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Economics
  

  • ECON141 PZ - The Chinese Economy


    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 2
  

  • ECON142 CM - Pol/Econ of Nat Resource Policy


    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 2
  

  • ECON142 PZ - Japanese Economy


    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 2
  

  • ECON150 PO - Industrial Organization

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): K. Wilson
    Credit: 1

    Techniques for analyzing industries and competitors. Organizing and operating the modern corporation. Pricing strategies: price discrimination, tie-in sales and non-linear pricing. Strategic behavior: predation and collusion; vertical integration and vertical restrictions; mergers and acquisitions. Information, advertising and disclosure. Decision making over time: product durability, patents and technological change. Antitrust and regulation. Prerequisite: ECON 102 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON151 PO - Labor Economics

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): M. Steinberger
    Credit: 1

    Human resources and business strategies toward employees. Occupational choice, investing in human capital. Household decision making: balancing family, work, home production and leisure. Migration and immigration. Pay and productivity: setting wages within the firm. Gender, race and ethnicity in the labor market. Public policy toward the workplace. The role of trade unions. Prerequisites: ECON 057 PO , ECON 101 PO  and ECON 102 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON154 PO - Game Theory for Economists

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): T. Andrabi; N. Novarro
    Credit: 1

    Introduces the main tools of noncooperative game theory as used in current economics literature. Topics include formalities of modeling competitive situations, various solution concepts such as Nash equilibrium and its refinements, signaling games, repeated games under different informational environments, bargaining models and issues of cooperation and reputation. Applications from economics, politics, law, corporate and business strategy. Prerequisites: ECON 057 PO  and ECON 102 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON155 PO - Law and Economics

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): S. Marks
    Credit: 1

    A case-based approach to the economic analysis of legal institutions and the common law: property, contacts and torts. Prerequisite: ECON 102 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Writing Intensive
  

  • ECON155 PZ - History of Economic Thought


    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 2
  

  • ECON156 PO - Security Valuation and Portfolio Theory

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): G. Smith
    Credit: 1

    Selection and valuation of financial assets, particularly corporate stocks. Financial markets and the economy, efficient-markets hypotheses, security-valuation models, decision making under uncertainty, portfolio selection and capital-asset pricing. Open to senior economics majors only. Lecture and discussion. Prerequisites: ECON 101 PO  and ECON 102 PO . Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON157 PO - Corporate Finance

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): M. Zemel
    Credit: 1

    Examines the financing decisions of firms and explores links between finance and business. Topics include corporate governance, agency issues, net present value analysis, risk, cost of capital, dividend policy, capital structure, market efficiency, takeovers and mergers and acquisitions. Prerequisites: ECON 057 PO  and ECON 102 PO ; ECON 117 PO  recommended.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON159 PO - Economics of the Public Sector

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): E. Brown
    Credit: 1

    The microeconomic rationale for government activity in a market economy and the economic effects of such activity. Market failure and the tools of normative analysis; income redistribution, design of major federal expenditure programs such as Social Security, medical insurance and welfare; the design, incidence and behavioral consequences of tax policy and collective decision making and the theory of public choice. Prerequisite: ECON 102 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON161 PO - Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): M. Kuehlwein
    Credit: 1

    Selected issues in macroeconomic theory, empirical analysis and policy, including growth, unemployment, consumption, investment, inflation, budget deficits and monetary policy rules. Covers rational expectations, real business cycles, sticky price models, endogenous growth, financial crises and macroeconometrics. Prerequisites: ECON 101 PO , ECON 102 PO  and either ECON 107 PO  or ECON 167 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON162 PO - Advanced Microeconomic Analysis

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): F. Lozano; S. Marks
    Credit: 1

    Selected topics in modern microeconomic theory, including constrained optimization, decision making under uncertainty, market failures under imperfect information and their remedies and strategic behavior. Prerequisites: ECON 057 PO  and ECON 102 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON163 PO - Advanced Topics in International Macroeconomics

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): M. Goel
    Credit: 1

    This course surveys recent international macroeconomic research topics including misallocation of resources and their impact on growth, labor market frictions, product churning and innovation in developing countries, firm dynamics and growth, and corruption and growth. In addition to lecture, students will read and present recent research articles and participate in class discussions. Prerequisites: ECON 101 PO , ECON 102 PO , and ECON 107 PO , or ECON 167 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON165 PO - Advanced Topics in Behavioral and Experimental Economics

