2021-2022 Pitzer Catalog

May 06, 2024

2021-2022 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Philosophy
	PHIL 186S PO -Spinoza and Leibniz on Reality Institution: Pomona Description: In this course we will investigate some core topics in Western Modern Philosophy by examining the thoughts of Spinoza (1632-1677) and Leibniz (1646-1716). We will be introduced to the central metaphysical, epistemological, and moral claims of Spinoza and Leibniz through reading primary texts. Claims pertaining to the nature and the constitution of reality, the problem of infinity and unity, the existence of non-physical entities, e.g., God, the free will problem, the mind-body Problem, and the theory of causation. We will address questions such as: What is the nature of the universe? Is its existence necessary? Are the laws of nature causally or logically necessary? Do humans exercise free will? What is the relation between God and the universe? 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.
	PHIL 187C PO -Tutorial in Ancient Philosophy 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.
	PHIL 191 PZ -Senior Thesis Institution: Pitzer Description: Students work individually with faculty to identify an area of interest and define a topic to investigate. The research project results in a thesis to be submitted in writing to the Philosophy Department. 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.
	PPE 160 PO -Freedom, Markets and Well-Being 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.
Physics
	PHYS 017 PO -Physics in Society 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.
	PHYS 030L KS -General Physics for the Life Sciences 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.
	PHYS 031L KS -General Physics for the Life Sciences 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.
	PHYS 033L KS -Principles of Physics 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.
	PHYS 034L KS -Principles of Physics 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.
	PHYS 035 KS -Modern Physics with Computational Applications 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.
	PHYS 080 HM -Topics in Physics Institution: Harvey Mudd Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd 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.
	PHYS 100 KS -Computational Physics & Engineering 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.
	PHYS 101 KS -Classical Mechanics with Computational Applications 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.
	PHYS 102 KS -Electromagnetism 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.
	PHYS 105 KS -Computational Partial Differential Equations 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.
	PHYS 106L KS -Electronics Laboratory Institution: Scripps College Description: For course information, please see Scripps College catalog.
	PHYS 108 KS -Programming for Science and Engineering 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.
	PHYS 114 KS -Quantum Mechanics with Computational Applications 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.
	PHYS 115 KS -Statistical Physics with Computational Applications 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.
	PHYS 178 KS -Biophysics 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.
	PHYS 187 KS -Special Topics in Physics 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.
	PHYS 188L KS -Senior Thesis Research Project in Physics 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.
	PHYS 190L KS -Senior Thesis Research Project in Physics, Second Semester 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.
	PHYS 191 KS -One Semester Thesis in Physics 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.
	PHYS 199 KS -Independent Study in Physics 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.
Political Studies
	POLI 114 SC -Islam and Politics in the Middle East: Rulers, Reforms, and Radicals Institution: Scripps Description: For course info, please see Scripps 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.
	POLI 116 SC -The Politics of God Institution: Scripps Description: For course info, please see Scripps Catalog. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	POLI 119 SC -Public Policy in the European Union 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.
	POLI 153 SC -Environmental Policy in the U.S. 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.
	POLO 116 SC -The Politics of God Institution: Scripps Description: For course info, please see Scripps Catalog. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	POST 010A PZ -Introduction to Political Studies: Political Philosophy and U.S. Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: An introduction to the study of politics and its subfields of political philosophy and U.S. politics. Concepts examined include human nature and power, community and the state, citizenship and rights, authority and legitimacy, freedom and equality, democracy and justice. Required of Political Studies majors; also serves as an appropriate course for other students interested in politics. 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.
	POST 010B PZ -Introduction to Political Studies: Global and Comparative Institution: Pitzer Description: An introduction to the study of politics and its sub fields of comparative politics and international and global affairs. The course explores how different peoples, classes, cultures and nations organize themselves politically for common purposes and for addressing conflicts. Required of Political Studies majors; also serves as an appropriate course for other students interested in politics. 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.
	POST 020 PZ -U.S. Politics: Resistance and Transformation Institution: Pitzer Description: This class explores American democracy and politics through the perspective of politically marginalized groups. This is a radical departure from standard American politics courses that tend to emphasize the role of political elites in drafting the US Constitution and shaping the nation’s politics. The traditional approach is understandable considering that most minority groups were barred from participating in politics until the passage of the voting rights act of 1965. Democratic institutions, norms and values are broadened when marginalized groups demand and gain inclusion. This class examines the political contributions of minority groups in shaping and broadening American democracy. 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.
	POST 030 PZ -Comparative Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: This introductory course focuses on explaining political events and processes- like civil war, regime change, revolution, and development- that we regularly read and hear about in the news. Empirically, the course deals with a variety of countries, including those in which Pitzer has study abroad and international exchange programs. 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.
	POST 040 PZ -International Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the history and theory of international politics. The course is divided into three roughly equal-sized sections. The first section offers an introduction to the two philosophical/theoretical traditions in international relations thought: rationalism (and its realist and liberal variants) and social constructivism (and its statist and global variants). The second section covers a series of significant periods in international political history from the emergence of the modern system of states in Europe in the sixteenth century to the end of the Cold War. The third section investigates various issues in contemporary international politics. 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.
