2022-2023 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PHIL 052 PZ -Philosophy of Religion
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The philosophy of religion is concerned with philosophical reflection on a broad range of questions concerning religious belief. In this course, we will examine how philosophers reflected upon religious themes such as the existence and nature of God, the problem of evil, faith and reason, religious experience, personal identity, immortality of the soul and death, and religious pluralism. The main goal of this course is to give students an opportunity to investigate substantive issues of religious nature and to assess the role that philosophical reflection plays in such an investigation.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): RLST Majors: PRT
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PHIL 060 PO -Logic
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 070 PO -Art & Aesthetics
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 071 PO -History of Aesthetics
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 074 PZ -Power and Politics in Art
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In the past century, art has become interwoven with neoliberalism and late capitalism. Yet, some contend, artistic creation has never been the pure expression of individual genius, nor has the reception of art ever been immune to the influences of ideology. If artists are not independent self-knowers, but rather products of socially constructed effects of power, to what extent do they have control over their work? If objective certainty is a myth, how do we judge good art from bad? If the cult of the ‘genius’ is a product of patriarchy, how do we conceive of creative expression? How do forms of new media influence consciousness and political action? This course will consider these questions using twentieth-century and contemporary European philosophy, including post-structuralism, French feminism, and the Frankfurt School.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 080 PO -Philosophy of Mind
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 081 PO -Epistemology: Truth, Justification, Knowledge
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 084 PZ -Islamic Philosophy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is a survey of the history of philosophy in the Islamic world. As a historical evolution of Greek Philosophy, Islamic philosophy synthesizes both the Aristotelian and the Post-Plotinian traditions in an independent way. From the ninth century to the present day, a set of philosophical topics has been systematically discussed and developed by philosophers in the Islamic world. We will discuss topics including the divine attribute and essence, the origin and the nature of the universe, the relation between philosophy and religion, the existence and faculties of the soul, the idea of the philosopher king, Skepticism, what is Islam, the concept of humanity in Islam, mysticism, the problem of good and evil, women and the Quran. Through selective readings of philosophical texts, we will introduce the main figures, including al-Farabi, Avicenna, al-Ghazali, Averreos, al-Razi, Ibn Tufayl, Arkoun, Shari’ati, Nasr Abu Zayd, and Amina Wadud.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): RLST Majors: PRT, MES
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PHIL 096 JT -God and Philosophy: A Conflict in Reason
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): RLST Majors: PRT
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PHIL 096 PZ -God and Philosophy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An examination of philosophical reasoning pertaining to belief in, and the concept of God in the Monotheistic traditions
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 103 PO -Philosophy of Science: Historical Survey
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 104 PO -Philosophy of Science: Topical Survey
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 106 PO -Philosophy of Biology
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 125 HM -Ethical Issues in Science and Engineering
Institution: Harvey Mudd
Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 125 PZ -History of the Self
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Contemporary Americans tend to take for granted that we have a ‘self,’ but a closer look reveals to most of us that we don’t know what the self is. Moreover, it’s unclear that there is such a thing as a self, and whether it is a necessary idea. In this course, we will consider a variety of theories of selfhood from the history of Anglo-European philosophy in order to put pressure on contemporary assumptions about selfhood. Thinkers studied will include Augustine, Montaigne, Butler, Foucault, James, and Taylor. The course will utilize philosophical and historical methods in order to analyze critically the ways that our present-day understandings of the self are conditioned by the past.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 130 PZ -Monkey Business: Controversies in Human Evolution
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Ever since Darwin first posited a plausible mechanism for evolution, scientists and non-scientists alike have used his ideas to support their own concepts about the nature of human nature. In class, we will examine the history, concepts and philosophy behind Darwin’s ideas, exploring in the process the fields of sociobiology, cognitive psychology, and primatology, among others. We will also consider the relationship between development and evolution as we attempt to build an understanding of Darwin’s mechanism that is free of the confused notions that have become attached to it over the years.
