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

  
  • RLST155 PO - Religion, Ethics and Social Practice: An Intergenerational Partnership on Vocations for Social Change (CP)

    When Offered: Spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): Z. Kassam
    Credit: 1

    Through direct experience, related readings, structured reflection and intergenerational discussion this course seeks to develop informed responses to the following questions: What are the religious, ethical and/or simply humane elements that motivate and sustain our social practice? How does our present commitment to justice become a lifelong vocation of participation and leadership in effective social change? How does our own personal development foster or inhibit our capacity to deal effectively with injustice? To what extent do factors such as class, gender and ethnicity determine our assumptions about the human condition and our own role in society?

    We will address these questions in an intergenerational partnership of faculty and students from The Claremont Colleges, residents of Pilgrim Place (a retirement community where many have devoted a lifetime to service and/or social change agency) and other Elders similarly committed to social justice. This fertile mix of differing age perspectives, diverse experiences and our work together will culminate in undergraduate proposals for a three to nine-month project of social change in the U.S. or abroad.
     


    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference

  
  • RLST156 CM - The European Reformations


    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
  
  • RLST157 PO - Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): O. Eisenstadt
    Credit: 1

    According to some thinkers, the event of the Holocaust has called into question all Western thought that preceded it. We examine this claim, focusing on the question of whether, after the Holocaust and similar contemporary horrors, theology and philosophy must change in order to speak responsibly. Thinkers taken up include Arendt, Fackenheim, Browning, Bauman, Spiegelman, Voegelin, Adorno, Jabes and Levinas.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST158 PO - Introduction to Jewish Mysticism

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): O. Eisenstadt
    Credit: 1

    Close reading of selections from various texts of medieval Jewish mysticism in translation, including the Zohar, Abulafia, Cordovero, Luria and the Hasidim.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Writing Intensive
  
  • RLST159 CM - History of Christianity in Asia


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST161 CM - Gurus, Swamis and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST162 PO - Modern Jewish Philosophy

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

    An introduction to Jewish philosophy in the modern period, focusing on its relation to the wider philosophical tradition and to Christian thought.  We begin with early modern attempts to define Judaism as against secular society, and follow this concern as it evolves into contemporary theory about the role of dialogue with the other in the formation of the individual.  We read Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, Buber, and Levinas.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST163 CM - Women and Gender in Jewish Tradition


    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
  
  • RLST165 CM - Religion and Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe


    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
  
  • RLST166B CM - Religion, Politics and Global Violence


    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
  
  • RLST167 SC - Early Christian-Muslim Relations


    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
  
  
  • RLST169 CM - Christianity and Politics in East Asia


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST170 SC - Women and Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity


    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
  
  • RLST171 CM - Religion and Film


    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
  
  • RLST173 CM - US Latino Religions and Politics


    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
  
  • RLST174 CM - Religion and the American Presidency


    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
  
  • RLST175 CM - Visions of the Divine Feminine in Hinduism and Buddhism


    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
  
  • RLST176 CM - Visionaries, Prophets, and Transformative Leadership


    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
  
  • RLST177 PO - Gender and Religion

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): E. Runions
    Credit: 1

    This course examines the complicated intersections of gender and religion. Neither gender, nor religion are straightforward categories, as the literatures on each attests and must be theorized as categories with particular histories and cultural contexts. This course will look at the ways in which “gender” and “religion” interact with various historical and cultural contexts to reinforce, contradict and also resist traditional notions of gender and religious experience. Attention will be paid to how religion affects experiences of gender; and how gender affects experiences of religion. More specifically, we will explore the way in which the intersection of gender and religion affects understandings, experiences and negotiations of religious origins, personal identities, religious experiences, agency, body shapes, images and disciplines, sexuality, race relations, cultural appropriations and power structures.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST179 HM - Special Topics in Religious Study


    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
  
  
  • RLST180 CM - Interpreting Religious Worlds


    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
  
  • RLST180 PO - Interpreting Religious Worlds

    When Offered: Each spring by rotation at the Claremont Colleges.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    Required for all majors and minors. Examines some current approaches to the study of religion as a legitimate field of academic discourse. This course is taught in alternating years at Scripps, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, and Harvey Mudd Colleges.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST181 PO - Prison, Punishment, Redemption (CP)

