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

Courses


 

Environmental Analysis

  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • EA 156 PZ -Hustle and Flow: CA Water Policy


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: In critically exploring water policy and management, this course will engage questions which all Californians need to take seriously: Are we approaching a significant limit to growth in the form of an over-committed water supply (likely yes)? Can we find a way to stretch our water supplies so that urban populations, farmers, and fish can all survive together (likely no)? Or do we have to make some radical adjustment in which there will be winners and losers? What form might such policies take?

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

    Formerly: EA 096 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • 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.
  
  • EA 165 PZ -Ghost Towns: The Built Environment and Natural Resource Depletion


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines the relationship between the built environment, natural resources, and sustainability in the demise of towns and cities. We begin with an overview of debates surrounding environmental degradation and social stability in Mesopotamia and other regions. We then examine settlements across California that have essentially become “ghost towns.” This course requires a spring break and several week-end field trips

    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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • EA 176 PZ -The Pathway Project; Route 66


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This design studio will map the past and present of the Route 66 pathway as it passes through Claremont to begin a thorough visual interrogation of the landscape, architecture, infrastructure and cultural production of this significant route through American. 2D design experience and Adobe Creative Suite recommended

    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.
  
  • EA 180 PO -Green Urbanism


    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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.

French

  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.

Gender & Women’s Studies

  
  • GWS 026 PO -Introduction to 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.
  
  • 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.

Geology

  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  
  • GEOL 125 PO -Earth History with Laboratory


    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.

Government

  
  • 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.

Greek

  
  • CLAS 051A PO -Introductory Classical Greek


    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.
  
  • CLAS 051B PO -Introductory Classical Greek


    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.
  
  • CLAS 051B SC -Introductory Classical Greek


    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.
  
  • CLAS 101A PO -Intermediate Greek


    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.
  
  • CLAS 101B SC -Intermediate Classical Greek


    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.
  
  • CLAS 182A PO -Advanced Greek Readings


    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.
  
  • CLAS 182B SC -Advanced Greek Readings


    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.

Hebrew

  
  • CLAS 052A PO -Elementary Classical Hebrew


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • CLAS 102 PO -Readings in Classical Hebrew


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.

History

  
  • ANTH 098 PZ -The Modern State and History: the Israeli Case


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This seminar examines relationships between the Israeli state and historical remembering, particularly in regard to four moments: (i) the reported exile following the Bar Kokhba revolt of the second century, (ii) the Holocaust, (iii) the establishment of the Israeli state, and (iv) the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The seminar’s examination of the Israeli state’s relationship to historical remembering is preceded by consideration of (i) the scholarly literature on the social construction of races, nations, and peoples, and (ii) debates about the desirability of “neutrality” and “balance” in courses on controversial, potentially incendiary topics (such as this course, obviously). Materials used in the course include films (such as, “A Film Unfinished,” “Paradise Now,” and “Gatekeeepers”), as well as readings by such figures as Nadia Abu El-Haj, Rashid Khalidi, Amos Oz, Edward Said, and Shlomo Sand. The seminar concludes by considering what the Israeli case tells us more generally about modern states and historical remembering.

    Prerequisite(s): HIST 011 PZ/ANTH 011 PZ or (in exceptional cases) permission of the instructor. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    Cross-listing: HIST098 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 010 PO -The Ancient Mediterranean


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 011 PO -The Medieval Mediterranean


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 011 PZ -The World Since 1492


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course explores the last 500 years of world history. In examining this large expanse of time, the focus is on four closely related themes: (1) struggles between Europeans and colonized peoples, (2) the global formation of capitalist economies and industrialization, (3) the formation of modern states, and (4) the formation of the tastes, disciplines and dispositions of bourgeois society.

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

    Cross-listing: ANTH 011 PZ

    Formerly: HIST 021 PZ/ANTH 021 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 012 PO -Saints and Society


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Formerly: HIST 105 PO

    Note(s): RLST Majors: HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 012 PZ -History of the Human Sciences


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The social and behavioral sciences-economics, sociology, political science, anthropology and psychology- structure our experience so completely that we sometimes take them for granted. The great division of intellectual labor that these “human sciences” represent can seem so natural and so logical, that it is sometimes hard to imagine a world without them. But these disciplines did not always exist. In exploring their histories, we simultaneously ask about the contingency of our world and about how it might be different. It is a history of the present.

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

    Formerly: HIST 022 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 016 PZ -Environmental History


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: For some, environmental history recounts humanity’s long encounter with nature; for others, it is the changing story of the land itself; for still others, it is an account of humanity’s changing ideas about nature and wilderness. In this course we will familiarize ourselves with all of these approaches. The course, which is global in scope, surveys materials from the past five centuries. Major themes include: the history of globalization and industrialization, ecological imperialism, the history of ecology, the idea of wilderness, science and environment and global environmental 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.
  
