2021-2022 Pitzer Catalog 
    
    May 08, 2024  
2021-2022 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Art

  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • ART 180 PZ -Environmental Robotics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A studio course on building robotic and mechatronic sculpture, installation, and site-specific work while thinking critically about the role of the robot in culture, who currently controls notions of what robots are for and makes them, and the relationship of technology–the robot in particular–to our place in the natural 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.

Art History

  
  • AFRI 144A AF -Black Women Feminisms(s) & Social Change


    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.
  
  • ARHI 051A PO -Introduction to the History of Art: Ancient Times in the Mediterranean World


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ARHI 051B PO -Introduction to the History of Art: European Middle Ages,


    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.
  
  • ARHI 051C PO -Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to Modern


    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.
  
  • ARHI 133 PO -Art, Conquest and Colonization


    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.
  
  • ARHI 137 PZ -Tradition and Transformation in Native North American Art


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course offers an introductory survey of the visual and material culture of the Native peoples of North America in terms of materials, technique, cultural, historical and philosophical/spiritual contexts. This class will also consider patterns of cultural contact and transformation, the collecting of Native American art, Federal government Indian policy and education institutions, and modern and contemporary Native American art and cultural activism.

    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.
  
  • ARHI 138 PZ -Native American Art Collections Research


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This seminar focuses on original student research with Native American artworks from the collection of the Pomona College Museum of Art. Working collaboratively, students will study these artworks in detail, develop bibliographies in relevant secondary literature, write weekly research progress reports, make a formal research presentation, and a final paper.

    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.
  
  • ARHI 139 PZ -Seminar: Topics in Native American Art History


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Examines in-depth one or more themes or critical issues in Native American art history, or artworks from a local collection or cultural center.

    Prerequisite(s): ARHI 51 A, B, or C or one upper-division Art History course. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ARHI 140 PO -The Arts of Africa


    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.
  
  • ARHI 141A PO -Seminar: (Re)presenting Africa: Art, History and Film


    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.
  
  • ARHI 141B PO -Africana Cinema Through the Documentary Lens


    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.
  
  • ARHI 141M PO -Rep Blackness Music/Masculinity


    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.
  
  • ARHI 144B PO -Daughters of Africa: Art, Cinema, Theory, Love


    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
  
  • ARHI 150 SC -The Arts of China


    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.
  
  • ARHI 151 SC -The Arts of Japan


    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.
  
  • ARHI 154 SC -Seminar: Japanese Prints


    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.
  
  • ARHI 155 SC -The History of Gardens, East and West


    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.
  
  • ARHI 158 HM -Visualizing China


    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.
  
  • ARHI 159 PO -History of Art History


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ARHI 163 PO -Hellenistic and Roman Art


    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.
  
  • ARHI 166 PO -Pilgrimage and Crusade


    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.
  
  • ARHI 167 PO -Town, Castle and Cathedral in France


    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.
  
  • ARHI 170 PO -The Early Renaissance of Italy


    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.
  
  • ARHI 171 PO -High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy


    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.
  
  • ARHI 172 PO -Northern Renaissance Art


    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.
  
  • ARHI 173 PO -The Medieval and Renaissance City


    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.
  
  • ARHI 175 PO -Baroque Art of Northern Europe


    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.
  
  • ARHI 177 SC -Eighteenth-Century European Arts


    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.
  
  • ARHI 178 PO -Africana Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation


    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.
  
  • ARHI 179 PO -Modern Architecture, City, Landscape, Sustainability


    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.
  
  • ARHI 180R SC -Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes


    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.
  
  • ARHI 181 PZ -Modern into Contemporary: Art from 1945-1989


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An overview of significant issues and movements in art from 1945-1989. Mainstream and alternative art movements are discussed in relation to the cultural politics of the post-World War Two era. Topics include Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimalism, Performance and Conceptual Art, Process Art, Land Art, Site-Specificity, Institutional Critique, Feminist Art, and the Culture Wars of the 1980s. Emphasis is on North American and Western Europe, with comparisons to emerging global art centers.

    Prerequisite(s): Arhi 51C or another Arhi course. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ARHI 181 SC -Art from 1945-1989


    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.
  
