2020 -2021 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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EA 091 PZ -California Environmental Law, Policy and Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will provide an interactive, in-depth assessment of the legal, social and political conditions that have allowed California to grow into a world-leading environmental management powerhouse while at the same time being confronted with decades-long environmental challenges that continue to impact the public health and impede economic growth. These issues will be examined in the context of local and statewide efforts underway right now to protect and improve the environment and will establish a foundation for students looking to understand how and where they can effectively participate in the political process.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 095 PZ -U.S. Environmental Policy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: How is U.S. environmental policy formulated and how does it relate to social, historic, and political dynamics? This course argues that the “standard model” of direct provision of government services has been substantially unraveling due to a series of new trends in policy including: greater public involvement, devolution, and dispersion.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 098 PZ -Urban Ecology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Urban ecology is a subfield of ecology that deals with the interaction between humans and the environment in urban settings. This course brings together concepts and research from diverse fields to explore themes of environment and cityscape, relationships between industrialization, green space, and health, ecological challenges in rapidly urbanizing areas, and global social movements toward sustainable cities. A key objective of the course is to consider urban environments through their dynamic relationships to social, political, and economic systems with a key focus on globalization and public life.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 099 PO -Urban Health Equity
Institution: Pomona College
Description: See Pomona College catalog for course description.
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EA 100 PO -Urban Planning and Environment
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 100L KS -Global Climate Change
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 101 PO -GIS in Environmental Analysis
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 103 KS -Soils and Society
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: Soils are dynamic biological, chemical, and physical environments that have profoundly influenced human health and society. This course provides an overview of soils and the ways in which they define habitats, cycle water and carbon, support infrastructure, sustain agriculture, record paleoclimate, and exemplify the challenges of sustainable environmental management.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 103L KS -Principles of Soil Science
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 104 KS -Oceanography
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 107 PZ -Design Workshop: A Sense of Place
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Design Workshop explores design innovation inspired by our relationships with nature. In particular, the course revolves around diverse design concepts and creations expressive of a sense of place. Through explorations of scholarly, artistic, and GIS explications of place, our individual and interpersonal relationships with Nature and with one another explored as strategies for creating sustainable communities. This is a studio course, extending the notion of ‘studio’ beyond the walls of the built environment. Studio practice is emphasized through plein air graphic arts, natural history observations, field sketches and recordings, creative expansions of geographic information systems (GIS), community design, and other practice-based skills. We depend on being rooted in an actual place for our sense of who we are and what we can do. Yet in this age of globalization, what happens to the distinctive character of places? In the face of unprecedented mobility, technology, and alienation, what connections to places do we have and can we hope to nurture?
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 108 PZ -Natural History and Naturalists: History and Practice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The interdisciplinary field of Natural History links the natural sciences to the humanities and social sciences by combining ecological field studies with drawing and painting, cultural history, and social analysis. This course introduces students to the complicated history of natural history and the rich botanical and wildlife studies that naturalists have completed, while having students actively doing natural history themselves at the Pitzer Arboretum and Bernard Field Station. One Saturday field trip is required.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: EA 104 PZ Doing Natural History
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 115 PZ -Qualitative Research Methods
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Qualitative Research Methods is a pre-requisite for the EA senior thesis course. We learn ethics and methods surrounding qualitative fieldwork, study research design, and develop a toolkit tailored to environmental analysis. The course is geared toward helping students jump start their senior theses projects, and is designed to take students through the Institutional Review Board approvals as well as writing literature reviews and proposals related to their topics. Suggested for senior students who plan to take EA thesis course in Spring.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 120 PZ -Global Environmental Politics and Policy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will introduce students to the rise of global environmental governance, examine specific environmental issues and international treaties (such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and Kyoto Protocol), analyze the politics around the international policy process, and explore how global environmental governance intersects with geopolitics, conflict and national security.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: ENVS 120 PZ
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 124 PZ -Protecting Nature: Parks, Conservation Areas & People
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Creating parks and conservation areas is one major way that governments and nongovernmental organizations attempt to protect endangered species and biodiversity. In this class we will examine a variety of protected areas, conflicts around these areas, and programs designed to reduce these conflicts. We will use the Bernard Field Station as a central case study. This course includes a social responsibility component.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: ENVS 124 PZ
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 130 PZ -Design Process Studio: Arid Bioregions
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: Design Process Studio centers on the analytical, (re)generative, (re)creative, and sensory pursuit of reading the landscape to develop a multidisciplinary design process for making
original works of ecological art, design and restoration in arid environments. With Pitzer’s Outback Preserve, Bernard Field Station, and proximity to the California desert, the course emphasizes California’s vast arid bioregion as a generative source for ecological art & design. Students engage theory and praxis across the arts and sciences to propose art works/designs that heal degraded ecosystems. The course has a strong naturalist component: students will keep visual and written records of their creative journey in a sketchbook, an artwork in itself. Students will develop an artistic hypothesis and depict ecological restoration as an art form.
