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POST 128 PZ -The War on Terror
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What is the War on Terror? And what does it mean to fight a war against a strategy? This course examines the War from a variety of vantage points, including history, religion, foreign policy, psychology, gender, media, the law, human security, and political economy.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: IIS 128 PZ
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POST 129 PZ -Politics in Nation States
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course offers students a comprehensive introduction to the topics of comparative politics in nation states. Students will learn to analyze the internal or domestic politics of nation-states and make valid comparisons across states. Core topics include democracy and democratization, authoritarianism, power, ideology, nationalism, mass behavior, political economy, and other defining aspects of comparative politics. This course explores the political diversity of the world through a series of ten theoretically informed case studies. We will cover politics in Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Iran, India, and Nigeria.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 131 PZ -U.S. Foreign Policy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This class looks at American foreign policy through four images of the United States as an actor in the world. The images correspond simultaneously to theoretical literatures, political positions, and, at times, specific events or interpretations of events. The lenses are: (1) the US as state, (2) the US as Nation, (3) the US as Political System, and (4) the US as Empire. .
Prerequisite(s): POST040 PZ or equivalent strongly recommended. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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POST 133 PZ -Film, Politics and the Cold War
Institution: Pitzer
Description: For nearly 50 years the Cold War influenced nearly all aspects of American political and culture life. This course examine Cold War genre films in an effort to understand how Americans perceived the Soviet threat and how these popular perceptions influenced international and domestic politics.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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POST 135 PZ -Mapping Global Cultures
Institution: Pitzer
Description: People, ideas, artefacts and images appear to be circulating the globe in ever greater numbers. Buit does this make a global culture, is this the end for the local,, is the cultural diversity of humanity declining or is it enriched. This course places culture at the heart of the globalization debate, maps the historical and contemporary geography of global cultural power and examines some of its key forms, from mass migration to world religions, from global mega events to social movements.
First students will actively map four key elements of cultural globalization - the pattern of global migrations, the geography of global cultural infrastructures from language to the internet, the economic geography and functioning of the global culture industries and the use of soft power and cultural strategies by nation states. In the second part of the course, students will deploy these ideas to investigate the emergence and impact of global mega event from the world’s fairs to the Olympic Games, looking closely at the interplay of global and local actors in the production and circulation of meanings and ideas. In the third part of the course students will investigate three areas of contemporary cultural globalization - music and the visual arts, regional and consumerism, and new social movements.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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POST 136 PZ -Political Authority and State Formation
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is a course about change and continuity in the nature and structure of political authority in Europe and its implications for contemporary state-builders. The purpose of this seminar is to introduce students to current thinking in the social sciences on the emergence of the modern state in Europe. In recent years state building /failure have emerged as first order problems in international politics. As the difficulty of constructing viable and stable states in troubled regions of the world has come to the forefront of the international agenda, policy makers and academics have increasingly sought insights into the nature of the state by reexamining its emergence in Europe. In this course we will examine the principal social science approaches to European state formation within the context of current vibrant debates within historical literatures on the nature of political authority in late medieval and early mordern Europe. We will conclude by considering the implications of these literatures for contemporary problems of state failure and building.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: ANTH 136 PZ
Formerly: POST 136 PZ Race in Brazil and the US
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POST 138 PZ -Social Order, War & Violence
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The purpose of this course is to examine the problems of conflict and violence in ‘international’ and ‘domestic’ politics. We will attempt to take a fresh look at the concepts and assumptions that underlie the dominant theoretical approaches to ‘international’ and ‘civil’ war and peace. Are we asking the right questions? Do we have an adequate conceptual framework? Do we understand the nature and extent of the problem of violence and conflict in international politics? We will ask and derive preliminary answers to these and other questions in a broad comparative historical framework.
This seminar is an attempt to look at war and the societies that fight them on a grand, even epic scale. Almost every book on the syllabus is what I consider to be a masterpiece of historical scholarship. Most are syntheses that reflect the state of the art; they are the culmination of generations of scholarship and I believe that all students of war and violence should at the very least be aware of the existence of the profound scholarship being done outside of political science. They address big questions in elegant and often moving ways. The primary concern of the participants should be with the theoretical implications of the arguments and not with the details per se. The details, I believe, are essential in order to sustain any generalization worth making but are not an end in and of themselves. The reading is very heavy but I firmly believe that engaging these literatures will be profoundly important to the intellectual development of the participants.
