2019-2020 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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EA 098 PZ -Urban Ecology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Urban ecology is a subfield of ecology that deals with the interaction between humans and the environment in urban settings. This course brings together concepts and research from diverse fields to explore themes of environment and cityscape, relationships between industrialization, green space, and health, ecological challenges in rapidly urbanizing areas, and global social movements toward sustainable cities. A key objective of the course is to consider urban environments through their dynamic relationships to social, political, and economic systems with a key focus on globalization and public life.
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.
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EA 099 PO -Urban Health Equity
Institution: Pomona College
Description: See Pomona College catalog for course description.
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EA 100 PO -Urban Planning and Environment
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.
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EA 100L KS -Global Climate Change
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.
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EA 101 PO -GIS in Environmental Analysis
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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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EA 103 KS -Soils and Society
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: Soils are dynamic biological, chemical, and physical environments that have profoundly influenced human health and society. This course provides an overview of soils and the ways in which they define habitats, cycle water and carbon, support infrastructure, sustain agriculture, record paleoclimate, and exemplify the challenges of sustainable environmental management.
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.
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EA 103L KS -Principles of Soil Science
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.
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EA 104 KS -Oceanography
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.
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EA 107 PZ -Design Workshop: A Sense of Place
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Design Workshop explores design innovation inspired by our relationships with nature. In particular, the course revolves around diverse design concepts and creations expressive of a sense of place. Through explorations of scholarly, artistic, and GIS explications of place, our individual and interpersonal relationships with Nature and with one another explored as strategies for creating sustainable communities. This is a studio course, extending the notion of ‘studio’ beyond the walls of the built environment. Studio practice is emphasized through plein air graphic arts, natural history observations, field sketches and recordings, creative expansions of geographic information systems (GIS), community design, and other practice-based skills. We depend on being rooted in an actual place for our sense of who we are and what we can do. Yet in this age of globalization, what happens to the distinctive character of places? In the face of unprecedented mobility, technology, and alienation, what connections to places do we have and can we hope to nurture?
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.
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EA 108 PZ -Natural History and Naturalists: History and Practice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The interdisciplinary field of Natural History links the natural sciences to the humanities and social sciences by combining ecological field studies with drawing and painting, cultural history, and social analysis. This course introduces students to the complicated history of natural history and the rich botanical and wildlife studies that naturalists have completed, while having students actively doing natural history themselves at the Pitzer Arboretum and Bernard Field Station. One Saturday field trip is required.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: EA 104 PZ Doing Natural History
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EA 115 PZ -Qualitative Research Methods
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Qualitative Research Methods is a pre-requisite for the EA senior thesis course. We learn ethics and methods surrounding qualitative fieldwork, study research design, and develop a toolkit tailored to environmental analysis. The course is geared toward helping students jump start their senior theses projects, and is designed to take students through the Institutional Review Board approvals as well as writing literature reviews and proposals related to their topics. Suggested for senior students who plan to take EA thesis course in Spring.
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.
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EA 120 PZ -Global Environmental Politics and Policy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will introduce students to the rise of global environmental governance, examine specific environmental issues and international treaties (such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and Kyoto Protocol), analyze the politics around the international policy process, and explore how global environmental governance intersects with geopolitics, conflict and national security.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: ENVS 120 PZ
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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EA 124 PZ -Protecting Nature: Parks, Conservation Areas & People
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Creating parks and conservation areas is one major way that governments and nongovernmental organizations attempt to protect endangered species and biodiversity. In this class we will examine a variety of protected areas, conflicts around these areas, and programs designed to reduce these conflicts. We will use the Bernard Field Station as a central case study. This course includes a social responsibility component.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: ENVS 124 PZ
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EA 130 PZ -Environment, People and Restoration in Costa Rica
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is a Study Abroad course. For more information, please see the Pitzer in Costa Rica program.
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.