	POST 050 PZ -Introduction to Political Philosophy: Political Thought East and West Institution: Pitzer Description: The study of political philosophy focuses on broad assumptions concerning human nature and the character of community organizations that regulate activities and seek to promote happiness. These assumptions, structures and goals vary through time and across cultures. This class examines the texts of major theorists representing European, Chinese, Islamic, and Indian political thought and compares their arguments concerning the nature of freedom, justice, equality, authority and responsibility among other fundamental concepts. 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.
	POST 060 PZ -Introduction to Public Policy Institution: Pitzer Description: This course provides an overview of the processes and politics of policy-making in the United States. We will explore normative issues of equity and efficiency, consider advantages and disadvantages of policy-making in different venues (courts, legislatures, bureaucracies) and explore the different perspectives on the policy-making held by various actors. Prerequisite(s): POST 010A PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	POST 070 PZ -Research Methods in Political Studies Institution: Pitzer Description: This course explores the methods employed in political studies research. The two primary goals of the course are: 1) to provide new analytic tools that will help in the critical evaluation of social science material; and 2) to improve students’ ability to pose and answer research questions on their own. 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.
	POST 091 PZ -Statistics Institution: Pitzer Description: An introduction to the statistical tools used in the quantitative analysis of economic and political relationships. Topics include probability theory, statistical estimation, hypothesis testing and regression analysis. Prerequisite(s): 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.
	POST 096 PZ -Social & Political Justice Institution: Pitzer Description: What is justice? This seemingly simple question has elicited complex responses. Based on their notions of social and political justice, people have developed laws, formed institutions, created political communities, and waged wars. In this seminar, we explore the implications of these debates for contemporary political communities in local and global contexts. Questions include: what makes a political, moral, social or religious order just? Are there certain principles of justice that people across cultural and political boundaries agree upon? How can these debates help us become more informed, engaged, and responsible citizens in our respective communities? For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	POST 098A CH -Applied Urban Politics I Institution: Pitzer Description: Applied Urban Politics I (fall semester) and Applied Urban Politics II (spring semester) are sequenced courses designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of city/urban politics through course content and internships with government agencies in Pomona, California. 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.
	POST 098B CH -Applied Urban Politics II Institution: Pitzer Description: Applied Urban Politics I (fall semester) and Applied Urban Politics II (spring semester) are sequenced courses designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of city/urban politics through course content and internships with government agencies in Pomona, California. 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.
	POST 101 PZ -US Campaigns and Elections Institution: Pitzer Description: This class addresses why individuals participate in U.S. elections, the factors that influence their voting decisions, and the role of campaigns in this process. You will learn to work with election data, develop a campaign strategy for a candidate, and design a get out the vote drive. 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.
	POST 102 PZ -Seminar on Women in Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: The course treats the role of gender in politics and policy-making in the United States. The class is divided into four sections. In the first section, we examine women’s movements and developments in women’s rights from legal, historical, and political perspectives. The second section explores women’s political behavior including attitudes, voting patterns, and campaign strategies. The third section addresses women as political office holders and includes discussions of how women approach representation and policy formation. In this section, we consider “women’s issues” and investigate how certain policies affect women. The final section consists of student presentations on their term paper research. Throughout the course, we will explore such themes as the relationship (or lack thereof) between substantive and descriptive representation, the intersections between gender politics and racial and ethnic politics, and the status of women under law (de jure) and in practice (de facto). This course is cross-listed with Gender and Feminist Studies. 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.
	POST 102 PZ -Women and Public Policy Institution: Pitzer Description: The purpose of the course is twofold: to generally understand how gendered views are deeply embedded within the public policy context; and to explore how implicit and explicit views about gender impact different policy issues. The course material is divided into three parts: 1. Introduction to the policy process, 2. Impact of gender views on women’s citizenship status, and 3. How these views affect decision-making in different policy domains, including those that are not explicitly gendered. The approach will be intersectional, given that women are a far from monolithic 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.
	POST 103 PZ -Power and Participation in American Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: This course explores problems at the forefront of American politics, with an emphasis on active political participation. Questions include: How sould young people practice politics? Has civic participation become debilitated? Should we just poll people instead of holding elections? Should there be a military draft? Why are corporations so powerful? 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.
	POST 104 PZ -Campaigns and Parties Practicum: Candidates and Party Building (previously taught as 104A and 104B) Institution: Pitzer Description: This module of the campaign and parties practicum prepares students to undertake internships in a political party or electoral campaign over the summer. Topics covered include campaign management, grassroots party building, candidate-constituency relations, women candidates, campaign finance, and advocacy groups of the left and right. Students are expected to take POST104B PZ after completing their internship and upon returning to campus in the Fall. 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.
