2021-22 Pomona College Catalog 
    
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  • ENGL058 PO - Native American Women Writers

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

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

  • ENGL059 JT - Ovidian Figures

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses begins with the poet’s “intention” “to tell of bodies changed/ to different forms.”  This course takes up that poem’s iterative, almost compulsive, attempt to capture the very moment at which one “body” ceases to be itself by transforming into something else. Tracing Ovid’s narrative scenes, including the myths of Apollo and Daphne, Echo and Narcissus, Actaeon, Philomela, and Pygmalion (to name a few)  across centuries of retelling, refashioning, and reimagining, we will ask: How does one body, one constellation of matter, assume another shape? What is the relation of the human body to the plants and animals and minerals that it can become? How might the design concept of “affordance” encourage us to rethink the capacities of form? Most importantly, we will attempt to answer these questions through two distinct, historically competitive, but mutually generative modalities of inquiry: the verbal and the visual. Co-taught by a literary critic who specializes in poetry and poetic theory and a painter who specializes in figure drawing, course readings and assignments will move across these fields, requiring students to both analyze and create, write and draw, describe and make. Possible topics include: the temporalities of verbal and visual arts; ekphrasis (or the verbal depiction of the visual arts); enargeia (or the “vivid” style of language); the blazon (or the piecemeal depiction of the human body); human and post-human; psychoanalytic and feminist theory; history and philosophy of science; theories of form; bodily violence and the aesthetic; the fragmented body; abstraction as a strategy for defying categorization; perversion and developing a moral discourse on perception.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL064A PO - Creative Writing: Fiction

    When Offered: Spring 2022.
    Instructor(s): J. Lethem
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL064B PO - Creative Writing: Poetry

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

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

  • ENGL064C PO - Creative Writing: Nonfiction

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): E. Kindley
    Credit: 1

    This course focuses on the craft of creative nonfiction writing. Students will experiment with a variety of nonfiction genres including reportage, cultural criticism, lyric essay, and memoir. Readings may include Joan Didion, James Baldwin, Geoff Dyer, Roland Barthes, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maggie Nelson, and Elif Batuman.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL064D PO - Elements of Creative Writing: Screenwriting

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

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

  • ENGL067 PO - Literary Interpretation

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

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

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

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

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

  • ENGL074 PO - Rise of the Novel

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): S. Raff
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL075 PO - British Novel II

    When Offered: Spring 2022.
    Instructor(s): S. Raff
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL078 PO - Medieval Drugs

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
    Instructor(s): J. Kirk
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL080 PO - Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry

    When Offered: Each Semester
    Instructor(s): A. Johnson
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL086 PO - Poetry Movements since the 1950s

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): P. Sharma
    Credit: 1

    This course will be a survey of the major poetic movements in the last half-century. Poets will include Ashbery, O’Hara, Ginsberg, Wright, Rich, Lorde, Creeley, Duncan and others. Letter grade only. (H5)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL086 PO - Poetry Movements Since the 1950s

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): P. Sharma
    This course will be a survey of the major poetic movements in the last half-century. Poets will include Ashbery, O’Hara, Ginsberg, Wright, Rich, Lorde, Creeley, Duncan and others. Letter grade only. 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
  

  • ENGL087F PO - Writing: Theories/Processes/Practices

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

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

  • ENGL087H PO - Writing: Theories/Processes/Practices

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

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

  • ENGL089A PO - American Modernism

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): E. Kindley
    Credit: 1

    This course will provide an introduction to some of the key works of American experimental literature published between 1900 and 1930. Authors may include T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Henry James, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, and William Carlos Williams. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL091 PO - Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian Literature

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): S. Raff
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL093 PO - Writing about Rock and Pop

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL099 PO - The Idea of the Renaissance

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

    The term “Renaissance” is largely taken to identify a period of radical innovation in humanist arts and letters, one that begins with the rediscovery of old, lost, forgotten, and discarded things. Though the chronological borders of that period shift from region to region (i.e. Southern to Northern Europe), it is generally a given that the period of time it designates is now closed. But what if the Renaissance is best conceived, not as a historical period, but as a historical project? What if the task of the reader is to understand the Renaissance as what Hans-George Gadamer called an “unfinished event?” The Renaissance so conceived is an idea that we might revive, revise, or redirect. The scholarly mode that it solicits is participation. This course will harness the core insights and innovations of the English Renaissance in order to imagine alternatives to modernity, the present moment, and the imminent future. Topics may include: human, nonhuman, and quasi-human; utopia, dystopia, and worldmaking; the abundance of language; metamorphosis and transformation. Written work will draw largely on exercises of the Elizabethan schoolroom, including: commonplace books; imitations, emulations, and adaptations; exercises in impersonation; and two essays. We will focus on works by Renaissance poets including Francesco Petrarch, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare but we will also reach backward to poets like Ovid, and forward to writers including Oscar Wilde, Franz Kafka, and Jorge Luis Borges.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL102 PO - Early Modern Romance

