Sep 23, 2024

2022-2023 Pitzer Catalog

2022-2023 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Media Studies
	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 173 HM -Exile in Cinema Institution: Harvey Mudd Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	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 001 PZ -American Sign Language 1 Institution: Pitzer Description: Fundamentals of American Sign Language. Preparation for visual/ gestural communication followed by intensive work on production and comprehension skills; modeling of grammatical structures; general information about Deaf Culture. One out-of-class observation required. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	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 their insights with a Pitzer faculty member. Must be enrolled in a Pitzer Exchange Study Abroad Program. P/NC only. Half-credit course. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	MLLC 111 PZ -Public Speaking Institution: Pitzer Description: Through readings, lectures, films and field study, 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. 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: Debate Institution: Pitzer Description: Students will research, craft and present arguments in formal spoken English through debates, discussions and extemporaneous talks centered around contemporary issues. Models of argumentation will be analyzed. Emphasis will be placed on evidence-based argument. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	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: This course provides further development in expository writing and oral expression of critical thinking through projects related to the content of a Pitzer companion course. Students must enroll concurrently in the companion course designated by the International Scholars program. Letter grades only. Written permission required. Non-native speakers only. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	MLLC 166 PZ -Directed Research in American Culture Institution: Pitzer Description: Students explore American culture through field research and a volunteer internship in the community. They learn and apply community-based research techniques through surveys, interviews and participatory action research. Internship placements may include local schools and tutoring programs, community services agencies and environmental organizations. Oral presentations as well as written reflections and reports give students the opportunity to analyze and critically consider on their experiences. The course is offered for variable credit. Written permission required. Letter grades only. Non-native speakers only. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	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.
	MLLC 188 PZ -Social Justice in the U.S. Institution: Pitzer Description: This survey course explores connections between contemporary social justice issues and historical events in the U.S. Designed for students who feel they do not yet have sufficient background knowledge about the U.S. context, the course will provide a safe and respectful environment for engaging with a variety of student leaders and affinity groups from across the Claremont Colleges. By gaining greater insight into uniquely American challenges and perspectives, students will be better prepared to think critically and communicate effectively about issues such as racism and classism in this country and to take full advantage of their interdisciplinary liberal arts education. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	PORT 001 PZ -Introductory Portuguese 1 Institution: Pitzer Description: This is the first of a two-semester introductory course in Brazilian Portuguese, using a communicative approach to language learning with an emphasis on interactive activities. Students will develop conversational skills, give short oral presentations, produce written descriptive and narrative paragraphs and work on listening and reading comprehension. This course is an ideal choice for students without a background in Spanish (or other Romance languages), students who have never taken a language course before, or those who wish to have more exposure to the language and a solid base in grammar before transitioning into the intermediate level. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	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.
	PORT 022 PZ -Intensive Introductory Portuguese Institution: Pitzer Description: Portuguese 22 is an Intensive elementary Portuguese course, designed for beginning students with some knowledge of Spanish (or another Romance language). The course builds on the similarities and differences between the two languages in terms of grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Students will complete the equivalent of a year’s study of Portuguese in one semester.
	PORT 033 PZ -Intermediate Portuguese Institution: Pitzer Description: Portuguese 33 is a continuation of the sequence PORT 01-02 or of PORT 022. In this course, the student will work on reinforcing basic skills in order to attain proficiency at an intermediate level. As a group, we also review some of the more complex aspects of the language, including preterit and imperfect, the subjunctive in all its forms, and the personal infinitive. The course emphasizes conversation during the class period, as well as readings related to the Brazilian cultural context and compositions where the students describe their own real life experiences in Portuguese. Prerequisite(s): Portuguese 2 or permission from the instructor. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	PORT 035 PZ -Portuguese Virtual Learning Community Institution: Pitzer Description: This course is a pilot project based on the experience of creating a virtual learning community for linguistic and cultural exchange in Portuguese and English with students at the UFRJ in Brazil and The Claremont Colleges. Students will be paired up with a conversation partner with whom they will have weekly written and oral exchange in English and Portuguese. Students will be able to exchange emails and hold skype conversations on their own schedule. We will provide a curricular structure for the exchange, which will include exchange stages, platforms and activities stressing specific vocabulary and grammar. There will be room for students from both countries to share topics and materials according to their own needs and interests. The ultimate goal of the community is to improve oral proficiency in the target languages through a meaningful experience of exchange. All levels welcome. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