  • ARHI 183 PZ -The Art World Since 1989


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An examination of contemporary art in the context of economic and cultural globalization. Topics include the impact of the end of the Cold War and the rise of economic neoliberalism on the arts; the emergence of new global art centers in the wake of major political transformations, such as the fall of South African Apartheid; contemporary Native American and Australian Aboriginal artists in the global marketplace; and artists’ response to issues of nationalism, ethnic violence, terrorism, and war.

    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.
  
  • ARHI 184 PO -Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History of North American Art


    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.
  
  • ARHI 185 SC -History of Photography


    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.
  
  • ARHI 185K PO -Seminar: Topics in History of Photography


    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.
  
  • ARHI 186A PZ -Seminar: Theories of Contemporary Art


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Based on close readings of key writings by artists, critics, curators and scholars, this discussion-based seminar focuses on the evolving aesthetic, social-political and theoretical discourses that have informed the art world since World War II.

    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.
  
  • ARHI 186B PZ -Seminar: Topics in Contemporary Art


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Examines in-depth one or more themes or critical issues in contemporary art history or artworks from a local collection.

    Prerequisite(s): Arhi 51C or another Arhi course. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ARHI 186C SC -Seminar: Topics in Asian Art


    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.
  
  • ARHI 186E PO -Art and Activism


    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.
  
  • ARHI 186F PO -Seminar: Topics in North American Art


    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.
  
  • ARHI 186G PO -Gendering the Renaissance


    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.
  
  • ARHI 186K SC -Seminar in Modern Art


    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.
  
  • ARHI 186L PO -Critical Race Theory, Representation & the Rule of Law


    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.
  
  • ARHI 186M SC -Seminar in 20th-Century Art


    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.
  
  • ARHI 186P PO -Seminar: Women, Art, and Ideology


    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.
  
  • ARHI 186Q PO -Reading the Art Museum


    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.
  
  • ARHI 186T PO -Art and Time


    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.
  
  • ARHI 186T PZ -Things


    Institution: Pitzer College

    Description: How do things matter? How do the meanings of objects change over time and as they move between places and contexts? What is “wealth in things” in a non-capitalist society? How are things transformed by colonialism and globalization? What happens to an object when it becomes a commodity? Or when it is displayed as an artwork? How have indigenous people mediated these transformations? Through these questions, this seminar explores the changing social life of objects over time and space. The course will focus, in turn, on two types of valued objects historically produced by women: Native Californian baskets and Polynesian barkcloth.

  
  • ARHI 186W PO -Whiteness: Race, Sex and Representation


    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.
  
  • ARHI 186Y PO -WMDs: Cinema Against War, Imperialism and Corporate Power


    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.
  
  • ARHI 187 SC -Old New Media


    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.
  
  • ARHI 188 SC -Representing the Metropolis


    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.
  
  • ARHI 189 SC -European Modernism 1840-1940


    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.
  
  • ARHI 190 PO -Senior Seminar


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ARHI 190 PZ -Senior Seminar in Art History


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will examine methodological and theoretical issues in art history through readings and student-led discussions. Guidance on research and writing the thesis. Students meet with their first readers throughout the semester and turn in one chapter at the end of the semester. Offered 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.

  
  • ARHI 191 PZ -Senior Thesis in Art History


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Students work independently, but in constant contact with their advisors. Letter grade only (no thesis accepted graded less than “C”).

    Prerequisite(s): ARHI 190. 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.
  
  • ARHI 198 SC -Independent Internship


    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.

Studio Art

  
  • ART 011 PZ -Drawing


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This class will focus on realism as a basis for accurately perceiving shape, form, value and texture. The course will begin with measuring techniques and perspective, address light and surface quality and end with portraiture. Students will experience a range of drawing media and practice multiple techniques for applying value.

    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.
  
  • ART 012 PZ -Painting


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is a beginning oil painting course with a focus on realistic painting. An understanding of painting realistically will be developed through work on accurate color matching and attending to common drawing problems. This course will introduce all basic oil techniques.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 011 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.
  
