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MS 088 PZ -Mexican Visual Cultures
Institution: Pitzer
Description: A survey of both popular and elite visual arts in Mexico from the time of Independence to today, including painting, prints, murals, sculpture and, more recently, film and video. Emphasis will be placed on the interchanges between media and the understanding of visual culture as a reflection of social changes.
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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MS 091 PZ -History of American Broadcasting
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Studies the history of American broadcasting from the diffusion of radio as a mass media through the transition to television, up to the development of television as the dominant broadcasting form. Students will begin to understand the impact of U.S. broadcasting by familiarizing themselves with key programs and trends.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: Also offered at Pomona
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MS 093 PZ -Experimental Media Practice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An intermediate production course that engages with media practices outside of the traditional single-channel film or videotapes made for broadcast or screening in a theatre. New genres and hybrid media forms including installation, performance, and tactical media are explored through a series of readings, lectures, presentations, and creative assignments in both individual and group 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.
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MS 099 PZ -Advanced Editing
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course integrates the theory and history of editing with instruction in on-line non-linear video editing. Reading and viewing assignments will complement hands-on editing exercises.
Prerequisite(s): Introduction to Video Production-MS 082 PZ, MS 182 HM, Art 148 SC. 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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MS 100 AA -Asian Americans in Media
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is a historical survey of Asian American involvement in media production, beginning with the Silent Film Era and ending with contemporary projects in film, video and new media. In this course, we will focus on the shifting yet continuous participation of Asians in the production of media in North America and look at how changing political, social and cultural discourses have shaped media representations of Asians throughout this period.
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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MS 105 PZ -Transnational Media Theory
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course reviews a wide range of scholarship on national cinema and electronic media practices as well as how visual media production and consumption connect to developing ideas of nation, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and a public sphere in disaporic and immigrant communities.
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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MS 110 PZ -Media & Sexuality
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is an intermediate/advanced-level course examining the intersections between media theory and the study of sexuality. In exploring issues including transgenderism, pornography, censorship, feminism, queer cinema, and representations of race and sexuality, this course focuses on compelling case studies that provide students with specific understanding of the prevailing debates and defining theories of sexuality within Media Studies.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ or MS 050 PZ or intro level GFS course. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Please note: Students must be aged 18 and above to enroll in this course.
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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MS 111 PZ -Perspectives on Photography
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course critically examines the photograph as artifact, art, evidence, and weapon. Section 1 looks at photographs through the works of key theorists. Section 2 introduces the anthropology of photography as a social practice, including its relation to colonialism, race, and the global circulation of representations. Section 3 hones in on African photography. Section 4 analyzes current trends, including the role of the photograph in journalism, art, indigenous activism, and the digital era.
Prerequisite(s): Introductory course in Media Studies or Anthropology. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: Formerly Anthropology of Photography
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MS 112 PZ -Anthropology of Media
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Life today is saturated by various kinds of media. In the last two decades, a new field-the ethnography of media-brings anthropology’s cross-cultural perspective and attention to everyday reality to studies of media and theorizes media as constituting new spaces of community and self-making in a globalized world.
Prerequisite(s): Prereq; Introductory course in Media Studies or Anthropology. 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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MS 114 PZ -Film Sound
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An intermediate level media history and theory course exploring how sound functions in cinema. Topics covered by the course include the history of sound technologies, film sound theories, voice in cinema, film music, sound recording and reproduction in film.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ or MS 051 PZ; or some introductory level music theory courses. 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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MS 115 PZ -Topics in Sound Culture: Soundscape
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An intermediate level topical course exploring different areas of study within sound culture. The current topic, soundscape, examines spatial approaches to the study of sound, Including aural architecture, noise, sonic ecology, and other related subjects.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ or MS 051 PZ; or others relevant introductory courses, such as musicology or cultural studies. 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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MS 116 PZ -Screen Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Our world has become increasingly screen dependent and this course will examine screen culture in a multitude of formats from movie screen to mobile phones and everything in between. It is particularly focused on the relationship of technological development to evolving modes of spectatorship in a historical and theoretical context.
