2019-2020 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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BIOL BIOL -Semester Long Research Project in Biological and Environmental Science
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BIOL 042L KS -Integrated Biology & Chemistry
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 100 KS -Global Climate Change
Institution: Scripps College
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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RLST 049 PO -Buddhist Meditation
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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Africana Studies |
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AFRI 009 PZ -Community Poety: Black Feminist rEVOlution
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: Through Black feminist theories of social justice and aesthetic models of revolutionary poetry in this course students practice the art of being an intelligent witness-participant of community engagement via poetic expression.
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AFRI 010A AF -Introduction to Africana Studies
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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AFRI 010B AF -Introduction to Africana Studies: Research Methods
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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AFRI 116 AF -Marxism and the Black Radical Tradition
Institution: Scripps
Description: See the Scripps College catalog for a description of this course. Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
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AFRI 120 AF -Prisons and Public Education
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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AFRI 121 AF -Africana Philosophy
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3
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AFRI 125 AF -Afro Pessimism in Politics of Hope
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: See the Claremont McKenna College Catalog for a description of this course. Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3
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AFRI 132 PZ -Black Queer Writing Workshop
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: This course examines Black queer arts and theories which focus on race and sexuality at the intersections of Black, feminist, and queer culture and push the envelope of and shape cultural theories of representation in the latter twentieth century (approx. 1985-2005). Students read, view, and discuss aesthetic and critical practices in this body of work to hone their critical reading skills and historically situate their own positionality as writer and reflect on cultural contexts in their choices of form and content. Students must have a writing project ready to develop (research), draft (write), and workshop (editorial peer review) throughout the semester.
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AFRI 149 AF -Africana Political Theory: Black Political Theory in the United States
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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AFRI 190 AF -Africana Studies Senior Seminar
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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AFRI 191 AF -Senior Thesis
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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AFRI 192 AF -Senior Project
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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AFRI 193 AF -Senior Comprehensive Examination
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 126 SC -Black Americans and Political Systems
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 149 AF -Africana Political Theory in the United States
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College Catalog.
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American Studies |
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AMST 103 JT -Introduction to American Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course, taught by an intercollegiate faculty team, introduces principal themes in American culture. Its interdisciplinary approach brings together such areas as art, music, politics, social history, literature, sociology, and anthropology. Topics frequently covered include the origins of the American self, ethnic diversity, immigration, women, the West, modernism, consensus and dissent.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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AMST 180 PZ -Seminar in American Studies
Institution: Pitzer College
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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AMST 180 SC -Seminar in American Studies
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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AMST 190 JT -Senior Thesis Seminar
Institution: Pomona
Description:
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Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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AMST 190 PZ -Senior Thesis Seminar
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Senior Thesis. Required of all American Studies majors in the senior year. The capstone project for majors in which they produce an original work in American Studies.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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AMST 191 PZ -Senior Thesis
Institution: Pitzer
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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Anthropology |
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ANTH 001 PZ -Introduction to Archaeology and Biological Anthropology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An introduction to the basic concepts, theories, methods and discourses of these fields. The course includes an examination of human evolution as well as a survey of human cultural development from the Stone Age to the rise of urbanism. Each student is required to participate in one lab session per week in addition to the regular lecture meetings.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 002 PZ -Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An introduction to the basic concepts, theories and methods of social and cultural anthropology. An investigation of the nature of sociocultural systems using ethnographic materials from a wide range of societies.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 003 PZ -Language, Culture & Society
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course introduces the field of linguistic anthropology, examining language in social and
cultural context. Students will become familiar with basic concepts and qualitative methods in the
social sciences, including ethnographic fieldwork and the analysis of face-to-face communication.
We look for ways of answering questions such as these:
• How do everyday conversational practices create solidarity between people, or set them apart from
one another? How does talk reflect and create relations of power?
• How do words combine with other semiotic modalities (gesture, facial expression, prosody) to
convey subtle messages?
• Why do miscommunications arise, even between people who speak the same language?
• How do children learn to speak not only grammatically, but also appropriately?
• How does language shape our thoughts or the ways we perceive the world?