	POST 105 PZ -American Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: This course covers a variety of issues at the forefront of political debate in the United States. It is a reading and writing intensive course. Readings come predominantly from leading intellectual journals and recent books. Students will be expected to write several short essays on the issues covered in the course such as the southernization of national politics, the privatization of the social safety net, the militarization of U.S. foreign policy, corporate and political corruption, economic polarization, the erosion of civil and human rights, the promise and limits of deliberative democracy, the state of the environment, the political influence of religious fundamentalists, homophobia in U.S. political culture, the aftermath of campaign finance reform, increasing government secrecy, polarization of the electorate, the rightward drift of the federal courts, and the “Texasization” of the U.S. education policy. Prerequisite(s): An introductory course in politics or American Studies is recommended, but not required. 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.
	POST 106 PZ -Law and Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: This course examines the intersection of law, politics, and policy in the American context. Combining normative and empirical approaches, we will investigate theories of statutory interpretation, the opportunities and pitfalls of legal advocacy, the relationship between litigation and legislation, and the nature of judicial policy-making. Prerequisite(s): POST 060 PZ or POST 010A PZ (or other intro policy or intro to American politics course) or permission of instructor. 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.
	POST 107 CH -Latino Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: The role of Latinos in the American political process will be examined. Latino political empowerment movements will be analyzed, with a focus on political culture/voter participation; organizational development in the different Latino sub-groups; leadership patterns, strategy and tactics; and other issues impacting the Latino community. 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.
	POST 108 PZ -California Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: This course explores state and local politics in California. Topics include racial/ethnic diversity, campaigns and electoral politics, redistricting, legislative professionalization and term limits, initiatives, referendums and recall elections, the organization of the executive branch, fiscal politics in the era of Prop 13, and regional policy and local governance. Prerequisite(s): POST 060 PZ or POST 010A PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	POST 109 PZ -Public Opinion Institution: Pitzer Description: This course is concerned with understanding what public opinion is, how one measures it, the forces that influence it, and how this relates to democracy. We will look at opinions across a range of policy areas, and learn how to design surveys and do basic analyses of public opinion data. 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.
	POST 110 PZ -Political Campaign and Mobilization Strategies Institution: Pitzer Description: This class applies the theories and strategies on voter mobilization to the context of the Inland Empire in California. The IE which consists of San Bernardino and Riverside counties has a population of over 4 million, making it second to Los Angeles County as the most populous area in the state. From the political landscape, it is evident that Latinos, immigrants and other minority groups are severely underrepresented. This course seeks to change politics in the IE by developing and participating in voter mobilization strategies with local partners through Pitzer’s Community Engagement Center. 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.
	POST 110A PZ -Government and Politics of the EU Institution: Pitzer Description: This course aims to cover the historical development, political institutions, and philosophical underpinnings of the European Union. topics include federalism, different notions of sovereignty, studies of contemporary decision-making in the Union, and assessments of democratic institutions in Europe. Prominent points of debate, such as monetary union, trade policies, environmental policies, enlargement policies, and defense policies are discussed. Particular attention will be paid to the contemporary debates on changes to the decision-making institutions in the Union and the euro crisis and Its potential effect on US institutions and the 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.
	POST 112 PZ -British National Identies since 1945 Institution: Pitzer Description: In the seventy years since the end of WWII, Britain has undergone a turbulent transition from global empire to a second-rank European power, from a United Kingdom to an often divided nation. This course examines Britain’s kaleidoscopic national identities - European, British, English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh - through their representation in popular culture and their place in the nations’ politics. The course has three components. First it provides a broad historical sweep through state and identity formation in the British Isles. This that covers the key moments from the formation of the Union in the early eighteenth century, through the creation of the British Empire in the nineteenth century to the emergence of a more democratic Britishness during and immediately after the Second World War. Second, the course examines how the notions of Britishness established over the previous two centuries were challenged and transformed by the politics of nationalism and unionism in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales,; the social and cultural impact of mass migration first from the Empire and then from post cold war European Union; Third, cutting across both of the pervious course themes, students will look at key elements of British popular culture -sport, television, cinema, comedy, music - since the Second World War, examining their role in the making and unmaking of British national identities 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.
	POST 113 PZ -Intro South Asian Politics Description: Modern South Asia has emerged as a dynamic and yet deeply troubled part of the world. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the basic themes that define contemporary South Asian politics: including, religion and religious violence, terrorism and insurgency, democracy and its discontents, authoritarianism and resistance, power and authority, diversity and nationalism, and status, heirarchy and equality. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	POST 114 HM -Comparative Environmental Politics Institution: Harvey Mudd Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd 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.
	POST 116 PZ -Surfing and the Politics of Race, Class and Culture Institution: Pitzer Description: Surfing and the Politics of Race, Class and Culture: The purpose of this course is to examine how surfing has intersected with such forces as colonialism, capitalism, race and gender roles, the military industrial complex, and globalization. Much of the surfing’s romantic image is a myth. In this course, we will go beyond the myths developed by Hollywood and corporations to examine its true historical origins and its evolution in places like California, Australia, South Africa, and Brazil. 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.
	POST 118 PZ -The Criminalization of Latinos and Reistance Institution: Pitzer Description: This course examines popular representations of Latinos in media and the social consequences of those representations. American films, television shows and print media are the primary ways citizens learn about politics, social issues and out-groups. Latino images and popular narratives profoundly impact how they are perceived and treated by out-groups. At best, Latinos are seen as an “invisible community” because of their underrepresentation in the media. Yet, when they are portrayed, the images and narratives tend to be narrow and negative. These representations have contributed to the criminalization and victimization of Latinos. 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.