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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MS 117 PZ -Fan Culture and Celebrity
Institution: Pitzer
Description: New media forms have changed the face of the celebrity/fan relationship in the last decade providing a level of interactivity previously unavailable. This course will situate this shift within a historical and theoretical survey of fandom and celebrity from the birth of the Hollywood Studio System until the present day.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ or LIT 182 HM. 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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MS 118 PZ -Art and Politics in the African Diaspora
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The world has been interconnected for centuries. A great way to see this is through visual culture as a sphere of political action and critique. Centering Africa and the African diaspora, we look at art, film and other forms that comment upon identity, experience, intercultural contact, and the politics of representation.
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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MS 119 PZ -Robotics, Digital Media, and the Environment
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An intermediate digital media production course utilizing Processing, computer vision, the Arduino, and hobby servomotors to produce robotic artworks. This course explores critical thinking on the origins of the robot concept, context for robot production, the potential to reshape our future robotic cohabitants? genesis, and robots in relation to environmental stewardship.
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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MS 125 PZ -Popular Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will cover a broad range of historical and scholarly approaches to the study of popular and mass culture. Readings will cover academic theories of popular culture, case studies from the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, mainly in the U.S. but including other sites as well.
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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MS 134 PZ -Feminist Dialogues on Technology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is the world’s first DOCC (Distributed Online Collaborative Course), a feminist rethinking of the MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). In Fall 2013, fifteen classrooms around the world (including Pitzer) will participate in this experiment that will focus upon feminist histories, theories and networks about and for the dissemination of research, design, and scholarship on technology.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 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.
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MS 135 PZ -Learning from YouTube
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What can YouTube teach us and is this how, what and all we’d like to learn? Over its hundred year history, radical media theorists have looked with utopian zeal to a moment in the media future which turns out to be upon us: a time where access to the production and distribution of media is democratically available outside channels organized by capital. So why is the technology being used primarily to spoof mainstream media forms and what does this tell us about the media, our society and political possibility?
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 136 PZ -Online Feminist Spaces
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This hyper/in/visibility of the feminist in digital spaces is the (non)place, and yet somehow also the very real location, of a course that will consider-by reading, using, and making-the nowheres and everywhere of feminism in on-line, user-generated, social networked spaces of web 2.0.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 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.
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MS 137 PZ -Media Archives
Institution: Pitzer
Description: We will consider the making, saving, sharing, using, and re-purposing of collections of media documents. The camera documents. Once archived, these images and sounds are used as testimony and evidence, to make history. The internet, a meta media archive, holds many traditional archives as well as the new people-made archives-of-ourselves constructed through the networked holdings of blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and the like.
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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MS 147B PO -Body, Representation, Desire
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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MS 149A PO -Marxism & Cultural Studies
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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MS 175 PZ -Contemporary Animation Practice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will focus on performative animation techniques, or post-animative thought. Through screenings and hands-on in-class experiments, students will look at animation as it exists outside of cartoon culture and gaming to create a variety of tests that challenge the way we look at frame by frame filmmaking.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 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.
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MS 182 HM -Introduction to Video Production
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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MS 190 JT -Senior Seminar
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 191 JT -Senior Thesis
Institution: Pitzer
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 192 JT -Senior Projects
Institution: Pitzer
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 193 PZ -Directed Reading in Media
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Student designed media studies project involving advanced readings in theory, history or aesthetics with written analysis. May be taken twice 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.
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MS 194 PZ -Media Arts for Social Justice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is a combination of analysis, theory and hands-on service-learning experience of how media arts mobilize, educate and empower communities. The course will examine working models of media-based community collaboration projects. Students will be linked with non-profit community collaborators (media arts centers, social service and youth service agencies) who are using media as a catalyst for action In their community. Working with site hosts/collaborators students will work with underserved populations to design, implement and produce unique media collaborations that provoke thought and action.
Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ, MS 182 HM, or ART 148 SC, or by permission. 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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MS 196 PZ -Media Internship
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The purpose of this course is to integrate a professional media studies experience with a student’s intellectual and academic interests. The following requirements were developed to create connections between practice outside the academy and the analytical and theoretical concerns of the field.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 197 PZ -Media Praxis
Institution: Pitzer
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 198 PZ -Advanced Media Project
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Student designed media production project involving advanced production and post-production skills, adequate pre-production research and writing component. May be taken twice for credit. Pass/No Credit only.
Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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MLLC 100 PZ -Language and Community: Principles and Practice of Teaching ESL
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of teaching English as a second language within the context of the local community of Southern California. The main focus of the course will be teaching adults basic English, the language necessary to live and work successfully within the community.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MLLC 110 PZ -Intercultural Learning Portfolio
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this half-course, students will complete a portfolio of descriptive, narrative, analytical and creative assignments to deepen their critical reflection and intercultural learning while on study abroad. Assignments are submitted electronically (Sakai) to allow students in various study abroad sites around the world to discuss one another’s insights. Must be enrolled in a Pitzer Exchange Study Abroad Program. Half-credit course.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MLLC 111 PZ -Public Speaking
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Through readings, lectures, films and field study in the social sciences, students will explore contemporary global issues as the content base for developing proficiency in American academic speech behavior. Skills emphasized will include making formal presentations, leading and participating in discussions and sustaining narration on a range of topics. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only.
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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MLLC 122 PZ -Critical Analysis Through Literature
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Short stories, essays and novels exploring a range of American experiences will provide a basis for students to develop an understanding of the social, political, historical and philosophical thought that informs this literature and the language needed to express an analysis of these works. Students must enroll in the corresponding First-Year Seminar (MLLC 177 PZ ). Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MLLC 144 PZ -Advanced Speech and Rhetoric: Argument and Debate
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Students will critique and present arguments in formal spoken English through debates, discussions and extemporaneous talks centered around contemporary issues. Models of argumentation will be analyzed. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MLLC 150 PZ -Foreign Language Pedagogy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is designed specifically for Foreign Language Residents at The Claremont Colleges. We will discuss second language acquisition and pedagogical theory, placement of students and proficiency assessment, classroom management and syllabus design. We will also study strategies to enliven and vary conversation classes in order to improve their students’ vocabulary, grammar, fluency, length and range of discourse and listening comprehension. Language Residents only.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MLLC 155 PZ -Writing Across the Curriculum.
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Further development in expository writing and oral expression of critical thinking through projects related to the content of a Pitzer companion course. Students must enroll concurrently in the companion course designated by the Pitzer Bridge program. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MLLC 166 PZ -Directed Research in American Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Students explore American culture through field research and a volunteer internship in the community. They learn and apply community-based research techniques through surveys, interviews and participatory action research. Internship placements may include local schools and tutoring programs, community services agencies and environmental organizations. Reflective and report writing as well as oral presentations give students the opportunity to analyze and critically reflect on their experiences. The course is offered for variable credit. Written permission required. Letter grades only. Non-native speakers only.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MLLC 177 PZ -Written Analysis
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this writing-intensive course, readings, discussions and writing assignments are focused on a specific theme in the humanities or social sciences. Students will write frequent essays and a research paper that demonstrate control of the most important conventions of American academic discourse. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: MLLC 133 PZ
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PORT 001 PZ -Introductory Portuguese 1
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is the first of a two-semester introductory course in Brazilian Portuguese, using a communicative approach to language learning with an emphasis on interactive activities. Students will develop conversational skills, give short oral presentations, produce written descriptive and narrative paragraphs and work on listening and reading comprehension.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PORT 002 PZ -Introductory Portuguese 2
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is the second of a two-semester introductory course in Brazilian Portuguese, using a communicative approach to language learning with an emphasis on interactive activities. Students will develop more advanced conversational skills, give oral presentations, write short essays of different types and work on listening and reading comprehension.
Prerequisite(s): PORT001 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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PORT 033 PZ -Intermediate Portuguese
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Portuguese 33 is a continuation of the sequence PORT 01-02 or of PORT 022. In this course, the student will work on reinforcing basic skills in order to attain proficiency at an intermediate level. As a group, we also review some of the more complex aspects of the language, including preterit and imperfect, the subjunctive in all its forms, and the personal infinitive. The course emphasizes conversation during the class period, as well as readings related to the Brazilian cultural context and compositions where the students describe their own real life experiences in Portuguese.