In this course, we explore language as a complex form of social action-not merely a vehicle for
communicating thoughts and meanings, but a means of creating the social world. We consider ways
that language acts on us, and ways that we act through language: achieving relationships,
constituting identities, constructing norms and patterns of thought, and positioning ourselves and
others in relation to global systems of power and inequality.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 004 PZ -Environmental Anthropology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This class provides an introduction to the study of human-environment interactions from an anthropological perspective. We will look at the ways that humans imagine, impact, and manage nature, and what role nature plays in the social lives of people around the world. Through careful reading of ethnographic materials, viewing films, lectures, and discussions, we will analyze the ways that people create boundaries between the “natural” and “cultural” realms, how these boundaries are maintained, changed, or broken down through various practices.
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ANTH 009 PZ -Food, Culture, Power
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Food Is a source of our collective passion. In this course we will examine Individual and collective food memories and social history. The course will address local and global modes of food production, distribution, and consumption, as well as alternative food culture and eating disorders.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: CHLT009 CH, SOC 009 PZ
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ANTH 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:
- struggles between Europeans and colonized peoples,
- the global formation of capitalist economies and industrialization,
- the formation of modern states, and
- the formation of the tastes, disciplines and dispositions of bourgeois society.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: HIST 011 PZ
Formerly: HIST 021 PZ/ ANTH 021 PZ
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ANTH 012 PZ -Native Americans and Their Environments
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will investigate the traditional interrelationships of Native American ethnic groups with their various environments. Are patterns of collecting wild resources or farming primary foods environmentally determined? How does the physical environment affect a group’s social system, politics, art, religion? What impact do these cultural factors have on a group’s utilization of its environment? We will examine these and other issues through class discussions and readings. We will consider several regions of North America in our study of such groups as the Inuit, Kwakiutl, Cahuilla, Hopi, Navajo, Dakota and Iroquois.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 016 PZ -Introduction to Nepal
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The course provides an introduction to the history and cultures of Nepal. Drawing on ethnographic accounts and anthropological framings, the class explores gender, literacy, class, caste, consumption, and recent political changes in contemporary Nepal. This course is appropriate for, but not limited to, students interested in study abroad in Nepal.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 045 PZ -Law and Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course explores the interrelation between law and institutions and practices it is said to govern and regulate. In particular, we will address how law should be defined, how law is instantiated in everyday life, how it comes to shape individual subjectivity, and how conceptions of justice come to be universalized and globalized in the contemporary age. We will explore a variety of contexts and case studies, including drug dealing in New York, the international kidney trade, undocumented immigration, the break-up of socialist Eastern Europe, the international human rights movement, and piracy in the Indian Ocean.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 047 PZ -Language, Identity and Violence
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course surveys literature from linguistic anthropology to investigate the processes by which social categories such as gender, race, and ethnicity are constructed and set in opposition. Topics include how language reflects and produces identities, how language shapes thought, and how ideologies about languages and speakers organize social life. Using the lens of language, we seek to understand forms of violence ranging from everyday discrimination to genocidal killing.
Prerequisite(s): Students should have a foundation in linguistic anthropology (ANTH003)
Note(s): Juniors and Seniors only
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ANTH 048 PZ -Anthropology of Deviance and Abnormality
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course uses the lens of psychological anthropology to examine the relationship between culture and ways of constructing, interpreting, and responding to deviance and abnormality. It deals primarily with varieties of deviance that can be construed as “mental illness,” and focuses especially on the interactions people around the world have with Western, biomedical psychiatry.
Prerequisite(s): Students should be familiar with basic ideas in anthropology and/or psychology
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ANTH 050 PZ -Sex, Body, Reproduction
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Is there a line between nature and culture? Drawing on historical, ethnographic and popular sources, this course will examine the cultural roots of forms of knowledge about sex, the body and reproduction and the circulation of cultural metaphors in medical, historical and colonial discourse.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 052 PZ -Indigenous Societies: Histories of Encounters
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The course gives an overview of the current lives of indigenous societies in different parts of the world (North America, South America, Africa, and Asia). We will examine major topics that mark their encounters with nation-states: political power, economic development, gender relations, collective rights, healthy, formal education, and religion. The course compares a variety of ethnographic cases (through movies and texts) to expose the difference and similarities between ‘indigenous peoples.”
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 054 PO -Human Interactions with Preindustrial Environments.