	POST 119 PZ -Latin American Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: This course examines the contemporary politics of Latin America. It explores the transformation of the region’s politics in the late twentieth century; the different governing coalitions that have come to power as a result of that transformation; the policies implemented by those different coalitions; the effects of these policies on everyday life in Latin America; and the emergence of political resistance across much of the 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.
	POST 121 PZ -Religion, Conflict & Violence Institution: Pitzer Description: This is a course about the possible connections between religion and violence, focused particularly on organized armed conflict. This is a topic that has received, surprisingly, very little sustained attention from social science literatures and the main purpose of the course is to explore what the contours of a theory of religion and violence would like. The course is organized around major historical and theoretical monographs (a book a week) designed to structure class discussions and the course is, therefore, reading intensive. The readings have been designed to give students a sense of what answers historians and social scientists have given to the puzzle of religion and violence while stimulating the participants to ask provocative questions. This is a course in the historical sociology of religion and violence. Given the vastness of the subject I have had to be extremely selective in the time and places that we will be examining. The overall geographical bias of the course is Western Eurasia with equal time dedicated to the modern and premodern periods. We will also, in the interests of context, consider the case of 19th and 20th century South Asia. 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.
	POST 124 PZ -Chinese Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: This course provides an overview of China’s political system. It begins with a brief historical overview of China’s political development since 1949. The remainder of the course examines the industrial features of the current political system and the key challenges facing the CCP leadership, focusing on the prospects for political for political reform. By applying concepts and theories in comparative politics, we will investigate important issues in Chinese politics, including political selection, state-business relations, protests movements, political participation, public opinion, and media and Internet control. Although students are recommended to have taken comparative politics, there are no prerequisites for this course. 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.
	POST 128 PZ -The War on Terror Institution: Pitzer Description: What is the War on Terror? And what does it mean to fight a war against a strategy? This course examines the War from a variety of vantage points, including history, religion, foreign policy, psychology, gender, media, the law, human security, and political economy. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: IIS 128 PZ For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	POST 129 PZ -Politics in Nation States Institution: Pitzer Description: This course offers students a comprehensive introduction to the topics of comparative politics in nation states. Students will learn to analyze the internal or domestic politics of nation-states and make valid comparisons across states. Core topics include democracy and democratization, authoritarianism, power, ideology, nationalism, mass behavior, political economy, and other defining aspects of comparative politics. This course explores the political diversity of the world through a series of ten theoretically informed case studies. We will cover politics in Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Iran, India, and Nigeria. 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.
	POST 131 PZ -U.S. Foreign Policy Institution: Pitzer Description: This class looks at American foreign policy through four images of the United States as an actor in the world. The images correspond simultaneously to theoretical literatures, political positions, and, at times, specific events or interpretations of events. The lenses are: (1) the US as state, (2) the US as Nation, (3) the US as Political System, and (4) the US as Empire. . Prerequisite(s): POST040 PZ or equivalent strongly recommended. 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.
	POST 133 PZ -Film, Politics and the Cold War Institution: Pitzer Description: For nearly 50 years the Cold War influenced nearly all aspects of American political and culture life. This course examine Cold War genre films in an effort to understand how Americans perceived the Soviet threat and how these popular perceptions influenced international and domestic politics. 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.
	POST 134 PZ -Authoritarian Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: There used to be a time when a similar course was often entitled, “regime change and democratization.” In the ear of democratic backsliding, however, we examine the exact opposite of this once optimistic proposition that authoritarian regimes would eventually collapse and democratize. Instead, this course explores the core questions in authoritarian politics. What factors contribute to regime survival? What strategies do dictators deploy to stay in power despite social discontent and lack of accountability? To answer these questions, we draw on prominent theories, empirical research, and historical developments in China, the Middle East, former Soviet Union, and other non-democratic states. 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.
	POST 135 PZ -Mapping Global Cultures Institution: Pitzer Description: People, ideas, artefacts and images appear to be circulating the globe in ever greater numbers. Buit does this make a global culture, is this the end for the local,, is the cultural diversity of humanity declining or is it enriched. This course places culture at the heart of the globalization debate, maps the historical and contemporary geography of global cultural power and examines some of its key forms, from mass migration to world religions, from global mega events to social movements. First students will actively map four key elements of cultural globalization - the pattern of global migrations, the geography of global cultural infrastructures from language to the internet, the economic geography and functioning of the global culture industries and the use of soft power and cultural strategies by nation states. In the second part of the course, students will deploy these ideas to investigate the emergence and impact of global mega event from the world’s fairs to the Olympic Games, looking closely at the interplay of global and local actors in the production and circulation of meanings and ideas. In the third part of the course students will investigate three areas of contemporary cultural globalization - music and the visual arts, regional and consumerism, and new social movements. 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.
