2020-21 Pomona College Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
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Africana Studies

  
  • AFRI009 PZ - 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 3
  
  • AFRI010A AF - Introduction to Africana Studies

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

    Interdisciplinary exploration of key aspects of Black history, culture and life in Africa and the Americas. Provides a fundamental, intellectual understanding of the global Black experience as it has been described and interpreted in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • AFRI010B AF - Introduction to Africana Studies: Research Methods


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference
  
  • AFRI116 AF - Marxism and the Black Radical Tradition


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • AFRI120 PZ - B(Lack) to Nature: Poetry and 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 3
  
  • AFRI121 AF - Africana Philosophy


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • AFRI125 AF - Afro Pessimism in Politics of Hope


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • AFRI132 PZ - Black Queer Diaspora Writing Project Workshop


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • AFRI144A AF - Black Women Feminism(s) and The Visual Arts

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): P. Jackson
    Credit: 1

    Interdisciplinary seminar explores the ascension of intersectional feminism(s) produced by trailblazing Black women artists, theorists, and activists. Assigned creative and critical interventions interrogate the ways interlocking constructs of race (aestheticized moral ranking system), gender, sexuality, class, religion, and citizenship inform self-perceptions, social status, creative practices, as well as political and economic relationships of power. Situating contemporary feminist work historically, thematically- organized materials highlight key written and visual texts by the nineteenth century and twentieth-century foremothers. Students will compare and contrast strategies for living, thinking, and visualizing love-driven efforts to raise consciousness, manifest political and economic change, and energize social transformations across the African diaspora.States.
        
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • AFRI190 AF - Senior Seminar

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

    Seminar for Africana studies majors. Complements guidance of primary thesis advisor, by focusing on interdisciplinary research strategies and data collection methods; development of authorial voice for the interrogation of African/African Diaspora topics, notions of race and manifestations of racism. Emphasis on writing, rewriting and peer review. Minors require instructor’s permission.
  
  • AFRI191 AF - Senior Thesis

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

    In the Senior Seminar, students undertake independent research culminating in a substantial thesis. The thesis work will be supervised by one faculty member chosen by the student. Each thesis will be read by one additional reader.
  
  • AFRI192 AF - Senior Project

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

    Through the Senior Seminar, students engage in an independent reading, research and participatory exercise on a topic agreed to by the student and the advisor. Normally, the project involves a set of short papers and/or culminates in a research paper or original work of substantial length based upon participation in a project or program, e.g. original play script, film or film script or artwork.
  
  • AFRI193 AF - Senior Comprehensive Examination

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

    In the Senior Seminar, students will prepare for the exam to be taken during their senior year. The comprehensive examination consists of two field examinations that test the depth of the student’s knowledge of Africana studies. The student chooses two areas in Africana studies (e.g., history and literature) in which to be examined.
  
  • AFRI199DRAF - Africana Studies: 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.
  
  • AFRI199IRAF - Africana Studies: 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.
  
  • AFRI199RAAF - Africana Studies: 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.
  

American Studies

  
  • AMST103 JT - Introduction to American Cultures


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • AMST103 SC - Introduction to American Cultures


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • AMST110 SC - Migrant Memoir


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • AMST117 PO - American Soundscapes

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

    What does America sound like, and who hears it? This course will reside at the intersection of two interdisciplinary academic fields, American Studies and Sound Studies. How does an attention to the sonic clarify our understanding of American nationhood, empire, and identity in the twenty-first century? Does listening to American culture reveal knowledge that would otherwise be rendered invisible or unreachable? Conversely, in what ways does American Studies? persistent return to the personal and communal help situate the theoretical concepts drawn from other disciplines?  We will engage with primary and secondary sources from a wide range of disciplines, including media studies, anthropology, history, musicology, and sound art in order to better understand the role of the sonic in our constantly developing conceptualizations of “America.”
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • AMST120 HM - Hyphenated Americans


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • AMST128 SC - Race, Space, and Difference


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  
  • AMST180 SC - American Studies Seminar


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • AMST190 JT - Senior Thesis Seminar

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

    Exclusively for American studies majors who are preparing to write a senior thesis. Letter grade only.
  