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 055 PZ -Brazil: An Introduction
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Class designed to provide students with a broad introduction to Brazil. Course will cover relevant issues in Brazilian culture(s), economy, history, literature, cinema, and politics. Course will include ethnographic/community learning through the large Brazilian immigrant population in LA and through Brazilian events.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 056 PZ -Anthropology of Sound
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Class designed to provide students with a broad introduction to Brazil. Course will cover relevant issues in Brazilian culture(s), economy, history, literature, cinema, and politics. Course will include ethnographic/community learning through the large Brazilian immigrant population in LA and through Brazilian events.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 067 PZ -Monkeys, Apes and Humans
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will explore the primates of the world–their social behaviors, ecology, and the habitats in which they live. Issues to be discussed include primate mating strategies, mother-infant bonds, infanticide and rape, the use of tools and medicinal plants, and language learning among captive apes. Finally, the course will examine human behavior and its reflection in our nonhuman primate cousins.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 070 PZ -Culture and the Self
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course examines the way emotions, cognition and motivations are shaped by culture. Topics will include ideas of personhood in different societies, cultural differences in child rearing, whether there are any universal emotions or categories of thought and mental illness cross-culturally.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Psych Majors: Satisfies SOC
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ANTH 072 PZ -Visual Politics of Global Indigeneity
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will examine the ways that racial and ethnic identifications are created, maintained, and circulated through visual materials such as film, photography, art, and video games. With a special focus on global indigenous groups, we will investigate what impact such visual representations have on people’s lived political realities, and the ways that groups wield the power of visuality to influence politics. This course will require viewing films outside of class, in addition to reading assignments. Students will be evaluated on current events presentations, response papers, facilitating a class discussion, and a final paper.
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ANTH 076 PZ -American Political Discourses
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will examine individualist discourses and alternatives to them (e.g., populist, religious, ethnic/racial identity, socialist, New Age) in the United States. We will study how these discourses have been used in the past and present by elites and average citizens, including their key words, metaphors, rhetorical styles and unspoken assumptions. The focus of the class will be original research projects examining the ways these discourses are used in discussions of politics and public policy.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 080 PZ -Anthropology of United States
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: When you live in the United States. It is difficult to take an anthropological perspective on it. In this course we will immerse ourselves in ethnographic descriptions (books, documentaries, and so on) that bring into relief aspects of American culture and society that stand out by comparison with other societies, as well as diversity of class, regional, religious, ethnic and other cultures in the United states. This course will prepare you for any research you later conduct in the United States and to be attuned to assumptions underlying schooling, families, work, leisure, and many other aspects of life.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 083 PZ -Life Stories
Institution: Pitzer
Description: We cannot just tell any story about ourselves. This course examines life stories from various societies and time periods, including our own. The focus is on the cultural concepts of self, linguistic resources, and aspects of autobiographical memory that shape how we represent and imagine our lives.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 086 PZ -Anthropology of Public Policy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Cultural assumptions help determine debates about public policy, as well as what is not even considered a subject for debate. This course will focus on the way past and current cultural assumptions have shaped policies in the United States and other nations about the environment, abortion, welfare, immigration and other issues.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 087 SC -Contemporary Issues in Gender and Islam
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): RLST Major: MES, CWS
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ANTH 088 PZ -China: Gender, Cosmology and the State
Institution: Pitzer
Description: How can we understand contemporary China? In this class we will examine an array of topics from constructions of female pollution, kinship, marriage, folk religion and the canonization of state-approved deities to the experiences of the socialist transformation and reform era representations of modernity from soap operas and ethnic tourism to urban ghost towns and labor unrest. These explorations seek to provide students with an understanding of Chinese beliefs and practices contextualized in state and global arenas from the 20th century to the present. This class is a discussion-based seminar. It should be of interest to students interested in culture, religion, gender and state discourse.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): RLST Majors: HRT I
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ANTH 089 PZ -The American Sixties
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will examine the now much mythologized period of American history known as “the sixties.” It will inevitably deal with the sordid history of “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll,” as well as histories of revolting youth. But just as importantly, the course will be driven by three theoretical questions. First, what is the relationship between the political activism of bourgeois youth in the “the sixties” and ritualized processes of social reproduction, experienced as the transition from “childhood” to “adulthood”? Second, what is the relationship between the leftist politics of “the sixties” and the historical formation of professional managerial classes in U.S. and world history? And third, how do singular events-such as the decade’s iconic assassination of President John F. Kennedy-articulate with cultural schemas?
Prerequisite(s): Anth/Hist 11 or concurrent enrollment in Anth/Hist 11. 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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ANTH 097G SC -Political Anthropology
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 099 PZ -China in the 21st Century: Gender, Culture, Nation
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This class will examine China in the 21st Century. Particular attention will be paid to the shift from communist to nationalist discourse; labor unrest and the declining state sector economy; land seizures and rural protest; generational differences and tensions; sex and gender; consumer culture; the rule of law; popular ritual practice; and modernity.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 100 PZ -Cannibalism, Shamanism, Alterity.