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POST 140 HM -Global Environmental Politics
Institution: Harvey Mudd
Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 141 PZ -International Political Economy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Course examines the politics of international economic relations with a special focus on globalization. Covers the evolution and operations of the international political economy from the late-18th century to the 21st. Focuses on four areas: international trade, international monetary policy, capital flows, and the structure of global production.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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POST 142 PZ -The Third World and the Global Economy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An examination of the impact of international economic systems on the wealth and welfare of Third World countries. Early weeks treat the origins of the gap between rich and poor countries. Attention is then directed to problems raised by the contemporary global economic order and strategies to overcome the gap between rich and poor. The course addresses aid, trade, finance, foreign investment, and technology transfer.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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POST 143 PZ -Global Governance
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course explores efforts to address global issues with institutions and organizations that transcend the nation-state. International Organizations, regional associations, nongovernmental organizations, regimes, collective action strategies, epistemic communities, and government networks are examined.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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POST 144 PZ -Global Security
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course examines the debate over security in a global era. Is traditional national security obsolete, and should “human security” replace it? A partial list of topics covered includes: great power competition, terrorism, crime, cyber-warfare, economic instability, failed-states, and security of/for society’s vulnerable.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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POST 150 PZ -History of Political Philosophy: Ancients
Institution: Pitzer
Description: From the beginnings of Western Civilization either in the Bible or Plato’s Republic, there has been a continual dialogue among political philosophers concerning the nature of justice. What is a just regime? What is the relationship between justice and compassion or between justice and utility? How do we know the nature of justice? The course will examine key philosophers in this dialogue from the ancients to present thinkers on this subject.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: Political and Social Justice
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POST 151 PZ -History of Political Philosophy: Moderns
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course takes a critical look at the sharp change in understanding of Nature and its relationship to the historical beginnings and development of the modern state that originates during the Renaissance. We will examine modern philosophical tests that argue for new forms of democratic governments that promote the securing of individual freedoms, happiness and progress as well as those that raise concerns about the success of the modern project.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: Conquest of Nature & the Rise of the Modern State
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POST 152 PZ -Politics and Literature
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Would you like to know which variables are currently the most statistically reliable indicators of the winner of next year’s presidential election? Would you enjoy analyzing the responsiveness of members of Congress to their poorest constituents? Do you desire the knowledge to make incisive comments about European monetary policy? If so, great! Society needs more curious individuals like you.
Please be aware, however, that this is not really what we’ll be thinking about in this class. “Politics” is in the title. I see that. But we’ll be thinking about politics in its broadest possible sense, as when Aristotle says that justice is an ordering of the soul, or when Kant argues that freedom is a moral quality. Before we get to the debating and voting and legislating, there is a vast, subterranean world of values that we must evaluate and order. This is the level at which we struggle to understand the nature of freedom and how it is achieved. It is where we face the challenge of directing our own lives and of discerning our obligations towards others. This is a political process.
Why literature? Is there something that literary works can communicate that a more prosaic work of political theory cannot? Is there special political knowledge that eludes us when we remain on the level of newspapers, policy analysis, or journal articles?
And what is literature anyway? If Gertrude Stein wrote down and published the results of Congress’s last roll-call vote, what then?
Thus, defining “politics” broadly and lacking precise knowledge about where a mere aggregation of words end and literature begins, I have arranged this syllabus with the zeal of academic freedom (though not the license of tenure). I want to see what happens when we contemplate freedom, tyranny, obligation, inequality, oppression and war through literary mediums. Is the knowledge that results any different at all? If so, why? If not, why not?
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POST 155 PZ -Anarchist History and Thought
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course provides an introduction to the history and theory of anarchism. Major theorists covered include Godwin, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Goldman and others. The course will also add to materials available online at Anarchy Archives.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 156 PZ -Critical Race Theory
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This upper-level course approaches problems in critical race theory, broadly conceived, from the distinctive perspectives of legal theory, social theory, and political theory. Our readings will include Derrick Bell, Ian Haney Lopez, Howard Winart, Michael Omi, Lisa Lowe, Carole Pateman, and Charles Mills. A background in critical theory is helpful but not required.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 159 PZ -Crime and Punishment
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This class will explore the root causes of crime and the reasons for punishment.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 161 PZ -Religion and Liberalism
Institution: Pitzer
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 163 PZ -Feminist Theory
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An overview of various traditional feminist philosophies serves as a background for a critical engagement with contemporary issues of intersectionality of race, gender, class and sexual orientation, generational history, transnational movements, and epistemological debates regarding new ways of thinking and defining fundamental concepts of power, authority, rights and the nation-state.
