2021-2022 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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EA 074 PZ -California’s Landscapes: Diverse Peoples and Ecosystems
Institution: Pitzer
Description: California’s Landscapes: Diverse Peoples and Ecosystems. Explores the diverse ecological and cultural landscapes of California, examining how different groups (Native American, Hispanic, African-American, Asian, and European), have transformed California’s rich natural resources. Topics include: Native American of the Los Angeles Basin and the Redwood Forests; Spanish-Mexican missions of southern California African-American miners in the Sierra; Chinese and Japanese farmers in the Central Valley; and the wild land-urban interface of LA. This course also has a social responsibility component in partnership with organizations in Ontario.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Formerly: ENVS 074 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 080 PZ -Social Engagement for Sustainable Development
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course will establish definitions of sustainable development from literature and experience. We’ll introduce direct and indirect methods of social engagement and technical analyses for ecological design using project-based learning techniques. We’ll synthesize research within the Bernard Field Station related to the future Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability.
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 082 PZ -GIS in Environmental Science
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Many areas within the environmental field require a background in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). GIS is today widely applied in land use planning, growth management, environmental assessment, ecology, field work to disaster response. This course introduces the use of GIS to examine urban environmental issues.
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 085 PO -Food, Land & the 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 086 PZ -Environmental Justice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: There is a small but growing movement in the United States which contends that environmental harm is distributed in a fundamentally racist manner. What does this mean and how do we adjudicate such claims?
This course will critically examine the Environmental Justice (EJ) movement in the United States: its history, central claims, frameworks and methods for analyzing race, class and the environment, EJ campaigns, and on-going strategies.
In this course, you will actively learn to analyze environmental issues using an environmental justice lens, evaluate the race and equity implications of environmental harms, and be inspired to do something about environmental injustice!
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 090 PZ -Protecting the Sacred: A Legal History of Indigenous Cultural and Environmental Rights in the U.S.
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course examines the legal history of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships around issues of culture, environment, and religion in the geographic area now known as United States. The course begins with a brief introduction to Indigenous perspectives on places, followed by an orientation of key terms and philosophies that will come up frequently throughout the quarter. The remainder of the course will follow the development of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and Tribal Nations and members of the settler colonial citizenry, and local, state, federal and international governments and organizations with respect to the protection of sacred places, and cultural and environmental resources.
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 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 -Writing About Art
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Someone once said that writing about art is like dancing about architecture. In this seminar we explore what it means to engage with a work of art through writing. How is the practice of the art writer the critic, curator, or historian in conversation with the work of the artist? What can writing bring to art? Do difficult artworks require the art writer to explain them? How can writing about art be a creative practice as well as a scholarly one? In addition to researching, writing, and talking about art, we will also visit exhibitions and interact with artists and writers. Writing projects and assignments range from the conventional to the experimental.
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 -What is the Point?
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What is The Point? The Opening of the American Mind A decade ago, a group of students at the University of Chicago founded The Point, a new journal dedicated to robust and open conversation about contemporary political and social theory. Since then The Point has proved a remarkable guide to the at times unsettling dynamics that underlie everyday life in America. It provides perhaps the best collective account of the political meaning of The Teens the decade of both Barack Obama and Donald Trump and offers vibrant ways to understand our political present. With all this in mind, the course considers possible futures for our world through the lenses of the wide range of intellectuals who have written for The Point.
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 -The Ancient World
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The Ancient World - Past, Presents, Futures The ancient Mediterranean famous as the home of the Greeks and Romans was inhabited by millions of people who spoke hundreds of languages and worshipped countless gods. This course not only explores this world on its own terms, but also considers how ancient Mediterranean cultures have been reconstructed and interpreted ever since. We will explore how ideas about the past have shaped the present, including conceptions of race, slavery, and colonialism and the notion of the West. We will look at filters through which we see the ancient world, ranging from the Greeks and Romans themselves to Islamic scholars, medieval kings, the writers of the US constitution, several dictators, modern artists, and Hollywood filmmakers (among others).
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 -The Last Laugh
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The Last Laugh: Gender and Stand-up Comedy In this seminar well look at how stand-up comedians use their routines to present different views about gender. We will use tools from linguistics to examine not only what these performers say but also how they say it. What messages are comedians sending about masculinity and femininity? How do women of color challenge stereotypes with their performances? What do queer comedians add to the conversation? We will also look at the pluses and minuses of studying the media using quantitative versus qualitative methods.
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 -Speculative Feminisms
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Speculative Feminisms and Sustainable Futures The future is female, proclaims a well-worn feminist adage. Emerging from a circle of radical lesbian intellectuals in 1970s New York City, the statement operates simultaneously as incantation and prediction, synthesizing the voices of all who utter it into something generative, rather than simply descriptive. Yet, it reverberates somewhat dissonantly in our contemporary moment; even the term female can evoke the same essentializing tendencies that queer and intersectional feminisms today actively unsettle. Drawing on a range of recent fictional, critical, and localized knowledges, this seminar invites additional speculative futures, exploring interdisciplinary thinking and writing as generative practices.
