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Check major and minor requirement sections in the Departments, Programs and Areas of Study section to determine if specific courses will satisfy requirements. Inclusion on this list does not imply that the course will necessarily satisfy a requirement.

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History

  
  
  • HIST 123 PO - Frontiers/Empires in Early Amer.


    CrsNo HIST123 PO


    When Offered: Spring 2013.

    Instructor(s): H. Wall

    This course examines cultural exchanges, political relationships and conflicts and social development among contending groups on the North American continent, including major European colonial powers (Spanish, French, English), advancing settler societies and Indian confederacies and empires (including Iroquois, Creek and Comanche), from the Spanish conquest of Mexico to the conclusion of the U.S./Mexico War. Letter grade only. (United States)

  
  • HIST 124 PO - The U.S. in the Middle East


    CrsNo HIST124 PO


    When Offered: Spring 2012.

    Instructor(s): V. Silverman

    The U.S. role in the making of Southwest Asia and North Africa. Competing interpretations of the evolution of American involvement with states and peoples including: the end of the old imperial systems, the European era, the Cold War, economic interests, nationalist and cultural revolutions, wars, interventions and the Israeli-Arab conflict. ( Africa, African Diaspora and Middle East;United States)

  
  • HIST 126 PO - Revolutionary America, 1750-1800


    CrsNo HIST126 PO


    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2013.

    Instructor(s): H. Wall

    Social and political change. The sources and effects of the Revolution; 18th-century social history; changes in political thought, society and politics in the new republic; and the emergence of a national culture. (United States)

  
  • HIST 127 HM - 20th-Century U.S. History


    CrsNo HIST127 HM


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




  
  • HIST 128 HM - Immigration/Ethnicity in the US


    CrsNo HIST128 HM


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




  
  • HIST 128 PO - U.S. & the World: 1890-Present


    CrsNo HIST128 PO


    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2013.

    Instructor(s): V. Silverman

    A history of the interactions of Americans and foreigners from the end of the Indian Wars to the end of the Cold War. Explores how and why the United States changed from a regional to a world to a super power in the context of the changing international system.

  
  • HIST 131 HM - The Jewish Experience in America


    CrsNo HIST131 HM


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




  
  • HIST 131 SC - Working People in the Americas: Race, Labor and Organizing


    CrsNo HIST131 SC


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




  
  • HIST 132 PZ - Marx in Context


    CrsNo HIST132 PZ


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

  
  • HIST 132 SC - Paris, Berlin and London in 1920s


    CrsNo HIST132 SC


    Instructor(s): A. Aisenberg.

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




  
  
  
  • HIST 133 SC - Cuba and Nicaragua: Revolution


    CrsNo HIST133 SC


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




  
  
  
  
  • HIST 134 PO - Drugs & Alcohol in Modern World


    CrsNo HIST134 PO


    When Offered: Fall 2012.

    Instructor(s): V. Silverman

    Drugs and Alcohol in the Modern World. Interpretations of social, political and economic responses around the world to alcohol and other mind-altering drugs from the rum and tobacco trades to crack and the drug wars. Topics include: substances and society, drug markets, the opium wars, prohibition, 1960s drug cultures, wars on drugs, legalization, addiction treatment and recovery. Prerequisite: any history course. (See department for field distribution)

  
  • HIST 134 SC - Women Lat Am: Soc Justice & Viol


    CrsNo HIST164 SC


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




  
  • HIST 135 SC - The Destruction of European Jewry and German Society


    CrsNo HIST135 SC


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

  
  • HIST 136 SC - Indigenous Resistance: Mod Maya


    CrsNo HIST136 SC


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




  
  
  • HIST 137 SC - The Church of the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean


    CrsNo HIST137 SC


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




  
  
  
  • HIST 140 PO - Empire Middle East & N. Africa


    CrsNo HIST140 PO


    When Offered: Fall 2011.

    Instructor(s): A. Khazeni

    A history of empire and imperialism in the modern Middle East and North Africa, examining the transition from early modern Islamic empires to the emergence of European imperialism in the region. Subjects include the Ottoman imperial model of an empire of difference; French colonial adventures in Egypt and the Maghrib; British imperialism and the taming of the Nile; and other episodes of empire and imperialism in the modern Middle East and North Africa. (Africa, African Diaspora and Middle East)

  
  • HIST 141 PO - Env Hist Middle East & N. Africa


    CrsNo HIST141 PO


    When Offered: Spring 2012.

