2018-2019 Pitzer Catalog

May 05, 2024

2018-2019 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Sociology
	SOC 001 PZ -Sociology and Its View of the World Institution: Pitzer Description: This course examines introductory concepts and theories in the study of Sociology. Attention is given to sociological theory, inequality of race, class, gender, and sexuality, white privilege, as well as power, authority, and movements for 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.
	SOC 009 PZ -Food, Culture, Power Institution: Pitzer Description: Food is a source of our collective passion. In this course we will examine Individual and collective food memories and social history. The course will address local and global modes of food production, distribution, and consumption, as well as alternative food culture and eating disorders. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: ANTH 009 PZ, CHLT 009 CH For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 011 PZ -Criminal Organizations & Gangs Institution: Pitzer Description: This course offers a comprehensive overview of criminal organizations - such as street gangs, prison gangs, hate groups, outlaw motorcycle gangs, transnational gangs, tagger crews, hackers, and cartels. Materials will cover how these groups formed, which leadership/organizational structures they utilize, and how they operate domestically and internationally. We will focus on the relationships between these organizations, society, media, technologies, and institutions - as well as examine how historical events have impacted gang behaviors and customs. Students will also develop an understanding of the theoretical concepts and anti-gang strategies that are used by academics, mental health professionals and law enforcement officials. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 012 PZ -Sociology of Television Institution: Pitzer Description: This course applies sociological, psychological, and feminist perspectives towards understanding how TV shows are produced and experienced in everyday life and within a broader social context. We will examine TV’s role in shaping understandings of, and relationship to, ourselves, other individuals, groups, institutions, and the world. Each week will analyze a different theme, like “buddies,” families, crime (BrBa, Sopranos, SOA), feminisms (Girls, SATC, Broad City, OITNB), and institutions (Office, BBT, Parks & Rec). Students will critically analyze the portrayals of various axes of identity and institutions, and explore the economic, political, and social implications of these depictions. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 030 CH -Chicana/o in Contemporary Society 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.
	SOC 031 PZ -Exploring Urban Landscapes Institution: Pitzer Description: This course examines racial dynamics within contemporary urban settings. There will be an emphasis on racial oppression, policing, inner-city violence, deindustrialization, informal labor markets, and urban resistance within Chicana/o, Latino/a and African American 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.
	SOC 035 PZ -Race and Ethnic Relations Institution: Pitzer Description: This course examines concepts and theories in the study of race and ethnic relations. Attention is given to the social construction of race as it relates to colonization and racial oppression, while examining contemporary realities of immigration, inter-ethnic conflict, white privilege and social movements for racial equality. 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.
	SOC 051 PZ -Class, Caste and Colonialism Institution: Pitzer Description: This class will explore a range of films and documentaries that represent issues of class, caste and colonialism around the world. We will evaluate and critique their contributions to our historical and contemporary understandings of social inequalities and stratifications in countries that include the U.S., UK, India, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Diego Garcia, amongst others. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: See also MS 051 PZ For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 055 PO -Population and 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.
	SOC 058 PZ -Gender and Media Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will explore how and why gender matters in society today, with an emphasis on how the mass media shapes gender identities, perceptions, and real life outcomes. Our examination of gender will involve discussions of the meaning of sex and gender, different theoretical arguments concerning gender, and how individuals are socialized into gender behaviors by other individuals, institutions, and especially the mass media. The lectures and readings will reflect a number of different theoretical and feminist perspectives, and they will include an equal focus on issues affecting women and men today. Students will gain the conceptual and theoretical tools to analyze the personal, social, and institutional consequences of different social constructions of gender - and how they are influenced by the media. Finally, this course is designed to explore depictions of gender within various mediums of the media - including advertisements, sports, scripted television, reality television, film, pop music, alternative music genres, internet, gaming, comics, the sex industry, and the news. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 071 PZ -Sociology of Popular Music Institution: Pitzer Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 073 PZ -Model Minority / Perpetual Foreigner: Asians in America Institution: Pitzer Description: What is the contemporary Asian American experience? How does Asian America look when we take into account differences in ethnicity, class, gender, and generation? This course offers a sociological examination of what it means to be Asian American today. Topics include immigration, assimilation, demographic trends, ethnic identity, discrimination, socioeconomic mobility, gender, and relationships with other groups. 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.