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EA 130 PZ -Environment, People and Restoration in Costa Rica
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is a Study Abroad course. For more information, please see the Pitzer in Costa Rica program.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 131 PZ -Democratizing Community Planning
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this course, we will consider how democratizing planning and design could be used to dismantle unjust systems and ensure a sustainable future. We will examine undemocratic planning through social history and its connection to structural racism. We will learn what is the people’s “right to the city”, why democratizing planning is important, how planners and community members can shift planning practice and facilitate a “Just Transition,” and how to use popular education tools and strategies to “build the new” planning paradigm. We will study theoretical frameworks and practitioner principles for democratizing and decolonizing planning practice and how to apply participatory methodology in everyday planning practice.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 132 PZ -Practicum in Exhibiting Nature
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The course focuses on designing and implementing an exhibition plan for the Pitzer Outback. Students will assess the Outback as a resource and develop an exhibit strategy and management plan. Walking paths and interpretive signage will be constructed, and students will work in teams to design and develop the appropriate infrastructure.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: ART 132 PZ
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 133 PZ -Case Studies in Sustainable Built Environments
Institution: Pitzer
Description: A critical survey of project and integrative systems-based sustainability initiatives. Applying performance/outcome perspectives, students analyze and (re)present adaptive, transformative and catalytic roles played by design, planning, engineering, conservation, science, technology, policy, cultural formation, participation, and media in making sustainable and resilient places, practices, and settings.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 134 PZ -Sustainable Places in Practice: Studio/Lab
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This studio course will engage students In the integrative practices of design and planning toward the creation of a sustainable and resilient place. Critical analyses will be paired with projective approaches to (re)shape and adapt space in a built and planted project in redefined ecological, cultural, policy, and technological settings.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 140 PZ -The Desert as a Place
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An interdisciplinary investigation of the desert environment as a place with some emphasis on Australia and the American Southwest. Correlations between natural and cultural forms, histories, materials, motives, and adaptations will be studied. Topics to be considered will include structural and behavioral adaptations in the natural and cultural ecologies; climate, geomorphology and architectural form; taxonomy, desert flora and fauna and their cultural uses; and various ramifications of the interaction between the desert ecology and cultural consciousness in arid zones. Enrollment is limited.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: ENVS 140 PZ
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 141 PZ -Progress and Oppression: Ecology, Human Rights, and Development
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This class is concerned with the state of tribal peoples and ethnic minorities around the world. Particular attention is given to environmental problems and their effects on diverse peoples. We explore case studies of the cultural and environmental consequences of rainforest destruction, tourism, energy development, national parks, and war. We critique programs to assist oppressed peoples and the environments that sustain them. Participants are asked to choose a geographical, cultural, and topical area and make recommendations particular to the problems and the needs of that region.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 142 PZ -Ecological Restoration: The Claremont Hills Wilderness
Institution: Pitzer
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This course explores the theory and practice or restoration ecology, with a focus on a restoration plan
for the Claremont Hills Wilderness. This wilderness preserve is located in the Claremont foothills, with
rugged terrain. The City has hired MIG Consulting to conduct a study and gather input from users,
residents, and community groups and to produce a Wilderness Master Plan. We will collaborate with
consultants to identify areas of the park that are best suited for ecological restoration. The course
provides an opportunity for community engagement, internship experience, and social responsibility.
Students learn the process of restoration theory and implementation through an interdisciplinary
approach that stresses participatory and student research. We spend substantial time engaged in
fieldwork in the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park.
