2021-2022 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MATH 025 PZ -Precalculus
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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.
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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MATH 030 PZ -Calculus I
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MATH 030 PZ -Calculus with Precalculus
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: This two-credit course introduces 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. Supplemented by all necessary precalculus material including linear, quadratic and polynomial equations; systems of linear equations; transformation, composition and inverses of functions; rational, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions.
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MATH 031 PZ -Calculus II
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MATH 032 PZ -Calculus III
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Vectors and vector functions, partial derivatives and differentiability of functions of several variables, multiple integrals.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 PZ or placement score. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MATH 052 CM -Introduction to Statistics
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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MATH 052 PZ -Introduction to Statistics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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.
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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MATH 055 PZ -Discrete Mathematics
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: Topics include combinatorics (clever ways of counting things), number theory, and graph theory with an emphasis on creative problem solving and learning to read and write rigorous proofs. Possible applications include probability, analysis of algorithims, and cryptography. Corequisite: Mathematics 40 (HM) or Mathematics 60 (CM, PO, PZ, SC) or Mathematics 73 (HM)
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MATH 058 PO -Introduction to Statistics
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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MATH 060 PZ -Linear Algebra
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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 Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MATH 100 PZ -Introduction to Methods of Proof
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MATH 102 PZ -Differential Equations/Modeling
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this course we will introduce some basic models include Lotka-Volterra (Predator-Prey) models, as well as some standard modeling techniques. The emphasis in the course will be placed on qualitative methods and the use of software to understand solutions. Eigenvalues an eigenvectors will be introduced to fully solve linear systems in the plane. Linear and non-linear systems of differential equations will be analyzed by classifying orbits near fixed-point solutions. Students may not receive credit for both Math 102 and Math 111.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MATH 108 PZ -History of Mathematics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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 Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MATH 111 CM -Differential Equations
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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MATH 141 PZ -Hyperbolic Geometry
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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 Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MATH 142 PZ -Differential Geometry
Institution: PItzer
Description: Curves and surfaces, Gaussian curvature, isometries, tensor analysis, covariant differentiation with applications to physics and geometry
Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MATH 145 PZ -Topics in Geometry and Topology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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MATH 145 PZ -Transformational Geometry
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: This course focuses on geometry from a transformational point of view. Euclidean constructions lay the foundation for understanding Euclidean reflections and circle inversion (or hyperbolic relfection). The isometry group of the Euclidean plane is investigated and used to prove standard theorems in Euclidean geometry. Projective and hyperbolic geoemtry are introuduced in historical context, and Euclidean models analyzed. These models show that Euclidean, projective and hyperbolic geometries are equally consistent , and provide for explicit descriptions of their isometry groups. Non-Euclidean isometry groups are characterized, and a transformational approach is applied to study non-Euclidean geometry.
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MATH 145B PZ -Low-Dimensional Topology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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 Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MATH 148 PZ -Knot Theory
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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 Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MATH 158 PO -Statistical Linear Models
Institution: Pitzer
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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MATH 159 PO -Advanced Topics in Statistics
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MATH 198 PZ -Math Forum
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course provides experience in mathematical exposition. Participation in the Math Forum will consist of presenting a talk on a mathematical topic chosen by the student in consultation with their advisor and attending the talks of fellow mathematics majors and minors. Course is zero-credit.
Prerequisite(s): MATH055 or MATH100. Please also check course schedule.
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MATH 199 PZ -Senior Thesis
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Open to mathematics majors by invitation only.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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LIT 138 CM -Film and Mass Culture
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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LIT 139 CM -Film Theory
Institution: Claremont McKenna
Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 040 PZ -Curatorial Practice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course offers a survey of current practices and debates around curating art, especially contemporary and modern art. Students will review the recent history of these issues, view and critique current exhibitions on view in the Southern California area, and design a hypothetical exhibition of their own. Reading and class presentations will provide a wider critical and historical framework for understanding contemporary debates in curatorial practice.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 045 PZ -Documentary Media
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 046 PZ -Feminist Documentary
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 049 PO -Intro to Media Studies
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 049 PZ -Introduction to Media Studies
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course introduces the discipline of media studies to students and gives them foundational knowledge of the field. The readings and screenings comprise a range of approaches and will allow students to address media in a variety of styles and modes of practice, including film, television, and new media.