Prerequisite(s): A course in GFS or Political Philosophy. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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POST 172 PZ -The Battle over Birth Control: The Politics of Contraception Policy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will examine contraception policy, and the debate surrounding it. In the interests of breadth I will situate this discussion in the context of other policies related to reproductive health policies including sex education, breastfeeding, abortion and pregnancy.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 174 PZ -U.S. Immigration Policy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Examines the factors shaping the size and composition of past and contemporary immigration flows to the U.S. Areas examined include the role of economics, social networks, policy and politics in shaping immigration flows and the process by which immigrants simultaneously participate in the politics of sending and receiving countries.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 175 CH -Immigration and Race in America
Institution: Pitzer
Description: America has long prided itself in being a nation of immigrants and in its ability to assimilate persons with distinct religious cultures and national origins. Far from being color-blind, the United States has been and remains a color-conscious society. The purpose of this course is to examine immigration and the formation of racial ideologies, hierarchies, and identities in America.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 180 PZ -Secularism and Public Opinion
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The purpose of this course Is to analyze research and carry-out projects that examine the causes and consequences of secularism among individuals from different societies and ethnicities. The course lays the foundation for understanding the philosophical roots of secularism, debates over its meaning, and it’s application across different societies.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 181 PZ -Agriculture & Political Rebellion
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course explores agrarianism as a foundation of consequential political life. To do so, it focuses on thinking beyond “food politics,” the theory and practice of the farm, politically momentous large-scale agrarian movements across the world, and the rise of a new agrarian politics in southern California and beyond.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 185 PZ -Political Psychology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The discipline of political psychology evolved as psychological theories were employed in the analysis of the political process. Today the discipline includes how political processes impact psychological functioning. This course surveys the foundations of political psychology including group dynamics and decision-making, gender differences in cognitive and political behavior, authoritarianism, Machiavellianism, violence and aggression, psychohistory, and the analysis of belief systems.
Prerequisite(s): POST 010A/B PZ or PSYC 010 PZ recommended, but not required. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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POST 187 PZ -The History and Political Economy of World Soccer
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course examines topics in the history and politics of world soccer. We will see how culture, politics, economics and history play themselves out upon the stage of stadium and field. 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.
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POST 189 PZ -Neoliberalism: IGLAS Seminar
Institution: Pitzer
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 190 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.
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POST 194 PZ -International Studies Workshop
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is a workshop for students applying for fellowships to undertake international research or teaching. Focused primarily on the Fulbright, the workshop will guide students through the development of proposals, personal statements and other items required for a nomination. The course is designed to be an encompassing and flexible vehicle to manage the large number of students applying for international fellowships. The class will meet every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 pm during the first half of the semester. Students may take it for a half-course credit, pass/no credit.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 194B PZ -International Studies Teaching Workshop
Institution: Pitzer
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 195 PZ -Senior Seminar: Politics of Homelessness
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What is homelessness? What are its origins? What does it tell us about our political condition? This course considers these questions in a capstone senior seminar for Political Studies majors. The course covers material from the various sub-fields of political studies.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 198 CH -God in the Barrio
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: This course examines the role of religion in shaping Latino socio-political incorporation. Historically, religious organizations have been critical institutions serving immigrant communities and assisting their integration into the United States. Do contemporary religious organizations play this role in Latino communities? Are certain churches more actively promoting civic engagement among Latinos?
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 199 PZ -Senior Thesis
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Students who choose to write a senior thesis must present a proposal or paper to the Political Studies/Economics Field Group at the end of the prior semester for approval. Students will work closely with their faculty thesis advisers.