Prerequisite(s): GIS experience, EA 31, or appropriate environmental science course.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 143 PZ -Concerning Landscape
Institution: Pitzer
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EA 144 PZ -Visual Ecology: Revealing Animals, Creating Art, and Making Symbols
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Our relationship with the world is impacted by the images we use to understand and express our place in nature. This course engages investigation and application of ecological concepts and how these are addressed through art. We experiment with conceptual approaches to art making and strategies for how artists can create positive visions for the future. In this combined theory & praxis course, we integrate studio art with scholarly analysis and engaged field research as we create socially and environmentally responsible artworks. The focus for fall 2019 is the completion of a Field Guide to the Claremont Wilderness Park; students with experience with graphic design, illustration, and natural history are particularly encouraged to enroll.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 146 PZ -Environmental Education
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Students are trained in principles of environmental education, and serve as instructors to children from elementary schools in Pomona and Claremont. Participants work in teams to develop and teach effective environmental curricula at the Bernard Biological Field Station. In addition to teaching environmental ethics, local ecology, and critical ecological concerns, course participants serve as role models of environmental sensibility and community involvement. Enrollment is provisional until after the first class meeting when course applications are distributed.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 147 PZ -Advanced Seminar
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course reviews key theories and methods to prepare sophomore and junior EA majors for senior-level work. This advanced seminar will facilitate your transition from being Environmental Analysis students to Environmental Analysis scholars who are prepared to conduct original research and/or engage with hands-on research and writing. We will read and discuss EA-based research with particular attention to the different methodological and theoretical approaches used in the field. The course is organized based on the most common types of evidence Environmental Analysis scholars use in their research. Each week we will examine articles that use different types of evidence, including: archival documents; law and legislation; newspapers and magazines; photography; film; music; oral history, ethnography, and interviews; maps, spatial data, demographic data, and reports; and museum exhibitions, public history and memorials. We will also read a number of articles to better understand the ongoing debates over how “Environmental Studies” should be defined. Through readings and class discussions, as well as writing assignments, students will develop the analytical tools they need to begin their upper-level work in EA. Sophomore and Junior EA students are invited to participate.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 150 PZ -Critical Environmental Analysis
Institution: Pitzer
Description: A seminar examination of how environmental issues are portrayed in the news media. Specific issues will be determined by the current news, but general concerns include representation of the environment, habitat destruction, consumerism, development, environmental justice, politics and the environment, local and global topics, media bias, and environmental perception. Senior EA majors only.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 151 PZ -Campus Cultural Resource Conservation: The Pitzer Campus Beyond 50
Institution: Pitzer
Description: mbedded in the fabric of the built and planted environments of higher education. Planned and designed places of learning in North America represent a historical record from the 17th century forward. The primary focus of this course, the conservation of Pitzer’s mid-century California Modern campus, provides a specific setting and narrative in this important history as it also addresses issues of evaluation and conservation for the century ahead.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 152 PZ -Nature through Film
Institution: Pitzer
Description: We examine how ideas about nature and the environment and the human-nature relationship have been explored in film. From wildlife documentaries, to popular dramas of environmental struggles, to cult classics and Disney’s animated visions of nature, the human-nature relationship has been depicted through film to transmit particular views of the world, especially certain constructs concerning gender, race and ethnicity. We view and study films, read relevant theory, and actively critique ways in which our worldview has been shaped and impacted by cinema. Students write 8 five-page papers during the semester.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 162 PZ -Gender, Environment & Development
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Examines the intersection of theories of environmental degradation, economic development and gender. Social theories to be examined include: modernization theory, dependency and world systems, women in development vs. women and development, cultural ecology, eco-feminism, political ecology and feminist political ecology, gender and the environment, and population.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 165 PZ -Resource Depletion and Ghost Towns: The Built Environment and Natural Resources
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Resource Depletion and Ghost Towns: The Built Environment and Natural Resources. This course examines the relationship between the built environment, natural resources, and sustainability in the demise of settlements. We begin with an overview of debates surrounding the role of natural resources in the development and decline of towns and cities. We will also look at “sustainability success stories,” such as Curitiba. To what extent can natural resource use depletion be blamed for the creation of spaces called “ghost towns”? This course includes three required field trips: one day-long field trip, one two-day, and one three-day.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 171 PO -Water in the West
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 172 PO -Crisis Management: National Forests and American Culture
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 180 PZ -Green Urbanism
Institution: Pomona
Description: Creating sustainable urban systems one of the 21st Century’s most crucial challenges. Green urbanism reassesses traditional notions about the interrelationship between the built and natural environments and focuses on catalytic interventions to create sustainable neighborhoods, districts, and regions. The course combines a survey of sustainable design and planning tools- urban ecology, biophilia, biomimicry, green building, the LEED rating system, eco districts, integrated infrastructure, and sustainable city indicators- with creating a proposal to apply the tools to a specific location.