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    This course will read from three major romance narratives of the early modern period: Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, and Mary Wroth’s Urania. We will build, from the ground up, a working theory of the genre (or mode? or strategy?) called “Romance.” Both partaking of and radically departing from the more familiar genres of epic, tragedy, and comedy, early modern “romance” has been described as the ‘kitchen sink’ of literature (where anything and everything goes) and as a dangerous waste of time. What would it mean to think of “romance” as a mode or instrument of inquiry, a tool of epistemology, a form or set of forms with which writers and readers of the early modern period came to know the world as it was, as it might be, and as it should be? Topics include human and post-human; affective landscapes; allegory; transformation; gender and sexuality; world-making.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

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

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): K. Tompkins
    Credit: 1

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

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

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

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

  • ENGL121 PO - Realism and Its Shadow

    When Offered: Offered alternate years
    Instructor(s): A. B. Kunin
    Credit: 1

    What is real? How do works of fiction understand the concept of fiction? This course studies dreams, fantasies, horror, humor, utopianism, idealism, and related categories of experience – parts of life that don’t always seem to be parts of reality. Most of our examples will be taken from nineteenth-century British novels by authors such as Bronte, Eliot, and Trollope; we will also look at a few examples from other literatures (tales by Lermontov, Gogol, Hoffman, Balzac) and genres (Lewis Carroll’s nonsense, Wilde’s society comedies).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL122 AF - Healing Narratives

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): V. Thomas
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL124 AF - AfroFuturisms

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): V. Thomas
    Credit: 1

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

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

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

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

  • ENGL132 AF - Black Queer Narrative and Theories


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL134 PO - The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement

    When Offered: Each Spring
    Instructor(s): C. Sherrard-Johnson
    Credit: 1

    This course focuses on art and literature of Harlem Renaissance, a period of artistic activism in African American and African diasporic culture beginning in the late nineteen’s and extending into the late 1930’s.   In addition to exploring collaborations between visual artists and novelists, blues musicians and poets, this course will cross national boundaries by examining the Harlem Renaissance’s vibrant internationalist and transatlantic scope, and its relationship to other political and aesthetic movements such as Garveyism, Afro-modernism, the New Negro left, and the Chicago Renaissance. English 125C, or other Intro Lit. courses strongly recommended. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL138 PO - Henry James on Art and Society

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): A. Kunin
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL142 PO - How to Live Together: Literature and the Commons

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): K. Wittman
    Credit: 1

    How to Live Together: Literature and the Commons December 1976, philosopher and literary critic Roland Barthes watches a mother pulling her young child, who cannot keep up, along a walkway. He is struck by the scene; he makes a note of it: “she walks at her own pace, unaware of the fact that her son’s rhythm is different.” A year later, the scene inspires the first of his final lecture courses, which he called “How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces.” At the heart of the course was Barthes’ concept of idiorrhythmy, a monastic term, the idea of “individual rhythms” that exist-nonetheless-in and with a sense of community. To explore this idea, he turned to literature. This course will do that also. We will take up Barthes’ notion of idiorrhythmy and expand it into broader interdisciplinary theories of the commons: “spaces, experiences, resources, memories, or forms of sharing and living.” How does literature, we will ask, offer us ways to think about common spaces and experiences, about individual rhythms and efforts (and their failure) to bring those rhythms into community? Literature is also a commons: we’ll consider literary form, aesthetics, and poetics even as we look to literary representation, to “content.” Our literary focus will be literature in Britain from roughly 1700-1900, the period in which the Enclosure Acts took enormous common swaths of land and privatized them, the period in which rampant colonial ambitions, rising industrial capitalism, and rapid urbanization altered permanently the global landscape of common spaces and resources. Our theoretical reading, however, will range far more broadly: work on the commons moves across economics, politics, ecology and biology, aesthetics, philosophy, sociology, and, of course, literary and cultural theory. Literary authors may include: Daniel Defoe, Oliver Goldsmith, Mary Shelley, Margaret Cavendish, Olaudah Equiano, Christina Rossetti, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Smith, John Ruskin, E.M.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL143S SC - Literature and Popular Culture in the Antebellum United States