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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MS 049 SC -Introduction to Media Studies
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 050 HM -Language of Film
Institution: Harvey Mudd
Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 051 PO -Introduction to Digital Media 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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MS 051 PZ -Intro to Digital Media Studies
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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 Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 052 PZ -Introduction to Sound Studies
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is an introductory level course exploring different areas of study within sound culture, an emerging field in the human
sciences. This course will introduce students to ways of thinking historically and culturally about sound and listening.
Sound studies is an inherently interdisciplinary field. While this course is grounded in media studies, it also intersects with
history, visual and performing art, architecture, music, cultural studies, anthropology and ethnography, as well as other
disciplines. The course will survey wide ranging topics and cultures including American and European industrialization;
rainforest soundscapes of Papua New Guinea; cassette sermons by Islamic preacher in Cairo, Egypt; avant-garde music
and DJ culture, to name a few.
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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MS 069 PZ -Media Praxis Ontario
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 070 PZ -Media and Social Change
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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.
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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MS 071 PZ -Video Art
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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.
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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MS 074 PZ -Sound Theory, Sound Practice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 079 PZ -Silent Film
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 080 AA -Video and Diversity
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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.
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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MS 082 PZ -Introduction to Video
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: Also offered at Harvey Mudd as MS 182 HM, and Scripps as ART 148 SC
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MS 082L PZ -Introduction to Video Art Lab
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Lab component to Introduction to Video Art. Requires course while taking MS 082 PZ -Introduction to Video . Fall/Spring,
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 083 PZ -Contemporary Practices in Media
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 084 PZ -Handmade Film
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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MS 087 PZ -Media Sketchbook
Institution: Pitzer
Description: 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. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 088 PZ -Mexican Visual Cultures
Institution: Pitzer
Description: A survey of both popular and elite visual arts in Mexico from the time of Independence to today, including painting, prints, murals, sculpture and, more recently, film and video. Emphasis will be placed on the interchanges between media and the understanding of visual culture as a reflection of social changes.
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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MS 091 PZ -History of American Broadcasting
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Studies the history of American broadcasting from the diffusion of radio as a mass media through the transition to television, up to the development of television as the dominant broadcasting form. Students will begin to understand the impact of U.S. broadcasting by familiarizing themselves with key programs and trends.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: Also offered at Pomona
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MS 093 PZ -Experimental Media Practice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An intermediate production course that engages with media practices outside of the traditional single-channel film or videotapes made for broadcast or screening in a theatre. New genres and hybrid media forms including installation, performance, and tactical media are explored through a series of readings, lectures, presentations, and creative assignments in both individual and group projects.
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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MS 097 PZ -American Media in the Trump Era
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will introduce students to a range of disciplinary and intellectual tools for understanding the media of contemporary US. Theories of media and the new media ecology will form the context for topics such as electoralism and populism; neoliberalism & imperialism; fight for racial, gender and sexual equality; the politics of globalization and anti-globalization; environmentalism; and the cultural formations that lie at the core of these converging issues. Students will be expected to produce their own media projects in dialogue with the mediated images studied in class.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 098 PZ -Media of the Middle East
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What can we learn about the Middle East by examining media? What can we learn about media by studying institutions of production and practices of consumption alongside media texts themselves? In this course, we will study the media from the Middle East: Iran, Turkey, and the Arab world from Iraq to Egypt including Palestine/Israel. We will study primarily traditional media such as film, television, and music that have played a role in consolidating, contesting, and complicating colonial and postcolonial states and patriarchal norms as well as new media such as satellite and internetbased platforms that have been central to the Arab Revolts and other recent political movements.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 099 PZ -Advanced Editing
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course integrates the theory and history of editing with instruction in on-line non-linear video editing. Reading and viewing assignments will complement hands-on editing exercises.
