2019-2020 Pitzer Catalog 
    
    May 01, 2024  
2019-2020 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Classics

  
  • CLAS 010 SC -Epic Heroes and Form in Popular Culture


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 012 SC -Greek Tragedy


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 014 SC -Ancient Comedy


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 018 SC -The Ancient Novel and Romance


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 019 SC -Classical Myth in Film: Hollywood and Avant-garde Cinema


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 020 PZ -Fantastic Archaeology: Modern Myths, Pseudo-Science, and the Study of the Past


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An exploration of popular and fantastic interpretations of archaeological sites and finds. This course investigates pseudoscientific explanations of archaeological questions and the biases that underlie them.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 022 PO -Epic: Gods and Heroes


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 060 SC -Greek Civilization


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 061 SC -Roman Life and Literature


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 114 SC -Female and Male in Ancient Greece


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 121 JT -Classical Mythology


    Institution: Pitzer/Scripps

    Description: An exploration of Greek and Roman mythology through both literature (in translation) and visual material (ancient art, architecture, and other material culture).

    Prerequisite(s): None

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 125 PZ -Ancient Spectacle


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Spectacles offered ancient Greeks and Romans countless opportunities to define and present themselves to others-as individuals, as communities, even as kings and emperors. Using archaeological and literary evidence, this course explores topics such as ancient theater, parades and triumphs, athletic competitions, gladiatorial contexts and wild beast games, mock battles, dinner parties, and even public protests. Note: as part of this course, students research, plan, and carry out a historical reenactment of an ancient spectacle (group project).

    Prerequisite(s): None

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 130 SC -Roman Decadence


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 141 PZ -Egyptian Art & Archaeology


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An introductory survey to the art, architecture, and archaeology of ancient Egypt, from the prehistoric cultures of the Nile Valley to the Greco-Roman period.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 145 PZ -Archaeology Seminar


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Explores the archaeology of the Mediterranean. Exact topic subject to change.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 150 PZ -Special Topics in Ancient Studies


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A research seminar that focuses on specific historical periods, societies, problems, or themes. In 2014, the seminar will focus on archaeology and urbanism in the ancient Mediterranean

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 150BE PZ -The Roman Empire in the East


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The eastern Mediterranean and modern Middle East are home to some of the richest evidence for urban culture in the Roman imperial period and late antiquity. Drawing on archeological and other evidence, this seminar explores the urban social and religious life in cities ike Alexandria, Ephesos, Palmyra, etc.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 161 PZ -Greek Art and Archaeology


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An introduction to the art, architecture, and other material culture of the ancient Greek world, from the Bronze Age through the rise of Alexander the Great.

    Prerequisite(s): None.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 162 PZ -Roman Art and Archaeology


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An introduction to the art and architecture of the ancient Roman world, from the late Republic through the High Empire, to the reign of Constantine. Includes discussion of material from the city of Rome and around the empire.

    Prerequisite(s): None.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 164 PZ -Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Explores the archaeology, history, and art and architecture of the ancient Roman towns of the Bay of Naples buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79CE, including Pompeii and Herculaneium, as well as the villas and estates in the area. Examines the evidence for daily life in an ancient Roman city through the unusually well preserved remains of these sites and considers them in the context of the wider Roman world.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 190 PZ/PO/SC -Senior Seminar in Classics


    Institution: Rotates among Pitzer, Scripps, Pomona

    Description: This course consists of an intensive study of selected topics within the larger field of classical studies leading to significant independent research. Required of majors in the senior year.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 191 -Senior Thesis


    Institution: Home institution of the thesis adviser.

    Description: Students write a senior thesis may do so under the supervision of a member of the intercollegiate Classics faculty (Pitzer, Scripps, Pomona, CMC). The research topic and project is approved by and developed in close cooperation with that faculty member.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.

