2016-2017 Pitzer Catalog

Apr 16, 2024

2016-2017 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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History of Ideas
	HSID 119 PZ -Metaphysics & Metaphysicians: Poets & Philosophers Institution: Pitzer Description: In the seventeenth century, developments in science and metaphysics revolutionized the way people perceived the world and wrote about it. This course will examine the revolution, focusing on the relation of metaphysics to poetry. Readings from Donne and others. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	HSID 122 PZ -Alien Gods Institution: Pitzer Description: A look at three mystical and magical religious traditions: Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, and Hermeticism. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	HSID 123 PZ -Philosophy of Magic and the Occult Institution: Pitzer Description: A look at the practice and theory of the modern occult movement, with emphasis on “The Golden Dawn.” Appropriate for all students. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	HSID 136 PZ -The Emotions Institution: Pitzer Description: A philosophical look at the nature of emotion in general and at the natures of the particular emotions of guilt, shame, embarrassment, anger, jealousy, and envy. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	HSID 140 PZ -The Philosophical Dialog Institution: Pitzer Description: In this course, we will read several philosophical dialogs and examine the arguments in them, while asking the literary question of why their authors were attracted to this form. Readings will range from Plato’s Euthyphro to John Perry’s recent Dialog on Personal Identity and Immortality. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	HSID 150 PZ -The Detective Novel Institution: Pitzer Description: An explanation of the evolution of detective fiction in relation to its changing historical and cultural context. Readings from Poe, Doyle, Christie, Hammitt, and Chandler. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
Interdisciplinary Studies
	GFS 191 PZ -Senior Thesis or Project Institution: Pitzer Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
International and Intercultural Studies
	IIS 010 PZ -Introduction to IIS Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will introduce students to the field of international and intercultural studies. The course objective is to acquaint students with key concepts and practices defining human societies and their relations, such as colonialism, development, revolution, national and transnational, globalization, ideology, identity, culture, and knowledge. The course also exposes students to disciplinary, area studies and newly emerging conceptualizations of the field. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 017 PZ -History and Political Economy of Natural Resources Institution: Pitzer Description: This course surveys the modern history and political economy of natural resources. Though we will focus on gold, diamonds, and oil, the course also addresses larger issues of resource exploitation within specific historical, political, and economic settings. We begin with the so-called “scramble for Africa,” when European nations carved up Africa between them at Berlin Conference in 1885. This scramble for Africa and its resources was later extended to other regions of the non-western world, such as the Middle East. The course will then explore the role of natural resources in internal and global conflicts, from the colonial to the post-colonial periods, focusing on how those conflicts played themselves out in Africa and the Middle East. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: HIST 017 PZ For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 038 PZ -Nature, Movement and Meditation in Qigong Institution: Pitzer Description: Qigong is an ancient Chinese philosophy and practice. This course will have two major components: 1) history and theory of Qigong within Chinese culture, and 2) Qigong practice based on the Wei Tuo Eight Minute Drill that balances energy components of the human body for both physical and psychic health. Here the human ecology of the interaction between Qi energy in the natural environment and human beings will be investigated. This course will not only provide access to information and knowledge “about” another culture, but also will provide an opportunity to experience how another culture accesses knowledge. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 050 PZ -Power and Social Change Institution: Pitzer Description: “Power to the People!” “Knowledge is power.” What does one mean by power, and how may altering power relations lead to social change? This course will critically examine different theories of power, the relationship between power and violence, and how power can be used to liberate as well as dominate and manipulate. Students will examine works from various interdisciplinary fields and movements, such as Marxism, feminism, postmodernism, anti-colonial and postcolonial movements, and indigenous and grassroots movements. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 060 PZ -Interdisciplinary Knowledge & Global Justice Institution: Pitzer Description: Designed as an introduction to theoretical debates central to interdisciplinary critiques of objectivist epistemology and methodologies, the course provides students with interdisciplinary methods for research and other knowledge practices. Students will be exposed to a range of alternative ways that interdisciplinary fields frame questions, conduct research and engage in action by challenging the political and ethical terms of the academy, muddying the fiction of the theory/practice divide, exploring the kinds of theoretical, ideological, and material praxis that constitute interdisciplinary inquiry. Ethics, politics, epistemologies, authority, evidence, protocols, priorities, and feasibility will be discussed as students design a research project in interdisciplinary knowledge production to be used in External Studies independent study projects and/or in senior projects. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Formerly: Knowing and Telling For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 067 PZ -Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture: Gender, Spirituality, and Power Institution: Pitzer Description: Course examines historical and contemporary resistance to monocultural patters of knowledge and social relations supporting capitalist modernity. Resistance to monoculture has historically emerged from groups surviving the onslaught of monoculture, including women; the underclasses; and peoples of third worlds and first nations. The knowledge systems of these groups suggest how to practice constructive social change. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Note(s): RLST Majors: PRT For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 075 PZ -Introduction to Postcolonial Studies Institution: Pitzer Description: An exploration of the ways in which resistance to colonization has shaped colonized peoples and colonizers alike past and present. Social movement websites, films analytical readings, and short fiction will survey various perspectives (Marxism, postmodernism, feminism, queer theory) on postcolonial studies. The course will introduce methods of constructing seemingly “natural” objects (nation, landscape, historical fact, women) in ways that decolonize social and material relations and knowledge. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 080 PZ -Introduction to Critical Theory Institution: Pitzer Description: A survey of social and cultural critiques at an introductory level, this course will prepare students for advanced level critical thinking, interdisciplinary solution building and social change work. We will begin with theoretical frameworks in established fields of social critique, such as feminism, anti-colonialism, cultural studies, critical race theory, critical legal/justice studies, and women of color theory. The course also introduces postmodern theories in postcolonial studies, poststructuralist feminism, post-Marxism, border studies and queer theory. Suitable for first- and second-year students, as well as upper level students who feel they have not yet been sufficiently exposed in their education to critical and/or theoretical thinking. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 095 PZ -Engaging Difference Institution: Pitzer Description: The overall goal of this interdisciplinary course is to assist participants to develop intercultural competence especially intercultural sensitivity and cross-cultural research. The course will give students a skill set for conducting global/local research on study abroad and the opportunity to gain a basic understanding of the role that culture plays in intercultural communication. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 101 PZ -Health and Health Care in Costa Rica Pre-departure Seminar Institution: Pitzer Description: Students who plan to participate in the Costa Rica Summer Health Program are required to take this course during the spring semester immediately before their program. The seminar covers an introduction to epidemiology and health care in Costa Rica as well as units on history, environment, economy and politics, and a workshop on intercultural learning. Students are required to learn how to understand and analyze various sources of population and public health data, write a series of four short papers, give an oral presentation with an accompanying background paper, and complete a series of exercises dealing with the kinds of intercultural challenges they will likely confront during their homestays and internships in Costa Rica. Note(s): Restricted to students participating in the Costa Rica Summer Health Program in the summer immediately following the class. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	IIS 109C PZ -Chinese Philosophy, Culture and Traditional Medicine Institution: Pitzer Description: This is an intermediate course on theory, history, and practice of Wei Tuo QiGong. Students will study and practice the Shao Lin Tu Na exercises and meditation to better understand and experience the cultural and medical context of qi gong. Students will reflect upon the concepts of the mind/body relationship, time, consciousness and dreams. Prerequisite(s): IIS 038 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 110 PZ -(Mis)Representations of Near East and Far East Institution: Pitzer Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 113 PZ -Science, Politics and Alternative Medicine Institution: Pitzer Description: This seminar will study healing practices from around the world. It will include three aspects: 1) the philosophical, historical and political dimensions; 2) the local knowledge and theories of healing and illness in four traditions-Amerindian and Chinese and two from among the following: Mayan, African, Santeria, Curindera, Brazilian spiritualists, etc.; and 3) a review of the clinical efficacy of these complementary and alternative medicines provided by the Western biomedical sciences, as well as their political acceptance within the U.S. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: POST 190 PZ For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 120 PZ -State and Development in the Third World Institution: Pitzer Description: This course analyzes the role of the state in the development process in Third World societies. It explores state policies toward rural development and industrialization, as well as socio-political forces which influence the implementation of development policies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 122 PZ -Contemporary Political and Social Movements in the Third World Institution: Pitzer Description: This course explores the rise, the nature and the objectives of popular movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Using political economy and comparative approaches, the course examines: (1) recent theories of social movements and (2) the roots of rebellions, protests and resistance as expressions of unsatisfied needs. Case studies include: Islamic, ethnic/racial, women’s and ecological movements. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 123 PZ -Third World Socialism Institution: Pitzer Description: The variety of historical experiences and dilemmas in the transition to socialism in the Third World will be explored through six case studies: China and Vietnam, Cuba and Nicaragua, Tanzania and Mozambique. A comparative perspective will focus on issues such as colonialism and imperialism, development and the peasantry, constraints of the international system, ideology and mass mobilization, democracy and the state. Prerequisite(s): Social Science background. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 125 PZ -African Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: The focus of this course will be democracy in Africa. More specifically, it will involve an examination of the struggles over the forms democracy takes, a review of democracy’s internal and external advocates, a study of the relationship between democracy and development and an analysis of the factors which led to the adoption and demise, of forms of democracy in a variety of African countries. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 127 PZ -Environment and Development in the Third World Institution: Pitzer Description: The course explores the dynamics of positive and/or negative relationships between environment and development in the Third World. Its theoretical perspectives are complimented by an experiential requirement in which the students will occasionally visit the maquiladora enterprises along the U.S./Mexico border. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 128 PZ -War on Terror Institution: Pitzer Description: Surveys, analyses of the War on Terror focusing on national policy, gender and sexuality, religion, legal issues, and political economy. Sources range from state elites and women or subaltern groups in conflict zones to postmodern theorists drawing on history, the Geneva Convention, films, websites, novels, and humor. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: POST 128 PZ For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 141 PZ -Agricultural Economic Development in the Third World Institution: Pitzer Description: This course focuses on the role and problems of the agricultural sector in Third World development. It explores 1) economic theories and models of agricultural development and institutional policy and issues; 2) problems of food vs. export production, price system and distribution, rural development and food crisis which often results in famines, scarcity and malnutrition. Prerequisite(s): ECON 051 PZ or ECON 052 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 146 PZ -International Relations of the Middle East Institution: Pitzer Description: This course examines the dynamics of the international relations of the Middle East, with special emphasis on the African-Middle Eastern dimension, namely, “south-south” relations. Political, economic and socio-historical interactions between the Middle East and Africa are analyzed within the framework of international relations. It explores the manifestations of African-Middle Eastern relations in regional issues and conflicts, e.g., Arab-Israel wars and tensions, the Horn of Africa, North Africa; and non-conflictual aspects, e.g., economic cooperation. The impact of major powers is also 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.
	IIS 150 PZ -U.S.-Chinese Rivalry in Africa Institution: Pitzer Description: This course explores the great power rivalry over the vast Africa’s natural resources. It focuses principally on U.S.-Chinese rivalry. The course discusses economics strategies and geopolitical consequences for Africa. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 160 PZ -Decolonization from Below Institution: Pitzer Description: Hearing the demands and desires of those “from below,” those blocked from social mobility, introduces students to decolonizing practices developed not by activists from the global north but by subalterns. We will encounter both rural illiterate residents of the global south in history and fiction from India and North Africa to the Americas, and also the subaltern as the erasure by modern universalized generalizations through their inevitable exclusions. Refusing these exclusions makes the subaltern recognizable under Eurocentric modernity and gives their demands traction, opening ways to decolonization as responsibility to those who generally go unheard in the society and academy of the global north. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 167 PZ -Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture: Gender, Spirituality, and Power Institution: Pitzer Description: In this course we will examine theoretically and experientially models of historical and contemporary resistance to monocultural patterns of knowledge and social relations. This resistance historically has been and continues to be produced and/or molded in large measure by imperial and capitalist relations and by selected European scientific systems. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Note(s): (Preparation for China Program).
	IIS 190 PZ -Senior Seminar Institution: Pitzer Description: The course will introduce students to critical thinking and emerging methods for understanding the world in a way that is less bound by the 20th century Euro-American academy and more oriented to justice. The course develops skills at recognizing the socio-political and cultural effects produced by certain key categories and terms, such as nation, race, gender, culture, or by approaching the world through a particular discipline or emphasizing a particular geographic area. The course will also examine alternative categories and terms that are being developed in emerging fields of study, such as critical development studies, postcolonial studies, discourse studies, queer studies, and cultural studies. By taking the course the student will explore their interests while gaining an awareness of interdisciplinary approaches to global and local political and cultural relations. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	IIS 199 PZ -Senior Thesis Institution: Pitzer Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
Japanese
	JPNT 177 PO -Japanese and Japanese American Women Writers 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.
	JPNT 178 PO -Japanese and Japanese American Autobiography 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.
Latin