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EA 131 PZ -Democratizing Community Planning
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this course, we will consider how democratizing planning and design could be used to dismantle unjust systems and ensure a sustainable future. We will examine undemocratic planning through social history and its connection to structural racism. We will learn what is the people’s “right to the city”, why democratizing planning is important, how planners and community members can shift planning practice and facilitate a “Just Transition,” and how to use popular education tools and strategies to “build the new” planning paradigm. We will study theoretical frameworks and practitioner principles for democratizing and decolonizing planning practice and how to apply participatory methodology in everyday planning practice.
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.
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EA 132 PZ -Practicum in Exhibiting Nature
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The course focuses on designing and implementing an exhibition plan for the Pitzer Outback. Students will assess the Outback as a resource and develop an exhibit strategy and management plan. Walking paths and interpretive signage will be constructed, and students will work in teams to design and develop the appropriate infrastructure.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: ART 132 PZ
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EA 133 PZ -Case Studies in Sustainable Built Environments
Institution: Pitzer
Description: A critical survey of project and integrative systems-based sustainability initiatives. Applying performance/outcome perspectives, students analyze and (re)present adaptive, transformative and catalytic roles played by design, planning, engineering, conservation, science, technology, policy, cultural formation, participation, and media in making sustainable and resilient places, practices, and settings.
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.
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EA 134 PZ -Sustainable Places in Practice: Studio/Lab
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This studio course will engage students In the integrative practices of design and planning toward the creation of a sustainable and resilient place. Critical analyses will be paired with projective approaches to (re)shape and adapt space in a built and planted project in redefined ecological, cultural, policy, and technological settings.
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.
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EA 140 PZ -The Desert as a Place
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An interdisciplinary investigation of the desert environment as a place with some emphasis on Australia and the American Southwest. Correlations between natural and cultural forms, histories, materials, motives, and adaptations will be studied. Topics to be considered will include structural and behavioral adaptations in the natural and cultural ecologies; climate, geomorphology and architectural form; taxonomy, desert flora and fauna and their cultural uses; and various ramifications of the interaction between the desert ecology and cultural consciousness in arid zones. Enrollment is limited.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: ENVS 140 PZ
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EA 141 PZ -Progress and Oppression: Ecology, Human Rights, and Development
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This class is concerned with the state of tribal peoples and ethnic minorities around the world. Particular attention is given to environmental problems and their effects on diverse peoples. We explore case studies of the cultural and environmental consequences of rainforest destruction, tourism, energy development, national parks, and war. We critique programs to assist oppressed peoples and the environments that sustain them. Participants are asked to choose a geographical, cultural, and topical area and make recommendations particular to the problems and the needs of that region.
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.
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EA 142 PZ -Ecological Restoration: The Claremont Hills Wilderness
Institution: Pitzer
Description:
This course explores the theory and practice or restoration ecology, with a focus on a restoration plan
for the Claremont Hills Wilderness. This wilderness preserve is located in the Claremont foothills, with
rugged terrain. The City has hired MIG Consulting to conduct a study and gather input from users,
residents, and community groups and to produce a Wilderness Master Plan. We will collaborate with
consultants to identify areas of the park that are best suited for ecological restoration. The course
provides an opportunity for community engagement, internship experience, and social responsibility.
Students learn the process of restoration theory and implementation through an interdisciplinary
approach that stresses participatory and student research. We spend substantial time engaged in
fieldwork in the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park.
Prerequisite(s): GIS experience, EA 31, or appropriate environmental science course.
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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EA 143 PZ -Concerning Landscape
Institution: Pitzer
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EA 144 PZ -Visual Ecology: Revealing Animals, Creating Art, and Making Symbols
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Our relationship with the world is impacted by the images we use to understand and express our place in nature. This course engages investigation and application of ecological concepts and how these are addressed through art. We experiment with conceptual approaches to art making and strategies for how artists can create positive visions for the future. In this combined theory & praxis course, we integrate studio art with scholarly analysis and engaged field research as we create socially and environmentally responsible artworks. The focus for fall 2019 is the completion of a Field Guide to the Claremont Wilderness Park; students with experience with graphic design, illustration, and natural history are particularly encouraged to enroll.
