2014-2015 Pitzer Catalog 
    
    May 02, 2024  
2014-2015 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

History

  
  • HIST 047 SC -The Church of the Poor in Latin America and the Caribbean


    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.

  
  • HIST 050 PZ -Journalism in America, 1787-Present


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course traces changes in the communication of “news” in the United States, from courthouse oratory in the early republic to network television and Internet blogging in the twenty-first century. Topics of study include the invention of “news” itself in the early nineteenth century, the development of journalism as a profession, the rise and fall of objectivity as a professional goal since 1900 and the ways in which changes in technology have affected the transmission of information.

    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.
  
  • HIST 050A AF -African Diaspora in the United State to 1877


    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.
  
  • HIST 050B AF -African Diaspora in the United States since 1877


    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.
  
  • HIST 051 PZ -The Atomic Bomb in American Culture Since 1945


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: This course will examine the cultural implications of the continuing prospect of nuclear annihilation- something not present or even imaginable before Hiroshima. Topics to be considered include the motivations of the scientists who constructed the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, the role of nuclear weaponry in the Red Scare of the 1950s and various visions of post-nuclear world in fiction. Sources will include secondary texts as well as a number of films.

    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.
  
  • HIST 052 PZ -The History of Pitzer


    Description: Through guest presentations, interviews, and work with original documents in the on-campus Pitzer Archive and the Pitzer History Project at Honnold Library, students will explore the history of a unique undergraduate institution from its founding in 1963 to its fiftieth anniversary in 2013.

    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.
  
  • HIST 054 CM -Bread and Circuses


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 064 PZ -Travel and Encounter, 1200-1800


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Through accounts by merchants, missionaries, explorers, soldiers and captives, this course explores changing relations between European and peoples from the world beyond Europe, from 1200 to 1800. These narratives of encounter reveal evolving European attitudes and ideas about themselves, non-European cultures, civilization, nature and colonization through themes including religion, economy, sexuality, freedom and cannibalism.

    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.
  
  • HIST 066 PZ -Oral History: Methodology and Practice


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course explores how scholars have used oral history methodologies to reconstruct the pasts of communities and individuals who are not frequently represented in typical historical sources. The gathering of oral histories-from women, freed slaves, colonized people, gays and lesbians, and other disadvantaged groups-has thus resulted in new understandings of historical processes. Not only will students be introduced to oral history methodologies, but they will also design and conduct oral history 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.
  
  • HIST 068 PZ -Prison Autobiography


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: It is commonplace that history is written by the victors, that the voices of the marginalized are silenced, and that, in the words of Philip Guedalla, “History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.” There have been notable attempts, many notable attempts, to represent the unrepresented. (Howard Zinn’s People’s History being among the most obvious of these.) Too often missing, however, are the sources, and so historians struggle about how to give voice to the voiceless. This course, part of a larger project, aims to build from the bottom up. It is an exercise in self-conscious source creation. Assuming that inmates in the California prison system have things to say- and they do- and that their voices rae under-represented- and they are- we plan to group Pitzer students with inmates. The goal: begin crafting untold narratives together, as a collaborative enterprise.
     

    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.

  
  • HIST 073 PZ -The Problem with Profit


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: As capitalism emerged in Europe (ca. 1150-1600), this controversial idea and the actual accumulation of wealth in communities provoked many responses. This course begins by exploring theories about the development of capitalism. It then examines theological and political debates involving wealth and profit, the social groups who supported or condemned capitalism and cultural responses to inequalities of wealth.

    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.
  
  • HIST 074 PZ -Holiness, Heresy and the Body


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: What was holiness to pre-modern Europe? How was it expressed physically? What made someone a saint rather than a heretic or a witch? How did the relationship between sanctity and the body change in Europe from waning days of the Roman Empire to 1600 C.E.? What are the connections between such people and the evolution of Christianity in Europe? In order to answer these questions, we will study people either praised as holy or condemned as heretics and how their contemporaries figured out the difference. We will examine the significance of gender, attitudes toward body and mind, charisma, social status, and relationships to supernatural or divine powers.