Munroe Center for Social Inquiry
	MCSI 195 PZ -Divine Hiddenness and Human Suffering Institution: Pitzer Description: What are we to make of divine silence in the face of human suffering? Why does it present a serious intellectual challenge to believe in God? How does one reconcile human suffering and divine hiddenness? What is the relation between divine hiddenness and the problem of evil? In this seminar, we set to address these questions and others by examining different philosophical perspectives that pertain to different theological traditions (mainly Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) and to nonbelievers. In addition, we explore different philosophical accounts of the concept of human suffering and its relation to human existence. Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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 Note: A half-course credit per semester may be awarded for music ensemble. Credit for individual music instruction may be awarded at the rate of half-course credit for a half-hour weekly lesson per semester, or full-course credit for an hour weekly lesson per semester. Pomona College awards one-quarter course credit for ensemble and half hour weekly lesson. Students who take a music major offered at Scripps or Pomona College are expected to meet the major requirements specified by the College at which the major is taken.
	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 120 SC -Music in Christian Practice 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.
	MUS 173B 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.
	MUS 174A JM -Chamber 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.
	MUS 174B JM -Chamber 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.
	MUS 175A JM -Concert Orchestra: 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.
	MUS 175B JM -Concert Orchestra: 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.
Critical Action + Social Advocacy
	CASA 078 PZ -Voter Engagement & The New Left Institution: Pitzer Description: Students will study new voter engagement strategies, practices and theory from the Howard Dean, Obama, Sanders and Clinton campaigns and will do community engagement with organizations running grassroots voter engagement campaigns in the area. The class will be based on readings and research that has been carried out about voter engagement strategies. Reading and research will be supported by speakers working on local,statewide and national campaigns, both for candidates and non-partisan voter initiatives. Students will supplement classroom-based learning with hands on experience on concrete electoral campaigns. Students will choose from community engagement opportunities with local and statewide organizations working on voter engagement with strategies informed by the new left. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	CASA 101 PZ -Critical Community Studies Institution: Pitzer Description: This course explores current movements, theories and narratives centered around critical issues in our local communities as well as focuses on theories and approaches to social service and social change and the tensions between them. The course will apply theory to practice through interdisciplinary scholarship, in-class dialogues, critical reflection and analysis, experiential learning, and direct engagement with local change-making organizations and movements. The course’s theoretical frameworks are grounded in a cross section of disciplines, including contributions from cultural studies, critical education theory, psychology, sociology and anthropology. Course praxis (theory + action +critical reflection) will play out in large part through the program’s intensive practicum, class fieldtrips and workshops that exemplify that which we study. Through this course, students will engage in hands-on applications of community-based education and become aware of local knowledge, assets, and approaches to social change. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	CASA 104 PZ -Social Change Practicum Institution: Pitzer Description: This class explores community building, positionality, and social change through engagement with texts, interactive activities, guest speakers and field trips. We critically examine intersections between charity, service, social justice, activism, and academia through writing, discussion, and praxis. The course requires a fifteen-hour per week internship or other suitable community work that furthers Ontario-based social change efforts. Partnerships have been established with numerous organizations in the local area. 1.5 credits. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	CASA 105 PZ -Research Methods for Community Change Institution: Pitzer Description: Research Methods for Community Change is an introduction to diverse approaches to qualitative inquiry, from ethnography to participatory action and project-based research. Our course combines a classic “toolkit” approach to qualitative methods with the praxis of community-building and social change. We examine current debates, ethical dilemmas, and theoretical approaches to research in community settings. A distinctive and vital component of ONT105 is the intensive research internship and community immersion experience-a 125-hour commitment over the course of the semester. Students are partnered with grassroots organizations working to address issues that directly affect communities in the Inland Empire. Internship topics include immigration, education, incarceration, environmental justice, community health, and labor rights. In collaboration with a partner organization, students design and complete project- and community-based action research and share these as part of the culminating course assignment. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	CASA 106 PZ -Applied Qualitative Methods Institution: Pitzer Description: This course constructs the bride between academia and activism through practice-based research. The study of diverse aspects of qualitative inquiry culminates in the execution of a complete applied research project. We explore the role, responsibilities and ethics of an applied researcher, reviewing various types of inquiry that fall under the umbrella of qualitative research (i.e., ethnography, participatory action, narrative inquiry, participant-observation, applied research). Students directly impact not only their own intellectual knowledge base, but crucial social issues in the world around them. Students leave the course with a strong foundation to carry out systematic research using focus groups, ethnography and person-centered interviews. 1 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.