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.
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EA 146 PZ -Environmental Education
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Students are trained in principles of environmental education, and serve as instructors to children from elementary schools in Pomona and Claremont. Participants work in teams to develop and teach effective environmental curricula at the Bernard Biological Field Station. In addition to teaching environmental ethics, local ecology, and critical ecological concerns, course participants serve as role models of environmental sensibility and community involvement. Enrollment is provisional until after the first class meeting when course applications are distributed.
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.
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EA 147 PZ -Advanced Seminar
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course reviews key theories and methods to prepare sophomore and junior EA majors for senior-level work. This advanced seminar will facilitate your transition from being Environmental Analysis students to Environmental Analysis scholars who are prepared to conduct original research and/or engage with hands-on research and writing. We will read and discuss EA-based research with particular attention to the different methodological and theoretical approaches used in the field. The course is organized based on the most common types of evidence Environmental Analysis scholars use in their research. Each week we will examine articles that use different types of evidence, including: archival documents; law and legislation; newspapers and magazines; photography; film; music; oral history, ethnography, and interviews; maps, spatial data, demographic data, and reports; and museum exhibitions, public history and memorials. We will also read a number of articles to better understand the ongoing debates over how “Environmental Studies” should be defined. Through readings and class discussions, as well as writing assignments, students will develop the analytical tools they need to begin their upper-level work in EA. Sophomore and Junior EA students are invited to participate.
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.
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EA 150 PZ -Critical Environmental Analysis
Institution: Pitzer
Description: A seminar examination of how environmental issues are portrayed in the news media. Specific issues will be determined by the current news, but general concerns include representation of the environment, habitat destruction, consumerism, development, environmental justice, politics and the environment, local and global topics, media bias, and environmental perception. Senior EA majors only.
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.
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EA 151 PZ -Campus Cultural Resource Conservation: The Pitzer Campus Beyond 50
Institution: Pitzer
Description: mbedded in the fabric of the built and planted environments of higher education. Planned and designed places of learning in North America represent a historical record from the 17th century forward. The primary focus of this course, the conservation of Pitzer’s mid-century California Modern campus, provides a specific setting and narrative in this important history as it also addresses issues of evaluation and conservation for the century ahead.
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.
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EA 152 PZ -Nature through Film
Institution: Pitzer
Description: We examine how ideas about nature and the environment and the human-nature relationship have been explored in film. From wildlife documentaries, to popular dramas of environmental struggles, to cult classics and Disney’s animated visions of nature, the human-nature relationship has been depicted through film to transmit particular views of the world, especially certain constructs concerning gender, race and ethnicity. We view and study films, read relevant theory, and actively critique ways in which our worldview has been shaped and impacted by cinema. Students write 8 five-page papers during the semester.
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.
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EA 162 PZ -Gender, Environment & Development
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Examines the intersection of theories of environmental degradation, economic development and gender. Social theories to be examined include: modernization theory, dependency and world systems, women in development vs. women and development, cultural ecology, eco-feminism, political ecology and feminist political ecology, gender and the environment, and population.
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.
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EA 165 PZ -Resource Depletion and Ghost Towns: The Built Environment and Natural Resources
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Resource Depletion and Ghost Towns: The Built Environment and Natural Resources. This course examines the relationship between the built environment, natural resources, and sustainability in the demise of settlements. We begin with an overview of debates surrounding the role of natural resources in the development and decline of towns and cities. We will also look at “sustainability success stories,” such as Curitiba. To what extent can natural resource use depletion be blamed for the creation of spaces called “ghost towns”? This course includes three required field trips: one day-long field trip, one two-day, and one three-day.
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.