Prerequisite(s): Juniors & Seniors only
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 186 PZ -Environmental Justice in the Inland Empire
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this advanced seminar on Environmental Justice, students will directly engage with research questions around the production of space and injustice to the Inland Empire of southern California, and the movements of resistance to combat varying unjust outcomes.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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EA 197 PZ -EA Senior Thesis Seminar
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The EA Senior Thesis Seminar is required for all Pitzer EA majors writing a thesis and is open to any seniors (regardless of campus) who are writing an EA thesis. In the early weeks of the term students will refine and outline their topics. They then devote the remainder of the term to researching primary sources on which their thesis is be based and exploring the secondary literature on their topic. By week 11, students will submit a complete first draft of their thesis. The completed thesis, which typically runs between 40-60 pages (plus notes), is submitted in April. As students work on their own essay, they also serve as peer editors for their classmates. Students sometimes work individually with their advisors, sometimes with their advisor and their peer editor, and sometimes with their entire seminar group
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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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HIST 100AI PO -Indian Ocean World
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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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HIST 100T PO -Global Environmental Histories
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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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FS 001 PZ -Philosophical Questions
Institution: Pitzer
Description: We will examine a set of philosophical questions in the history of Western philosophy: What is the nature of reality? Does God exist? What is the relation between mind and body? Do we really know anything? What is knowledge? What makes you the same person over time? What is cultural relativism? Do we have free will or are we determined? We will investigate these topics through the writings of ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary philosophers. This seminar will also develop your critical thinking, and help you construct and insightfully analyze philosophical claims and arguments. (Instructor: Ahmed Alwishah)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 002 PZ -Memory, Literature, and Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this course, we will focus on works of literature that explore the emotional, creative, philosophical, and political dimensions of memory. We’ll consider how memory changes our understanding of time; how memory informs the imagination; how imagination informs what (and how) we remember; how relationships are structured by memory, its variability, and its loss; the politics of remembering and forgetting; and how literature can harbor histories and traces of people from the past. In addition to our readings, we’ll consider works of film and visual art. Students will practice various forms of writing in order to engage with these ideas. (Instructor: Brent Armendinger)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 003 PZ -Tongue-in-cheek: Humor in Art and Visual Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this course you will develop your skills as a writer/critical thinker while examining the topic of humor. Humor is an incredibly important vehicle for dealing with complex questions and one of the few forms that allows an author to communicate contradictory statements simultaneously. Humor has the ability to make something inaccessible, accessible or open up a taboo subject for discussion. In some cases humor is a political gesture. In this course we will examine humor through a critical interdisciplinary and intercultural lens. You will be responsible for developing written responses, critiques, oral presentations, performative projects, art and research. (Instructor: Tim Berg)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 004 PZ -Race, Gender, and Health in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Institution: Pitzer
Description: We will use the sociological imagination to comprehend the social context of how race and gender mediate how we understand health, illness, and U.S. health care system. This course will review some key sociological and epidemiological scholarship on institutionalized racism and sexism within U.S. healthcare by exploring the history of colonialism and its role in the subjugation of people of color and women and other minoritized gender identities. We also will discuss how racism and sexism function as interlocking systems of oppression and result in the perpetuation of unequal access to healthcare. (Instructor: Alicia Bonaparte)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 005 PZ -Virtual You
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Over the past half century, technologocial advancements have reshaped the way we spread and consume information. The rise of social media websites has allowed us to create a “virtual persona” in which to connect and interact with the world in ways once thought impossible. From sharing our ideas and beliefs with others, to finding romantic partners, to having “face-to-face” conversations with our family members around the world, these technologies have reshaped our lives in both beneficial and detrimental ways. In this course, we will examine the benefits, as well as the detriments, our new “virtual selves” play on our real selves. (Instrucor: Darin Brown)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 006 PZ -Food for Thought
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Food is a source of our shared passion. In this course we analyze the meanings associated with food and eating. We discuss the aestheticization and symbolization of food, as well as the moral economy of what constitutes healthy food. Food defines who we are as well as who we are not. This course will use food as an optic through which we examine environmental sustainability, gender, public health and social inequality. We will explore the histories of local and global modes of food production, distribution and consumption, and endeavor to imagine alternatives to contemporary eating practices and industrial food production. (Instructor: Emily Chao)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 007 PZ -Nutrition in the Modern World
