2012-2013 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HSID 119 PZ - Metaphysics & Metaphysicians: Poets & Philosophers
In the seventeenth century, developments in science and metaphysics revolutionized the way people perceived the world and wrote about it. This course will examine the revolution, focusing on the relation of metaphysics to poetry. Readings from Donne and others.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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HSID 122 PZ - Alien Gods
A look at three mystical and magical religious traditions: Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, and Hermeticism.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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HSID 123 PZ - Philosophy of Magic and the Occult
A look at the practice and theory of the modern occult movement, with emphasis on “The Golden Dawn.” Appropriate for all students.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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HSID 136 PZ - The Emotions
A philosophical look at the nature of emotion in general and at the natures of the particular emotions of guilt, shame, embarrassment, anger, jealousy, and envy.
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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Interdisciplinary Studies |
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GFS 191 PZ - Senior Thesis or Project
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International and Intercultural Studies |
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IIS 010 PZ - Introduction to International and Intercultural Studies
This course will introduce students to the field of international and intercultural studies. The course objective is to acquaint students with key concepts and practices defining human societies and their relations, such as colonialism, development, revolution, national and transnational, globalization, ideology, identity, culture, and knowledge. The course also exposes students to disciplinary, area studies and newly emerging conceptualizations of the field.
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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IIS 017 PZ - History and Political Economy of Natural Resources
Also HIST 017 PZ
This course surveys the modern history and political economy of natural resources. Though we will focus on gold, diamonds, and oil, the course also addresses larger issues of resource exploitation within specific historical, political, and economic settings. We begin with the so-called “scramble for Africa,” when European nations carved up Africa between them at Berlin Conference in 1885. This scramble for Africa and its resources was later extended to other regions of the non-western world, such as the Middle East. The course will then explore the role of natural resources in internal and global conflicts, from the colonial to the post-colonial periods, focusing on how those conflicts played themselves out in Africa and the Middle East.
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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IIS 038 PZ - Nature, Movement and Meditation in Qigong
Qigong is an ancient Chinese philosophy and practice. This course will have two major components: 1) history and theory of Qigong within Chinese culture, and 2) Qigong practice based on the Wei Tuo Eight Minute Drill that balances energy components of the human body for both physical and psychic health. Here the human ecology of the interaction between Qi energy in the natural environment and human beings will be investigated. This course will not only provide access to information and knowledge “about” another culture, but also will provide an opportunity to experience how another culture accesses knowledge.
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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IIS 050 PZ - Power and Social Change
“Power to the People!” “Knowledge is power.” What does one mean by power, and how may altering power relations lead to social change? This course will critically examine different theories of power, the relationship between power and violence, and how power can be used to liberate as well as dominate and manipulate. Students will examine works from various interdisciplinary fields and movements, such as Marxism, feminism, postmodernism, anti-colonial and postcolonial movements, and indigenous and grassroots movements.
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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IIS 060 PZ - Interdisciplinary Knowledge & Global Justice
(Formerly Knowing and Telling). Designed as an introduction to theoretical debates central to interdisciplinary critiques of objectivist epistemology and methodologies, the course provides students with interdisciplinary methods for research and other knowledge practices. Students will be exposed to a range of alternative ways that interdisciplinary fields frame questions, conduct research and engage in action by challenging the political and ethical terms of the academy, muddying the fiction of the theory/practice divide, exploring the kinds of theoretical, ideological, and material praxis that constitute interdisciplinary inquiry. Ethics, politics, epistemologies, authority, evidence, protocols, priorities, and feasibility will be discussed as students design a research project in interdisciplinary knowledge production to be used in External Studies independent study projects and/or in senior projects.
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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IIS 067 PZ - Resistance to Monoculture
Course examines historical and contemporary resistance to monocultural patters of knowledge and social relations supporting capitalist modernity. Resistance to monoculture has historically emerged from groups surviving the onslaught of monoculture, including women; the underclasses; and peoples of third worlds and first nations. The knowledge systems of these groups suggest how to practice constructive social change.
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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IIS 075 PZ - Introduction to Postcolonial Studies
An exploration of the ways in which resistance to colonization has shaped colonized peoples and colonizers alike past and present. Social movement websites, films analytical readings, and short fiction will survey various perspectives (Marxism, postmodernism, feminism, queer theory) on postcolonial studies. The course will introduce methods of constructing seemingly “natural” objects (nation, landscape, historical fact, women) in ways that decolonize social and material relations and knowledge.