	SOC 074 PZ -Indigenous Educational Access and Mentorship Institution: Pitzer Description: This is an engaged learning course aligned with partnerships between Pitzer and Native Nations as well as between Pitzer and educational institutions that serve Native students and communities. Students participate in research and action projects that promote educational access and advance collaborations with community partners. Specific research and action projects vary by semester. Sometimes offered for half course credit, sometimes for full course credit. Prerequisite(s): some involvement with American Indian or Indigenous communities, and/or study of American Indian and Indigenous issues and/or settler colonialism, or similar experience and knowledge. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 077 PZ -Indigenous Movements Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will examine contemporary indigenous movements from Canada to South America, with an emphasis outside of the United States. The course will highlight processes of colonization, resistance, institutional change, identity formation, and decolonization. To connect local and global, students will participate in community-engaged learning with California Indigenous 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.
	SOC 078 PZ -American Indian Movements Institution: Pitzer Description: This course examines Indigenous resistance to ongoing settler colonialism in North America, with attention to institutional change, ethic group formation and decolonizing action. This version will focus on education as a dimension of colonization, the principles and recovery of indigenous knowledge systems, the nature of human’s place within, and relationship to, the natural world within Indigenous cultural views, symbolic incorporation of those understandings into various artistic expressions, and the holistic integration of these understandings of the natural world in indigenous educational pedagogy. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Formerly: Formerly Indigenous People of Americas For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 079 PZ -Scandinavian Culture and Society Institution: Pitzer Description: This is a general introduction to Scandinavia. We will look at various aspects of Scandinavian society and culture: politics, history, art, economics, film, literature, etc. 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.
	SOC 081 PZ -Sociology Through Film Institution: Pitzer Description: We will watch and analyze films (both documentaries and narratives) that address and illustrate key sociological concepts and insights, as well as pertinent social issues. This course is not about the sociology of film, per se. Rather, the goal is to learn about sociological ideas and social issues by using movies as our medium, as well as assigned reading and lectures. 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.
	SOC 082 PZ -Racial Politics of Teaching Institution: Pitzer Description: This class examines how race and ethnicity are constructed in schooling from sociological, linguistic and ethnic studies standpoints. Specifically, we will discuss how race and ethnicity are constructed in schooling and ways teachers/educators may refine their pedagogies in relation to race and ethnicity. Students will do a research project. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: LGCS 082 PZ, ASAM 082 PZ For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 083 PZ -Sociology of Education Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will introduce students to the relationship between education and society by reviewing a variety of theoretical perspectives and key empirical studies in the sociology of education. We will explore topics including tracking, teacher expectations, student-educator relationships, curriculum, and standardized testing. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001. 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.
	SOC 084 AA -Nonviolent Social Change Institution: Pitzer Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 086 PZ -Social Inequality Institution: Pitzer Description: This course explores why certain groups and individuals receive larger amounts of values resources, such as money, prestige, and power. Do some people simply try harder than others or is there truth to the old saying that some people are “in the right place at the right time?” 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.