    Instructor(s): A. Khazeni

    The environmental history of the Middle East and North Africa since 1500, exploring the ways societies have shaped and, in turn, been shaped by their natural environments.  Topics include the physical and cultural geography of the region; environments and world history; environments and cross-cultural exchange; empire and nature; and scientific knowledge and the domestication and transformation of natural environments in the Middle East and North Africa. (Africa, African Diaspora and Middle East)

  
  
  • HIST 143 AF - Slavery and Freedom in the New World


    CrsNo HIST143 AF


    When Offered: Each fall.

    Instructor(s): S. Lemelle

    (Africa, African Diaspora and Middle East; United States)

  
  
  • HIST 145 PO - Afro-Latin American


    CrsNo HIST145 PO


    When Offered: Spring 2012.

    Instructor(s): A. Mayes

    Are there Black people in Latin America? Increasingly, yes! The class combines historical and anthropological perspectives to understand the development of or denial of Black identities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. (Africa and the African Diaspora; Latin America and the Caribbean)

  
  
  • HIST 148 PZ - Gender in African History


    CrsNo HIST148 PZ


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




  
  • HIST 148 SC - Women in Latin America


    CrsNo HIST148 SC


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




  
  
  • HIST 153 AF - Slave Women in Antebellum America


    CrsNo HIST153 AF


    This course examines the role of power and race in the lives and experiences of slave women in antebellum United States mainly through primary and secondary readings. Topics include gender and labor distinctions, the slave family, significance of the internal slave trade, and regional differences among slave women’s experiences. The course ends with slave women’s responses during the Civil War.

  
  
  
  
  • HIST 160 PO - Women and Politics in Latin Amer


    CrsNo HIST160 PO


    When Offered: Spring 2013.

    Instructor(s): A. Mayes

    This class explores the mutually constitutive nature of gender ideologies, nation-state formation, and feminist movement in Latin America and the Caribbean from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. We focus much of our attention to gender, nation, and women’s mobilization during “revolutionary” periods, defined broadly as moments of economic, political, cultural, or social crises that result in substantive, in some cases radical, transformations of institutional structures and/or normative practices regarding gender roles. (Latin America and the Caribbean)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  • HIST 165 PO - 20th Century China


    CrsNo HIST165 PO


    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2012.

    Instructor(s): A. Chin

    History of China from the beginning of the 20th century, with special attention to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, warlordism, imperialism and urbanization, nation-building under the Guomindang, the Communist Party movement, the war against Japan, the civil war, the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, post-Mao economic reforms, as well as recent developments in Taiwan, Hong Kong and among overseas Chinese communities. (Asian)

  
  
  • HIST 166 PO - Contemporary Issues in Chinese History


    CrsNo HIST166 PO


    When Offered: Fall 2012.

    Instructor(s): A. Chin

    Through historical investigations of the deeply related contemporary issues of human rights, democracy, ethnic minorities and the environment in China, this course aims to explore how the past continues to interact with the present, and alternatively, how our interpretations of the present are shaped by the retelling of the past. The course’s focus on historiography aims to demonstrate the importance of reactions to contemporary issues in influencing the writing of Chinese history.

  
  
  • HIST 167 PO - Early Modern Japan


    CrsNo HIST167 PO


    When Offered: Spring 2013.

    Instructor(s): S. Yamashita

    Japanese cultural history during the Tokugawa period (1600-1867), focusing on castles, warriors and the new culture in the cities and castle towns, particularly the tales of the floating world, haiku, woodblock prints, Chinese-style literati painting and new Confucian and nativistic philosophies. (Asian)

  
  • HIST 167 PZ - Women and Work in the U.S.


    CrsNo HIST167 PZ


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




  
  
  • HIST 168 PO - Modern Japan


    CrsNo HIST168 PO


    When Offered: Spring 2012.

    Instructor(s): S. Yamashita

    History of modern Japan from 1853 to 1952, concentrating on forced opening of the country to western diplomacy and trade, westernization, interaction of Japanese and Western cultures in late 19th and early 20th centuries, emergence of an imperial Japan in the 1920s and 1930s, World War II and allied occupation. (Asian)

  
  • HIST 168 SC - Destr European Jewry & Germ Soc


    CrsNo HIST168 SC


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



  
  
  • HIST 170 PO - The Making of Modern Europe


    CrsNo HIST170 PO


    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2012.

    Instructor(s): R. Woods

  
  • HIST 171 AF - Hist African Amer Women in U.S.


    CrsNo HIST171 AF


    Exploration of the distinctive and diverse experiences of women on West African ancestry in the United States from the 17th century to the present. Topics, including labor, activism, feminism, family, and community, are examined within the theoretical framework. Narratives, autobiographies, letters, journals, speeches, essays, and other primary documents constitute most of the required reading.

  
  • HIST 171 AF - History of African American Women in the United States


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

  
  • HIST 171 PO - Intro Anglo-American Legal Hist


    CrsNo HIST171 PO


    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2012.