	CASA 110 PZ -Healing Arts and Social Change Institution: Pitzer Description: This course focuses on the intersection of the healing arts, academia, and activism, bridging personal transformation and social change. The course’s interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks (including cultural studies, feminist methodologies, indigenous studies, and social movement theory) offer diverse strategies for engaging the healing arts as a vehicle for self-realization and community empowerment. Students will engage in self-expression, self-discovery and community-building through creative writing, dance, music, art and meditation. Half of the course will take place on site at a local prison where students will engage in a shared educational journey with the inmates, thus exploring how our built environments (the prison and college campus) impact our resources, access and ability to negotiate practices for individual transformation and social change. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	CASA 170 PZ -Social Change Partnerships Institution: Pitzer Description: CASA 170 is designed to involve students in local social change movements. The course acts as a preparatory class for students who wish to take the full Ontario Program in a later semester, as a post-class for those who have already taken the program, or as a class in which students can test the waters of local community engagement. The course requires between 5-7 hours per week in Ontario Program internships at Huerta del Valle community garden and food hub, the Wheelhouse Bicycle Coalition, Inland Congregations United for Change education/youth organizing, Warehouse Workers United labor organizing, Justice for Immigrants Coalition policy organizing, and Immigrant Youth Coalition youth organizing. The course examines different models and philosophies of organizing, building coalitions between higher education and community groups, and ethical ways of engaging in local environments around food, transportation, labor, education, and immigrant justice issues in the Inland Empire. Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission is required. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements. Formerly: Advanced Research Practicum For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
Organizational Studies
	ORST 050 PZ -Organizational Life Institution: Pitzer Description: This course highlights life in organizations using a variety of theoretical lenses to explore important factors operating in this context. Students will investigate individual, social and societal influences present in organizations and apply knowledge gained from these studies to analyze relevant cases and better understand their own experience. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	ORST 100 PZ -Organizational Theory Institution: Pitzer Description: Think of theory as a lens or perspective that shapes how we understand the myriad ways in which people and institutions organize groups and work settings. Each theory simultaneously illuminates and obscures, shedding light on key features while overlooking others. Our goal is to apply theory to a variety of organizations, so theat we may ‘see’ and interpret them (and ourselves) in new and unexpected ways. Prerequisite(s): One social science course or consent 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.
	ORST 103 PZ -Leadership and Social Change Institution: Pitzer Description: This course provides an overview of organizational theory, behavior and change and an introduction to several different leadership theories and pedagogies. During the course of the semester, students in the class will: a) explore and articulate their individual values and strengths as a leader; b) learn how to partner their strengths with others to enhance each other’s leadership abilities; and c) act on their values and strengths to create meaningful and sustainable change in their communities. The course is designed for students who are interested in leadership and organizational change, and those who are considering majoring in Organizational Studies Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	ORST 105 PZ -Cases in Management of Organizations Institution: Pitzer Description: This course is a case method approach that focuses on identifying and analyzing problems in organizational behavior, structure, design and change. Each week a case will be assigned and discussed in class along with related reference materials which pertain to the special problems of that case. Prerequisite(s): ORST 100 PZ or ORST 135 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.
	ORST 106 PZ -Global Aspects of Leadership Institution: Pitzer College Description: Provides students with an opportunity to explore theories of organizational leadership and leadership as a response to the demands of 21st century inter- and multicultural life in organizations. From classical leadership theory to modern dilemmas, investigates leadership as a role, as a responsibility and as a way of being. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	ORST 110 PZ -Directed Fieldwork in Organizations Institution: Pitzer Description: Students participate in mentored internships in a wide variety of organizations. Also, a seminar with supporting readings meets weekly. Students will be expected to collect data about the organization and present a diagnosis of a specific organizational problem or theme with suggested solutions. Prerequisite(s): ORST 100 PZ or ORST 135 PZ. and PSYC 135 CM 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.
	ORST 112 PZ -Research in Organizations Institution: Pitzer Description: This course is designed as an introduction to methods used in answering research questions in organizations. Students will use a sampling of methods to explore research practices, learn the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches, and formulate their own research 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.
