2012-13 Pomona College Catalog

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International/Intercultural Studies
	IIS 167 PZ - Resistance to Monoculture CrsNo IIS 167 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course
Italian
	ITAL 001 SC - Introductory Italian CrsNo ITAL001 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course
	ITAL 002 SC - Continued Introductory Italian CrsNo ITAL002 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course
	ITAL 033 SC - Intermediate Italian CrsNo ITAL033 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course
	ITAL 044 SC - Advanced Italian CrsNo ITAL044 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course
	ITAL 121 SC - Ital Medieval & Renaissance Lit CrsNo ITAL121 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course.
	ITAL 133 SC - Contemporary Italian Literature CrsNo ITAL133 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course
	ITAL 136 SC - Italians as Guests and Hosts: Intercultural Encounters in Current Italian Fiction CrsNo ITAL136 SC See the Scripps College Catalog for a description of this course
Japanese
	JAPN 001A PO - Elementary Japanese CrsNo JAPN001A PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): P. Flueckiger,K. Takahashi, T. Terada A beginning Japanese language course stressing grammar, vocabulary building, oral and aural communication skills; introduction to the Japanese writing systems (katakana, hiragana and approximately 250 kanji). Prerequisite: any entering student who has previously learned Japanese must take a placement examination. A, each fall. B, each spring.
	JAPN 001B PO - Elementary Japanese CrsNo JAPN001B PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): Staff A beginning Japanese language course stressing grammar, vocabulary building, oral and aural skills; introduction to the Japanese writing systems (katakana, hiragana and approximately 250 kanji). Prerequisite: Any entering student who has previously learned Japanese must take a placement examination. Prerequisite: JAPN 001A PO .
	JAPN 011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary Japanese Language and Culture CrsNo JAPN011 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): R. Bashaw Open to all students except native speakers. Credit for satisfactory participation in Oldenborg Center activities and two conversation classes weekly. Prerequisite: JAPN 001B PO. Cumulative credit; graded P/NC. May be taken a total of four times for a total of one course credit. Prerequisite: JAPN 001B PO .
	JAPN 012A PO - Japanese Kanji Class I CrsNo JAPN012A PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): Staff Study of basic kanji characters, focusing on the origin and meanings of each character and the concept of each radical. Systematically builds competence in word formation and meaning inference. Emphasis on both reading and writing. 12A (FALL) covers approximately 350 characters; 12B (SPRING), additional 150. 12A may be taken concurrently with 51A; 12B, with 51B. Prerequisite: JAPN 001B PO . Credit for satisfactory participation in two classes per week. Cumulative credit, one-quarter course credit; graded P/NC.
	JAPN 012B PO - Japanese Kanji Class I CrsNo JAPN012B PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): Staff Study of basic kanji characters, focusing on the origin and meanings of each character and the concept of each radical. Systematically builds competence in word formation and meaning inference. Emphasis on both reading and writing. 12A (FALL) covers approximately 350 characters; 12B (SPRING), additional 150. 12A may be taken concurrently with 51A; 12B, with 51B. Prerequisite: JAPN 001B PO . Credit for satisfactory participation in two classes per week. Cumulative credit, one-quarter course credit; graded P/NC.
	JAPN 013 PO - Advanced Conversation CrsNo JAPN013 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): R. Bashaw Open to all students except native speakers. Credit for satisfactory participation in Oldenborg Center activities and two conversation classes weekly. Prerequisite: JAPN 051A PO . Cumulative, one-quarter course credit; graded P/NC. Does not satisfy the foreign language requirement. Limited to one enrollment per semester and a cumulative total of one course credit.
	JAPN 014A PO - Japanese Kanji Class II CrsNo JAPN014A PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): Staff Focus on the systematic learning of the kanji characters of written Japanese.
	JAPN 014B PO - Japanese Kanji CrsNo JAPN014B PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Japanese Kanji Class. Focus on the systematic learning of the kanji characters of written Japanese.
	JAPN 051A PO - Intermediate Japanese CrsNo JAPN051A PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): L. Miyake A continuation of elementary Japanese with emphasis on developing further skills in all aspects of the language; new grammatical forms, additional vocabulary and kanji (numbering 250 beyond 1A/B), reading and writing composition. Prerequisite: JAPN 001B PO .