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

    Note(s): RLST Majors: HRT II, CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 089 PZ -The Sixties


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will examine the now much mythologized period of American history known as “the sixties.” It will inevitably deal with the sordid history of “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll,” as well as histories of revolting youth. But just as importantly, the course will be driven by three theoretical questions. First, what is the relationship between the political activism of bourgeois youth in the “the sixties” and ritualized processes of social reproduction, experienced as the transition from “childhood” to “adulthood”? Second, what is the relationship between the leftist politics of “the sixties” and the historical formation of professional managerial classes in U.S. and world history? And third, how do singular events-such as the decade’s iconic assassination of President John F. Kennedy-articulate with cultural schemas?

    Prerequisite(s): HIST 021 PZ/ANTH 021 PZ or concurrent enrollment in HIST 021 PZ/ANTH 021 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    Cross-listing: ANTH 089 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 098 PZ -The Modern State and History: the Israeli Case


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This seminar examines relationships between the Israeli state and historical remembering, particularly in regard to four moments: (i) the reported exile following the Bar Kokhba revolt of the second century, (ii) the Holocaust, (iii) the establishment of the Israeli state, and (iv) the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The seminar’s examination of the Israeli state’s relationship to historical remembering is preceded by consideration of (i) the scholarly literature on the social construction of races, nations, and peoples, and (ii) debates about the desirability of “neutrality” and “balance” in courses on controversial, potentially incendiary topics (such as this course, obviously). Materials used in the course include films (such as, “A Film Unfinished,” “Paradise Now,” and “Gatekeeepers”), as well as readings by such figures as Nadia Abu El-Haj, Rashid Khalidi, Amos Oz, Edward Said, and Shlomo Sand. The seminar concludes by considering what the Israeli case tells us more generally about modern states and historical remembering.

    Prerequisite(s): HIST 011 PZ/ANTH 011 PZ or (in exceptional cases) permission of the 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.
  
  • HIST 100AK PO -Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals


    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.

  
  • HIST 100C CH -Chicana/Latina Histories


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 100I CH -Identity & Culture in Latin America


    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.
  
  • HIST 100N CH -The Mexico-United States Border


    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.
  
  • HIST 100NB CH -United States-Latin American Relations


    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.
  
  • HIST 100Q PO -Water in the West


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 100U AF -Pan-Africanism and Black Radical Traditions.


    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.
  
  • HIST 100WC PO -Early Christian Views of Islam


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 100WR PO -Medieval Spain


    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.
  
  • HIST 100WX PO -Crusade and Jihad


    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.

  
  • HIST 100X PO -Modern Caribbean Pro-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.
  
  • HIST 101 PO -Ancient Greece


    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.
  
  • HIST 103A CM -History of The Roman Republic


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 103B CM -Roman Empire: 44 BCE - 565 CE


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 104 CM -Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 107 CM -Ancient and Medieval Historians


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 108 CM -The Age of Cicero


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 110K PO -Topics in Ancient 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.
  
  • HIST 110S CH -Latina/o Oral Histories


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 110WH PO -Heresy and Church


    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.
  
  • HIST 111B AF -African American History Since 1877


    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.
  
  • HIST 118 PZ -Teaching U.S. History: Practicum


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will examine both the politics and practice of United States history teaching. It will explore how the California State standards for U.S. history came to be and the sometimes problematic classroom relation between history and “social studies.” In the first half of the course, students will attend lectures and examine primary documents related to the period 1929-1945. In the second half of the course, students will prepare for and serve an intensive internship in a Pomona high school history classroom, including preparation and presentation of one lesson plan on the period we’ve studied.

    Prerequisite(s): A prior college-level course in U.S. history (such as HIST 025 PZ/HIST 026 PZ) is desirable, 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.
  
  • HIST 125 AA -Introduction to Asian American History


    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.
  
  • HIST 128 HM -Immigration and Ethnicity in America


    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.
  
  • HIST 131 HM -The Jewish Experience in America


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

    Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

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

    Note(s): RLST Major: HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 132 PZ -Marx in Context


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Despite his lasting importance as a social critic and political thinker, Karl Marx is rarely appreciated as an observer of his own world. In this course, we will read Marx in the context of nineteenth-century Europe. As a working journalist, Marx was intimately familiar with the great movements and upheavals of his time. We follow him from the quiet German towns and idealist philosophy of his youth, to the great revolutionary metropolis of mid-century Paris, to the blaring factories of industrial Manchester and up through the unification of Germany. We will use Marx’s writings to make sense of that world, while, at the same time, attention to the history of nineteenth-century Europe will help us interpret his writings.