Prerequisite(s): Portuguese 2 or permission from the instructor.
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MCSI 195 PZ -MCSI: Technology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Topic for Spring 2014: Technology. One definition of “technology” might be “things people make and use to improve their experience and world.” From the wheel to the iPhone, some see the invention and use of technologies as forces towards human’s liberation or equality, while others understand technologies as reinforcing divisions in society. Does our understanding of who owns, builds, sells, and uses technology allow us to better understand how it shapes us as much as we shape it?
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 003 SC -Fundamentals of Music
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 056 PO -Words and Music: Black Song
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 057 PO -Survey of Western Music
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 062 PO -Survey of American Music.
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 065 PO -Introduction to World Music
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 066 SC -Music Cultures of the World
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 081 JM -Introduction to Music: Sound and Meaning
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 110A SC -Music in Western Civilization
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 110B SC -Music in Western Civilization
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 112 SC -Intro to Ethnomusicology
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 120 SC -Music in Christian Practice
Institution: Scripps
Description:
For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 126 SC -Music in East Asia and its American Diasporas
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 130 SC -Ryythm & the Latina Body Politic
Institution: Scripps College
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 131 SC -Mariachi Performance and Culture
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 149 PO -Music Perception and Cognition
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 173A JM -Concert Choir: 1st & 2nd Year
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 173B JM -Concert Choir: 1st & 2nd Year
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 174A JM -Chamber Choir: 1st & 2nd Year
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 174B JM -Chamber Choir: 1st & 2nd Year
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MUS 175A JM -Concert Orchestra: 1st & 2nd Year
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MUS 175B JM -Concert Orchestra: 1st & 2nd Year
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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ONT 101 PZ -Critical Community Studies
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Utilizes Southern California as a case study to examine how global trends impact local issues. Working in a seminar format, students discuss how power shapes social and environmental problems, network and coalition building, and political movements. The class provides a theoretical and contextual framework for understanding broad-scale public policy failures. Special topics include environmental justice, immigration, homelessness, education, gangs, and the prison system. We are particularly interested in links between exclusion and structural violence, symbolic devises of Othering, the growth of a surveillance society, and movements toward more just urban landscape. Several field experiences, including a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, expand on course themes. 1.5 credits.
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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ONT 104 PZ -Social Change Practicum
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This class explores community building, positionality, and social change through engagement with texts, interactive activities, guest speakers and field trips. We critically examine intersections between charity, service, social justice, activism, and academia through writing, discussion, and praxis. The course requires a fifteen-hour per week internship or other suitable community work that furthers Ontario-based social change efforts. Partnerships have been established with numerous organizations in the local area. 1.5 credits.
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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ONT 106 PZ -Applied Qualitative Methods
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course constructs the bride between academia and activism through practice-based research. The study of diverse aspects of qualitative inquiry culminates in the execution of a complete applied research project. We explore the role, responsibilities and ethics of an applied researcher, reviewing various types of inquiry that fall under the umbrella of qualitative research (i.e., ethnography, participatory action, narrative inquiry, participant-observation, applied research). Students directly impact not only their own intellectual knowledge base, but crucial social issues in the world around them. Students leave the course with a strong foundation to carry out systematic research using focus groups, ethnography and person-centered interviews. 1 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.
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ONT 110 PZ -Healing Arts and Social Change
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course focuses on the intersection of the healing arts, academia, and activism, bridging personal transformation and social change. The course’s interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks (including cultural studies, feminist methodologies, indigenous studies, and social movement theory) offer diverse strategies for engaging the healing arts as a vehicle for self-realization and community empowerment. Students will engage in self-expression, self-discovery and community-building through creative writing, dance, music, art and meditation. Half of the course will take place on site at a local prison where students will engage in a shared educational journey with the inmates, thus exploring how our built environments (the prison and college campus) impact our resources, access and ability to negotiate practices for individual transformation and social change.