	CLAS 008A SC -Introductory Latin 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.
	CLAS 008B PO -Introductory Latin 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.
	CLAS 032 PO -Introductory/Intermediate Latin 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.
	CLAS 100 SC -Intermediate Latin 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.
	CLAS 103 PO -Intermediate Latin: Medieval 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.
	CLAS 104 PO -Readings in Koine Greek 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.
	CLAS 110 PO -Cicero 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.
	CLAS 112 PO -Vergil 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.
	CLAS 181A SC -Advanced Latin Readings Institution: Scripps 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.
	CLAS 181B PO -Advanced Latin Readings 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.
Linguistics
	LGCS 010 PZ -Introduction to the Study of Language Institution: Pitzer Description: For students wishing to learn about the nature of language, including: How is language structured at the levels of sound, form and meaning? Does the language we speak determine our thoughts, our perception of the world? Can animals learn to talk? How does our language reflect our culture, gender, ethnicity? Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	LGCS 011 PO -Introduction to Cognitive Science 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.
	LGCS 082 PZ -Racial Politics of Teaching Institution: Pitzer Description: This class examines how race and ethnicity are constructed in schooling from sociological, linguistic, and ethnic studies standpoints. Specifically, we will discuss how race and ethnicity are constructed in schooling and ways teachers/educators may refine their pedagogies in relation to race and ethnicity. Students will do a research project. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: ASAM 082 PZ, SOC 082 PZ For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	LGCS 101 PO -Comparative and Historical Linguistics 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.
	LGCS 105 PO -Syntax 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.
	LGCS 106 PO -Semantics 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.
	LGCS 107 PO -Pragmatics 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.
	LGCS 108 PO -Phonology 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.
	LGCS 109 PO -Morphology 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.
	LGCS 110 PZ -Language and Gender Institution: Pitzer Description: The relation between cultural attitudes and language. The course will investigate how gender socialization is reflected in the structure of language at all levels and the extent to which male/female patterns of language use might contribute to the creation and/or maintenance of given structures of power, solidarity, etc. Students will be expected to develop their own fieldwork-based project. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	LGCS 112 PZ -Language in Society Institution: Pitzer Description: Language is an expression of our identity. This course will explore how language reflects social patterns, including class, gender, ethnic, regional and other differences. How these differences can lead to conflicts in interaction. Students will do a fieldwork project. Prerequisite(s): LGCS 010 PZ or permission of instructor. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	LGCS 115 PZ -Bilingualism Institution: Pitzer Description: How is the bilingual experience different from the monolingual one? How does the bilingual brain process language? How is the simultaneous acquisition of two languages different from acquiring a second language later? Is language mixing bad? This course investigates the special identity of bilingual speakers from social and psychological perspectives. Prerequisite(s): LGCS 010 PZ, LGCS 011 PO or PSYC 051 PO. 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.
	LGCS 116 PZ -Language and Ethnicity Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will explore the language patterns of four American ethnic minority groups (African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and Asian Americans) with a focus on inter-ethnic communication. Topics include the role of language in defining identity, language use in the classroom, nonverbal elements of communication, traditions of joking and bilingualism. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	LGCS 121 PO -Psycholinguistics 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.
	LGCS 125 PO -Field Methods in Linguistics 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.
	LGCS 160 PO -Perception and Cognition 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.
	LGCS 166 PZ -Topics in Sociolinguistics: Gender in Films Institution: Pitzer Description: Explores advanced topics in sociolinguistics. We will look at representations of ethnicity in the media, particularly comedians and their stand up routines (Margaret Cho, Chris Rock). We will use analysis of language variables to explore how these performances construct identity and reflect ideologies about race and ethnicity in the US. Prerequisite(s): LGCS 010 PZ and a sociolinguistics class such as 112 or 116. 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.
	LGCS 175 PO -Seminar in Cognitive Science 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.
	LGCS 185P PO -Topics in Phonology 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.
	LGCS 185S PO -Topics in Syntax 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.
	LGCS 185T PO -Topics in Semantics 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.
	LGCS 187A PO -Tutorial in Linguistics and Cognitive Science 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.
	LGCS 187B PO -Tutorial in Linguistics and Cognitive Science 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.
	LGCS 191 PZ -Senior Thesis Institution: Pitzer Description: Individual theoretical research or laboratory experiment, for fourth-year students under faculty supervision. May be taken as half-course in both semesters of the senior year, or as a full course in the last semester. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	LGCS 193 PZ -Senior Comprehensive Exam Institution: Pitzer College Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
