2022-23 Pomona College Catalog 
    
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Courses

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

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Arabic
  
  

  • ARBC033 CM - Intermediate Arabic


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

  • ARBC044 CM - Continuing Intermediate Arabic


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

Studio Art
  

  • ART005 PO - Drawing I

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

    Introduction to observational drawing with attention to the articulation of line, shape, form, gesture, value, and composition. Studio work introduces a range of traditional drawing materials and subjects while exploring a variety of conceptual approaches from image-making to visual expression. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART010 PO - Painting I

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

    Painting from observation to increase technical skills, visual sophistication and critical awareness. Includes work from the figure, the self-portrait, sketches, and the still life. No experience is necessary, but ART 005 PO  is recommended. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART020 PO - Black and White Photography

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

    Introductory photography course focuses on traditional black and white processes. Readings and lectures about issues, ideas, and photographers give students the opportunity to contextualize their own work within the trajectory of photographic history. Emphasis falls equally on questions of “how?” and “why?”, and a final self-directed project allows students to explore their specific interests.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6; Speaking Intensive
  

  • ART021 PO - Foundations of 2D Design

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

    Foundations of 2D Design is a hands-on introduction to the principles of visual design.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART022 PO - Video Art

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

    This hands on course introduces students to the theories and practices of video art, with an emphasis on non-narrative, experimental video. This semester will be divided between production, screenings, readings and discussion. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART025A PO - Sculpture I

    When Offered: Spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    Addresses a wide range of materials and processes to investigate issues of form and presentation. Materials include wire, clay, plastic, plaster, wax, and aluminum castings. Assigned projects introduce a variety of techniques while offering the student an opportunity to explore his/her own unique pragmatic, expressive, critical and intuitive sensibilities. Letter grade only. The course is equivalent to ART 025 PO.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART025R PO - Carving and Shaping Realities - Reductive methods in sculpture

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    As a foundational method within sculpture, Carving and Shaping Realities focuses on the reductive processes employed by carving, scraping, rasping, and sanding. Students will engage a wide variety of tools and make some of their own given the unique needs their ideas demand. Expect to engage a wide variety of materials - foam, plaster, wood, and stone. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART027 PO - Wood Sculpture

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    This is a beginning-level wood sculpture course devoted to the knowledge of wood, the tools used to shape it, and the conceptual practices employed. Students will learn the shop, joinery, carving, lamination, pattern making, and conventional fabrication techniques. Art majors are given preference. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART028 PO - Digital Photography

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): L. Auerbach
    Credit: 1

    Introductory course explores digital photography as a tool for producing images. Assignments, lectures, and readings expose students to techniques, artists, and ideas ranging from early photographic history to the present. A final self-directed project allows students to articulate their specific interests. Digital SLR camera suggested, but not required.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART029B PO - Metals: The Alchemy of Pounding, Welding, and Casting

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    Metals: the alchemy of pounding, welding, and casting explores the fundamental processes of manipulating metal from forging with a power hammer to welding and fabrication to the lost wax casting of aluminum/bronze. The material’s versatility and uniqueness pose unique possibilities for the artist. No previous experience is necessary but expect to get really dirty. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART033 PO - Fiber Studio: Textile Practices in Art

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2019.
    Instructor(s): M. Teixido
    Credit: 1

    Fiber Studio is an exploration of the practices of fiber and textile arts. This course will study the materials and methodologies of fiber arts in the context of varied and vast global practices and cultural traditions. An understanding developed in studio practice will consider the contemporary context of textile as art and its relationship to craft. Areas of concentration will be spinning, knitting, weaving, sewing, and embroidery. Exposure to textile work of the present and past in images and through visiting artists, and trips to see textile work as part of collections and in production, will add to our understanding of the practice. Readings and invited speakers will add to our awareness of the socio-historical context of many forms of fiber art and its framing in culture past and present. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART037 PZ - Environments and Art


    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 6
  

  • ART103 PZ - Environments Workshop


    See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART104 PO - Drawing as Improvisation