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

    This course will explore ideologies of punishment and redemption in relation to the prison industrial complex. We will critique and redefine themes of redemption, correction, debt, virtue, shame, guilt, purity, atonement, damnation, hell and conversion as they influence, infuse and complicate popular understanding of prison, policy development and lived experience of prison. We will be analyzing religious teaching, literature, media, pop culture, policy, political discourse and art. The approach taken will be interdisciplinary with intersectional analysis that includes race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, age, mobility, literacy, education, nationality. Six times in the semester students will take part in a writing workshop in the prison California Institute for Women. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference
  
  • RLST183 HM - Ghosts and the Machines: Occult Mediumship and Modern Media


    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
  
  • RLST184 PO - Queer Theory and the Bible

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): E. Runions
    Credit: 1

    This course will look at how the Bible can be read productively through queer theory. We will examine biblical passages that are central to prohibitions on homosexuality and the larger discourses of heteronormativity (constructed around gender, sexuality, class, national identity, state formations, kinship, children, etc.) in which homophobic readings of the Bible emerge. We will also look at the ways in which these discourses and the identities they shore up can be “queered,” as well as at biblical texts that can be read as queer friendly. This process of queering will allow and require us to approach the biblical text in new ways.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3; Analyzing Difference
  
  
  • RLST187 PO - Queering Religion

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): E. Runions
    Credit: 1

    Religion is often queerer than one might imagine. This course looks at religious practices, texts, and traditions that defy the usual assumption that religions insist on binary gender divisions and heteropatriarchal kinship models. Along the way we question what we mean by “religion” and what we mean by “queer.” We consider how sexualities and genders are shaped in and through religious practices, texts, and traditions. We consider the intersections of religion and sexuality with transnational politics, ethnicities, cultures, and power relations. We consider how religious traditions can push back on received norms and create space for queer gender expression, identity, and sexual practice. The course will pay particular attention to how we research and write about queer religious phenomena. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST189E PO - Feminist Theories and Feminist Theologies

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): L. Reznik
    Credit: 1

    This course looks at the various ways religious thinkers have used the insights of feminist theorizing to critique and critically reconfigure Jewish and Christian traditions from within and the field of feminist theology that emerged from this critical endeavor. The course will consider feminist critiques of religious doctrine and practice, feminist biblical interpretation, and feminist theological approaches to racism, capitalism, homophobia, embodiment and vulnerability, and ecological disaster. Some time will also be devoted to the interface of feminist theologies with queer and trans theorizing and theologizing. Readings may include texts by Mary Daly, Judith Plaskow, Delores Williams, Sharon Welch, and Marcella Althaus-Reid.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST189J PO - Prison Religion

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): L. Reznik
    Credit: 1

    This course examines the role religion has played in both creating and opposing the carceral state. We will look at how different religious texts imagine crime, punishment, justice, and reform. We will think about the connections and differences between religious practice of human sacrifice and secular practice of capital punishment. We will look at ethnographic and autobiographical writings about prison ministry and religious conversion as well as religious activism around prison abolition. We will also explore the legal, ethical, and political problems that arise when ‘faith-based’ social service organizations working in the prison system combine social programs with evangelizing.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST189P PO - Critical Theory

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

    Critical Theory seeks ‘to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them,’ according to Max Horkheimer, one of the leading figures of the Frankfurt School. In this course we will discuss: the failure of the revolutionary movement (Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg) and the rise of totalitarianism that provide the historical context for Critical Theory’s search for new possibilities of emancipation; Ernst Bloch’s study of utopian aspirations in art and religion; the major philosophical and literary critical works of figures associated with the Frankfurt School (Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin); the plays of Bertolt Brecht; the exiled Frankfurt School’s influence in the United States (Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Cornell West, Susan Buck-Morss), with emphasis on its critique of the culture industry, i.e., Hollywood, and the role of media in mass society; and recent developments in postmodern and postsecular critical social theory (Jurgen Habermas, Gillian Rose, Slavoj Zizek, Byung-Chul Han).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST189Q PO - Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): L. Reznik
    Credit: 1

