineteenth century, the Mexican Revolution, United States-Mexican relations, politics during the 20th century, immigration, the rise of social movements and the current drug war.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  

  • HIST036 PO - Women of Honor, Women of Shame: Women’s Lives in Latin America and the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean, 1300-1900

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): A. Mayes
    Credit: 1

    Overview of the life chances, economic opportunities and social expectations for women of European, Indigenous and African descent during and after colonial rule in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. (Latin America and the Caribbean)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST036 PZ - History of Modern Middle East


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST040 AF - History of Africa to 1800

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): M.O. Traoré
    Credit: 1

    History of Africa from the earliest times to the beginning of the 19th century. Attention given to the methodology and theoretical framework used by the Africanist, the development of early African civilizations and current debates and trends in the historiography of Africa. (Core course, Africa, African Diaspora and Middle East)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST041 AF - Africa in World Politics, 1884 to 2000.

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

    Attention given to developing a broad understanding of the political, economic, and social changes in Africa after the arrival of Europeans on the continent. The course analyzes the long-lasting socio-political impacts of the Berlin Conference in present-day Africa in terms of governance and ethnic conflicts. We will also bring into sharper focus the Cold War, the rise of strongmen, development issues, new forms of civil society, and democratization processes in Africa. Letter grade only.
     This course has been revised for spring 2017.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST042 PO - Worlds of Islam

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): A. Khazeni
    Credit: 1

    A global history of Islamic societies since the fourteenth century, examining the period when Islam became a world religion. Approaches the integrated histories of the Asian, African and Indian Ocean worlds. (Africa/African Diaspora, South Asia, and the Middle East)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST043 PO - The Middle East and North Africa Since 1500

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

    Survey of the social, political and cultural history of the Middle East and North Africa since 1500, examining the transition from the age of empires to the emergence of nation-building projects in the region.  Subjects include state and society under early modern Islamic empires; Western colonialism and imperialism; the integration of the region into the world economy; and the emergence of the nation state system in the Middle East and North Africa. (Africa/African Diaspora, South Asia, and the Middle East)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST047 SC - Church of the Poor in Latin America


    Credit: 1.0

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

  • HIST048 SC - Gndr/Tstmny in LatAm & Caribbean


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST050A AF - African Diaspora in U.S. to 1877


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST050B AF - African Diaspora in U.S. since 1877


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST051 CM - Modern South Asian History through its Literature, 1700 to the Present


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST052 CM - New Indian Civilizations: Orig to Mughuls


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST053 CM - Everyday Life in South Asia


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST054 CM - Bread and Circuses in Ancient Rome


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST055 CM - Middle East: Muhammad-Mongols


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST056 CM - Middle East: Ottomans to Present


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST059 CM - Civilizations of East Asia


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST060 PO - Asian Traditions

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

    Historical introduction to the civilizations of China, India, Korea and Japan. Examines major institutional, social and cultural developments from pre-history to 1500: the advent of sedentary agriculture, urbanization, the emergence of the first states, class relations, important religious and philosophical changes and the formation of distinctive cultural identities. (Core course, Asia)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Speaking Intensive
  

  • HIST061 CM - The New Asia: China, Japan, India and Indonesia in the Modern Era


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST062 PO - Modern East Asia: China, Japan and Korea in 20th Century

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

    History of China, Japan and Korea from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. Focuses on transnational themes, such as revolution, colonialism and modernity that have shaped the politics and identities of East Asians in recent times. (Core course, Asia)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST070 PO - Europe and the World 1492-1800

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

    An introduction to early modern Europe that concentrates on Europe’s discovery, exploration, and colonization of the Indian Ocean, East Asia, and especially the Americas.  Focus is on the Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch, and British empires. Oral presentations and reading assignments from Raynal’s 1780 History of the Two Indies, a radical critique of colonization and slavery that became an Enlightenment classic.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Speaking Intensive; Analyzing Difference
  

  • HIST070A SC - United States History to 1865


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST070B SC - Introduction to Modern U.S. History


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST071 PO - Modern Europe Since 1789

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

    Modern Europe Since 1789. Introduction to the major economic, political and social developments in European society since the French Revolution, including the Industrial Revolution, Nationalism, Marxism, the Russian Revolution, political and economic imperialism, World Wars I and II, the Great Depression, the Holocaust and the development of the European Union. (Core course, Europe Since the Renaissance).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST072 SC - History of Women in the U.S.