Prerequisite(s): A college-level course in at least one of the following three areas: psychology, philosophy, or biology, or permission of the instructor. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: PSYC 130 PZ
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PHIL 153 PZ -Care of the Self
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Contemporary U.S. society praises the idea of ‘self-care’. Individuals are encouraged to care for themselves through expensive health regimens, self-help books, and quasi-spiritual practices, spurred by phrases such as “treat yourself” and “be true to yourself.” This course will consider the nature of self-care from ancient societies to the present day. Guiding questions include: Who am I, and how should I treat myself? What is the relation between self-care and self-knowledge? How is it possible to change or improve oneself, if at all? What does self-love look like? Does self-care promote the greater good of society or detract from it by promoting selfishness?
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 155 PZ -Islam vs. Islam
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In this course we will examine the major theological/philosophical traditions: the “rationalist” and the “traditionalist,” that emerged in early Islamic history and continues to exist to the present day. In the course of the examination, we will see how these two traditions FUNDAMENTALLY disagree on how to determine the nature of God, the status of the Quran, the significance of the prophetic tradition, and the roles of human reason on Muslim society. We will investigate these topics in the writings of thinkers from the classic period to the present-day, such as al-Ash’ari, al-Baqilani, al-Qadi, al-Ghazali, Aricenna, Averroes, Ibn Taymiyyah ‘Abd al-Wahab, etc.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): RLST Majors: HRT II, MES
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PHIL 170 SC -Faith and Reason
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Note(s): PRT
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PHIL 185C PZ -Topics in Philosophy of Cognitive Science: Senses
Institution: Pitzer College
Description: What is the nature of the sensory modalities? If one were to posit a new, “sixth” sense, what evidence would be required to establish such a claim? How many senses are there and how many senses do “normal” humans have? What is the sensory life of those who have more or fewer senses than the average, neurotypical person? This will be an interdisciplinary exploration, touching on philosophy, history of science, sensory anthropology, sensory psychology, neurobiology and the study of artificial senses (cyborgs). In addition to writing assignments, there will also be hands-on engagement with the senses in a lab session each wee
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PHIL 185L PO -Topics in Epistemology, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 185N JT -Topics in Neurophilosophy
Institution: Pitzer & Scripps
Description: This course is an examination of selected issues at the intersection of contemporary philosophy and neuroscience. Topics may include the philosophical, theoretical, and empirical bases of social (cognitive) neuroscience; the neurobiology of belief attribution and “mind-reading”; the metaphysical relationship between the mind and the brain; the nature of sensory modalities; as well as the bearing of the neurosciences on issues in the theory of action.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 185S PO -Topics in Social and Political Philosophy
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 186H PO -Topics in History of Modern Philosophy
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 186K PO -Kant
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 186S PO -Spinoza and Leibniz on Reality
Institution: Pomona
Description: In this course we will investigate some core topics in Western Modern Philosophy by examining the thoughts of Spinoza (1632-1677) and Leibniz (1646-1716). We will be introduced to the central metaphysical, epistemological, and moral claims of Spinoza and Leibniz through reading primary texts. Claims pertaining to the nature and the constitution of reality, the problem of infinity and unity, the existence of non-physical entities, e.g., God, the free will problem, the mind-body Problem, and the theory of causation. We will address questions such as: What is the nature of the universe? Is its existence necessary? Are the laws of nature causally or logically necessary? Do humans exercise free will? What is the relation between God and the universe?
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 187C PO -Tutorial in Ancient Philosophy
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHIL 191 PZ -Senior Thesis
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Students work individually with faculty to identify an area of interest and define a topic to investigate. The research project results in a thesis to be submitted in writing to the Philosophy Department.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PPE 160 PO -Freedom, Markets and Well-Being
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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Physics |
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PHYS 017 PO -Physics in Society
Institution: Pomona
Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 030L KS -General Physics for the Life Sciences
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 031L KS -General Physics for the Life Sciences
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 033L KS -Principles of Physics
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 034L KS -Principles of Physics
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 035 KS -Modern Physics with Computational Applications
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 080 HM -Topics in Physics
Institution: Harvey Mudd
Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 100 KS -Computational Physics & Engineering
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 101 KS -Classical Mechanics with Computational Applications
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 102 KS -Electromagnetism
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 105 KS -Computational Partial Differential Equations
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 106L KS -Electronics Laboratory
Institution: Scripps College
Description: For course information, please see Scripps College catalog.
