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MS 045 PZ -Documentary Media
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course involves production, a historical survey of documentary practices in photography, film and video and a discussion of the ethical and ideological issues raised by the genre. Students will be expected to produce two short documentary projects in any media.
Prerequisite(s): MS 082 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 046 PZ -Feminist Documentary
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Women have made politicized documentaries since the invention of the motion picture camera. Students will learn this complex theoretical, historical and political tradition while producing their own feminist documentary.
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 049 PO -Intro to Media 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 049 PZ -Introduction to Media Studies
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course introduces the discipline of media studies to students and gives them foundational knowledge of the field. The readings and screenings comprise a range of approaches and will allow students to address media in a variety of styles and modes of practice, including film, television, and new media.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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 049 SC -Introduction to Media Studies
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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MS 050 HM -Language of Film
Institution: Harvey Mudd
Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 051 PO -Introduction to Digital Media 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 051 PZ -Intro to Digital Media Studies
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An interdisciplinary introduction to digital and electronic media, exploring the relationships between “old” and “new” media forms, the historical development of computer-based communication and the ways that new technologies are reshaping literature, art, journalism, and the social world.
Prerequisite(s): 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 052 PZ -Introduction to Sound Studies
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is an introductory level course exploring different areas of study within sound culture, an emerging field in the human
sciences. This course will introduce students to ways of thinking historically and culturally about sound and listening.
Sound studies is an inherently interdisciplinary field. While this course is grounded in media studies, it also intersects with
history, visual and performing art, architecture, music, cultural studies, anthropology and ethnography, as well as other
disciplines. The course will survey wide ranging topics and cultures including American and European industrialization;
rainforest soundscapes of Papua New Guinea; cassette sermons by Islamic preacher in Cairo, Egypt; avant-garde music
and DJ culture, to name a few.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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 069 PZ -Media Praxis Ontario
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Working In groups, students will plan and implement collaborative media projects with Ontario community sites that promote discourse around regional social issues. Areas to be covered in class Include introductory video production techniques, ethical community media praxis, and examination of a wide range of media justice and activist projects. This Is an introductory level media production course designed but not limited to) students that have taken or are currently enrolled in the Ontario Program coursework.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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 070 PZ -Media and Social Change
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Overview of movements, theories and methods employed by media makers committed to social change. From Soviet film collectives, through Third Cinema movement of the 60s, to feminist, queer, and youth video activist movements in the U.S. that have laid the groundwork for the rise of socially driven media collectives and campaigns today.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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 071 PZ -Video Art
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course examines video as an art practice. Through readings, screenings, visits to art venues and written assignments, students will analyze the historical, conceptual, and aesthetic issues informing contemporary video art and artists.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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 074 PZ -Sound Theory, Sound Practice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An intermediate-level course focusing on sound theory and relationship between sound and image. This topic will be examined through reading assignments, screenings and listening sessions, in-class presentations, writing and sound recording assignments. In this class, students will engage with the history of audio reproduction, the concepts of French theorist Michel Chion, the psychoanalytic theories on the female body and voice, the notion of the soundscape and the relationship between ethnography, colonialism, and audio technology.
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 079 PZ -Silent Film
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The invention of cinema fit within the emerging order of modernism? This class will examine early cinema in the context of the turn-of-the-century project of extending the field of human vision, examining topics such as ethnography, science, journalism, travel, representations of the city and architecture, and the construction of racial difference.
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 080 AA -Video and Diversity
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An introductory level course exploring video as a medium, particularly as it is utilized by women, people of color, lesbians and gays, grassroots activists, as well as other peoples who are under and/or mis-represented by dominant media. This class explores independent video production from historical as well as issue-oriented approaches. The history of video technology, from analog to digital, is studied with a focus on developments that made video an accessible and powerful tool for self-expression and political intervention. Issues around gender, race, class and sexual politics are examined in relation to works from the above-mentioned communities. Modes of work by individual makers and collectives are presented as case studies in how multiple issues can be addressed through singular oeuvres.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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 082 PZ -Introduction to Video
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is an introductory course In digital video production. This class encourages a critical, creative approach to the medium, non-traditional solutions, and explanation of the history and methodology of independent video and video art. Class session combines hands-on technical training in script writing, storyboarding, camera operation, off-line and non-linear editing, lighting and sound equipment with critical analysis of subject matter, treatment, and modes of address in independent as well as mass media.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: Also offered at Harvey Mudd as MS 182 HM, and Scripps as ART 148 SC
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 082L PZ -Introduction to Video Art Lab
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Lab component to Introduction to Video Art. Requires course while taking MS 082 PZ -Introduction to Video . Fall/Spring,
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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 083 PZ -Contemporary Practices in Media
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The class will be developed around visiting media artist’s presentations and contemporary media art exhibitions. This work is situated through readings, presentations and papers in a larger media studies history.
Prerequisite(s): MS 050 PZ or MS 049 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.
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MS 084 PZ -Handmade Film
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Rejecting the prevailing Hollywood wisdom that one needs millions of dollars to make a movie, this class explores different models for creating moving images with the most modest of resources. Options to be considered include hand processing, camera-less films, PXL video, super-8 film, recycling and appropriation. Students will be expected to create several short exercises in order to familiarize themselves with these different techniques, as well as a final project.
Prerequisite(s): MS 082 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 087 PZ -Media Sketchbook
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is an intermediate-level video production class. Students are required to complete short (one to two minute) assignments every other week. The objectives of the class are to further refine the skills of shooting, editing, etc. and to develop a critical vocabulary to talk about your work and the work of others.
Prerequisite(s): MS 082 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 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.
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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.
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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.
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 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.
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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.
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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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: 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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
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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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. This course is an ideal choice for students without a background in Spanish (or other Romance languages), students who have never taken a language course before, or those who wish to have more exposure to the language and a solid base in grammar before transitioning into the intermediate level.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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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.
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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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.
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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MCSI 195 PZ -MCSI: Islam Beyond Ideological
Institution: Pitzer
Description: COURSE TITLE FA16: Islam: Beyond Idological Narratives - The purpose of this seminar is to provide a critical understanding of many complex issues in the contemporary Islamic world. We do so by debating a set of topics including: extremism and rationalism, human and women rights, the generation after Arabic Spring, Pluralism, freedom of expression, and the relationship between the Islamic world and the West.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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Music Note: A half-course credit per semester may be awarded for music ensemble. Credit for individual music instruction may be awarded at the rate of half-course credit for a half-hour weekly lesson per semester, or full-course credit for an hour weekly lesson per semester. Pomona College awards one-quarter course credit for ensemble and half hour weekly lesson. Students who take a music major offered at Scripps or Pomona College are expected to meet the major requirements specified by the College at which the major is taken. |
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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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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 078 PZ -Voter Engagement & The New Left
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Students will study new voter engagement strategies, practices and theory from the Howard Dean, Obama, Sanders and Clinton campaigns and will do community engagement with organizations running grassroots voter engagement campaigns in the area. The class will be based on readings and research that has been carried out about voter engagement strategies. Reading and research will be supported by speakers working on local,statewide and national campaigns, both for candidates and non-partisan voter initiatives. Students will supplement classroom-based learning with hands on experience on concrete electoral campaigns. Students will choose from community engagement opportunities with local and statewide organizations working on voter engagement with strategies informed by the new left.
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.
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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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