	ORST 120 PZ -Politics of Organizational Culture Institution: Pitzer Description: Focus is on organizational culture, meaning and symbols as represented in stories, photography and oral histories of workplaces. We will sample some fictional works, some descriptive social science and some empirical research on organizational behavior, ergonomics and careers. Each student will prepare a project about an ongoing workgroup. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Formerly: Manufacturing Tales For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	ORST 135 PZ -Organizational Behavior Institution: Pitzer Description: We will investigate individual, group and structural factors that work to influence patterns of behavior in organizations. The course will incorporate a variety of methods designed to highlight important issues in the field and students will be expected to work through individual and group projects related to the area. Prerequisite(s): ORST 100 PZ and/or PSYC 103 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements. Note(s): Psych Majors: Satisfies SOC For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	ORST 145 PZ -Small Group Processes Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will investigate the effects of group contexts on leadership, cooperation, competition, creativity and risk taking. Special emphasis will be placed on group development, interactional analysis and communication. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 103 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements. Note(s): Psych Majors: Satisfies SOC For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	ORST 148 PZ -The Nature of Work Institution: Pitzer Description: This course explores psychological issues related to the changing nature of work. With a primary focus on the human side of organizational life, we will examine how changes in technology, international relations and social expectations shape present and future understanding of work in our contemporary world. Prerequisite(s): ORST 100 PZ and ORST 135 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.
	ORST 155 PZ -Decisions and Administration Institution: Pitzer Description: Seminar on the contributions of James G. March and his mentor Herbert Simon to the understanding of “how decisions happen.” We will discuss a variety of writings by March and his students, case studies, March’s poetry, and illustrative films that draw on research and observation in many kinds of organizations. Prerequisite(s): ORST 100 PZ and ORST 135 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.
	ORST 160 PZ -Corporate Social Responsibility and the Corporation Institution: Pitzer Description: Issues include the structure of large corporations and how they advance particular social, political and economic agendas; corporate strategies; how companies cope with industrial accidents, human rights, sustainability, ethical questions and the responsibilities of corporate boards. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	ORST 161 PZ -College Inside-Out Institution: Pitzer Description: College Inside-Out represents some of our greatest aspirations: to develop our passions, deepen our knowledge, find lasting friendships, give back to our families and communities, and, ultimately, land a good job doing what we love. College also represents some of our greatest challenges. As individuals, we may face anxiety, self-doubt, and isolation. As a community, diverse life experiences, socioeconomic backgrounds, and beliefs may clash, with no easy solutions. We are challenged when our aspirations are unmet and our imaginations unrealized. How can colleges craft responses to foster the promise of higher education–from opportunity and social mobility to inclusion and pluralism? What more can and should be done? Through course materials, in conjunction with our own experiences and analysis, we will situate the institution of higher education within the broader context of American society, politics, and the economy. As part of our collective journey this semester, we will practice a variety of learning modalities, including student-driven discussion, informal in-class writing, formal (out-of-class) writing, and group projects. Throughout, we will practice knowledge construction as a communal process rooted in open dialog, thoughtful analysis, intellectual curiosity, and self-reflection. NOTE: This course is held at a level Il men’s prison in Norco, CA. A required $15 course fee covers the cost of a whistle and t-shirt, to be worn during all class sessions. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	ORST 163 PZ -Organizational Aspects of Education Institution: Pitzer Description: This course will focus on understanding the educational system through the lens of organizational systems. Through the exploration of organizational literature and its application to current school issues, we hope to better understand the interconnected activities faced by the educational system. Prerequisite(s): ORST 100 PZ and ORST 135 PZ or instructor 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.
	ORST 166 PZ -Adavnced Oraganization Theory & Leadership Institution: Pitzer College Description: This course is aimed at providing students with an opportunity to explore organizations as systems and managerial, technical, structural, and cultural subsystems as they relate to the broader environment. The course examines the interactions among human resources, technologies, organization design, external forces, and management practices from a macro-organization perspective thus providing the foundation for learning how to conduct a well-grounded organizational analysis. Building on diverse models of organizaion design and management, including mechanistic/bureaucratic, human relations, political, open systems, complexity, and sustainability, analytical tools from each model will be introduced and practiced in a multi-contingency approach to organizational design. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	ORST 170 PZ -Science and Technology in Organizations Institution: Pitzer College Description: With this course, students will examine scientific and technological changes in organizations in light of the econominc, cultural, and political systtems within which they have developed, asking: How do innovations take place? Why does one advancement earn prominence over others? What have been the repercussions of transformative breakthroughs? We will discuss scientific, systematic, and product design in particular.