	SOC 091 PZ -Political Sociology Institution: Pitzer Description: This course identifies key issues and debates concerning the distribution of power and consequent political processes in modern societies. Topics to be discussed include: theories of the distribution of power in modern societies; capitalism and class; state development and state formation; political identities and processes of legitimation; political representation and political incorporation; parliamentarianism and corporatism; the displacement of states as sites of political action and new social movements. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 092 PZ -The Social World, Graphically Institution: Pitzer Description: This interdisciplinary course will use graphic novels as vehicles for exploring various aspects of the social world: social issues, conflicts, identities, movements, etc. Students will read graphic novels that focus on various aspects of contemporary social life, and they will also write/draw/create their own graphic novel pages which explore some social issue, movement, conflict, pattern, etc. Part sociology, part art, this course will look at how graphic novels can inform us about issues of social significance, how they function visually and aesthetically, how they both engage and entertain, and how they can be an effective form of artistic expression, social commentary, historical accounting, and political critique. Cross-listing: Art For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 095 PZ -Contemporary Central Asia Institution: Pitzer Description: Fermented mare’s milk, the oil curse, bride kidnapping, dictators, atheists, Islamic radicalism, pipeline routes, U.S. strategic interests and democracy promotion. This course will introduce students to societies and cultures of Central Asia-a vast and highly volatile part of the world currently at the center of the renewed geopolitical struggle between the United States and Russia. 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.
	SOC 099 PZ -The Social Construction of Morality Institution: Pitzer Description: How do we decide what is good or bad, wrong or right, moral or immoral? For many, God is necessary in order to answer such questions. However, this class will approach morality and ethics as social constructions, created by humans over time. We will look at how people – as social beings embedded in history, culture, and society – construct morality and fight for justice. Part sociology, part secular studies, and part philosophy, this class will explore the on-going process whereby humans come to determine what is wrong or right, just or unjust, ethical or unethical, and we will become familiar with various theories of morality and ethics and apply those theories to real-world problems. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: SOC For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 101 PZ -Quantitative Research Methods Institution: Pitzer Description: This course is designed to develop quantitative analytic skills by teaching how to understand, apply, and interpret statistical principles. You will also gain practical experience in working with SPSS-a program that is widely used in a variety of academic, business, and nonprofit settings. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 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.
	SOC 102 PZ -Qualitative Research Methods Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will introduce students to the range of qualitative research practices in the field of sociology, including ethnographic research design, multiple interviewing and observation techniques, writing field notes, content and discourse analyses, analysis of data, and presentation of research findings. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 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.
	SOC 108 PZ -Moon Called: Black Women, Pregnancy and Ritual Institution: Pitzer Description: The moon’s connection to women’s wombs is honored within southeastern African American: a) folklore and menstruation, birthing, pregnancy and fertility rituals; b) midwifery practice; and c) superstitions. The course is divided into four sections, with each section being organized around one or more major questions about the ways in which culture, religion and society influenced the ways in which pregnancy, menstruation, and birthing are viewed among African Americans. We begin with an introduction of the social roles of rituals, and how pregnancy symbolizes social cohesion for communities of color. We then explore symbolic rituals within African American pregnancy and birthing traditions as practiced by Black midwives on slave plantations and within southern US black communities post-Emancipation. We next critically analyze the social codification of pregnancy and birthing by the US medical establishment and its impact on Black midwifery practice, and end with a feminist investigation of how certain rituals and superstitions persist within Black communities via feminist qualitative methods, namely one-on-one interviews with black women from Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 and Intro to Gender Studies For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 109 PZ -African American Social Theory Institution: Pitzer Description: How have African Americans contributed to sociology? This course seeks to provide an overview of early 20th century to more contemporary African American contributors to the discipline such as St. Clair Drake, Dorothy Roberts, bell hooks, and Robert Staples. Moreover, students will become familiar with how race, sex, and class shaped these theoretical writings and expanded socio-cultural understanding of African Americans in the U.S. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 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.
	SOC 110 PZ -Classical Sociological Theory Institution: Pitzer Description: Examines some of the most important and influential thinkers who helped shape the discipline of sociology: Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Du Bois, Gilman, etc. Strongly recommended for students considering graduate school. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 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.