    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.
  
  • HIST 136 PZ -A History of the Police State


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: There are many ways to explore the history of the police state, and this course offers only one of them. Beginning with Michel Foucault, we explore the conceptual foundations of the police state, concentrating especially on its development during the 18th century. From there we move successively eastward in space and forward through time, exploring the subject through histories, novels, diaries, and autobiographical accounts. We are all comfortable with the idea that certain repressive, despotic regimes were (and are) police states. The more uncomfortable question is what the United States shares with places like Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. It is a complicated question, one with many possible answers; its solution lies in the past.

    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.

  
  • HIST 138 PZ -Seeking Human Nature: The History and Science of Innateness.


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: “Human nature” has long been invoked to understand and justify our behaviors. After the advent of Darwinian evolution and Mendel’s gene theory, however, the notion of “instinct” gained authority, reshaping categories like “race” and “nature.” We will track that shift and examine its effects on political economy and social policy.

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

    Cross-listing: PSYC 138 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 140 PO -Empire in the Middle East and North 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.

  
  • HIST 142 PZ -Slavery and Slave Trading in Africa and Beyond


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Most people associate the word “slavery” with the enslavement and forced migration of African people to the Americas in the early modern era. Though this course does not overlook the momentous nature of this development in world history-and will thus examine it in detail-it also seeks to broaden our knowledge of slavery and slave trading by treating them as worldwide phenomena that date back to the classical age and remain with us still today. Accordingly, this course will consider: the definition of slavery and other forms of servile labor; the institutions and experiences of slavery in diverse historical contexts, especially in Africa and South Asia; why Africans were traded as slaves to the Americas and how this trade affected culture and society in Africa; and, lastly, the continuation of human trafficking in the modern world after the supposed “end of slavery.”

    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.
  
  • HIST 143 AF -Slavery and Freedom in the New 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.
  
  • HIST 144 PZ -Death and Dying in African History


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course analyzes diverse African experiences, perceptions and geographies of morbidity and mortality from the era of the slave trade, through colonial rule, to recent times. Students will investigate the following major questions: How have death and dying influenced identity and power relations among the living throughout Afric’s past? In what ways were meanings od death and dying connected to the natural world? How did Africans inscribe the natural environment with these meanings, and how did these connections change over time? How have Africans made meaning from human morbidity and mortality through their social, political, economic, and environmental struggles?

    Prerequisite(s): Please check current schedule for requirements

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 145 PO -Afro-Latin America


    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.
  
  • HIST 148 PZ -Gender in African History


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Drawing on diverse historical case studies, life histories, biography, and film, this course examines the broad topic of gender in Africa through such themes as power and gendered rituals of transformation; slavery and the impact of trans-continental slave trades; colonial encounters; European constructions of black female sexuality; changes in African marriage practices and the meaning of marriage; same-sex relationships and homophobia; work, culture, and migrancy; women’s bodies and intimate colonial interventions- medical and moral; ethnicity and nationalism; poverty, famine, and the environment; and the social context of HIV/AIDS, its spread, and its prevention. The course will also discuss whether the application of western categories of gender is useful for understanding and analyzing the experiences of African men and women.

    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.
  
  • HIST 152 PZ -Down and Out: The Great Depression, 1929-1941


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The economic depression triggered by the stock market crash of 1929 was no fluke-it had been building in the global economy ever since World War I. Yet, when it came, it descended on Americans with a peculiar swiftness and with a severity that was relieved only by a second world war. This seminar course inquires into the causes of the depression, the ways Americans coped (or failed to cope) with it and the psychological scars it left on its generation. In 2010-11, the course included a significant emphasis on the literature of the Depression decade.

    Prerequisite(s): Some familiarity with U.S. history (HIST 26 or similar introductory course) is strongly recommended, but not required. First-years and sophomores with permission of instructor only. 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.
  
  • HIST 153 AF -Slave Women in Antebellum America


    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.
  
  • HIST 154 PZ -U.S. Labor History


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description:  

    This course examines the changing meaning of labor in the United States as the nation evolved from a collection of farmers to the greatest industrial power in the world, and then into “post-industrial” economy with which we are still grappling. The focus will be on the struggles between workers and employers for control, including such things as “scientific management,” unions, political movements and on-the-job resistance. We will also examine the connections between labor, the national state, and globalization; and the interplay of class consciousness with racial and gender identity. The period since 1880 is emphasized.