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): J. Clithero
    Credit: 1

    This course surveys recent research in behavioral and experimental economics and introduces students to the use of experiments in economics. The course will cover modern economic theories developed to explain human behavior, as well as experimental methods for testing economic theories. Students will critically evaluate the design and analysis of experiments in published papers and evaluate the implications of results for public policy. Student projects will include an empirical application of the behavioral phenomena learned in class. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ECON 101 PO  and ECON 102 PO ; ECON 107 PO  or ECON 167 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON166 PO - Advanced Topics in Banking

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): M. Zemel
    Credit: 1

    The course will introduce students to the unique nature of financial intermediaries, with a focus on commercial banks. We will examine the role that these institutions play in the economy, the risks they face and the general approaches taken by both banks and regulators to manage these risks. The course will include a module on modern, quantitative methods to measure financial risks. In addition, the course will highlight current policy questions regarding the role of financial institutions in our economy. Prerequisites: ECON 057 PO , ECON 156 PO  or ECON 157 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON167 PO - Econometrics

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): P. De Pace
    Credit: 1

    Introduction to the theory and practice of econometrics. Application of statistical inference, probability theory, matrix algebra and calculus to multiple-regression analysis. Lecture, computer workshop, problem sets, term project, student presentations and critiques. Prerequisites: ECON 057 PO , ECON 101 PO , ECON 102 PO  and MATH 060 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON169 PO - Advanced Econometrics

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): P. De Pace
    Credit: 1

    An overview of state-of-the-art econometric modeling methodologies. Estimation and inference techniques for cross-section, time-series and panel data. Empirical applications in the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics and financial economics using modern statistical software. Prerequisites: ECON 107 PO  or ECON 167 PO  and MATH 060 PO , or permission of the instructor. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • ECON171 CM - Environmental Economics


    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 2
  

  • ECON172 PZ - Environmental Economics


    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 2
  

  • ECON190 PO - Senior Seminar in Economics

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): T. Andrabi; G.Smith; M.Steinberger; P. De Pace
    Credit: 1

    Analysis of selected problems in economics. Required for graduation. Full course credit. Prerequisites: ECON 101 PO , ECON 102 PO  and either ECON 107 PO  or ECON 167 PO  must be completed in advance of participating in the Senior Seminar.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Speaking Intensive
  

  • ECON195 PO - Senior Activity in Economics

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 0

    Comprised of two parts: (1) the Major Field Achievement Test in Economics; and (2) regular participation in the departmental colloquium. Required for graduation. No credit. (December graduates enroll fall semester.)
  

  • ECON199DRPO - Economics: 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.
  

  • ECON199IRPO - Economics: 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.
  

  • ECON199RAPO - Economics:Research Assistantship

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

    Research Assistantship. Lab notebook, research summary or other product appropriate to the discipline is required. Half-course credit only.

Education
  

  • EDUC424 CG - Gender and Education


    Credit: 1.0

    See the Claremont Graduate University Catalog for a description of this course.

Engineering
  

  • ENGR004 HM - Introduction to Engineering Design and Manufacturing


    Credit: 1.0

    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 4
  

  • ENGR013 HM - Intro to Energy Systems Engineering


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

  • ENGR059 HM - Intro to Engineering Systems


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

  • ENGR080 HM - Experimental Engineering


    Credit: 1.0

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

  • ENGR082 HM - Chemical and Thermal Processes


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

  • ENGR083 HM - Continuum Mechanics


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

  • ENGR084 HM - Elec and Magnetic Circuits/Devices


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

  • ENGR085 HM - Digital Elec and Comp Engineering


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

  • ENGR101 HM - Advanced System Engineering


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

  • ENGR102 HM - Advanced System Engineering


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

  • ENGR106 HM - Materials Engineering


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

  • ENGR111 HM - Engineering Clinic I


    Credit: 1.0

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

  • ENGR131 HM - Fluid Mechanics


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

  • ENGR133 HM - Chemical Reaction Engineering


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

  • ENGR201 HM - Economics of Technical Enterprise


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

  • ENGR202 HM - Engineering Management


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

English
  

  • ENGL001 PZ - Literary Theory


    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 1
  

  • ENGL009 AF - Community Poetry: Black Feminist rEVOLution


    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 1
  

  • ENGL009 PZ - Black Feminist Community Learning


    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 1
  

  • ENGL012 AF - Introduction to African-American Literature


    Credit: 1.0

    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 1
  

  • ENGL012B AF - Introduction to African-American Literature


    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 1
  

  • ENGL050 PO - Modern British and Irish Fiction

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
    Credit: 1

    This course surveys some of the most significant trends, via some of the most important novels, in the 20th-century British tradition. Works studied include novels by Beckett, Conrad, Ford, Forster, Green, Ishiguro, Joyce, Kelman, Orwell, Rhys, Rushdie, Smith and Woolf. (H5, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL052 PO - American Gothic

