2017-2018 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Courses
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English and World Literature |
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LIT 155 HM -Post-Apartheid Narratives
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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LIT 160 AF -Caribbean Literature
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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LIT 162 AF -African Literature
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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LIT 165 AF -Writing Between Borders: Caribbean Writers in the U.S.A and Canada
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 010 PZ -Introduction to Environmental Analysis
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course, required for the Environmental Analysis major, is an interdisciplinary examination of some of the major environmental issues of our time. This course explores aspects of society’s relationship with environment using the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Topics include: environmental ethics and philosophy; ecosystems, biodiversity, and endangered species; North/South environmental conflicts; air pollution and acid rain; ozone depletion; climate change; biotechnology; and international environmental policy.
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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EA 020 PO -Nature, Culture and Society
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 027 PO -Cities by Nature: Times, Place, Space
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 030 PO -Science and the Environment
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 030L KS -Science and the Environment
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 031 PZ -Restoring Nature
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course focuses on designing and implementing a restoration plan for the Pitzer Outback as a resource and develop a restoration strategy and management plan. The science and practice of ecological restoration is explored, and social perspectives that encompass the restoration project are examined.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: EA 131 PZ
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EA 052 PZ -Environmental Science, Policy, & Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: There is a growing need for scientists and policy makers to communicate, collaborate, and translate scientific findings into viable policies and larger political action in the face of national and international gridlock on pressing environmental problems. This course seeks to bring together students concerned about the environment to engage in collaborate problem solving around contemporary environmental problems.
To this end, this transdisciplinary course will engage students in connecting science with policy and politics to address a range of critical environmental problems. Topics include greenhouse gases, water availability in dry regions, and air quality. Class will be a combination of lectures, discussions, and case studies. The course will include a team-based research paper proposing a solution to an environmental problem and a group project presentation to the class.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 055L KS -Physical Geography and Geomorphology
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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EA 068 PZ -Ethnoecology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course investigates the ecological priorities and concepts of various peoples, from so-called “fourth world” hunters and gatherers to “first world” scientists. What we isolate and consider as ecological knowledge includes those aspects of culture that relate to environmental phenomena directly (e.g., resource exploitation) and indirectly (e.g., totemic proscriptions). Thus, this ecological knowledge affects subsistence and adaptation. Ethnoecology-the study of cultural ecological knowledge-begins, like the science of ecology itself, with nomenclatures and proceeds to considerations of processes. In this course we study beliefs about the relationship between humans and the environment as expressed in both Western science and the traditions of Native peoples, and we explore where these cultural systems of knowing intersect and diverge.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: ENVS 148 PZ
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EA 074 PZ -California’s Landscapes: Diverse Peoples and Ecosystems
Institution: Pitzer
Description: California’s Landscapes: Diverse Peoples and Ecosystems. Explores the diverse ecological and cultural landscapes of California, examining how different groups (Native American, Hispanic, African-American, Asian, and European), have transformed California’s rich natural resources. Topics include: Native American of the Los Angeles Basin and the Redwood Forests; Spanish-Mexican missions of southern California African-American miners in the Sierra; Chinese and Japanese farmers in the Central Valley; and the wild land-urban interface of LA. This course also has a social responsibility component in partnership with organizations in Ontario.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: ENVS 074 PZ
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EA 080 PZ -Social Engagement for Sustainable Development
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will establish definitions of sustainable development from literature and experience. We’ll introduce direct and indirect methods of social engagement and technical analyses for ecological design using project-based learning techniques. We’ll synthesize research within the Bernard Field Station related to the future Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability.
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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EA 082 PZ -GIS in Environmental Science
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Many areas within the environmental field require a background in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). GIS is today widely applied in land use planning, growth management, environmental assessment, ecology, field work to disaster response. This course introduces the use of GIS to examine urban environmental issues.
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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EA 085 PO -Food, Land & the Environment
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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EA 086 PZ -Environmental Justice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: There is a small but growing movement in the United States which contends that environmental harm is distributed in a fundamentally racist manner. What does this mean and how do we adjudicate such claims?