  • AMST190 PO - Senior Thesis Seminar

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

    The seminar will introduce students to issues in interdisciplinary research to assist them in developing their own thesis projects. Each student will produce one chapter by the end of the semester. Students enroll in AMST 191 PO  in the spring semester to complete the thesis. Required of all majors. 
  
  • AMST191 PO - Senior Thesis

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

    Required of all majors in the senior year. The capstone project for majors in which they produce an original work in American studies.
  
  • AMST199DRPO - American Studies: Directed Readings

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

    Directed Readings. Syllabus reflects workload of a standard course in the 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.
  
  • AMST199IRPO - American Studies: 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.
  
  • AMST199RAPO - American Studies: 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.

Anthropology

  
  • ANTH002 PO - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): C. Bejarano; C. Evers
    Credit: 1

    Study of the structure and dynamics of human culture and social institutions from a comparative perspective. Diversity in ways of life and patterns of social organization explored through ethnographic materials from societies around the world. Letter grade only.
    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
  
  • ANTH003 PZ - Language, Culture and Society


    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
  
  • ANTH009 PZ - Food, Culture, Power


    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
  
  • ANTH012 PZ - Native Americans and Their Environments


    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
  
  • ANTH016 PZ - Intro to Nepal


    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
  
  • ANTH025 SC - Anthropology of the Middle East


    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
  
  • ANTH050 PZ - Sex, Body and Reproduction


    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
  
  • ANTH052 PO - Human Sexuality

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

    Survey of knowledge about human sexual and reproductive behavior, attitudes, concepts and values, with attention to the biological, psychological and sociocultural dimensions of sexuality. Special consideration of “safer sex” and AIDS prevention, and an examination of controversial issues surrounding sexuality across the globe.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  
  • ANTH053 PO - Language and Globalization

    When Offered: Spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): C. Evers
    Credit: 1

    This course covers how language and human movement have been intertwined over time, from early human dispersals through modern migrations. We begin by looking at how the evolution of language was tightly linked to the evolution of bipedalism in our Homo lineage. Students will gain an understanding of how language evolved in conjunction with human locomotion and will read recent research on human dispersals and how language diversified as people moved around the globe. After studying this picture of linguistic diversity, we then ask why it is that so many similarities remain between languages separated by great distances. What do these similarities, called language universals, reveal about human cognition? Turning subsequently to modern migrations, we interrogate what might be learned about the nature of globalization by looking at how people are using language today. If globalization is often described as the dissolution of the nation-state in favor of global forces like “the market” and transnational organizations, how might speech practices attest to the continued relevance of the local in the construction of human identity? Examples from many different contexts will be contrasted in order to better understand the varying outcomes that result when language communities come into contact (e.g., language shift/maintenance/endangerment, diglossia, dialect leveling, code-switching), and also the identity dynamics and power relations at hand in each of these situations. The course has a speaking-intensive overlay and uses films alongside readings to explore each unit’s key topics.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  
  • ANTH080 PZ - Anthropology of the United States


    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
  
  • ANTH086 PZ - Anthropology and Public 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
  
  • ANTH087 SC - Contemporary Issues: Gender and Islam


    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
  
  • ANTH088 PZ - China: Gender, Cosmology and the State


    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
  
  • ANTH099 PZ - China in the 21st-Century


    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
  
  • ANTH101 PO - Archaeological Theory

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

    Archaeology is one of the four primary subdivisions of Anthropology. The subfield has developed its own extensive claims to a body of method and theory for dealing with the material remains of past human societies. ANTH 101 is designed to familiarize the student with several distinct, but inter-related aspects of archaeological method and theory. Archaeology has developed its own history in relation to anthropology and needs to be contextualized within this background. The field has also developed its own distinct methods based on reconnaissance, excavation, and analysis. All archaeology is interpretive and reliant upon the methods utilized to collect data as well as upon the theoretical backgrounds, assumptions, and analyses that are applied. Archaeologists must also be concerned with a host of ethical questions that are of concern to field research in the present. This course hopes to provide a background to understanding the uses of archaeological theory by specifically emphasizing the ways in which material culture can be utilized to make interpretations concerning both past and present behavior. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  
  • ANTH102 PO - Applied Anthropology

