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English
  

  • ENGL158 PO - Jane Austen

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

    Austen’s novels and related texts, with attention to Austen’s place in literary tradition. (H4, SA, GS)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL159 PO - Supernatural Century: Victorian Fear from Frankenstein to Dracula

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

    Serious century: so one critic characterizes nineteenth-century Britain, understood through its literature. Bourgeois, every day, dour, realistic. Filled with very-long novels about banks and dinners. And then at the window, Frankenstein’s creature; a spectral woman in the garden; a hyena with human hands; a revenant nun; a malevolent vampire. This course examines the simmering undercurrents of fear in Victorian Britain through the supernatural beings populating its novels, poetry, short stories, and non-fiction prose. We will ask three questions: first, what is 19th-century Britain-powerful, wealthy, imperial-so afraid of, and why do those fears (of colonial uprising, of modern science, of women’s rights, of working-class insurrection, of sexual desire) take shape in literature as reanimated corpses, vampires, specters, immortal libertines, and human-animal hybrids? Second, how do the ascendant literary forms of this era try to manage that fear or, conversely, what literary innovations emerge from the failure to manage it? And finally, we will ask about the changing nature of fear itself in nineteenth-century Britain, from the cathartic fear that complements Romantic sublimity through the disciplinary fear imposed by institutional capitalism to the hysteria, anxiety, and neurosis of late century psychoanalytic thinking.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1 ; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL161 PO - James Joyce

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

    Examinations of Joyce’s works: Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Exiles and Ulysses. Close reading of the texts and consideration of aspects of Joyce’s personal background, relation to previous literary history and great influence upon contemporary literature. (H5, SA)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL161 SC - Futures of Asian/America


    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
  

  • ENGL162 PO - Race and Ethnicity in Nineteenth Century American Literature

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

    This course brings canonical works together with U.S. minority literatures to examine the representations of race and ethnicity in 19th-century American national culture. Readings take a comparative approach that considers multiple races and ethnicitieis; for instance, Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” and its representation of an African American slave insurrection will be studied in conjunction with John Rollin Ridge’s contemporaneous “The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta,” a novel depicting a Mexican hero-turned-bandit in Gold Rush California. All readings will be contextualized with and illuminated by a variety of historical discourses and more recent critical theory. Final assignment include a research project on outside material.
  

  • ENGL162 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality


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

  • ENGL166 AF - James Baldwin


    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
  

  • ENGL166 PZ - Literature, Illness And Disability


    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
  

  • ENGL170 PO - Advanced Studies Seminar English

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

    Advanced Studies Seminar. Advanced analysis and writing of an extended research paper. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO  and, for English majors, approval of the major path proposal. English majors taking a second 170-series seminar for completion of the senior exercise must also enroll in ENGL 190 PO , Senior Exercise/Seminar Option.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170A PO - Making it New: Anglo-American Literary Modernism

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
    Credit: 1

    The great modernist writers–T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, &c–were at the same time brilliant propagandists, creating the aesthetic system by which their works would be enjoyed. They also, along the way, created the first self-conscious literary period. In this course we’ll read fiction, poetry, and critical prose by the founders of Anglo-American literary modernism, looking at the values it supported as well as those it occluded–the voices it supported and those it made much more difficult to hear. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO .
  

  • ENGL170B PO - Dickens and the Role of the Author

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): S.Raff
    Credit: 1

    Close study of David Copperfield, Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend, with attention to their adumbrations of author/reader relations and their rich reception in literary criticism and theory, Topics include law and literature, theories of realism, and Charles Dickens’s visibility among his contemporaries as performer, stage-manager and creator of popular culture. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only. (H4, RC, 170)
  

  • ENGL170G PO - Shakespeare Seminar

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    We will spend the entire semester studying a single play by Shakespeare, working that play from the full variety of critical angles and concerns available to us, including a range of literary and theatrical paradigms. The play will also serve as an index to a history of the early modern period, its central questions and its tentative answers. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only. (H2, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL170I PO - Tragedy and Philosophy

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): P. Mann
    Credit: 1

    Advanced analysis and research. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . (TH, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170J PO - Special Topics in American Literature

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): V. Thomas
    Credit: 1

    This senior seminar explores the complexities of Toni Morrison’s fiction and criticism in the contexts of Black feminist theory, African Diaspora literacies and American literary and social history. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . (TH, H5, RC, GS, DG, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170K PO - The Canterbury Tales