  • ART 015 PZ -Beginning Wheel Throwing


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An introductory studio course oriented toward exploring the possibilities of the utilitarian and ceremonial vessel. Students will utilize a variety of techniques, including the potter’s wheel and hand-building, along with basic glaze formulation and application and kiln firing to create unique, well thought-out pottery.

    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.
  
  • ART 016 PZ -Beginning Ceramic Sculpture


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An introductory studio course utilizing clay (and its related materials) as a sculptural medium. Hand-building techniques including pinching, coiling and slab work will be utilized. Creation of individual and group projects will focus on problem solving, acquiring technical skills and the development of ideas which express personal and provocative themes.

    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.
  
  • ART 017 PZ -Ceramic Tile


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will revolve around the conception, fabrication and installation of ceramic tile. Students will learn hand-building and moldmaking techniques in the creation of flat, low-relief and three dimensional tile, which will be glazed and fired. A variety of presentation formats, including mounted tile and public art will be explored.

    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.
  
  • ART 020 PO -Black and White Photography


    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.
  
  • ART 021 PO -Foundations of 2D Design


    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.
  
  • ART 037 PZ -Environments and Art


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A seminar and practicum dealing with diverse aspects of the natural and human environments from the perspectives of the arts, architecture and environmental activism. “Environment” is defined here in the holistic framework as being an organism. Visionary and vernacular built forms will also be studied as these apply to human/environmental relationships. Readings and projects serve to integrate theoretical, spiritual, historical and practical viewpoints.

    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.
  
  • ART 057 PZ -Mixed Media/Sculpture


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A studio course in the use of mixed media techniques and materials including but not limited to assemblage, sculpture, photography and 3-D structures. Emphasis on exploring the unique properties of materials and incorporating diverse mediums to express personal and innovative development.

    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.
  
  • ART 075 PZ -Watercolor


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will introduce the basic language of watercolor painting. An understanding of realistic painting will be developed through accurate color matching and painting from life. Students will learn to recognize the characteristics of watercolor as a medium and when to best utilize various techniques.

    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.
  
  • ART 101 PZ -Further Work in Mixed Media


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A studio course in mixed media/sculpture for the student with some experience in three-dimensional art studio work. Projects are designed to develop ideas, personal expression and expertise using a variety of materials and techniques.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 057 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.
  
  • ART 103 PZ -Environments Workshop


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A studio course concerned with art forms that either use aspects of the environment itself as a medium and/or deal with environmental issues in a primary manner. Diverse mediums will be employed to explore a broad spectrum of possibilities existing under the rubric of environmental art. Students should be prepared for a high degree of innovation and the possibility of collaborative projects.

    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.
  
  • ART 109 PZ -Adobe & Brick Oven Construction


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Students will learn about material properties, design implications and theoretical heat management while collaborating on the design, construction and permitting of an adobe and/or brick oven. Students will create unique designs that respond to a specific site. All tools and surface embellishments will be designed and fabricated by the students.

    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.
  
  • ART 111 PZ -Intermediate Painting


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Using realism as a foundation, we will push toward abstraction and explore the idea of unlimited space and mark making in painting. In particular, it seeks to maintain a balance between the orchestration of visual and syncopated energy in the exploration of mood, color and texture in crafting images.

    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.
  
  • ART 112 PZ -Anatomy/Figure Painting


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will focus on drawing as it applies to the human form. Students will gain a comprehensive knowledge of surface anatomy and render it correctly. Exercises will include gesture drawing, anatomical studies and longer poses for value studies.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 011 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.
  
  • ART 113 PZ -Drawing Workshop


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This advanced course emphasizes contemporary drawing techniques and concepts. The aim of the class is two-fold: to encourage experimentation and broaden your range of media and ideas and to help you define your own body of work.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 011 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.
  
  • ART 115 PZ -Food and Painting


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will examine the correlation between food and painting in three parts: the history of food painting, cooking technique as it parallels painting and adapting renaissance techniques for modern use. This is an advanced level studio class that will introduce unusual techniques. A thorough knowledge of painting methods is required.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 012 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.
  
  • ART 116 PZ -Moldmaking


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A studio course introducing the intricacies of mold-making for ceramics. Students will learn how to make single and multi-part plaster molds from clay prototypes and everyday objects. Projects will rely upon press molding and slip casting multiples to create increasingly complex technical and conceptual resolutions to project outlines.