Creative Studies

  
  • CREA 018 PZ -A History of the Creative Process


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The course examines the history of the creative process from an interdisciplinary perspective. As a consequence, the history creative process will be theorized from the vantage point of the combination of intellectual history and performance studies. The knowledge area that will be looked at will stretch from natural history (Big Bang Theory) to human history (abstract art). The coordinates of time and space will be the parameters in this study of the human imagination.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CREA 025 PZ -World in a Nutshell: The Short Story


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: authors as Hawthorne, James, Hemingway, Joyce, Porter, Faulkner, O’Connor, Elkin, Roth, Olsen, Malamud, and Updike. In addition to reading and writing about the stories of others, students will be writing and revising stories of their own. Recommended for first-year students and sophomores.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CREA 031 PZ -Creative Writing and Creative Thought


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: We shall be studying and writing creative non fiction for newspapers with an eye to their relation to other disciplines that generate ideas and are in return enriched by creative writing. Students will share what they have learned from their readings of assigned authors in return for the favor of workshop responses and suggestions to their own efforts during class.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CREA 105 PZ -Pictures in Text-Texts in Pictures


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will focus on a selected number of representations (from Shakespeare to our time) distinguished by a specific combination or mixture of text and image. The texts include such fascinating poems as Blake’s “The Tyger”, Shelley’s Ozymandias, Melville’s Moby Dick, Cormac McCarthy’s The Crossing; and the pictures include paintings from the 18th through the early 20th centuries.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CREA 110 PZ -Science and Creativity


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines the nature of creativity in the context of traditional Western science. Topics include the uniqueness of science, does it uncover “universal truths” in ways other disciplines do not? How is science influenced by culture and gender? Does scientific creativity always yield progress and benefit human kind, or does science need to be subject to ethical constraints?

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CREA 120 PZ -Greek Tragedy in Translation


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Concentrating on the Greeks, we shall attempt to understand the characteristics of the “tragic,” that unique vision of the human condition which seems to cross cultural and temporal boundaries to unite a vast range of “serious” dramatic literature. May be repeated with different content for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CREA 124 PZ -The Bible and Homer


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A literary study of the twin fountainhead of Western literature: Homer and the Hebrew bible. Prereq: a college-level course in literature, religion, or classics or permission of the instructor.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CREA 159B PZ -Shakespeare: Tragedy and Beyond


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course is devoted to the evolution of Shakespearean tragedy from the last years of his period of high romantic comedy to the end of his tragic period. We will be concerned also with Shakespeare’s reception and interpretation in Germany.

    Prerequisite(s): One of the following or the equivalent-ENGL 010A PZ or ENGL 010B PZ or ENLG 011A PZ or ENGL 011B PZ, or some lower or upper division literature course. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CREA 159C PZ -Shakespeare and Film


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: At best a director’s work is a form of literary analysis. We shall be using texts of Shakespeare plays as the sticking point from which to proceed to comparative analyses of film productions of the plays.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CREA 188 PZ -Hogarth and 18th Century Culture & Literature


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: We’ll be studying visual satires, pictures with humor that also bite, by the English artist William Hogarth (1697-1764), a pioneer of (post)modern comics and picture stories. Hogarth was the “author” of narrative satires like A HARLOT’S PROGRESS and A RAKE’S PROGRESS, often imitated but never rivaled for their satirical and technical excellence. His most important series will be discussed in detail, including the cultural and literary background that inspired his satirical visual narratives.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CREA 193A PZ -Fictions of James Joyce


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: We shall be studying the evolution of form and content in Joyce’s works from his first major efforts at the turn of the century through the completion of Ulysses. Our guiding questions will be why Joyce presents his material as he does and how his work relates to the literary and extraliterary intellectual concerns of our time.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CREA 199 PZ -Senior Thesis or Exhibition


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Exceptional students may apply to the field group to write a thesis or participate in a senior exhibition. Applications are due before the end of the previous semester. This course will be taken in addition to the other requirements for the major. (This course will be offered as needed on an independent study basis).

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.

Dance

  
  • DANC 010 PO -Beginning Modern Dance


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 012 PO/PPO -Beginning Ballet I


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 050 PO/PPO -Intermediate Modern Dance


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 051 PO/PPO -Intermediate Ballet Technique


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 073 CH -Pre-Columbian Dance


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 076A SC -Modern Dance I


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 076B SC -Modern Dance I


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 078A SC -Ballet I


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 078B SC -Ballet I


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 101 SC -History of Dance Western Culture


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 102 SC -Dynamics of Human Movement


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 103 SC -Laban Movement Analysis


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 119 PO -Modern Dance Technique and Theory III


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 120 PO/PPO -Modern Dance III: Visiting Artists


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 121 PO -Modern Technique and Theory IV


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 122 PO/PPO -Modern Dance IV: Visiting Artists


