2022-2023 Pitzer Catalog 
    
    Jun 22, 2024  
2022-2023 Pitzer Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Religious Studies

  
  • RLST 118 CM -Hindu Goddess Worship


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): HRT I, CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 119 PZ -Religion in Medieval East Asia


    Institution: Pitzer

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

    Note(s): HRT I

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 120 CM -The Life of Jesus


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 121 SC -The Pauline Tradition


    Institution: Scripps

    Description:

    For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

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

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

  
  • RLST 128 PO -The Religion of Islam


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 132 PO -Messiahs and the Millennium


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II, CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 133 PO -Modern Judaism


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 135 CM -Jerusalem: The Holy City


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II, MES

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 136 CM -Religion in Contemporary America


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II, CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 137 CM -Jewish-Christian Relations


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 138 CM -American Religious History


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 139 PO -Benjamin, Levinas, Derrida: Contemporary Continental Jewish Philosophy


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): PRT

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 140 PO -The Stories We Tell: Narrative and the Moral Imagination


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): PRT

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 141 PO -The Experience of God: Contemporary Theologies of Transformation


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): CWS, PRT

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 142 AF -The Problem of Evil in African-American Engagements


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II, PRT

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 143 CM -Philosophy of Religion


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): PRT

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 144 CM -Life, Death and Survival of Death


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): PRT

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 145 CM -Religion and Science


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 146 CM -The Holocaust


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 147 HM -World Religions and Transnational Religions: American and Global Movements (3)


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 148 PO -Sufism


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): HRT I, MES

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 149 PO -Islamic Thought


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): PRT, MES

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): CWS, PRT

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 153 CM -Religion and American Politics


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): CWS

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): MES, CWS

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): CWS, PRT

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


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 158 PO -Jewish Mysticism


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II, PRT, MES

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 160 SC -Feminist Interpretations of the Gospels


    Institution: Scripps

    Description:

    For course info, please see Scripps College catalog.

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

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

  
  • RLST 161 CM -Gurus, Swamis, and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): HRT I, PRT

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): CWS, PRT, MES

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


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): CWS, MES

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II, CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 165 CM -Religion and Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe


    Institution: Claremont Mckenna

    Description:

    For course info, please see Claremont McKenna College catalog.

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

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

  
  • RLST 166 PO -Religion, Ethics and Social Practice


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): CWS

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


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 168 HM -Activism, Vocation, Justice


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

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

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


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): CWS, HRT II

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


    Institution: Scripps

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II, CWS

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


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): CWS

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): CWS

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


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): CWS

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


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

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

    Note(s): CWS, HRT II

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): CWS

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II, CWS

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


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

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

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

    Note(s): CWS

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 181 PO -Prision, Punishment, Redemption


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 183 HM -Ghosts and Machines: Occult Mediumship and Modern Media


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

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

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

    Note(s): CWS

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 184 PO -Queer Theory and the Bible


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    Note(s): HRT II, CWS, PRT

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 186 CM -Research Practicum in Archeology


    Institution: Claremont McKenna

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 189A PO -Contemporary Christian Theology


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: For course info, please see Pomona College catalog

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • RLST 189Z PO -The Zoroastrian Tradition


    Institution: Pomona

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

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

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


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

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

Science, Technology and Society

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


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 081 HM -Science and Technology in the Early Modern World: History of Science, Renaissance to 1800


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • HIST 082 HM -Science and Technology in the Modern World


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • STS 010 HM -Introduction to Science, Technology and Society


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • STS 080 PO -History of Science: Science and Technology in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds.


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • STS 081 PZ -Science and Technology in the Early Modern World


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description:

    This course surveys the history of science and technology from, roughly, 1450-1800. It is, in the first place, a history course, which means that you will be exposed to different stories people tell about science and its development. It is, in the second place, about the sciences, which means that we will be reading a lot of primary source materials and trying to make sense of them. The course will pivot around the “Scientific Revolution.” We will discuss its meaning as a category of history, and we will read many key texts-from Paracelsus to Newton-that have come to define it.