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2017.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    This course is designed to provide an overview of the field of applied anthropology. Introduction to the history, theory and methodology; uses of anthropology to solve social, economic, health and development problems, domestically and internationally. Students will conduct their own fieldwork on an applied issue of their choice.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  
  • ANTH105 PO - Methods in Anthropological Inquiry

    When Offered: Spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): C. Evers
    Credit: 1

    Introduction to ethnography, the major mode of investigation in anthropology. Emphasis on systematic inquiry and inference. The vicissitudes of fieldwork and what it means to learn about human ways of life using the “technology” anthropologists have developed to gather, record and use data.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  
  • ANTH107 PO - Medical Anthropology

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): C. Bejarano
    Credit: 1

    History, theory, methodology and application of anthropology in various health settings. Concepts of health, illness and healing in diverse cultural contexts. Critical assessment of conventional biomedical assumptions. Use of anthropology to solve health problems.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference
  
  • ANTH107 SC - Medical Anthropology and Global Health


    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
  
  • ANTH108 PO - The Essay as Resistance: Writing, Photography, Film, and the Politics of Form

    When Offered: Spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): K. Wittman; J. Nucho
    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 melancholy, critical farewell-but Sans Soleil is also about the world, a visual 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 essay: a global, culturally rich 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 writing, photographing, filming. Since its formal 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, draw, 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 literature, film, and visual anthropology (taught by faculty from English and Anthropology), we will be thinking about the relationship between powers of resistance and modes of representation. Assignments will be both written and visual; you will learn to film your own essay. Possible artists include James Agee, John Akomfrah, Kazim Ali, Jorge Amado, James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Augusto Roa Bastos, Lynda Barry, Elif Batuman, Allison Bechdel, Anne Carson, Durga Chew-Bose, Catherine Chung, Teju Cole, J.M. Coetzee, Walker Evans, Harun Farocki, Hollis Frampton, Ross Gay, Édouard Glissant, Yi-yun Li, Chris Marker, Michel de Montaigne, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Mary Oliver, Marlon Riggs, Ngügï wa Thiong’o, Agnes Varda, Virginia Woolf. Course is equivalent to ENGL108 PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Writing Intensive
  
  • ANTH110 HM - Life: Knowledge, Belief, and Cultural Practices


    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 2
  
  • ANTH110 PO - Field Methods in Archaeology

    When Offered: Spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): A. Chase
    Credit: 1

    Interpretations of the past are made primarily through archaeology and written history. If written
    history does not exist, then archaeological data are used to frame past life ways. Various
    archaeological techniques and strategies exist for collecting and interpreting data, all of which is
    gathered through combinations of survey, mapping, and excavation. Different techniques for
    assembling and presenting these data may lead to differences in interpretation. This course is
    designed to provide students with an introduction to archaeological field methods, covering how
    and why materials are excavated and mapped in the field as well as the basic tool set that is
    available for archaeology. Archaeological field methods are best learned in conjunction within-field
    archaeological research; the readings and discussions are meant to supplement the actual practice
    of archaeology in the field. The conjunction of reading and practice should better inform the
    acquisition of archaeological knowledge and skills. Emphasis also will be placed on the nature of
    the archaeological interpretation in terms of excavation techniques and contexts that are
    specifically focused on the ancient Maya. This course is embedded in an active field experience for
    the students so that students appreciate the value of survey,mapping, and excavation in answering
    questions about the past. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  
  • ANTH110 PZ - Nature and Society in Amazonia