Prerequisite(s): a senior seminar in Political Studies and field group approval. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 035 PO -City of Angels, City of Quartz
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 036 PO -Urban Politics & Public Policy
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 060 PO -Global Politics of Food and Agriculture
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 061 PO -The Global Politics of Water
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 118 SC -The Politics of Korea
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 128 SC -Race and American Capitalism
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 135 PO -Policy Implementation and Evaluation
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 135 SC -Political Economy of Food
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 136 PO -Politics of Environmental Justice
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 138 PO -Organizational Theory
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 139 PO -Politics of Community Design
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 149 PO -Techno Politics and Policy
Institution: Pomona College
Description: For course info, please see the Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 178 PO -Political Economy of Development
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 010 PZ -Introduction to Psychology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The purpose of the course is to introduce the student to psychology as it developed from a nonscientific interest to a scientific approach to human behavior. Special attention will be given to some of the major systems, issues and methods involved in contemporary psychology. Students will be expected to serve as participants in experiments.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 012 AF -Introduction to African American Psychology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course provides an introduction to African American Psychology. It includes perspectives, education, community, life span development, gender and related issues. The course emphasizes the critical examination of current research and theory. Students are expected to contribute orally and in writing.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: D, SOC
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PSYC 051 PO -Psych Approaches Study of People
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 084 CH -Psychology of the Chicana/o
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 091 PZ -Psychological Statistics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: A pragmatic introduction to experimental design, collection and analysis of data in contemporary psychological research. Descriptive and inferential statistics will be covered. Use of computer programs for data analysis will be emphasized. Intended for psychology concentrators. Cross-registration by permission of instructor only.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ or permission of instructor. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 092 PZ -Research Methods
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course provides an overview of issues related to the conduct of psychological inquiry. Topics to be covered include measurement, research design (observational, experimental and survey approaches) and research ethics. PSYC 092 PZ is designed to be taken after PSYC 091 PZ and is well-suited for sophomores. This course does not replace PSYC 112 PZ , which must be taken by seniors carrying out thesis projects.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ and PSYC 091 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 092P PZ -Research Methods Practicum
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This lab course will provide students with hands-on experience in research design and methodology in the field of psychology. Students will get experience in all phases of the research process (i.e., conducting a literature search, designing a study, collecting and analyzing data, and writing up APA-style reports). Must be taken concurrently with PSYC 092 PZ -Research Methods
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ & PSYC 091 PZ. PSYC 092 PZ must be taken concurrently. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 101 PZ -Brain and Behavior
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course provides an introduction to the biological bases of cognition and behavior. Topics may include basic neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, visual and auditory perception, attention, language, hemispheric specialization, memory, emotion, motor control, and social neuroscience.
Prerequisite(s): Please check current schedule for requirements
Note(s): Satisfies: BIO.
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PSYC 102P PZ -Memory Practicum
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This laboratory course will provide students with hands-on experience in research design and methodology in the domain of human memory. Students will get experience in all phases of the research process (i.e., conducting a literature search, designing a study, collecting and analyzing data, and writing APA-style reports). This practicum must be taken concurrently with Psychology 102 Memory.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 091 PZ and PSYC 092 PZ, or permission of instructor. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: PRA
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PSYC 103 PZ -Social Psychology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: We will examine major areas in social psychology such as attitudes, aggression, conflict, person perception, small group processes, and interpersonal attraction.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: SOC
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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PSYC 103 SC -Psychological Statistics
Institution: Scripss
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 104 PZ -Experimental Social Psychology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An examination of experimentally-based approaches to social psychology and the conclusions derived from research related to a variety of major questions in this field. This class will present a critical review and evaluation of contemporary work and discuss the connection between experimental findings and other work within and outside the discipline.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ & PSYC 091 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: PRA, SOC.
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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PSYC 104 SC -Research Design in Psychology
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 104L SC -Research Design in Psychology Laboratory
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 105 PZ -Child Development
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course covers a broad range of topics in developmental psychology. The course focuses largely on children, but will encompass some discussion of adolescence and early adulthood. Topics will be covered conceptually as well as chronologically, and will include biological, social, cognitive and societal/cross-cultural aspects of development. This course requires a 40-hour internship working with children, during the course of the semester.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: INT, DEV.
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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PSYC 107 PZ -Theories of Personality
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will provide an introduction to the major theories of personality. We will trace the development of personality theories beginning with Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis and concluding with recent developments in the field of personality psychology.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: SOC.