Prerequisite(s): Introduction to Video Production-MS 082 PZ, MS 182 HM, Art 148 SC. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 100 AA -Asian Americans in Media
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is a historical survey of Asian American involvement in media production, beginning with the Silent Film Era and ending with contemporary projects in film, video and new media. In this course, we will focus on the shifting yet continuous participation of Asians in the production of media in North America and look at how changing political, social and cultural discourses have shaped media representations of Asians throughout this period.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 105 PZ -Transnational Media Theory
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course reviews a wide range of scholarship on national cinema and electronic media practices as well as how visual media production and consumption connect to developing ideas of nation, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and a public sphere in disaporic and immigrant communities.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 110 PZ -Media & Sexuality
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is an intermediate/advanced-level course examining the intersections between media theory and the study of sexuality. In exploring issues including transgenderism, pornography, censorship, feminism, queer cinema, and representations of race and sexuality, this course focuses on compelling case studies that provide students with specific understanding of the prevailing debates and defining theories of sexuality within Media Studies.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ or MS 050 PZ or intro level GFS course. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): Please note: Students must be aged 18 and above to enroll in this course.
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MS 111 PZ -Perspectives on Photography
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course critically examines the photograph as artifact, art, evidence, and weapon. Section 1 looks at photographs through the works of key theorists. Section 2 introduces the anthropology of photography as a social practice, including its relation to colonialism, race, and the global circulation of representations. Section 3 hones in on African photography. Section 4 analyzes current trends, including the role of the photograph in journalism, art, indigenous activism, and the digital era.
Prerequisite(s): Introductory course in Media Studies or Anthropology. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: Formerly Anthropology of Photography
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MS 112 PZ -Anthropology of Media
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Life today is saturated by various kinds of media. In the last two decades, a new field-the ethnography of media-brings anthropology’s cross-cultural perspective and attention to everyday reality to studies of media and theorizes media as constituting new spaces of community and self-making in a globalized world.
Prerequisite(s): Prereq; Introductory course in Media Studies or Anthropology. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 114 PZ -Film Sound
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An intermediate level media history and theory course exploring how sound functions in cinema. Topics covered by the course include the history of sound technologies, film sound theories, voice in cinema, film music, sound recording and reproduction in film.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ or MS 051 PZ; or some introductory level music theory courses. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 115 PZ -Topics in Sound Culture: Soundscape
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An intermediate level topical course exploring different areas of study within sound culture. The current topic, soundscape, examines spatial approaches to the study of sound, Including aural architecture, noise, sonic ecology, and other related subjects.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ or MS 051 PZ; or others relevant introductory courses, such as musicology or cultural studies. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 116 PZ -Screen Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Our world has become increasingly screen dependent and this course will examine screen culture in a multitude of formats from movie screen to mobile phones and everything in between. It is particularly focused on the relationship of technological development to evolving modes of spectatorship in a historical and theoretical context.
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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MS 117 PZ -Fan Culture and Celebrity
Institution: Pitzer
Description: New media forms have changed the face of the celebrity/fan relationship in the last decade providing a level of interactivity previously unavailable. This course will situate this shift within a historical and theoretical survey of fandom and celebrity from the birth of the Hollywood Studio System until the present day.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ or LIT 182 HM. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 118 PZ -Art and Politics in the African Diaspora
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The world has been interconnected for centuries. A great way to see this is through visual culture as a sphere of political action and critique. Centering Africa and the African diaspora, we look at art, film and other forms that comment upon identity, experience, intercultural contact, and the politics of representation.
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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MS 119 PZ -Robotics, Digital Media, and the Environment
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An intermediate digital media production course utilizing Processing, computer vision, the Arduino, and hobby servomotors to produce robotic artworks. This course explores critical thinking on the origins of the robot concept, context for robot production, the potential to reshape our future robotic cohabitants? genesis, and robots in relation to environmental stewardship.
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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MS 121 PZ -Cultural Politics of Self Care
Institution: Pitzer
Description: “Self care” has become a ubiquitous buzzword attached to an enormous variety of practices (including social media and celebrity, entrepreneurship, and the fitness, wellness, and food industries) and has reshaped notions of leisure, work, health, and travel. At the same time, scholars, journalists, and activists have criticized this term as a rebranding of preexisting exclusionary practices around ability, shape and size, access to healthcare and food, and economic position. Positioning this term within a variety of theoretical modes– including media studies, anthropology, global health, disability studies, fat studies, and critical theory, –this class will unpack the cultural politics of the term.