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST073 CM - Rise of Mod Europe 1750-Present


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST073 PO - Ordinary People

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): G. Kates
    Credit: 1

    How did common Europeans live before industrialization? Marriage and love, conflict and violence, heresy and belief, work and play, environment and food production; family and childrearing; health and dying. Approaches from key schools of history, including Marxism, Annales School and microhistory.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Writing Intensive
  

  • HIST073 PZ - The Problem with Profit


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST074 PZ - Holiness, Heresy and the Body


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST080 CM - Early America: Invasion to the Civil War


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST081 CM - Modern America: 1865 to the present


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST081 HM - Science and Technology in the Early Modern World


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST082 HM - Science and Technology in the Modern World


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  

  • HIST096 CM - The Amazon


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST098 CM - The Americas: Transnational Relations


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100AIPO - Indian Ocean World

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

    This course explores the histories of people scattered, settled, lost and found around the Indian Ocean. The course approaches the history of the Indian Ocean as a global maritime space, an economic route and cultural crossroads connecting the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe. Ranging from the spice trade and the culture of dhows, the times of the advent of Islam and the traditional Middle Eastern vessels that sailed with the monsoon winds, to the exploration and discovery of the “Indies” and the age of European imperialism and colonialism, the course examines the Indian Ocean world through the framework of transnational and global history. Readings include travel writing and works of literature. (Africa/African Diaspora, South Asia, and Middle East)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100C CH - Chicana/Latina Histories

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): T. Summers Sandoval
    Credit: 1

    Reading seminar analyzing the historical experiences of Chicanas and Latinas. Foregrounds gender, race, class and sexuality, examining these women’s responses to conquest, capitalism, racism and patriarchy. Investigates their struggles for justice, connections to other “Third World” women and formations of feminist theory and practice. Letter grade only. (United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100CDPO - The Chinese Diaspora

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): A.Chin
    Credit: 1

    Examines the history of Chinese emigration in the 20th century, its political and social implications to China, its peripheries and the rest of the world. Topics will include the concept of “diaspora,” “Sinophone” studies, the sense of belonging among overseas Chinese, community and identity formations. Letter grade only. (Asia)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100D PO - Political Protest and Social Movements in Latin America

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): M. Tinker Salas
    Credit: 1

    The political landscape of Latin America has changed dramatically since the 1980s, when neo-liberal policy predominated. The backlash to these policies has transformed the political landscape in most countries where the rise of mass movements and popular discontent has produced the election of reformers, progressives and even socialists. The seminar seeks to contextualize the emergence of new social and political movements throughout Latin America. (Latin American and Caribbean History)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100F PO - Food, Culture and Power in Asia and the Pacific

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

    An exploration of the ways that scholars are now interpreting the food and foodways of Asia and the Pacific. We begin with the earliest food production in the Asia-Pacific region and then consider in turn the advent of royal cuisines, the emergence of popular food cultures in towns and cities, the impact of Euro-American imperialism on indigenous culinary practices and the contemporary food situation in an era of globalization. Letter grade only. (Asia)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100G PO - California: Past, Present, Future

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): V.Silverman
    Credit: 1

    From the European conquest to the current economic crisis, Californians have contended with a series of upheavals often at a great human cost. The effects of these changes have been projected into the future through stories and films as well as more sober predictions. This upper-division reading seminar offers students a chance to learn the current scholarship about this tarnished golden state while gaining insight on how the place has been formed and what may come. (United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100I CH - Race, Culture and Identity in Latin America

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2014.
    Instructor(s): Miguel Tinker Salas
    Credit: 1

    Latin America incorporates Indigenous, European, African and Asian traditions. Examines the interplay between race, identity, culture, gender and nationalism; the multifaceted process of ethnicity and race relations; challenges to elite preferences; alternative cultural identities such as Indigenismo and Negritude; impact of immigration; and current state of nationalism. (Latin America and the Caribbean)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100K PO - History/Biography/Autobiography