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

    Drawing is a way to see, describe, understand, explore and be. The act of drawing is largely an improvisational act. In emphasizing this aspect of making drawings we will explore historical and contemporary ideas of improvisation through exercises and readings. This course will invite a range of approaches including but not limited to, collaboration, context-specific work, and drawing as performance. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ART 005 PO  or another intro-level studio art course. May be repeated twice for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART105A PO - Drawing II: Abstractions

    When Offered: Fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): M. Teixido
    Credit: 1

    Abstraction comprises a rich area of artistic exploration. This course presents various cultural traditions of pattern, the history of mapmaking, and how people have made diagrams to better grasp places and concepts. Students are involved deeply with form and a wide range of materials. Analysis of how abstraction manifests itself in contemporary art and how historical precedent informs that production. Prerequisite: ART 005 PO  or portfolio review by the instructor. May be repeated once 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
  

  • ART105B PO - Drawing II: Representation

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2018.
    Instructor(s): L. Holland
    Credit: 1

    In-depth exploration of representation as a conceptual, cultural, and technical activity. Projects from photorealism to the willful distortion and invention of form provide the basis for artistic exploration. A range of media will be utilized to realize the critical relationship between form and content. Artwork will be examined to better understand contemporary investigations and the historical precedents that inform them. Prerequisite: ART 005 PO  or portfolio review by the instructor. May be repeated once 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
  

  • ART108 PO - Figurative Painting

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

    A course for intermediate and advanced students that explores both the technical problems of painting the figure and considers how artists have represented the body, past, and present. Formal problems and conceptual frameworks intersect throughout each assigned project. Prerequisite: ART 005 PO  and ART 010 PO . Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART111 PO - Contemporary Topics in Painting

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

    An intermediate painting class. Studio work is balanced with a discussion of themes and issues in contemporary painting. Field trips. Prerequisites: ART 005 PO  or ART 010 PO , and permission of instructor.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART114 PO - Printmaking Studio

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): M. Allen
    Credit: 1

    Printmaking Studio offers instruction in a range of printmaking techniques including screen printing, relief printing, monotype, and experimental methods from the past and future. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: One of the following: ART 005 PO  or ART 010 PO  or ART 020 PO  or ART 021 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART115 PO - Distro! Self-Publishing for Artists

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

    Self-published books, pamphlets, zines, tracts, and posters have long been part of the way artworks and ideas are distributed. In this class, we’ll look at historical and contemporary examples of artist-made publications and produce our own using both digital and analog technologies. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: Any previous art course. May be repeated twice for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART119 PO - Further Explorations in B&W Photography

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

    This darkroom-based course will introduce continuing photography students to new formats and processes in photography, including studio lighting and medium and large format cameras. Open-ended assignments will encourage experimentation, rigor, criticality, and a conceptual approach to the use of black and white photography as a means of expression and engagement. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ART 020 PO .
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART121 JT - Critical Design Studio

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

    Visual media is ubiquitous in our lives as a source of influence and pleasure, argumentation and control. It tells us what to buy, what to believe, and organizes societies in ways both beneficial and malignant. Critical Design Studio invites participants to consider how visual texts establish how information is understood, facts are revealed (or hidden), and how design, illustration, typography, and color impact how we perceive the world. In this hands-on studio class students will deconstruct, reconfigure, and critically analyze the methods of visual communication. An emphasis will be placed on the ability to use design to create forms that persuade, explain, make a claim, and invite the reader into a dialogue. Prerequisites: ART 021 PO  or equivalent. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART126B PO - Sculpture II-Casting: One & Many.

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    Expands the technical, conceptual and expressive skills through individually designed projects. Students learn specific technical skills inherent to casting in a range of materials—plaster, wax, rubber, aluminum and bronze. Emphasis on pattern making and mold making using CNC Router and traditional techniques. Introduces a visual and theoretical awareness of contemporary art. Prerequisite: Any art course. 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 6
  

  • ART127 PO - The Chair - Explorations of the Speculative and the Pragmatic

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2019.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    The Chair is an upper-level sculpture class that looks at the pragmatic and speculative traditions surrounding the chair. As both stand-in and site for the body, the chair offers broad possibilities of representation. Using the narratives common to design and art, students will engage in an iterative design process resulting in a series of chairs. Historical knowledge of tools and the use of CAD and the CNC router will be employed. Prerequisites: ART 027 PO . Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART128 PO - Installation: Site, Time, Context