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PHYS 108 KS -Programming for Science and Engineering
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 114 KS -Quantum Mechanics with Computational Applications
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 115 KS -Statistical Physics with Computational Applications
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 178 KS -Biophysics
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 187 KS -Special Topics in Physics
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 188L KS -Senior Thesis Research Project in Physics
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 190L KS -Senior Thesis Research Project in Physics, Second Semester
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 191 KS -One Semester Thesis in Physics
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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PHYS 196 KS -Natural Science Research I (0.25 credit)
Institution: Keck Science
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PHYS 197 KS -Natural Science Research (.05 credit)
Institution: Keck Science
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PHYS 199 KS -Independent Study in Physics
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 114 SC -Islam and Politics in the Middle East: Rulers, Reforms, and Radicals
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps Catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 116 SC -The Politics of God
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps Catalog.
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POLI 119 SC -Public Policy in the European Union
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLI 153 SC -Environmental Policy in the U.S.
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POLO 116 SC -The Politics of God
Institution: Scripps
Description: For course info, please see Scripps Catalog.
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POST 010A PZ -Introduction to Political Studies: Political Philosophy and U.S. Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An introduction to the study of politics and its subfields of political philosophy and U.S. politics. Concepts examined include human nature and power, community and the state, citizenship and rights, authority and legitimacy, freedom and equality, democracy and justice. Required of Political Studies majors; also serves as an appropriate course for other students interested in politics.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 010B PZ -Introduction to Political Studies: Global and Comparative
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An introduction to the study of politics and its sub fields of comparative politics and international and global affairs. The course explores how different peoples, classes, cultures and nations organize themselves politically for common purposes and for addressing conflicts. Required of Political Studies majors; also serves as an appropriate course for other students interested in politics.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 020 PZ -U.S. Politics: Resistance and Transformation
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This class explores American democracy and politics through the perspective of politically marginalized groups. This is a radical departure from standard American politics courses that tend to emphasize the role of political elites in drafting the US Constitution and shaping the nation’s politics. The traditional approach is understandable considering that most minority groups were barred from participating in politics until the passage of the voting rights act of 1965. Democratic institutions, norms and values are broadened when marginalized groups demand and gain inclusion. This class examines the political contributions of minority groups in shaping and broadening American democracy.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 030 PZ -Comparative Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This introductory course focuses on explaining political events and processes- like civil war, regime change, revolution, and development- that we regularly read and hear about in the news. Empirically, the course deals with a variety of countries, including those in which Pitzer has study abroad and international exchange programs.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 040 PZ -International Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the history and theory of international politics. The course is divided into three roughly equal-sized sections. The first section offers an introduction to the two philosophical/theoretical traditions in international relations thought: rationalism (and its realist and liberal variants) and social constructivism (and its statist and global variants). The second section covers a series of significant periods in international political history from the emergence of the modern system of states in Europe in the sixteenth century to the end of the Cold War. The third section investigates various issues in contemporary international politics.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 050 PZ -Introduction to Political Philosophy: Political Thought East and West
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The study of political philosophy focuses on broad assumptions concerning human nature and the character of community organizations that regulate activities and seek to promote happiness. These assumptions, structures and goals vary through time and across cultures. This class examines the texts of major theorists representing European, Chinese, Islamic, and Indian political thought and compares their arguments concerning the nature of freedom, justice, equality, authority and responsibility among other fundamental concepts.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 060 PZ -Introduction to Public Policy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course provides an overview of the processes and politics of policy-making in the United States. We will explore normative issues of equity and efficiency, consider advantages and disadvantages of policy-making in different venues (courts, legislatures, bureaucracies) and explore the different perspectives on the policy-making held by various actors.