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 -Selective Science
Institution: Pitzer
Description: From Climate Change to Vaccines to Frankenfood we are bombarded in our daily lives with scientific (and pseudoscientific) information. How do people use this information. Why do some accept the science on evolution but not vaccines? Or on climate change but not GMOs? The goal of this seminar is to explore how we use science in our daily lives. We will focus on three central questions: How is scientific knowledge generated? How do people assess and assimilate scientific information in their of daily decision making? How accurately are scientific controversies presented in the media? No prior science experience necessary.
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 012 PZ -Pandemic Histories
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Pandemic Histories: Europe During and After the Black Death In 1347, the Black Death reached Mediterranean Europe and, within a few years, killed over half of Europes population. What were important impacts of the pandemic? How did people respond to the experience? By 1351, Giovanni Boccaccio had written a wildly popular fictional work the Decameron (Ten Days) - in which 10 young women and men shelter in the countryside and pass the time by telling stories filled with humor, sex, violence, deceit, virtue, or pathos. To explore the pandemics impacts, well read the Decameron in conjunction with historical investigations of the Black Deaths social and cultural consequences.
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 -Anti(Racism) and Emotion
Institution: Pitzer
Description: “Facts and Evidence Don’t Work Here”: Anti(Racism) and Emotion In this course, we will explore how emotion impacts how and why people participate in racism and engage in anti-racism in the United States through an interdisciplinary lens. In doing so, students will reflect upon their own positionality, to contextualize their own experiences in U.S. society, begin to see how all our fates are linked. Students will engage in their learning in a variety of ways including in-class writing, research papers, and peer-review and student presentations.
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 -Psychology of Cricket
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Associated in the popular imagination with Britain and its former colonies and sometimes baffling to Americans, the 2019 Cricket World Cup was watched by an estimated 1.5 billion viewers worldwide. This course will introduce students to important psychological concepts in sports psychology and apply those concepts to cricket. We will explore the sociohistorical evolution of international cricket. Second, students will be introduced to various intra and interpersonal psychological processes related to sport.
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 -La Familia
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This seminar will explore the role of la familia (the family) for Latinx people living in the U.S. We will analyze both commonalities and differences across conceptions and constructions of la familia. We will also examine la familia from a comparative perspective (contemporary, across different Latinx groups, within families, across immigration status, etc.), and will consider the psychological, sociocultural, and political factors that contribute to the complexity and diversity of Latinx families. Students will read research and narrative accounts of the journeys that Latinx families have undertaken (in some cases, crossing the U.S./Mexico border and being separated from family members) resulting in the development of transnational ties and evolving identities.
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 -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 ones self and ones 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?
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 020 PZ -In the News
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course’s main goal is for students to learn how to stay well informed about news in the world in which they live. That will involve both using various sources to follow the news and examining the history and shifting political economy of journalism, particularly in the context of the internet. A core assignment will be to read each days New York Times online, but this will be supplemented by a range of local, national, and global news sources, as well as relevant scholarly literature.
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 021 PZ -The Future
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What do different thinkers believe the future will bring, and what is basis of those predictions? We will assess social science research, fiction, and one or more movies about such topics as the future of work, economic inequality, education, moral decision making, state surveillance, the climate, and social effects of technological change. In addition to sharpening your writing, research, and critical analysis skills, the course will introduce you to disciplinary differences in research and writing as we compare articles by philosophers, anthropologists, economists, historians, and cultural critics, among others.
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 022 PZ -Drug Development, Policy and Innovation
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: Drug Development, Policy and Innovation This seminar provides students with an in-depth perspective into the pharmaceutical industry, particularly the process by which a drug candidate transitions from the laboratory to patient. Discussions will also focus on public policy and ethical debates surrounding the pharmaceutical industry and the commercialization of science. Topics include: the link between academic research and industry, the clinical trial process by which a molecule becomes a drug, the origin and role of the FDA in protecting the consumer, the concept of informed consent in ethical drug development, and the economics associated with orphan drug development.
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 023 PZ -Graphic Fiction and Narrative
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: Graphic narratives have long been historical artifacts, from Lascaux cave paintings to the Bayeux Tapestry, demonstrating that illustrative storytelling has been a human activity for millennia. From the 1970s onward,what is now generally called a graphic novel has continued to develop; film, television, and theatrical versions have sprung from what are still often referred to as comic books. Yet the serious subject matter of this output has become an active and important part of visual art and commentary, as seen in Safe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco, Unterzakhan by Leela Corman, and Drawings from the Gulag by Danzig Baldaev. In this course students will examine, explore, and articulate their ideas through both text and imagery that addresses serious contemporary and/or historical subjects. Assigned readings and research will be accompanied by substantial drawing and illustration training.
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FS 024 PZ -Diversity, Equity, and Inequities
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: This course will examine questions surrounding ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality and consider how this diversity has been challenged or accepted in the United States. Students will analyze contemporary and historical issues and explore questions of social justice as they read a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts. In discussions and compositions, students will consider the ways that culture and social structures shape the Pitzer experience, as well as imagining their own roles in transforming society. This course is the designated First-Year Seminar for students in the International Scholars Program and is open to non-native English speakers only.
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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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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/SC -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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