  • HIST 017 CH -Chicano/Latino History


    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.
  
  • HIST 017 PZ -History and Political Economy of Natural Resources


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course surveys the modern history and political economy of natural resources. Though we will focus on gold, diamonds and oil, the course also addresses larger issues of resource exploitation within specific historical, political and economic settings. We begin with the so-called “scramble for Africa,” when European nations carved up Africa between them at the Berlin Conference in 1885. This scramble for Africa and its resources was later extended to other regions of the non-western world, such as the Middle East. The course will then explore the role of natural resources in internal and global conflicts, from the colonial to the post-colonial periods, focusing on how those conflicts played themselves out in Africa and the Middle East.

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

    Cross-listing: IIS 017 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 024 PZ -A History of Modern Africa


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: To understand Africa as it exists today, one must be able to place current issues within the broader historical trends that have dominated the continent’s past. Accordingly, this course will provide an introduction to the history of modern Sub-Saharan Africa from the build-up to European conquest in the late nineteenth century, through colonization and decolonization to issues facing Africans today. Themes to be explored include: African societies and cultures on the eve of conquest; European imperial ideologies, explorers, and missionaries; African resistance against-and collaboration with-colonial projects; strategies of colonial rule; colonial education; cash-cropping and famine; African workers in colonial cities; gender, sexuality, and family life; health and healing; race, class and citizenship; nationalism and decolonization; post-independence economic crises and “development”; conflict and globalization.

    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 025 CH -All Power to the People!


    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.
  
  • HIST 025 PZ -United States History, 1620-1877


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An analytical and topical introduction to American social and political history. This course will focus on how different historians have interpreted several key events and periods. Among the topics to be considered are the encounter between New England Puritans and the land, slavery and antislavery, the rise of the city and the development of twentieth-century liberalism. Intended for students with no previous college-level background in United States history. Either semester may be taken separately.

    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 026 PZ -United States History, 1877-Present


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An analytical and topical introduction to American social and political history. This course will focus on how different historians have interpreted several key events and periods. Among the topics to be considered are the encounter between New England Puritans and the land, slavery and antislavery, the rise of the city and the development of twentieth-century liberalism. Intended for students with no previous college-level background in United States history. Either semester may be taken separately.

    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 031 CH -Latin America Before Independence


    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.
  
  • HIST 032 CH -Latin America Since Independence


    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.
  
  • HIST 040 AF -History of Africa to 1800


    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.
  
  • HIST 041 AF -History of Africa from 1800


    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.
  
  • HIST 045 PZ -West African History through Novels and Film


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: West Africa is a region with a rich, fascinating, though often tumultuous history. Legendary medieval empires, Islam, and Christianity, slavery and the slave trade, colonial rule, the formation of nation-states, and crises of war and poverty-these episodes have all shaped the historical experiences of West Africans. Fortunately for those studying West Africa today, this history has been captured with quite extraordinary skill by its novelists and filmmakers. Men and women such as Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, and Ousmane Sembene have greatly enriched our understanding of the region through their art. This course, therefore, will examine the history of West Africa through novels and films.

    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 050 PZ -Journalism in America, 1787-Present


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course traces changes in the communication of “news” in the United States, from courthouse oratory in the early republic to network television and Internet blogging in the twenty-first century. Topics of study include the invention of “news” itself in the early nineteenth century, the development of journalism as a profession, the rise and fall of objectivity as a professional goal since 1900 and the ways in which changes in technology have affected the transmission of information.

    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 050A AF -African Diaspora in the United State to 1877


    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.
  
  • HIST 050B AF -African Diaspora in the United States since 1877


    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.
  
  • HIST 051 PZ -The Atomic Bomb in American Culture Since 1945


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

    Description: This course will examine the cultural implications of the continuing prospect of nuclear annihilation- something not present or even imaginable before Hiroshima. Topics to be considered include the motivations of the scientists who constructed the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, the role of nuclear weaponry in the Red Scare of the 1950s and various visions of post-nuclear world in fiction. Sources will include secondary texts as well as a number of films.

    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 052 PZ -The History of Pitzer


    Description: Through guest presentations, interviews, and work with original documents in the on-campus Pitzer Archive and the Pitzer History Project at Honnold Library, students will explore the history of a unique undergraduate institution from its founding in 1963 to its fiftieth anniversary in 2013.

    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 054 CM -Bread and Circuses


    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.
  
