2013-2014 Pitzer Catalog 
    
    May 27, 2024  
2013-2014 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Mathematics

  
  • MATH 030 PZ -Calculus I


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Introduction to the basic concepts of the calculus, including slopes, rates of change, limits, the derivative and the integral, and the relationships between these concepts, especially the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, with applications to the natural and social sciences. Each concept will be treated from numerical, analytic and geometric perspectives.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 025 PZ or placement score. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 031 PZ -Calculus II


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Transcendental functions, techniques of integration, infinite series, related topics and applications. Again, each concept will be treated from numerical, analytic and geometric perspectives.

    Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or above in MATH 030 PZ or placement score. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 032 PZ -Calculus III


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Vectors and vector functions, partial derivatives and differentiability of functions of several variables, multiple integrals.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 PZ or placement score. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 052 CM -Introduction to Statistics


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 052 PZ -Introduction to Statistics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course is meant to give a liberal arts student a sense of statistical theory and practice. It will emphasize the use and interpretation of statistics, with applications to both the natural and social sciences. Topics will include: collection and summarizing of data; measures of central tendency and dispersion; probability; binomial and normal distributions; confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; linear regression; ANOVA methods; topics in non-parametric statistics; and discussion and interpretation of statistical fallacies and misuses.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 058 PO -Introduction to Statistics


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 060 PZ -Linear Algebra


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Topics will include matrices, Gaussian elimination, vector spaces and subspaces, linear transformations, bases, octhogonality, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenspaces, and applications of linear algebra.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 100 PZ -Introduction to Methods of Proof


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will introduce students to the art of writing mathematical proofs using a variety of methods, such as direct proof, proof by contra-positive, proof by contradiction, proof by cases, and proof by induction. Intended for students majoring or minoring in mathematics (or considering doing so).

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 PZ and sophomore standing, or permission of instructor. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 102 PZ -Differential Equations/Modeling


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: In this course we will introduce some basic models include Lotka-Volterra (Predator-Prey) models, as well as some standard modeling techniques. The emphasis in the course will be placed on qualitative methods and the use of software to understand solutions. Eigenvalues an eigenvectors will be introduced to fully solve linear systems in the plane.  Linear and non-linear systems of differential equations will be analyzed by classifying orbits near fixed-point solutions. Students may not receive credit for both Math 102 and Math 111.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 108 PZ -History of Mathematics


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A survey of the history of mathematics from antiquity to the present. Topics emphasized will include: the development of the idea of proof, the “analytical method” of algebra, the invention of the calculus, the psychology of mathematical discovery and the interactions between mathematics and philosophy.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 031 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 111 CM -Differential Equations


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 141 PZ -Hyperbolic Geometry


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An introduction to hyperbolic geometry in dimensions 2 and 3. Topics will include: Poincaré disk model, upper half space model, hyperbolic isometrics, linear fractional transformations, hyperbolic trigonometry, cross-ratio, hyperbolic manifolds, and hyperbolic knots.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 142 PZ -Differential Geometry


    Institution: PItzer

    Description: Curves and surfaces, Gaussian curvature, isometries, tensor analysis, covariant differentiation with applications to physics and geometry

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 145 PZ -Topics in Geometry and Topology


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will vary from year to year and cover topics chosen from geometry and topology. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites will vary with course content. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 145B PZ -Low-Dimensional Topology


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A 2-manifold is a surface, a 3-manifold is a possible (spatial) universe, and a 4-manifold is a possible model for space-time. In each case, we will look at examples, construction techniques, and the problems of classifying and distinguishing such spaces.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 148 PZ -Knot Theory


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An introduction to the theory of knots and links from combinatorial, algebraic and geometric perspectives. Topics will include knot diagrams, p-colorings, Alexander, Jones and HOMFLY polynomials, Seifert surfaces, genus, Seifert matrices, the fundamental group, representations of knot groups, covering spaces, surgery on knots, and important families of knots.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 060 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 158 PO -Statistical Linear Models


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 159 PO -Advanced Topics in Statistics


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MATH 199 PZ -Senior Thesis


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Open to mathematics majors by invitation 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.