	JAPN 051B PO - Intermediate Japanese CrsNo JAPN051B PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): K. Takahashi A continuation of elementary Japanese with emphasis on developing further skills in all aspects of the language; new grammatical forms, additional vocabulary and kanji (numbering 250 beyond 1A/B), reading and writing composition. Prerequisite: JAPN 051A PO .
	JAPN 111A PO - Advanced Japanese CrsNo JAPN111A PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): K. Kurita Develops speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in a balanced, integrated way, based on a variety of texts which include newspaper and magazine articles, short stories and animation. Prerequisite: JAPN 051B PO for JAPN 111A; JAPN 111A for JAPN 111B PO. JAPN 111A, each fall; JAPN 111B PO; each spring.
	JAPN 111B PO - Advanced Japanese CrsNo JAPN111B PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): K. Kurita Develops speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in a balanced, integrated way, based on a variety of texts which include newspaper and magazine articles, short stories and animation. Prerequisite: JAPN 111A PO .
	JAPN 124 PO - Readings in Current Japanese CrsNo JAPN124 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): K. Takahashi Readings in Current Japanese. Readings in non-literary writings in the original Japanese, including newspaper/magazine articles and essays dealing with various contemporary topics. Emphasis also on composition. May be repeated once for credit with permission of instructor. Prerequisite: JAPN 111B PO or equivalent.
	JAPN 125 PO - Readings in Modern Japanese Literature CrsNo JAPN125 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): K. Kurita Advanced training in integrating all four language skills by engaging a variety of literary texts. We will also watch films and TV programs. Different themes and readings every year. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: JAPN 111B PO or equivalent.
	JAPN 131 PO - Introduction to Classical Japanese CrsNo JAPN131 PO When Offered: Spring 2014. Instructor(s): P. Flueckiger Covers the fundamentals of classical Japanese grammar, combined with readings from prose and poetry texts of the Heian (794-1185), Kamakura (1185-1333) and Tokugawa (1600-1868) periods. Readings include Makura no soshi, Hojoki, Heike monogatari and the haikai poetry of Basho. Prerequisite: JAPN 111A PO .
	JAPN 192A PO - Senior Project CrsNo JAPN192A PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): Staff A two-semester directed study of selected topics, culminating in a broad-ranging research paper or translation exercise. Half-course. Taken in each semester of the senior year; grade and credit awarded upon completion of the second semester enrollment. Prerequisite: JAPN 124 PO or JAPN 125 PO . Letter grade only. JAPN 192A, first semester; JAPN 192B PO second semester.
	JAPN 192B PO - Senior Project CrsNo JAPN192B PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): Staff A two-semester directed study of selected topics, culminating in a broad-ranging research paper or translation exercise. Half-course. Taken in each semester of the senior year; grade and credit awarded upon completion of the second semester enrollment. Prerequisite: JAPN 124 PO or JAPN 125 PO . Letter grade only. JAPN 192A PO , first semester; JAPN 192B second semester.
	JAPN 199DRPO - Japanese: Directed Readings CrsNo JAPN199DRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Directed Readings. Syllabus reflects workload of a standard course in the department or program. Examinations, written papers, and/or oral presentations equivalent to a standard course. Regular interaction with the faculty supervisor. Weekly meetings are the norm. Available for full- or half-course credit.
	JAPN 199IRPO - Japanese: Independent Research Project CrsNo JAPN199IRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Independent Research Project. A substantial and significant piece of original research produced. Pre-requisite course work required. Available for full- or half-course credit.
Japanese Literature in Translation
	JPNT 170 PO - Pre-Modern Japanese Literature in English: Courtiers and Warriors CrsNo JPNT170 PO When Offered: Fall 2014. Instructor(s): P. Flueckiger Introduction to the major works of Japanese prose, poetic and dramatic literature from the 8th to the 18th centuries, with a focus on the aesthetic, social and political interactions between the imperial court and the developing warrior class. (Japanese in Translation)
	JPNT 173 PO - Japanese Images of the Foreign: Xenophilia, Xenophobia and National Identity CrsNo JPNT173 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): P. Flueckiger An exploration through literary, philosophical and political works of how Japan has been defined in relation to the foreign (both China and the West). Focuses on the Confucian, National Learning and Dutch Learning movements of the Tokugawa period (1600-1868). Topics also include the Meiji period (1868-1912) quest for “civilization and enlightenment” and the World War II discourse on “overcoming modernity.”