Prerequisite(s): POST 010A PZ or equivalent. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
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POST 070 PZ -Research Methods in Political Studies
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course explores the methods employed in political studies research. The two primary goals of the course are: 1) to provide new analytic tools that will help in the critical evaluation of social science material; and 2) to improve students’ ability to pose and answer research questions on their own.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 091 PZ -Statistics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: An introduction to the statistical tools used in the quantitative analysis of economic and political relationships. Topics include probability theory, statistical estimation, hypothesis testing and regression analysis.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
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POST 096 PZ -Social & Political Justice
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What is justice? This seemingly simple question has elicited complex responses. Based on their notions of social and political justice, people have developed laws, formed institutions, created political communities, and waged wars. In this seminar, we explore the implications of these debates for contemporary political communities in local and global contexts. Questions include: what makes a political, moral, social or religious order just? Are there certain principles of justice that people across cultural and political boundaries agree upon? How can these debates help us become more informed, engaged, and responsible citizens in our respective communities?
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POST 098A CH -Applied Urban Politics I
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Applied Urban Politics I (fall semester) and Applied Urban Politics II (spring semester) are sequenced courses designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of city/urban politics through course content and internships with government agencies in Pomona, California.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 098B CH -Applied Urban Politics II
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Applied Urban Politics I (fall semester) and Applied Urban Politics II (spring semester) are sequenced courses designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of city/urban politics through course content and internships with government agencies in Pomona, California.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 101 PZ -US Campaigns and Elections
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This class addresses why individuals participate in U.S. elections, the factors that influence their voting decisions, and the role of campaigns in this process. You will learn to work with election data, develop a campaign strategy for a candidate, and design a get out the vote drive.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 102 PZ -Seminar on Women in Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The course treats the role of gender in politics and policy-making in the United States. The class is divided into four sections. In the first section, we examine women’s movements and developments in women’s rights from legal, historical, and political perspectives. The second section explores women’s political behavior including attitudes, voting patterns, and campaign strategies. The third section addresses women as political office holders and includes discussions of how women approach representation and policy formation. In this section, we consider “women’s issues” and investigate how certain policies affect women. The final section consists of student presentations on their term paper research. Throughout the course, we will explore such themes as the relationship (or lack thereof) between substantive and descriptive representation, the intersections between gender politics and racial and ethnic politics, and the status of women under law (de jure) and in practice (de facto). This course is cross-listed with Gender and Feminist 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.
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POST 102 PZ -Women and Public Policy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The purpose of the course is twofold: to generally understand how gendered views are deeply embedded within the public policy context; and to explore how implicit and explicit views about gender impact different policy issues. The course material is divided into three parts: 1. Introduction to the policy process, 2. Impact of gender views on women’s citizenship status, and 3. How these views affect decision-making in different policy domains, including those that are not explicitly gendered. The approach will be intersectional, given that women are a far from monolithic category.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 103 PZ -Power and Participation in American Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course explores problems at the forefront of American politics, with an emphasis on active political participation. Questions include: How sould young people practice politics? Has civic participation become debilitated? Should we just poll people instead of holding elections? Should there be a military draft? Why are corporations so powerful?
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 104 PZ -Campaigns and Parties Practicum: Candidates and Party Building (previously taught as 104A and 104B)
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This module of the campaign and parties practicum prepares students to undertake internships in a political party or electoral campaign over the summer. Topics covered include campaign management, grassroots party building, candidate-constituency relations, women candidates, campaign finance, and advocacy groups of the left and right. Students are expected to take POST104B PZ after completing their internship and upon returning to campus in the Fall.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 105 PZ -American Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course covers a variety of issues at the forefront of political debate in the United States. It is a reading and writing intensive course. Readings come predominantly from leading intellectual journals and recent books. Students will be expected to write several short essays on the issues covered in the course such as the southernization of national politics, the privatization of the social safety net, the militarization of U.S. foreign policy, corporate and political corruption, economic polarization, the erosion of civil and human rights, the promise and limits of deliberative democracy, the state of the environment, the political influence of religious fundamentalists, homophobia in U.S. political culture, the aftermath of campaign finance reform, increasing government secrecy, polarization of the electorate, the rightward drift of the federal courts, and the “Texasization” of the U.S. education policy.
Prerequisite(s): An introductory course in politics or American Studies is recommended, but not required. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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POST 106 PZ -Law and Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course examines the intersection of law, politics, and policy in the American context. Combining normative and empirical approaches, we will investigate theories of statutory interpretation, the opportunities and pitfalls of legal advocacy, the relationship between litigation and legislation, and the nature of judicial policy-making.