Media Studies

  
  • LIT 138 CM -Film and Mass Culture


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • LIT 139 CM -Film Theory


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 045 PZ -Documentary Media


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course involves production, a historical survey of documentary practices in photography, film and video and a discussion of the ethical and ideological issues raised by the genre. Students will be expected to produce two short documentary projects in any media.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 046 PZ -Feminist Documentary


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Women have made politicized documentaries since the invention of the motion picture camera. Students will learn this complex theoretical, historical and political tradition while producing their own feminist documentary.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 049 PO -Intro to Media Studies


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 049 PZ -Introduction to Media Studies: Print Media, Television and Popular Culture


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will focus on the history and critical analysis of print media, television and popular culture with an emphasis on developing critical skill sand interpretive strategies.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 049 SC -Introduction to Media Studies


    Institution: Scripps

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 050 HM -Language of Film


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 050 PZ -Language of Film


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Film and video are often considered to be a distinct semiotic system or art form with their own “language.” This course surveys the variety of structures which can organize moving pictures: from Hollywood continuity editing, Soviet montage and cinema verite to voice-over documentary, talking heads and postmodern voices with no center at all. The course includes silent film, classic Hollywood narrative, avant-garde film and video, documentary and activist video.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 051 PO -Introduction to Digital Media Studies


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 051 PZ -Intro to Digital Media Studies


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An interdisciplinary introduction to digital and electronic media, exploring the relationships between “old” and “new” media forms, the historical development of computer-based communication and the ways that new technologies are reshaping literature, art, journalism, and the social world.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ, MS 182 HM, ART 148 SC Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 069 PZ -Media Praxis Ontario


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Working In groups, students will plan and implement collaborative media projects with Ontario community sites that promote discourse around regional social issues. Areas to be covered in class Include introductory video production techniques, ethical community media praxis, and examination of a wide range of media justice and activist projects. This Is an introductory level media production course designed but not limited to) students that have taken or are currently enrolled in the Ontario Program coursework.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 070 PZ -Media and Social Change


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Overview of movements, theories and methods employed by media makers committed to social change. From Soviet film collectives, through Third Cinema movement of the 60s, to feminist, queer, and youth video activist movements in the U.S. that have laid the groundwork for the rise of socially driven media collectives and campaigns today.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 071 PZ -Video Art


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines video as an art practice. Through readings, screenings, visits to art venues and written assignments, students will analyze the historical, conceptual, and aesthetic issues informing contemporary video art and artists.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 074 PZ -Sound Theory, Sound Practice


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An intermediate-level course focusing on sound theory and relationship between sound and image. This topic will be examined through reading assignments, screenings and listening sessions, in-class presentations, writing and sound recording assignments. In this class, students will engage with the history of audio reproduction, the concepts of French theorist Michel Chion, the psychoanalytic theories on the female body and voice, the notion of the soundscape and the relationship between ethnography, colonialism, and audio technology.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 079 PZ -Silent Film


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The invention of cinema fit within the emerging order of modernism? This class will examine early cinema in the context of the turn-of-the-century project of extending the field of human vision, examining topics such as ethnography, science, journalism, travel, representations of the city and architecture, and the construction of racial difference.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 080 AA -Video and Diversity


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An introductory level course exploring video as a medium, particularly as it is utilized by women, people of color, lesbians and gays, grassroots activists, as well as other peoples who are under and/or mis-represented by dominant media. This class explores independent video production from historical as well as issue-oriented approaches. The history of video technology, from analog to digital, is studied with a focus on developments that made video an accessible and powerful tool for self-expression and political intervention. Issues around gender, race, class and sexual politics are examined in relation to works from the above-mentioned communities. Modes of work by individual makers and collectives are presented as case studies in how multiple issues can be addressed through singular oeuvres.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 082 PZ -Introduction to Video


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is an introductory course In digital video production. This class encourages a critical, creative approach to the medium, non-traditional solutions, and explanation of the history and methodology of independent video and video art. Class session combines hands-on technical training in script writing, storyboarding, camera operation, off-line and non-linear editing, lighting and sound equipment with critical analysis of subject matter, treatment, and modes of address in independent as well as mass media.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    Cross-listing: Also offered at Harvey Mudd as MS 182 HM, and Scripps as ART 148 SC

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 082L PZ -Introduction to Video Art Lab


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Lab component to Introduction to Video Art. Requires course while taking MS 082 PZ -Introduction to Video . Fall/Spring,

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 083 PZ -Contemporary Practices in Media


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The class will be developed around visiting media artist’s presentations and contemporary media art exhibitions. This work is situated through readings, presentations and papers in a larger media studies history.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 050 PZ or MS 049 PO. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 084 PZ -Handmade Film


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Rejecting the prevailing Hollywood wisdom that one needs millions of dollars to make a movie, this class explores different models for creating moving images with the most modest of resources. Options to be considered include hand processing, camera-less films, PXL video, super-8 film, recycling and appropriation. Students will be expected to create several short exercises in order to familiarize themselves with these different techniques, as well as a final project.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 087 PZ -Media Sketchbook