	SOC 111 PZ -Social Movements and Social Change Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will examine the major questions in the study of social movements. These include: Why, and under what conditions, do social movements arise? Why do individuals join movements? How are social movements organized? Students will learn about a number of important contemporary social movements. In addition, students will also research and develop some expertise regarding a particular social movement of his or her choosing. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or SOC 001 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.
	SOC 112 PZ -Contemporary Social Theory Institution: Pitzer Description: Examines current influential theories, paradigms, and thinkers who continue to shape the discipline of sociology: Functionalism, Conflict theory, Symbolic Interaction, Critical Race Theory, Racial Formations, Radical Feminisms, Queer Theories, theories of culture, theories of transnational capital, etc. Strongly recommended for students considering graduate school. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 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.
	SOC 114 CH -Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequality and Activism 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.
	SOC 114 PZ -Sociology of Religion Institution: Pitzer Description: How does religion affect/influence other aspects of society? How do various aspects of society affect/influence religion? This course will look at religion sociologically, probing its social construction. Prerequisite(s): Any sociology course. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements. Note(s): RLST Majors: CWS For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SOC 118 PZ -Sociology of Secularity Institution: Pitzer Description: Examines contemporary secularity and irreligion in the USA and around the world; looks at who tends to be secular, how secular people live their lives without religion, which societies have higher rates of secularity, and how secularity and secularism are related to various aspects of social, cultural, and political life. 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.
	SOC 120 PZ -Sex Politics Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will critique heteronormativity and highlight the social construction and regulations of sexuality. It will examine a range of political issues and movements, such as: sexuality education; gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer movements and the interactions of race, gender, class and sexuality. 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.
	SOC 122 PZ -Sociology of Health and Medicine Institution: Pitzer Description: Students in this course will better understand and become familiar with how social characteristics (age, race, class, gender, sexual orientation) influence an individual’s experience of health, illness, medical institutions and more in healthcare professions. Our main focus is to examine social epidemiology and health and illness definitions. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 PZ and at least junior standing and with special permission otherwise. 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.
	SOC 124 AA -Global Asia/Asia America 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.
	SOC 124 AF -Race, Place and Space Institution: Pitzer Description: This course offers an introduction to the processes underlying social and spatial differentiation, with particular reference to race, gender, sexuality and class. We examine how social difference and social inequalities are constituted through space, not just expressed spatially. 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.
	SOC 126 AA -Immigration and the Second Generation 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.
	SOC 136 AF -Framing “Urban” Life Institution: Pitzer Description: The course draws upon a wide range of disciplinary orientations that examine the theories of urban life and representations of urban places and their cultures through literature, Websites, maps, architecture, photography, documentary, film, popular art, music, and advertising in local and international cites. 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.
	SOC 141 CH -Chicanas and Latinas in the U.S. 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.
	SOC 145 CH -Restructuring Communities Institution: Pitzer Description: This course examines how Chican@/Latin@ and multi-racial communities are being transformed both locally and globally. Issues of community building and empowerment through community engagement at a day labor center, youth detention center, and a women’s empowerment facility will be a fundamental component of the class. 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.
	SOC 146 PZ -Sociology of HOmelessness Institution: Pitzer Description: This course is an analysis of the social and structural development of homelessness in America. We will explore the theoretical underpinnings of this social problem. We will focus on the structures, functions, and historical variations of this form of disorganization and analyze current trends. Utilizing the readings, real world examples and student centered research we will go from understanding the various sociological theories associated with homelessness; to the lived realities of people experiencing homelessness; to discussion(s) on solutions, institutional inertia, public policy and problem solving. 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.