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this seminar, we will trace the history of the human diet up to present time, including an examination of diet across cultures. With this cross-cultural lens we will then explore several multi-faceted nutrition issues in the modern world. Topics include the human microbiome and potential links to disease; food allergies; the epidemic of obesity; inequalities in access to healthy, affordable food; whether current food systems are sustainable; and seemingly odd food choices, such as eating insects in different societies. We will explore these and other ideas through books, film, and the popular press and practice writing for various audiences. (Instructor: Elise Feree)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 008 PZ -Environmental Documentaries: Controversy, Evidence, Persuasion & Critical Analysis
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course introduces students to current national and international environmental and social justice issues by exploring how they are documented in film. We examine these documentaries not just as a way of exploring environmental problems but also as vehicles for understanding how arguments are made, how audiences are persuaded, and how evidence is used to justify various theses and assertions. This year the main themes in this course will be climate change; petroleum exploitation and its environmental and social impacts; human encroachment on disappearing habitat; and perspectives on wildlife. (Instructor: Melinda Herrold-Menzies)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 009 PZ -Living with Unfreedom
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Freedom is essential to human existence. For well over half a century, the West proudly regarded itself as the champion of human liberty and often looked upon unfree societies elsewhere with sympathy and uncomprehending fascination. “It can’t happen here.” So the conventional wisdom went. Sadly, recent political events have demonstrated that no society is immune to authoritarian erosion. In this course, we will read classic literature - including the iconic book 1984 by George Orwell - that depicts lives under tolitaraianism and ponder how we, as individuals, can best guard against unfreedom in both our action and human consciousness. (Instructor: Hanzhang Liu)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 010 PZ -Video and Diversity
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This first year seminar studies 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. Bodies of work by individual makers and collectives are presented as case studies in how multiple issues can be addressed through singular oeuvres. (Instructor: Ming-Yuen S. Ma)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 011 PZ -Canine Companions: Exploring the Origins and Behaviors of Dogs
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Dogs and humans have coexisted as each other’s companions for more than 20,000 years. However, anthropologists, ethologists, and genomicists continue to debate over the evolution of dogs from wolves, the genetic basis of behaviors in many dog breeds, and the emotions that we share with our pets. In this course we will explore the history of human-canine relationships and the roles dogs play across cultures. We will read and discuss popular articles on dog cognition, physiology, and behavior and practice writing to multiple audiences. Using a multi-drafting approach, we will develop strategies for revision, peer review and constructive criticism. (Instructor: Jenna Monroy)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 013 PZ -The History and Pyschology of the Sport Cricket
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Associated in the popular imagination with Britain and its former colonies and sometimes baffling to Americans, the 2015 World Cup in cricket was watched by an estimated 1.5 billion viewers worldwide. This course will introduce students to the academic study of the history and psychology of cricket. The main focus of this course is two-fold. First, we will explore the socio-historical evolution of international cricket. Second, students will be introduced to the various intra- and inter-personal psychological processes in the sport of cricket. (Instructor: Shelva Paulse)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 014 PZ -Queer Latinx Migration Migration, Race, Detention, and Deportation
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This interdisciplinary class draws from queer and Feminist theory, Latinx and Latin American Studies and social movements to study migration/immigration and Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Intersex narratives. Mainstream immigration policy/movement discourses prioritize heteronormative notions of ‘family’ and citizenship, eliding voices and visibility for LGBTQI+ justice. Meanwhile predominant articulations of LGBTQ ‘equality’ marginalize queer immigrants. This class explores how Latinx-, immigrant-, Trans- led community campaigns against horrific conditions in private detention centers and on the ‘borderlands’ are challenging myopic notions of immigrant and LGBTQ rights. We will interrogate historical and contemporary conceptions of sexuality, gender, gender identity, race and (im)migration. (Instrutor: Suyapa Portillo Villeda)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 015 PZ -Radical Care
Institution: Pitzer
Description: We are in the midst of a global “crisis of care.” The growing inequalities produced by late capitalism have disrupted our social capacities for everything from birthing and raising children to caring for friends and family to maintaining households and communities. And yet such reproductive labor is essential for the creation and maintenance of social bonds and the functioning of institutions and infrastructures. How are artists and activists pushing back against this crisis, forging collective movements that view “care” for one’s self and one’s community as moral imperatives to act? How might the expression of radical care-in literature, activism, and art-call into being more socially just relations among friends, family, neighborhoods, and communities? (Instructor: Andrea Scott)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 016 PZ -What is Human?