    When Offered: Fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): C. van Ginhoven Rey
    Credit: 1

    Loosely categorized under the headings of site, time and context we will explore a range of different practices and expressions that constitute installation artwork. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: Any 5C Art course. May be repeated for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART130 PZ - Design/Build Studio


    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 6
  

  • ART131 PO - Sculptural Function Conceptual Design

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2020.
    Instructor(s): M. O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    Sculptural Function and Conceptual Design. An upper-division course that investigates sculptural practice as it re-imagines the pragmatic, functional objects of the built environment while concurrently looking to design with its increased emphasis on communicating ideas and making representations. Students will be expected to learn wood and metal fabrication as well as the CNC Router and its attendant software. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 25 or 126A/B. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART131C PO - Functional Sculpture Conceptual Design - Contemporary Fabrication Using Digital Technology: CNC Router

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2018.
    Instructor(s): M.O’Malley
    Credit: 1

    This is an upper-level sculpture course that investigates sculptural practice through the lens of contemporary fabrication. Using the CNC router, Computer-Aided Design software, and the Laser cutter the course will focus on how new technologies alter our imagination and output. Students will have needed to take the wood sculpture course as a prerequisite and be invested in learning new technologies. Object-making will span the pragmatic, functional, and representational. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: ART 027 PO . 
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART134 SC - Between Analog+Digital Printmaking


    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 6
  

  • ART135 SC - Letterpress and Book Arts


    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
  

  • ART139 PO - Sketchbook Pursuits: Experiments in Drawing, Writing, Collecting, and other forms of sustained exploration.

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): M. Teixido
    Credit: 1

    The sketchbook has long been a place of personal exploration. It includes drawing, writing, collecting, calculating, and observing all to rest within a particular pursuit. Sketchbooks and notebooks have been valued and exhibited as a unique demonstration of process and a form of thought. This course will introduce a number of possibilities in drawing and writing then allow for the sustained exploration of choice in the form that is most interesting and appropriate for the person and their topic. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: Any lower-division ART course or permission from the instructor. May be repeated for credit.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6
  

  • ART141 SC - Introduction to Digital Imaging


    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 6
  

  • ART142 SC - Intermediate/Advanced Digital Imaging


    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 6
  

  • ART143 SC - Digital Color Photography


    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 6
  

  • ART144 SC - Advanced Web Projects


    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 6
  

  • ART145 SC - Intro B/W Darkroom Photography


    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 6
  

  • ART147 SC - Intermediate/Advanced Digital Photography


    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 6
  

  • ART148 SC - Introduction to Video


    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 6
  

  • ART149 SC - Intermediate and Advanced Video


    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 6
  
  

  • ART181G SC - From Beauty to the Abject


    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
  

  • ART181M SC - Feminist Concepts and Strategies


    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
  

  • ART189A PO - Writing Art

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

    This is a studio art course where the primary medium is writing. The goal of this course is to provide a rigorous and useful relationship to language as it relates to, and even functions as, art. Assigned projects may include a manifesto, a script for a performance, an open letter, a recipe, a close reading of an artwork, a protest sign, a text-based art installation, a guided meditation script, a proposal for a billboard, an interview, and an artist statement. In conjunction with these projects, we will read, view, and discuss the work of several artists, including Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Adrian Piper, Frances Stark, Jimmie Durham, Lee Lozano, and Jenny Holzer. Though this class may be of particular interest to Art students, it is open to all who are interested in exploring the function of writing and language in a contemporary art context. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: one ART course.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 6; Writing Intensive
  

  • ART190 PO - Junior/Senior Art Major Seminar

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

    For Pomona art majors, to be taken in the fall of the junior and senior years. A more in-depth examination of the theories and issues relevant to contemporary art practice. Exploration takes the form of art production and its critique and response papers to visiting artists, readings and field trips. Letter grade only.
  

  • ART192 PO - Advanced Projects in Art

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

    The seminar meets twice weekly during the spring semester for critique and discussion of advanced student work in art. Include visiting speakers, readings, and intensive work on independent art projects. This class is mandatory for senior art majors in preparation for their senior exhibit. Letter grade only. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • ART199DRPO - Art: Directed Readings

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

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

  • ART199IRPO - Art: 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 coursework required. Available for full- or half-course credit.
  