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 123 PO -Advanced Ballet Technique and Theory


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 124 PO/PPO -Advanced Ballet Technique


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 130 PO -Language of the Body


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 135 PO -Traditions of World Dance


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 136 PO -A History of Social Dance


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 137 PO -Performing Art: Issues of Sexuality and Gender in Music, Theatre, and Dance


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 140 PO -Composition I. Beginning Creative Movement Exploration


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 150C PO -Music and Dance of Bali


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 150D PO -Indian Classical Dance


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 150E PPO -Cultural Styels: Middle East


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 151 PO/PPO -Exploration of Cultural Styles: African Aesthetics


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 152 PO/PPO -Hip-Hop Dance


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 153 PO/PPO -Beginning/Intermediate Jazz Technique


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 159 SC -Dance Composition I


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 160 PO -Anatomy and Kinesiology


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 160 SC -Dance Composition II


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 165 PO -Somatic Movement Techniques


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 166 PO -Somatic Movement Techniques


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 170 PO -The Mind in Motion


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 175 PO -Alexander Technique in Motion


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 176 PO/PPO -Alexander Technique in Motion


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 180 PO/PPO -Repertory- 2 Pieces


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 181 PO/PPO -Repertory- 1 Piece


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • DANC 192 PO -Senior Project


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.

Economics

  
  • ECON 051 PZ -Principles of Macroeconomics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Introduction to the determination of national income and output including an examination of fiscal policy and monetary policy. Within this framework, such problems as budget deficits, inflation and unemployment will be studied, as well as international economic issues such as trade deficits and exchange rates. Basic economic principles will be applied to current policy questions.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 052 PZ -Principles of Microeconomics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A study of the operation of the market system (wherein relative prices and quantities are determined by supply and demand); application of analytical tools (including algebraic and geometric) to current economic policy problems; and an examination of the conditions under which the market system will, or will not, optimally allocate resources. The determination of wages, profit and allocation of resources will be discussed as well as the problems arising from various forms of monopoly. The course includes a demonstration of the interdependence of all forms of economic activity.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 086 CM -Accounting for Decision Making


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

  
  • ECON 087 PZ -Accounting & Finanicial Analysis


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Examines the role of accounting information in decision making with a focus on developing student ability to critically analyze financial statements and related documents. It also addresses the policies and procedures that compose the accounting information system. It serves as an overview to the accounting discipline with introduction to the subdisciplines of financial, managerial, accounting systems, tax, and auditing. This course is the equivalent of ECON 117 PO.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 091 PZ -Statistics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An introduction to the statistical tools used in the quantitative analysis of economic and political relationships. Topics include probability theory, statistical estimation, hypothesis testing and regression analysis.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 020 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 104 PZ -Macroeconomic Theory


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Advanced analysis of the determination of national income, employment and prices in an open economy. Theories of consumption, investment, business cycles and the effectiveness of government stabilization policy are examined. Various schools of thought are considered.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 030, ECON 051 PZ & ECON 052 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 105 PZ -Microeconomic Theory


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Theories of consumer behavior, demand, production, costs, the firm, market organization, resource use, general equilibrium and income distribution in a modern market economy.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 052 PZ; MATH 030 PZ or equivalent Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 115 PZ -Labor Economics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will use economic analysis to study the behavior of and relationship between employers and employees. Provides an introduction to the characteristics of the labor market and analysis of wage and employment problems, with a strong emphasis on policy issues. Among topics studied are job-seeking and employment practices, the determination of wages and benefits, worker mobility and immigration, discrimination, unionization, inequality, and unemployment.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 052 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 118 CM -Processes of Environmental Policy Making


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course infor, please see Claremont McKenna catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 124 PO -Water Resource Economics and Management


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 125 PZ -Econometrics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Introduction to techniques and pitfalls in the statistical analysis of economic data. The classical linear regression model, method of least squares and simultaneous-equation models are developed. The computer is used, but prior programming experience is not required.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 091 PZ or equivalent Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 127 PO -Environmental and Natural Resource Policy


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 128 PO -Energy, Economics and Policy


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 132 PZ -Macroeconomic Policy: Case Studies