	SOC 150 AA -Contemporary Asian American Issues 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.
	SOC 150 CH -Chicana/os/Latinas/os and Education 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.
	SOC 155 CH -Rural and Urban Social Movements Institution: Pitzer College Description: Examines the emergence of social movements, the process of their formation and the varied strategies for their mobilization. Particular attention is paid to the Chicana/o civil rights, farm labor and union movements. Students organize a memorial and alternative spring break with the United Farmworkers Union. Spring, J. Calderón.
	SOC 157 PZ -Gender in American Society Institution: Pitzer Description: This course addresses what it means to think critically about gender and how social constructs such as occupational segregation, racial bias, and sexist bias have an impact on the experiences of “gendered” individuals. This course heavily relies on the intersectionality paradigm to guide discussion and further our understanding of gender socialization patterns. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 PZ or Intro to Women’s Studies (GWS 026 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.
	SOC 165 PZ -Secularism, Skepticism and Irreligion Institution: Pitzer Description: Why do people reject religion? This course examines secular/nonreligious people and thought, atheist and agnostic ideologies, and skeptical criticisms of religion. We explore the most compelling arguments against theism and religious faith, investigate the ways in which religion is socially constructed, and look at how religion can often contribute towards bolstering and maintaining inequality, patriarchy, racism, etc. Strongly recommended for those interested in religion-or in debunking religion. 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.
	SOC 170 PZ -Internship: Sociology of Health and Medicine Institution: Pitzer Description: This practicum is a semester-long internship in which students will work within health organizations serving or addressing health issues. In addition, students will be exposed to potential careers or volunteer activities in the community.Moreover, students will read texts and engage in a better understanding of- the relationship between social justice praxis and public health interventions. Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 PZ and SOC 122 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.
	SOC 188 AA -Teaching as Social Change Institution: Pitzer Description: This seminar will explore theoretical work on radical education-most notably the writing of Paulo Freire and Asian American Studies scholars. With an emphasis on “to serve the people,” Asian American Studies sought to transform higher education and strengthen student’s political engagement for a more just society. This seminar has a community-based component. 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.
	SOC 189A PZ -IGLAS Seminar Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will provide a historical and theoretical understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education. It will focus on three significant areas in postsecondary education: access and participation, campus climate and curriculum, and outcomes and student success. An emphasis will be placed on effective ways to translate theory into practice. 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.
	SOC 194A PZ -Global Local Research Workshop Institution: Pitzer Description: These pass-fail half-courses are for students applying for Fulbright fellowships to undertake international research or teaching. The workshop will guide students through the development of proposals, personal statements and other elements of an application. The course will follow a workshop model of organization in which participants accept a significant responsibility for contributing to the learning of the group. Class sessions will consist of multiple small-group activities, which will require active participation. In addition to in-class activities, students will be expected to complete assigned readings, written assignments and peer-feedback/evaluation. The course is designed to be an encompassing and flexible vehicle to manage the large number of students applying for 2015-16 Fulbright awards. Students may audit. 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.
	SOC 194B PZ -Global Local Teaching Workshop Institution: Pitzer Description: These pass-fail half-courses are for students applying for Fulbright fellowships to undertake international research or teaching. The workshop will guide students through the development of proposals, personal statements and other elements of an application. The course will follow a workshop model of organization in which participants accept a significant responsibility for contributing to the learning of the group. Class sessions will consist of multiple small-group activities, which will require active participation. In addition to in-class activities, students will be expected to complete assigned readings, written assignments and peer-feedback/evaluation. The course is designed to be an encompassing and flexible vehicle to manage the large number of students applying for 2015-16 Fulbright awards. Students may audit. 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.
	SOC 199A PZ -Senior Seminar Institution: Pitzer Description: This is the capstone seminar for senior sociology majors. The seminar is designed to bring seniors together to discuss and assess their understanding of the sociological literature about a selected topic. 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.