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EA 171 PO -Water in the West
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.
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EA 172 PO -Crisis Management: National Forests and American Culture
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.
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EA 180 PZ -Green Urbanism
Institution: Pomona
Description: Creating sustainable urban systems one of the 21st Century’s most crucial challenges. Green urbanism reassesses traditional notions about the interrelationship between the built and natural environments and focuses on catalytic interventions to create sustainable neighborhoods, districts, and regions. The course combines a survey of sustainable design and planning tools- urban ecology, biophilia, biomimicry, green building, the LEED rating system, eco districts, integrated infrastructure, and sustainable city indicators- with creating a proposal to apply the tools to a specific location.
Prerequisite(s): Juniors & Seniors only
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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EA 186 PZ -Environmental Justice in the Inland Empire
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this advanced seminar on Environmental Justice, students will directly engage with research questions around the production of space and injustice to the Inland Empire of southern California, and the movements of resistance to combat varying unjust outcomes.
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.
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EA 197 PZ -EA Senior Thesis Seminar
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The EA Senior Thesis Seminar is required for all Pitzer EA majors writing a thesis and is open to any seniors (regardless of campus) who are writing an EA thesis. In the early weeks of the term students will refine and outline their topics. They then devote the remainder of the term to researching primary sources on which their thesis is be based and exploring the secondary literature on their topic. By week 11, students will submit a complete first draft of their thesis. The completed thesis, which typically runs between 40-60 pages (plus notes), is submitted in April. As students work on their own essay, they also serve as peer editors for their classmates. Students sometimes work individually with their advisors, sometimes with their advisor and their peer editor, and sometimes with their entire seminar group
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.
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HIST 100AI PO -Indian Ocean World
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.
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HIST 100T PO -Global Environmental Histories
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.
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FS 001 PZ -Life in the Latin American Metropolis
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This seminar will focus on some of Latin America’s largest urban spaces. Through film, literature, documentary film, journalism, music, and the visual arts, we will look at multiple facets of urban culture in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, and La Habana. We will explore the histories of these spaces and the various experiences of their inhabitants focusing on their intersection with topics such as modernity, urban planning, development, racial, gender and social inequities, resistance, historical memory, environmental justice and counter-cultural movements.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 002 PZ -Not Just Gods and Gladiators: Ancient Greeks and Romans as You’ve Never Seen Them Before
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The ancient Mediterranean - famous as the home of the Greeks and Romans - in fact was inhabited by millions of people who spoke hundreds of languages and worshiped countless gods. This region - encompassing some 40 modern countries - was not monolithic and did not intend to become the “foundation of western civilization”. This course explores this world on its own terms, through texts and objects produced then and there. We will also critically examine the many filters through which this material has been edited, invented, and interpreted ever since by people including ancient Greeks and Romans themselves, Islamic scholars, medieval kings, Ottoman emperors, the writers of the US constitution, several dictators, Renaissance artists, and Hollywood filmmakers (among others).