    When Offered: One-time only; spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): L. Heintz
    Credit: 1

    Toni Morrison argues that much of early American literature is a “meditation on the shadow … a dark and abiding presence that moves at the hearts and texts of American literature with fear and longing.” In this course we will consider how the gothic genre made its way into the writing of numerous 19th century American authors, such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Moreover, we will consider how the history of slavery and indigenous removal influenced the formulation of American gothic tropes, such as the shadow, the haunted house, psychological turmoil, and fear of the unknown. Finally, we will read from contemporary African American authors such as Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler, whose neo-gothic texts reimagine what haunts American literature. (H4; RC)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Analyzing Difference
  

  • ENGL054 PO - Asian/American Literature Since 2000

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): J. Jeon
    Credit: 1

    This course examines Asian/American literature published after 2000, three decades after the initial Asian American Movement. Students will read texts in multiple genres (fiction, poetry, graphic novels, drama) with an eye toward interrogating the emergent issues that come with the changing sociopolitical terrain of the new millennium. Letter grade only. (H5, RC, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL055A PO - Impossible Novels: The Man Without Qualities

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): J. Lethem
    Credit: 1.0

    In the poet Randall Jarrell’s definition, “a novel is a prose narrative of a certain length with something wrong with it”. The Austrian Modernist Robert Musil’s THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES, an unfinished novel of 1700 pages in its most comprehensive edition, is an exemplary case of the above. Musil is often classed with Proust and Joyce in the 20th Century pantheon; he’s also rarely read. In this seminar we’ll tackle this vast book directly and by using a number of historical and critical sources, as well as Musil’s diaries, to surround and inform it with useful context. The result will be a reading expedition to an unknown shore. Letter grade only.
    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
  

  • ENGL055B PO - Topics in Contemporary Fiction: Animals

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): J. Lethem
    Credit: 1.0

    Readings in stories, novels, and essays in which the subject of the lives of animals invites consideration of topics of empathy, suffering and the body, in contemporary writing and thought generally. We’ll also take more than a sidelong glance at the function and uses of literary strategies of allegory, parable and fable. Letter grade only. (TH, H5)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL056 PO - Contemporary Native American Literature

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): V. Thomas
    Credit: 1

    In the Native American context, English is the language of holocaust; to write in English necessitates “Reinventing the Enemy’s Language” for purposes of indigenous survival and self-representation. This course engages fiction, essays, poetry, film and critical theory while considering the implications of genocide, political invisibility and experiencing diaspora in one’s homeland. (TH, H5, RC, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL058 PO - Native American Women Writers

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

    This course focuses on issues of memory and identity in writing by indigenous women writers in the Americas. Readings will focus on memoir, poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, including works by Leslie Silko, Paula Gunn Allen, Joy Harjo, Louise Erdrich, Wendy Rose, Gloria Bird and others. Letter grade only. (TH, H5, RC, GS)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL064A PO - Creative Writing: Fiction

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): J. Lethem
    Credit: 1

    Practice in a literary form, with some attention to technical theory and to the creative process. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission. (E)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ENGL064B PO - Creative Writing: Poetry

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

    Practice in a literary form, with some attention to technical theory and to the creative process. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission. (E)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ENGL064E PO - Literary Translation

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

    Workshop in the practice and critique of literary translation. We will start with a few exercises in style and discuss several theories of translation. Each student will write English versions of two foreign texts, a shorter one and a longer one, chosen by the student. To register for this course, students must have reading knowledge of a foreign language (any foreign language). Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL066 PO - Early Modern Poetry and Poetics

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

    This course examines the poetry and poetic practices of the English Renaissance, emphasizing the politics of form and questions of labor, education, gender and theology. Readings include classical and humanist poetic theory (Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Erasmus, etc.) and a wide range of poets, including Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare and Jonson. Letter grade only. (H2)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL067 PO - Literary Interpretation