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

  • ENGL146 PO - Asian American Poetry: 1960s to the Present

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): P. Sharma
    Credit: 1

    This course will focus on canonical and non-canonical Asian American poetry; particularly, how that body of work has been read, regarded, and taught, as well how it has been included or excluded more generally in American Studies. We will examine discussions and scholarship regarding Asian American poetry and poetics that have deepened in the last twenty-five years. In addition, the course will engage with the emergent and established communities that have formed by and for Asian American poets from the mid-twentieth century to the present. This class will also examine and situate the work of Asian American poets as located both inside and outside a mainstream white culture. We will explore the poetry and poetics of Asian American poets from the second half of the twentieth-century to contemporary twenty first-century poetry, particularly following three categories of poetic form: narrative, lyric, and nontraditional writing. This focus on form will include work off the page, performance, spoken word, and avant-garde work. Not only will the course explore multifaceted traditions in poetry but we will also look at both the theories of categorization and the politics that are always at stake for the poetries and poets. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL150 PO - Visual Poetics: Exploring the Kinship Between Poetry and Art

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): P. Sharma
    Credit: 1

    This course will explore the rich and overlapping ways to read poetry and examine visual, performative, intermedial, artist’s and textual poetics. We will examine how the term poetics derives from “poiesis”, or “active making,” and how both poetry writing and art making create textual and visual phenomenon. We will read 20th and 21st century poetry; we will discuss art works, installations, social practice and community-oriented public work. We will also write poetry, create artist books, visit our local galleries and museums, and meet with poets and artists who collaborate on art projects that push the boundaries of art and text. Prerequisites: either one of ENGL 064A PO , ENGL 064B PO , ENGL 064C PO , ENGL 064D PO , ENGL 183A PO , or ENGL 183B PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

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

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

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

  • ENGL153 PO - The Beyond of Language

    When Offered: Spring 2022.
    Instructor(s): J. Kirk
    Credit: 1

    It goes without saying that there is nothing outside of language. But the question is what sort of thing that nothing might be? And whether it can be known or experienced. In this seminar we will investigate some or all of the following: birdsong and other animal utterances; the grammar of colonialism; mystical languages of unsaying; the task of the translator; the transmission of the incomprehensible; the writing of the disaster; speaking in tongues. Although we will be reading ancient and modern texts, our particular emphasis will be on materials from the Middle Ages, that is, the last era before the capitalist schism that has led to the technocratic dream in which we now toil. Readings may include works by Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, Pseudo-Dionysius, Anselm, Milarepa, Ibn Arabi, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Dante, Chaucer, Margery Kempe, Nebrija, the Inca Garcilaso, Mirabai, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Agamben, and the anonymous authors of the Cloud of Unknowing and the Vimalakirti Sutra.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL154 PO - Shakespeare: The Comedies and Histories

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL155 PO - Shakespeare: The Tragedies and Romances

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): C. Rosenfeld
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL155 SC - Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL156 PO - Milton and Visual Culture

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): A. Kunin
    Credit: 1

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

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

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

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

  • ENGL161 PO - James Joyce

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL161 SC - Futures of Asian/America


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

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

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

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

  • ENGL162 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL164 PO - Essay and Experiment

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

    What is an essay? What has it been, and what could it be? The innermost form of the essay is heresy, writes Theodor Adorno. If the rest of literature is the visible spectrum, the essay, for Edward Said, is ultraviolet light. For Alfonso Reyes the essay contains the possibility of utopia; for Valeria Luiselli and Julietta Singh, it can contain the archive of all we repress or cannot tell. And for Cheryl Wall the essay is a fugitive genre, allowing those who are not free to write freedom. If essays have been compressed and standardized to five neat paragraphs in the U.S. educational system, elsewhere ‘throughout history, and across the globe’ they are expansive, resistant, creative, subversive. Most of all, they are experimental: they try things out. (‘Essay,’ from the French verb ‘essai,’ to try.) Essays are experiments, efforts to say what it is hardest to say, to create ‘strange bridges’ where there are none. This is a class in a literary form that tries to bridge public and private, world and self, what is and what might be, to bridge what has been suppressed by history and what nonetheless emerges, unbidden, as the resistant possibility that things can change. We will explore the essay in its many varieties and subgenres: the protest and the personal essay, the critical essay and the satirical one, the essay written to reveal and the one written to resist, the essay as it manifests in photography and film and on the internet. We will read essays and theories of the essay from the form’s origins in the sixteenth-century to its renaissance in the twenty-first, and from Argentina to France, from Hungary to Mexico, from Nigeria to the United States. And we will write, in different modes (creative and critical, verbal and visual, personal and dispassionate), in order to explore the essay’s protean potential to the fullest. Possible authors include Chimamanda Adichie, Theodor Adorno, Germ├ín Arciniegas, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Jose Luis Borges, Frances Burney, Anne Carson, Margaret Cavendish, Catherine Chung, Teju Cole, Joan Didion, Gerald Early, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Ross Gay, Roxane Gay, Samuel Johnson, Jamaica Kincaid, Yiyun Li, Valeria Luiselli, Georg Luk├ícs, Toni Morrison, Maggie Nelson, George Orwell, Alfonso Reyes, Mary Shelley, Julietta Singh, Susan Sontag, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Gabriel Zaid.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL165 PO - Theories and Methods in Literary Studies