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 003 PZ -Nutrition in the Modern World
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The study of nutrition and food has arguably never been more interesting than it is today, due to developments in science and the globalization of food markets. In this seminar we will trace the history of the human diet up to present time, including an examination of diet across cultures. With this cross-cultural lens we will then explore some of the multi-faceted issues surrounding nutrition in the modern world. Topics include the human microbiome and ways it could be linked to disease; food allergies and ideas for why they are on the rise in some countries; the epidemic of obesity; inequalities in access to healthy, affordable food; whether current food systems are sustainable; and seemingly odd food choices, such as eating insects in different societies. We will explore these and other ideas through books, film, and the popular press and practice writing for various audiences.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 004 PZ -Speculative Feminisms and Sustainable Futures
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The future is female, proclaims a well-worn feminist adage. Emerging from a circle of radical lesbian intellectuals in 1970s New York City, the statement operates simultaneously as incantation and prediction, synthesizing the voices of all who utter it into something generative, rather than simply descriptive. Yet, it reverberates somewhat dissonantly in our contemporary moment; even the term “female” can evoke the same essentializing tendencies that queer and intersectional feminisms today actively unsettle. Drawing on a range of recent fictional, critical, and localized knowledges, this seminar invites additional speculative futures, exploring interdisciplinary thinking and writing as generative practices. [Instructor: Sarah Gilbert]
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 005 PZ -Selective Science
Institution: Pitzer
Description: From Climate Change to Ebola to Frankenfood we are bombarded in our daily lives with scientific (and pseudoscientific) information. Why do some people accept the science on evolution but not vaccines? Or on climate change but not GMOs. The goal of this seminar is to explore how we use science in our daily lives. We will focus on three central questions: How do people assess and assimilate scientific information in the context of daily decision-making? How accurately are scientific controversies presented in the media? How do the portrayals of science and scientists in fiction and film affect public understanding of science? No prior science experience necessary.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 006 PZ -Environmental Documentaries: Controversy, Evidence, Persuasion, & Critical Analysis
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course introduces students to environmental controversies and the intercultural and social justice issues surrounding them through their documentation in film. Through class discussion and writing assignments, we will analyze methods of persuasion and types of evidence these documentaries use to examine how effective films are at conveying messages and inciting viewers to action. Readings range from excerpts from Aristotle’s Rhetoric to popular blogs on persuasive writing to scholarly materials that provide background, additional evidence, and counter-arguments on the subjects of the documentaries. Topics include petroleum and environmental justice in the Amazon, Niger Delta, and Louisiana, water and food, and the exploitation of rare species.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 007 PZ -Thinking the Impossible: Gender and Utopia in European and U.S. History
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Writers create utopias, dystopias, and speculative ‘fictions’ to challenge their societies’ ideas of sexuality and gender. Sometimes these visions have galvanized social or political action, sometimes they have been rejected as impossible or dangerous. This course explores speculative thought about gender and sexuality in their historical contexts in Europe and the U.S during the past 500 years. We will focus particularly on periods of great political and social tumult, including post-Interregnum England (1660s), post-World War I Europe (1920s), and the final decade of the Civil Rights movement in the U.S. (mid-1960s to mid-1970s).
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 008 PZ -LA: An Exploration of the Environment and its Cultural Complexities
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This first-year seminar explores selected aspects of Los Angeles’ contemporary complexities through its socio-cultural history and its environmental problems/history. The course will explore the “becoming” of contemporary Angelinos through the environmental and cultural geography of the region, the urban spaces they inhabit, the city’s historical and present ethnic and racial communities, and their contexts of economic inequalities, frictions, and social struggles. The class will include 5 full-day field trips into Los Angeles as we explore the city and its environment. Many of the class discussions and conversations will occur during these field trips to various sectors of the city including museums, street art/murals, and environmental problems and habitats. The opportunity to learn about initiatives that bring about change will be central to this course. The structure of this first-year seminar and its assignments will emphasize process in order to foster the interest and reflection to purposeful writing; the class is informed by methods of cooperative learning and principles of critical pedagogy.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 009 PZ -Model Minority/Perpetual Foreigner: Asians in America
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What is the contemporary Asian American experience? How does Asian America look when we take into account differences in ethnicity, class, gender, and generation? This course offers a sociological examination of what it means to be Asian American today. Topics include immigration, assimilation, demographic trends, ethnic identity, discrimination, socioeconomic mobility, gender, and relationships with other groups. By exploring the structures that shape Asian American experiences and Asian American challenges to those forces, the course encourages students to consider their own role in transforming US society.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 010 PZ -Experimental Film in Latin America
