2013-2014 Pitzer Catalog 
    
    Jun 26, 2024  
2013-2014 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Religious Studies

  
  • RLST 149 PO -Islamic Thought


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): PRT, MES

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 150 AF -The Eyes of God: Race and Empires of the Sun


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS, PRT

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 152 PO -Ritual and Magic in Children’s Literature


    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.
  
  • RLST 153 CM -Religion and American Politics


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 154 PO -Life, Love and Suffering in Biblical Wisdom and the Modern World


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): MES, CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 155 PO -Religion, Ethics and Social Practice


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS, PRT

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 156 CM -The Protestant Reformation


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 157 PO -Philosophical Responses to the Holocaust


    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.
  
  • RLST 158 PO -Jewish Mysticism


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): HRT II, PRT, MES

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 161 CM -Gurus, Swamis, and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): HRT I, PRT

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 162 PO -Modern Jewish Thought


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS, PRT, MES

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 163 CM -Women and Gender in the Jewish Tradition


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS, MES

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 164 PO -Engendering and Experience: Women in the Islamic Tradition


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): HRT II, CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 166A PO -The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 166B PO -Religion, Politics and Global Violence


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 169 CM -Christianity and Politics in East Asia


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS, HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 170 SC -Women and Religion in Greco-Roman Antiquity


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): HRT II, CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 171 CM -Religion and Film


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 172 PO -The Bible Goes to Hollywood: Ideological Afterlives of Scripture


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 174 CM -Religion and the American Presidency


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 176 CM -Visionaries, Prophets and Transformative Leadership


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS, HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 177 PO -Gender and Religion


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 178 PO -The Modern Jewish Experience


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): HRT II, CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 179A HM -Special Topics in Religion: Comprehending Religion


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

    Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 179B HM -Special Topics in Religion. 2012, Prophecy and Apocalypse


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

    Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 180 SC -Interpreting Religious Worlds


    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.
  
  • RLST 183 HM -Ghosts and Machines


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

    Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 184 HM -Science and Religion


    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.
  
  • RLST 184 PO -Queer Theory and the Bible


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): HRT II, CWS, PRT

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 190 PO -Senior Seminar in Religious Studies


    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.
  
  • RLST 191 PO -Senior Thesis


    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.

Science, Technology and Society

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


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


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


    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.
  
  • STS 010 HM -Introduction to Science, Technology and Society


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


    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.
  
  • STS 114 HM -Social and Political Issues in Clinic


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


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


    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.
  
  • STS 190 PO -Senior Integrative 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.
  
  • STS 191 PZ -Senior Thesis


    Institution: Pitzer

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

    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.

Sociology

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


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines introductory concepts and theories in the study of Sociology. Attention is given to sociological theory, inequality of race, class, gender, and sexuality, white privilege, as well as power, authority, and movements for social change.

    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.
  
  • SOC 009 PZ -Food, Culture, Power


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Food is a source of our collective passion. In this course we will examine Individual and collective food memories and social history. The course will address local and global modes of food production, distribution, and consumption, as well as alternative food culture and eating disorders.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Cross-listing: ANTH 009 PZ, CHLT 009 CH

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 030 CH -Chicana/o in Contemporary Society


    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.
  
  • SOC 031 PZ -Exploring Urban Landscapes


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines racial dynamics within contemporary urban settings. There will be an emphasis on racial oppression, policing, inner-city violence, deindustrialization, informal labor markets, and urban resistance within Chicana/o, Latino/a and African American communities.

    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.
  
  • SOC 035 PZ -Race and Ethnic Relations


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines concepts and theories in the study of race and ethnic relations. Attention is given to the social construction of race as it relates to colonization and racial oppression, while examining contemporary realities of immigration, inter-ethnic conflict, white privilege and social movements for racial equality.

    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.
  
  • SOC 051 PZ -Class, Caste and Colonialism


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This class will explore a range of films and documentaries that represent issues of class, caste and colonialism around the world. We will evaluate and critique their contributions to our historical and contemporary understandings of social inequalities and stratifications in countries that include the U.S., UK, India, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Diego Garcia, amongst others.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Cross-listing: See also MS 051 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 055 PO -Population and Environment


    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.
  