Mathematics
	MATH 001 PZ -Mathematics, Philosophy and the “Real World.” Institution: Pitzer Description: Throughout history, mathematics has changed the way people look at the world. This course will focus on two examples: Euclidean geometry (which suggested to philosophers that certainty was achievable by human thought) and probability and statistics (which gave scientists a way of dealing with events that did not seem to follow any laws but those of chance). Readings and problems will be taken from three types of sources: (1) Euclid’s Elements of Geometry; (2) modern elementary works on probability and its applications to the study of society and to gambling; (3) the writings of philosophers whose views were strongly influenced by mathematics, such as Plato, Aristotle, Pascal, Spinoza, Kant, Laplace, Helmholtz, and Thomas Jefferson. Prerequisite(s): High school algebra and geometry. 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.
	MATH 009 PZ -Math, Art, and the Environment Institution: Pitzer Description: In this course, students will create nature-inspired works of art by using principles of mathematics. A variety of techniques and technologies will be explored, such as mold making, casting with clay, 3D software, and 3D printing. Prerequisite(s): High school algebra and geometry. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: ART 009 PZ For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	MATH 010 PZ -The Mathematical Mystery Tour Institution: Pitzer Description: I saw a high wall and as I had a premonition of an enigma, something that might be hidden behind the wall, I climbed over it with some difficulty. However, on the other side I landed in a wilderness and had to cut my way through with a great effort until-by a circuitous route-I came to the open gate, the open gate of mathematics. From there well-trodden paths lead in every direction (M.C. Escher). Many beautiful and exciting topics in mathematics are accessible to students having only a minimal background in mathematics. Mathematics 10 is intended to introduce such students to areas of mathematics not included in the usual introductory courses for mathematics and science majors. Topics will vary from year to year and the course may be repeated for credit. Courses that have been taught as Mathematics 10 courses in the recent past, or which are likely to be offered in the near future, include: Rubik’s Cube and Other Mathematical Puzzles, Two-Player Games, The Mathematics of Gambling, Cartography, Dynamical Systems, Chaos and Fractals, Topology Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	MATH 010B PZ -Mathematics and 3D Pringing Institution: Pitzer Description: In this class you will learn how to use mathematics to describe intriguing geometric forms, and then turn these shapes into physical objects with a 3D printer. No mathematics beyond what you learned in high school will be assumed. Prerequisite(s): Prior knowledge of Trigonometry For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	MATH 010G PZ -Mathematics in Many Cultures Institution: Pitzer Description: Mathematical ideas are found in many cultures, among both literate and non-literate peoples. We will study both the mathematics and the role it plays in the cultures. Examples will be chosen from the mathematical ideas of present-day peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, as well as historic Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Islam, and China. Students will learn the modern mathematical concepts necessary to understand the examples. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	MATH 011B PZ -Doodling in Math Class Institution: Pitzer Description: We will use Vi Hart’s video series “Doodling in Math Class” to introduce a variety of interesting and fun mathematical ideas, including Spirals, Mobius bands, and Hexaflexagons. We will then explore these ideas further with our own doodles and activities. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	MATH 015 PZ -Math for Teachers I: Numbers & Operations Institution: Pitzer Description: A mathematics content course for students interested in pursuing a teaching credential. We will explore elementary mathematic topics (numeration systems, standard and non-standard algorithms, place value) from an advanced viewpoint. Prerequisite(s): MATH 025 PZ or placement test. 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.
	MATH 016 PZ -Mathematics for Teachers II: Geometry and Data Institution: Pitzer Description: The choice of topics and their treatments are motivated by the central ideas of the elementary school curriculum and by state and national teaching/learning recommendations (the concept of a covering, tessellations, area and volume in two and three dimension, transformations, measurements, data analysis through representations in the context of studying magnitude and relations among magnitudes). Prerequisite(s): MATH 025 PZ or placement score. 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.
	MATH 025 PZ -Precalculus Institution: Pitzer Description: Linear, quadratic and polynomial equations; systems of linear equations; transformation, composition and inverses of functions; rational, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions. This class is designed to prepare students for calculus. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	MATH 030 PZ -Calculus I Institution: Pitzer Description: Introduction to the basic concepts of the calculus, including slopes, rates of change, limits, the derivative and the integral, and the relationships between these concepts, especially the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, with applications to the natural and social sciences. Each concept will be treated from numerical, analytic and geometric perspectives. Prerequisite(s): MATH 025 PZ or placement score. 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.
	MATH 031 PZ -Calculus II Institution: Pitzer Description: Transcendental functions, techniques of integration, infinite series, related topics and applications. Again, each concept will be treated from numerical, analytic and geometric perspectives. Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or above in MATH 030 PZ or placement score. 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.