This course will critically examine the Environmental Justice (EJ) movement in the United States: its history, central claims, frameworks and methods for analyzing race, class and the environment, EJ campaigns, and on-going strategies.
In this course, you will actively learn to analyze environmental issues using an environmental justice lens, evaluate the race and equity implications of environmental harms, and be inspired to do something about environmental injustice!
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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EA 095 PZ -U.S. Environmental Policy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: How is U.S. environmental policy formulated and how does it relate to social, historic, and political dynamics? This course argues that the “standard model” of direct provision of government services has been substantially unraveling due to a series of new trends in policy including: greater public involvement, devolution, and dispersion.
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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EA 098 PZ -Urban Ecology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Urban ecology is a subfield of ecology that deals with the interaction between humans and the environment in urban settings. This course brings together concepts and research from diverse fields to explore themes of environment and cityscape, relationships between industrialization, green space, and health, ecological challenges in rapidly urbanizing areas, and global social movements toward sustainable cities. A key objective of the course is to consider urban environments through their dynamic relationships to social, political, and economic systems with a key focus on globalization and public life.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 100 PO -Urban Planning and Environment
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 100L KS -Global Climate Change
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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EA 101 PO -GIS in Environmental Analysis
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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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EA 103 KS -Soils and Society
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: Soils are dynamic biological, chemical, and physical environments that have profoundly influenced human health and society. This course provides an overview of soils and the ways in which they define habitats, cycle water and carbon, support infrastructure, sustain agriculture, record paleoclimate, and exemplify the challenges of sustainable environmental management.
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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EA 103L KS -Principles of Soil Science
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 104 KS -Oceanography
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 107 PZ -Design Workshop: A Sense of Place
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Design Workshop explores design innovation inspired by our relationships with nature. In particular, the course revolves around diverse design concepts and creations expressive of a sense of place. Through explorations of scholarly, artistic, and GIS explications of place, our individual and interpersonal relationships with Nature and with one another explored as strategies for creating sustainable communities. This is a studio course, extending the notion of ‘studio’ beyond the walls of the built environment. Studio practice is emphasized through plein air graphic arts, natural history observations, field sketches and recordings, creative expansions of geographic information systems (GIS), community design, and other practice-based skills. We depend on being rooted in an actual place for our sense of who we are and what we can do. Yet in this age of globalization, what happens to the distinctive character of places? In the face of unprecedented mobility, technology, and alienation, what connections to places do we have and can we hope to nurture?
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 108 PZ -Natural History and Naturalists: History and Practice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The interdisciplinary field of Natural History links the natural sciences to the humanities and social sciences by combining ecological field studies with drawing and painting, cultural history, and social analysis. This course introduces students to the complicated history of natural history and the rich botanical and wildlife studies that naturalists have completed, while having students actively doing natural history themselves at the Pitzer Arboretum and Bernard Field Station. One Saturday field trip is required.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: EA 104 PZ Doing Natural History
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EA 115 PZ -Qualitative Research Methods
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Qualitative Research Methods is a pre-requisite for the EA senior thesis course. We learn ethics and methods surrounding qualitative fieldwork, study research design, and develop a toolkit tailored to environmental analysis. The course is geared toward helping students jump start their senior theses projects, and is designed to take students through the Institutional Review Board approvals as well as writing literature reviews and proposals related to their topics. Suggested for senior students who plan to take EA thesis course in 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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EA 120 PZ -Global Environmental Politics and Policy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will introduce students to the rise of global environmental governance, examine specific environmental issues and international treaties (such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and Kyoto Protocol), analyze the politics around the international policy process, and explore how global environmental governance intersects with geopolitics, conflict and national security.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: ENVS 120 PZ
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EA 124 PZ -Protecting Nature: Parks, Conservation Areas & People
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Creating parks and conservation areas is one major way that governments and nongovernmental organizations attempt to protect endangered species and biodiversity. In this class we will examine a variety of protected areas, conflicts around these areas, and programs designed to reduce these conflicts. We will use the Bernard Field Station as a central case study. This course includes a social responsibility component.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: ENVS 124 PZ
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EA 130 PZ -Environment, People and Restoration in Costa Rica
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is a Study Abroad course. For more information, please see the Pitzer in Costa Rica program.