  • SOC 055 PZ -Juvenile Delinquency


    Institution: Pitzer

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

    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.
  
  • SOC 071 PZ -Sociology of Popular Music


    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.
  
  • SOC 077 PZ -Indigenous Movements


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will examine contemporary indigenous movements from Canada to South America, with an emphasis outside of the United States. The course will highlight processes of colonization, resistance, institutional change, identity formation, and decolonization. To connect local and global, students will participate in community-engaged learning with California Indigenous communities.

    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.
  
  • SOC 078 PZ -American Indian Movements: Indigenous Resistance to Colonial Domination


    Institution: Pitzer

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

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Formerly: Formerly Indigenous People of Americas

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 079 PZ -Scandinavian Culture and Society


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is a general introduction to Scandinavia. We will look at various aspects of Scandinavian society and culture: politics, history, art, economics, film, literature, etc.

    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.
  
  • SOC 080 PZ -Secularism: Local/Global


    Institution: Pitzer

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

    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.
  
  • SOC 081 PZ -Sociology Through Film


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: We will watch and analyze films (both documentaries and narratives) that address and illustrate key sociological concepts and insights, as well as pertinent social issues. This course is not about the sociology of film, per se. Rather, the goal is to learn about sociological ideas and social issues by using movies as our medium, as well as assigned reading and lectures.

    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.
  
  • SOC 082 PZ -Racial Politics of Teaching


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This class examines how race and ethnicity are constructed in schooling from sociological, linguistic and ethnic studies standpoints. Specifically, we will discuss how race and ethnicity are constructed in schooling and ways teachers/educators may refine their pedagogies in relation to race and ethnicity. Students will do a research project.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Cross-listing: LGCS 082 PZ, ASAM 082 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 083 PZ -Sociology of Education


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will introduce students to the relationship between education and society by reviewing a variety of theoretical perspectives and key empirical studies in the sociology of education. We will explore topics including tracking, teacher expectations, student-educator relationships, curriculum, and standardized testing.

    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.
  
  • SOC 084 AA -Nonviolent Social Change


    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.
  
  • SOC 086 PZ -Social Inequality


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course explores why certain groups and individuals receive larger amounts of values resources, such as money, prestige, and power. Do some people simply try harder than others or is there truth to the old saying that some people are “in the right place at the right time?”

    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.
  
  • SOC 088 PZ -Hip Hop and Incarceration


    Institution: Pitzer

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

    Prerequisite(s): A course on race and ethnicity or social stratification. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    Formerly: Literacy of Self and Society: From Hip Hop to Mediation

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 091 PZ -Political Sociology


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course identifies key issues and debates concerning the distribution of power and consequent political processes in modern societies. Topics to be discussed include: theories of the distribution of power in modern societies; capitalism and class; state development and state formation; political identities and processes of legitimation; political representation and political incorporation; parliamentarianism and corporatism; the displacement of states as sites of political action and new social movements.

    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.
  
  • SOC 095 PZ -Contemporary Central Asia


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Fermented mare’s milk, the oil curse, bride kidnapping, dictators, atheists, Islamic radicalism, pipeline routes, U.S. strategic interests and democracy promotion. This course will introduce students to societies and cultures of Central Asia-a vast and highly volatile part of the world currently at the center of the renewed geopolitical struggle between the United States and Russia.

    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.
  
  • SOC 101 PZ -Quantitative Research Methods


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course is designed to develop quantitative analytic skills by teaching how to understand, apply, and interpret statistical principles. You will also gain practical experience in working with SPSS-a program that is widely used in a variety of academic, business, and nonprofit settings.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 PZ 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.
  
  • SOC 102 PZ -Qualitative Research Methods


    Institution: Pitzer

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

    Prerequisite(s): Enrollment is limited to majors. 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.
  
  • SOC 109 PZ -African American Social Theory


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: How have African Americans contributed to sociology? This course seeks to provide an overview of early 20th century to more contemporary African American contributors to the discipline such as St. Clair Drake, Dorothy Roberts, bell hooks, and Robert Staples. Moreover, students will become familiar with how race, sex, and class shaped these theoretical writings and expanded socio-cultural understanding of African Americans in the U.S.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 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.
  