    This course investigates the historical and political resonances between Jewishness and queerness; and antisemitism and homophobia. It explores what queer theory has to offer to the study of Judaism and Jewishness and how the analysis of Jewish sacred texts and practices might complicate queer theorizing. We will ask what norms around sex, sexuality, gender, bodily practice, and desire come into view from analyzing Jewish religious thought and practice. We will also look at how those norms were contested and revised both inside Jewish communities and in Jewish diaspora’s confrontation with the sex, gender, and sexuality regimes of the dominant culture. We will end by examining some contemporary issues around ‘pinkwashing’ and homonationalism. Course materials may include readings in biblical and rabbinic literature, sexology and psychoanalysis, queer and feminist theory, poetry and fiction, as well as film/tv screenings of Oriented, Paper Dolls, Angels in America, Transparent, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST189Z PO - The Origins and Influences of the Zoroastrian Tradition

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

    This course examines the background and beginnings of the Zoroastrian religion, then explores its development during the three great Iranian Empires: Ancient Persian, Parthian, and Sasanian; and its relationship with neighboring religions, including Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Manichaeism, Christianity and Islam. The course concludes with a focus on the forms and function of the religion in Iran, India, and diaspora, and its impact upon some of the great European literati, including Voltaire, Mozart and Nietzsche.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 3
  
  • RLST190 PO - Senior Seminar in Religious Studies

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

    Required for all senior majors. Advanced readings, discussion and seminar presentations on selected areas and topics in the study of religion.
  
  • RLST191 PO - Senior Thesis

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

    Required of all senior majors in religious studies.
  
  • RLST199DRPO - Religious Studies: 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.

Romance Languages and Literatures

  
  • RLIT191 PO - Senior Thesis in Romance Literature

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

    Senior Thesis in Romance Literature.

Russian

  
  • RUSS001 PO - Elementary Russian 1

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

    Acquisition of basic oral and written communication. Introduction to the structure of the language. Intensive oral practice.
  
  • RUSS002 PO - Elementary Russian 2

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

    Continues the acquisition of basic oral and written communication with a focus on Russian grammar in social and cultural contexts. Intensive oral and written practice. Prerequisite: RUSS 001 PO .
  
  • RUSS011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary Russian Language and Culture

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): A. Dwyer
    Credit: 0.25

    Open to all students except native speakers. Credit for satisfactory participation in Oldenborg Center activities and two conversation classes weekly. Cumulative, one-fourth 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: RUSS 002 PO .
  
  • RUSS013 PO - Advanced Conversation

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): A. Dwyer
    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. Each semester. Prerequisite: RUSS 033 PO .
  
  • RUSS033 PO - Intermediate Russian

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

    Further study in the Russian language, including reading, conversation, grammar and composition. Prerequisite: RUSS 002 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Language Requirement
  
  • RUSS044 PO - Advanced Russian

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

    Continues the study of the Russian grammatical system. Focus on oral communicative strategies, advanced syntax, study of short poems, prose and film. Prerequisite: RUSS 033 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Language Requirement
  
  • RUSS180 PO - Readings in 19th-century Russian Literature

    When Offered: Spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): K. Klioutchkine
    Credit: 1

    Masterworks of Russian prose and poetry in the context of cultural, social and political trends in 19th-century history. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: RUSS 044 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  
  • RUSS181 PO - Readings in Modern Russian Literature

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

    A survey of Russian and Soviet poetry, prose and film of the 20th century, covering major cultural movements including symbolism, futurism, ornamental prose, socialist realism, literature of the thaw, dissident and underground culture, and the post-Soviet scene. Class discussion in both Russian and English. Focus on composition in Russian. Prerequisite: RUSS 044 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  
  • RUSS182 PO - Post-Soviet Russian Culture and Society

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    The course explores the major changes in Russian society since the collapse of the U.S.S.R. through fiction, popular media and film. Topics include post-Soviet identity and nostalgia, nationalism, wars in Chechnya, terrorism, control of the media, ecological issues, new religiosity and popular culture. Readings from the Russian media and contemporary fiction. Films. Prerequisite: RUSS 044 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 1; Language Requirement; Speaking Intensive
  
  • RUSS183 PO - What’s So Funny?–Comedy in Russian Literature and Film

    When Offered: Spring 2022.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    Introduction to comic works of film and fiction from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Textual analysis, class discussion, oral reports, composition, advanced work on grammar and stylistics. Prerequisites: RUSS 044 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement; Speaking Intensive
  