  • ART199RAPO - Art: 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.

Art History
  

  • ARCN130 SC - Unraveling the Gordian Knot: Archaeological Conservation and Tomb of King Midas


    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
  

  • ARHI001A PO - Introduction to the History of Art: Prehistory to c. 1400

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

    A critical introduction to the discipline of art history through a chronological survey of selected works from Paleolithic/Neolithic through Mesopotamia, the Egyptian dynasties, classical Greece, Persia, and Rome, and the cultures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Mediterranean basin. Asks how visual cultures of the past relate to those of the present. Previously offered as ARHI051A PO and ARHI051B PO. ARHI001A PO and ARHI001B PO may be taken in any order.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ARHI001B PO - Introduction to the History of Art: c. 1400 to the present

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

    A critical introduction to the discipline of art history through a chronological survey of a selection of works from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe from the fifteenth century to the present. Asks how visual cultures of the past relate to those of the present. Previously offered as ARHI051C PO. ARHI001A PO and ARHI001B PO may be taken in any order.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ARHI120 PO - Introduction to Islamic Art

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

    This course surveys the art and architecture of societies where Muslims were dominant or where they formed significant minorities from the 7th century to the present. It examines the form and function of architecture and works of art as well as the social, historical and cultural contexts, patterns of use, and evolving meanings attributed to art by the users. Themes include the creation of a distinctive visual culture in the emerging Islamic polity; the development of urban institutions; key architectural types such as the mosque, madrasa, caravanserai, dervish lodge and mausoleum; art objects and the arts of the illustrated book; self-representation; cultural interconnections along trade and pilgrimage routes; westernization and modernization in art and architecture. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ARHI124 PO - South Asian Art & Architecture

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2022
    Instructor(s): C. Dadlani
    Credit: 1

    An introduction to the art and architecture of South Asia from the ancient to contemporary periods. We will explore architecture, sculpture, arts of the book, textiles, painting, photography, and contemporary multimedia, and a range of interpretive issues related to production, reception, and historiography. Considers the visual traditions of South Asia as well as South Asian art history in comparative global perspective.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    PO Area 1 Requirement
  

  • ARHI125 CM - Rembrandt’s World: Invention and Exploration in the 17th Century


    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
  

  • ARHI130 PO - Modern Latin American and Chicanx/Latinx Art

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

    An introduction to the history of Latin American and Latino/a art and visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Examines major developments and innovations by artists, as well as different forms of artistic production: paintings and murals, prints and drawings, sculptures and ceramics. Focus will be on transnational comparisons and connections throughout the Americas. 
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ARHI131 PO - Border Art: U.S.-Mexico and Beyond

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): R. Romero
    Credit: 1

    This course explores the art of the U.S.-Mexico border from the twentieth century to the present. Students will explore how artists have represented the border in works of painting, sculpture, photography, conceptual, performance, social practice, and activist art. This course explores issues around race, class, gender, and migration, as well the contested ground of Chicanx and Latinx identities. The U.S.-Mexico border will also be a starting point for global and comparative analysis of transnational border art in other parts of Latin America and the world. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Analyzing Difference
  

  • ARHI132 CM - Latin American Art, 1500-1800


    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
  

  • ARHI134 PO - Latin American Avant-Gardes

    When Offered: Offered alternate years
    Instructor(s): R. Romero
    Credit: 1

    This course examines avant-garde movements in Latin America during the twentieth century. Focus will be given to the vanguard movements of Muralism and Estridentismo (Mexico), Grupo dos Cinco (Brazil), Creacionismo (Chile), Indigenismo (Peru), and Ultraismo (Argentina) in the early part of the century, and to the second-generation of neo avant-gardes of the 1950s to the 1970s. We will explore how and why avant-garde artists engaged with nation-building programs, valorized Amerindian and Afro-descendent cultures, and challenged colonial notions of race and gender. We will also discuss historical and contemporary debates about the political and social role of the avant-garde, especially artists’ ties to their literary counterparts and to political radicals. We will investigate works in a range of artistic media (painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, conceptual, installation, and performance art) alongside artist statements, manifestos, and classic theories of the avant-garde. Letter grade only.