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course serves two purposes. First, it raises questions about our understanding of ourselves as Homo sapiens, distinct from other animals, machines and biological creations. Second, it emphasizes analytical reading and writing skills. The determination of what is particularly or distinctively “human” is a problem for the contemporary world and at present has no definitive or consensual answer. We will explore how peoples in other era defined themselves and how those distinctions are being blurred by modern technology and biological research. Do computers have consciousness? Do clones have souls? DO we think with our heart? Do we have obligations to others? How do we determine human nature? Or, does man have a nature? Readings will range from works in philosophy to science fiction. (Instructor: Sharon Snowiss)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 017 PZ -Imagining Social Transformation: Towards Climate Survivability
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will draw on sociological theory, history, fiction, and current social and political movements to imagine possibilities for, processes of, and challenges to the transformation (or restructuring) of society. Sociological conceptions of social forces, social change, and institutions, paired with critical Indigenous perspectives and experiences (of surviving ecologically destructive colonialism), will centrally inform and refine our imaginings The promotion of the Green New Deal will be used as one specific link to this process currently unfolding within society; course activities will include participation in the Sunrise Movement or similar efforts. Students will be invited to integrate varying levels of ideas, inspiration and insight, starting with developing and implementing self-care practices. (Instructor: Erich Steinman)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 018 PZ -Latinx and Africana Food Identity and Resistance
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this seminar we will explore African/a and Latinx foodways and systems in the US. We will study how these were impacted by exchange, enslavement of people plus the desires to retain their traditional cuisines. We will explore the knowledges that enslaved Africans brought to las Americas, in particular how their cuisine used maize as well as domesticated animals; how Amerindians were able to retain their knowledge of the land and ecology and maintain their own foodways; the colonial project and how Europeans forced Africans and Amerindians to cultivate and produce their foods. (Instructors: Maria Soldatenko & Kebokile Dengu-Zvobgo)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FS 019 PZ -Propaganda
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course examines propaganda, past and present. We will look at everything from police state rhetoric to mass market advertising, investigating the ways in which propaganda has been mobilized in different times and places. The course will be based around reading, writing, and discussion. In examining the topic, we will use everything from theory and primary texts to posters and films. (Instructor: Andrew Wakefield)
Prerequisite(s): None
First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.
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FREN 001 PZ -Introductory French
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Designed for students with no previous experience in the language. Students will develop their ability to communicate in spoken and written French in an immersion-style setting. To that end, the course is conducted entirely in French from the first day of class. Our study of social and cultural practices throughout the Francophone world will allow for a deeper understanding of the history and contemporary use of French languages and of what it means to be a French speaker in the world today.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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FREN 002 PZ -Introductory French 2
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: FREN 002 is the second of two elementary-level courses designed to prepare students for intermediate-level French. Most students enrolled in FREN 002 come directly from FREN 001; however, sometimes students who have not taken FREN 001 at Pitzer Colllege enroll in FREN 002. At the start of the esemester, your instructor will advise you on the most appropriate course based on your langauge-learning background and proficiency.