    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
  
  • ANTH111 PO - Archaeological Field Practicum

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): A. Chase
    Credit: 1

    The purpose of this course is to expose students to a wide range of archaeological techniques in an
    active on-site field setting. Students work side-by-side with archaeological research team members,
    gaining experience in excavation, recording, and interpretation of finds. All students will be on-site
    for 8 weeks. There is no running water, no air conditioning, and no electricity at the site; nor does
    Internet connectivity exist, meaning that there is also no television and no news. Camp is in a
    remote location. The Caracol Archaeological Project has been operating continually since 1985 and
    the students will benefit from the past work and stabilization that has been undertaken at the site.
    As an active field project, all participating individuals will be involved in taking field notes, making
    field and artifact drawings, and recording lot and catalogue cards; they will also be on-site each day
    with local excavators who handle the heavy lifting. As a result of these experiences, students
    should learn how to be functioning members of an archaeological team and gain a suite of
    experiences that are not generally available to them through participation in more short-term field
    schools. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  
  • ANTH111 HM - Introduction to the Anthropology of Science and Technology


    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 2
  
  • ANTH112 PO - Lab Methods in Archaeology

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): A. Chase
    Credit: 1

    Perhaps one of the most important parts of archaeological research is what happens in the
    archaeological laboratory. Ideally, the artifactual materials recovered as a result of excavation
    should be simultaneously processed in the field so that they can inform the excavation strategy.
    This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the archaeological laboratory,
    covering how and why materials are processed and examining the various substances that can be
    recovered in the field. It also covers both the field illustration of these materials and their final
    presentation. Emphasis also will be placed on the nature of the archaeological interpretation of
    these materials in terms of their contexts, specifically focusing on the ancient Maya. This course is
    embedded in an active field experience for the students so that students appreciate the value of
    laboratory analysis in answering questions about the past. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  
  • ANTH114 SC - Science, Medicine, and Colonialism


    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
  
  • ANTH116 PO - Anthropology of Digital Culture

    When Offered: Fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): A. Lippman
    Credit: 1

    Technology from the wheel to the printing press has influenced identity, community and society throughout time. Currently, we are in the midst of one of the most significant technological shifts in human history because of digital technologies. Using anthropology as cultural critique, we will examine the new (and not-so-new) cultural, political and material practices connected digital technology. Topics covered include activism, identity, friendship, hacking, piracy, property, privacy, identity, labor, and embodiment. Course is equivalent to ANTH116  PZ.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  
  • ANTH119 SC - East Asia in Ethnography and Film


    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
  
  • ANTH121 PO - Science, Medicine, and Technology

    When Offered: Spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): C. Bejarano
    Credit: 1

    This course will engage in critical studies of medicine, science, and technology from an anthropological perspective. Recent ethnographic research will examine configurations of knowledge and practice with special attention to social justice, community interventions, and the study up of institutions. Course is equivalent to ANTH 121 SC .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  
  • ANTH121 SC - Science, Medicine & Technology


    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
  
  • ANTH122 PO - Cooperative Filmmaking for Social Change

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): J. Nucho
    Credit: 1

    This course focuses on the theory and practice of collaborative filmmaking, both within the discipline of Anthropology and outside of academia. We will begin with an overview of the use of cooperative filmmaking efforts and community-based history projects in various contexts. Students will learn about the ways in which cooperative and collaborative filmmaking practices can challenge the paradigms of commercial filmmaking in terms of content, production and distribution. Students will also have the opportunity to collaborate with a community-based organization in the city of Pomona to produce short videos as part of an ongoing filmmaking practice for social change.
    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
  
  
  • ANTH127 SC - Settler Colonialism


    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
  
  • ANTH133 PZ - Indians in Action


    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
  
  • ANTH141 PZ - Land, City, State - Latin America


    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
  
  • ANTH142 SC - Culture and Politics in Latin 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 2
  
  • ANTH144 PO - Anthropology of Environmental Justice

    When Offered: Fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): J. Nucho
    Credit: 1