	POST 136 PZ -Political Authority and State Formation Institution: Pitzer Description: This is a course about change and continuity in the nature and structure of political authority in Europe and its implications for contemporary state-builders. The purpose of this seminar is to introduce students to current thinking in the social sciences on the emergence of the modern state in Europe. In recent years state building /failure have emerged as first order problems in international politics. As the difficulty of constructing viable and stable states in troubled regions of the world has come to the forefront of the international agenda, policy makers and academics have increasingly sought insights into the nature of the state by reexamining its emergence in Europe. In this course we will examine the principal social science approaches to European state formation within the context of current vibrant debates within historical literatures on the nature of political authority in late medieval and early mordern Europe. We will conclude by considering the implications of these literatures for contemporary problems of state failure and building. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: ANTH 136 PZ Formerly: POST 136 PZ Race in Brazil and the US For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	POST 138 PZ -Social Order, War & Violence Institution: Pitzer Description: The purpose of this course is to examine the problems of conflict and violence in ‘international’ and ‘domestic’ politics. We will attempt to take a fresh look at the concepts and assumptions that underlie the dominant theoretical approaches to ‘international’ and ‘civil’ war and peace. Are we asking the right questions? Do we have an adequate conceptual framework? Do we understand the nature and extent of the problem of violence and conflict in international politics? We will ask and derive preliminary answers to these and other questions in a broad comparative historical framework. This seminar is an attempt to look at war and the societies that fight them on a grand, even epic scale. Almost every book on the syllabus is what I consider to be a masterpiece of historical scholarship. Most are syntheses that reflect the state of the art; they are the culmination of generations of scholarship and I believe that all students of war and violence should at the very least be aware of the existence of the profound scholarship being done outside of political science. They address big questions in elegant and often moving ways. The primary concern of the participants should be with the theoretical implications of the arguments and not with the details per se. The details, I believe, are essential in order to sustain any generalization worth making but are not an end in and of themselves. The reading is very heavy but I firmly believe that engaging these literatures will be profoundly important to the intellectual development of the participants. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	POST 139 PZ -Politics of the Middle East Institution: Pitzer Description: As the holder of one of the world’s largest reserves of petroleum and natural gas, the Middle East has been the focus of regional and international competition for millennia. In this course we will investigate Western powers’ domination of states and societies of the Middle East after the decline of the Ottoman Empire during the early 20th century. We will then examine the implications of imperialist intervention for societies in this region, including diverse responses to Western colonialism. Next, we will analyze ideologies, actors, and events that have shaped the domestic, regional, and international policies of states of this region up until the present. Some of the questions we will examine in this course are the following: Who are the major players in the political arena of the Middle East and what are the key issues of conflict and cooperation among states in the region and the world outside of the Middle East? What are the domestic and international obstacles to democratization in the region? What are the grounds behind the persistence of authoritarianism in the Middle East? What factors triggered the rapid rise of diverse forms of Islamist currents across the region and how can we explain the causes of violent sectarian conflicts in countries like Iraq and Syria? And finally, what are the economic, political, and geostrategic reasons behind the struggle for power and domination among local and foreign actors in the Middle East? For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	POST 140 HM -Global Environmental Politics Institution: Harvey Mudd Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd 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.
	POST 141 PZ -International Political Economy Institution: Pitzer Description: Course examines the politics of international economic relations with a special focus on globalization. Covers the evolution and operations of the international political economy from the late-18th century to the 21st. Focuses on four areas: international trade, international monetary policy, capital flows, and the structure of global production. 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.
	POST 142 PZ -The Third World and the Global Economy Institution: Pitzer Description: An examination of the impact of international economic systems on the wealth and welfare of Third World countries. Early weeks treat the origins of the gap between rich and poor countries. Attention is then directed to problems raised by the contemporary global economic order and strategies to overcome the gap between rich and poor. The course addresses aid, trade, finance, foreign investment, and technology transfer. 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.
	POST 143 PZ -Global Governance Institution: Pitzer Description: This course explores efforts to address global issues with institutions and organizations that transcend the nation-state. International Organizations, regional associations, nongovernmental organizations, regimes, collective action strategies, epistemic communities, and government networks are examined. 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.
	POST 144 PZ -Global Security Institution: Pitzer Description: This course examines the debate over security in a global era. Is traditional national security obsolete, and should “human security” replace it? A partial list of topics covered includes: great power competition, terrorism, crime, cyber-warfare, economic instability, failed-states, and security of/for society’s vulnerable. 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.
	POST 149 PZ -Wealth Poverty & Inequality Institution: Pitzer Description: Income inequality is an important and complex issue that faces every society. The challenge of managing inequality from a policy perspective is not merely a political concern, but one that is fundamentally economic, psychological, sociological, historical, philosophical, and geographic in nature. In this proposed trans-disciplinary course, students will engage the diverse literature on income inequality to develop a nuanced understanding of the issue and, ultimately, develop a policy proposal to manage rising income inequality with a multifaceted approach. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	POST 150 PZ -History of Political Philosophy: Ancients Institution: Pitzer Description: From the beginnings of Western Civilization either in the Bible or Plato’s Republic, there has been a continual dialogue among political philosophers concerning the nature of justice. What is a just regime? What is the relationship between justice and compassion or between justice and utility? How do we know the nature of justice? The course will examine key philosophers in this dialogue from the ancients to present thinkers on this subject. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Formerly: Political and Social Justice For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	POST 151 PZ -History of Political Philosophy: Modern Institution: Pitzer Description: This course takes a critical look at the sharp change in understanding of Nature and its relationship to the historical beginnings and development of the modern state that originates during the Renaissance. We will examine modern philosophical tests that argue for new forms of democratic governments that promote the securing of individual freedoms, happiness and progress as well as those that raise concerns about the success of the modern project. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Formerly: Conquest of Nature & the Rise of the Modern State For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	POST 152 PZ -Politics and Literature Institution: Pitzer Description: Would you like to know which variables are currently the most statistically reliable indicators of the winner of next year’s presidential election? Would you enjoy analyzing the responsiveness of members of Congress to their poorest constituents? Do you desire the knowledge to make incisive comments about European monetary policy? If so, great! Society needs more curious individuals like you. Please be aware, however, that this is not really what we’ll be thinking about in this class. “Politics” is in the title. I see that. But we’ll be thinking about politics in its broadest possible sense, as when Aristotle says that justice is an ordering of the soul, or when Kant argues that freedom is a moral quality. Before we get to the debating and voting and legislating, there is a vast, subterranean world of values that we must evaluate and order. This is the level at which we struggle to understand the nature of freedom and how it is achieved. It is where we face the challenge of directing our own lives and of discerning our obligations towards others. This is a political process. Why literature? Is there something that literary works can communicate that a more prosaic work of political theory cannot? Is there special political knowledge that eludes us when we remain on the level of newspapers, policy analysis, or journal articles? And what is literature anyway? If Gertrude Stein wrote down and published the results of Congress’s last roll-call vote, what then? Thus, defining “politics” broadly and lacking precise knowledge about where a mere aggregation of words end and literature begins, I have arranged this syllabus with the zeal of academic freedom (though not the license of tenure). I want to see what happens when we contemplate freedom, tyranny, obligation, inequality, oppression and war through literary mediums. Is the knowledge that results any different at all? If so, why? If not, why not? For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	POST 153 PZ -Immigr, Public Opinion & Media Institution: Pitzer Description: COURSE TITLE: Immigration, Public Opinion & the Media This seminar provides an investigation into the forces at play in the American political debate regarding immigration. It will delve into the intersection of race/ethnicity, public opinion, the media, and policymaking. In doing so, the class will cover the determinants of migration, modes of incorporation, and the underlying theories of assimilation. Further, the course will examine public opinion surrounding the issue of immigration, and the role of the media in building support for/against the issue. Broadly, this class aims to investigate immigration, in general, and how individuals come to think about it. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	POST 154 PZ -Street Politics: Civil and Everyday Forms of Resistance in Comparative Perspective Institution: Pitzer Description: Since their emergence in 18th century England and France, social movements and street protests have been playing increasingly crucial roles in the political and social developments of almost every country. Examining the collective actions of students, women, youth, ethnic minorities, and poor people as vital forces towards change and democratization, this course investigates how various kinds of civil disobedience and everyday forms of resistance movements in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa utilized different tactics and strategies in their negotiations for their rights with authorities. Along the way, we will ask questions such as these: what are the differences between traditional collective movements and everyday forms of resistance? What are the demographic and historical roots of these movements and how did they rise and fall? Why do the tactics of movements and actors differ across locations and times and why do some movements turn militant? And finally, how do the poor, as the most underprivileged crowd, mobilize in countries like Brazil, Egypt, Burma, and Iran against powerful states in their respective countries? For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	POST 155 PZ -Anarchist History and Thought Institution: Pitzer Description: This course provides an introduction to the history and theory of anarchism. Major theorists covered include Godwin, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Goldman and others. The course will also add to materials available online at Anarchy Archives. 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.
	POST 156 PZ -Critical Race Theory Institution: Pitzer Description: This upper-level course approaches problems in critical race theory, broadly conceived, from the distinctive perspectives of legal theory, social theory, and political theory. Our readings will include Derrick Bell, Ian Haney Lopez, Howard Winart, Michael Omi, Lisa Lowe, Carole Pateman, and Charles Mills. A background in critical theory is helpful but not required. 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.
	POST 159 PZ -Crime and Punishment Institution: Pitzer Description: This class will explore the root causes of crime and the reasons for punishment. 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.
	POST 161 PZ -Religion and Liberalism Institution: Pitzer 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.
	POST 162 PZ -Comparative Revolutions Institution: Pitzer Description: In this course we still study comparative conceptual approaches to the causes, trajectories, and outcomes of the great revolutions of the modern world. Although infrequent, revolutions have profoundly transformed the political, cultural, and social structures of countries like France, Russia, China, Cuba, and Iran. Utilizing theoretical models, we will discuss questions like these: is there a universal definition of revolution? Are the common causes for revolutions across time and space? What are the ideological, cultural, and economic origins of revolutions? And finally, why do some revolutions succeed and some fail? For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	POST 163 PZ -Feminist Theory Institution: Pitzer Description: An overview of various traditional feminist philosophies serves as a background for a critical engagement with contemporary issues of intersectionality of race, gender, class and sexual orientation, generational history, transnational movements, and epistemological debates regarding new ways of thinking and defining fundamental concepts of power, authority, rights and the nation-state. Prerequisite(s): A course in GFS or Political Philosophy. 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.