	SOC 199B PZ -Advanced Independent Research Project/Thesis Institution: Pitzer Description: All sociology majors planning to write a senior thesis/research project must enroll in this class, which will serve as an anchor for your work– helping you write your thesis/research project & guiding you through all the steps along the way. 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.
	SOSC 147 HM -Enterprise and the Entrepreneur 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.
	SOSC 180 HM -Tropical Forests: Policy and Practice 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.
Spanish
	SPAN 001 PZ -Introductory Spanish Institution: Pitzer Description: Acquisition of four basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading and writing, with emphasis on the spoken language. This course includes conversation group sessions. 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.
	SPAN 002 PZ -Introductory Spanish Institution: Pitzer Description: Acquisition of four basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading and writing, with emphasis on the spoken language. This course includes conversation group sessions. Prerequisite(s): SPAN001 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.
	SPAN 022 PZ -Intensive Introductory Spanish Institution: Pitzer Description: Designed for beginning students with some basic knowledge of the language, who are too advanced for SPAN 001 PZ , but do not yet qualify for SPAN 033 PZ . Students will complete in one semester the equivalent of SPAN 001 PZ & SPAN 002 PZ . Includes laboratory work and/or tutorial sessions. Placement examination required. 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.
	SPAN 031 PZ -Community-Based Spanish Practicum Institution: Pitzer Description: This conversation course offers students the opportunity to develop fluency in the language while promoting intercultural understanding. Students are received into the homes of host families once a week for discussion, exploration of the community and participation in family activities. Faculty assist the student in debriefing sessions to support the language and intercultural learning goals. Half-credit course. Prerequisite: 2 semesters of Spanish or equivalent. Prerequisite(s): 2 semesters of Spanish 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.
	SPAN 033 PZ -Intermediate Spanish Institution: Pitzer Description: Review and reinforcement of four basic skills. Emphasis on conversation, reading ability and writing. Includes conversation group sessions. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 002 PZ, SPAN 022 PZ, or equivalent placement. 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.
	SPAN 044 PZ -Advanced Spanish: Languages and Cultures Institution: Pitzer Description: Discussion of texts and/or films concerning literary and social aspects of Spain and Latin America. Development of correct personal style and/or idiomatic expressions in oral and written expression. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 033 PZ, placement exam, 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.
	SPAN 050 PZ -Advanced Spanish for Heritage Speakers Institution: Pitzer Description: This course is designed specifically for heritage speakers of Spanish with little or no previous formal schooling in the language. The class takes Into account the specific proficiency profile of these students, with activities designed to help them communicate with greater accuracy and increased confidence in formal and informal 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.
	SPAN 055 PZ -Advanced Conversation Through Film Institution: Pitzer Description: Based on the viewing of contemporary Spanish language films, this course emphasizes the practice and development of oral communication skills, providing students with the opportunity to engage in the analysis of various social, cultural, and political topics of current interest in Span and Latin America. Half-course 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.
	SPAN 065 CH -Spanish for Bilinguals I 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.
	SPAN 070 SC -Advanced Spanish: Spanish for Science 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.
	SPAN 100 PZ -Spanish in the Community Institution: Pitzer Description: This course focuses on children of immigration. It explores the forces that shape their adaptation to a new country, their schooling and literacy process, their language use and sense of identity, the relation with family and the cultural processes that take place as they learn to become part of the new society. Readings from social science, literature, and contemporary discussions. Required weekly community service. Prerequisite: Spanish 44 or equivalent. Interview and permission required to enroll. Prerequisite(s): 4 semesters of Spanish 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.
	SPAN 100A PO -Advanced Spanish for Heritage Speakers 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.
	SPAN 101 SC -Introduction to Literary Analysis Institution: Scripps Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: SPAN 101 CM and SPAN 101 PO For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SPAN 102 CM -Latin American Culture 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.
	SPAN 103 SC -Advanced Conversation and Composition 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.