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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ONT 170 PZ -Social Change Partnerships
Institution: Pitzer
Description: ONT 170 is designed to involve students in local social change movements. The course acts as a preparatory class for students who wish to take the full Ontario Program in a later semester, as a post-class for those who have already taken the program, or as a class in which students can test the waters of local community engagement. The course requires between 5-7 hours per week in Ontario Program internships at Huerta del Valle community garden and food hub, the Wheelhouse Bicycle Coalition, Inland Congregations United for Change education/youth organizing, Warehouse Workers United labor organizing, Justice for Immigrants Coalition policy organizing, and Immigrant Youth Coalition youth organizing. The course examines different models and philosophies of organizing, building coalitions between higher education and community groups, and ethical ways of engaging in local environments around food, transportation, labor, education, and immigrant justice issues in the Inland Empire.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission is required. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: Advanced Research Practicum
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ORST 050 -Organizational Life
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course highlights life in organizations using a variety of theoretical lenses to explore important factors operating in this context. Students will investigate individual, social and societal influences present in organizations and apply knowledge gained from these studies to analyze relevant cases and better understand their own experience.
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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ORST 100 PZ -Organizational Theory
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Examines the major ideas that shape the way we think about how people and institutions organize groups and work settings. Theorists include a long list from F. W. Taylor and Max Weber, to systems theorists and postmodern and feminist theorists.
Prerequisite(s): One social science course or consent 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.
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ORST 105 PZ -Cases in Management of Organizations
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is a case method approach that focuses on identifying and analyzing problems in organizational behavior, structure, design and change. Each week a case will be assigned and discussed in class along with related reference materials which pertain to the special problems of that case.
Prerequisite(s): ORST 100 PZ or ORST 135 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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ORST 106 PZ -Global Aspects of Leadership
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: Provides students with an opportunity to explore theories of organizational leadership and leadership as a response to the demands of 21st century inter- and multicultural life in organizations. From classical leadership theory to modern dilemmas, investigates leadership as a role, as a responsibility and as a way of being.
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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ORST 110 PZ -Directed Fieldwork in Organizations
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Students participate in mentored internships in a wide variety of organizations. Also, a seminar with supporting readings meets weekly. Students will be expected to collect data about the organization and present a diagnosis of a specific organizational problem or theme with suggested solutions.
Prerequisite(s): ORST 100 PZ or ORST 135 PZ. and PSYC 135 CM 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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ORST 112 PZ -Research in Organizations
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is designed as an introduction to methods used in answering research questions in organizations. Students will use a sampling of methods to explore research practices, learn the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches, and formulate their own research 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.
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ORST 120 PZ -Politics of Organizational Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Focus is on organizational culture, meaning and symbols as represented in stories, photography and oral histories of workplaces. We will sample some fictional works, some descriptive social science and some empirical research on organizational behavior, ergonomics and careers. Each student will prepare a project about an ongoing workgroup.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: Manufacturing Tales
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ORST 135 PZ -Organizational Behavior
Institution: Pitzer
Description: We will investigate individual, group and structural factors that work to influence patterns of behavior in organizations. The course will incorporate a variety of methods designed to highlight important issues in the field and students will be expected to work through individual and group projects related to the area.
Prerequisite(s): ORST 100 PZ and/or PSYC 103 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Psych Majors: Satisfies SOC
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ORST 145 PZ -Small Group Processes
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will investigate the effects of group contexts on leadership, cooperation, competition, creativity and risk taking. Special emphasis will be placed on group development, interactional analysis and communication.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 103 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Psych Majors: Satisfies SOC
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ORST 148 PZ -The Nature of Work
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course explores psychological issues related to the changing nature of work. With a primary focus on the human side of organizational life, we will examine how changes in technology, international relations and social expectations shape present and future understanding of work in our contemporary world.
Prerequisite(s): ORST 100 PZ and ORST 135 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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ORST 155 PZ -Decisions and Administration
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Seminar on the contributions of James G. March and his mentor Herbert Simon to the understanding of “how decisions happen.” We will discuss a variety of writings by March and his students, case studies, March’s poetry, and illustrative films that draw on research and observation in many kinds of organizations.