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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EA 132 PZ -Practicum in Exhibiting Nature
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The course focuses on designing and implementing an exhibition plan for the Pitzer Outback. Students will assess the Outback as a resource and develop an exhibit strategy and management plan. Walking paths and interpretive signage will be constructed, and students will work in teams to design and develop the appropriate infrastructure.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: ART 132 PZ
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EA 133 PZ -Case Studies in Sustainable Built Environments
Institution: Pitzer
Description: A critical survey of project and integrative systems-based sustainability initiatives. Applying performance/outcome perspectives, students analyze and (re)present adaptive, transformative and catalytic roles played by design, planning, engineering, conservation, science, technology, policy, cultural formation, participation, and media in making sustainable and resilient places, practices, and settings.
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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EA 134 PZ -Sustainable Places in Practice: Studio/Lab
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This studio course will engage students In the integrative practices of design and planning toward the creation of a sustainable and resilient place. Critical analyses will be paired with projective approaches to (re)shape and adapt space in a built and planted project in redefined ecological, cultural, policy, and technological settings.
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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EA 140 PZ -The Desert as a Place
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An interdisciplinary investigation of the desert environment as a place with some emphasis on Australia and the American Southwest. Correlations between natural and cultural forms, histories, materials, motives, and adaptations will be studied. Topics to be considered will include structural and behavioral adaptations in the natural and cultural ecologies; climate, geomorphology and architectural form; taxonomy, desert flora and fauna and their cultural uses; and various ramifications of the interaction between the desert ecology and cultural consciousness in arid zones. Enrollment is limited.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: ENVS 140 PZ
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EA 141 PZ -Progress and Oppression: Ecology, Human Rights, and Development
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This class is concerned with the state of tribal peoples and ethnic minorities around the world. Particular attention is given to environmental problems and their effects on diverse peoples. We explore case studies of the cultural and environmental consequences of rainforest destruction, tourism, energy development, national parks, and war. We critique programs to assist oppressed peoples and the environments that sustain them. Participants are asked to choose a geographical, cultural, and topical area and make recommendations particular to the problems and the needs of that region.
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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EA 142 PZ -Ecological Restoration: The Claremont Hills Wilderness
Institution: Pitzer
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This course explores the theory and practice or restoration ecology, with a focus on a restoration plan
for the Claremont Hills Wilderness. This wilderness preserve is located in the Claremont foothills, with
rugged terrain. The City has hired MIG Consulting to conduct a study and gather input from users,
residents, and community groups and to produce a Wilderness Master Plan. We will collaborate with
consultants to identify areas of the park that are best suited for ecological restoration. The course
provides an opportunity for community engagement, internship experience, and social responsibility.
Students learn the process of restoration theory and implementation through an interdisciplinary
approach that stresses participatory and student research. We spend substantial time engaged in
fieldwork in the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park.
Prerequisite(s): GIS experience, EA 31, or appropriate environmental science 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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EA 143 PZ -Concerning Landscape
Institution: Pitzer
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EA 144 PZ -Visual Ecology: Revealing Animals, Creating Art, and Making Symbols
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Our relationship with the world is deeply affected by the images we use to understand and express our place in nature. This course engages critical investigation and application of ecological concepts and how these are addressed through art and digital media. With emphasis on using remote digital trail cameras to capture images of wildlife, we experiment with conceptual approaches to art making and develop strategies for how artists can both critique culture and create positive visions for the future. In this combined theory & praxis course, we integrate studio art with scholarly analysis and engaged field research as we create socially and environmentally responsible artworks.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 146 PZ -Environmental Education
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Students are trained in principles of environmental education, and serve as instructors to children from elementary schools in Pomona and Claremont. Participants work in teams to develop and teach effective environmental curricula at the Bernard Biological Field Station. In addition to teaching environmental ethics, local ecology, and critical ecological concerns, course participants serve as role models of environmental sensibility and community involvement. Enrollment is provisional until after the first class meeting when course applications are distributed.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 150 PZ -Critical Environmental Analysis
Institution: Pitzer
Description: A seminar examination of how environmental issues are portrayed in the news media. Specific issues will be determined by the current news, but general concerns include representation of the environment, habitat destruction, consumerism, development, environmental justice, politics and the environment, local and global topics, media bias, and environmental perception. Senior EA majors 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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EA 151 PZ -Campus Cultural Resource Conservation: The Pitzer Campus Beyond 50
Institution: Pitzer
Description: mbedded in the fabric of the built and planted environments of higher education. Planned and designed places of learning in North America represent a historical record from the 17th century forward. The primary focus of this course, the conservation of Pitzer’s mid-century California Modern campus, provides a specific setting and narrative in this important history as it also addresses issues of evaluation and conservation for the century ahead.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 152 PZ -Nature through Film