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

    Training in certain historical, theoretical and methodological dimensions of literary study in relation to a topic chosen by the professor. Special attention to close textual analysis and to writing effectively about literature. (67)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL068 PO - Literatures of the American West: From Twain to Didion

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): D. Berton Emerson
    Credit: 1

    This course surveys the literature of the American West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the lens of two conflicting discourses: “the myth of the frontier” and “a legacy of conquest.” Touching down at key moments in the development of the imagined and actual West, we investigate a variety of supplementary discourses fueling nineteenth-century westward expansion and settlement (e.g. empire for liberty, manifest destiny, gold rush) and their perpetuation and evolution in the twentieth century (e.g. closing of the frontier, Hollywood, Route 66). Texts range from the travel narratives of Lewis and Clark and Mark Twain to the social protests of John Rollin Ridge and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton to the modernist experiments of Nathanael West, Joan Didion, and Don DeLillo. Through this broad survey of western American literature, students encounter a variety of voices competing over the symbolic and the manifest representation of a highly coveted territorial space. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL073 PO - The Literature of Gambling

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

    Narratives of gambling-in which the arc of a life may seem to depend on a roll of the dice-in comparative perspective, with an emphasis on various concepts for thinking about an unknown future, including fate, divine intervention, luck, hazard, chance, speculation, risk, and accident. Some attention to recent scholarship linking the rise of the English novel-and of “probable” or likely stories-to the development of the mathematics of probability. Primary readings may include Plutarch, Herodotus, Rabelais, Cervantes, Pascal, Defoe, Pope, Boswell, Byron, Pushkin, Balzac, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Chekhov, David Mamet, Hunter S. Thompson, and Jonathan Lethem. We will discuss a few films as well. No prior experience in gambling or literary studies required.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL074 PO - British Novel, Behn to Austen

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

    The British novel from its beginnings in the prose narratives of the late 17th century to its form in the early 19th century. Readings from Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Goldsmith, Sterne, Burney, Cleland, Radcliffe, Austen and others. (H3, GS)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL075 PO - British Novel II

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

    Survey of the Victorian novel, with particular attention to class, gender and genre. Primary texts by such authors as Gaskell, Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontes, Eliot, Collins, Braddon, Hardy, James, Stoker, Stevenson, Gissing and Conrad. (H4, RC)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL077 PO - How Shakespeare Works

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): A.Kunin; C.Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

    We know that Shakespeare’s plays work. They function successfully as poetic and dramatic engines. We know something about how Shakespeare got there. This course, which is intended as an introduction to literary studies, is a project in reverse engineering. Given that Shakespeare’s path to becoming Shakespeare is closed to us, this course asks: what are the other ways of getting there? Possible components include: words, voices, platforms and publics. Requirements include active participation and written work. Letter grade only. (H2, PO)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL078 PO - Medieval Drugs

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): J. Kirk
    Credit: 1

    The basis of prehistoric religion (and-it has been suggested-the origin of human consciousness itself) is the encounter with other worlds that can be brought on by certain hallucinogenic plants. In this seminar we will examine how archaic “techniques of ecstasy” survived, more or less underground, into the European Middle Ages, as well as inquire more generally into the nature and status of inebriation, poisoning and visionary trance states. To be considered: love potions in medieval romances; the relations between mystical experiences and plant-derived ecstasies; the use of hallucinogens (mandrake, belladonna, etc.) by “witches”; the history of medicine and alchemy; dream visions and astral travel; the pursuit of stupor. Authors may include: Chretien de Troyes, Hildegard of Bingen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, Marie de France, Joan of Arc, Roger Bacon.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL087F PO - Writing: Theories/Processes/Practices

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

    Theoretical grounding in the writing process, as well as in teaching and tutoring. Students will undertake a major research project, investigating some aspect of the writing process, writing in a particular discipline or tutoring writing. Full course. (E)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL087H PO - Writing: Theories/Processes/Practices

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

    Theoretical grounding in the writing process, as well as theoretical and practical application of teaching and tutoring pedagogies. Students will regularly critically reflect on course readings in writing, as well as lead class discussion. For students currently working with writers at any level. (E) P/NC only.
  