	JPNT 174 PO - Modern Japanese Literature in English Translation: Literary Reconfigurations of Japanese Identity, 1868 to Present CrsNo JPNT174 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2012. Instructor(s): K. Kurita An overview of key literary and intellectual issues of modern Japan from the Meiji Restoration (1868) to the present, centering on the construction of identity through Japan’s ongoing dialogue with the West. Relevant Western literature will be referenced, as well as Japanese painting, photography and cinema.
	JPNT 176 PO - Time & Space in Modern Japan CrsNo JPNT176 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2013. Instructor(s): K. Kurita This course offers an interdisciplinary, comparative approach to the literary expression of Japanese temporal and spatial concepts from the 8th century onward, with some reference to China and Korea. The focus, however, is on modern Japan, which in some ways “left Asia,” looking ahead to a very foreign time-space but trying to comprehend it with a language that does not even have a future tense.
	JPNT 177 PO - Japanese/Japanese American Women Writers CrsNo JPNT177 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2012. Instructor(s): L. Miyake Japanese and Japanese American Women Writers: How, Where and What. An examination of writings by classical/modern Japanese/Japanese American women writers within local/global settings focusing on what they wrote, why they wrote and where they wrote. The course will explore how local/global gender and race politics inform their writings–and their reception–and the ways these formulations (which have crossed back and forth across the Pacific from the earliest Japanese immigration to the U.S. through international exchanges to this day) continue to fashion the writings of these women writers. (Japanese in Translation)
	JPNT 178 PO - Japanese and Japanese American Autobiography CrsNo JPNT178 PO When Offered: Spring 2014. Instructor(s): L. Miyake Introduction to the “pre-modern” Japanese literary diary (nikki bungaku), modern Japanese autobiography and autobiographical writings and Japanese American diary/autobiography, emphasizing works by women. Readings in literary criticism on autobiography in general and women’s autobiography in particular are included. (Japanese in Translation)
	JPNT 179 PO - Graphically Speaking: Japanese Manga and Its Buds CrsNo JPNT179 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2013. Instructor(s): L. Miyake Text? Image? Manga positions itself in the interstices of image and word, mainstream culture and subculture, local and global economies. This course will examine its historical and cultural contexts, technical and narrative strategies and local and global significance, reading shôjo girls, shônen boys, information and “other” manga, as well as pop culture, visual literacy and graphic art articles. (Japanese in Translation)
	JPNT 199DRPO - Japanese in Translation: Directed Readings CrsNo JPNT199DRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Directed Readings. Syllabus reflects workload of a standard course in the department or program. Examinations, written papers, and/or oral presentations equivalent to a standard course. Regular interaction with the faculty supervisor. Weekly meetings are the norm. Available for full- or half-course credit.
	JPNT 199IRPO - Japanese in Translation: Independent Research Project CrsNo JPNT199IRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Independent Research Project. A substantial and significant piece of original research produced. Pre-requisite course work required. Available for full- or half-course credit.
Korean
	KORE 001 CM - Introductory Korean CrsNo KORE001 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	KORE 002 CM - Continuing Introductory Korean CrsNo KORE002 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	KORE 033 CM - Intermediate Korean CrsNo KORE033 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	KORE 044 CM - Advanced Korean CrsNo KORE044 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
Korean Literature in Translation
	KORE 100 CM - Readings in Korean Literature and Culture CrsNo KORE100 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	KORE 130 CM - Korean Cinema and Culture CrsNo KORE130 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
Late Antique/Medvl Stds
	LAMS 190 PO - LAMS Senior Seminar CrsNo LAMS190 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): K.Wolf A seminar for LAMS majors to assist them as they conceive of, research, and write their senior theses. Common readings and research exercises will complement guided individual work. Letter grade only.
	LAMS 191 PO - Senior Thesis in LAMS CrsNo LAMS191 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): K.Wolf The culminating course for the LAMS major, students complete their theses under the guidance of their thesis advisors. Letter grade only.