Prerequisite(s): POST 060 PZ or POST 010A PZ (or other intro policy or intro to American politics course) 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.
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POST 107 CH -Latino Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The role of Latinos in the American political process will be examined. Latino political empowerment movements will be analyzed, with a focus on political culture/voter participation; organizational development in the different Latino sub-groups; leadership patterns, strategy and tactics; and other issues impacting the Latino 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.
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POST 108 PZ -California Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course explores state and local politics in California. Topics include racial/ethnic diversity, campaigns and electoral politics, redistricting, legislative professionalization and term limits, initiatives, referendums and recall elections, the organization of the executive branch, fiscal politics in the era of Prop 13, and regional policy and local governance.
Prerequisite(s): POST 060 PZ or POST 010A 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.
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POST 109 PZ -Public Opinion
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course is concerned with understanding what public opinion is, how one measures it, the forces that influence it, and how this relates to democracy. We will look at opinions across a range of policy areas, and learn how to design surveys and do basic analyses of public opinion data.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 110 PZ -Political Campaign and Mobilization Strategies
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This class applies the theories and strategies on voter mobilization to the context of the Inland Empire in California. The IE which consists of San Bernardino and Riverside counties has a population of over 4 million, making it second to Los Angeles County as the most populous area in the state. From the political landscape, it is evident that Latinos, immigrants and other minority groups are severely underrepresented. This course seeks to change politics in the IE by developing and participating in voter mobilization strategies with local partners through Pitzer’s Community Engagement Center.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 110A PZ -Government and Politics of the EU
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course aims to cover the historical development, political institutions, and philosophical underpinnings of the European Union. topics include federalism, different notions of sovereignty, studies of contemporary decision-making in the Union, and assessments of democratic institutions in Europe. Prominent points of debate, such as monetary union, trade policies, environmental policies, enlargement policies, and defense policies are discussed. Particular attention will be paid to the contemporary debates on changes to the decision-making institutions in the Union and the euro crisis and Its potential effect on US institutions and the world.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 112 PZ -British National Identies since 1945
Institution: Pitzer
Description: In the seventy years since the end of WWII, Britain has undergone a turbulent transition from global empire to a second-rank European power, from a United Kingdom to an often divided nation. This course examines Britain’s kaleidoscopic national identities - European, British, English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh - through their representation in popular culture and their place in the nations’ politics.
The course has three components. First it provides a broad historical sweep through state and identity formation in the British Isles. This that covers the key moments from the formation of the Union in the early eighteenth century, through the creation of the British Empire in the nineteenth century to the emergence of a more democratic Britishness during and immediately after the Second World War. Second, the course examines how the notions of Britishness established over the previous two centuries were challenged and transformed by the politics of nationalism and unionism in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales,; the social and cultural impact of mass migration first from the Empire and then from post cold war European Union; Third, cutting across both of the pervious course themes, students will look at key elements of British popular culture -sport, television, cinema, comedy, music - since the Second World War, examining their role in the making and unmaking of British national identities
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 113 PZ -Intro South Asian Politics
Description: Modern South Asia has emerged as a dynamic and yet deeply troubled part of the world. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the basic themes that define contemporary South Asian politics: including, religion and religious violence, terrorism and insurgency, democracy and its discontents, authoritarianism and resistance, power and authority, diversity and nationalism, and status, heirarchy and equality.