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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IIS 080 PZ - Introduction to Critical Theory
A survey of social and cultural critiques at an introductory level, this course will prepare students for advanced level critical thinking, interdisciplinary solution building and social change work. We will begin with theoretical frameworks in established fields of social critique, such as feminism, anti-colonialism, cultural studies, critical race theory, critical legal/justice studies, and women of color theory. The course also introduces postmodern theories in postcolonial studies, poststructuralist feminism, post-Marxism, border studies and queer theory. Suitable for first- and second-year students, as well as upper level students who feel they have not yet been sufficiently exposed in their education to critical and/or theoretical thinking.
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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IIS 095 PZ - Engaging Difference
The overall goal of this interdisciplinary course is to assist participants to develop intercultural competence especially intercultural sensitivity and cross-cultural research. The course will give students a skill set for conducting global/local research on study abroad and the opportunity to gain a basic understanding of the role that culture plays in intercultural communication.
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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IIS 109C PZ - Chinese Philosophy, Culture and Traditional Medicine
This is an intermediate course on theory, history, and practice of Wei Tuo QiGong. Students will study and practice the Shao Lin Tu Na exercises and meditation to better understand and experience the cultural and medical context of qi gong. Students will reflect upon the concepts of the mind/body relationship, time, consciousness and dreams.
Prerequisite(s): IIS 038 PZ
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IIS 110 PZ - (Mis)Representations of Near East and Far East
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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IIS 113 PZ - Science, Politics and Alternative Medicine
(Also POST 190 PZ ).
This seminar will study healing practices from around the world. It will include three aspects: 1) the philosophical, historical and political dimensions; 2) the local knowledge and theories of healing and illness in four traditions-Amerindian and Chinese and two from among the following: Mayan, African, Santeria, Curindera, Brazilian spiritualists, etc.; and 3) a review of the clinical efficacy of these complementary and alternative medicines provided by the Western biomedical sciences, as well as their political acceptance within the U.S.
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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IIS 120 PZ - State and Development in the Third World
This course analyzes the role of the state in the development process in Third World societies. It explores state policies toward rural development and industrialization, as well as socio-political forces which influence the implementation of development policies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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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IIS 122 PZ - Contemporary Political and Social Movements in the Third World
This course explores the rise, the nature and the objectives of popular movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Using political economy and comparative approaches, the course examines: (1) recent theories of social movements and (2) the roots of rebellions, protests and resistance as expressions of unsatisfied needs. Case studies include: Islamic, ethnic/racial, women’s and ecological movements.
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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IIS 123 PZ - Third World Socialism
The variety of historical experiences and dilemmas in the transition to socialism in the Third World will be explored through six case studies: China and Vietnam, Cuba and Nicaragua, Tanzania and Mozambique. A comparative perspective will focus on issues such as colonialism and imperialism, development and the peasantry, constraints of the international system, ideology and mass mobilization, democracy and the state.
Prerequisite(s): Social Science background.
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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IIS 125 PZ - African Politics
The focus of this course will be democracy in Africa. More specifically, it will involve an examination of the struggles over the forms democracy takes, a review of democracy’s internal and external advocates, a study of the relationship between democracy and development and an analysis of the factors which led to the adoption and demise, of forms of democracy in a variety of African countries.
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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IIS 127 PZ - Environment and Development in the Third World
The course explores the dynamics of positive and/or negative relationships between environment and development in the Third World. Its theoretical perspectives are complimented by an experiential requirement in which the students will occasionally visit the maquiladora enterprises along the U.S./Mexico border.
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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IIS 128 PZ - War on Terror
Also POST 128 PZ
Surveys, analyses of the War on Terror focusing on national policy, gender and sexuality, religion, legal issues, and political economy. Sources range from state elites and women or subaltern groups in conflict zones to postmodern theorists drawing on history, the Geneva Convention, films, websites, novels, and humor.