  • ENGL091 PO - Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian Literature

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Close study in historical context of selected works by such 18th- and 19th-century writers as Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Austen, Wordsworth, Keats, Bronte, Browning, Dickens, G. Eliot, Hardy and Yeats. (H3, H4, GS)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive
  

  • ENGL093 PO - Rock and Roll Writing

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
    Credit: 1

    Combining study and practice, we’ll read some of rock’s most popular and vital writers (Bangs, Marcus, Powers, Willis, Klosterman) and produce writing in a number of common genres of rock writing. Five graded assignments of varying lengths. Writing workshop format. Letter grade only. (E)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6; Writing Intensive
  
  

  • ENGL102B SC - Survey 1865-Present: American Literature


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

  • ENGL103 PO - Literature of the Enlightenment

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): S. Raff
    Credit: 1

    Reason and unreason, ethics and aesthetics, high minds and low bodies in poetry, drama and prose by such writers as Dryden, Locke, Rochester, Congreve, Pope, Swift, Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Reynolds, Burke and Sheridan, with some attention to French authors such as Voltaire. (TH, H3, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL104 PO - English Literature of the Romantics: Revolution, Passion, Ecology

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

    The major poets-Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats-with some attention to both fictional and nonfictional prose. (H3, H4)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL106 PO - 19th-Century U.S. Women Writers

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): K. Tompkins
    Credit: 1

    Novels, anti- and pro-slavery tracts, domestic manuals and other forms of women’s writing during the 19th century. Special attention to critical and historical sources examining the role of women in the public spheres and spaces of 19th-century United States. Knowledge of literary, cultural or critical gender theory required. (H3, H4, RC, GS)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Analyzing Difference
  

  • ENGL108 PO - The Essay as Resistance: Writing, Photography, Film, and the Politics of Form

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): J. Nucho; K. Wittman
    Credit: 1

    I understood, writes Chris Marker of Sans Soleil, “that the whole film was a kind of exorcism for sixty years on this dubious planet…and a way to take leave of them.” His film essay is an exorcism of the world, a bitter, critical farewell…but Sans Soleil is also about the world, a visually stunning celebration of that world: at once exorcism and homage; a leave-taking and a reverent, fine-grained representation. That is the tension inherent in the form of the essay, a global, politically and culturally rich non-fiction form in writing, photography, and film that both makes the world strange and holds it intimately close, a form that criticizes the world, and also loves it. If we are conditioned by our education to think of the essay as academic, five-paragraph, caught up in the power, conventions, and privileges of the academy and belles lettres, this course explores a different way of thinking, writing, photographing, filming. Since its inception in the sixteenth century, the essay-associative, digressive, fragmentary; filled with the presence of the author-has been defined and redefined as everything from a stay against fascism to the “writing on the walls of the prison-house of culture,” a way of resisting the deadening status quo, a “matter of life and death.” We will study the history of the essay as a form and write, photograph, and film our own essays in order to understand what the essay is, how it works, and what social and political force it might, and does, have. A course in both literature and visual anthropology (taught by faculty from English and Anthropology), we will be working across disciplines and media, thinking about the relationship between representation, authority, aesthetics, and writing, photography, and film. Assignments will be both written and visual; you will learn to film, edit, and write for your own video or film essay. Possible authors/filmmakers (a partial list!) include James Baldwin, Gabriel Zaid, Virginia Woolf, Yi-yun Li, Teju Cole, Annie Dillard, Audre Lorde, Susan Sontag, Judith Butler, Arundhati Roy, J.M. Coetzee, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chris Marker, Catherine Chung, Hollis Frampton, Aram Saroyan, T. Minh-Ha Trinh. (TH)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL109 PO - Introduction to Performance Studies

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): K.Tompkins
    Credit: 1

    In this class we study performance as an object and as an interpretive lens through which to study the practice of everyday life, as well as exceptional creative texts such as performance art, plays, protest and political speech. We will work through the interdisciplinary history of the field, including its emergence from the fields of theatre studies, anthropology, sociology, dance, gender studies, critical race and ethnic studies and queer studies. (TH, H5, GS, RC, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ENGL110 PO - Inauthenticity: Appropriation, Sampling, Plagiarism, Fakery

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): K.Dettmar; J.Lethem
    Credit: 1

    If “authenticity” is a key term for high and popular art created under the sign of Romanticism, various kinds of “inauthenticities” characterize much of the most interesting and innovative art of the 20th and 21st centuries. This course will explore a series of case studies in appropriative art, from the realms of literature, music, film, television and the visual arts, including Modernists like Eliot, Postmodernists like Kathy Acker and vernacular artists such as Bob Dylan, Jack Kirby and Public Enemy. (TH, H5)
  