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

    Intensive study of Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Canterbury Tales. Advanced analysis of the poem, research into its modern interpretations, introduction to Middle English. Chaucer’s poem will also serve us as a master text as we inquire more generally into the intellectual culture of the Middle Ages. With special emphasis on the dirty jokes. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only. (TH, H1, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL170Q PO - Wordsworth and Proust

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): A. Reed
    Credit: 1

    Advanced analysis and research. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . (TH, H4, H5, GS, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170R PO - Literary Worlding

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2014.
    Instructor(s): J. Jeon
    Credit: 1

    This course examines contemporary literary representations of the world in planetary terms, which we will read alongside prevalent theoretical models designed to make sense of the increasingly complex global circuits of exchange, shifting affiliations and emergent conflicts that characterize our world today. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . (TH, H5, RC, DG, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170T PO - Law and Literature

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): S. Raff
    Credit: 1

    In this seminar, we will examine literary treatments of matters pertaining to law (such as justice, jurisprudence, equity, norms, customs, civil disobedience, evidence, and bearing witness) and ask whether insights or techniques deriving from literature can contribute to legal reasoning. Areas of focus may include legal personhood, legal fictions, copyright, and military justice. Readings may include Sophocles, Plato, Shakespeare, Johnson, Kleist, Trollope, Melville, Kafka, Capote, Márquez, and Morrison, as well as William Blackstone, Peter Brooks, Robert Cover, Jacques Derrida, Richard Posner, Kenji Yoshino, Nomi Stolzenberg, Richard Weisberg, Robin West, and Martha Woodmansee. (TH; H4)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170U PO - The Faerie Queene

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

    This senior seminar will be devoted to writing and thinking about Edmund Spenser’s poem, The Faerie Queene (1596). Possible areas of interest include: allegory, poetic form, rhetoric, early modern theories of language, gender and sexuality, torture and justice, and the history of reading. Seminar Participants will read deeply and broadly in post-war criticism of the poem as well as the history of poetics; requirements include a series of writing exercises culminating in one 25-page seminar paper. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . (H2, GS, 170)
  

  • ENGL170Y PO - Metaphysical Poets

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): A. Kunin
    Credit: 1

    Intensive study of the religious and erotic lyrics of the 17th-century Metaphysical poets. Some attention to their influence on modernist poetry and criticism. Serious consideration of exchanges between poetry and speculative philosophy. Readings will include poems by Donne, Herbert, Philips, Cowley, Hutchinson, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell, Traherne and Finch. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . (H2, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  
  

  • ENGL176 SC - Southern Women Writers


    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
  

  • ENGL180 SC - Asian American Fiction


    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 1
  

  • ENGL183 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality


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

  • ENGL183A PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction

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

    Student’s own work is principal content of the course; class meets weekly to read and discuss it. Occasionally other readings. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission. ENGL 064A PO  strongly recommended. May be repeated for credit. ENGL183A PO: Fiction. ENGL 183B PO : Poetry. ENGL 183C PO: Screenwriting. ENGL 183D PO : The Literary Essay. (E)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ENGL183B PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry

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

    Student’s own work is principal content of the course; class meets weekly to read and discuss it. Occasionally other readings. Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: permission of instructor; student must submit a writing sample to receive permission. ENGL 064B PO  strongly recommended. May be repeated for credit. ENGL 183A PO : Fiction. ENGL183B PO: Poetry. ENGL 183C PO: Screenwriting. ENGL 183D PO : The Literary Essay. (E)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ENGL184 PO - New Poetics

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

    The course takes as its point of departure a threefold hypothesis: 1) there is no poetry without formal decisions; 2) for some writers, these decisions are no longer a matter of choosing between the alternatives of traditional prosody and “free verse”; and 3) such decisions concern not only composition itself, but one’s whole relationship with the world. We will investigate a variety of recent projects in poetics, so that each of us might begin to construct a working poetics. Readings will be drawn from “projective verse,” “language writing,” “ethnopoetics,” “new formalism,” poststructuralism, translation theory, hypertext, and so on, as we consider quetisons ranging from techniques of composition to the ethics and politics of writing. The course is intended for students with a real commitment to writing, an experimental spirit, an impatience with notions of writing that go no further than “self-expression,” and a desire to bride what we will assume, for the monet, and futile and perhaps foolish distinctions between the creative and the critical. (TH, H5, PO)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • ENGL189J PO - Topics in Asian American Literature