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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IIS 141 PZ - Agricultural Economic Development in the Third World
This course focuses on the role and problems of the agricultural sector in Third World development. It explores 1) economic theories and models of agricultural development and institutional policy and issues; 2) problems of food vs. export production, price system and distribution, rural development and food crisis which often results in famines, scarcity and malnutrition.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 051 PZ or ECON 052 PZ
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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IIS 146 PZ - International Relations of the Middle East
This course examines the dynamics of the international relations of the Middle East, with special emphasis on the African-Middle Eastern dimension, namely, “south-south” relations. Political, economic and socio-historical interactions between the Middle East and Africa are analyzed within the framework of international relations. It explores the manifestations of African-Middle Eastern relations in regional issues and conflicts, e.g., Arab-Israel wars and tensions, the Horn of Africa, North Africa; and non-conflictual aspects, e.g., economic cooperation. The impact of major powers is also examined.
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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IIS 150 PZ - U.S.-Chinese Rivalry in Africa
This course explores the great power rivalry over the vast Africa’s natural resources. It focuses principally on U.S.-Chinese rivalry. The course discusses economics strategies and geopolitical consequences for Africa.
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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IIS 167 PZ - Theory and Practice of Resistance to Monoculture: Gender, Spirituality, and Power
In this course we will examine theoretically and experientially models of historical and contemporary resistance to monocultural patterns of knowledge and social relations. This resistance historically has been and continues to be produced and/or molded in large measure by imperial and capitalist relations and by selected European scientific systems.
Enrollment is limited. (Preparation for China Program).
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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IIS 190 PZ - Senior Seminar
The course will introduce students to critical thinking and emerging methods for understanding the world in a way that is less bound by the 20th century Euro-American academy and more oriented to justice. The course develops skills at recognizing the socio-political and cultural effects produced by certain key categories and terms, such as nation, race, gender, culture, or by approaching the world through a particular discipline or emphasizing a particular geographic area. The course will also examine alternative categories and terms that are being developed in emerging fields of study, such as critical development studies, postcolonial studies, discourse studies, queer studies, and cultural studies. By taking the course the student will explore their interests while gaining an awareness of interdisciplinary approaches to global and local political and cultural relations.
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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IIS 199 PZ - Senior Thesis
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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Japanese |
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JPNT 177 PO - Japanese and Japanese American Women Writers
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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JPNT 178 PO - Japanese and Japanese American Autobiography
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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Latin |
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CLAS 008A SC - Introductory Latin
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.
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CLAS 008B PO - Introductory Latin
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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CLAS 032 PO - Introductory/Intermediate Latin
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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CLAS 100 SC - Intermediate Latin
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.
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CLAS 103 PO - Intermediate Latin: Medieval
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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CLAS 104 PO - Readings in Koine Greek
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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CLAS 110 PO - Cicero
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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CLAS 112 PO - Vergil
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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CLAS 181A SC - Advanced Latin Readings
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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CLAS 181B PO - Advanced Latin Readings
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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Linguistics |
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LGCS 010 PZ - Introduction to the Study of Language
For students wishing to learn about the nature of language, including: How is language structured at the levels of sound, form and meaning? Does the language we speak determine our thoughts, our perception of the world? Can animals learn to talk? How does our language reflect our culture, gender, ethnicity?
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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LGCS 011 PO - Introduction to Cognitive Science
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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LGCS 082 PZ - Racial Politics of Teaching
Also ASAM 082 PZ & SOC 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.
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LGCS 101 PO - Comparative and Historical Linguistics
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 105 PO - Syntax
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 106 PO - Semantics
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 107 PO - Pragmatics
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 108 PO - Phonology
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 109 PO - Morphology
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 110 PZ - Language and Gender
The relation between cultural attitudes and language. The course will investigate how gender socialization is reflected in the structure of language at all levels and the extent to which male/female patterns of language use might contribute to the creation and/or maintenance of given structures of power, solidarity, etc. Students will be expected to develop their own fieldwork-based project.
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LGCS 112 PZ - Language in Society
Language is an expression of our identity. This course will explore how language reflects social patterns, including class, gender, ethnic, regional and other differences. How these differences can lead to conflicts in interaction. Students will do a fieldwork project.
Prerequisite(s): LGCS 010 PZ or permission of instructor.
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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LGCS 115 PZ - Bilingualism
How is the bilingual experience different from the monolingual one? How does the bilingual brain process language? How is the simultaneous acquisition of two languages different from acquiring a second language later? Is language mixing bad? This course investigates the special identity of bilingual speakers from social and psychological perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): LGCS 010 PZ , LGCS 011 PO or PSYC 051 PO .