  • SOC 110 PZ -Classical Sociological Theory


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Examines some of the most important and influential thinkers who helped shape the discipline of sociology: Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Du Bois, Gilman, etc. Strongly recommended for students considering graduate school.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 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.
  
  • SOC 111 PZ -Social Movements and Social Change


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will examine the major questions in the study of social movements. These include: Why, and under what conditions, do social movements arise? Why do individuals join movements? How are social movements organized? Students will learn about a number of important contemporary social movements. In addition, students will also research and develop some expertise regarding a particular social movement of his or her choosing.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or SOC 001 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.
  
  • SOC 112 PZ -Contemporary Social Theory


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: We will examine and analyze some of the most important and provocative social theory produced within the last 50 years.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 PZ, and SOC 110 PZ is recommended but not required. 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.
  
  • SOC 114 CH -Los Angeles Communities: Transformations, Inequality and Activism


    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.
  
  • SOC 114 PZ -Sociology of Religion


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: How does religion affect/influence other aspects of society? How do various aspects of society affect/influence religion? This course will look at religion sociologically, probing its social construction.

    Prerequisite(s): Any sociology course. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): RLST Majors: CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 116 PZ -Women and Law


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: As part of a critical gender perspective, this course will examine A) the law’s treatment of women and gender issues and B) women’s experience of law-as defendants, lawyers, victims, natives, the justification for law, and via other relationships. Specific topics will include discrimination, human rights, gender violence and others.

    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.
  
  • SOC 118 PZ -Sociology of Secularity


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Examines contemporary secularity: who tends to be secular, & how secularity is related to various aspects of social 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.
  
  • SOC 120 PZ -Sex Politics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will critique heteronormativity and highlight the social construction and regulations of sexuality. It will examine a range of political issues and movements, such as: sexuality education; gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer movements and the interactions of race, gender, class and sexuality.

    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.
  
  • SOC 122 PZ -Sociology of Health and Medicine


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Students in this course will better understand and become familiar with how social characteristics (age, race, class, gender, sexual orientation) influence an individual’s experience of health, illness, medical institutions and more in healthcare professions. Our main focus is to examine social epidemiology and health and illness definitions.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 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.
  
  • SOC 124 AA -Global Asia/Asia America


    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.
  
  • SOC 124 AF -Race, Place and Space


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course offers an introduction to the processes underlying social and spatial differentiation, with particular reference to race, gender, sexuality and class. We examine how social difference and social inequalities are constituted through space, not just expressed spatially.

    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.
  
  • SOC 126 AA -Immigration and the Second Generation


    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.
  
  • SOC 130 PZ -Selling Emotions


    Institution: PItzer

    Description: This course will interrogate how intimate life is commodified in late capitalism. We will examine how employers script workers’ emotional performances in retail services and how relationships are packaged and sold in sex work and care work. We will also explore how the global political economy structures emotional labor.

    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.
  
  • SOC 136 AF -Framing “Urban” Life


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The course draws upon a wide range of disciplinary orientations that examine the theories of urban life and representations of urban places and their cultures through literature, Websites, maps, architecture, photography, documentary, film, popular art, music, and advertising in local and international cites.

    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.
  
  • SOC 141 CH -Chicanas and Latinas in the U.S.


    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.
  
  • SOC 142 AF -The Black and South Asian Diaspora in Great Britain


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines the experience of Black and Asian diasporas in Great Britain using film, documentary, novels, and ethnographic studies. How do these texts enable us to examine the socio-historical, cultural and social ideas of nation and nationhood, belonging and exclusion, gender and sexuality, identity and the politics of resistance in these communities?

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Formerly: SOC 142 PZ Transatlantic Black and South Asian Experience

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 145 CH -Restructuring Communities


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines how Chican@/Latin@ and multi-racial communities are being transformed both locally and globally. Issues of community building and empowerment through community engagement at a day labor center, youth detention center, and a women’s empowerment facility will be a fundamental component of the class.

    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.
  
  • SOC 150 AA -Contemporary Asian American Issues


    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.
  
  • SOC 150 CH -Chicana/os/Latinas/os and Education


    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.
  