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FREN 044 CM -Advanced French: Reading in Literature and Civilization
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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FREN 044 PO -Advanced French
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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FREN 044 SC -Advanced French: Readings in Literature and Civilization
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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FREN 117 CM -Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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FREN 132 CM -North Africal Literature After Independence
Institution: Claremont McKenna College
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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FGSS 026 SC -Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Institution: Scripps College
Description: For course information, please see Scripps College catalog.
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FGSS 036 SC -Introduction to Queer Studies
Institution: Scripps College
Description: For course information, please see Scripps College catalog.
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GFS 120 PZ -Women and Human Rights Discourse
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: Women and Human Rights Descourse and Practice This seminar will use three windows to look into women’s experiences with the human rights globally, namely: a) ware, liberation movements and struggles as a way to examine how women fare in the political arena; b) food as an example of women’s access and control over basic economic resources in places as far as Asia and Africa, and as close as US inner cities; and c) women and the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Southern 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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GWS 026 PO -Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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GWS 190 PO -Senior Seminar
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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ID 076 JT -Intersections: Gender, Race, Sexuality
Institution: Claremont McKenna College
Description: For more course information, see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
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SOC 156 PZ -Sociology of the Family
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this course, we will examine the institution of the American family from a sociological perspective. Although we may think of the family as being part of our private lives, it is very influenced by the social forces around us. Students will learn to critically evaluate their assupmtions about family structure and processes, but also critically evaluate social science research presented in the media, research articles, and political arenas.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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GEOL 020C PO -Introduction to Geology: Environmental Geology
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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GEOL 111A PO -Introduction to GIS
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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GEOL 112 PO -Remote Sensing of Earth’s Environment
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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Government |
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GOVT 138 CM -Religion and Politics in Latin America
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): RLST Major: HRT II, CWS
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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GREK 001 PO -Introductory Classical Greek
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS 051A 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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GREK 001 SC -Introductory Classical Greek
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS051A SC
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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GREK 002 PO -Introductory Classical Greek
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS051B 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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GREK 002 SC -Introductory Classical Greek
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS051B SC
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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GREK 022 PO -Introductory Classical Greek Accelerated
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS052 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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GREK 033 PO -Intermediate Classical Greek
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course inof, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS101A PO and CLAS101B 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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GREK 033 SC -Intermediate Classical Greek
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS101A SC and CLAS101B SC
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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GREK 044 PO -Advanced Greek Reading
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona Collegel catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS182A PO and CLAS182B 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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GREK 104 PO -Readings in Kione Greek (half-credit)
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: CLAS104 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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CLAS 052A PO -Elementary Classical Hebrew
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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CLAS 102 PO -Readings in Classical Hebrew
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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ANTH 098 PZ -Palestine and Israel: the Ongoing Crisis & the Plausible Path to a Just Peace
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course starts by examining key concepts in debates about Palestine and Israel, notably bias, peoples, participation, and statehood. The course then examines both the history of the crisis and the uses of historical representations to prop up the the current political and social order of Israel and Palestine. In contrast with most received narratives, we find the making of the crisis primarily in the shaping of ethnic conflict and ethno-national state-making by partition under British colonial rule–not in timeless enmities. The course is also concerned to understand why the status quo of the present is at once so violently oppressive for Palestinians and yet something many Jewish Israelis and their state accept. We also look at the crucial role of the US in maintaining, funding, and arming the status quo - and how that may be changing. In the final section of the course, we identify plausible futures for Palestine-Israel, and consider how a globally dispersed social justice movement can support the Palestinian struggle for equality and freedom - and thereby foster a positive or just peace for all persons in Palestine and Israel.
Prerequisite(s): Please check the current course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: HIST098 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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HIST 010 PO -The Ancient Mediterranean
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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HIST 011 PZ -The World Since 1492
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course explores the last 500 years of world history. In examining this large expanse of time, the focus is on four closely related themes: (1) struggles between Europeans and colonized peoples, (2) the global formation of capitalist economies and industrialization, (3) the formation of modern states, and (4) the formation of the tastes, disciplines and dispositions of bourgeois society.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: ANTH 011 PZ
Formerly: HIST 021 PZ/ANTH 021 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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HIST 012 PO -Saints and Society
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: HIST 105 PO
Note(s): RLST Majors: HRT II
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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