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Course will read and discuss contemporary theories on alterity (otherness), focusing on indigenous forms of producing otherness involving humans, non-humans, and non-material subjects. Alterity and subjectivity in Amerindian societies are produced through the manipulations of bodies; cannibalism and shamanism are particular forms of creating the social body and different types of subjects.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 101 PZ -Theory and Method in Archaeology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course considers theoretical approaches in archaeology and compares their assumptions, methods and results. Problems of interpreting archaeological data will be discussed. Students will have practical experience with field methods of excavation and laboratory analysis of artifacts.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 102 PZ -Museums and Material Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Material culture consists of artifacts that represent the behaviors of humans who create, utilize, value and discard things in culturally significant ways. This course will investigate the cultural and individual meanings of objects from several different groups. A major section of the course will focus on museums: how they present cultural materials (and possibly misrepresent). In required lab section meetings throughout the semester, students will cooperate to design and mount an exhibition of early American material culture.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 103 PZ -Museums: Behind the Glass
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The focus of this course is on the museum as a cultural institution. In the class we will consider why our society supports museums and why we expect that a museum will conserve materials which are deemed of cultural value and exhibit these for the education of the public. A significant part of each student’s experience in the course will consist of a working internship in a nearby museum.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 108 SC -Kinship, Family, Sexuality.
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 110 HM -Life: Knowledge and Practices
Institution: Harvey Mudd
Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 110 PZ -Nature and Society in Amazonia
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The course investigates the relations between humans and the environment, focusing on the inter-play of social and natural Amazonian worlds in material, political, cultural and economic terms. The course has ethnographic and historical components: we will study different Amazonian groups and the ways their lives connect to the forest and its beings; we will consider the history of the human presence and the colonization of the Amazon to tease out the different roles that the region has played in the political-economy and the imaginary of Western societies.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 111 PZ -Historical Archaeology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course examines the goals and methods of historical archaeology, as well as the archaeology of specific sites. Its focus is North America and the interactions of European immigrants with Native Americans and peoples of African and Asian ancestry. Archaeological data are used to challenge accepted interpretations (based on written documents) of such sites as Monticello and the Little Bighorn Battlefield. We will look at early Jamestown’s relationship with the Powhatan Indians, the lives of Thomas Jefferson’s slaves and other examples as seen through the archaeological evidence.
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 112 PZ -Energy & Humanity: Past, Present & Future
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course starts by examining the energy regime of mobile-foraging, sedentary-farming, and industrial models of livelihood, as these modes of livelihood are found distributed across the earth and through human time, starting some 100,000 years ago. The second section of the course looks at the perils of fossil fuels and nuclear energy, which have been the bases of humanity’s startling new relationship to energy and energy consumption beginning in the early 1800s; it also asks whether shifting from these energy sources to energy sources that are sustainable and humane will require shifting to a non-growth (i.e., a non-capitalist) economy. And too, this section of the course challenges students to investigate how each College in the consortium is a “complicit institution” in the current inhumane energy regime. For the final section of the course, students must carefully plan and initiate an activist intervention that addresses and redresses the perils of fossil fuels and/or nuclear energy. Students who choose interventions that raise legal issues will be required to show they understand and have prepared for any such consequences; only non-violent interventions will be approved.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: HIST112 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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ANTH 113 SC -Ethnographic Tales of the City: Anthropological Approaches to Urban Life.
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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ANTH 115 PZ -Global Latin America
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course examines Latin American culture and society through the lens of global interconnections over time. We will explore how industrialized global capitalism emerged in colonial plantations in the New World, and how categories of races were constructed in the colonies and later in the newly independent nation states. Additionally, we will examine the production of global connections in terms of social movements, (im)migration, imperialism, and networks of knowledge. Finally, we will look at nostalgia for an imagined time prior to a globally embedded Latin America. Readings will focus on ethnography but also draw from history, science and technology studies, ethnomusicology and fiction.
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 116 PZ -Anthropology of Digital Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Technology - from the wheel to the printing press - has influenced identity, community and society throughout time. Currently, we are in the midst of one of the most significant technological shifts in human history because of digital technologies. Using anthropology as cultural critique, we will examine the new (and not-so-new) cultural, political and material practices connected digital technology. Topics covered include activism, identity, friendship, hacking, piracy, property, privacy, identity, labor, and embodiment. This course will provide ideas, methods, and research experience to understand, analyze, and critique our digital 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.