Latin American Studies
	LAST 190 PO - Senior Tutorial CrsNo LAST190 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): A. Mayes Required of all majors during the first semester of the senior year. Prepares students for their senior exercise, emphasizing integrative analytical methods and important topics in the core disciplines chosen by students for their exams or senior theses.
	LAST 191 PO - Senior Thesis CrsNo LAST191 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): Staff With permission of the Latin American Studies Committee, students may elect to write a senior thesis. Thesis projects require substantial original research, writing and interpretation. Students select and work closely with a track advisor who is their primary reader. Students must select a second reader in consultation with their track advisor.
	LAST 193 PO - Senior Comprehensive Exam CrsNo LAST193 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): Staff Three-hour comprehensive examination consists of written field examinations in two chosen core disciplines and one interdisciplinary examination taken during the spring semester of the senior year. Prerequisite: LAST 190 PO .
	LAST 199DRPO - Latin American Studies: Directed Readings CrsNo LAST199DRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Directed Readings. Syllabus reflects workload of a standard course in the department or program. Examinations or papers equivalent to a standard course. Regular interaction with the faculty supervisor. Weekly meetings are the norm. Available for full- or half-course credit.
	LAST 199IRPO - Latin American Studies: Independent Research CrsNo LAST199IRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Independent Research or Creative Project. A substantial and significant piece of original research or creative product produced. Pre-requisite course work required. Available for full- or half-course credit.
	LAST 199RAPO - Latin American Studies: Research Assistantship CrsNo LAST199RAPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Lab notebook, research summary or other product appropriate to the discipline is required. Half-course credit only.
Linguistics and Cognitive Science
	LGCS 010 PO - Introduction to Linguistics CrsNo LGCS010 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): M. Diercks; M. Landman; M. Paster For students wishing to learn about the nature of language, including how language is structured at the levels of sound, form and meaning; how language determines our thoughts and our perception of the world; whether animals can learn to talk; and how our language reflects our culture, gender and ethnicity.
	LGCS 011 PO - Introduction to Cognitive Science CrsNo LGCS011 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): D. Burke; J. Harris Historical and contemporary views of the mind, from the perspectives of philosophy, linguistics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience and computer science. How does the mind acquire, structure and make use of language? How does it make sense of emotional and sensory experience? What is consciousness? Topics include language, meaning, knowledge, thinking, remembering, self and consciousness.
	LGCS 082 PZ - Racial Politics of Teaching CrsNo LGCS082 PZ See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LGCS 101 PO - Comparative and Historical Linguistics CrsNo LGCS101 PO When Offered: Last offered fall 2011. Instructor(s): M. Landman This course is an introduction to historical linguistics, the study of how languages change over time. The course is a hands-on introduction: students learn how to ‘do’ historical linguistics by working through exercises involving a variety of languages. Topics include: types of language change (sound change, analogy, borrowing, etc.); reconstruction of proto-languages; the origins of modern languages. Prerequisite: LGCS 010 PO or permission of instructor.
	LGCS 105 PO - Syntax CrsNo LGCS105 PO When Offered: Each spring. Instructor(s): M. Diercks Examines the sentence structure of natural language, addressing the (mostly unconscious) knowledge people have about language and proposing cognitive structures for that knowledge. For example, we explain why you can run up a bill, and run up a hill, but while you can run a bill up, you can’t run a hill up. Emphasizes analysis and argumentation, with a writing-centric curriculum. Prerequisite: LGCS 010 PO .
	LGCS 106 PO - Semantics CrsNo LGCS106 PO When Offered: Fall 2013. Instructor(s): J. Harris Language users manage to communicate complex thoughts and ideas within rapidly changing and evolving contexts, often with incredible ease. How are we able to locate linguistic meanings in such rich and elusive contexts? What is the relationship between the meaning of a word or expression and its linguistic form? What are the rules or processes that determine how more complex meanings are created from their parts, and how do these processes relate to other cognitive or mental processes? This course introduces both theoretical and practical tools to build an abstract theory of linguistic meaning that addresses these questions, among others. Prerequisite: LGCS 010 PO or CSCI 030 PO or PHIL 030 PO .