    Prerequisite(s): Some familiarity with U.S. history (HIST 26 or similar introductory course) is recommend, 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.

  
  • HIST 156 PZ -American Empire: 1898 & After


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The Spanish-American War of 1898 inaugurated more than a century of American adventurism abroad and gave the U.S. its first taste of colonial administration. Starting with a look at turn-of-the-century theorists of empire, we will examine the war in its domestic political and cultural context, then turn to its subsequent ramifications for both colonizer and colonized-including a brief consideration of present-day imperial dreams.

    Prerequisite(s): Some familiarity with U.S. history (HIST 026 PZ or similar introductory course) is helpful, 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.
  
  • HIST 158 JT -US Civil War and Reconstruction


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This seminar course looks at the causes and consequences of the American Civil War-social, cultural, economic and political. Although not neglecting military history, it places emphasis on the decisions leading up to the conflict and on the devastation it left in its wake, with special attention to slave society and its destruction.

    Prerequisite(s): A previous college-level introductory course in history (at Pitzer, HIST 025 PZ or HIST 026 PZ) is highly desirable 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.
  
  • HIST 159 PZ -Victorian America, 1870-1900


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This seminar course will focus on the social, cultural, economic and political history of this anxious time, otherwise known as the Gilded Age and the Great Barbecue. Topics covered include the rise of big business, genteel culture and its eclipse, Populism, Victorian marriage and Darwinism (social and otherwise).

    Prerequisite(s): HIST 026 PZ or equivalent course strongly recommended; first-year students and sophomores with permission of instructor only. 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.
  
  • HIST 160 PZ -Violent Dissent in U.S. Politics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Has political violence undertaken against the state or without state permission represented a deviation from (and an obstacle to) American political development, or has it been essential to American political development? Is non-state political violence aberrant or fundamental in American history? This course examines instances of violent dissent and resistance and the way they fit into the established narratives about the American past. The course will also examine the question of legitimacy, asking if Americans have always believed that government has a monopoly on legitimate violence.

    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.
  
  • HIST 163 PZ -Propaganda


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Examination of propaganda past and present. We will look at everything from police state rhetoric to mass-market advertising, investigating the ways in which propaganda has been mobilized in different times and places.

    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.
  
  • HIST 168 PZ -Diaspora, Gender, and Identity


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will interrogate the multiple conceptualizations of “diaspora” through the analytic lens of gender and in a diverse historical contexts, particularly in the early modern and modern eras and focusing on African, Chinese, and Indian diasporas. Until recently, studies have neglected women and gender in comparative diaspora histories. this course will therefore focus on cutting-edge scholarship dealing with identity reproduction, the role of marriage and sex in establishing networks across space and time, and tensions over sexuality, masculinity, patriarchy, community leadership, morality, and belonging.

    Prerequisite(s): 1 course in either history, anthropology or GFS. 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.
  
  • HIST 170 PZ -Hybrid Identities: Spanish Empire


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: In the Spanish Empire, many distinct peoples coexisted under one king and together created a diverse imperial society. This seminar examines the ways that religion, ethnicity, language, law and space defined or failed to define people in the Spanish Empire. We will pay particular attention to the processes of cultural encounter, domination, resistance and adaptation that formed identity. The course begins in Spain, exploring interactions between “old Christian” Spaniards, Jewish people converted to Christianity and Muslims converted to Christianity. We then turn to colonial Latin America and the Philippines to consider interactions between Spaniards and indigenous peoples such as Aztec, Inca, Maya, and Tagalog Filipinos.

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

    Note(s): RLST Majors: HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 172 PZ -Empire and Sexuality


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The construction of gender and sexuality was central to British and French imperialism. This course examines the formation of genders in colonial Asia and Africa from the 18th through the early twentieth centuries. We will look at men and women, colonizers and colonized and hetero- and homosexualities in order to understand the connections between gender, sexuality, race and power. Themes will include gendered discourses that defined political authority and powerlessness; the roles that women’s bodies played in conceptualizing domesticity and desire; and evolving imperial attitudes toward miscegenation, citizenship and rights.

    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.
  
  • HIST 173 AF -Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Race


    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.
  