     

    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ARHI137 PZ - Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art


    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
  

  • ARHI138 PZ - Native American Art Collections Research


    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
  

  • ARHI139 PZ - Seminar Topics: Native American Art History


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

  • ARHI140 PO - The Arts of Africa

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

    Survey exploring aesthetic, formal, cultural and national diversity of African arts and architecture. Emphasis on the social, political and religious dynamics fostering art production, iconographic themes, and aesthetic philosophies at specific historic moments in West, Central and North Africa. Critical study of Western art historical approaches and methods used to study diverse traditional African arts and post-independence cinema. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ARHI141A PO - (Re)presenting Africa: Art, History and Film

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

    Seminar centers on independent African films to examine (re)presentations of the people, arts, cultures and socio-political histories of Africa and its Diaspora. Course critically examines the cinematic themes, aesthetics, styles and schools of post-independence African and African Diasporic filmmakers. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ARHI141M PO - Representing Blackness: Music and Masculinities from Class to A$$

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

    Examines constructions of Blackness and notions of Black masculinity through study of documentary films and related visual arts representing key musical innovators of the African diaspora. Explores the aesthetic influence of musical genres (e.g., spirituals, ragtime, blues, jazz, folk, gospel, rock and roll, soul, funk, reggae, Afrobeat, mbalax, disco, opera, hip hop, rap and neo-soul) on the interdependent visual vocabularies of arts movements, values of political movements and representational codes of popular commodity culture from 1900 to present. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ARHI144B PO - Daughters of Africa: Art, Cinema, Theory, Love

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

    Examines visual arts and cultural criticism produced by women from Africa and the African Diaspora (North America, Caribbean and Europe). Students analyze aesthetic values, key representational themes, visual conventions, symbolic codes and stylistic approaches created from feminism’s spirited love of Blackness, Africanness and justice. Complement to AFRI 144A AF , Black Women Feminism(s) and Social Change. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ARHI144C PO - Alison Saar - Sculpting the Unseen

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

    Herstoric opportunity for studying contemporary sculpture in the round, prints and paintings on paper or textiles while displayed in four L.A. area museums hosting concurrent Saar exhibitions. ALISON SAAR: Of Aether and Earthe, will serve as the inaugural exhibition for the new Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, visually and historically grounding the course. Field trips also include visiting five public sculptures and two museum events featuring the artist. Saar (Scripps ‘78) has created an enduring figurative vocabulary melding innovative techniques and energy-repurposed vernacular and vintage materials. Historically situated exploration of key visual themes harnessed by the petit chainsaw-wielding artist include, figuring spiritual consciousness, aesthetic ecologies of the nude, HAIRstories as healing epistemologies, Ifa spirituality and Orisha iconographies; assemblage as African diasporan visual metaphor. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ARHI150 SC - The Arts of China


    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
  

  • ARHI151 SC - The Arts of Japan


    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
  

  • ARHI152 SC - Arts of Late Imperial China


    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
  

  • ARHI154 SC - Japanese Prints


    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
  

  • ARHI155 SC - History of Gardens, East and West


    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
  

  • ARHI158 HM - Visualizing China: Chinese Art


    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 1
  

  • ARHI173 PO - Medieval and Renaissance Cities in Italy

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

    The rise of Italian city-states and how their urban designs go hand-in-hand with their social, political and economic institutions. Compares Florence, Venice, Rome, Genoa, Pisa, Siena and the small princely courts. City dwellers’ civic, religious and family rituals.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive; Writing Intensive
  

  • ARHI174 PO - Italian Baroque Art

    When Offered: Spring 2022.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    Credit: 1

    Painting, sculpture and architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. Rome and the development of the Baroque style in the works of Caravaggio, the Carracci, Gentileschi, Bernini, Borromini and Pietro da Cortona. Church and social history as background.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive; Writing Intensive
  

  • ARHI175 PO - Baroque Art of Northern Europe

    When Offered: Spring 2023.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    Credit: 1

    Painting, sculpture and architecture of the 17th century in Germany, France, Spain, England and the Low Countries. Poussin, Velásquez, Rembrandt, Leyster, Rubens, Vermeer, Wren, Neumann, Fischer von Erlach.
  