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ANTH 117 PZ -Language and Power
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What is power and how is it reflected in and created through talk and writing? For example, who takes control of a conversation? Do women do more conversational work than men? How do immigrants feel about non-native speakers using their language? How are ideological differences reflected in the way “facts” are reported? When is language discriminatory? We will examine the theories of Bourdieu, Bakhtin and Foucault through our own analyses of power dynamics in language use.
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 120 PO -Altered States of Conciousness
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): RLST Major: PRT
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 129 PO -Native California
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 129 SC -Gender, Nationalisms and the State
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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ANTH 130 PZ -Women and Citizenship
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Explores women’s citizenship in light of race, class, gender, global movements of people, capital, and social and political rights. Examines what is means to be a citizen and the ways in which women are in/excluded from that category.
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 133 PZ -Indians in Action
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Understanding of the indigenous cultures in the Americas have been shaped profoundly by cinematic images. Representations of and by Native Americans have much to say not only about the people they depicture but also about the complex relationships between them and national societies. This class studies a selection of iconic films: including ethnographies, mainstream narrative films, as well as the work of indigenous film and videomakers. Our focus will be on understanding the constructed nature of these cultural artifacts as they become important elements in the production of history and historical agents. This course considers that what is put into images is as important as what is left out.
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 136 PZ -The Social Life of Digital Media
Institution: Pitzer
Description: While digital media seem ubiquitous and are indeed a global phenomenon, digital media are culturally situated, meaning people in different cultures think of them and use them in different ways. We will discuss examples from around the world in order to explore digital media from an anthropological perspective. This class will explore questions such as: Are our digital devices really changing the way we connect and interact with our social worlds? Are these digital media replacing “analog” print, film, or face-to-face communications? What impacts have digital technologies had on the way we conceptualize political organizing, national security, and personal privacy?
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 138 PZ -Political Activism, Social Movements and the Possibilities of Justice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: By examining contemporary issues, themes, and topics, this upper division course explores political activism and social movements in different cultural and social contexts. We will explore the diverse experiences of people as they are involved in political activism. In this course we will examine the ways in which local and global, as well as community and individual politics influence people’s roles in social and grassroots movements and political activism. Overall, we will discuss the challenges and obstacles people face in demanding social equity and justice.
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 141 PZ -Land, City, State and State in Latin America
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Desciption: Legal meanings of land in Latin America are integrally connected to the organization of power and to the relationship between citizens and the State. Far from a forgotten past, these systems set the stage for social, economic, and political relations that continue today. Contestations over access to land and resources have been central to Latin American revolutions, and social and political movements since Independence. This course considers the ways in which legal and affective dimensions of property shape urban space, the nation, and everyday life in Latin America.
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 145 PO -Cultural Ecology
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 150 PO -Understanding Religion
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): RLST Major: PRT
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ANTH 153 PZ -History of Anthropological Theory
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will provide a survey of the history of anthropological theory and method through a combination of theoretical writings and ethnographic monographs. It will examine how different historical moments and theories of knowledge have informed anthropological objectives and projects. Close attention will be paid to the changing content, form and sites addressed throughout the history of the discipline.
Prerequisite(s): Anth 2 or Anth 11/Hist 11. 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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ANTH 155 PZ -World Nexus: Special Topic
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is a seminar class designed for students to draw connections from different geographic regions and different disciplines in relation to a given topic. Students and instructor will choose a particular theme every year. Students will draw insights from their experiences while studying abroad and engage with multi-disciplinary readings.
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 160 PZ -Native American Women’s Arts
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course explores arts created by native American women emphasizing their traditional forms of ceramics, basketry, textiles and beadwork. Other media such as painting, sculpture and jewelry are included. A primary focus is on the lives and work of individual artists, expressed in their changing cultural contexts.
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 168 PZ -Prehistoric Humans and Their Environments
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The prehistoric development of human cultures occurred in a variety of environmental contexts. How did these environments shape the cultures? How did human cultures utilize and even try to control their environments? In this course we will consider examples from around the world, investigating the interaction of culture and environment in the prehistoric 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.