  • HIST 173 PZ -Religion, Violence and Tolerance, 1450-1650


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines religious and social transformations in Europe from 1450 to 1640. Focusing on common people’s experiences, we will explore the relationship of religion to social action and tolerance during an era when Latin Christendom broke apart into a religiously divided Europe. We will examine how religious ideas, practices and debates fueled social conflict and protest and under what circumstances religious toleration and intolerance were possible.

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

    Note(s): RLST Majors: HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 175 PZ -Magic, Heresy and Religion


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines the history of witchcraft, magic and forbidden versus approved belief in the trans-Atlantic world from 1400 to 1700. We will begin in Europe and then turn to Spanish America and New England to examine the contributions of Africans and Native Americans to both the practice and ideas of witchcraft. Special focus will be given to the role of the devil and the ways that gender influenced decisions to condemn or accept ideas about magic and nature.

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

    Note(s): RLST Majors: HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 176 AF -Civil Rights Movement Modern Era


    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.
  
  • HIST 178 PZ -Women and Gender in Europe, 1300-1650


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Since gender historians asked-“Did women have a Renaissance?”-debates have raged about how women and gender roles were affected by the Renaissance and the Reformation. This course examines women’s positions in the household (as daughters, wives, mothers and widows) and in the broader community (as nuns, humanists, artists, prostitutes and witches) during these economic, social and cultural transitions.

    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.
  
  • HIST 179A/B/C/D HM -Special Topics in the History of Science


    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.
  
  • HIST 181 PZ -Explorations in Deep Time


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: At the end of the seventeenth century, the bottom dropped out of time. Those accustomed to thinking of the Earth and of humanity, according to biblical timescales now had to confront the possibility of “deep time,” the possibility of a time whose magnitude defied the imagination. We will examine that shift and its consequences, as it played itself out through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with ramifications into the present.

    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.
  
  • HIST 183 CM -The Fall of Rome and the End of Empire


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 183 HM -Science and Technology: North American Culture


    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.
  
  • HIST 187 PZ -The History and Politics of World Soccer


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course surveys the history and politics of world soccer. We will see how culture, politics and history play themselves out upon the stage of stadium and field, from fascist Italy to visionary Uruguay to indomitable Cameroon. We will see how the World Cup has become a catalyst for political and cultural debate, and how it has made, and destroyed, political regimes. And we will try to understand the game as others, in different times and places, have seen it: a game freighted with meaning and beauty

    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.
  
  • HIST 188 PZ -Anxiety in the Age of Reason


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Many enlightenment authors expressed confidence in the relentless progress of knowledge, but they also exuded skepticism and unease about reason. New questions about nature and new approaches to studying it, unleashed fears about humanity’s place in the world. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz worried that the specter of infinite time might eliminate the need for God; David Hume doubted the necessity of cause and effect; Immanuel Kant limited reason to make way for faith. Each of these writers used reason to question the religious and metaphysical foundations of knowledge. But reason also created its own fears. This course is about those fears and what lay behind them.

    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.
  
  • HIST 189 PZ -Frankfurt School


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course focuses on the history and writings of the Frankfurt School, the group of theorists associated with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt. The Frankfurt School would become enormously important, especially as a foundation for what is now often (and somewhat uncritically) called “critical theory.” This is an advanced seminar. Students will be expected to have some knowledge of the sources that Frankfurt School thinkers considered foundational, among them Kant, Marx, Weber, and Freud.

    Prerequisite(s): HIST 012 PZ or by 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.
  
  • HIST 189A PO -US Environmental 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.
  
  • HIST 197 PZ -The Seminar in History


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An introduction to selected major historians and subfields of history, Required of all history majors for graduation. Should be taken in junior year or first semester of senior year. Open to non-history majors with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit.

    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.
  
  • HIST 199 PZ -Senior Thesis.


    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.

History of Ideas

  
  • HSID 001 PZ -Introduction to the History of Ideas


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An exploration of the shift in Western attitudes toward human life in the second half of the 19th century. Readings include Wells’ Invisible Man, Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde, Stoker’s Dracula and Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes.

    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.
  
  • HSID 005 PZ -History of Philosophy: Ancient-600 BC-425 AD


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A survey of the history of European philosophical thought from the time of the ancient Greeks to the middle ages. Readings include selections from the works of Plato, Aristotle and Boethius. Appropriate for all 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.
  