	LGCS 107 PO - Pragmatics CrsNo LGCS107 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): J. Atlas How to Do Things with Words. A philosophical and linguistic discussion of language use and non-truth-conditional aspects of meaning. Topics from philosophy of language and linguistics: speech acts, presupposition, conversational implicature, context and common ground, demonstratives and indexicals, topic/comment and focus, with applications to law and to psychology.Prerequisite: LGCS 010 PO .
	LGCS 108 PO - Phonology CrsNo LGCS108 PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): M. Paster Analysis of the organization of sounds in the world’s languages. Fundamental concepts in phonological theory and their relation to issues in articulatory and acoustic phonetics. Course focuses on feature systems, underlying representations, phonological rules and derivations. Prerequisite: LGCS 010 PO .
	LGCS 109 PO - Morphology CrsNo LGCS109 PO When Offered: Last offered spring 2009. Provides an introduction to morphology, the study of how words are built from their component parts. Topics to be covered include methods of morphological analysis, the relationship between morphology and other areas of grammar, and modern theories of morphology. Prerequities: LGCS 010 PO
	LGCS 110 PZ - Language and Gender CrsNo LGCS110 PZ When Offered: Spring 2013. See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LGCS 112 PZ - Language and Society CrsNo LGCS112 PZ When Offered: Fall 2012. See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LGCS 115 PZ - Bilingualism CrsNo LGCS115 PZ Please see the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LGCS 116 PZ - Language and Ethnicity CrsNo LGCS116 PZ When Offered: Next offered 2013-14. See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LGCS 121 PO - Psycholinguistics CrsNo LGCS121 PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): J. Harris How are we able to produce and comprehend language in all of its complexity? Introduction to research and theory on language processing. Focus on empirical studies of word recognition, sentence processing, discourse and semantic interpretation, as well as language acquisition and breakdown. Prerequisites: LGCS 011 PO , or LGCS 010 PO and PSYC 051 PO .
	LGCS 122 PO - Experimental Methods in Linguistics & Cognitive Science CrsNo LGCS122 PO When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2013. Instructor(s): J. Harris This course introduces the components of data collection and analysis that are useful in linguistics, cognitive science and related fields, surveying a variety of experimental methods. We concentrate on developing practical skills that will enable you to design and conduct your own research, including questionnaire surveys, reaction time studies, priming and eye movement paradigms, and basic statistics. Prerequisites: LGCS 010 PO and LGCS 105 PO , LGCS 106 PO or LGCS 108 PO .
	LGCS 125 PO - Field Methods in Linguistics CrsNo LGCS125 PO When Offered: Fall 2012; normally offered in alternate spring semesters. Instructor(s): M. Diercks, M. Paster Field Methods in Linguistics. Where do we get the data on which linguistic theory is based? In this class, students learn hands-on how to systematically approach the study of an unfamiliar language. Languages vary from year to year; previous languages included Luganda, Twi and Malayalam. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: LGCS 010 PO and either LGCS 105 PO or LGCS 108 PO .
	LGCS 166 PZ - Language and Gender in Disney CrsNo LGCS166 PZ When Offered: Spring 2013. See the Pitzer College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LGCS 175 PO - Seminar in Cognitive Science: Belief and the Self CrsNo LGCS175 PO When Offered: Spring 2013. Instructor(s): J. Atlas A philosophical, linguistic and psychological examination of a central topic in cognitive science, e.g. metaphor, language and thought, modularity of the mind, concepts, experimental pragmatics. Normally to be taken in the junior year. Topics vary from year to year. May be repeated once for credit.
	LGCS 185M PO - Topics in Mind and Language. CrsNo LGCS185M PO When Offered: Next offered 2013-14.
	LGCS 185P PO - Topics in Phonology CrsNo LGCS185P PO When Offered: Fall 2013. Instructor(s): M. Paster Advanced topics in phonological theory. Familiarizes students with current original research on one or more specific topics. Topics vary and may include Optimality Theory, phonetically grounded phonology, tonal systems and the phonology-morphology interface. Prerequisite: LGCS 108 PO .
	LGCS 185S PO - Topics in Syntax CrsNo LGCS185S PO When Offered: Each fall. Instructor(s): M. Diercks Examines recent developments in syntactic theory within the framework of the Minimalist Program. Course addresses significant theoretical issues (e.g. Case and Agreement, wh-movement, NP-movement) with respect to a typologically-varied set of languages, often utilizing relatively unfamiliar languages (e.g. the Bantu languages of Africa). Specific topics vary year to year. Prerequisite: LGCS 105 PO .