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is an intermediate-level video production class. Students are required to complete short (one to two minute) assignments every other week. The objectives of the class are to further refine the skills of shooting, editing, etc. and to develop a critical vocabulary to talk about your work and the work of others.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 088 PZ -Mexican Visual Cultures


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: A survey of both popular and elite visual arts in Mexico from the time of Independence to today, including painting, prints, murals, sculpture and, more recently, film and video. Emphasis will be placed on the interchanges between media and the understanding of visual culture as a reflection of social changes.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 091 PZ -History of American Broadcasting


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Studies the history of American broadcasting from the diffusion of radio as a mass media through the transition to television, up to the development of television as the dominant broadcasting form. Students will begin to understand the impact of U.S. broadcasting by familiarizing themselves with key programs and trends.

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

    Cross-listing: Also offered at Pomona

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 093 PZ -Media Off-Screen


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An intermediate production course that engages with media practices outside of the traditional single-channel film or videotapes made for broadcast or screening in a theatre. New genres and hybrid media forms including installation, performance, and tactical media are explored through a series of readings, lectures, presentations, and creative assignments in both individual and group projects.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 099 PZ -Advanced Editing


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course integrates the theory and history of editing with instruction in on-line non-linear video editing. Reading and viewing assignments will complement hands-on editing exercises.

    Prerequisite(s): Introduction to Video Production-MS 082 PZ, MS 182 HM, Art 148 SC. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 100 AA -Asian Americans in Media


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is a historical survey of Asian American involvement in media production, beginning with the Silent Film Era and ending with contemporary projects in film, video and new media. In this course, we will focus on the shifting yet continuous participation of Asians in the production of media in North America and look at how changing political, social and cultural discourses have shaped media representations of Asians throughout this period.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 105 PZ -Transnational Media Theory


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course reviews a wide range of scholarship on national cinema and electronic media practices as well as how visual media production and consumption connect to developing ideas of nation, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and a public sphere in disaporic and immigrant communities.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 110 PZ -Media & Sexuality


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course is an intermediate/advanced-level course examining the intersections between media theory and the study of sexuality. In exploring issues including transgenderism, pornography, censorship, feminism, queer cinema, and representations of race and sexuality, this course focuses on compelling case studies that provide students with specific understanding of the prevailing debates and defining theories of sexuality within Media Studies.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ or MS 050 PZ or intro level GFS course. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    Note(s): Please note: Students must be aged 18 and above to enroll in this course.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 111 PZ -Perspectives on Photography


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course critically examines the photograph as artifact, art, evidence, and weapon. Section 1 looks at photographs through the works of key theorists. Section 2 introduces the anthropology of photography as a social practice, including its relation to colonialism, race, and the global circulation of representations. Section 3 hones in on African photography. Section 4 analyzes current trends, including the role of the photograph in journalism, art, indigenous activism, and the digital era.

    Prerequisite(s): Introductory course in Media Studies or Anthropology. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    Formerly: Formerly Anthropology of Photography

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 112 PZ -Anthropology of Media


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Life today is saturated by various kinds of media. In the last two decades, a new field-the ethnography of media-brings anthropology’s cross-cultural perspective and attention to everyday reality to studies of media and theorizes media as constituting new spaces of community and self-making in a globalized world.

    Prerequisite(s): Prereq; Introductory course in Media Studies or Anthropology. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 114 PZ -Film Sound


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An intermediate level media history and theory course exploring how sound functions in cinema. Topics covered by the course include the history of sound technologies, film sound theories, voice in cinema, film music, sound recording and reproduction in film.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ or MS 051 PZ; or some introductory level music theory courses. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 115 PZ -Topics in Sound Culture: Soundscape


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An intermediate level topical course exploring different areas of study within sound culture. The current topic, soundscape, examines spatial approaches to the study of sound, Including aural architecture, noise, sonic ecology, and other related subjects.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ or MS 051 PZ; or others relevant introductory courses, such as musicology or cultural studies. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

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


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Our world has become increasingly screen dependent and this course will examine screen culture in a multitude of formats from movie screen to mobile phones and everything in between. It is particularly focused on the relationship of technological development to evolving modes of spectatorship in a historical and theoretical context.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 117 PZ -Fan Culture and Celebrity


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: New media forms have changed the face of the celebrity/fan relationship in the last decade providing a level of interactivity previously unavailable. This course will situate this shift within a historical and theoretical survey of fandom and celebrity from the birth of the Hollywood Studio System until the present day.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ or LIT 182 HM. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 118 PZ -Art and Politics in the African Diaspora