  • RUSS184 PO - The Art of Translation

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    Introduction to the practice of literary translation (primarily from Russian to English). Students will read a wide range of texts from 19th, 20th and 21st-century Russian literature (and some film) and practice translating these texts into English, paying close attention to matters of style, form and cultural specificity. Textual analysis, class discussion, oral reports, advanced work on grammar and stylistics.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6; Language Requirement; Speaking Intensive
  
  • RUSS185 PO - Russian Poetry in the Original: Words Can Break Windows

    When Offered: Fall 2022.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    Credit: 1

    Students will read a wide range of texts from 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st-century Russian poetry, learn the basics of versification and poetic/metrical analysis, with some comparative readings (poetry & poetics) from English and other languages. Course activities include translation, textual analysis, class discussion, oral reports, advanced work on grammar and stylistics. Prerequisites: RUSS 044 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement; Speaking Intensive
  
  • RUSS186 PO - Animated Russia: Cartoons and the Language of Culture

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): K. Klioutchkine
    Credit: 1

    In a country with a strong tradition of animation, cartoons define the ways in which Russians make sense of their experience. The course surveys Russian cartoons from the Soviet era to the present, focusing on how they disseminate cultural assumptions while lampooning them at the same time. Prerequisite: RUSS 044 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  
  • RUSS187 PO - Everyday Life in the U.S.S.R.

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): A. Dwyer
    Credit: 1

    Explores aspects of Soviet everyday life and the cultural mythologies surrounding them: housing (especially the communal apartment), youth culture, habits of work and leisure. Emphasis on developing listening and reading skills across speech genres. Continued work on Russian grammar and syntax. Prerequisite: RUSS 044 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Language Requirement
  
  • RUSS189 PO - Russian Across the Curriculum

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

    Integrates a Russian language component into Russian program courses taught in English. Syllabus reflects half the workload of a standard full-credit course in the department. May also be taken without being enrolled in the main course. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: RUSS 033 PO . May be repeated for credit.
  
  • RUSS190 PO - Research Seminar

    When Offered: Spring 2022.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    Topics in Russian and East European Studies: Research Seminar. This course combines advanced work on Russian material with instruction in research methodologies across disciplines. Emphasis on Russian primary sources. Sophomores and juniors complete a research paper in preparation for thesis. Seniors present their thesis progress. Tailored to student research interests. Prerequisites: RUSS 033 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:
    Speaking Intensive
  
  • RUSS191 PO - Senior Thesis

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

    Course or half-course.
  
  • RUSS193 PO - Comprehensive Examinations

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

    Five-hour written and one-hour oral examinations in the field of Russian language and literature, testing the student’s general competence in the discipline. Half-course. P/NC grading only.
  
  • RUSS199DRPO - Russian: 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.
  
  • RUSS199IRPO - Russian: 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.
  
  • RUSS199RAPO - Russian: 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.

Russian Literature in Translation

  
  • RUST075 PO - From Pushkin to Pussy Riot: Modern Russian Culture and Society

    When Offered: Fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): R. Jensen
    Credit: 1

    An introduction to the highlights of modern Russian culture from the nineteenth century to the present day. Explores Russia’s contribution to our understanding of problems central to modern life: revolution, capitalism, social justice, the individual in society. We will sample the visual arts (from realism to the revolutionary avant-garde to actionist Petr Pavlensky); film (Vertov, Eisenstein, Tarkovsky); literature (short works by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pelevin); music and dance (from Swan Lake to Pussy Riot’s punk performances). In English. For majors and non-majors alike. Students will give oral presentations, lead discussion, and write midterm and final exams. No papers.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive
  
  • RUST079 PO - Russian Short Fiction: Tales of Passion, Crime, Wars and Revolutions

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

    A survey of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century Russian fiction, focusing on the individual, social and political dilemmas faced by central characters in the context of Russian culture and history. Theoretical issues of narrative strategies and literary techniques. Authors include Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak, Petrushevskaia and Pelevin. All readings in English.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  
  • RUST080 PO - Russian Literature and Culture from 1900 to the Present

    When Offered: Spring 2022.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    Major movements and trends in Russian literature and culture with critical readings and cultural theory. Topics include Russian figurations of the utopia, avant-garde literature and art, social engineering, Stalinist terror, environmental issues, family and gender politics, post-Soviet popular culture. All readings in English. (Russian in Translation)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • RUST100 PO - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov

    When Offered: Spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): K. Klioutchkine
    Credit: 1

    Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov captured the human experience in the context of modernity, in which we continue to live today. The modern age emerged with the development of the media in the 19th century, when relations between people, previously based on personal contact, came to be mediated by the press, as today they are mediated by film, television and the internet. The writers whose prose we explore were fascinated by modernity and articulated salient insights into the human experience in media society. We read a selection of their major works addressing the problems of personal identity, social involvement and relations between men and women in a rapidly changing world. All readings in English. (Russian in Translation)  
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive
  
  • RUST103 PO - Dostoevsky and Popular Culture

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): K. Klioutchkine
    Credit: 1

    Media culture, youth movement, burgeoning city life, technological progress and acute political developments, such as nihilism, anarchism and terrorism–these circumstances brought to life Dostoevsky’s masterpieces. Popular culture fashioned the rich context for Dostoevsky’s existential questions about love, life and death. By placing Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Possessed in the context of their time, remarkably similar to our own, the course highlights the links between Dostoevsky’s novels and our experience today. All readings in English. (Russian in Translation)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • RUST110 PO - Looking Beyond the Usual: Russian and Eastern European Cinema

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    A survey of Russian and Eastern European film from Soviet to post-Soviet times. Focus on the most innovative films and directors from Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia (and its successor states), Hungary, and former Yugoslavia in their relation to social, cultural, and political discourses. The course includes such topics as the communist past and its aftermath, aesthetics and ideology, historical memory, migration, human trafficking, ethnicity, and gender. Film genres, styles, and basic notions of film theory.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive
  
  • RUST111 PO - Russian Cinema

    When Offered: Fall 2022.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    The history of Russian cinema from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Topics include cultural politics under the Soviets; censorship; confrontation between the real world and the fictional reality created by the Soviets; masterpieces of Soviet and post-Soviet cinema; sex and violence of new Russian cinema. Readings on film theory, film criticism and history of Russia. All readings in English. (Russian in Translation)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • RUST112 PO - Politicizing Magic: Classic, Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): L. Rudova
    Credit: 1

    Explores the evolution of the fairy tale. Classic fairy tales. Russian folk tales and their role in the creation of Soviet mythology. Study of different critical approaches and structure of the genre. All readings in English. (Russian in Translation)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • RUST113 PO - Women in Soviet Film

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): R. Jensen
    Credit: 1

    What did the Soviet woman look like? This course explores the shifting representation of women in films across the twentieth century. The Russian Revolution of 1917 promised a radical restructuring of society that would ensure gender equality. How was this new woman represented on the silver screen? What roles were imagined for women in this new society that was often portrayed as highly ‘masculine?’ How did the changing political situation influence depictions of women in these films? We will explore representations of women as revolutionaries, mothers, war heroes, workers, and muses. In addition to attending to the representation of women on screen, we will also examine the role of women behind the scenes in the Soviet film industry as editors and filmmakers. To explore how this ‘new woman’ was theorized, constructed, and represented through the new medium of film, we will read a range of texts, including: primary sources that shaped the discourse around gender, sexuality, and feminism in the Soviet Union; film theory; as well as film criticism.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive
  
  • RUST114 PO - Crimes and Punishments: Prison Literature in Russia and America

    When Offered: One-time only; spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): R. Jensen
    Credit: 1

    This course explores cultural representations of policing, surveillance, and imprisonment in (pre-revolutionary and Soviet) Russia and America. These two countries have distinct and yet profoundly interlinked histories, and both have been marked by mass forced-labor projects and extensive prison systems. What might we gain by looking at the Soviet Gulag and American mass incarceration side-by-side? We will explore topics such as the ethics and aesthetics of writing about prison, the relationship between captivity and creativity, the uses of documentary and fictional forms, the sociology of prison subcultures, and practices of resistance. We will examine how the experience of imprisonment is shaped by categories like race, nationality, gender, and class. Readings may include works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vera Figner, Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Varlam Shalamov, Maria Alyokhina, Angela Davis, Malcolm X, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive
  