Prerequisite(s): MS49 or MS50 or MS54 or LIT103 or ANTH002 or ANTH011. Please also check course schedule.
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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MS 123 PZ -Embodying Identity in Price: Language, Gesture and Other Forms of Self-Expression
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This interdisciplinary course explores how talk, gesture, bodily practices and other forms of communication produce identities, society, culture and communication. This course will combine the reading of sociolinguistic texts that study how language and gesture produce identity; feminist scholarship which troubles separations between human and non-human, self and other, the private-subjective and the scholarly-objective; and the viewing of photography, video, performance art and film that artistically engage these issues. Students will respond to these texts by practicing sensory ethnography (the observation of everyday interaction that centers the sensing body of both researcher and subject); and artistic production in any medium.
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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MS 125 PZ -Popular Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will cover a broad range of historical and scholarly approaches to the study of popular and mass culture. Readings will cover academic theories of popular culture, case studies from the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, mainly in the U.S. but including other sites as well.
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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MS 134 PZ -Feminist Dialogues on Technology
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is the world’s first DOCC (Distributed Online Collaborative Course), a feminist rethinking of the MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). In Fall 2013, fifteen classrooms around the world (including Pitzer) will participate in this experiment that will focus upon feminist histories, theories and networks about and for the dissemination of research, design, and scholarship on technology.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 135 PZ -Learning from YouTube
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What can YouTube teach us and is this how, what and all we’d like to learn? Over its hundred year history, radical media theorists have looked with utopian zeal to a moment in the media future which turns out to be upon us: a time where access to the production and distribution of media is democratically available outside channels organized by capital. So why is the technology being used primarily to spoof mainstream media forms and what does this tell us about the media, our society and political possibility?
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 136 PZ -Online Feminist Spaces
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This hyper/in/visibility of the feminist in digital spaces is the (non)place, and yet somehow also the very real location, of a course that will consider-by reading, using, and making-the nowheres and everywhere of feminism in on-line, user-generated, social networked spaces of web 2.0.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 137 PZ -Media Archives
Institution: Pitzer
Description: We will consider the making, saving, sharing, using, and re-purposing of collections of media documents. The camera documents. Once archived, these images and sounds are used as testimony and evidence, to make history. The internet, a meta media archive, holds many traditional archives as well as the new people-made archives-of-ourselves constructed through the networked holdings of blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and the like.
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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MS 147B PO -Body, Representation, Desire
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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MS 149A PO -Marxism & Cultural 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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MS 173 HM -Exile in Cinema
Institution: Harvey Mudd
Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 175 PZ -Contemporary Animation Practice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will focus on performative animation techniques, or post-animative thought. Through screenings and hands-on in-class experiments, students will look at animation as it exists outside of cartoon culture and gaming to create a variety of tests that challenge the way we look at frame by frame filmmaking.
Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 182 HM -Introduction to Video Production
Institution: Harvey Mudd
Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 190 JT -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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MS 191 JT -Senior Thesis
Institution: Pitzer
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 192 JT -Senior Projects
Institution: Pitzer
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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MS 193 PZ -Directed Reading in Media
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Student designed media studies project involving advanced readings in theory, history or aesthetics with written analysis. May be taken twice for credit.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 194 PZ -Media Arts for Social Justice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is a combination of analysis, theory and hands-on service-learning experience of how media arts mobilize, educate and empower communities. The course will examine working models of media-based community collaboration projects. Students will be linked with non-profit community collaborators (media arts centers, social service and youth service agencies) who are using media as a catalyst for action In their community. Working with site hosts/collaborators students will work with underserved populations to design, implement and produce unique media collaborations that provoke thought and action.
Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ, MS 182 HM, or ART 148 SC, or by permission. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 196 PZ -Media Internship
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The purpose of this course is to integrate a professional media studies experience with a student’s intellectual and academic interests. The following requirements were developed to create connections between practice outside the academy and the analytical and theoretical concerns of the field.