    When Offered: Each semester.
    Instructor(s): Staff
    We will focus on a variety of approaches to the study and analysis of literature, as well as conversations and debates within and beyond the discipline.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL166 AF - James Baldwin


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170 PO - Legal Guardianship and the Novel

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): S. Raff
    Credit: 1

    This course examines the guardian as an evolving legal category, as a character populating that ‘form for orphans,’ the novel, and as a model for the literary persona of the novelist. Through readings in legal texts as well as novels by Richardson, Austen, Dickens, and James, we will ask how guardianship intersects with such concepts as ownership, representation, and especially authorship. We will explore the reader’s role as ward, and we will glance at guardianship’s bearing on histories of slavery, voting rights, and aesthetics, on contemporary problems such as mass incarceration and our failing stewardship of the earth, and on the novel genre’s many debts to drama. 
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

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

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

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

  • ENGL170B PO - Five American Writers Who Had a Problem with the Social Sciences

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

    The social sciences have an account of art. What can art tell us about the social sciences? Ralph Ellison worried that sociology would reduce songs, jokes, and stories to culture, and reduce persons to data; his friend Albert Murray simply called sociology ‘the folklore of white supremacy.’ Hannah Arendt assigned artworks the important task of maintaining a space between individual persons to prevent their collapse into a mass of social stuff. Jane Jacobs believed that economists and city planners fundamentally misunderstood the aesthetic nature of markets and cities. George Kubler proposed to reassign the entire category of artifacts, ‘desirable things’ that humans make, from cultural anthropology to art history. These five twentieth-century American writers tried to redefine the concept of culture so as to make it useful for art and artists. The goal, in Kubler’s words, was to create a kind of renaissance, a ‘type of society in which excellent art inevitably and necessarily appears.’ Perhaps they lost that argument; the successes of sociological approaches to literature suggest that they did. In this seminar, we will run the test again. We will also consider some examples of social theory by Du Bois, Moynihan, Elster, Fields, and Patterson; some songs, jokes, and stories; and selections from Vico and Tocqueville, two earlier writers who would have loved the social sciences. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL170C PO - Ralph Ellison

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

    This interdisciplinary course focuses on the writings of Ralph Ellison as a cornerstone of the African American literary tradition, and as a theorist whose literary work, theoretical engagements, and cultural criticism helped lay the foundations of the Civil Rights Movement, African Diaspora theory, Afrofuturism, Afropessimism, and Afropunk. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO  or any AFRI course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Analyzing Difference; Speaking Intensive; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL170F PO - Herman Melville, Novels and Short Stories

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): K. Tompkins
    Credit: 1

    This course explores Herman Melville’s writing across multiple genres from Typee to Billy Budd and including Moby Dick. Later emphasis on the superb novella Benito Cereno and short stories including Bartleby the Scrivener. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL170G PO - Shakespeare’s Sonnets

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

    We will spend the semester studying Shakespeare’s Sonnets. This study will include: the Sonnets; the many imitations, appropriations, and responses they have solicited from a range of poets and artists; and an introduction to the full variety of critical angles and concerns available to us. Assignments will include close reading exercises, critical history with annotated bibliography, and a 20-25 page essay. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO . Letter grade only. (H2, 170)
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL170J PO - The Works of Toni Morrison

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): V. Thomas
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL170K PO - The Canterbury Tales