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

    Topics in Asian American Literature. To be announced. (H5, RC, DG)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL190 PO - Senior Exercise/Seminar Option

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

    Students electing this option take a second 170-series Advanced Studies Seminar to satisfy the senior exercise requirement. A grade and credit are assigned for the ENGL 170 PO  seminar; enrollment in 190 confers no credit but will receive one of the following designations: No credit, pass or distinction. Students must receive at least a C-minus in the Advanced Studies Seminar in order to receive a pass in ENGL 190.
  

  • ENGL191 PO - Senior Thesis

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

    Students choosing this option enroll both semesters of the senior year. A grade will be assigned for the fall semester based upon the completion of a chapter of thesis (or approximately 20 to 25 pages of writing toward the thesis) and for the spring semester upon completion of the thesis. Eligibility based on grade point average and permission of the department
  

  • ENGL195 PO - Literary Criticism: Advanced Methods

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

    An advanced seminar in the research methods characteristic of literary criticism, this class will revolve around the questions and challenges raised by student thesis projects: what kind of knowledge does literary scholarship aim to produce? What is the relationship between literary studies and the methods and theories of other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences? P/NC only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO  and any ENGL 170 PO . ENGL 170 PO  may be taken concurrently.
  

  • ENGL199DRPO - English: 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.
  

  • ENGL199IRPO - English: 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.
  

  • ENGL199RAPO - English: 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.
  

  • ENGL406 CG - American Literature and Political Theory


    Credit: 1.0

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

  • LIT 075 CM - Vladimir Nabokov


    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 1

Environmental Analysis
  

  • EA010 PO - Intro to Environmental Analysis

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): M. Los Huertos; B. Cutter
    Credit: 1

    An EA Program introductory core course, which critically examines the history of environmental change over the past century, the environmental ramifications of economic and technological decisions, lifestyles and personal choice and the need to evaluate environmental arguments. (Taught at Pitzer and Pomona).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference
  

  • EA020 PO - Nature, Culture and Society

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): C. Miller; N. Davis
    Credit: 1

    An EA Program core course, which is a required class for EA majors and designed for sophomores and juniors. It employs case studies to enable students to analyze some key contemporary environmental dilemmas. Topics will vary but will draw on an interdisciplinary array of sources in the humanities and social sciences, including history, philosophy and literature; religion, art, politics and sociology.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  

  • EA030 PO - Science and the Environment

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): R. Los Huertos
    Credit: 1

    This EA Program core course introduces the basic principles of environmental science with applications in chemistry, ecology and geology. It is part of the core course requirements for the Environmental Analysis major. The course provides a natural science foundation for EA. Topics covered include a discussion of ecosystems, climate change, energy and food production, land resources, pollution and sustainable development. A full laboratory accompanies the course and includes field and laboratory work and introduces Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping and statistics. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: EA 010 PO  or by permission of the instructor.
    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 2; Writing Intensive
  

  • EA030L KS - Science and the Environment


    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 2
  

  • EA031 PO - Environmental Science- East Asia

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): M. Los Huertos
    Credit: 1

    This Environmental Analysis Program core course introduces the basic principles of environmental science with applications in chemistry, ecology and geology. It is part of the core course requirements for the Environmental Analysis major and designed to prepare students to work in East Asia. The course provides a natural science foundation for Environmental Science. Topics covered include a discussion of ecosystems, climate change, energy and food production, land resources, pollution and sustainable development. A full laboratory accompanies the course and includes field and laboratory work and introduces Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping and statistics. Letter grade only.
    Prerequisite: EA 010 PO  or by permission of the instructor. Co-requisite: EA  021  CM.
  