	LGCS 185T PO - Topics in Semantics CrsNo LGCS185T PO When Offered: Fall 2012. Instructor(s): J. Harris Investigates advanced topics in semantics and the syntax-semantics and semantics-pragmatics interface. Topics vary from year to year; possible topics include anaphora, quantification, modality, tense, plurals and modification. Prerequisite: LGCS 106 PO .
	LGCS 187A PO - Tutorial in Linguistics and Cognitive Science CrsNo LGCS187A PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Selected topics, determined jointly by the student and the tutor, conducted through frequent student papers evaluated in Oxford-style tutorial sessions. Prerequisite: written permission of instructor. LGCS 187A, full course; LGCS 187B PO, half-course. May be repeated.
	LGCS 187B PO - Tutorial in Linguistics and Cognitive Science CrsNo LGCS187B PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Selected topics, determined jointly by the student and the tutor, conducted through frequent student papers evaluated in Oxford-style tutorial sessions. Prerequisite: written permission of instructor. LGCS 187A PO, full course; LGCS 187B, half-course. May be repeated.
	LGCS 191 PO - Senior Thesis in Linguistics and Cognitive Science CrsNo LGCS191 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Individual theoretical research or laboratory experiment, for fourth-year students under faculty supervision. May be taken as half-course, or as full-course.
	LGCS 193 PO - Senior Comprehensive Examination CrsNo LGCS193 PO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Take-home examination in linguistics, completed in one week, testing students’ general competence in the core disciplines of the field.
	LGCS 199DRPO - Linguistics and Cognitive Science: Directed Readings CrsNo LGCS199DRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Directed Readings. Syllabus reflects workload of a standard course in the department or program. Examinations or papers equivalent to a standard course. Regular interaction with the faculty supervisor. Weekly meetings are the norm. Available for full- or half-course credit.
	LGCS 199IRPO - Linguistics and Cognitive Science CrsNo LGCS199IRPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Independent Research or Creative Project. A substantial and significant piece of original research or creative product produced. Prerequisite course work required. Available for full- or half-course credit.
	LGCS 199RAPO - Ling Cog Sci: Research Asstship CrsNo LGCS199RAPO When Offered: Each semester. Instructor(s): Staff Research Assistantship. Lab notebook, research summary or other product appropriate to the discipline is required. Half-course credit only.
Literature
	LIT 036 CM - Screenwriting CrsNo LIT036 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 057 CM - British Writers I CrsNo LIT 057 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 063 CM - Chaucer CrsNo Lit 063 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 072 CM - Jane Austen CrsNo LIT 072 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 077 CM - R Wright & Z Neale Hurston CrsNo LIT 077 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 081 CM - Melville CrsNo LIT 081 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 085 CM - Contemporary American Fiction CrsNo LIT 085 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 087 CM - Modern Black Fiction CrsNo LIT 087 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 100 CM - Literary Theory Since Plato CrsNo LIT 100 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 103 HM - Third Cinema CrsNo LIT 103 HM See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 105 CM - Domestic Bliss: The Medieval Household CrsNo Lit 105 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 108 CM - Medieval Women Writers CrsNo LIT 108 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 110 CM - Age of Chivalry CrsNo Lit 110 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 111 CM - Dante and the Fourteenth Century CrsNo Lit 111 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 117 CM - Lit of Late Medieval England CrsNo LIT 117 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 118 CM - The Romantic Revolution CrsNo LIT 118 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 119 CM - 19th Century Russian Novel CrsNo LIT 119 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 123 CM - Fugitives From Utopia: The Writers of Post-War Poland CrsNo LIT 123 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 126 CM - 20th-Century Black Poetics CrsNo LIT 126 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 130 CM - Language of Film CrsNo LIT 130 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.
	LIT 131 CM - Film History I (1925-1965) CrsNo LIT 131 CM See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course.