	ORST 177 PZ -Seminar in Organizational Communication Institution: Pitzer Description: We will investigate aspects of communication within organizational systems, with a special focus on psychological characteristics, relationship dynamics, and the impact of changing technologies. Theoretical views of communicative behavior will be discussed first, followed by an investigation of topical issues within this growing field. The course should provide the foundation for further investigation related to what one might observe in an organization, and various prescriptive points of view will also be discussed. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. Formerly: PSCY/ORST 177C PZ For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	ORST 192 PZ -Negotiating Conflict Institution: Pitzer Description: Considers some of the theoretical and practical issues involved when people as individuals, groups, or organizations try to resolve disagreements. Areas considered include interpersonal and family conflict, legal dispute, contracts and public private collaborative arrangements arbitration, mediation, and forms of alternative dispute resolutions. We consider a wide variety of cases. Students will gain experience negotiating difficult situations. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	ORST 198 PZ -Topics on Organizations Institution: Pitzer Description: This course offers an in-depth examination of change processes, models and leadership required for organizational transformation. This course adopts an “action learning” perspective whereby learning is best achieved through practice and reflection on that practice. Topics include approaches to change management, organization learning, consulting skills and organization development. Prerequisite(s): Orst 100 and Orst 135 or equivalents. 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.
	ORST 198B PZ -Authoritatian Institutions Institution: Pitzer Description: Using popular literary, film, and news sources,we will explore and analyze non-democratic systems in the world today. Our goal is to develop theoretical lenses for understanding the formal and informal organizations that undergird authoritarian regimes, as well as collective forces that may challenge them. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
	ORST 198C PZ -Advanced Research Topics Institution: Pitzer Description: This seminar will introduce students to issues related to the creation and management of individual research projects leading to their senior thesis. Each student will propose, design and draft the initial sections of their thesis project and present their initial work at the end of the semester. Students enroll in ORST199 in the spring semester to complete their thesis. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal. Please check course schedule for requirements.
	ORST 199 PZ -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.
Philosophy
	PHIL 001 PO -Problems of Philosophy 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.
	PHIL 002 PO -Introduction to Ethics 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.
	PHIL 005 PO -Gods, Humans and Justice in 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.
	PHIL 007 PO -Discovery, Invention and Progress Institution: Pomona College Description: Discovery, Invention and Progress: Philosophy of Science and Technology. Introduction to the philosophy of science and technology. Addresses issues such as the difference between science and pseudoscience, how to facilitate objectivity and rationality in science and technology and evaluation of the neutrality thesis, the view that technology is a neutral instrument that can be used for good or ill. 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.
	PHIL 007 PZ -Introduction to Philosophy Institution: Pitzer Description: What’s so great about thinking and knowledge? In the course of the semester, we will investigate that value of a philosophical life by taking a journey through the history of Western philosophy, from Socrates & Plato to Sartre. Along the way, we will consider perennial philosophical questions about the nature of justice, the relationship between mind & body, free will, the problem of evil and arguments for the existence of God. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	PHIL 030 PO -Knowledge, Mind and Existence 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.
	PHIL 030 PZ -Knowledge, Mind and Existence Institution: Pitzer Description: Introduction to some of the central issues regarding the nature of knowledge, the mind and reality. Topics to be discussed include skepticism, the analysis of knowledge, theories of epistemic justification, the nature of consciousness and subjectivity, mental causation, dualism, reductive and non-reductive physicalism, proofs for the existence of God, and personal identity. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	PHIL 031 PZ -Ethical Theory: Ancient to Early Modern Institution: Pitzer Description: For couse info, please see the 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.
	PHIL 032 PO -Ethical Theory: Contemporary 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.
	PHIL 033 PO -Political Philosophy 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.
	PHIL 034 PO -Philosophy of Law 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.
	PHIL 035 PO -Normative Ethics 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.
	PHIL 036 PO -Environmental Ethics 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.
	PHIL 037 PO -Values and the Environment Institution: Pomona Description: Values & the Environment has a wider scope than an environmental ethics course. Specific topics to be discussed will vary, but will usually include examining the implications of choices in housing policies; food and dietary decisions and practices, and the question of who (and what) has moral standing (only humans? Humans and nonhuman animals? Trees? Mountains? Ecosystems?). Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	PHIL 038 PO -Bioethics Institution: Pomona Description: Focuses on issues and themes in the conduct of scientific research and the application of its results and about the nature and practice of medicine. One year we may explore the conceptual underpinnings that help us understand and assess the efficacy and morality of medical treatment. Another year, the orientation of the course may be more policy-centered. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	PHIL 040 PO -Ancient Philosophy Institution: Pomona Description: Origins of Western philosophy through reading and discussion of its classical sources, including the Presocratics, Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics, Plato and Aristotle. Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements. For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
	PHIL 042 PO -History of Modern Philosophy 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.
	PHIL 043 PZ -Continental Thought Institution: Pitzer Description: Beginning with a review of Kant, German idealism (Fichte through Hegel), Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida will be considered. Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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Courses