    Instructor(s): R. Woods

    A survey of the development of the law and law courts from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the Anglo-American legal systems. The course addresses the development of civil and common law, as well as such things as fictions, jurisdictions and legal education. (Europe Since the Renaissance; United States)

  
  • HIST 172 PO - History and Politics of Time


    CrsNo HIST172 PO


    When Offered: Spring 2012.

    Instructor(s): G. Kates

    We examine how time was organized, experienced, and theorized economically, socially, culturally, and politically in modern European history. Readings will include histories of time and phlilosophies of time. We will explore the relationship between temporal structures and consciousness, on the one hand, and epochal socio-political transformations, on the other.

  
  • HIST 172 PZ - Empire and Sexuality


    CrsNo HIST172 PZ


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

  
  • HIST 173 AF - Black Intellectuals & Politics of Race


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

  
  • HIST 173 PO - The French Revolution


    CrsNo HIST173 PO


    When Offered: Spring 2012.

    Instructor(s): G. Kates

    Examination of the 1789 revolution that overthrew the ancient regime in France. Topics include the storming of the Bastille, fall of the aristocracy, development of the democratic state, outbreak of war, Jacobin Terror and the rule of Napoleon. Discussion of primary sources and historical interpretations. (Europe Since the Renaissance)

  
  • HIST 173 PZ - Religion, Violence & Tolerance


    CrsNo HIST173 PZ


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course

  
  
  • HIST 175 PZ - Magic, Heresy and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1400-1700


    CrsNo HIST175 PZ


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

  
  • HIST 176 AF - Civil Rights Movement Modern Era


    CrsNo HIST176 AF


    Mainly through primary readings, films, and guest lectures, this course explores the origins, development, and impact of the modern African American struggle for civil rights in the United States. Particular emphasis is placed on grass-roots organizing in the Deep South. HIST 111B AF  SC recommended but not required.

  
  • HIST 177 SC - Fords, Flappers and Fundamentalists


    CrsNo HIST177 SC


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course

  
  • HIST 178 PZ - Women and Gender: Europe 1350-1700


    CrsNo HIST178 PZ


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

  
  • HIST 179 HM - Special Topics in the History of Science


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

  
  • HIST 179 SC - Disease, Identity and Society


    CrsNo HIST179 SC


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course

  
  • HIST 179A HM - Technology and American Society


    CrsNo HIST179A HM


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

  
  • HIST 179B HM - Spec Topic:Darwin, Marx & Freud


    CrsNo HIST179B HM


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

  
  • HIST 179S HM - Special Topics in History


    CrsNo HIST179S HM


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

  
  • HIST 181 PO - The British Isles and Europe: To 1600


    CrsNo HIST181 PO


    When Offered: Fall 2012.

    Instructor(s): R. Woods

    Study of Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and early-modern Britain and Ireland in European cultural context. Emphasis on Development of British culture, origins of empire, emergence of capitalism, regal Institutions and religious turmoil. (Ancient and Medieval)

  
  • HIST 182 PO - Modern Britain and the World: 1660-Present


    CrsNo HIST182 PO


    When Offered: Spring 2012.

    Instructor(s): R. Woods

    Maturation of Britain from industrial to post-industrial world. Topics include parliament, monarchy, agricultural and industrial revolutions, empires and colonialism, Ireland, generation of popular cultural expressions and European Union. (Europe Since the Renaissance)

  
  • HIST 183 HM - Science and Technology in American Culture


    CrsNo HIST183 HM


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

  
  • HIST 183 PO - The World of Shakespeare’s Monarchs: 15th-Century England


    CrsNo HIST183 PO


    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2012.

    Instructor(s): R. Woods

    Introduction to the worlds in which Kings Richard II through Henry VIII played their roles. Special attention to women and power, cultural transformations, development of regal governance, economic and social changes and the webs of interconnections in the “Wars of the Roses.” (Europe Since the Renaissance)

  
  
  • HIST 188B SC - Race and American Capitalism


    CrsNo HIST188B SC


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course

  
  • HIST 189B PO - The Qing Empire and Early Modern China


    CrsNo HIST189B PO


    When Offered: Fall 2013.

    Instructor(s): A. Chin

    Examines the history of late imperial China in the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Traces the transformation of Chinese society by examining ethnic and gender relations, economic activities and intellectual beliefs. Attention to the effects of foreign imperialism and political arrangement in the 19th century and the collapse of China’s dynastic system in 1911. (Asian)

  
  
  • HIST 190 PO - Thesis Writers’ Seminar


    CrsNo HIST190 PO


    When Offered: Each fall.

    Instructor(s): S. Yamashita

    Students begin the basic work of doing a thesis or senior essay with the guidance of the seminar instructor and faculty readers.