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Courses

IIS 167 PZ - Resistance to Monoculture

ITAL 001 SC - Introductory Italian

ITAL 002 SC - Continued Introductory Italian

ITAL 033 SC - Intermediate Italian

ITAL 044 SC - Advanced Italian

ITAL 121 SC - Ital Medieval & Renaissance Lit

ITAL 133 SC - Contemporary Italian Literature

ITAL 136 SC - Italians as Guests and Hosts: Intercultural Encounters in Current Italian Fiction

JAPN 001A PO - Elementary Japanese

JAPN 001B PO - Elementary Japanese

JAPN 011 PO - Conversation: Contemporary Japanese Language and Culture

JAPN 012A PO - Japanese Kanji Class I

JAPN 012B PO - Japanese Kanji Class I

JAPN 013 PO - Advanced Conversation

JAPN 014A PO - Japanese Kanji Class II

JAPN 014B PO - Japanese Kanji

JAPN 051A PO - Intermediate Japanese

JAPN 051B PO - Intermediate Japanese

JAPN 111A PO - Advanced Japanese

JAPN 111B PO - Advanced Japanese

JAPN 124 PO - Readings in Current Japanese

JAPN 125 PO - Readings in Modern Japanese Literature

JAPN 131 PO - Introduction to Classical Japanese

JAPN 192A PO - Senior Project

JAPN 192B PO - Senior Project

JAPN 199DRPO - Japanese: Directed Readings

JAPN 199IRPO - Japanese: Independent Research Project

JPNT 170 PO - Pre-Modern Japanese Literature in English: Courtiers and Warriors

JPNT 173 PO - Japanese Images of the Foreign: Xenophilia, Xenophobia and National Identity

JPNT 174 PO - Modern Japanese Literature in English Translation: Literary Reconfigurations of Japanese Identity, 1868 to Present

JPNT 176 PO - Time & Space in Modern Japan

JPNT 177 PO - Japanese/Japanese American Women Writers

JPNT 178 PO - Japanese and Japanese American Autobiography

JPNT 179 PO - Graphically Speaking: Japanese Manga and Its Buds

JPNT 199DRPO - Japanese in Translation: Directed Readings

JPNT 199IRPO - Japanese in Translation: Independent Research Project

KORE 001 CM - Introductory Korean

KORE 002 CM - Continuing Introductory Korean

KORE 033 CM - Intermediate Korean

KORE 044 CM - Advanced Korean

KORE 100 CM - Readings in Korean Literature and Culture

KORE 130 CM - Korean Cinema and Culture

LAMS 190 PO - LAMS Senior Seminar

LAMS 191 PO - Senior Thesis in LAMS

LAST 190 PO - Senior Tutorial

LAST 191 PO - Senior Thesis

LAST 193 PO - Senior Comprehensive Exam

LAST 199DRPO - Latin American Studies: Directed Readings

LAST 199IRPO - Latin American Studies: Independent Research

LAST 199RAPO - Latin American Studies: Research Assistantship

LGCS 010 PO - Introduction to Linguistics

LGCS 011 PO - Introduction to Cognitive Science

LGCS 082 PZ - Racial Politics of Teaching

LGCS 101 PO - Comparative and Historical Linguistics

LGCS 105 PO - Syntax

LGCS 106 PO - Semantics

LGCS 107 PO - Pragmatics

LGCS 108 PO - Phonology

LGCS 109 PO - Morphology

LGCS 110 PZ - Language and Gender

LGCS 112 PZ - Language and Society

LGCS 115 PZ - Bilingualism

LGCS 116 PZ - Language and Ethnicity

LGCS 121 PO - Psycholinguistics

LGCS 122 PO - Experimental Methods in Linguistics & Cognitive Science

LGCS 125 PO - Field Methods in Linguistics

LGCS 166 PZ - Language and Gender in Disney

LGCS 175 PO - Seminar in Cognitive Science: Belief and the Self

LGCS 185M PO - Topics in Mind and Language.

LGCS 185P PO - Topics in Phonology

LGCS 185S PO - Topics in Syntax

LGCS 185T PO - Topics in Semantics

LGCS 187A PO - Tutorial in Linguistics and Cognitive Science

LGCS 187B PO - Tutorial in Linguistics and Cognitive Science

LGCS 191 PO - Senior Thesis in Linguistics and Cognitive Science

LGCS 193 PO - Senior Comprehensive Examination

LGCS 199DRPO - Linguistics and Cognitive Science: Directed Readings

LGCS 199IRPO - Linguistics and Cognitive Science

LGCS 199RAPO - Ling Cog Sci: Research Asstship