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): J.Kirk
    Credit: 1

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

  • ENGL170L PO - The Other Chaucer

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): J. Kirk
    Credit: 1

    The fourteenth-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, a bureaucrat, spy, and initiate of the cult of Love, is most famous today for his Canterbury Tales. But among his other writings are: the first scientific treatise in English; an account of a meeting of the birds that he happened to overhear one day; a collection of life-stories of prominent women in history; descriptions of visions that appeared to him in dreams; and his masterpiece, the finely-wrought monstrosity called Troilus and Criseyde. Characteristic of all of the poet’s works is an uncompromising irony; a filthy sense of humor; and, perhaps, a mystical knowledge of the true nature of things. This course consists of an introduction to Chaucer’s language (Middle English); advanced analysis of his writings; and research into their modern interpretations. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGL180 SC - Asian American Fiction


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL183A PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction

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

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

  • ENGL183B PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry

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

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

  • ENGL188 PO - American Literature After 1945

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): E. Kindley
    Credit: 1

    The decades following World War II are some of the most vital and controversial in American history, and in the history of American literature. In this course, we will read some of the major literary works of this period with reference to various social and historical contexts. How did American authors process the trauma of war in Europe and Vietnam, on the one hand, and respond to the United States’ increasing political and economic centrality in a global context, on the other? How did the Cold War and the specter of Communism, and domestic social movements such as the civil rights movement, the New Left, and feminism affect literary history (and vice versa)? How did the formal techniques of modernism give way to postmodernism, and what role did the growth of universities and the rise of creative writing programs play in this process? Readings will encompass fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Authors may include Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Flannery O’Connor, Jorge Luis Borges, Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin, Vladimir Nabokov, Carlos Fuentes, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Pynchon, John Ashbery, Joan Didion, Ishmael Reed, and Toni Morrison.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL189B PO - Introduction to Literary Theory

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

    What is literature? How does it differ from other forms of human communication, representation, and knowledge? How can we assess the meaning, value, and historical significance of individual literary works, and understand the functions and effects of specific genres, tropes, and tendencies? What is an author, and how much power do they have to shape our reading? How, and under what conditions, does literature reflect or intersect with history, politics, sexuality, race, and other social phenomena? These are some of the questions that literary theorists, critics, and philosophers have asked in the 20th and 21st centuries. This course provides a broad overview of some of the major theoretical developments of the past hundred years and serves as an introduction to significant interventions and texts in the literary-critical tradition. Authors may include Viktor Shklovsky, Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Hortense Spillers, Judith Butler, Paul Gilroy, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Lauren Berlant. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ENGL 067 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL189E PO - The Nonfiction Novel

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): E. Kindley
    Credit: 1

    Fictionality is built into the very definition of the novel form. In a sense, as the literary theorist Catherine Gallagher has observed, novels helped create the modern idea of fictionality, acclimatizing readers for the first time to narratives that were plausible but not truthful. How, then, are we to understand recurrent attempts to produce a ‘nonfiction novel’ in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (clustering in the 1960s and 70s, the heyday of the New Journalism, and in the 2010s, the era of ‘autofiction’)? Should this hybrid form be classified as a species of nonfiction journalism that borrows some of the formal techniques and cultural prestige of the novel, while continuing to be bound by the strictures and standards of factual reporting? Or do nonfiction novels lie closer to the heart of the novel’s tradition, given the form’s historical origins in a hazy gray area between reality and artifice, fiction and fact? Assigned authors may include Madeleine de Scudéry, Daniel Defoe, Marcel Proust, Ka-tzetnik 135633, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Michael Herr, Ryszard KapuÅ›ciÅ„ski, Danilo Kis, W.G. Sebald, Janet Malcolm, Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, Sheila Heti, Elif Batuman, and Teju Cole.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ENGL190 PO - Senior Exercise/Seminar Option

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

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

  • ENGL191 PO - Senior Thesis

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

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

  • ENGL195 PO - Literary Criticism: Advanced Methods

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

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

  • ENGL199DRPO - English: Directed Readings

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

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

  • ENGL199IRPO - English: Independent Research

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

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

  • ENGL199RAPO - English: Research Assistantship

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

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

  • ENGL406 CG - American Literature and Political Theory


    Credit: 1.0

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

  • LIT 075 CM - Vladimir Nabokov


    See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1

Environmental Analysis
  

  • EA010 PO - Intro to Environmental Analysis

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

    An EA Program introductory core course examines the history of environmental change, by critically examining climate change, biodiversity loss, trends in air and water resources. This course includes a broad range of disciplines, including the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Using a multidisciplinary view of environmental problems, students will apply concepts of environmental justice and ecological sustainability and policy decision tools. Course is equivalent to EA  010  HM, EA 010 PZ , and EA  010  SC. (Taught at Pitzer and Pomona).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference
  