  • RUST175 PO - Russia: Empire and Identity

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

    Russia today sprawls over eleven time zones and is home to many different national, ethnic, and religious groups. This course examines the last two centuries of cultural production in Russia and the Soviet Union through the lens of empire. Emphasis on the formation of national and imperial identities; imperial expansion (and national resistance); ethnic and religious strife and coexistence. Topics include: Russian Orientalism in the Caucasus; Jews, Ukrainians and Poles in the western borderlands; Russia’s eastern frontier.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  
  • RUST185 PO - The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): A. Dwyer
    Credit: 1

    Emphasis on Nabokov’s cultivation of his reader, metafiction and the role of cross-cultural experience in literary creativity. Equal time spent on Russian and American periods. Texts include The Defense; Lolita; Pale Fire. All readings in English. (Russian in Translation)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  • RUST191 PO - Senior Thesis in Russian

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

    An independent research project supervised by a department faculty member and read by one additional reader. Students present the results of their research in writing and make an oral presentation to the department at the end of the second semester. Half course each semester of the senior year. The thesis is graded at the end of the second semester. 
  
  • RUST199DRPO - Russian 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.
  
  • RUST199IRPO - Russian 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.
  
  • RUST199RAPO - Russian 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. (Russian in Translation)

Science, Technology and Society

  
  • BIOL187 HM - HIV/AIDS: Science, Society and Service


    See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 4
  
  • STS010 HM - Introduction to Science, Technology and Society


    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
  
  • STS080 PO - Science and Technology in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

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

    Conceptual and institutional development of the scientific enterprise. The changing content of scientific thought in its intellectual context provides the major focus, but substantial attention is also directed towards the relation between scientific developments and social and economic conditions. STS 080-Science and Technology in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds; STS081 PZ - Science and Technology in the Early Modern World ; HIST 082 HM .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  
  • STS081 PZ - Science and Technology in the Early Modern World


    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
  
  • STS114 HM - Social and Political Issues in Clinic


    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
  
  • STS115 HM - Communicating Science


    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
  
  
  • STS179 HM - Spec Topics: Sci, Tech, Society


    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
  
  • STS179C HM - Where Food Comes From /Spec Topics: Sci, Tech, Society


    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
  
  • STS185 HM - Science/Engineering from Other Perspective


    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
  
  • STS 190 PO - Senior Integrative Seminar

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

    Students read and discuss seminal and provocative works on STS. Each student conducts an independent project in an area of interest and competence. Discussions of research in progress, oral presentations of final product, written paper.
  
  • STS191 PO - Senior Thesis

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

    Exercise in thought, research and effective prose writing in which seniors are expected to demonstrate competency in working with select data, ideas, techniques and sources that characterize and inform their major area of study within STS.
  
  • STS199DRPO - Science, Technology and Society: 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.
  
  • STS199IRPO - Science, Technology and Society: 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.

Sociology

  
  • SOC 009 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
  
  • SOC030 CH - Chicanxs - Latinxs in Contemporary Society

    When Offered: Fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): G. Ochoa
    Credit: 1

    Focusing on the contemporary experiences of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os in the United States, this course considers identities, community formation, and migration, along with the ways race, class, and gender are structured in institutions such as the state, media, education, health, and work. Consideration is also given to resistance, activism, conflict, and coalitions.
      
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference
  
  • SOC035 PZ - Race and Ethnic Relations


    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
  
  • SOC051 PO - Introduction to Sociology

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): C. Beck; J. Grigsby; L. Rapaport; H. Thai
    Credit: 1

    Characteristics of groups, institutions, society and culture. Social interaction, self-image, status. Brief consideration of social change, ethnicity, the urban environment and demography. Course is equivalent to SOC 001  PZ.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  
  • SOC051 PZ - Class, Caste and Colonialism: 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
  
  • SOC 073 PZ - Asians in 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
  
  • SOC075 PO - Social and Political Movements

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

    Can activism from below change society and political institutions? What challenges do activists face, how do they sustain their movements, and how do they win? The study of social movements is one of the largest areas of focus in sociology. The course covers the major social movements that spurred the field’s development in the 1960s through the present, with a special emphasis on the parallels between right-wing and left-wing activism and global-transnational social movements. The course covers the major research traditions, theories, and methods of a study with a focus on how successful challenges to power are made.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference
  
  • SOC075 PZ - American Settler Colonialism


    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
  
  • SOC080 PZ - Secularism: Local/Global


    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
  
  • SOC082 PZ - Racial Politics of Teaching


    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
  
  • SOC084 AA - Nonviolent Social Change


    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
 

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