Prerequisite(s): ORST 100 PZ and ORST 135 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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ORST 160 PZ -Corporate Social Responsibility and the Corporation
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Issues include the structure of large corporations and how they advance particular social, political and economic agendas; corporate strategies; how companies cope with industrial accidents, human rights, sustainability, ethical questions and the responsibilities of corporate boards.
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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ORST 163 PZ -Organizational Aspects of Education
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will focus on understanding the educational system through the lens of organizational systems. Through the exploration of organizational literature and its application to current school issues, we hope to better understand the interconnected activities faced by the educational system.
Prerequisite(s): ORST 100 PZ and ORST 135 PZ or instructor permission. 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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ORST 166 PZ -Adavnced Oraganization Theory & Leadership
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: This course is aimed at providing students with an opportunity to explore organizations as systems and managerial, technical, structural, and cultural subsystems as they relate to the broader environment. The course examines the interactions among human resources, technologies, organization design, external forces, and management practices from a macro-organization perspective thus providing the foundation for learning how to conduct a well-grounded organizational analysis. Building on diverse models of organizaion design and management, including mechanistic/bureaucratic, human relations, political, open systems, complexity, and sustainability, analytical tools from each model will be introduced and practiced in a multi-contingency approach to organizational design.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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ORST 177 PZ -Seminar in Organizational Communication
Institution: Pitzer
Description:
We will investigate aspects of communication within organizational systems, with a special focus on psychological characteristics, relationship dynamics, and the impact of changing technologies. Theoretical views of communicative behavior will be discussed first, followed by an investigation of topical issues within this growing field. The course should provide the foundation for further investigation related to what one might observe in an organization, and various prescriptive points of view will also be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: PSCY/ORST 177C PZ
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ORST 192 PZ -Negotiating Conflict
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Considers some of the theoretical and practical issues involved when people as individuals, groups, or organizations try to resolve disagreements. Areas considered include interpersonal and family conflict, legal dispute, contracts and public private collaborative arrangements arbitration, mediation, and forms of alternative dispute resolutions. We consider a wide variety of cases. Students will gain experience negotiating difficult situations.
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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ORST 198 PZ -Topics on Organizations: Organizational Dynamics and Managain Change
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course offers an in-depth examination of change processes, models and leadership required for organizational transformation. This course adopts an “action learning” perspective whereby learning is best achieved through practice and reflection on that practice. Topics include approaches to change management, organization learning, consulting skills and organization development.
Prerequisite(s): Orst 100 and Orst 135 or equivalents. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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ORST 199 PZ -Senior Thesis
Institution: Pitzer
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 001 PO -Problems of Philosophy
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 002 PO -Introduction to Ethics
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 003 PO -Philosophy Through Its History
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 004 PO -Philosophy in Literature
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 005 PO -Gods, Humans and Justice in Ancient Greece
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 007 PO -Discovery, Invention and Progress
Institution: Pomona College
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College Catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 007 PZ -Introduction to Philosophy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What’s so great about thinking and knowledge? In the course of the semester, we will investigate that value of a philosophical life by taking a journey through the history of Western philosophy, from Socrates & Plato to Sartre. Along the way, we will consider perennial philosophical questions about the nature of justice, the relationship between mind & body, free will, the problem of evil and arguments for the existence of God.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 030 PO -Knowledge, Mind and Existence
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 030 PZ -Knowledge, Mind and Existence
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Introduction to some of the central issues regarding the nature of knowledge, the mind and reality. Topics to be discussed include skepticism, the analysis of knowledge, theories of epistemic justification, the nature of consciousness and subjectivity, mental causation, dualism, reductive and non-reductive physicalism, proofs for the existence of God, and personal identity.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 031 PZ -History of Ethics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Introduction to the major writings of several leading figures in the history of moral philosophy. Focuses primarily on moral philosophy of the modern period. Lecture and discussion.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 032 PO -Ethical Theory
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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