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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LGCS 116 PZ - Language and Ethnicity
This course will explore the language patterns of four American ethnic minority groups (African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and Asian Americans) with a focus on inter-ethnic communication. Topics include the role of language in defining identity, language use in the classroom, nonverbal elements of communication, traditions of joking and bilingualism.
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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LGCS 121 PO - Psycholinguistics
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 125 PO - Field Methods in Linguistics
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 160 PO - Perception and Cognition
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 166 PZ - Topics in Sociolinguistics: Gender in Films
Explores advanced topics in sociolinguistics. We will look at representations of ethnicity in the media, particularly comedians and their stand up routines (Margaret Cho, Chris Rock). We will use analysis of language variables to explore how these performances construct identity and reflect ideologies about race and ethnicity in the US.
Prerequisite(s): Ling 10 and a sociolinguistics class such as 112 or 116.
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LGCS 175 PO - Seminar in Cognitive Science
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 185P PO - Topics in Phonology
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 185S PO - Topics in Syntax
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 185T PO - Topics in Semantics
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 187A PO - Tutorial in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 187B PO - Tutorial in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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LGCS 191 PZ - Senior Thesis
Individual theoretical research or laboratory experiment, for fourth-year students under faculty supervision. May be taken as half-course in both semesters of the senior year, or as a full course in the last semester.
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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Mathematics |
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MATH 001 PZ - Mathematics, Philosophy and the “Real World.”
Throughout history, mathematics has changed the way people look at the world. This course will focus on two examples: Euclidean geometry (which suggested to philosophers that certainty was achievable by human thought) and probability and statistics (which gave scientists a way of dealing with events that did not seem to follow any laws but those of chance). Readings and problems will be taken from three types of sources: (1) Euclid’s Elements of Geometry; (2) modern elementary works on probability and its applications to the study of society and to gambling; (3) the writings of philosophers whose views were strongly influenced by mathematics, such as Plato, Aristotle, Pascal, Spinoza, Kant, Laplace, Helmholtz, and Thomas Jefferson.
Prerequisite(s): high school algebra and geometry.
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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MATH 009 PZ - Math, Art, and the Environment
ART 009 PZ
In this course, students will create nature-inspired works of art by using principles of mathematics. A variety of techniques and technologies will be explored, such as mold making, casting with clay, 3D software, and 3D printing.
Prerequisite(s): high school algebra and geometry.
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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MATH 010 PZ - The Mathematical Mystery Tour
I saw a high wall and as I had a premonition of an enigma, something that might be hidden behind the wall, I climbed over it with some difficulty. However, on the other side I landed in a wilderness and had to cut my way through with a great effort until-by a circuitous route-I came to the open gate, the open gate of mathematics. From there well-trodden paths lead in every direction (M.C. Escher).
Many beautiful and exciting topics in mathematics are accessible to students having only a minimal background in mathematics.
Mathematics 10 is intended to introduce such students to areas of mathematics not included in the usual introductory courses for mathematics and science majors. Topics will vary from year to year and the course may be repeated for credit. Courses that have been taught as Mathematics 10 courses in the recent past, or which are likely to be offered in the near future, include:
- Rubik’s Cube and Other Mathematical Puzzles,
- Two-Player Games,
- The Mathematics of Gambling,
- Cartography,
- Dynamical Systems, Chaos and Fractals,
- Topology
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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MATH 010G PZ - Mathematics in Many Cultures
Mathematical ideas are found in many cultures, among both literate and non-literate peoples. We will study both the mathematics and the role it plays in the cultures. Examples will be chosen from the mathematical ideas of present-day peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, as well as historic Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Islam, and China. Students will learn the modern mathematical concepts necessary to understand the examples.
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MATH 025 PZ - Precalculus
Linear, quadratic and polynomial equations; systems of linear equations; transformation, composition and inverses of functions; rational, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions. This class is designed to prepare students for calculus.
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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MATH 030 PZ - Calculus I
Introduction to the basic concepts of the calculus, including slopes, rates of change, limits, the derivative and the integral, and the relationships between these concepts, especially the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, with applications to the natural and social sciences. Each concept will be treated from numerical, analytic and geometric perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 025 PZ or placement score.