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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PSYC 109 CM -Introduction to Statistics for Psychologists
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 109 PZ -Laboratory in Social Development
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The goal of this course is to expose students to recent works in social and emotional development and to teach students about the unique methodological and ethical issues involved in conducting research in this area. Students will be designing and carrying out independent research projects as part of the course requirements.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ and PSYC 010 PZ 5 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: PRA, DEV.
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PSYC 109L PZ -Lab in Social Development
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The focus of this course is the familiarize students with the research methods, designs, & statistical procedures used in social develpment. Students will conduct two short studies at The Children’s School on CMC campus, and then design & conduct group projects on social develpment. Students will develop the skills of conducting a literature search, designing & carrying out a study, and writing up and framing research.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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PSYC 110 CM -Research Methods
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 111 PZ -Physiological Psychology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is designed to provide students with a sophisticated understanding of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology and their relationship with behavioral function. We will also be addressing such issues as the organization and activation of mammalian sexual behavior, sleep regulation, nutrition and auditory processing.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 101 PZ PZ or NEUR 095 JT or instructor’s permission Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: PRA, BIO.
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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PSYC 111L CM -Research Methods Practicum
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 112 PZ -Senior Research Methods
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course acquaints students with the principles and methods of scientific research in the field of psychology. Theoretical concerns underlying all research, specific designs used in laboratory and field settings and data analysis techniques will be discussed. This course is intended for seniors who are interested in furthering their knowledge concerning research methodologies; it is required of seniors working on an honors thesis.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ , PSYC 091 PZ and one prior laboratory 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.
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PSYC 116 PZ -Children at Risk
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will examine topics such as the risks posed to development by poverty, homelessness, parental mental health issues, domestic violence and abuse. We will also study ways to support resiliency in children in the face of these concerns. Students will be carrying out internships with related community agencies in Ontario that focus on children and families.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ . Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: INT, DEV.
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PSYC 117 PZ -Children and Families in South Asia
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The main focus of this course is on the nature of child development and familial relations in the South Asian context. Topics will include family structure, childrearing patterns and philosophies, sibling relationships and the development of gender roles. The impact of social, political and economic forces on children and families will also be discussed. The course is especially recommended for students going to or returning from study abroad in South Asia.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: DIV, SEM, DEV.
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PSYC 118 PZ -Health Psychology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will focus on psychological approaches to health and disease. Using theories in health psychology (biopsychosocial model and diathesis-stress model), behavioral components of major illnesses and cause of death and disability will be explored. The course will also cover psychological techniques used to prevent or manage health problems, including changing health habits, coping with stress, and pain management.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: CLI.
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PSYC 121 PZ -Cognitive Science
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Historical and contemporary views of the mind from a multidisciplinary perspective. How does the mind acquire, structure, and make use of knowledge? Topics Include consciousness, language meaning, thinking, decision-making, perception, remembering, and the self.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ and PSYC 091 PZ or permission of instructor. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: COG.
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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PSYC 123 PO -Language Development
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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PSYC 125 PZ -Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will focus on illuminating human development, using evidence obtained in studies of humans, animals and connectionist networks. In particular, we will focus on cognitive, perceptual and behavioral development from conception through the acquisition of language and we will use information obtained using psychobiological and computational techniques to understand these changes.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 091 PZ , PSYC 010 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: BIO, COG, DEV.
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PSYC 126 PZ -Psychology of Music
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course explores music from the perspectives of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Topics include the perception of pitch, melody, harmony, rhythm, and meter; the development of musical knowledge in children; the neural bases of music as evidenced by patient work (amusia), brain imaging, and electroencephalography; and comparisons among musical systems cross-culturally. Class meetings alternate between lecture and discussion of original research articles.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 003 SC (or equivalent experience) and either PSYC 101 PZ or PSYC 121 PZ, or permission of instructor. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: LGCS
Note(s): Satisfies: COG
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PSYC 127 PZ -Language and Cognition
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course introduces psycholinguistics and principles of human cognition. Topics may include the origins of human language; language and the brain; language diversity; child language acquisition including phonology, lexicon, and grammar; and adult language processing including semantics, syntax, language production, and discourse.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 10, LGCS 10, LGCS 11, or permission of instructor. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: LGCS
Formerly: Psychology of Language
Note(s): Satisfies: COG
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PSYC 130 PZ -Monkey Business: Controversies in Human Evolution
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Ever since Darwin first posited a plausible mechanism for evolution, scientists and non-scientists alike have used his ideas to support their own concepts about the nature of human nature. In class, we will examine the history, concepts and philosophy behind Darwin’s ideas, exploring in the process the fields of sociobiology, cognitive psychology and primatology, among others. We will also consider the relationship between development and evolution as we attempt to build an understanding of Darwin’s mechanism that is free of the confused notions that have become attached to it over the years.