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An exploration of case studies and issues in macroeconomics from the perspective of the policy maker. Topics will include the U.K. gold standard, 1930 depression, Kennedy tax cuts, Nixon flexible exchange rates, Volcker interest rates, Mexican debt crisis, Thatcher monetary policies, Reaganomics, Japanese financial liberalization, Europe 1992.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051 PZ & ECON 052 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 135 PZ -Money, Banking and Financial Markets


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Discussion of various financial markets such as money, bond and stock markets and various financial institutions, banking and non-banking. Introduction to the relevant basic monetary and financial theories. The course will also cover the banking system and the money supply process of the Federal Reserve, as well as the conduct of monetary policy such as its tools, goals and transmission mechanisms.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051 PZ & ECON 052 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 140 PZ -Development Economics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will cover topics that analyze the process of economic development from many perspectives, including economic growth, inequality, characteristics of rural economies, market frictions in low-income countries and some of the international aspects of development. The course aims to offer an overview of economic development themes and debates.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051 PZ & ECON 052 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 141 PZ -The Chinese Economy


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The course examines the development experience and current issues of the Chinese economy. It will review the historical legacies of the central planning from 1949 to 1978, and analyze the economic reform and transition to a market economy from 1978 to the present time. The course will also discuss the current problems and future challenges facing the Chinese economy and its relationship with the rest of the world in the context of globalization.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051 PZ & ECON 052 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 142 PZ -Japanese Economic History From 1600 to the Present


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Japan’s economic organization, structure and performance will be covered. Special emphasis is placed on the character of Japanese economic policy making as well as on the behavior of Japanese enterprises, financial institutions, labor force and households.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON051 PZ & ECON052 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 145 PZ -International Trade


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines theories of trade and their empirical verification, the relationship between trade and welfare, tariff and non tariff barriers to trade, common markets, and the relationship between growth and trade. The theoretical principles, historical development of International Trade, and new trade theories will be studied and examined through class lectures and discussions. The importance of David Ricardo’s contribution will be studies as well as economic features of open and close economies, benefits derived from trade and its impact on production, consumption and distribution of income.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051 PZ & ECON 052 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 147 PZ -International Money and Finance


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: In global financial markets the foreign exchange market, and therefore the exchange rate, forms an integral part of the financial system and the most important price in any economy. The choice of exchange rate policy is particularly important for open economies, in which the relationship between domestic and international economies affect virtually all other economic conditions. In particular, the decision to enter a monetary union can bring important economic benefits as well as costs for the member countries. Because monetary unions are a form of regional integration and because regional integration is important in global politics the decision to join a monetary union needs to be analyzed in the political economy as well. This course will give a brief introduction to the historical, economic and political process associated with monetary unions and will cover this topic from an inter-disciplinary perspective.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051 PZ & ECON 052 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 151 CM -Strategic Cost Management


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 163 PZ -Economics of Poverty and Discrimination


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines the phenomenon of poverty and the role of discrimination as a potential contributing cause. The course has a strong policy focus including examination of recent policy debates on welfare reform and affirmative action. The course begins with a discussion of the definition and measurement of the poor in the US and in developing economies. This discussion is followed by an examination of differing views of the causes of poverty. Next, the role of racial, class, and sex discrimination in both education and the labor market is considered. The remainder of the class focuses on policy options including welfare programs, employment policies, and equal opportunity policies.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 052 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 171 CM -Environmental Economics


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 172 PZ -Environmental Economics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The theory and practice of environmental economic policy. This course applies tools of economic theory including externalities, public goods and cost-benefit analysis to the study of environmental issues, with a strong emphasis on policy issues. Topics include pollution control, water policy, global warming and biological diversity. We consider alternative public policy instruments for environmental improvement, including the use of direct controls versus market controls.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 052 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 176 PZ -Economics of the Public Sector


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course focuses on the role of government in the market economy, including consideration of the rationale for government intervention and interactions across levels of government. Current policies issues examined include budgeting, taxation, income redistribution, social insurance, education, and health care.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 052 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ECON 180 PZ -Finance


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is an introductory course in finance. It gives students an overview of the entire discipline and discusses its general principles and main concepts, including: the time value of money; asset pricing; risk management; capital budgeting; market efficiency; options; and derivatives. Particular attention will be given to some of the esoteric instruments relevant to the 2008 Financial Meltdown, such as collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps.

    Prerequisite(s): ECON 051 PZ & ECON 052 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
 

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