	MATH 032 PZ -Calculus III Institution: Pitzer Description: Vectors and vector functions, partial derivatives and differentiability of functions of several variables, multiple integrals. Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 PZ or placement score. 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.
	MATH 052 CM -Introduction to Statistics Institution: Claremont McKenna Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	MATH 052 PZ -Introduction to Statistics Institution: Pitzer Description: This course is meant to give a liberal arts student a sense of statistical theory and practice. It will emphasize the use and interpretation of statistics, with applications to both the natural and social sciences. Topics will include: collection and summarizing of data; measures of central tendency and dispersion; probability; binomial and normal distributions; confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; linear regression; ANOVA methods; topics in non-parametric statistics; and discussion and interpretation of statistical fallacies and misuses. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	MATH 058 PO -Introduction to Statistics 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.
	MATH 060 PZ -Linear Algebra Institution: Pitzer Description: Topics will include matrices, Gaussian elimination, vector spaces and subspaces, linear transformations, bases, octhogonality, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenspaces, and applications of linear algebra. Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 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.
	MATH 100 PZ -Introduction to Methods of Proof Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will introduce students to the art of writing mathematical proofs using a variety of methods, such as direct proof, proof by contra-positive, proof by contradiction, proof by cases, and proof by induction. Intended for students majoring or minoring in mathematics (or considering doing so). Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 PZ and sophomore standing, or permission of instructor. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	MATH 102 PZ -Differential Equations/Modeling Institution: Pitzer Description: In this course we will introduce some basic models include Lotka-Volterra (Predator-Prey) models, as well as some standard modeling techniques. The emphasis in the course will be placed on qualitative methods and the use of software to understand solutions. Eigenvalues an eigenvectors will be introduced to fully solve linear systems in the plane. Linear and non-linear systems of differential equations will be analyzed by classifying orbits near fixed-point solutions. Students may not receive credit for both Math 102 and Math 111. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	MATH 108 PZ -History of Mathematics Institution: Pitzer Description: A survey of the history of mathematics from antiquity to the present. Topics emphasized will include: the development of the idea of proof, the “analytical method” of algebra, the invention of the calculus, the psychology of mathematical discovery and the interactions between mathematics and philosophy. Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 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.
	MATH 111 CM -Differential Equations Institution: Claremont McKenna Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	MATH 141 PZ -Hyperbolic Geometry Institution: Pitzer Description: An introduction to hyperbolic geometry in dimensions 2 and 3. Topics will include: Poincaré disk model, upper half space model, hyperbolic isometrics, linear fractional transformations, hyperbolic trigonometry, cross-ratio, hyperbolic manifolds, and hyperbolic knots. Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 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.
	MATH 142 PZ -Differential Geometry Institution: PItzer Description: Curves and surfaces, Gaussian curvature, isometries, tensor analysis, covariant differentiation with applications to physics and geometry Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 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.
	MATH 145 PZ -Topics in Geometry and Topology Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will vary from year to year and cover topics chosen from geometry and topology. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites will vary with course content. 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.
	MATH 145B PZ -Low-Dimensional Topology Institution: Pitzer Description: A 2-manifold is a surface, a 3-manifold is a possible (spatial) universe, and a 4-manifold is a possible model for space-time. In each case, we will look at examples, construction techniques, and the problems of classifying and distinguishing such spaces. Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 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.
	MATH 148 PZ -Knot Theory Institution: Pitzer Description: An introduction to the theory of knots and links from combinatorial, algebraic and geometric perspectives. Topics will include knot diagrams, p-colorings, Alexander, Jones and HOMFLY polynomials, Seifert surfaces, genus, Seifert matrices, the fundamental group, representations of knot groups, covering spaces, surgery on knots, and important families of knots. Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 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.
	MATH 158 PO -Statistical Linear Models Institution: Pitzer 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.
	MATH 159 PO -Advanced Topics in Statistics 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.
	MATH 199 PZ -Senior Thesis Institution: Pitzer Description: Open to mathematics majors by invitation 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.
Media Studies
	LIT 138 CM -Film and Mass Culture Institution: Claremont McKenna Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	LIT 139 CM -Film Theory Institution: Claremont McKenna Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.