  • EA 055L KS - Phys Geography & Geomorphology


    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 2
  

  • EA085 PO - Food, Land and the Environment

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

    An exploration of the co-evolution of humans and their food systems, agroecology (sustainable food production), and the environmental and nutritional issues associated with selected types of agriculture. The course combines a seminar and practical, hands-on training in horticulture, arborculture, and bee keeping. Using the Pomona Organic Farm, students will manage their own beds using ecologically sustainable methods. Prerequisite: EA 010 PO  or by permission of the instructor.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference; Speaking Intensive
  

  • EA086 PZ - Environmental Justice


    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
  

  • EA090 PZ - Environmental Change in China and East Asia


    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
  

  • EA091 PZ - Air Pollution: History and Policy


    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
  

  • EA095 PZ - U.S. Environmental Policy


    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
  

  • EA098 PZ - Urban Ecology


    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
  

  • EA 099 PO - Introduction to Urban Health Equity: Unconvering Local and Global Disparities

    When Offered: Spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): G. Douglass-Jaimes
    Credit: 1

    Where you live impacts how well and how long you live. Yet the social, political, and environmental processes that determine who gets to live where, and what the conditions are in those places provide insights into the drivers for global health disparities. By examining how race, identity, and place operate in the US and Brazil, we can better understand the social processes that create disparities in health. Further, focusing on informal settlements, places that are thought to embody these disparities (areas often referred to as slums, shantytown, favelas), helps to highlight these the complex interrelated themes of place, health and identity. This course is designed to provide a broad investigation of urban health equity while focusing the key role that identity formation and place-making have in both creating health disparities and community responses to ameliorate those disparities. In this course, students will engage with theoretical and practical tools that serve to unmask local and global health disparities. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA100L KS - Global Climate Change


    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 2
  

  • EA101 PO - GIS in Environmental Analysis

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): G. Douglass-Jaimes
    Credit: 1

    Introduction to GIS and it’s applications and analysis of environmental resources and hazards that differentially affect populations. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: EA 010 PO . Corequisite: EA 030 PO . May be repeated once for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA101 PZ - Environmental Internships


    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
  

  • EA 103 KS - Soils and Society


    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 2
  

  • EA 103L KS - Principles of Soil Science


    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 2
  

  • EA 104 KS - Oceanography


    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 2
  

  • EA104 PZ - Doing Natural 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 2
  

  • EA120 PZ - Global Environmental Politics and Policy


    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
  
  

  • EA131 PZ - Restoring Nature: The Pitzer Outback


    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
  

  • EA132 PZ - Practicum in Exhibiting Nature: The Pitzer Outback


    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
  

  • EA140 PZ - The Desert as a Place


    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
  

  • EA141 PZ - Progress and Oppression: Ecology, Human Rights, and Development


    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
  

  • EA 146 PZ - Environmental Education


    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
  
  
  

  • EA150 PZ - Critical Environmental News


    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
  

  • EA152 PZ - Nature Through Film


    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
  

  • EA154 PZ - Commodifying Nature


    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
  

  • EA162 PZ - Gender, Environment and Development


    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
  

  • EA170 PO - U.S. Environmental History

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

    An examination of the idea of nature and wilderness in American history, from colonial visions to contemporary ideologies. It will draw from the work of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and Mary Austin; Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson and Michael Pollan, as well as environmental documentaries and material culture.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA171 PO - Water in the West

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

    Explores how communities, states and the federal government developed the legal precedents, physical infrastructure, financial mechanisms, environmental engineering, political will and social desire for the construction of a hydraulic empire in the Trans-Mississippi West.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference
  

  • EA172 PO - Crisis Management

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): C. Miller
    Credit: 1

    This seminar assesses the history of public lands in the U.S. since the late 19th century and the environmental, legal, political and cultural forces that have shaped the federal land management agencies’ often controversial operations on the national forests, parks and grasslands. Topics will include, among others, these bureaus’ intellectual origins, political histories, fire-management practices, and the social pressures and environmental dilemmas that have shaped their actions.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA173 PO - Ecology of Streams, Lakes and Wetlands with Lab

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

    This lecture and laboratory course explores the physical and biological patterns and processes of inland waters. We begin by reviewing the hydrologic cycle and discussing the physical processes that occur in headwater streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs and estuaries. Early seminars introduce the chemical processes and ‘signatures’ of headwaters and gaining surface waters. The course is structured to focus on different types of systems separately, e.g. streams, lakes, wetlands and estuaries while demonstrating that many of the same ecological processes and phenomena occur in each, i.e., biogeochemical cycling, controls on primary production, evolutionary selection, community patterns, population dynamics and food web structure. The most visible taxa in aquatic systems will be introduced including algae, plants, fish, birds, amphibians and reptiles via laboratory and field work. The course will discuss how drinking, irrigation, recreation, transportation, flood control and power generation compete for water resources, altering the ecology of inlands ecosystems. Case studies will integrate ecological sub-disciplines while highlighting the human-nature conflicts in freshwater systems. Students interested in watershed and marine systems will find the course extremely useful in their understanding of how various biota co-exist in these seemingly simple systems. There will be two weekend field trips for the course. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: BIOL 041E PO  or EA 030 PO  plus one lab course or CHEM 001B PO  or one semester of statistics. May be repeated twice for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA180 PO - Green Urbanism