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ANTH 170 PZ -Seminar in Human Evolution
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The course will investigate recent discoveries and theories concerning our evolution. We will emphasize the interrelationships of environment and behavior, anatomical structure and function, technological advance and social change.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1, 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.
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ANTH 171 SC -Seminar in Sexuality and Religion
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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ANTH 185U SC -Topics in Anthropology of the Middle East/North Africa
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 190 SC -Senior Seminar in Anthropology and Ethnographic Writing
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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ANTH 191 SC -Senior Thesis Seminar
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ANTH 192 PZ -Senior Thesis and Project
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is designed to facilitate and organize the process of preparing senior theses and projects, and to foster intellectual discussions pertinent to individual projects and to writing. Students will work in peer groups and in close contact with the professor.
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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ART 110 PZ -Drawing: Materials Workshop
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will introduce students to old techniques of making fine drawing media. Using historical works, technical handbooks, and manuals as a guide, we will pursue a study of drawing tools. We will enact the methods of preparing drawing materials from scratch, in order to reformulate guidelines for the classroom production of drawing media. Our exploration of drawing media will culminate in a series of drawings using one or more of these research methods of materials preparation.
Prerequisite(s): ART 011 or equivalent. 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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ART 119 PZ -The Ceramic Object and Food
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will explore the relationship between food and ceramics. Students will design and create ceramic objects alongside the food/beverages that these objects contain or present. This is an intermediate to advanced level studio class that requires previous college level ceramics experience.
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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ART 121 PZ -Waiting for the Sun: Photography & Disappearance
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is an introductory photo-based studio course open to all students from any backgroung. The course will introduce the anthotype process as well as photographic theory related to the history of early photography and disappearance. An anthotype is an image created using photosensitive material from plants and the sun for exposure. However, the image that results is not stable ultimately remains “unfixable” eventually diappearing. The course will emphasize student led research as well ascollaborative field work as we develop individual recipes for the anthotype process. The course will culminate and collaborative photobook project. Students must be able to handle a variety of organic plant based material throughout the course and work outside for long periiods of 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.
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ART 122 PZ -Photography Lab Practicum
Institution: Pitzer
Description: By popular student demand this course will emphasize technical laboratory work and advanced darkroom maintenance skills. Students who enroll in this class should already be familiar with the Scott Hall Photo Lab and must have completed ONE intro level B&W course at Pitzer College. Students will learn how to run a darkroom from the ground up including safety training, chemical ratios, mixing, and gear maintenance. In addition, students who take this course will gain the skills necessary to set up a home darkroom safely with proper ventilation and equipment for continued work in analog photography after college. The course will require several group and individual training sessions as well as peer evaluation. Students will be responsible for providing at least 2 hours of weekly work in the lab in exchange for continued access to the darkroom.
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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ART 127 PZ -Sculpture Practicum
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This introductory woodworking and metalworking course emphasizes craft through repetitive skill building, following a traditional apprenticeship model. Assignments will cover technical layout and drafting, as well as design strategies for working in three dimensions. Students will have the opportunity to design and build several independent projects in wood and metal, learning practical skills they can use throughout their time in college and beyond. Small group projects will focus on building workbenches, movable walls, and other items to improve the functionality of our shared studio. Outside of class, students will commit to working 6 hours per week in the studio.
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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ART 129 PZ -Advanced B&W Photography Seminar
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is a hybrid studio seminar course designed for advanced photography students working in B&W fil. Similar to a thesis course, students should be ready to work on long-term individual self-designed projects outside of any assignment agenda. No newprocesses, gear, equipment, or software will be introduced. All shooting and printing will be completed outside of class time. the course will emphasize abundant production, research, critique, and revision. the course includes readings on contemporary photographic theory, student-led slide lectures, research presentations, field trips, and writing as an important component of developing advanced photographic work.
Prerequisite(s): Must have at least 1 college level darkroom course and 1 art history or theory course. No exceptions.
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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ART 175 PZ -Object Ecologies
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: This hybrid seminar/studio course explores contingencies of the object in contemporary sculpture. Beginning with the expanded field of sulptural practice in the 1960’s and 1970’s - movements as diverse as Postminimalism, Fluxus, and Land Art - we will examine how various artists and historians define site-specificity, and the role that objects (whether fabricated or found) play in these definitions. How are the terms “nature”, “object”, and “environment” defined in relation to human agency, and what role can/does artistic labor play in shaping these ideas? How are movements like institutional critique, social practice, and net.art expanding our understandings of site, authorship, and interconnection?
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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