2012-2013 Pitzer Catalog 
    
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2012-2013 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Religious Studies
  
  
  
  

  • RLST 103 PO - Religious Traditions of China

    For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

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  • RLST 104 PO - Religious Traditions of Japan

    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.
  

  • RLST 105 HM - Religions in American Culture: Toleration

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 106 PZ - Zen Buddhism

    HRT I

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 107 PO - Tradition and Innovation in the Making of Modern Chinese Buddhism

    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.
  

  • RLST 108 PO - Buddhism & Society in Southeast Asia

    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.
  

  • RLST 111 CM - Rebels, Radicals, and Religions on the Margins

    For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 112 HM - Engaging Religion

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 113 HM - God, Darwin, and Design in America

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 114 HM - 2038: Prophecy, Apocalypse (3)

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  

  • RLST 116 PO - The Lotus Sutra in East Asia

    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.
  
  

  • RLST 119 PZ - Religion in Medieval East Asia

    HRT I

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  • RLST 128 PO - The Religion of Islam

    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.
  
  

  • RLST 132 PO - Messiahs and the Millennium

    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.
  

  • RLST 133 PO - Modern Judaism

    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.
  
  
  
  
  

  • RLST 139 PO - Benjamin, Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida: Contemporary Continental Jewish Philosophy

    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.
  

  • RLST 140 PO - The Idea of God: Modern Theologies of Belief

    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.
  

  • RLST 141 PO - The Experience of God: Contemporary Theologies of Transformation

    For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

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  • RLST 142 AF - The Problem of Evil: African-American Engagements With (in) Western Thought

    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.
  
  
  
  
  

  • RLST 147 HM - World Religions and Transnational Religions: American and Global Movements (3)

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 148 PO - Sufism

    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.
  

  • RLST 149 PO - Islamic Thought

    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.
  

  • RLST 150 AF - The Eyes of God: Race and Empires of the Sun

    For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

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  • RLST 152 PO - Ritual and Magic in Children’s Literature

    For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

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  • RLST 154 PO - Life, Love and Suffering in Biblical Wisdom and the Modern World

    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.
  

  • RLST 155 PO - Religion, Ethics and Social Practice

    For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

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  • RLST 157 PO - Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust

    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.
  

  • RLST 158 PO - Jewish Mysticism

    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.
  

  • RLST 161 CM - Gurus, Swamis, and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia

    For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 162 PO - Modern Jewish Thought

    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.
  

  • RLST 163 CM - Women and Gender in the Jewish Tradition

    For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 164 PO - Engendering and Experience: Women in the Islamic Tradition

    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.
  

  • RLST 166A PO - The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment

    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.
  

  • RLST 166B PO - Religion, Politics and Global Violence

    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.
  
  

  • RLST 170 SC - Women and Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity

    For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  

  • RLST 172 PO - The Bible Goes to Hollywood: Ideological Afterlives of Scripture

    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.
  
  

  • RLST 176 CM - Visionaries, Prophets and Transformative Leadership

    For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 177 PO - Gender and Religion

    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.
  

  • RLST 178 PO - The Modern Jewish Experience

    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.
  

  • RLST 179A HM - Special Topics in Religion: Comprehending Religion

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 179B HM - Special Topics in Religion. 2012, Prophecy and Apocalypse

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 180 SC - Interpreting Religious Worlds

    For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 183 HM - Ghosts and Machines

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

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  • RLST 184 HM - Science and Religion

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • RLST 184 PO - Queer Theory and the Bible

    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.
  

  • RLST 190 PO - Senior Seminar in Religious Studies

    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.
  

  • RLST 191 PO - Senior Thesis

    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.

Science, Technology and Society
  

  • ANTH 111 HM - Introduction to the Anthropology of Science and Technology

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • HIST 081 HM - Science and Technology in the Early Modern World: History of Science, Renaissance to 1800

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • HIST 082 HM - Science and Technology in the Modern World

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • STS 001 HM - Introduction to Science, Technology and Society

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • STS 080 PO - History of Science: Science and Technology in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds.

    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.
  

  • STS 114 HM - Social and Political Issues in Clinic

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • STS 185 HM - Science and Engineering from an “Other” Perspective

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • STS 187 HM - HIV-AIDS: Science, Society and Service

    For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • STS 190 PO - Senior Integrative Seminar

    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.
  

  • STS 191 PZ - Senior Thesis

    Exercise in thought, research and effective prose writing, in which senior students are expected to demonstrate competency in working with select data, ideas, techniques and sources that characterize and inform their major area of study within STS.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.

Sociology
  

  • SOC 001 PZ - Sociology and Its View of the World

    An introductory course in sociology concerned with what the discipline of sociology does, how it views the world, its differences from and similarities to other social sciences and the various sub-fields of sociology. The main themes pursued will be the comparison of social structures, social change, power and authority, social organization and the individual and society. This course is required for all upper-division work (course numbers 100 and above) in Sociology.

    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

    (Also CHLT 009 CH  & ANTH 009 PZ )

    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.

    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

    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.
  

  • SOC 031 PZ - Exploring Urban Landscapes

    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.

    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

    This course examines major 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.

    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

    (See also MS 051 PZ ). 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.

    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

    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.
  

  • SOC 055 PZ - Juvenile Delinquency

    This course Is designed to introduce students to four key aspects of juvenile delinquency: a) the nature and extent of delinquency; b) theories of delinquency; c) research on the causes of juvenile delinquency; and d) the control and prevention of delinquency.

    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

    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

    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.

    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: Indigenous Resistance to Colonial Domination

    Formerly Indigenous People of Americas This course will critically examine Indigenous resistance to ongoing settler colonialism in North America. Analysis will feature processes of institutional change, ethnic group formation and decolonizing action in the realms of politics, culture, education, health, and others. Learning will involve engaging in a community partnership with local community members/groups.

    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

    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.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • SOC 080 PZ - Secularism: Local/Global

    This course will examine secular people and secular movements in Southern California, the U.S.A., and several other countries around the world, such as Turkey, India, Scandinavia, Russia, etc.

    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

    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.

    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

    Also ASAM 082 PZ  and LGCS 082 PZ 

    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.

    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

    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.

    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

    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

    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?”

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  

  • SOC 088 PZ - Hip Hop and Incarceration

    [formerly Literacy of Self and Society: From Hip Hop to Mediation]

    The class will examine the intersections of hip-hop and the prison industrial complex. This course seeks collaboration with college students and incarcerated youth at a juvenile camp in La Verne. Both bodies of students will collaborate to develop literacy in media, sociology, and social justice.

    Prerequisite(s): A course on race and ethnicity or social stratification.

    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

    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.

    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

    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.

    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

    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 

    Enrollment is limited to majors.

    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

    This course will introduce students to the range of qualitative research practices in the field of sociology. We will gain experience with the skills of qualitative research including research design, sampling, validity, methods of interviewing and observation, writing field notes, content and discourse analyses, and visual, archival, and historical methods.

    Prerequisite(s): Enrollment is limited to majors.

    Enrollment is limited to majors.

    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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