	SPAN 104 PZ -Public Health in Latin America Institution: Pitzer Description: Students learn basic methodological techniques and study the special characteristics/possible uses of oral history interviews when working in Spanish speaking settings. Its goal is to examine historical/contemporary issues shaping the social and political fabric of communities locally and globally. Prerequisite: Spanish 101 or Higher. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SPAN 105 PO -Spanish Film 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.
	SPAN 106 PO -Images of Latin America 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.
	SPAN 107 PO -Identity Matters in Latin American Literature and Culture 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.
	SPAN 109 PO -Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics Institution: Pomona Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SPAN 110 SC -Introduction to Spanish 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.
	SPAN 120A PO -Survey of Spanish Literature 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.
	SPAN 120B PO -Survey of Spanish Literature 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.
	SPAN 120B SC -Survey of Spanish Literature 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.
	SPAN 122 CM -Immigration in Spanish Literature and Film 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.
	SPAN 124 CM -Visions of Democracy: New Spanish Voices after the Fall of the Dictatorship 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.
	SPAN 125A PO -Survey of Spanish American Literature Institution: Pomona Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: SPAN 125A CM For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SPAN 125B PO -Survey of Spanish American Literature Institution: Pomona Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Cross-listing: SPAN 125B CM For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SPAN 126 PO -In Short: Latin American Story-Telling 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.
	SPAN 127 CH -Literatura Chicano en Español 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.
	SPAN 129 PO -Early Modern Women Writers Institution: Pomona Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SPAN 130 PO -Spectacles of the Body in Contemporary Latin American Fiction and Culture 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.
	SPAN 131 SC -Representations of Queer Lives in Latin America Institution: Scripps College Description: See Scripps College catalog for course description.
	SPAN 135 PZ -Los Angeles: La Ciudad, su Gente y sus Historias/Los Angeles: The City, its People and its Stories. Institution: Pitzer Description: An exploration of Los Angeles, its history and stories, and the complexities of its present times. It explores the lives of Angelinos and the urban spaces they inhabit, its cultural geography, their everyday cultural practices, films, music, art and the environment. Emphasis on the Latino community living in LA, in the context of other ethnicities, social inequalities, frictions and social struggles. Students will work on documenting short stories of Angelinos and the backdrop of the city’s visual culture. 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.
	SPAN 137 PZ -Contemporary Strategies of Resistance in Latin America Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will examine different recent strategies of political, social, and cultural resistance in Latin American countries, from the cycle of mobilization against neoliberal policies and their effects in the 1990s and 2000s, to the new resistances against ineffectual systems of democratic representation. We will explore cases such as student protests in Chile and Mexico, women’s movements in Argentina and Mexico (#NiUnaMenos, #NiUnaMas), as well as some of the contemporary tools of activism and resistance provided by the new global communication networks. The class will include sources drawn from social sciences, journalism, testimony, film, and literature, and will have a Seminar format. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	SPAN 140 PO -From the “Boom” to “Literatura Lite”: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture 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.
	SPAN 142 PO -Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad 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.
	SPAN 144 PZ -Environ Issues in Latin America Institution: Pitzer Description: COURSE TITLE: “Exploitation, Extraction, and Hope: Environmental Issues in Latin America” From the first colonial contact through to today, Latin America’s wealth of natural resources has been matched only by the global desire to extract and exploit those resources, with profound effects upon peoples and communities throughout the region. The social, political, and cultural debates surrounding Latin America’s relationship to western modernity are awash with representations of and reflections upon the connection between humans, corporations, nations, and nature. Through diverse media including chronicles, memoirs, novels, poetry, reports, and both fictional and documentary films, we will explore issues like extractivism, development, modernization, and activism. Taught in Spanish 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.
	SPAN 146 PO -El deseo de la palabra: Poetry or Death 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.
	SPAN 148 CM -Special Topics in Spanish 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.
	SPAN 150 CM -Nation and Identity in 19th-Century Spanish America 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.
	SPAN 152 CM -Gender in 19th-Century Spanish America 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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SOC 001 PZ -Sociology and Its View of the World

