2020 -2021 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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THEA 194H PO -Senior Project in Dramaturgy 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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WRIT 016 PZ -The Writing Process Institution: Pitzer
Description: An introductory course in composition designed to develop the reading, critical thinking, and writing strategies, including research and documentation skills, necessary for academic success. Class emphasis is on using sources to develop well-organized, original scholarly arguments. The class will include lectures, class discussion and participation, and writing workshops. Students will write two short analysis papers, one 8-10 page research paper and two in-class essays.
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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WRIT 020 PZ -Writing Seminar: Representing LA Institution: Pitzer
Description: Dorothy Parker supposedly called Los Angeles “seventy-two suburbs in search of a city,” reinforcing a popular imagine of the city as a fragmented metropolis, where unbridled ambition clashed with visions for a good community. Yet Los Angeles is also imagined as a city of dreams, the epicenter of myth-making industries like Hollywood and Disney. This writing seminar engages urban histories, cultural studies, literature, and film to explore contradictory representations of America’s most unlikely megalopolis. Throughout the course, we’ll draw on the work of scholars and public intellectuals to intervene in debates about the cultural meaning of this fascinating and troubling city. For the capstone project, students will conduct research on any aspect of Southern Californian culture that interests them. Possible topics may include food cultures in ethnic communities, L.A.’s alternative music or comedy scenes, or the representation of race in L.A. noir. Along the way, we’ll practice strategies of argument that will make us more confident and sophisticated academic writers.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: WRIT 020 PZ Creative Nonficton
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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WRIT 028 PZ -Workshop in Journalistic Writing Institution: Pitzer
Description: This half course is designed to help student reporters for campus publications improve the quality of their journalistic writing. It provides opportunities to experiment with news, feature, and editorial formats. Weekly workshops provide constructive critiques of students’ drafts before they publish their stories.
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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WRIT 030 PZ -Writing Los Angeles Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course examines the Southern California landscape through the eyes of novelists, journalists, filmmakers, and historians. Students will consider works focusing on Los Angeles and its surroundings, including fiction by Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, and Karen Tei Yamashits, and films such as In a Lonely Place, Chinatown, and Bladerunner.
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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WRIT 080 PZ -Advanced Academic Writing Institution: Pitzer
Description: An advanced course in using sources to develop original scholarly arguments. To make discussions and assignments interesting for the entire class, required texts will focus on a the common theme of bioethics. Each student will be expected to choose an issue such as abortion, designer babies, or euthanasia that will be the focus of a series of short papers and one long final paper. Class emphasis will be placed on techniques for writing research papers.
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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WRIT 100 PZ -Teaching and Tutoring of Writing Institution: Pitzer
Description: “Good writers are born, not made” - so the common misconception goes. Yet writing is a deeply social activity
developed through regular practice, challenging new tasks, and constructive feedback from communities of readers.
In this seminar we’ll investigate theories from writing studies to examine our own creative and professional
practices as writers, students, and past, present or future teachers or tutors. Along the way, we’ll ask questions such
as these: why is it so tricky to name what constitutes “good” writing? What can scholars of writing tell us about why
so many of us find the process difficult? What is expertise and how do writers gain it? Why do different disciplines
conceptualize knowledge in such radically different ways? And finally, what roles can teachers and tutors play in
helping diverse learners develop as writers? Aimed at students interested in cultivating the habits of effective writers
and educators, this class is both theoretical and practical in its orientation. All students participate in a mock
tutoring session and develop a mini-lesson plan that teaches the class a writing or reading concept. For the final
project, students contribute knowledge to the field by submitting a short essay for publication in a writing studies
journal.
Note: This course will be required of those Pitzer students who have been hired to work in the Writing Center.
Students who are not working in the Writing Center may take the course, but those students must participate in at
least 3 hours per week of tutoring either at a writing center or as volunteers in a service-learning project that
emphasizes the teaching of English or writing.
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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WRIT 115 PZ -Rhetoric and Argument Institution: Pitzer
Description: A course for students interested in argumentation and the rhetorical analysis of articles and speeches on current controversies. The course focuses on expanding critical thinking through discussion, debate, oral presentation and, primarily, through writing. Students receive constructive feedback through writing workshops on their drafts of critiques, position papers, and a proposal.
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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WRIT 126 PZ -Autobiography and Memoir Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will look at the writer’s life as resource and examine how our lives connect to the national life or to national ideas. We will focus on strategies for transforming personal experience into literary writing, borrowing from fiction, nonfiction, poetry and other sources for narrative threads.
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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GLAS 185 PZ -IGLAS Seminar Institution: Pitzer College
Description:
The goal of this course is to provide IGLAS Fellows with an historical and theoretical understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education. Students will engage in discussing information, concepts, policies and controversies relates to race-ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation and identity, and political and religious differences. Topics will include members of our academic community who may be undocumented, first gen, currently or formerly incarcerated, non-traditional age, and non-binary gender. Students in the seminar will work with FYS faculty and first-year students to help them understand the linkage between Pitzer’s educational objective requirements and on-campus diversity and inclusion.
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GLAS 194A -Global Local Research Workshop Institution: Pitzer College
Description:
This course is a workshop for students applying for fellowships to undertake international research. Focused primarily on the Fulbright, the workshop will guide students through the development of proposals, personal statements and other items required for a nomination. The course is designed to be an encompassing and flexible vehicle to manage the large number of students applying for international fellowships. Students may take it for a half-course credit, pass-fail.
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GLAS 194B -Global Local Teaching Workshop Institution: Pitzer College
Description:
This course is a workshop for students applying for fellowships to undertake international teaching. Focused primarily on the Fulbright, the workshop will guide students through the development of proposals, personal statements and other items required for a nomination. The course is designed to be an encompassing and flexible vehicle to manage the large number of students applying for international fellowships. Students may take it for a half-course credit, pass/no credit.
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