Institution: Pitzer
Description: We examine how ideas about nature and the environment and the human-nature relationship have been explored in film. From wildlife documentaries, to popular dramas of environmental struggles, to cult classics and Disney’s animated visions of nature, the human-nature relationship has been depicted through film to transmit particular views of the world, especially certain constructs concerning gender, race and ethnicity. We view and study films, read relevant theory, and actively critique ways in which our worldview has been shaped and impacted by cinema. Students write 8 five-page papers during the semester.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 162 PZ -Gender, Environment & Development
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Examines the intersection of theories of environmental degradation, economic development and gender. Social theories to be examined include: modernization theory, dependency and world systems, women in development vs. women and development, cultural ecology, eco-feminism, political ecology and feminist political ecology, gender and the environment, and population.
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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EA 165 PZ -Resource Depletion and Ghost Towns: The Built Environment and Natural Resources
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Resource Depletion and Ghost Towns: The Built Environment and Natural Resources. This course examines the relationship between the built environment, natural resources, and sustainability in the demise of settlements. We begin with an overview of debates surrounding the role of natural resources in the development and decline of towns and cities. We will also look at “sustainability success stories,” such as Curitiba. To what extent can natural resource use depletion be blamed for the creation of spaces called “ghost towns”? This course includes three required field trips: one day-long field trip, one two-day, and one three-day.
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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EA 171 PO -Water in the West
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 172 PO -Crisis Management: National Forests and American Culture
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 180 PZ -Green Urbanism
Institution: Pomona
Description: Creating sustainable urban systems one of the 21st Century’s most crucial challenges. Green urbanism reassesses traditional notions about the interrelationship between the built and natural environments and focuses on catalytic interventions to create sustainable neighborhoods, districts, and regions. The course combines a survey of sustainable design and planning tools- urban ecology, biophilia, biomimicry, green building, the LEED rating system, eco districts, integrated infrastructure, and sustainable city indicators- with creating a proposal to apply the tools to a specific location.
Prerequisite(s): Juniors & Seniors only
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EA 186 PZ -Environmental Justice in the Inland Empire
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this advanced seminar on Environmental Justice, students will directly engage with research questions around the production of space and injustice to the Inland Empire of southern California, and the movements of resistance to combat varying unjust outcomes.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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EA 197 PZ -EA Senior Thesis Seminar
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The EA Senior Thesis Seminar is required for all Pitzer EA majors writing a thesis and is open to any seniors (regardless of campus) who are writing an EA thesis. In the early weeks of the term students will refine and outline their topics. They then devote the remainder of the term to researching primary sources on which their thesis is be based and exploring the secondary literature on their topic. By week 11, students will submit a complete first draft of their thesis. The completed thesis, which typically runs between 40-60 pages (plus notes), is submitted in April. As students work on their own essay, they also serve as peer editors for their classmates. Students sometimes work individually with their advisors, sometimes with their advisor and their peer editor, and sometimes with their entire seminar group
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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HIST 100AI PO -Indian Ocean World
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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HIST 100T PO -Global Environmental Histories
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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FS 001 PZ -Youth Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course presents an overview of youth culture from the development of the idea of the teenager in the post-war period to the present day. It will use a variety of case studies in areas such as music, film, television, literature, and comics to examine how youth-oriented subcultures influence social, cultural, and political change. By examining case studies across a range of media, the course will position issues of culture broadly to think about the idea as a concept and a construct. This course will also be interested in the ways that youth culture influences media industries creative and industrial practices. Students will engage in a range of assignments including personal essays, listening and reading exercises, research papers, and peer review.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 002 PZ -Philosophical Questions
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In the seminar we will examine a set of philosophical questions in the history of Western philosophy: What is the nature of reality? Does God exist? What is the relation between mind and body? Do we really know anything? What is knowledge? What makes you the same person over time? Do we have free will or are we determined? We will investigate these topics through the writings of ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary philosophers. In addition, this seminar is designed to develop students critical thinking, and help them to effectively construct and insightfully analyze philosophical claims and arguments. Student will be asked to formulate different forms of argument-deductive and inductive arguments, assess their validity or soundness, and reconstruct an objection against each argument.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 003 PZ -Political Imagination: Life on the Right
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This seminar explores life on the American political right. We will engage with right-wing political theory. We will analyze right-wing political movements. And we will read about daily life for those who associate with the right today. Together these will allow us to uncover the social and political foundations of contemporary right-wing politics in America. In doing so, we will seek to move beyond superficial dismissals of conservative politics and instead to figure out what exactly is entailed in being on the right at this historical moment. All this, of course, will allow us to imagine: what is to be done?