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Interrogating different expressions of the unstable categories of “avant-garde”, “Latin American”, and “experimental” subverting and appropriating narrative conventions, Latin American filmmakers have long tested cinematic boundaries with works that integrate rigorous formal experimentation and probing social commentary. Through readings, discussions, and film viewing, this course will explore the long history of experimental media arts bu Latin Americans and the Latin American diaspora.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 011 PZ -Observing Color: Theory, Perception, and Practice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this course you will develop your skills as a writer while gaining a heightened awareness and appreciation of color. The content will focus on color and the way it pervades nearly all aspects of our lives. We will study the basic science of how we perceive color, color theory as it developed through this century, the language of basic design principles, and introduce some of the ways in which our observation of color influences our experiences outside of art. You will be responsible for developing written responses, critiques, and research. You will also be assigned oral presentations and be asked to solve color problems using art media and design. We will use interdisciplinary academic strategies to describe ourselves, and our lives, through a chromatic lens.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 014 PZ -Mindfulness
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The aim of this course is to introduce students to the key foundations, concepts, evidence and applications of mindfulness. We will consider questions such as: How can we help ourselves and others - individuals, communities and society- increase qualities such as resilience, self-compassion, happiness and empathy? Students will engage in their learning in a variety of ways throughout the course, including mindfulness practices, student-led discussions, in-class writing, peer-review, research papers, and a capstone project.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 015 PZ -La Familia
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This seminar will explore the role of “la familia” (the family) for Latinx people living in the U.S. We will analyze both commonalities and differences across conceptions and constructions of la familia.We will also examine la familia from a comparative perspective (contemporary, across different Latinx groups, within families, across immigration status, etc.), and will consider the psychological, sociocultural, and political factors that contribute to the complexity and diversity of Latinx families. Students will read research and narrative accounts of the journeys that Latinx families have undertaken (in some cases, crossing the U.S./Mexico border and being separated from family members) resulting in the development of transnational ties and evolving identities. Students will visit the U.S./Mexico border to further understand and contextualize current issues facing Latinx families and communities.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 016 PZ -What is Human?
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What Is Human?
The determination of what is particularly or distinctively “human” is a problem for the contemporary world and at present has no definitive or consensual answer. We will explore how peoples in other eras defined themselves and how those distinctions are being blurred by modern technology and biological research. Do computers have consciousness? Do clones have souls? Do we think with our heart? Can we communicate with other species? Do we have obligations to others? How do we determine human nature? Or, does man have a nature?
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 017 PZ -Understanding Change/Envisioning the Future
Institution: Pitzer
Description: How do we comprehend changes in technology, the economy, and society in the U.S. and globally? We will examine topics such as effects of automation, new information and communication technologies, economic inequality, and global migration, drawing upon the work of anthropologists, economists, philosophers, filmmakers, and others. How do we judge between conflicting analyses of the present and predictions about the future, and how are these analyses themselves shaped by cultural anxieties and academic debates.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 018 PZ -What’s True
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this time of people in power lying, misguided and intentionally false posting by the ignorant, misguided and evil, and moral corruption at almost every turn - is devoted to ferreting out what is true. Having done so, it is crucial for truth seekers to share what they have learned as cogently possible. For that reason, a crucial aspect of this course will be devoted to writing thesis driven papers about what we have discovered. We will begin writing short thesis driven papers about a text that lays its truths on the page for us. Then we will apply the techniques we have learned to the ever changing world in which we know live.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 019 PZ -Atheism and Secularity
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Over the last several decades, atheism and secularity have been on the rise - most dramatically in North America, Europe, and Asia, but also in South America, Africa, and the Middle East. This course will examine various aspects of atheism and secularity. We will approach these topics historically (looking at evidence of irreligiosity in the past), philosophically (looking at atheism, skepticism, empiricism, naturalism, humanism, and existentialism, and sociologically (analyzing who tends to be secular, the contours of secular culture, what causes secularization, and how secularity is linked to broader social patterns, demographics, politics, etc.) In addition to lectures, discussions, and assigned readings students will also be expected to conduct in-depth interviews and related qualitative research.