  • HIST 064 PZ -Travel and Encounter, 1200-1800


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Through accounts by merchants, missionaries, explorers, soldiers and captives, this course explores changing relations between European and peoples from the world beyond Europe, from 1200 to 1800. These narratives of encounter reveal evolving European attitudes and ideas about themselves, non-European cultures, civilization, nature and colonization through themes including religion, economy, sexuality, freedom and cannibalism.

    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 066 PZ -Oral History: Methodology and Practice


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course explores how scholars have used oral history methodologies to reconstruct the pasts of communities and individuals who are not frequently represented in typical historical sources. The gathering of oral histories-from women, freed slaves, colonized people, gays and lesbians, and other disadvantaged groups-has thus resulted in new understandings of historical processes. Not only will students be introduced to oral history methodologies, but they will also design and conduct oral history projects.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 073 PZ -The Problem with Profit


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: As capitalism emerged in Europe (ca. 1150-1600), this controversial idea and the actual accumulation of wealth in communities provoked many responses. This course begins by exploring theories about the development of capitalism. It then examines theological and political debates involving wealth and profit, the social groups who supported or condemned capitalism and cultural responses to inequalities of wealth.

    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 074 PZ -Holiness, Heresy and the Body


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: What was holiness to pre-modern Europe? How was it expressed physically? What made someone a saint rather than a heretic or a witch? How did the relationship between sanctity and the body change in Europe from waning days of the Roman Empire to 1600 C.E.? What are the connections between such people and the evolution of Christianity in Europe? In order to answer these questions, we will study people either praised as holy or condemned as heretics and how their contemporaries figured out the difference. We will examine the significance of gender, attitudes toward body and mind, charisma, social status, and relationships to supernatural or divine powers.

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

    Note(s): RLST Majors: HRT II, CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 089 PZ -The Sixties


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will examine the now much mythologized period of American history known as “the sixties.” It will inevitably deal with the sordid history of “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll,” as well as histories of revolting youth. But just as importantly, the course will be driven by three theoretical questions. First, what is the relationship between the political activism of bourgeois youth in the “the sixties” and ritualized processes of social reproduction, experienced as the transition from “childhood” to “adulthood”? Second, what is the relationship between the leftist politics of “the sixties” and the historical formation of professional managerial classes in U.S. and world history? And third, how do singular events-such as the decade’s iconic assassination of President John F. Kennedy-articulate with cultural schemas?

    Prerequisite(s): HIST 021 PZ/ANTH 021 PZ or concurrent enrollment in HIST 021 PZ/ANTH 021 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    Cross-listing: ANTH 089 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 098 PZ -The Modern State and History: the Israeli Case


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This seminar examines relationships between the Israeli state and historical remembering, particularly in regard to four moments: (i) the reported exile following the Bar Kokhba revolt of the second century, (ii) the Holocaust, (iii) the establishment of the Israeli state, and (iv) the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The seminar’s examination of the Israeli state’s relationship to historical remembering is preceded by consideration of (i) the scholarly literature on the social construction of races, nations, and peoples, and (ii) debates about the desirability of “neutrality” and “balance” in courses on controversial, potentially incendiary topics (such as this course, obviously). Materials used in the course include films (such as, “A Film Unfinished,” “Paradise Now,” and “Gatekeeepers”), as well as readings by such figures as Nadia Abu El-Haj, Rashid Khalidi, Amos Oz, Edward Said, and Shlomo Sand. The seminar concludes by considering what the Israeli case tells us more generally about modern states and historical remembering.

    Prerequisite(s): HIST 011 PZ/ANTH 011 PZ or (in exceptional cases) permission of the instructor. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 100C CH -Chicana/Latina 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.
  
  • HIST 100I CH -Identity & Culture in Latin 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.
  
  • HIST 100N CH -The Mexico-United States Border


    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.
  
  • HIST 100NB CH -United States-Latin American Relations


    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.
  
  • HIST 100Q 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.
  
  • HIST 100U AF -Pan-Africanism and Black Radical Traditions.


    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.
  
  • HIST 100WC PO -Early Christian Views of Islam


    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.
  
  • HIST 100WR PO -Medieval Spain


    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.
  
  • HIST 100X PO -Modern Caribbean Pro-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.
  
  • HIST 101 PO -Ancient Greece


    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.
  
  • HIST 103A CM -History of The Roman Republic


    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.
  
  • HIST 103B CM -Roman Empire: 44 BCE - 565 CE


    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.
  
  • HIST 104 CM -Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages


    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.
  
  • HIST 107 CM -Ancient and Medieval Historians


    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.
  
  • HIST 108 CM -The Age of Cicero


    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.
  
  • HIST 110K PO -Topics in Ancient History.


    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.
  
  • HIST 110S CH -Latina/o Oral 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.
  
  • HIST 110WH PO -Heresy and Church


    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.
  