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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POST 114 HM -Comparative Environmental Politics
Institution: Harvey Mudd
Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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POST 116 PZ -Surfing and the Politics of Race, Class and Culture
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Surfing and the Politics of Race, Class and Culture: The purpose of this course is to examine how surfing has intersected with such forces as colonialism, capitalism, race and gender roles, the military industrial complex, and globalization. Much of the surfing’s romantic image is a myth. In this course, we will go beyond the myths developed by Hollywood and corporations to examine its true historical origins and its evolution in places like California, Australia, South Africa, and Brazil.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 118 PZ -The Criminalization of Latinos and Reistance
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course examines popular representations of Latinos in media and the social consequences of those representations. American films, television shows and print media are the primary ways citizens learn about politics, social issues and out-groups. Latino images and popular narratives profoundly impact how they are perceived and treated by out-groups. At best, Latinos are seen as an “invisible community” because of their underrepresentation in the media. Yet, when they are portrayed, the images and narratives tend to be narrow and negative. These representations have contributed to the criminalization and victimization of Latinos.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 119 PZ -Latin American Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course examines the contemporary politics of Latin America. It explores the transformation of the region’s politics in the late twentieth century; the different governing coalitions that have come to power as a result of that transformation; the policies implemented by those different coalitions; the effects of these policies on everyday life in Latin America; and the emergence of political resistance across much of the region.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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POST 121 PZ -Religion, Conflict & Violence
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is a course about the possible connections between religion and violence, focused particularly on organized armed conflict. This is a topic that has received, surprisingly, very little sustained attention from social science literatures and the main purpose of the course is to explore what the contours of a theory of religion and violence would like. The course is organized around major historical and theoretical monographs (a book a week) designed to structure class discussions and the course is, therefore, reading intensive. The readings have been designed to give students a sense of what answers historians and social scientists have given to the puzzle of religion and violence while stimulating the participants to ask provocative questions.
This is a course in the historical sociology of religion and violence. Given the vastness of the subject I have had to be extremely selective in the time and places that we will be examining. The overall geographical bias of the course is Western Eurasia with equal time dedicated to the modern and premodern periods. We will also, in the interests of context, consider the case of 19th and 20th century South Asia.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 124 PZ -Chinese Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course provides an overview of China’s political system. It begins with a brief historical overview of China’s political development since 1949. The remainder of the course examines the industrial features of the current political system and the key challenges facing the CCP leadership, focusing on the prospects for political for political reform. By applying concepts and theories in comparative politics, we will investigate important issues in Chinese politics, including political selection, state-business relations, protests movements, political participation, public opinion, and media and Internet control. Although students are recommended to have taken comparative politics, there are no prerequisites for this 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.
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POST 128 PZ -The War on Terror
Institution: Pitzer
Description: What is the War on Terror? And what does it mean to fight a war against a strategy? This course examines the War from a variety of vantage points, including history, religion, foreign policy, psychology, gender, media, the law, human security, and political economy.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: IIS 128 PZ
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POST 129 PZ -Politics in Nation States
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This course offers students a comprehensive introduction to the topics of comparative politics in nation states. Students will learn to analyze the internal or domestic politics of nation-states and make valid comparisons across states. Core topics include democracy and democratization, authoritarianism, power, ideology, nationalism, mass behavior, political economy, and other defining aspects of comparative politics. This course explores the political diversity of the world through a series of ten theoretically informed case studies. We will cover politics in Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Iran, India, and Nigeria.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 131 PZ -U.S. Foreign Policy
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This class looks at American foreign policy through four images of the United States as an actor in the world. The images correspond simultaneously to theoretical literatures, political positions, and, at times, specific events or interpretations of events. The lenses are: (1) the US as state, (2) the US as Nation, (3) the US as Political System, and (4) the US as Empire. .
Prerequisite(s): POST040 PZ or equivalent strongly recommended. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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POST 133 PZ -Film, Politics and the Cold War
Institution: Pitzer
Description: For nearly 50 years the Cold War influenced nearly all aspects of American political and culture life. This course examine Cold War genre films in an effort to understand how Americans perceived the Soviet threat and how these popular perceptions influenced international and domestic politics.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 134 PZ -Authoritarian Politics
Institution: Pitzer
Description: There used to be a time when a similar course was often entitled, “regime change and democratization.” In the ear of democratic backsliding, however, we examine the exact opposite of this once optimistic proposition that authoritarian regimes would eventually collapse and democratize. Instead, this course explores the core questions in authoritarian politics. What factors contribute to regime survival? What strategies do dictators deploy to stay in power despite social discontent and lack of accountability? To answer these questions, we draw on prominent theories, empirical research, and historical developments in China, the Middle East, former Soviet Union, and other non-democratic states.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course 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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POST 135 PZ -Mapping Global Cultures
Institution: Pitzer
Description: People, ideas, artefacts and images appear to be circulating the globe in ever greater numbers. Buit does this make a global culture, is this the end for the local,, is the cultural diversity of humanity declining or is it enriched. This course places culture at the heart of the globalization debate, maps the historical and contemporary geography of global cultural power and examines some of its key forms, from mass migration to world religions, from global mega events to social movements.