  • SOC 155 CH -Rural and Urban Social Movements


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines the emergence of social movements, the process of their formation and the varied strategies for their mobilization. Particular attention paid to the Chicano/a civil rights, farm labor and union movements. Students organize a memorial and alternative spring break with the United Farm Workers Union.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 PZ or SOC 030 CH. 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.
  
  • SOC 157 PZ -Men & Women in American Society


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course addresses what it means to think critically about gender and how social constructs such as occupational segregation, racial bias, and sexist bias have an impact on the experiences of “gendered” individuals. This course heavily relies on the intersectionality paradigm to guide discussion and further our understanding of gender socialization patterns.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 PZ or Intro to Women’s Studies (GWS 026 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.
  
  • SOC 165 PZ -Secularism and Skepticism


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Examines secular people, atheist ideologies and skeptical criticisms of religion. Explores the most compelling arguments against theism and religious faith. Strongly recommended for those interested in religion-or in debunking religion.

    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.
  
  • SOC 170 PZ -Internship: Sociology of Health and Medicine


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This practicum is a semester-long internship in which students will work within health organizations serving or addressing health issues. In addition, students will be exposed to potential careers or volunteer activities in the community.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 PZ and SOC 122 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.
  
  • SOC 188 AA -Teaching as Social Change


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This seminar will explore theoretical work on radical education-most notably the writing of Paulo Freire and Asian American Studies scholars. With an emphasis on “to serve the people,” Asian American Studies sought to transform higher education and strengthen student’s political engagement for a more just society. This seminar has a community-based component.

    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.
  
  • SOC 199A PZ -Senior Seminar


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is the capstone seminar for senior sociology majors. The seminar is designed to bring seniors together to discuss and assess their understanding of the sociological enterprise. We will apply critical thinking, writing and communication skills to the broad subject of market-star-society relations. Topics covered include: water, health, consumption, tourism, sexuality and democracy.

    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.
  
  • SOC 199B PZ -Advanced Independent Research Project/Thesis


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An original research project or thesis (quantitative, qualitative and/or theoretical) will be completed that engages senior sociology students in the practice of sociology. SOC 199B PZ is available for Sociology majors in the Fall semester if it is there final semester before graduation (e.g. a student graduating in the Fall or a student on study aboard in their Fall 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.
  
  • SOSC 147 HM -Enterprise and the Entrepreneur


    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.
  
  • SOSC 180 HM -Tropical Forests: Policy and Practice


    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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  • CHLT 126A CH -Chicana/o Movement Literature


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Cross-listing: ENGL 184A CH

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CHLT 126B CH -Contemporary Chicana/o Literature


    Institution: Scripps

    Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

    Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

    Cross-listing: ENGL 184B CH

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SPAN 001 PZ -Introductory Spanish


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Acquisition of four basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading and writing, with emphasis on the spoken language. This course includes conversation group sessions.

    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.
  
  • SPAN 002 PZ -Introductory Spanish


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Acquisition of four basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading and writing, with emphasis on the spoken language. This course includes conversation group sessions.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN001 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.
  
  • SPAN 022 PZ -Intensive Introductory Spanish


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Designed for beginning students with some basic knowledge of the language, who are too advanced for SPAN 001 PZ , but do not yet qualify for SPAN 033 PZ  . Students will complete in one semester the equivalent of SPAN 001 PZ  & SPAN 002 PZ . Includes laboratory work and/or tutorial sessions. Placement examination 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.
  
  • SPAN 031 PZ -Community-Based Spanish Practicum


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This conversation course offers students the opportunity to develop fluency in the language while promoting intercultural understanding. Students are received into the homes of host families once a week for discussion, exploration of the community and participation in family activities. Faculty assist the student in debriefing sessions to support the language and intercultural learning goals. Half-credit course.

    Prerequisite(s): 2 semesters of Spanish or equivalent, brief interview, and written permission required. 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.
  
  • SPAN 033 PZ -Intermediate Spanish.


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Review and reinforcement of four basic skills. Emphasis on conversation, reading ability and writing. Includes conversation group sessions.

    Prerequisite(s): SPAN 002 PZ, SPAN 022 PZ, or equivalent placement. 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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