  • HIST 111B AF -African American History Since 1877


    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.
  
  • HIST 118 PZ -Teaching U.S. History: Practicum


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will examine both the politics and practice of United States history teaching. It will explore how the California State standards for U.S. history came to be and the sometimes problematic classroom relation between history and “social studies.” In the first half of the course, students will attend lectures and examine primary documents related to the period 1929-1945. In the second half of the course, students will prepare for and serve an intensive internship in a Pomona high school history classroom, including preparation and presentation of one lesson plan on the period we’ve studied.

    Prerequisite(s): A prior college-level course in U.S. history (such as HIST 025 PZ/HIST 026 PZ) is desirable, 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.
  
  • HIST 125 AA -Introduction to Asian American History


    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.
  
  • HIST 128 HM -Immigration and Ethnicity in America


    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 131 HM -The Jewish Experience in America


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

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

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

    Note(s): RLST Major: HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 132 PZ -Marx in Context


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Despite his lasting importance as a social critic and political thinker, Karl Marx is rarely appreciated as an observer of his own world. In this course, we will read Marx in the context of nineteenth-century Europe. As a working journalist, Marx was intimately familiar with the great movements and upheavals of his time. We follow him from the quiet German towns and idealist philosophy of his youth, to the great revolutionary metropolis of mid-century Paris, to the blaring factories of industrial Manchester and up through the unification of Germany. We will use Marx’s writings to make sense of that world, while, at the same time, attention to the history of nineteenth-century Europe will help us interpret his writings.

    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 138 PZ -Seeking Human Nature: The History and Science of Innateness.


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: “Human nature” has long been invoked to understand and justify our behaviors. After the advent of Darwinian evolution and Mendel’s gene theory, however, the notion of “instinct” gained authority, reshaping categories like “race” and “nature.” We will track that shift and examine its effects on political economy and social policy.

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

    Cross-listing: PSYC 138 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 142 PZ -Slavery and Slave Trading in Africa and Beyond


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Most people associate the word “slavery” with the enslavement and forced migration of African people to the Americas in the early modern era. Though this course does not overlook the momentous nature of this development in world history-and will thus examine it in detail-it also seeks to broaden our knowledge of slavery and slave trading by treating them as worldwide phenomena that date back to the classical age and remain with us still today. Accordingly, this course will consider: the definition of slavery and other forms of servile labor; the institutions and experiences of slavery in diverse historical contexts, especially in Africa and South Asia; why Africans were traded as slaves to the Americas and how this trade affected culture and society in Africa; and, lastly, the continuation of human trafficking in the modern world after the supposed “end of slavery.”

    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 143 AF -Slavery and Freedom in the New 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.
  
  • HIST 144 PZ -Death and Dying in Africa and the Diaspora


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: How do death and dying influence identity and power relations among the living? This course seeks to probe this important question by investigating diverse historical contexts in African and African Diasporic life. This course considers how ideas about death and dying, and the “mortuary politics” they engender, have changed over time in Africa and the diaspora. Questions pertaining to hierarchies of power under European colonialism in the New World and in Africa are also analyzed extensively. It also considers the roles of Islam and Christianity in the diverse social meanings tied to the final rite of passage. Jr./Sr. only; others by permission.

    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 145 PO -Afro-Latin 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.
  
  • HIST 148 PZ -Gender in African History


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Drawing on diverse historical case studies, life histories, biography, and film, this course examines the broad topic of gender in Africa through such themes as power and gendered rituals of transformation; slavery and the impact of trans-continental slave trades; colonial encounters; European constructions of black female sexuality; changes in African marriage practices and the meaning of marriage; same-sex relationships and homophobia; work, culture, and migrancy; women’s bodies and intimate colonial interventions- medical and moral; ethnicity and nationalism; poverty, famine, and the environment; and the social context of HIV/AIDS, its spread, and its prevention. The course will also discuss whether the application of western categories of gender is useful for understanding and analyzing the experiences of African men and women.

    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 152 PZ -Down and Out: The Great Depression, 1929-1941


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The economic depression triggered by the stock market crash of 1929 was no fluke-it had been building in the global economy ever since World War I. Yet, when it came, it descended on Americans with a peculiar swiftness and with a severity that was relieved only by a second world war. This seminar course inquires into the causes of the depression, the ways Americans coped (or failed to cope) with it and the psychological scars it left on its generation. In 2010-11, the course included a significant emphasis on the literature of the Depression decade.

    Prerequisite(s): Some familiarity with U.S. history (HIST 26 or similar introductory course) is strongly recommended, but not required. First-years and sophomores with permission of instructor only. 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.
  
  • HIST 153 AF -Slave Women in Antebellum America


    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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