  
  
  • HIST 191 PO - Senior Thesis


    CrsNo HIST191 PO


    When Offered: Each spring.

    Instructor(s): S. Yamashita

    An independent research and writing project culminating in a substantial, original historical work. Directed by one faculty member, chosen by the student (in all but exceptional cases) from the History Department faculty. Each thesis read by one additional reader. Students defend their theses orally. Prerequisites: 190 and completion of at least three courses in the field in which students intend to write their theses.

  
  • HIST 192 PO - Senior Essay


    CrsNo HIST192 PO


    When Offered: Last offered spring 2011.

    Instructor(s): Staff

    An independent writing project culminating in a substantial essay that may be based on original research, historiography or a critical review of secondary literature.

  
  
  • HIST 193 PO - Sr Reading Seminar & Field Exams


    CrsNo HIST193 PO


    When Offered: Last offered spring 2010.

    Instructor(s): Staff

    Exclusively for students who intend to take a field examination in their area of specialization. Each spring.

  
  • HIST 199DRPO - History: Directed Readings


    CrsNo HIST199DRPO


    When Offered: Each semester.

    Instructor(s): Staff

    Directed Readings. Syllabus reflects workload of a standard course in the department or program. Examinations or papers equivalent to a standard course. Regular interaction with the faculty supervisor. Weekly meetings are the norm. Available for full- or half-course credit.

  
  • HIST 199IRPO - History: Independent Research


    CrsNo HIST199IRPO


    When Offered: Each semester.

    Instructor(s): Staff

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

  
  • HIST 199RAPO - History: Research Assistantship


    CrsNo HIST199RAPO


    When Offered: Each semester.

    Instructor(s): Staff

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


Interdisciplinary Courses

  
  • ID 001 PO - Critical Inquiry Seminar


    CrsNo ID 001 PO


    When Offered: Each fall.

    Instructor(s): Staff

    Critical Inquiry (ID1) is a program of seminars for first-year students in their first semester at the College. Seminars are taught by faculty from across the disciplines and engage students in rigorous reading, writing and discussion on varied topics. The goal of ID1 is to prepare students to participate fully and successfully in the intellectual community that is Pomona College. Critical writing is an essential component of that participation, and to that end all sections of ID1 focus on writing as a recursive process of drafting and revision.

     

    See Seminars for 2011  for section descriptions.



  
  • ID 027 PO - Elements of Argument


    CrsNo ID 027 PO


    When Offered: Last offered spring 2009.

    Instructor(s): Staff

    This is an intensive course in written critical inquiry focusing on the genre of writing most closely associated with college-level work: the academic essay. Students will learn how to generate analytic questions and present nuanced responses to them; to develop those arguments by engaging with complex sources; and to write in clear and grammatically correct prose. Open to first-years and sophomores only.

  
  
  • ID 189 PO - Community Partnership Practicum


    CrsNo ID 189 PO


    When Offered: Each semester.

    Instructor(s): T. Summers Sandoval

    Community Partnership Practicum. For students enrolled in a course where professor of record has determined community engagement work can be conducted on an optional basis. Students perform 40 hours (minimum) of a community engagement activity, and reflect upon their service in the form of a final project, while fulfilling the primary course requirements. Offered as needed.

  
  • ID 199CPPO - Community Partnerships


    CrsNo ID 199CPPO


    When Offered: Each semester.

    Instructor(s): T. Summers Sandoval

    Nurtures student learining through active community engagement, reading and writing. Students prepare a “Community Partnership Plan,” outlining a mutually-beneficial community engagement activity and reading schedule; execute the plan (in consultation with professor and community engagement partner); and reflect upon their service in the form of regular discussion and writing. Offered upon request; permission of instructor required.


International Relations

  
  • IR 100 PO - Intermediate IR Seminar


    CrsNo IR 100 PO


    When Offered: Each semester.

    Instructor(s): Staff

    A reading-intensive seminar designed to introduce sophomore or junior majors to prevailing theories, methodologies and subject themes in international studies. Prerequisite: POLI 008 PO . Satisfies Area 2 of the Breadth of Study Requirements.

  
  • IR 102 SC - Cooperation and Rivalry in the European Union


    CrsNo IR 102 SC


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

  
  • IR 108 SC - Political Europe and Monetary Europe


    CrsNo IR 108 SC


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

  
  • IR 190 PO - Senior IR Seminar


    CrsNo IR 190 PO


    When Offered: Last offered fall 2010.

    Instructor(s): Staff

    A seminar on theory, research design and methodology intended to help students formulate and implement an individual research project. Students also present their research proposals to other senior majors in the program. Prerequisites: prior completion of four of the five core courses in International Relations and one of the two advanced electives.

 

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