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): H. Wall
    Credit: 1

    Study of American history using biographies, autobiographies and biographical fiction. Accounts of individual lives used to explore lives of “ordinary” Americans, as well as prominent social and political issues. Topics include Vietnam War; civil rights movement; political and social dissent; industrialization; ethnic, racial, religious and gender conflicts; slavery; continental expansion; and creation of the American republic. (United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100N CH - Mexico-United States Border: Diaspora, Exiles, and Refugees (CP)

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): M. Tinker Salas
    Credit: 1

    This class is a community engagement course that focuses on the U.S.-Mexico Border, paying specific attention to Haitian and other immigrant groups residing on both of sides of the border. Students will examine the historical formation of the U.S.-Mexico Border and its contemporary political economy. Students will be prepared to conduct research among and will be involved in a community engagement project focusing on immigration policy regarding Haitians and other immigrants currently residing in San Diego/Tijuana. 
    This course has been revised for spring 2018  .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference
  

  • HIST100Q CH - Social Movements in 20C Mexico

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): M. Tinker-Salas
    Credit: 1

    Examines major mobilizations beginning with the Revolution of 1910. Focuses on labor, peasant, guerrilla and indigenous movements. Seeks to uncover history of Mexico’s armed left and to draw links with contemporary groups. Will look at how today’s Zapatistas draw on a tradition of legal and clandestine mobilizations. (Latin America and the Caribbean)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100T PO - Global Environmental Histories

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): P.Chu
    Credit: 1

    This seminar explores different approaches to environmental history, from classic works by Alfred Crosby and James Scott to more recent scholarship, focusing on diverse ways of telling stories about people and nature. Our readings highlight the environmental consequences of industrialization, imperialism and totalitarianism; human and “natural” disasters; the emergence of the environmental sciences; and conservation and environmental politics in non-US contexts. (Europe since the Renaissance)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Speaking Intensive
  

  • HIST100W PO - The American Political Tradition

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2014.
    Instructor(s): H. Wall
    Credit: 1

    Major political debates, issues, ideas and conflicts from the American Revolution to Reconstruction. Includes the framing of the Constitution, Indian removal, women’s rights, slavery and anti-slavery, sectionalism and the coming of the Civil War. Emphasis on primary sources. (United States)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100WMPO - Martyrdom in Early Christianity and Islam

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2015.
    Instructor(s): K. Wolf
    Credit: 1

    Martyrdom played a key role in defining Christian perfection from the second to the fourth century. Even after the Roman Empire embraced the church, the cult of saints–built on the physical remains of the martyrs-kept their memories and their influence alive. The prominence of martyrdom and martyr veneration in the Christian tradition ultimately helped lay the groundwork for martyrdom as a feature of Islam. Modern scholarly studies of martyrdom in the early Christian Mediterranean up to the emergence of Islam will be the focus of this seminar. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100X PO - Modern Caribbean Pro-Seminar

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

    This seminar examines U.S. and European imperialism in the Caribbean by paying attention to how images of the Caribbean’s environment, along with ideas about the sexual behavior and racial “character” of Caribbean people, informed imperialist and neo-imperialist policies in the region. (Latin America and the Caribbean).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST100Z PO - Doing History

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): H. Wall
    Credit: 1

    This course examines historical works from a range of fields and periods in order to explore the kinds of approaches, questions, topics and forms of evidence we use to make sense of history. We will use the readings - some classics in their fields, others notable for innovative approaches or significant contributions - to consider the many different ways in which we read, write, study and use history and historical materials. (United States/Europe Since the Renaissance)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST101 PO - Achilles to Alexander

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): B. Keim
    Credit: 1

    This course explores the history of ancient Greece, from the wrath of Achilles to the campaigns of Alexander the Great, from the archaic world of Odysseus to the democratic splendors of Periclean Athens (ca. 1200 – 323 B.C.E.) There will be a strong emphasis on critical engagement with the entire range of primary sources – including the Homeric epics, the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, and the material and archaeological remains – and on the enduring historical, political and cultural legacies of ancient Greece. Letter grade only. (Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST103A CM - History of the Roman Republic


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST103B CM - The History of the Roman Empire: 44 BCE - 565 CE


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST104 CM - Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST107 CM - Reading Ancient and Medieval Historians


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST107 SC - Dante and the Medieval World


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  

  • HIST108 CM - Age of Cicero


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
 

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