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 004 PZ -Conspiracy Theories & Populism
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Why are conspiracy theories in which elites are working together, in secret, to thwart the will of the people so popular today? What can we learn about contemporary politics by exploring the nature of such theories? What do philosophy and comparative politics have to say about such theories and their current popularity? Populism is a political view according to which the common people are exploited by a privileged elite and holds that this is a situation that requires correction. Further, American political history often revolves around a notion of the country’s uniqueness, sometimes called “American exceptionalism.” Several purportedly unique features of American life and politics-America’s religiosity, U.S. incarceration rates, attitudes towards race & gender-have been related to American populist thought. In this seminar, we will explore the phenomena of conspiracy theories and populist politics through the lenses of comparative politics and philosophy.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
Note(s): * This course includes an additional required hour of “global-local” programming each week.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 005 PZ -Pseudoscience and the tendencies of human thought
Institution: Pitzer
Description: According to the scientific method, investigators seek to be logical, unbiased, and systematic in their approach to inquiry; an approach that has produced countless benefits to society. However, the human mind is predisposed to certain logical fallacies that oppose scientific inquiry and, more generally, clear, logical reasoning. Moreover, logical fallacies can lead to the improper acceptance of “pseudoscience,” a collection of certain beliefs and practices that are not grounded in scientific evidence. In this course, we will discuss selected readings on the scientific method and the basis of logical fallacies, as well as important case studies on pseudoscience and its negative effects in today’s world. These discussions will provide a platform for creative and argumentative writing exercises that culminate in the synthesis of an op-ed piece centered on a chosen topic of pseudoscience.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 006 PZ -Higher Education in the US: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is an exploration of higher education; designed to help us situate our own experiences within the broader context of American society, politics, and the economy. The promise of college is great. We go to college hoping to find lasting community, stretch our imaginations, develop our passions, deepen our knowledge, and, ultimately, land a job doing what we love. The challenges are also great. Individually, we may be challenged with anxiety, self-doubt, and being away from the familiar. As a community, we are challenged when our diverse life experiences, backgrounds, and beliefs come together-and sometimes clash. How are colleges crafting responses to these challenges to foster the promise of higher education? What about at Pitzer? What hopes and challenges shape our own campus community? And how do we respond to them? Teaching methods include student-led discussion, daily in-class writing, formal essays, research, peer review, and presentations.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 007 PZ -Seeing is Believing: Photography and Truth
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will trace the evidentiary nature of photography from the medium’s invention until now. Throughout the course we will raise critical questions regarding the problems of representation, power structures, and the ethics of photography. We will study a range of photography including 19th century spirit photography and the occult, FSA documentary photography, contemporary art photography and staging, as well as war photography. ***Students will be looking at, reading about, and discussing photographs of human suffering in the context of photographic theory and/or recent historical events which may be triggering, disturbing, and even traumatizing to some students.***
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
Note(s): *This course includes an additional required hour of “global-local” programming each week.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 008 PZ -Environmental Documentaries: Critical Analysis, Evidence and Persuasion