  • EA010 PZ - Introduction to Environmental Analysis


    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
  

  • EA020 PO - Nature, Culture and Society

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

    (An EAP Introductory Core Course) This required class for all EA majors is especially designed for sophomores and juniors. It will employ case studies to help analyze some key contemporary environmental dilemmas. Topics will vary, but will draw on an interdisciplinary array of sources in the humanities and social sciences, including history, philosophy and literature; religion, art, politics and sociology.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Analyzing Difference; Speaking Intensive; Writing Intensive
  

  • EA030 PO - Environmental Science

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

    This Environmental Analysis Program core course introduces the basic principles of environmental science with applications in chemistry, ecology and geology. It is part of the core course requirements for the Environmental Analysis major. The course provides a natural science foundation for Environmental Science. Topics covered include a discussion of ecosystems, climate change, energy and food production, land resources, pollution and sustainable development. A full laboratory accompanies the course and includes field and laboratory work and introduces Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping and statistics. Letter grade only. May be repeated once for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA030E PO - Environmental Science- East Asia

    When Offered: Spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): M. Los Huertos
    Credit: 1

    This Environmental Analysis Program project-based core course introduces the basic principles of environmental science with applications in chemistry, ecology and geology. It is part of the core course requirements for the Environmental Analysis major and designed to prepare students to work in East Asia. The course provides a natural science foundation for Environmental Science. Topics covered include a discussion of ecosystems, climate change, energy and food production, land resources, pollution and sustainable development. A full laboratory accompanies the course and includes field and laboratory work and introduces Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping and statistics. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: EA 010 PO  or by permission of the instructor. Co-requisites: EA  021  CM. Previously offered as EA  031  PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2; Writing Intensive
  

  • EA030L KS - Science and the Environment


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA 055L KS - Phys Geography & Geomorphology


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA085 PO - Food, Land and the Environment

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): M. Los Huertos
    Credit: 1

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

  • EA086 PZ - Environmental Justice


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA090 PZ - Environmental Change in China and East Asia


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA091 PZ - Air Pollution: History and Policy


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA095 PZ - U.S. Environmental Policy


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA098 PZ - Urban Ecology


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA099 PO - Introduction to Urban Health Equity: Uncovering Local and Global Disparities

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): G. Douglass-Jaimes
    Credit: 1

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

  • EA100 KS - Global Climate Change


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA100L KS - Global Climate Change


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA101 PO - Just ! GIS: Introduction to an Ecological and Social Oriented Geographic Information Systems

    When Offered: Each fall.
    Instructor(s): G. Douglass-Jaimes
    Credit: 1

    Maps have the power to reveal the hidden and uneven impacts of COVID- 19, global climate change, environmental pollution, and more. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) act as the unseen infrastructures for gathering, managing, and analyzing data that is or can be mapped; guiding policymakers, businesses, communities, and individuals to make important decisions. These sophisticated tools for modeling complex socio-spatial relationships are continually simplified with easy- to-follow drop-down menus and of-the-shelf plug-ins for mobile and desktop applications, expanding the user-base of map-makers. Yet, how do we ensure that these tools are (re)oriented toward the ends of creating a more ecologically and socially just world? In this course, you will develop a solid foundation on the commonly used processes for creating static and interactive maps to reveal hidden inequalities and disparities; as well as highlight hopeful imaginations of a more just world. We will critically engage with ESRI WebGIS and ArcGIS mapping software – to demonstrate the basic analysis of spatial data for those interested in answering questions about the spatial significance of environmental justice, racial inequality, hazard exposure, and health equity.
    This course takes a student-centered approach, grounded in critical pedagogies and anti-racist frameworks where students will work with the instructor and their peers to develop a collective model of engagement valuing the contributions of all classroom participants and allowing for an individualized assessment of growth in developing fluency of the complex mix of technological tools and theoretical understandings that undergird GIS. Prerequisites: EA 010 PO  and EA 030 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA 103 KS - Soils and Society


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA 103L KS - Principles of Soil Science


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA 104 KS - Oceanography


    See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA120 PZ - Global Environmental Politics and Policy


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

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


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA140 PZ - The Desert as a Place


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

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


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA 146 PZ - Environmental Education


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA150 PZ - Critical Environmental News


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
  

  • EA152 PZ - Nature Through Film


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 2
 

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