    This course is a critical examination of the entangled political, economic, social and environmental impacts of mundane and large-scale infrastructures like sanitation systems that deal with sewage, recycling or trash, telecommunications, roads, bridges, electricity grids, dams, canals and others. By taking infrastructures seriously as processes that can be made to enable (or impede) certain kinds of relations or movements, as well as devices that can function as important symbolic projects, this class will raise a number of interrelated questions. What sorts of histories become apparent when looking at the emergence of particular kinds of infrastructures? How can we approach questions of environmental justice by studying the mundane infrastructures of daily life? Which communities are made more vulnerable to risk by particular kinds of infrastructure planning, and how can we address these questions using qualitative, ethnographic methods? Previously offered as ANTH189Q PO.
    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
  
  • ANTH145 PO - Mesoamerican Archaeology

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

    This course covers the archaeology of Precolumbian complex societies like the Olmec, the Maya, and the Aztecs. It provides an introduction to the prehistory of the peoples of Mesoamerica (comprising all of Guatemala and Belize and parts of Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras) from roughly 2000 BCE into the 16th century CE. It seeks to provide a definition of their common cultural background and to examine the archaeological record for the origins of these various societies and their rise into complex indigenous civilizations that were finally dismantled following contact with the Spanish in the sixteenth century. Emphasis will be placed on the nature of the archaeological interpretation of these native American cultures and on the diachronic and dynamic relationships between highland Mexican and lowland Maya groups. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Writing Intensive
  
  • ANTH149 SC - Anthro of the (Extra)Ordinary


    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
  
  • ANTH150 PO - Anthropology of Religion

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    Religious experience in differing societies. Questions about religious practices in relation to practitioners’ thoughts, feelings, values and social circumstances: development of approaches helpful in exploring religious life; attention to worldview, myth, ritual, witchcraft, taboo, shamanism and pollution; special attention to new, revitalizing and politicizing religious movements.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  
  • ANTH152 PO - Ethnic Nationalism

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2016.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    Contemporary theories of ethnic and cultural nationalism from social science perspectives. Issues of nation-states, power hierarchies, modernity and identity in contemporary societies. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  
  • ANTH153 PO - History of Anthropological Theory

    When Offered: Fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    This course will provide a survey of the history of anthropological theory and method through a combination of theoretical writings and ethnographic monographs. It will examine how different historical moments and theories of knowledge have informed anthropological objectives and projects. Close attention will be paid to the changing content, form and sites addressed throughout the history of the discipline. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ANTH 002 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Writing Intensive
  
  • ANTH153 PZ - History of Anthropological 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 2
  
  • ANTH155 PO - Globalization

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    The nature of globalization and of claims made about it; examination of neoliberalism; transnational labor, media, tourism and youth culture; regional and world systems historically and cross-culturally; globalization of protest; impacts on local communities.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Writing Intensive
  
  • ANTH156 PO - Comparative Muslim Societies in Asia

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2017.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    Course surveys and analyzes the wide diversity found among Muslim communities and Islamic societies. The course also looks at issues of the requirement of the pilgrimage, the centrality of the mosques, the finding of Muslim mates in many non-Muslim areas and religio-political movements.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  
  • ANTH157 PO - Anthropology of Chinese Society

    When Offered: Spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    Examines China as a nation in transition; the critical junctures in Chinese history: 1949, the Cultural Revolution, post-Mao economic reforms, Tiananmen Square and their impact on Chinese culture and social life. How Chinese culture and society are “represented” by different authors; China as an ideological construction; minority identity; effects of global and mass mediated popular culture; Chinese diaspora in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore; resistance to Chinese identity by Tibetans, Uyghurs and Taiwanese. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  
  • ANTH158 PO - The Anthropology of Sports

    When Offered: Spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    Theory of sports and the body in socio-cultural anthropology. Survey of premodern and non-western forms such as the first Olympic Games, the ball courts of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the ritual kickball at the earliest Japanese court, Afghan buzkashi and Native American lacrosse. Tracks how modern team sports were disseminated through the circuits of Western imperialism. Attention to the social structures, cultural meanings and historical pathways by which sporting practices take distinctive form and significance. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  
  • ANTH159 PO - Anthropology of Food

    When Offered: Fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): D. Gladney
    Credit: 1