    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.
  
  • ART 117 PZ -Further Work in Ceramics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A class for students who have had two semesters in ceramics (ART 015 PZ and ART 016 PZ) and are ready for a more in-depth involvement. There will be class and collaborative projects and more time for the student and instructor to discuss ideas and advanced techniques on an individual basis.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 016 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.
  
  • ART 118 PZ -Intermediate Wheelthrowing


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A continued exploration of the wheel as a tool for the manifestation of sculptural and utilitarian ceramic forms. Students will be challenged to create increasingly complex thrown, altered and hand-built forms, formulate and mix their own glazes and expand their ability to use ceramics to communicate in mature and compelling ways.

    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.
  
  • ART 120 PZ -Intro to Black & White Photography


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Black and white and color photography will be explored through studio and fieldwork with the camera, darkroom exercises and critiques. Field trips and gallery visits. Equipment needed: 35 mm camera with light meter.

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

    Formerly: Photography Studio, Photography Multi-Level

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ART 125 PZ -Intermediate B&W Photography


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is an intensive intermediate level studio-based course that will continue to build an analog darkroom skills while introducing variety of new printing processes, techniques, and equipment which may include: large and medium format cameras, studio lighting, alternative processes, and hybrid analog/digital methods of large format printing. The course will also include readings, a final self-directed project, and group critiques. Although the acquisition of technical skills is essential to this course- projects will be idea-driven and content will be emphasized throughout the course.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 120 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    Formerly: Photography Digital

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ART 126 PZ -Special Topics: Photography


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: In this class we will create a strong body of work through theme-based assignments, as well as self-guided projects. By looking at art from present-day artists, we will be working to better understand decision-making and process in regards to our own photography. Each course will be exploring specific themes over the length of the semester. We will primarily be using digital photography as our main tool, so it is recommended that you have a digital SLR.

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

    Formerly: Topics in Intermediate Photography

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ART 130 PZ -Design/Build Studio


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A hands-on design/build course that will culminate in a collaboratively designed building that will serve as a temporary emergency structure to house two people in case of a major environmental disaster in our area. Students will work together to design and build an aesthetic and sustainable structure that can be used as easily deployable prototype in the future should such an occasion arise.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 037 PZ or ART 057 PZ or ART 135 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ART 132 PZ -Practicum in Exhibiting Nature


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The course focuses on designing and implementing an exhibition plan for the Pitzer Outback. Students will assess the Outback as a resource and develop an exhibit strategy and management plan. Walking paths and interpretive signage will be constructed, and students will work in teams to design and develop the appropriate infrastructure.

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

    Cross-listing: EA 132 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • ART 133 PZ -Mural Painting


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will introduce students to the history of local murals and the technical practice of mural painting. The second half of this course will be conducted off-campus, working with a local community group to develop a site-specific mural.

    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.
  
  • ART 135 PZ -Sculptural Objects Functional Art (SOFA)


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A hands-on intermediate and advanced sculpture course that deals with the hybridization of art, sculpture and furniture. Students will explore the design ramifications of various styles that emerged during the 20th century including the Arts and Crafts Movement, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modernism, Pop and Post-Modernism. Taking a sculptural approach to furniture making, students will fabricate well-crafted pieces of their own design, testing the technical possibilities and limits of new, eccentric and/or recycled materials.

    Prerequisite(s): ART 057 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.
  
  • ART 138 PZ -The Multi-Dimensional Figure


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course focuses on drawing and sculpting as it applies to the human form. The objective of this course is to realize a comprehensive knowledge and appreciation of the human form and to develop the practical and theoretical tools for using it as compelling subject matter.

    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.
  
  • ART 141 SC -Introduction to Digital Imaging


    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.
  
  • ART 143 SC -Digital Color Photography


    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.
  
  • ART 145 SC -Beginning Photography


    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.
  
  • ART 148 SC -Introduction to Video


    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.
  
  • ART 181 SC -Topics in Art Theory


    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.
  
  • ART 181G SC -From Beauty to the Abject


    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.
  
  • ART 183 SC -Feminist Concepts & Strategies


    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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