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course introduces students to environmental controversies and the intercultural & social justice issues surrounding them through their documentation in film. Through class discussion and writing assignments, we will analyze the methods of persuasion and types of evidence these documentaries use to examine how films convey messages about what and who are international global environmental problems and how they incite an audience to audience to act. Readings range from excerpts from Aristotle’s Rhetoric to popular blogs on persuasive writing to scholarly materials that provide background, additional evidence, and counterarguments on the subjects of the documentaries. Major comparative topics include: environmental justice controversies over pollution surrounding the oil industry internationally and domestically (sites include: the Ecuadorian Amazon, Niger Delta, and Louisiana along the Mississippi River) and the “objectivity” vs. cultural biases in documentaries about the exploitation of whales and dolphins for food and use in exhibitions (issues include: Japanese vs. Norwegian whaling, dolphin hunting in Taiji, Japan, and orca hunting for aquaria in North America). Other topics to be studied include food production and the increasing privatization of water resources around the world.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 009 PZ -Women and Political Change in Africa
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Over the past twenty years, African countries have arguably generated the most dramatic increases in women’s political representation in the world. Rwanda boasts the largest percentage of female legislators, while Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Seychelles, and South Africa are among the top 15 (the United States is 114th). Political scientists have sought to understand these developments by analyzing gender quota systems, post-conflict peace negotiations, and efforts at reconstituting political orders through democratization. In this course, we will examine these changes as part of a broader (and much longer!) history of women’s political engagement on the continent, which will illuminate discourses and forms of activism that are particular to African contexts. Through analysis of scholarly works, biographies, memoirs, documentaries, as well as visual and performing arts, students will build frames of knowledge that foster an intercultural understanding of women’s work in African forms of statehood, anti-colonial and anti-apartheid movements, fueling leadership transitions at local and national levels, and advocating for the rights of women, girls, and LGBTQ individuals. Writing projects will focus on developing students’ abilities in evaluating sources, critical reading, formulating arguments, organizing evidence, drafting, and revision.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 010 PZ -Surfing and the Politics of Race and Gender
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Surf studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field that is informed by history, politics, economic, cultural studies, gender studies and other disciplines. This course examines the evolution of surfing through academic studies, popular films, and documentaries. A major focus of this class is on the role played by race, class, gender, and culture in shaping the socio-demographic composition of surf zones. History will be our guide as we explore how surfing evolved from a native Hawaiian cultural practice to a multi-billion dollar sport and lifestyle that is largely dominated by White men from California, Hawaii, Australia, South Africa, and Brazil. Yet, we will also consider how ethnic/racial minorities and women are seeking to challenge the status quo and transform the image of surfing. This course also draws from politics, economics, and other disciplines in order to understand how surfing is transforming the cultural, economic, and ecological landscape of less developed nations.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 011 PZ -Indigenous Cultural Resurgence
Institution: Pitzer
Description: A generation committed to practicing heritage cultures, economics, and politics and rejuvenating indigenous languages is emerging in Native communities across the Americas. Known in one Ojibwe telling as the Oshkimaadiziig or the New People, communities committed to this cultural resurgence may be found across the settler colonies sometimes called Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Indigenous stories, prophecies, and histories will give you context for these movements. Meetings with indigenous elders and indigenous cultural resurgence community members combined with field encounters with southern California native plants will open ways to learn to live out love for the land again. Accounts of the dilemmas and pitfalls of indigenous building partnerships with settlers will invite you to decolonize solidarity and re/envision both the ancestors and the future.