  • ENGL112 PO - Early Modern Romance

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

    Spanning prose, poetry and drama of the early modern period, the genre of “romance” describes perplexing, digressive narratives that revolve around cross-dressing, incest, the return of the dead and the dissolution of the family. We will read from Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Mary Wroth’s Urania and Shakespeare’s Pericles, Cymbeline and Winter’s Tale. Letter grade only. (H2, GS)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  

  • ENGL115 PO - On Form: Sonnets and Epigrams

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

    Classical and Renaissance poetic theory distinguished between the short verse forms of sonnet and epigram by imagining how they tasted in your mouth: sonnets were a surfeit of sugar; salty epigrams made you purse your lips. This class will read a wide range of sonnets and epigrams in the English Renaissance in order to ask: what kinds of knowledge do short verse forms produce and, what is the relation of this knowledge to the social and ethical lives of readers? Reading the sonnet and epigram as dynamic expressions of desire and indignation, this class will double as a critical history of the value of “form” in post-war literary studies. Readings will range from Cleanth Brooks to Bruno Latour and include important essays by Paul de Mann, Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu as well as more recent experiments in historical formalism, strategic formalism, and new formalism. Requirements include short response papers and a final essay (8-10) pages; all of our writing will be geared towards helping us think rigorously and precisely out loud as speakers. Letter grade only. (H2, TH)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive
  

  • ENGL118 PO - The Nature of Narrative of Fictions and Films

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

    Investigates narrative as a fundamental mode of understanding and organizing human experience. Practice of storytelling in writers like Calvino, Diderot, Kundera, Borges, Proust, Kafka, Dante, Sterne, Woolf and Sartre; and in filmmakers like Lynch, Hitchcock, Roeg, Malick and Allen. Theories of narrative from Aristotle through Freud to Barthes. (TH, H4, H5)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL120A PO - 19th Century American Literature: Cross-Dressing and Race Passing

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): L. Heintz
    Credit: 1

    This class examines nineteenth-century American literature with an emphasis on the theme of passing. We will become well versed in depictions of cross-dressing (men who pass for women, and women who pass for men) and depictions of race passing (black folks who pass for white, white folks who pass for black). This course will highlight the history and significance of race and gender constructs in early American literature. We will read fiction, autobiography, short stories, and we will watch early cinema. May be repeated once for credit. (TH; H4; RC/GS).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL121 SC - Milton: Nature, Knowledge, Creation


    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
  

  • ENGL122 AF - Healing Narratives

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

    This course examines how African Diaspora writers, filmmakers and critical theorists respond to individual and collective trauma, and how their works address questions of healing mind, body and spirit. We will take particular interest in Black feminist theory, the body as a construct of racial ideology and the business of remedy. Prerequisites: An English, Africana Studies, Black Studies or Asian American Studies course. (TH, H5, RC, GS, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL124 AF - AfroFuturisms

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): V. Thomas
    Credit: 1

    AfroFuturism articulates futuristic and Afro Punk cultural resistance and radical subversions of racism, sexism, liberal humanism and (neo)colonialism. Such texts also recall that Africans were not only subjected to and forced to maintain the technologies of enslavement but were regarded as technology. AF engages music, visual arts, cyberculture, science and philosophy. (TH, H5, PR, RC, GS, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL125C AF - Introduction to African-American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War

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

    This interdisciplinary course presents an overview of African American literary tradition from African retentions, slave narratives and oral tradition, through memoir, autobiography, anti-lynching and revolutionary protest tracts, essays, poetry, criticism and the beginnings of the Black novel in English. (TH, H3, H4, RC, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  

  • ENGL132 AF - Black Queer Narrative and Theories


    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 1
  

  • ENGL132 PO - Contemporary Speculative Fiction

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): J. Jeon
    Credit: 1

    Contemporary Speculative Fiction. This course examines the genre of speculative fiction with a particular emphasis on alternative histories and stories of imagined futures. Although this genre has generally been associated with Science Fiction, recent writers have appropriated these modes for what is sometimes regarded as “serious” literature, thereby undermining distinctions between low-brow and high-brow cultural production. Letter grade only. (TH, H5, PR)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  