  • HSID 009 PZ -History of Philosophy: Modern


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A survey of the history of European philosophical thought from Shakespeare’s time to the 1800s. Readings include selections from the works of Descartes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume. Appropriate for all 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.
  
  • HSID 119 PZ -Metaphysics & Metaphysicians: Poets & Philosophers


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: In the seventeenth century, developments in science and metaphysics revolutionized the way people perceived the world and wrote about it. This course will examine the revolution, focusing on the relation of metaphysics to poetry. Readings from Donne and others.

    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.
  
  • HSID 122 PZ -Alien Gods


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A look at three mystical and magical religious traditions: Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, and Hermeticism.

    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.
  
  • HSID 123 PZ -Philosophy of Magic and the Occult


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A look at the practice and theory of the modern occult movement, with emphasis on “The Golden Dawn.” Appropriate for all 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.
  
  • HSID 136 PZ -The Emotions


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A philosophical look at the nature of emotion in general and at the natures of the particular emotions of guilt, shame, embarrassment, anger, jealousy, and envy.

    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.
  
  • HSID 140 PZ -The Philosophical Dialog


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: In this course, we will read several philosophical dialogs and examine the arguments in them, while asking the literary question of why their authors were attracted to this form. Readings will range from Plato’s Euthyphro to John Perry’s recent Dialog on Personal Identity and Immortality.

    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.
  
  • HSID 150 PZ -The Detective Novel


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An explanation of the evolution of detective fiction in relation to its changing historical and cultural context. Readings from Poe, Doyle, Christie, Hammitt, and Chandler.

    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.


Interdisciplinary Studies

  
  • GFS 191 PZ -Senior Thesis or Project


    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.

International and Intercultural Studies

  
  • IIS 010 PZ -Introduction to International and Intercultural Studies


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will introduce students to the field of international and intercultural studies. The course objective is to acquaint students with key concepts and practices defining human societies and their relations, such as colonialism, development, revolution, national and transnational, globalization, ideology, identity, culture, and knowledge. The course also exposes students to disciplinary, area studies and newly emerging conceptualizations of the field.

    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.
  
  • IIS 017 PZ -History and Political Economy of Natural Resources


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course surveys the modern history and political economy of natural resources. Though we will focus on gold, diamonds, and oil, the course also addresses larger issues of resource exploitation within specific historical, political, and economic settings. We begin with the so-called “scramble for Africa,” when European nations carved up Africa between them at Berlin Conference in 1885. This scramble for Africa and its resources was later extended to other regions of the non-western world, such as the Middle East. The course will then explore the role of natural resources in internal and global conflicts, from the colonial to the post-colonial periods, focusing on how those conflicts played themselves out in Africa and the Middle East.

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

    Cross-listing: HIST 017 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • IIS 038 PZ -Nature, Movement and Meditation in Qigong


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Qigong is an ancient Chinese philosophy and practice. This course will have two major components: 1) history and theory of Qigong within Chinese culture, and 2) Qigong practice based on the Wei Tuo Eight Minute Drill that balances energy components of the human body for both physical and psychic health. Here the human ecology of the interaction between Qi energy in the natural environment and human beings will be investigated. This course will not only provide access to information and knowledge “about” another culture, but also will provide an opportunity to experience how another culture accesses knowledge.

    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.
  
  • IIS 050 PZ -Power and Social Change


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: “Power to the People!” “Knowledge is power.” What does one mean by power, and how may altering power relations lead to social change? This course will critically examine different theories of power, the relationship between power and violence, and how power can be used to liberate as well as dominate and manipulate. Students will examine works from various interdisciplinary fields and movements, such as Marxism, feminism, postmodernism, anti-colonial and postcolonial movements, and indigenous and grassroots 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.
  
  • IIS 060 PZ -Interdisciplinary Knowledge & Global Justice


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Designed as an introduction to theoretical debates central to interdisciplinary critiques of objectivist epistemology and methodologies, the course provides students with interdisciplinary methods for research and other knowledge practices. Students will be exposed to a range of alternative ways that interdisciplinary fields frame questions, conduct research and engage in action by challenging the political and ethical terms of the academy, muddying the fiction of the theory/practice divide, exploring the kinds of theoretical, ideological, and material praxis that constitute interdisciplinary inquiry. Ethics, politics, epistemologies, authority, evidence, protocols, priorities, and feasibility will be discussed as students design a research project in interdisciplinary knowledge production to be used in External Studies independent study projects and/or in senior projects.