	POST 172 PZ -The Battle over Birth Control: The Politics of Contraception Policy Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will examine contraception policy, and the debate surrounding it. In the interests of breadth I will situate this discussion in the context of other policies related to reproductive health policies including sex education, breastfeeding, abortion and pregnancy. 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.
	POST 174 CH -US Immigration and Transnational Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: Examines the factors shaping the size and composition of past and contemporary immigration flows to the U.S. Areas examined include the role of economics, social networks, policy and politics in shaping immigration flows and the process by which immigrants simultaneously participate in the politics of sending and receiving countries. 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.
	POST 174 PZ -U.S. Immigration Policy Institution: Pitzer Description: Examines the factors shaping the size and composition of past and contemporary immigration flows to the U.S. Areas examined include the role of economics, social networks, policy and politics in shaping immigration flows and the process by which immigrants simultaneously participate in the politics of sending and receiving countries. 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.
	POST 175 CH -Immigration and Race in America Institution: Pitzer Description: America has long prided itself in being a nation of immigrants and in its ability to assimilate persons with distinct religious cultures and national origins. Far from being color-blind, the United States has been and remains a color-conscious society. The purpose of this course is to examine immigration and the formation of racial ideologies, hierarchies, and identities in 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.
	POST 180 PZ -Secularism and Public Opinion Institution: Pitzer Description: The purpose of this course Is to analyze research and carry-out projects that examine the causes and consequences of secularism among individuals from different societies and ethnicities. The course lays the foundation for understanding the philosophical roots of secularism, debates over its meaning, and it’s application across different societies. 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.
	POST 181 PZ -Agriculture & Political Rebellion Institution: Pitzer Description: This course explores agrarianism as a foundation of consequential political life. To do so, it focuses on thinking beyond “food politics,” the theory and practice of the farm, politically momentous large-scale agrarian movements across the world, and the rise of a new agrarian politics in southern California and beyond. 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.
	POST 185 PZ -Political Psychology Institution: Pitzer Description: The discipline of political psychology evolved as psychological theories were employed in the analysis of the political process. Today the discipline includes how political processes impact psychological functioning. This course surveys the foundations of political psychology including group dynamics and decision-making, gender differences in cognitive and political behavior, authoritarianism, Machiavellianism, violence and aggression, psychohistory, and the analysis of belief systems. Prerequisite(s): POST 010A/B PZ or PSYC 010 PZ recommended, but not required. 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.
	POST 185A PZ -Logics of Political Authority Institution: Pitzer Description: How do people govern themselves? This course explores logics of political authority through an examination of empires, territorial states, tribal and other non-territorial forms of political organization, and tribute systems. Questions include: Whither the state? How have empires spread historically - and how do they spread today? Have corporations become sovereign? Has the Internet extended imperial authority? Is it is easier to be governed if you don’t live on a hill? Under what logics of authority are we governed in our everyday life? For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	POST 185B PZ -Empire and its Critics Institution: Pitzer Description: How do people cope with empire? Drawing contemporary and historical cases, this course asks and debates the following questions: How do empires form - and when and why do they fall apart? What is it like to live under empires? What are the most effective means of challenging empires? What do people mean when they (sometimes) claim that the United States is (or has become) an imperial project? In asking these questions, this course considers the challenges posed to empires by territorial states, corporations, tribal and other non-territorial forms of political organization, and tribute systems. 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.
	POST 186 PZ -Technology and Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: Technology is all around us. And we are constantly being told that we live in a particularly technological age where ever more rapid technological progress creates dramatic changes in human society. Yet meaningful contemplation of the role technology plays in politics is rarely undertaken in political science, never mind the culture as a whole. This class is an introduction to this small but vital field of study. We will study how political forces shape the development of new technologies - through government policy, social movements, and cultural values; and how technologies shape politics -in elections and campaigning, surveillance and privacy, political economy, and warfare. 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.
	POST 187 PZ -The Political Economy of Global Soccer Institution: Pitzer Description: Football is now the world’s most popular and lucrative sport, but how does it actually work? The course examines the contemporary political economy, business models and governance of football, starting with the English Premier League, before broadening out to look at a range of global football economies as well as the international politics and economics of sporting mega events. There are three main components to the course. First a close examination of the political economy and cultural meanings of football in England and begins with the rise of the English Premier league - the richest and most watched football league I the world. This section of the course will cover the business models of English football, the modelling of its markets, its place within a wider popular culture and its relationship to urban identities; and the complex politics of its governance. Second, the course will be comparative, taking the English model as a starting point and comparing it to the often very different political economy of the major European football nations, Latin America and Africa, and the new and rising powers of world football - East Asia, the Gulf and North America. The course will also compare football to other leading global sports in terms of both economics and governance. Third, the course will examine the global governance of football and the peculiar cultural significance and political economy of global sporting mega events. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	POST 188 PZ -The Olympics: History & Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: The Olympics are an extraordinary event. What began as an eccentric Hellenic revival has become one of the world?s most important public spectacles. This course explores the history and politics of spectacular and, of course, the sporting excellence on show. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.