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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MS 197 PZ -Media Praxis
Institution: Pitzer
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MS 198 PZ -Advanced Media Project
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Student designed media production project involving advanced production and post-production skills, adequate pre-production research and writing component. May be taken twice for credit. Pass/No Credit only.
Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MLLC 001 PZ -American Sign Language 1
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Fundamentals of American Sign Language. Preparation for visual/ gestural communication followed by intensive work on production and comprehension skills; modeling of grammatical structures; general information about Deaf Culture. One out-of-class observation required.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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MLLC 100 PZ -Language and Community: Principles and Practice of Teaching ESL
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of teaching English as a second language within the context of the local community of Southern California. The main focus of the course will be teaching adults basic English, the language necessary to live and work successfully within the community.
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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MLLC 110 PZ -Intercultural Learning Portfolio
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this half-course, students will complete a portfolio of descriptive, narrative, analytical and creative assignments to deepen their critical reflection and intercultural learning while on study abroad. Assignments are submitted electronically (Sakai) to allow students in various study abroad sites around the world to discuss their insights with a Pitzer faculty member. Must be enrolled in a Pitzer Exchange Study Abroad Program. P/NC only. Half-credit course.
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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MLLC 122 PZ -Critical Analysis Through Literature
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Short stories, essays and novels exploring a range of American experiences will provide a basis for students to develop an understanding of the social, political, historical and philosophical thought that informs this literature and the language needed to express an analysis of these works. Students must enroll in the corresponding First-Year Seminar. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers 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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MLLC 144 PZ -Advanced Speech and Rhetoric: Debate
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Students will research, craft and present arguments in formal spoken English through debates, discussions and extemporaneous talks centered around contemporary issues. Models of argumentation will be analyzed. Emphasis will be placed on evidence-based argument. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers 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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MLLC 150 PZ -Foreign Language Pedagogy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is designed specifically for Foreign Language Residents at The Claremont Colleges. We will discuss second language acquisition and pedagogical theory, placement of students and proficiency assessment, classroom management and syllabus design. We will also study strategies to enliven and vary conversation classes in order to improve their students’ vocabulary, grammar, fluency, length and range of discourse and listening comprehension. Language Residents 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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MLLC 155 PZ -Writing Across the Curriculum.
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course provides further development in expository writing and oral expression of critical thinking through projects related to the content of a Pitzer companion course. Students must enroll concurrently in the companion course designated by the International Scholars program. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers 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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MLLC 166 PZ -Directed Research in American Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Students explore American culture through field research and a volunteer internship in the community. They learn and apply community-based research techniques through surveys, interviews and participatory action research. Internship placements may include local schools and tutoring programs, community services agencies and environmental organizations. Oral presentations as well as written reflections and reports give students the opportunity to analyze and critically consider on their experiences. The course is offered for variable credit. Written permission required. Letter grades only. Non-native speakers 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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MLLC 177 PZ -Written Analysis
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this writing-intensive course, readings, discussions and writing assignments are focused on a specific theme in the humanities or social sciences. Students will write frequent essays and a research paper that demonstrate control of the most important conventions of American academic discourse. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: MLLC 133 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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MLLC 188 PZ -Social Justice in the U.S.
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This survey course explores connections between contemporary social justice issues and historical events in the U.S. Designed for students who feel they do not yet have sufficient background knowledge about the U.S. context, the course will provide a safe and respectful environment for engaging with a variety of student leaders and affinity groups from across the Claremont Colleges. By gaining greater insight into uniquely American challenges and perspectives, students will be better prepared to think critically and communicate effectively about issues such as racism and classism in this country and to take full advantage of their interdisciplinary liberal arts education.
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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PORT 001 PZ -Introductory Portuguese 1
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is the first of a two-semester introductory course in Brazilian Portuguese, using a communicative approach to language learning with an emphasis on interactive activities. Students will develop conversational skills, give short oral presentations, produce written descriptive and narrative paragraphs and work on listening and reading comprehension. This course is an ideal choice for students without a background in Spanish (or other Romance languages), students who have never taken a language course before, or those who wish to have more exposure to the language and a solid base in grammar before transitioning into the intermediate level.
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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