    This course is intended to introduce students to the social practices and meanings, symbolic, biological and political, that surround food and food-related practices. Food is at the heart of most cultures around the world, and we will look closely at the ways in which food is used as prescription, taboo or social solidarity. Feasts, fasts and diets will be viewed in historical and social context with close attention to issues of gender, class and religion. Consumption in the global context will be linked to local tastes and food practices. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Speaking Intensive
  
  
  • ANTH185 PO - Collapse and Transformation: The Archaeology of Complex Societies

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): A. Chase
    Credit: 1

    This course introduces multiple approaches to the study of complexity and collapse in the archaeological record, focusing on researchers’ attempts to understand the development of social inequality in diverse societies ranging from North America to Oceana to Africa to Western Asia as well as to see how institutionalized inequality led to complex social formations in Mesopotamia (2500-1600 BC), Egypt (2700-1780 BC), China (1200-950 BC), and the New World (Maya [400 BC - AD 900], Aztec [AD 1400-1500], and Inca [AD 1500]). Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Writing Intensive
  
  • ANTH185P SC - Topics in Anthropology


    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
  
  • ANTH189L PO - Linguistic Anthropology

    When Offered: Fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): C. Evers
    Credit: 1

    This course provides an intensive introduction to selected theories, methods, and themes in linguistic anthropology, one of the discipline’s four subfields. The primary aim of the course is to familiarize students with the linguistic anthropological approach to language, according to which language is a social tool with significance for sociopolitical processes, on the one hand, and basic research methods in linguistic anthropology, on the other. The course has two interwoven parts. The first is the sequence of readings, which will be analyzed in particular for the evidence and methods on which they draw. These readings trace the development of linguistic anthropology chronologically, beginning with the branching of linguistics into the fields of theoretical linguistics and linguistic anthropology, then examining early linguistic anthropologists’ inquiries into linguistic relativism and whether language shapes thought, before turning finally to contemporary semiotic approaches to language, illustrated through selected ethnographic examples. The second part of the course is a field practicum in which students will observe language in the social setting of their choice, produce field notes, and draft written analyses guided by questions that we will consider at length. Via their fieldwork students will become adept at using a range of methods for collecting data and analyzing how people use language, including participant observation, interviews, field notes, audio recordings, and discourse analytic transcriptions. The course also has a writing-intensive overlay; accordingly, throughout the semester students will write up a series of shorter ethnographic analyses that they will then revise and collate into an original research paper. 
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Writing Intensive
  
  • ANTH189P PO - Visual Anthropology

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): J. Nucho
    Credit: 1

    This course focuses on the history and development of documentary film and the emergence of ethnographic film within the discipline of anthropology. We will begin with an overview of the use of visual material, film and photography in both anthropological fieldwork as well as popular documentary films of the early 20th century. While the formal and aesthetic language of documentary film is often taken to signal “reality” in popular understandings of the genre, how has this framing been challenges within visual anthropology? Students will learn about the changing relationship of anthropology to visual practices through a number of screenings, readings and lectures that explore issues of power and representation and the visual medium.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  
  • ANTH190 PO - Senior Research Design Seminar

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

    Planning and research design, literature review, ethical issues in human subjects’ research; funds management and reporting; dissemination of research findings. Construction of a research proposal, typically leading to the senior thesis. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ANTH051 PO and ANTH105 PO.
  
  • ANTH191 PO - Senior Thesis

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

    May be taken for half-course in both semesters of the last year or as full course in either semester of the senior year.
  
  • ANTH192 PO - Senior Project

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

    May be taken for half-course in both semesters of the last year or as full course in either semester of the senior year.
  
  • ANTH199DRPO - Anthropology: Directed Readings

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 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.
  
  • ANTH199IRPO - Anthropology: 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. Otherwise, student should take Directed Reading/199DR. Available for full- or half-course credit.
  
  • ANTH199RAPO - Anthropology: 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.

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  • ARBC033 CM - Intermediate Arabic


    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:
    Language Requirement
  
  • ARBC044 CM - Continuing Intermediate Arabic


    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:
    Language Requirement
  
  
  
  
  
 

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