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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MATH 031 PZ - Calculus II
Transcendental functions, techniques of integration, infinite series, related topics and applications. Again, each concept will be treated from numerical, analytic and geometric perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or above in MATH 030 PZ or placement score.
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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MATH 032 PZ - Calculus III
Vectors and vector functions, partial derivatives and differentiability of functions of several variables, multiple integrals.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 PZ or placement score.
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MATH 052 PZ - Introduction to Statistics
This course is meant to give a liberal arts student a sense of statistical theory and practice. It will emphasize the use and interpretation of statistics, with applications to both the natural and social sciences. Topics will include: collection and summarizing of data; measures of central tendency and dispersion; probability; binomial and normal distributions; confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; linear regression; ANOVA methods; topics in non-parametric statistics; and discussion and interpretation of statistical fallacies and misuses.
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MATH 060 PZ - Linear Algebra
Topics will include matrices, Gaussian elimination, vector spaces and subspaces, linear transformations, bases, octhogonality, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenspaces, and applications of linear algebra.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 PZ
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MATH 100 PZ - Introduction to Methods of Proof
This course will introduce students to the art of writing mathematical proofs using a variety of methods, such as direct proof, proof by contra-positive, proof by contradiction, proof by cases, and proof by induction. Intended for students majoring or minoring in mathematics (or considering doing so).
Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 PZ and sophomore standing, or permission of instructor.
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MATH 108 PZ - History of Mathematics
A survey of the history of mathematics from antiquity to the present. Topics emphasized will include: the development of the idea of proof, the “analytical method” of algebra, the invention of the calculus, the psychology of mathematical discovery and the interactions between mathematics and philosophy.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 PZ
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MATH 141 PZ - Hyperbolic Geometry
An introduction to hyperbolic geometry in dimensions 2 and 3. Topics will include: Poincaré disk model, upper half space model, hyperbolic isometrics, linear fractional transformations, hyperbolic trigonometry, cross-ratio, hyperbolic manifolds, and hyperbolic knots.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 PZ
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MATH 142 PZ - Differential Geometry
Curves and surfaces, Gaussian curvature, isometries, tensor analysis, covariant differentiation with applications to physics and geometry
Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 PZ
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MATH 145 PZ - Topics in Geometry and Topology
This course will vary from year to year and cover topics chosen from geometry and topology. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites will vary with course content.
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MATH 145B PZ - Low-Dimensional Topology
A 2-manifold is a surface, a 3-manifold is a possible (spatial) universe, and a 4-manifold is a possible model for space-time. In each case, we will look at examples, construction techniques, and the problems of classifying and distinguishing such spaces.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 PZ
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MATH 148 PZ - Knot Theory
An introduction to the theory of knots and links from combinatorial, algebraic and geometric perspectives. Topics will include knot diagrams, p-colorings, Alexander, Jones and HOMFLY polynomials, Seifert surfaces, genus, Seifert matrices, the fundamental group, representations of knot groups, covering spaces, surgery on knots, and important families of knots.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 PZ
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MATH 199 PZ - Senior Thesis
Open to mathematics majors by invitation only.
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MS 045 PZ - Documentary Media
This course involves production, a historical survey of documentary practices in photography, film and video and a discussion of the ethical and ideological issues raised by the genre. Students will be expected to produce two short documentary projects in any media.
Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ or equivalent.
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MS 046 PZ - Feminist Documentary
Women have made politicized documentaries since the invention of the motion picture camera. Students will learn this complex theoretical, historical and political tradition while producing their own feminist documentary.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ , MS 050 PZ , MS 051 PZ or equivalent.
Enrollment is limited. Course fee: $150.
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MS 049 PO - Intro to Media Studies
For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
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MS 049 PZ - Introduction to Media Studies: Print Media, Television and Popular Culture
This course will focus on the history and critical analysis of print media, television and popular culture with an emphasis on developing critical skill sand interpretive strategies.
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MS 050 PZ - Language of Film
Film and video are often considered to be a distinct semiotic system or art form with their own “language.” This course surveys the variety of structures which can organize moving pictures: from Hollywood continuity editing, Soviet montage and cinema verite to voice-over documentary, talking heads and postmodern voices with no center at all. The course includes silent film, classic Hollywood narrative, avant-garde film and video, documentary and activist video.
Enrollment is limited.