Prerequisite(s): A college-level course in at least one of the following three areas: psychology, philosophy, or biology, or permission of the instructor. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: PHIL 130 PZ
Note(s): Satisfies: DEV
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PSYC 135 CM -Controversies in Cognitive Neuroscience
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 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: HIST 138 PZ
Note(s): Satisfies: DEV
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PSYC 148 PZ -Neuropharmacology and Behavior
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This upper-division course will begin with a review of basic pharmacological principles, including such topics as the determinants of effective drug action at a receptor site; routes of administration, absorption, lipid solubility, catabolism, and the Blood Brain Barrier. We will also discuss fast and slow transduction mechanisms with emphasis on second messengers. Finally, this course will review what is known about the neurochemical bases of disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, mania and autism.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ or NEUR 095 JT or permission of instructor Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: BIO
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PSYC 150 AF -Psychology of the Black Experience
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 151 CH -Psychology of Multicultural Education
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 153 AA -Asian American Psychology
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 153 PZ -The Socialization of Gender: A Developmental Perspective
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will focus on the way in which children come to be aware of and socialized into, specific gender roles. The course will address the way in which social institutions, the cultural context, parents/family members and peers act as socializing influences. Specific topics to be covered include parent-infant, parent-child interactions, the development of gender identity, cross-cultural differences in gender roles and the perspectives of various psychological theories. In addition, research on the differential socialization of males and females in the following areas will be examined: emotional development, friendships, need for achievement (particularly mathematics), moral understanding, reasoning, and body image.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ or ID 026 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: DIV, SEM, DEV
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PSYC 154 PZ -Cognitive Development
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Recent years have seen an explosion of theoretical and empirical advances that have revolutionized ideas about children’s thinking. This course will trace the evolution of these ideas, from Piaget through the information processing approach to cognitive development.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ , PSYC 091 PZ AND PSYC 105 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: PRA, COG, DEV
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PSYC 155 CM -Seminar in Ethnic Minority Psychology and Mental Health
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 155 PZ -Behavioral Epigenetics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Epigenetics is the study of gene regulation. Recent research indicates that experiences influence genetic functioning, highlighting how Nature and Nurture interact. In this course, students will read chapters and articles about this fascinating and important field, exploring (among other topics) how childhood experiences produce epigenetics effects that persist into adulthood, how epigenetic phenomena are involved in learning and memory, and how such phenomena contribute to the onset of diseases like obesity, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ and an introductory course in biology, or instructor’s permission. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: SEM, BIO, DEV.
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PSYC 157 SC -Psychology of the Black Woman in America
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 160 PO -Cognitive Psychology with Lab
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 162 PO -Memory and Language
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 171A PZ -Directed Research Practicum in Psychology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is designed to give students experience in working collaboratively with faculty on on-going research projects. Students will participate in all aspects of the research process, i.e., conducting background library research, designing a project, analyzing data, writing up results, and preparing manuscripts for presentation.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ and PSYC 091 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: INT
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PSYC 176 PO -The Psychology of Health and Medicine
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 180 PZ -Study of Lives
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will introduce students to the process of conducting an in-depth analysis of an individual’s life across time. Students will conduct extensive interviews with one person in an attempt to understand the complexity and uniqueness of that person’s life and to describe and explain patterns of behavior.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ and PSYC 107 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Satisfies: PRA, SEM, SOC
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PSYC 180J PO -Seminar on Language, Memory and the Brain
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 180L PZ -Study of Lives Lab
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This lab course will provide students with hands-on experience in research design and methodology in the field of narrative psychology. Students will get experience in designing and conducting semi-structured interviews with an older adult (age 65+), transcribing data, analyzing qualitative data, and writing up results.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 010 PZ & at least one other psychology course; students must enroll in PSYC 180 PZ concurrently. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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PSYC 180M CH -Chicano/Latino Cultural Psychology
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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