MS 137 PZ -Media Archives

MS 147B PO -Body, Representation, Desire

MS 149A PO -Marxism & Cultural Studies

MS 173 HM -Exile in Cinema

MS 175 PZ -Contemporary Animation Practice

MS 182 HM -Introduction to Video Production

MS 190 JT -Senior Seminar

MS 191 JT -Senior Thesis

MS 192 JT -Senior Projects

MS 193 PZ -Directed Reading in Media

MS 194 PZ -Media Arts for Social Justice

MS 196 PZ -Media Internship

MS 197 PZ -Media Praxis

MS 198 PZ -Advanced Media Project

MLLC 001 PZ -American Sign Language 1

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

MLLC 110 PZ -Intercultural Learning Portfolio

MLLC 111 PZ -Public Speaking

MLLC 122 PZ -Critical Analysis Through Literature

MLLC 144 PZ -Advanced Speech and Rhetoric: Debate

MLLC 150 PZ -Foreign Language Pedagogy

MLLC 155 PZ -Writing Across the Curriculum.

MLLC 166 PZ -Directed Research in American Culture

MLLC 177 PZ -Written Analysis

MLLC 188 PZ -Social Justice in the U.S.

PORT 001 PZ -Introductory Portuguese 1

PORT 002 PZ -Introductory Portuguese 2

PORT 022 PZ -Intensive Introductory Portuguese

PORT 033 PZ -Intermediate Portuguese

PORT 035 PZ -Portuguese Virtual Learning Community

MCSI 195 PZ -Divine Hiddenness and Human Suffering

MUS 003 SC -Fundamentals of Music

MUS 056 PO -Words and Music: Black Song

MUS 057 PO -Survey of Western Music

MUS 062 PO -Survey of American Music.

MUS 065 PO -Introduction to World Music

MUS 066 SC -Music Cultures of the World

MUS 081 JM -Introduction to Music: Sound and Meaning

MUS 110A SC -Music in Western Civilization

MUS 110B SC -Music in Western Civilization

MUS 112 SC -Intro to Ethnomusicology

MUS 120 SC -Music in Christian Practice

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

MUS 130 SC -Ryythm & the Latina Body Politic

MUS 131 SC -Mariachi Performance and Culture

MUS 149 PO -Music Perception and Cognition

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

MUS 173B JM -Concert Choir: 1st & 2nd Year

MUS 174A JM -Chamber Choir: 1st & 2nd Year

MUS 174B JM -Chamber Choir: 1st & 2nd Year

MUS 175A JM -Concert Orchestra: 1st & 2nd Year

MUS 175B JM -Concert Orchestra: 1st & 2nd Year

CASA 078 PZ -Voter Engagement & The New Left

CASA 101 PZ -Critical Community Studies

CASA 104 PZ -Social Change Practicum

CASA 105 PZ -Research Methods for Community Change

CASA 106 PZ -Applied Qualitative Methods

CASA 110 PZ -Healing Arts and Social Change

CASA 170 PZ -Social Change Partnerships

ORST 050 PZ -Organizational Life

ORST 100 PZ -Organizational Theory

ORST 103 PZ -Leadership and Social Change

ORST 105 PZ -Cases in Management of Organizations

ORST 106 PZ -Global Aspects of Leadership

ORST 110 PZ -Directed Fieldwork in Organizations

ORST 112 PZ -Research in Organizations

ORST 120 PZ -Politics of Organizational Culture

ORST 135 PZ -Organizational Behavior

ORST 145 PZ -Small Group Processes

ORST 148 PZ -The Nature of Work

ORST 155 PZ -Decisions and Administration

ORST 160 PZ -Corporate Social Responsibility and the Corporation

ORST 161 PZ -College Inside-Out

ORST 163 PZ -Organizational Aspects of Education

ORST 166 PZ -Adavnced Oraganization Theory & Leadership

ORST 170 PZ -Science and Technology in Organizations

ORST 177 PZ -Seminar in Organizational Communication

ORST 192 PZ -Negotiating Conflict

ORST 198 PZ -Topics on Organizations