First students will actively map four key elements of cultural globalization - the pattern of global migrations, the geography of global cultural infrastructures from language to the internet, the economic geography and functioning of the global culture industries and the use of soft power and cultural strategies by nation states. In the second part of the course, students will deploy these ideas to investigate the emergence and impact of global mega event from the world’s fairs to the Olympic Games, looking closely at the interplay of global and local actors in the production and circulation of meanings and ideas. In the third part of the course students will investigate three areas of contemporary cultural globalization - music and the visual arts, regional and consumerism, and new social movements.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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POST 136 PZ -Political Authority and State Formation
Institution: Pitzer
Description: This is a course about change and continuity in the nature and structure of political authority in Europe and its implications for contemporary state-builders. The purpose of this seminar is to introduce students to current thinking in the social sciences on the emergence of the modern state in Europe. In recent years state building /failure have emerged as first order problems in international politics. As the difficulty of constructing viable and stable states in troubled regions of the world has come to the forefront of the international agenda, policy makers and academics have increasingly sought insights into the nature of the state by reexamining its emergence in Europe. In this course we will examine the principal social science approaches to European state formation within the context of current vibrant debates within historical literatures on the nature of political authority in late medieval and early mordern Europe. We will conclude by considering the implications of these literatures for contemporary problems of state failure and building.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
Cross-listing: ANTH 136 PZ
Formerly: POST 136 PZ Race in Brazil and the US
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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POST 138 PZ -Social Order, War & Violence
Institution: Pitzer
Description: The purpose of this course is to examine the problems of conflict and violence in ‘international’ and ‘domestic’ politics. We will attempt to take a fresh look at the concepts and assumptions that underlie the dominant theoretical approaches to ‘international’ and ‘civil’ war and peace. Are we asking the right questions? Do we have an adequate conceptual framework? Do we understand the nature and extent of the problem of violence and conflict in international politics? We will ask and derive preliminary answers to these and other questions in a broad comparative historical framework.
This seminar is an attempt to look at war and the societies that fight them on a grand, even epic scale. Almost every book on the syllabus is what I consider to be a masterpiece of historical scholarship. Most are syntheses that reflect the state of the art; they are the culmination of generations of scholarship and I believe that all students of war and violence should at the very least be aware of the existence of the profound scholarship being done outside of political science. They address big questions in elegant and often moving ways. The primary concern of the participants should be with the theoretical implications of the arguments and not with the details per se. The details, I believe, are essential in order to sustain any generalization worth making but are not an end in and of themselves. The reading is very heavy but I firmly believe that engaging these literatures will be profoundly important to the intellectual development of the participants.
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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POST 139 PZ -Politics of the Middle East
Institution: Pitzer
Description: As the holder of one of the world’s largest reserves of petroleum and natural gas, the Middle East has been the focus of regional and international competition for millennia. In this course we will investigate Western powers’ domination of states and societies of the Middle East after the decline of the Ottoman Empire during the early 20th century. We will then examine the implications of imperialist intervention for societies in this region, including diverse responses to Western colonialism. Next, we will analyze ideologies, actors, and events that have shaped the domestic, regional, and international policies of states of this region up until the present.
Some of the questions we will examine in this course are the following: Who are the major players in the political arena of the Middle East and what are the key issues of conflict and cooperation among states in the region and the world outside of the Middle East? What are the domestic and international obstacles to democratization in the region? What are the grounds behind the persistence of authoritarianism in the Middle East? What factors triggered the rapid rise of diverse forms of Islamist currents across the region and how can we explain the causes of violent sectarian conflicts in countries like Iraq and Syria? And finally, what are the economic, political, and geostrategic reasons behind the struggle for power and domination among local and foreign actors in the Middle East?
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.
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POST 140 HM -Global Environmental Politics
Institution: Harvey Mudd
Description: For course info, please see Harvey Mudd College catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
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