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MS 051 PZ - Intro to Digital Media Studies
An interdisciplinary introduction to digital and electronic media, exploring the relationships between “old” and “new” media forms, the historical development of computer-based communication and the ways that new technologies are reshaping literature, art, journalism, and the social world.
Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ , MS 182 HM , ART 148 SC
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MS 069 PZ - Media Praxis Ontario
Working In groups, students will plan and implement collaborative media projects with Ontario community sites that promote discourse around regional social issues. Areas to be covered in class Include introductory video production techniques, ethical community media praxis, and examination of a wide range of media justice and activist projects. This Is an introductory level media production course designed but not limited to) students that have taken or are currently enrolled in the Ontario Program coursework.
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MS 070 PZ - Media and Social Change
Overview of movements, theories and methods employed by media makers committed to social change. From Soviet film collectives, through Third Cinema movement of the 60s, to feminist, queer, and youth video activist movements in the U.S. that have laid the groundwork for the rise of socially driven media collectives and campaigns today.
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MS 071 PZ - Video Art
This course examines video as an art practice. Through readings, screenings, visits to art venues and written assignments, students will analyze the historical, conceptual, and aesthetic issues informing contemporary video art and artists.
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MS 074 PZ - Sound Theory, Sound Practice
An intermediate-level course focusing on sound theory and relationship between sound and image. This topic will be examined through reading assignments, screenings and listening sessions, in-class presentations, writing and sound recording assignments. In this class, students will engage with the history of audio reproduction, the concepts of French theorist Michel Chion, the psychoanalytic theories on the female body and voice, the notion of the soundscape and the relationship between ethnography, colonialism, and audio technology.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ , MS 050 PZ , MS 051 PZ or equivalent.
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MS 079 PZ - Silent Film
The invention of cinema fit within the emerging order of modernism? This class will examine early cinema in the context of the turn-of-the-century project of extending the field of human vision, examining topics such as ethnography, science, journalism, travel, representations of the city and architecture, and the construction of racial difference.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ , MS 050 PZ , MS 051 PZ or equivalent.
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MS 080 AA - Video and Diversity
An introductory level course exploring video as a medium, particularly as it is utilized by women, people of color, lesbians and gays, grassroots activists, as well as other peoples who are under and/or mis-represented by dominant media. This class explores independent video production from historical as well as issue-oriented approaches. The history of video technology, from analog to digital, is studied with a focus on developments that made video an accessible and powerful tool for self-expression and political intervention. Issues around gender, race, class and sexual politics are examined in relation to works from the above-mentioned communities. Modes of work by individual makers and collectives are presented as case studies in how multiple issues can be addressed through singular oeuvres.
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MS 082 PZ - Introduction to Video
Also offered at Harvey Mudd, and at Scripps as ART 148 SC
This is an introductory course In digital video production. This class encourages a critical, creative approach to the medium, non-traditional solutions, and explanation of the history and methodology of independent video and video art. Class session combines hands-on technical training in script writing, storyboarding, camera operation, off-line and non-linear editing, lighting and sound equipment with critical analysis of subject matter, treatment, and modes of address in independent as well as mass media.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ or equivalent.
Course fee: $150.
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MS 082L PZ - Introduction to Video Art Lab
Lab component to Introduction to Video Art. Requires course while taking MS 082 PZ - Introduction to Video . Fall/Spring,
Course fee: $150.
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MS 083 PZ - Contemporary Practices in Media
The class will be developed around visiting media artist’s presentations and contemporary media art exhibitions. This work is situated through readings, presentations and papers in a larger media studies history.
Prerequisite(s): MS 050 PZ or MS 049 PO .
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MS 084 PZ - Handmade Film
Rejecting the prevailing Hollywood wisdom that one needs millions of dollars to make a movie, this class explores different models for creating moving images with the most modest of resources. Options to be considered include hand processing, camera-less films, PXL video, super-8 film, recycling and appropriation. Students will be expected to create several short exercises in order to familiarize themselves with these different techniques, as well as a final project.
Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ or equivalent.
Course fee: $150.
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MS 087 PZ - Media Sketchbook
This is an intermediate-level video production class. Students are required to complete short (one to two minute) assignments every other week. The objectives of the class are to further refine the skills of shooting, editing, etc. and to develop a critical vocabulary to talk about your work and the work of others.
Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ or equivalent.
Course fee: $150.
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