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

    Formerly: Knowing and Telling

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • IIS 067 PZ -Resistance to Monoculture


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Course examines historical and contemporary resistance to monocultural patters of knowledge and social relations supporting capitalist modernity. Resistance to monoculture has historically emerged from groups surviving the onslaught of monoculture, including women; the underclasses; and peoples of third worlds and first nations. The knowledge systems of these groups suggest how to practice constructive social change.

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

    Note(s): RLST Majors: PRT

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • IIS 075 PZ -Introduction to Postcolonial Studies


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An exploration of the ways in which resistance to colonization has shaped colonized peoples and colonizers alike past and present. Social movement websites, films analytical readings, and short fiction will survey various perspectives (Marxism, postmodernism, feminism, queer theory) on postcolonial studies. The course will introduce methods of constructing seemingly “natural” objects (nation, landscape, historical fact, women) in ways that decolonize social and material relations and knowledge.

    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.
  
  • IIS 080 PZ -Introduction to Critical Theory


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A survey of social and cultural critiques at an introductory level, this course will prepare students for advanced level critical thinking, interdisciplinary solution building and social change work. We will begin with theoretical frameworks in established fields of social critique, such as feminism, anti-colonialism, cultural studies, critical race theory, critical legal/justice studies, and women of color theory. The course also introduces postmodern theories in postcolonial studies, poststructuralist feminism, post-Marxism, border studies and queer theory. Suitable for first- and second-year students, as well as upper level students who feel they have not yet been sufficiently exposed in their education to critical and/or theoretical thinking.

    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.
  
  • IIS 095 PZ -Engaging Difference


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The overall goal of this interdisciplinary course is to assist participants to develop intercultural competence especially intercultural sensitivity and cross-cultural research. The course will give students a skill set for conducting global/local research on study abroad and the opportunity to gain a basic understanding of the role that culture plays in intercultural communication.

    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.
  
  • IIS 109C PZ -Chinese Philosophy, Culture and Traditional Medicine


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is an intermediate course on theory, history, and practice of Wei Tuo QiGong. Students will study and practice the Shao Lin Tu Na exercises and meditation to better understand and experience the cultural and medical context of qi gong. Students will reflect upon the concepts of the mind/body relationship, time, consciousness and dreams.

    Prerequisite(s): IIS 038 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.
  
  • IIS 110 PZ -(Mis)Representations of Near East and Far East


    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.
  
  • IIS 113 PZ -Science, Politics and Alternative Medicine


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This seminar will study healing practices from around the world. It will include three aspects: 1) the philosophical, historical and political dimensions; 2) the local knowledge and theories of healing and illness in four traditions-Amerindian and Chinese and two from among the following: Mayan, African, Santeria, Curindera, Brazilian spiritualists, etc.; and 3) a review of the clinical efficacy of these complementary and alternative medicines provided by the Western biomedical sciences, as well as their political acceptance within the U.S.

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

    Cross-listing: POST 190 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • IIS 120 PZ -State and Development in the Third World


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course analyzes the role of the state in the development process in Third World societies. It explores state policies toward rural development and industrialization, as well as socio-political forces which influence the implementation of development policies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • IIS 122 PZ -Contemporary Political and Social Movements in the Third World


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course explores the rise, the nature and the objectives of popular movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Using political economy and comparative approaches, the course examines: (1) recent theories of social movements and (2) the roots of rebellions, protests and resistance as expressions of unsatisfied needs. Case studies include: Islamic, ethnic/racial, women’s and ecological 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.
  
  • IIS 123 PZ -Third World Socialism


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The variety of historical experiences and dilemmas in the transition to socialism in the Third World will be explored through six case studies: China and Vietnam, Cuba and Nicaragua, Tanzania and Mozambique. A comparative perspective will focus on issues such as colonialism and imperialism, development and the peasantry, constraints of the international system, ideology and mass mobilization, democracy and the state.

    Prerequisite(s): Social Science background. 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.
  
  • IIS 125 PZ -African Politics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The focus of this course will be democracy in Africa. More specifically, it will involve an examination of the struggles over the forms democracy takes, a review of democracy’s internal and external advocates, a study of the relationship between democracy and development and an analysis of the factors which led to the adoption and demise, of forms of democracy in a variety of African 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.
 

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