  • ARHI176 JT - Mediterranean Cities

    When Offered: Fall 2021.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    An interdisciplinary approach to the development of urban space in the Mediterranean from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century. How have urban structures and social group identities changed from early city-states to the age of colonialism? What are the narratives produced around the city, both by ‘insiders’ as well as ‘outsiders?’ How were cities conduits of travel, commerce, and cross-cultural exchange? Mediterranean cities under the rubric of art history, architecture, literature, and history.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ARHI178 PO - Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation

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

    Course examines the visual arts (including painting, sculpture, photography, prints, textiles, mixed media, installations, performance, independent film and video) produced by people of African descent in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Emphasis on Black artists’ changing relationship to African arts and cultures, the emergence of an oppositional aesthetic tradition interrogating visual constructs of “Blackness” and “Whiteness,” gender, sexuality and class as a means of revisioning representational pratices. Course provides a social-historical frame for the interpretation and analysis of form, content and the production of historically situated cultural criticism. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ARHI179 PO - Modern Architecture, City, Landscape and Sustainability

    When Offered: Last offered fall 2020.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    Credit: 1

    Survey of “Modernist” traditions of architecture and city planning (19th – 21st centuries), tracing the “roots” of “sustainability” from the Spanish tradition through Arts and Crafts Movement to Bauhaus machine aesthetic to “post-modernism” and “sustainable architecture”—the new “Gesamtkunstwerk” (“total work of art”). Los Angeles within these global contexts.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Writing Intensive
  

  • ARHI180R SC - Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes


    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
  

  • ARHI181 PZ - Modern Into Contemporary


    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
  

  • ARHI183 PZ - The Art World Since 1989


    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
  

  • ARHI185 SC - History of Photography


    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
  

  • ARHI186B PZ - Seminar: Topics in Contemporary Art


    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
  

  • ARHI186CSC - Seminar: Topics in Asian Art


    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
  

  • ARHI186G PO - Gendering the Renaissance

    When Offered: Last offered spring 2021.
    Instructor(s): G. Gorse
    Credit: 1

    Takes up historian Joan Kelly’s challenge, “Did women have a Renaissance?” Expands the question to cultural constructs of the male and female body, sexuality, identity, homosexuality and lesbianism and their implications for the visual arts, literature and the history of early modern Europe (14th – 17th centuries).
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1; Speaking Intensive; Writing Intensive
  

  • ARHI186K PO - Building Empires

    When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2022
    Instructor(s): C. Dadlani
    Credit: 1

    Surveys the architecture of the early modern Islamic powers: the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals. The course explores the relationship between architecture and empire in each of these cultural contexts, examining iconic monuments from the Blue Mosque to the Taj Mahal; dynamic cities such as Istanbul, Isfahan, and Delhi; and encounters between architects, patrons, viewers, writers, and travelers from around the world.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    PO Area 1 Requirement
  

  • ARHI186KSC - Seminar in Modern Art


    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
  

  • ARHI186L PO - Critical Race Theory, Representation and the Rule of Law

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

    Examines the role of The Rule of Law in constructing and maintaining racialized, gendered and classed disparities of justice, as they shape and inform the intellectual, aesthetic, scientific and political convergences of critical jurisprudence with representational practices in African Diasporic visual arts. Letter grade only.
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  

  • ARHI186MSC - Seminar in 20th-Century Art


    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
  

  • ARHI186W PO - Interrogating Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation

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

    Interdisciplinary course studying select African disaporan visual arts interrogating linguistic, conceptual, and visual solipsisms contributing to the construction and reproduction of whiteness in aesthetics, studio art, film, video, and social media. Course assignments and activities develop critical visual literacy employing a constructionist approach to the production of knowledge and cultural criticism. Students encouraged to decode and deconstruct interlocking binary oppositions, such as blackness/whiteness, female/male, propaganda/art, modernity/postmodernity, citizen/immigrant, which dominate in Euroethnic intellectual thought, our racially-gendered relations of power, representational practices, and contemporary [white] nationalist visual grammar. Letter grade only.
      
    Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
    Area 1
  
  

  • ARHI188 SC - Representing the Metropolis


    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
 

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