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HSID 119 PZ -Metaphysics & Metaphysicians: Poets & Philosophers

HSID 122 PZ -Alien Gods

HSID 123 PZ -Philosophy of Magic and the Occult

HSID 136 PZ -The Emotions

HSID 140 PZ -The Philosophical Dialog

HSID 150 PZ -The Detective Novel

GFS 191 PZ -Senior Thesis or Project

IIS 010 PZ -Introduction to IIS

IIS 017 PZ -History and Political Economy of Natural Resources

IIS 038 PZ -Nature, Movement and Meditation in Qigong

IIS 050 PZ -Power and Social Change

IIS 060 PZ -Interdisciplinary Knowledge & Global Justice

IIS 067 PZ -Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture: Gender, Spirituality, and Power

IIS 075 PZ -Introduction to Postcolonial Studies

IIS 080 PZ -Introduction to Critical Theory

IIS 095 PZ -Engaging Difference

IIS 101 PZ -Health and Health Care in Costa Rica Pre-departure Seminar

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

IIS 110 PZ -(Mis)Representations of Near East and Far East

IIS 113 PZ -Science, Politics and Alternative Medicine

IIS 120 PZ -State and Development in the Third World

IIS 122 PZ -Contemporary Political and Social Movements in the Third World

IIS 123 PZ -Third World Socialism

IIS 125 PZ -African Politics

IIS 127 PZ -Environment and Development in the Third World

IIS 128 PZ -War on Terror

IIS 141 PZ -Agricultural Economic Development in the Third World

IIS 146 PZ -International Relations of the Middle East

IIS 150 PZ -U.S.-Chinese Rivalry in Africa

IIS 160 PZ -Decolonization from Below

IIS 167 PZ -Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture: Gender, Spirituality, and Power

IIS 190 PZ -Senior Seminar

IIS 199 PZ -Senior Thesis

JPNT 177 PO -Japanese and Japanese American Women Writers

JPNT 178 PO -Japanese and Japanese American Autobiography

CLAS 008A SC -Introductory Latin

CLAS 008B PO -Introductory Latin

CLAS 032 PO -Introductory/Intermediate Latin

CLAS 100 SC -Intermediate Latin

CLAS 103 PO -Intermediate Latin: Medieval

CLAS 104 PO -Readings in Koine Greek

CLAS 110 PO -Cicero

CLAS 112 PO -Vergil

CLAS 181A SC -Advanced Latin Readings

CLAS 181B PO -Advanced Latin Readings

LGCS 010 PZ -Introduction to the Study of Language

LGCS 011 PO -Introduction to Cognitive Science

LGCS 082 PZ -Racial Politics of Teaching

LGCS 101 PO -Comparative and Historical Linguistics

LGCS 105 PO -Syntax

LGCS 106 PO -Semantics

LGCS 107 PO -Pragmatics

LGCS 108 PO -Phonology

LGCS 109 PO -Morphology

LGCS 110 PZ -Language and Gender

LGCS 112 PZ -Language in Society

LGCS 115 PZ -Bilingualism

LGCS 116 PZ -Language and Ethnicity

LGCS 121 PO -Psycholinguistics

LGCS 125 PO -Field Methods in Linguistics

LGCS 160 PO -Perception and Cognition

LGCS 166 PZ -Topics in Sociolinguistics: Gender in Films

LGCS 175 PO -Seminar in Cognitive Science

LGCS 185P PO -Topics in Phonology

LGCS 185S PO -Topics in Syntax

LGCS 185T PO -Topics in Semantics

LGCS 187A PO -Tutorial in Linguistics and Cognitive Science

LGCS 187B PO -Tutorial in Linguistics and Cognitive Science

LGCS 191 PZ -Senior Thesis

LGCS 193 PZ -Senior Comprehensive Exam

MATH 001 PZ -Mathematics, Philosophy and the “Real World.”

MATH 009 PZ -Math, Art, and the Environment

MATH 010 PZ -The Mathematical Mystery Tour

MATH 010B PZ -Mathematics and 3D Pringing

MATH 010G PZ -Mathematics in Many Cultures

MATH 011B PZ -Doodling in Math Class

MATH 015 PZ -Math for Teachers I: Numbers & Operations

MATH 016 PZ -Mathematics for Teachers II: Geometry and Data

MATH 025 PZ -Precalculus