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PHIL 186S PO -Spinoza and Leibniz on Reality

PHIL 187C PO -Tutorial in Ancient Philosophy

PHIL 191 PZ -Senior Thesis

PPE 160 PO -Freedom, Markets and Well-Being

PHYS 017 PO -Physics in Society

PHYS 030L KS -General Physics for the Life Sciences

PHYS 031L KS -General Physics for the Life Sciences

PHYS 033L KS -Principles of Physics

PHYS 034L KS -Principles of Physics

PHYS 035 KS -Modern Physics with Computational Applications

PHYS 080 HM -Topics in Physics

PHYS 100 KS -Computational Physics & Engineering

PHYS 101 KS -Classical Mechanics with Computational Applications

PHYS 102 KS -Electromagnetism

PHYS 105 KS -Computational Partial Differential Equations

PHYS 106L KS -Electronics Laboratory

PHYS 108 KS -Programming for Science and Engineering

PHYS 114 KS -Quantum Mechanics with Computational Applications

PHYS 115 KS -Statistical Physics with Computational Applications

PHYS 178 KS -Biophysics

PHYS 187 KS -Special Topics in Physics

PHYS 188L KS -Senior Thesis Research Project in Physics

PHYS 190L KS -Senior Thesis Research Project in Physics, Second Semester

PHYS 191 KS -One Semester Thesis in Physics

PHYS 199 KS -Independent Study in Physics

POLI 114 SC -Islam and Politics in the Middle East: Rulers, Reforms, and Radicals

POLI 116 SC -The Politics of God

POLI 119 SC -Public Policy in the European Union

POLI 153 SC -Environmental Policy in the U.S.

POLO 116 SC -The Politics of God

POST 010A PZ -Introduction to Political Studies: Political Philosophy and U.S. Politics

POST 010B PZ -Introduction to Political Studies: Global and Comparative

POST 020 PZ -U.S. Politics: Resistance and Transformation

POST 030 PZ -Comparative Politics

POST 040 PZ -International Politics

POST 050 PZ -Introduction to Political Philosophy: Political Thought East and West

POST 060 PZ -Introduction to Public Policy

POST 070 PZ -Research Methods in Political Studies

POST 091 PZ -Statistics

POST 096 PZ -Social & Political Justice

POST 098A CH -Applied Urban Politics I

POST 098B CH -Applied Urban Politics II

POST 101 PZ -US Campaigns and Elections

POST 102 PZ -Seminar on Women in Politics

POST 102 PZ -Women and Public Policy

POST 103 PZ -Power and Participation in American Politics

POST 104 PZ -Campaigns and Parties Practicum: Candidates and Party Building (previously taught as 104A and 104B)

POST 105 PZ -American Politics

POST 106 PZ -Law and Politics

POST 107 CH -Latino Politics

POST 108 PZ -California Politics

POST 109 PZ -Public Opinion

POST 110 PZ -Political Campaign and Mobilization Strategies

POST 110A PZ -Government and Politics of the EU

POST 112 PZ -British National Identies since 1945

POST 113 PZ -Intro South Asian Politics

POST 114 HM -Comparative Environmental Politics

POST 116 PZ -Surfing and the Politics of Race, Class and Culture

POST 118 PZ -The Criminalization of Latinos and Reistance

POST 119 PZ -Latin American Politics

POST 121 PZ -Religion, Conflict & Violence

POST 124 PZ -Chinese Politics

POST 128 PZ -The War on Terror

POST 129 PZ -Politics in Nation States

POST 131 PZ -U.S. Foreign Policy

POST 133 PZ -Film, Politics and the Cold War

POST 134 PZ -Authoritarian Politics

POST 135 PZ -Mapping Global Cultures

POST 136 PZ -Political Authority and State Formation

POST 138 PZ -Social Order, War & Violence

POST 139 PZ -Politics of the Middle East

POST 140 HM -Global Environmental Politics

POST 141 PZ -International Political Economy

POST 142 PZ -The Third World and the Global Economy

POST 143 PZ -Global Governance

POST 144 PZ -Global Security

POST 149 PZ -Wealth Poverty & Inequality

POST 150 PZ -History of Political Philosophy: Ancients

POST 151 PZ -History of Political Philosophy: Modern