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The world has been interconnected for centuries. A great way to see this is through visual culture as a sphere of political action and critique. Centering Africa and the African diaspora, we look at art, film and other forms that comment upon identity, experience, intercultural contact, and the politics of representation.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 119 PZ -Robotics, Digital Media, and the Environment


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: An intermediate digital media production course utilizing Processing, computer vision, the Arduino, and hobby servomotors to produce robotic artworks. This course explores critical thinking on the origins of the robot concept, context for robot production, the potential to reshape our future robotic cohabitants? genesis, and robots in relation to environmental stewardship.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 125 PZ -Popular Culture


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will cover a broad range of historical and scholarly approaches to the study of popular and mass culture. Readings will cover academic theories of popular culture, case studies from the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, mainly in the U.S. but including other sites as well.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 134 PZ -Feminist Dialogues on Technology


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is the world’s first DOCC (Distributed Online Collaborative Course), a feminist rethinking of the MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). In Fall 2013, fifteen classrooms around the world (including Pitzer) will participate in this experiment that will focus upon feminist histories, theories and networks about and for the dissemination of research, design, and scholarship on technology.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 135 PZ -Learning from YouTube


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: What can YouTube teach us and is this how, what and all we’d like to learn? Over its hundred year history, radical media theorists have looked with utopian zeal to a moment in the media future which turns out to be upon us: a time where access to the production and distribution of media is democratically available outside channels organized by capital. So why is the technology being used primarily to spoof mainstream media forms and what does this tell us about the media, our society and political possibility?

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 136 PZ -Online Feminist Spaces


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This hyper/in/visibility of the feminist in digital spaces is the (non)place, and yet somehow also the very real location, of a course that will consider-by reading, using, and making-the nowheres and everywhere of feminism in on-line, user-generated, social networked spaces of web 2.0.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 137 PZ -Media Archives


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: We will consider the making, saving, sharing, using, and re-purposing of collections of media documents. The camera documents. Once archived, these images and sounds are used as testimony and evidence, to make history. The internet, a meta media archive, holds many traditional archives as well as the new people-made archives-of-ourselves constructed through the networked holdings of blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and the like.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 147B PO -Body, Representation, Desire


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 149A PO -Marxism & Cultural Studies


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 175 PZ -Contemporary Animation Practice


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will focus on performative animation techniques, or post-animative thought. Through screenings and hands-on in-class experiments, students will look at animation as it exists outside of cartoon culture and gaming to create a variety of tests that challenge the way we look at frame by frame filmmaking.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 049 PZ, MS 050 PZ, MS 051 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 182 HM -Introduction to Video Production


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 190 JT -Senior Seminar


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 191 JT -Senior Thesis


    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.
  
  • MS 192 JT -Senior Projects


    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.
  
  • MS 193 PZ -Directed Reading in Media


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Student designed media studies project involving advanced readings in theory, history or aesthetics with written analysis. May be taken twice for credit.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 194 PZ -Media Arts for Social Justice


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course is a combination of analysis, theory and hands-on service-learning experience of how media arts mobilize, educate and empower communities. The course will examine working models of media-based community collaboration projects. Students will be linked with non-profit community collaborators (media arts centers, social service and youth service agencies) who are using media as a catalyst for action In their community. Working with site hosts/collaborators students will work with underserved populations to design, implement and produce unique media collaborations that provoke thought and action.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ, MS 182 HM, or ART 148 SC, or by permission. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 196 PZ -Media Internship


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The purpose of this course is to integrate a professional media studies experience with a student’s intellectual and academic interests. The following requirements were developed to create connections between practice outside the academy and the analytical and theoretical concerns of the field.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 197 PZ -Media Praxis


    Institution: Pitzer

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MS 198 PZ -Advanced Media Project


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Student designed media production project involving advanced production and post-production skills, adequate pre-production research and writing component. May be taken twice for credit. Pass/No Credit only.