  • ENGL135 PO - The “American” Century

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): J. Jeon
    Credit: 1

    The “American” Century. This course examines twentieth-=century representations of America by both American and non-American writers, thinkers, and artists in literature, criticism, and other visual modes. A heuristic device, all texts in this class have the world “American” in their titles. The course will investigate the changing meaning of the word as the United States emerges globally as an economic, cultural, and military power. Letter grade only. (H5, PR)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL138 PO - Henry James on Art and Society

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): A. Kunin
    Credit: 1

    Henry James on Art and Society. How does art make life? How do you use a novel to love the world? We will try to answer these questions by studying James’s novels and tales. We will also consider some writings by Eliot, Adams, Wilde, Wharton, and William James. Letter grade only. (H4, PR, SA)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL140 PO - Literature of Incarceration

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

    This course investigates the world’s largest Prison Industrial Complex as narrated from the inside out. We focus on memoirs, novels, essays and poetry by and about inmates and critical writings on the prison system. Some argue that it’s a system of “corrections” and paying a debt to society; others view it as the New Slavery. (TH, H5, RC, GS, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL149 PO - Korea’s IMF-Crisis Cinema

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

    This course examines the remarkable moment of Korean Cinema in the decade following the so-called International Monetary Fund Crisis in South Korea which began in 1997. Global in orientation, the films of the period not only help make sense of the changing economic climate in the region, but also offer insight into the operations and effects of neoliberal economics worldwide. To this end, this class will consider the formal, artistic, and narrative aspects of filmmaking in relation to the geopolitical social contexts they engage. Students in the course will attend a weekly required screening and read theoretical texts that will give critical context to the films. All films have English subtitles; neither language background nor familiarity with Asian cinema is required. Letter grade only. (TH, H5, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL151 PO - Medieval Proof: Test, Trial, Experiment

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    An exploration of literary culture in England and continental Europe, with an emphasis on the ways that literature interacts with political, religious and economic forces. Special topics vary from year to year. Course may be retaken for credit with instructor’s permission. (TH, H1)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL152 PO - Medieval Roots of Modern Theory

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): J.Kirk
    Credit: 1

    Recent scholarship has demonstrated a surprising fact: that much of the most forward-thinking critical theory of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries looks back for its inspiration to the philosophy and literary culture of the Middle Ages. This seminar consists of an inquiry into this phenomenon. We will read crucial works of critical and literary theory alongside their medieval sources: nominalist philosophy, scholastic hermeneutics, mystical theology, speculative grammar, the heresy of the free spirit. No background in either the modern or the medieval texts is presumed; the class will double as a crash course in both. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL153 PO - Medieval Nonsense

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): J. Kirk
    Credit: 1

    Long before Jabberwocky and Finnegans Wake, Dante included the incomprehensible line “raphèl maí amèche zabí almi” in the Inferno. At the same time, medieval scholastics were discussing the properties of such made-up words as bufbaf and blictrix. This seminar is an inquiry into the intertwining histories of the theory and practice of nonsense from antiquity to the Middle Ages, with some detours into the modern era. To be considered: ancient philosophy of language, abracadabra-style magical incantations, gossip and blather, birdsong and other animal utterances, speaking in tongues, nonsense verse, pure language. Readings may include Aristotle, Aristophanes, Boethius, Anselm, William IX, Dante, Chaucer, the Cloud of Unknowing, Carroll, Beckett, Deleuze, Agamben, Dolar. (TH, H1)
    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 1
  

  • ENGL154 PO - Shakespeare: The Comedies and Histories

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

    An examination of Shakespeare’s earlier plays. Emphasis on the formal, religious and political significance of love, sex and marriage in the comedies. Consideration of various uses and modes of history writing, as well as intersections between religion and politics (political theology) in the histories. (H2, SA)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL155 PO - Shakespeare: The Tragedies and Romances

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

    An examination of Shakespeare’s later plays, with emphasis on traditional and newly emerging ideas about political, religious and gender relationships, including the analogy between family and state and alternative notions of contract and consent. The course considers how the literary genres of tragedy and romance can perform political critique and imagine political reform. (H2, SA)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL156 PO - Milton and Visual Culture

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

    Milton’s poetry and prose in the context of visual culture: primacy and shame of the visible; blindness; iconoclasm; and “dissociation of sensibility.” Some attention to theories of image-making in other early modern poetry, painting, fashion and design. Letter grade only. (H2, PO, SA)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
 

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