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 020 PZ -Diversity, Equality, and Inequities
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will examine questions surrounding ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality and consider how this diversity has been challenged or accepted in the United States. Students will analyze contemporary and historical issues and explore questions of social justice as they read a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts. In discussions and compositions, students will consider the ways that culture and social structures shape the Pitzer experience, as well as imagining their own roles in transforming society.
Note(s): This course is the desingated First-Year Seminar for students in the International Scholars Program is open to non-native English speakers only.
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FS 021 PZ -Love and Loathing in Los Angeles
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Through readings, documentary, cinema, and selected field trips to iconic LA spaces, students will unpack the stereotypes of communities and the natural environment of Los Angeles and come to their own understanding of this enigmatic and deeply flawed city. The course will focus on communities of color within LA and the cultural and environmental “apartheid” that impacts them. Readings-both fiction and non-fiction-movies, and documentaries will reflect Los Angeles in the later part of the 20th century.
Note(s): This course is the desingated First-Year Seminar for transfer students and students in the New Resources Program only.
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FREN 001 PZ -Introductory French
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Designed for students with no previous experience in the language. Students will develop their ability to communicate in spoken and written French in an immersion-style setting. To that end, the course is conducted entirely in French from the first day of class. Our study of social and cultural practices throughout the Francophone world will allow for a deeper understanding of the history and contemporary use of French languages and of what it means to be a French speaker in the world today.
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.
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FREN 044 CM -Advanced French: Reading in Literature and Civilization
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.
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FREN 044 PO -Advanced French
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.
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FREN 044 SC -Advanced French: Readings in Literature and 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.
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FREN 117 CM -Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean
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.
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FREN 132 CM -North Africal Literature After Independence
Institution: Claremont McKenna College
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.
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FGSS 026 SC -Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Institution: Scripps College
Description: For course information, please see Scripps College catalog.
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FGSS 036 SC -Introduction to Queer Studies
Institution: Scripps College
Description: For course information, please see Scripps College catalog.
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GFS 120 PZ -Women and Human Rights Discourse
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: Women and Human Rights Descourse and Practice This seminar will use three windows to look into women’s experiences with the human rights globally, namely: a) ware, liberation movements and struggles as a way to examine how women fare in the political arena; b) food as an example of women’s access and control over basic economic resources in places as far as Asia and Africa, and as close as US inner cities; and c) women and the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Southern Africa.
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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GWS 026 PO -Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies
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.
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GWS 190 PO -Senior Seminar
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.
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ID 076 JT -Intersections: Gender, Race, Sexuality
Institution: Claremont McKenna College
Description: For more course information, see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
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SOC 156 PZ -Sociology of the Family
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this course, we will examine the institution of the American family from a sociological perspective. Although we may think of the family as being part of our private lives, it is very influenced by the social forces around us. Students will learn to critically evaluate their assupmtions about family structure and processes, but also critically evaluate social science research presented in the media, research articles, and political arenas.
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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GEOL 020C PO -Introduction to Geology: Environmental Geology
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.
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GEOL 111A PO -Introduction to GIS
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.
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GEOL 112 PO -Remote Sensing of Earth’s Environment
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.
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GOVT 138 CM -Religion and Politics in Latin America
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): RLST Major: HRT II, CWS
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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GREK 001 PO -Introductory Classical Greek
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS 051A PO
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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GREK 001 SC -Introductory Classical Greek
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS051A SC
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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GREK 002 PO -Introductory Classical Greek
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS051B PO
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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GREK 002 SC -Introductory Classical Greek
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS051B SC
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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GREK 022 PO -Introductory Classical Greek Accelerated
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS052 PO
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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GREK 033 PO -Intermediate Classical Greek
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course inof, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS101A PO and CLAS101B PO
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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GREK 033 SC -Intermediate Classical Greek
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS101A SC and CLAS101B SC
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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GREK 044 PO -Advanced Greek Reading
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona Collegel catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS182A PO and CLAS182B PO
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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GREK 104 PO -Readings in Kione Greek (half-credit)
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS104 PO
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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CLAS 052A PO -Elementary Classical Hebrew
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.