    When Offered: Fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): W. Wells; T. Bardacke
    A discussion-based seminar restricted to EA majors. The incorporation of nature into urban design; a reassessment of traditional notions about the interrelationship of the built and natural environments with a look at environmental architecture exemplified by Green Corps, LEED and other radical sustainability-focused initiatives. Prerequisite: EA 010 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA190 PO - Environmental Senior Seminar (CP)

    When Offered: Each spring.
    Instructor(s): C. Miller; G. Douglass-Jaimes
    Credit: 1

    A required capstone, team-based seminar in which senior EA majors focus their various curricular backgrounds on environmental issues and problems as defined by real-world clients. Past clients have included Pomona College’s Sustainability Integration Office, Scripps College, the City of Claremont, Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens, Sustainable Claremont, UnCommon Good and USGS. Prerequisites: EA 010 PO , EA 020 PO , EA 030 PO  and EA 191 PO . Letter grade only.
  

  • EA 191 PO - Thesis in Environmental Analysis

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): M. Los Huertos
    Credit: 1

    Production of a senior research paper or project which culminates in a professional-quality public presentation. Open to senior EA majors only.
  

  • EA191H PO - Thesis in Environmental Analysis

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): M. Los Huertos
    Credit: 0.5

    Same as EA 191 PO , but taken in both semesters of the senior year for half-credit each semester; grade and credit awarded at the conclusion of the second semester.
  

  • EA199DRPO - Environmental Analysis: 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.
  

  • EA199IRPO - Environmental Analysis: 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.
  
  
  

  • ENVS090 PZ - Economic Change and the Environment in Asia


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

French
  

  • FREN001 PO - Introductory French

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

    Development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Intensive conversation and oral and written exercises. Pictures, videos, films, stories and realia from Francophone culture.
  

  • FREN002 PO - Introductory French

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

    Further development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Intensive conversation and oral and written exercises. Pictures, videos, films, stories and realia from Francophone culture. Increased emphasis on reading and writing skills. Prerequisite: FREN 001 PO .
  

  • FREN011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary French Language and Culture

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): R. Bashaw
    Credit: 0.25

    Open to all students except native speakers. Credit for satisfactory participation in Oldenborg Center activities and two conversation classes weekly. Prerequisite: one year of college-level language study. Cumulative credit; graded P/NC. Does not satisfy the foreign language requirement. Limited to one enrollment per semester and a cumulative total of one course credit. Prerequisite: FREN 002 PO .
  

  • FREN013 PO - French Conversation, Advanced

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): R. Bashaw
    Credit: 0.25

    Open to all students except native speakers. Credit for satisfactory participation in Oldenborg Center activities and two conversation classes weekly. Prerequisite: two years of college-level language study or equivalent. Cumulative, one-quarter course credit; graded P/NC. Does not satisfy the foreign language requirement. Limited to one enrollment per semester and a cumulative total of one course credit. Prerequisite: FREN 044 PO  .
  

  • FREN015 PO - Advanced Plus Conversation

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): R. Bashaw
    Credit: 0.25

    Open to all students except native speakers. Credit for satisfactory participation in Oldenborg Center activities and weekly course attendance and participation. P/NC only. Prerequisites: FREN 101 PO  or higher; instructor permission required. May be repeated four times for credit.
  

  • FREN022 PO - Intensive Elementary French

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

    Covers first-year material in a single semester. Intensive work on oral expression, comprehension, writing and reading. Pictures, videos, films, stories and realia from Francophone culture.
  

  • FREN033 PO - Intermediate French

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Y. Kwak, C. Nettleton
    Credit: 1

    Review of basic grammar; development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills through films, discussion, articles, literary texts, language tables and compositions. Prerequisite: FREN 002 PO  or FREN 022 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Language Requirement
 

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