SOC 009 PZ -Food, Culture, Power

SOC 011 PZ -Criminal Organizations & Gangs

SOC 012 PZ -Sociology of Television

SOC 030 CH -Chicana/o in Contemporary Society

SOC 031 PZ -Exploring Urban Landscapes

SOC 035 PZ -Race and Ethnic Relations

SOC 051 PZ -Class, Caste and Colonialism

SOC 055 PO -Population and Environment

SOC 058 PZ -Gender and Media

SOC 071 PZ -Sociology of Popular Music

SOC 073 PZ -Model Minority / Perpetual Foreigner: Asians in America

SOC 074 PZ -Indigenous Educational Access and Mentorship

SOC 077 PZ -Indigenous Movements

SOC 078 PZ -American Indian Movements

SOC 079 PZ -Scandinavian Culture and Society

SOC 081 PZ -Sociology Through Film

SOC 082 PZ -Racial Politics of Teaching

SOC 083 PZ -Sociology of Education

SOC 084 AA -Nonviolent Social Change

SOC 086 PZ -Social Inequality

SOC 091 PZ -Political Sociology

SOC 092 PZ -The Social World, Graphically

SOC 095 PZ -Contemporary Central Asia

SOC 099 PZ -The Social Construction of Morality

SOC 101 PZ -Quantitative Research Methods

SOC 102 PZ -Qualitative Research Methods

SOC 108 PZ -Moon Called: Black Women, Pregnancy and Ritual

SOC 109 PZ -African American Social Theory

SOC 110 PZ -Classical Sociological Theory

SOC 111 PZ -Social Movements and Social Change

SOC 112 PZ -Contemporary Social Theory

SOC 114 CH -Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequality and Activism

SOC 114 PZ -Sociology of Religion

SOC 118 PZ -Sociology of Secularity

SOC 120 PZ -Sex Politics

SOC 122 PZ -Sociology of Health and Medicine

SOC 124 AA -Global Asia/Asia America

SOC 124 AF -Race, Place and Space

SOC 126 AA -Immigration and the Second Generation

SOC 136 AF -Framing “Urban” Life

SOC 141 CH -Chicanas and Latinas in the U.S.

SOC 145 CH -Restructuring Communities

SOC 146 PZ -Sociology of HOmelessness

SOC 150 AA -Contemporary Asian American Issues

SOC 150 CH -Chicana/os/Latinas/os and Education

SOC 155 CH -Rural and Urban Social Movements

SOC 157 PZ -Gender in American Society

SOC 165 PZ -Secularism, Skepticism and Irreligion

SOC 170 PZ -Internship: Sociology of Health and Medicine

SOC 188 AA -Teaching as Social Change

SOC 189A PZ -IGLAS Seminar

SOC 194A PZ -Global Local Research Workshop

SOC 194B PZ -Global Local Teaching Workshop

SOC 199A PZ -Senior Seminar

SOC 199B PZ -Advanced Independent Research Project/Thesis

SOSC 147 HM -Enterprise and the Entrepreneur

SOSC 180 HM -Tropical Forests: Policy and Practice

SPAN 001 PZ -Introductory Spanish

SPAN 002 PZ -Introductory Spanish

SPAN 022 PZ -Intensive Introductory Spanish

SPAN 031 PZ -Community-Based Spanish Practicum

SPAN 033 PZ -Intermediate Spanish

SPAN 044 PZ -Advanced Spanish: Languages and Cultures

SPAN 050 PZ -Advanced Spanish for Heritage Speakers

SPAN 055 PZ -Advanced Conversation Through Film

SPAN 065 CH -Spanish for Bilinguals I

SPAN 070 SC -Advanced Spanish: Spanish for Science

SPAN 100 PZ -Spanish in the Community

SPAN 100A PO -Advanced Spanish for Heritage Speakers

SPAN 101 SC -Introduction to Literary Analysis

SPAN 102 CM -Latin American Culture and Civilization

SPAN 103 SC -Advanced Conversation and Composition

SPAN 104 PZ -Public Health in Latin America

SPAN 105 PO -Spanish Film

SPAN 106 PO -Images of Latin America

SPAN 107 PO -Identity Matters in Latin American Literature and Culture

SPAN 109 PO -Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics

SPAN 110 SC -Introduction to Spanish Civilization