    Prerequisite(s): MS 082 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

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

Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures

  
  • MLLC 100 PZ -Language and Community: Principles and Practice of Teaching ESL


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of teaching English as a second language within the context of the local community of Southern California. The main focus of the course will be teaching adults basic English, the language necessary to live and work successfully within the community.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MLLC 110 PZ -Intercultural Learning Portfolio


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: In this half-course, students will complete a portfolio of descriptive, narrative, analytical and creative assignments to deepen their critical reflection and intercultural learning while on study abroad. Assignments are submitted electronically (Sakai) to allow students in various study abroad sites around the world to discuss one another’s insights. Must be enrolled in a Pitzer Exchange Study Abroad Program. Half-credit course.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MLLC 111 PZ -Public Speaking


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Through readings, lectures, films and field study in the social sciences, students will explore contemporary global issues as the content base for developing proficiency in American academic speech behavior. Skills emphasized will include making formal presentations, leading and participating in discussions and sustaining narration on a range of topics. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MLLC 122 PZ -Critical Analysis Through Literature


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Short stories, essays and novels exploring a range of American experiences will provide a basis for students to develop an understanding of the social, political, historical and philosophical thought that informs this literature and the language needed to express an analysis of these works. Students must enroll in the corresponding First-Year Seminar (MLLC 177 PZ ). Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MLLC 144 PZ -Advanced Speech and Rhetoric: Argument and Debate


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Students will critique and present arguments in formal spoken English through debates, discussions and extemporaneous talks centered around contemporary issues. Models of argumentation will be analyzed. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MLLC 150 PZ -Foreign Language Pedagogy


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course is designed specifically for Foreign Language Residents at The Claremont Colleges. We will discuss second language acquisition and pedagogical theory, placement of students and proficiency assessment, classroom management and syllabus design. We will also study strategies to enliven and vary conversation classes in order to improve their students’ vocabulary, grammar, fluency, length and range of discourse and listening comprehension. Language Residents only.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MLLC 155 PZ -Writing Across the Curriculum.


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Further development in expository writing and oral expression of critical thinking through projects related to the content of a Pitzer companion course. Students must enroll concurrently in the companion course designated by the Pitzer Bridge program. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MLLC 166 PZ -Directed Research in American Culture


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Students explore American culture through field research and a volunteer internship in the community. They learn and apply community-based research techniques through surveys, interviews and participatory action research. Internship placements may include local schools and tutoring programs, community services agencies and environmental organizations. Reflective and report writing as well as oral presentations give students the opportunity to analyze and critically reflect on their experiences. The course is offered for variable credit. Written permission required. Letter grades only. Non-native speakers only.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • MLLC 177 PZ -Written Analysis


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: In this writing-intensive course, readings, discussions and writing assignments are focused on a specific theme in the humanities or social sciences. Students will write frequent essays and a research paper that demonstrate control of the most important conventions of American academic discourse. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only.

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

    Formerly: MLLC 133 PZ

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • PORT 001 PZ -Introductory Portuguese 1


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is the first of a two-semester introductory course in Brazilian Portuguese, using a communicative approach to language learning with an emphasis on interactive activities. Students will develop conversational skills, give short oral presentations, produce written descriptive and narrative paragraphs and work on listening and reading comprehension.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • PORT 002 PZ -Introductory Portuguese 2


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is the second of a two-semester introductory course in Brazilian Portuguese, using a communicative approach to language learning with an emphasis on interactive activities. Students will develop more advanced conversational skills, give oral presentations, write short essays of different types and work on listening and reading comprehension.

    Prerequisite(s): PORT001 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.

Munroe Center for Social Inquiry

  
  • MCSI 195 PZ -Center for Social Inquiry


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Topic for Spring 2014: Technology. One definition of “technology” might be “things people make and use to improve their experience and world.” From the wheel to the iPhone, some see the invention and use of technologies as forces towards human’s liberation or equality, while others understand technologies as reinforcing divisions in society. Does our understanding of who owns, builds, sells, and uses technology allow us to better understand how it shapes us as much as we shape it?

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

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

Music

  
  • MUS 003 SC -Fundamentals of Music


    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.
  
  • MUS 056 PO -Words and Music: Black Song


    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.
  
  • MUS 057 PO -Survey of Western Music


    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.
  
  • MUS 062 PO -Survey of American Music.


    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.
  
  • MUS 065 PO -Introduction to World Music


    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.
  
  • MUS 066 SC -Music Cultures of the World


    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.
  
  • MUS 081 JM -Introduction to Music: Sound and Meaning


    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.
  
  • MUS 110A SC -Music in Western 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.
  
  • MUS 110B SC -Music in Western 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.
  
  • MUS 112 SC -Intro to Ethnomusicology


    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.
  
  • MUS 126 SC -Music in East Asia and its American Diasporas


    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.
  
  • MUS 130 SC -Ryythm & the Latina Body Politic


    Institution: Scripps College

    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.
  
  • MUS 131 SC -Mariachi Performance and Culture


    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.
  
  • MUS 149 PO -Music Perception and Cognition


    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.
  
  • MUS 173A JM -Concert Choir: 1st & 2nd Year


    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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