Prerequisite(s): Some portions of the course require knowledge of basic mathematics including basic algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. This will be accessible to all students who have taken pre-calculus in high school.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 013 PZ -Global Intimacies
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In Western culture, we locate intimacy in ‘natural’ and ‘enduring’ spaces and relationships: love, family, marriage, desire, sexuality, the body, reproduction, etc. From this perspective, intimacy remains outside of broad-scale social processes. Yet, intimate and reproductive labor-such as domestic service, sex work, surrogacy, medical tourism, cross-border marriages, transnational adoption, organ trafficking, etc.-tie the intimate to the large-scale, the individual to the social, the local to the global. Some of the questions we will ask are: How do past and present global transformations change practices of love and intimacy? What do “love” or “marriage” or “parenthood” mean in different locations, and how are they changed by transnational exchanges? How do inequalities (of class, race, gender, sexuality, or geography) produce and shape intimate relations across national borders? Pairing ethnographic (anthropological) texts with fiction and non-fiction films, this course will investigate several case studies of global intimacies.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 014 PZ -Gender, Politics, and American Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course explores linkages between gender, politics, and American culture. We will consider how gender is socially and culturally constructed and how gendered stereotypes shape, and are shaped by, political discourse, policy-making and pop culture. We will examine the ways in which gender intersects with race, class, and sexual orientation, and how these intersections affect attitudes, advocacy and institutions. We will investigate feminism as a political movement and cultural phenomenon. In so doing, we will tackle classic questions regarding the connections between descriptive and substantive representation, identity and ideology, and personal and political priorities.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 015 PZ -Drug Development, Policy, and Innovation
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This seminar provides students with an in-depth perspective into the pharmaceutical industry, particularly the process by which a drug candidate transitions from the laboratory to patient. Discussions will also focus on public policy and ethical debates surrounding the pharmaceutical industry and the commercialization of science. Topics include: the link between academic research and industry, the clinical trial process by which a molecule becomes a drug, the origin and role of the FDA in protecting the consumer, the concept of informed consent in ethical drug development, and the economics associated with orphan drug development.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 016 PZ -Rich nations, poor nations
Institution: Pitzer
Description: There is enormous wealth and income inequality around the world. We will take a historical perspective, and seek to understand the sources of disparities in economic development, and wealth distribution among the world’s nations and regions. We will consider the role of geography, institutions, property rights, economics, politics, history, and culture in explaining different standards of living in different parts of the world.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 017 PZ -Deconstructing Religion
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Religion does a lot of good in society. It also causes a lot of damage. But whether fostering altruism and communal bonds or supporting harmful tribalism and injustice, there is also the question of veracity: are religions based on truth? Or are they based on myths and fabrications? In this class, we will look at religion as a significant social phenomenon; one that strongly influences various aspects of the contemporary world-from politics to sexuality. The approach of the class will be critical/skeptical, as we will seek to examine and understand how religions are created and maintained, and ultimately, socially constructed.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 018 PZ -Diversity, Equality, and Inequities
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will examine examples of difference in ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality and consider how this diversity has been challenged or accepted in the United States. Students will analyze contemporary and historical issues and explore questions of social justice as they read a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts. In discussions and compositions, students will consider the ways that culture and social structures shape the Pitzer experience, as well as imagining their own roles in transforming society. This course is the designated First-Year Seminar for students in the International Scholars Program and is open to non-native English speakers only.
Prerequisite(s): First-Year Seminars are required for all incoming freshman and do not have prerequisites.
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FREN 044 CM -Advanced French: Reading in Literature and Civilization
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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FREN 044 PO -Advanced French
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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FREN 044 SC -Advanced French: Readings in Literature and 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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FREN 117 CM -Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean
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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FREN 132 CM -North Africal Literature After Independence
Institution: Claremont McKenna College
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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GWS 026 PO -Introduction to Gender and Women’s 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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GWS 190 PO -Senior Seminar
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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Geology |
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GEOL 020C PO -Introduction to Geology: Environmental Geology
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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GEOL 111A PO -Introduction to GIS
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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GEOL 112 PO -Remote Sensing of Earth’s Environment
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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GOVT 138 CM -Religion and Politics in Latin America
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): RLST Major: HRT II, CWS
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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CLAS 051A PO -Introductory Classical 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.
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CLAS 051B PO -Introductory Classical 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.
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CLAS 051B SC -Introductory Classical Greek
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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CLAS 101A PO -Intermediate 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.
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CLAS 101B SC -Intermediate Classical Greek
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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CLAS 182A PO -Advanced Greek 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.
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CLAS 182B SC -Advanced Greek Readings
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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