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CLAS 102 PO -Readings in Classical Hebrew
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.
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ANTH 098 PZ -Palestine and Israel: the Ongoing Crisis & the Plausible Path to a Just Peace
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course starts by examining key concepts in debates about Palestine and Israel, notably bias, peoples, participation, and statehood. The course then examines both the history of the crisis and the uses of historical representations to prop up the the current political and social order of Israel and Palestine. In contrast with most received narratives, we find the making of the crisis primarily in the shaping of ethnic conflict and ethno-national state-making by partition under British colonial rule–not in timeless enmities. The course is also concerned to understand why the status quo of the present is at once so violently oppressive for Palestinians and yet something many Jewish Israelis and their state accept. We also look at the crucial role of the US in maintaining, funding, and arming the status quo - and how that may be changing. In the final section of the course, we identify plausible futures for Palestine-Israel, and consider how a globally dispersed social justice movement can support the Palestinian struggle for equality and freedom - and thereby foster a positive or just peace for all persons in Palestine and Israel.
Prerequisite(s): Please check the current course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: HIST098 PZ
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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HIST 010 PO -The Ancient Mediterranean
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.
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HIST 011 PZ -The World Since 1492
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course explores the last 500 years of world history. In examining this large expanse of time, the focus is on four closely related themes: (1) struggles between Europeans and colonized peoples, (2) the global formation of capitalist economies and industrialization, (3) the formation of modern states, and (4) the formation of the tastes, disciplines and dispositions of bourgeois society.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: ANTH 011 PZ
Formerly: HIST 021 PZ/ANTH 021 PZ
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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HIST 012 PO -Saints and Society
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: HIST 105 PO
Note(s): RLST Majors: HRT II
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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HIST 012 PZ -History of the Human Sciences
Institution: Pitzer
Description: (Formerly HIST22 History of the Discilpines) The social and behavioral sciences-economics, sociology, political science, anthropology and psychology- structure our experience so completely that we sometimes take them for granted. The great division of intellectual labor that these “human sciences” represent can seem so natural and so logical, that it is sometimes hard to imagine a world without them. But these disciplines did not always exist. In exploring their histories, we simultaneously ask about the contingency of our world and about how it might be different. It is a history of the present.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: HIST 022 PZ
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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HIST 013 PO -Holy War in Early Christianity and Islam
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.
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HIST 016 PZ -Environmental History
Institution: Pitzer
Description: For some, environmental history recounts humanity’s long encounter with nature; for others, it is the changing story of the land itself; for still others, it is an account of humanity’s changing ideas about nature and wilderness. In this course we will familiarize ourselves with all of these approaches. The course, which is global in scope, surveys materials from the past five centuries. Major themes include: the history of globalization and industrialization, ecological imperialism, the history of ecology, the idea of wilderness, science and environment and global environmental 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.
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HIST 017 CH -Introduction to Chicanx and Latinx History
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.
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HIST 024 PZ -Modern Africa
Institution: Pitzer
Description: To understand Africa as it exists today, one must be able to place current issues within the broader historical trends that have dominated the continent’s past. Accordingly, this course will provide an introduction to the history of modern Sub-Saharan Africa from the build-up to European conquest in the late nineteenth century, through colonization and decolonization to issues facing Africans today. Themes to be explored include: African societies and cultures on the eve of conquest; European imperial ideologies, explorers, and missionaries; African resistance against-and collaboration with-colonial projects; strategies of colonial rule; colonial education; cash-cropping and famine; African workers in colonial cities; gender, sexuality, and family life; health and healing; race, class and citizenship; nationalism and decolonization; post-independence economic crises and “development”; conflict and globalization.
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.
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