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

  
  • STS 114 HM -Social and Political Issues in Clinic


    Institution: Harvey Mudd

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

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

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


    Institution: Pomona

    Description: Students read and discuss seminal and provocative works on STS. Each student conducts an independent project in an area of interest and competence. Discussions of research in progress, oral presentations of final product, written paper.

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

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


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

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

Sociology

  
  • CASA 108 PZ -Individual and Social Well Being


    Institution: Pitzer College

    Description: This course will allow students to process their community engagement experiences locally and abroad and focus on (i) emotional well-being, (ii) processes of identity development, regarding culture, nationality, gender, ethinicity, and sexual orientation, (iii) social development and (iv) the nexus between individual and community well-being.

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


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 001X PZ -SRX: Introduction to Sociology


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Together we will learn how to think “sociologically” about the world. This means understanding that the cultures and social forces of our time influence both our lives and the lives of others. We will trek across a broad range of topics, including culture and socialization, deviance and normality, systems of privilege and oppression, social justice, and social change. This class counts towards the Social Responsibility Praxis requirement. Over the course of the semester, students spend 40 hours working in partnership with a community organization on a culminating course project.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 009 PZ -Food, Culture, Power


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

    Cross-listing: ANTH 009 PZ, CHLT 009 CH

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 011 PZ -Criminal Organizations & Gangs


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course offers a comprehensive overview of criminal organizations - such as street gangs, prison gangs, hate groups, outlaw motorcycle gangs, transnational gangs, tagger crews, hackers, and cartels. Materials will cover how these groups formed, which leadership/organizational structures they utilize, and how they operate domestically and internationally. We will focus on the relationships between these organizations, society, media, technologies, and institutions - as well as examine how historical events have impacted gang behaviors and customs. Students will also develop an understanding of the theoretical concepts and anti-gang strategies that are used by academics, mental health professionals and law enforcement officials.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 012 PZ -Sociology of Television


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course applies sociological, psychological, and feminist perspectives towards understanding how TV shows are produced and experienced in everyday life and within a broader social context. We will examine TV’s role in shaping understandings of, and relationship to, ourselves, other individuals, groups, institutions, and the world. Each week will analyze a different theme, like “buddies,” families, crime (BrBa, Sopranos, SOA), feminisms (Girls, SATC, Broad City, OITNB), and institutions (Office, BBT, Parks & Rec). Students will critically analyze the portrayals of various axes of identity and institutions, and explore the economic, political, and social implications of these depictions.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 030 CH -Chicanxs - Latinxs in Contemporary Society (CP)


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 031 PZ -Exploring Urban Landscapes


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 035 PZ -Race and Ethnic Relations


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 051 PZ -Class, Caste and Colonialism


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

    Cross-listing: See also MS 051 PZ

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


    Institution: Pitzer

  
  • SOC 055 PO -Population and Environment


    Institution: Pomona

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 055 PZ -The Construction of Masculinity


    Institution: Pitzer College

    Description: “Toxic masculinity” is a direct reference to the unhealthy, exclusive, normative masculinity that is perpetuated everyday by many but actually experienced by very few. The term is so commonly used in the contemporary public vernacular that it has lost most of its impact in dialogue about social inequity and injustice. This course is designed to a) analyze and understand how masculinity is constructed in contemporary American society, b) examine how and where masculinity is present at the Claremont Colleges and c) provide students with the knowledge and skills to define a healthy masculinity for themselves and their campus. Although the curriculum was developed with a male-identified audience in mind, the course is open to all 5C students.
     

    Formerly: GFS 055 PZ

  
  • SOC 058 PZ -Gender and Media


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will explore how and why gender matters in society today, with an emphasis on how the mass media shapes gender identities, perceptions, and real life outcomes. Our examination of gender will involve discussions of the meaning of sex and gender, different theoretical arguments concerning gender, and how individuals are socialized into gender behaviors by other individuals, institutions, and especially the mass media. The lectures and readings will reflect a number of different theoretical and feminist perspectives, and they will include an equal focus on issues affecting women and men today. Students will gain the conceptual and theoretical tools to analyze the personal, social, and institutional consequences of different social constructions of gender - and how they are influenced by the media. Finally, this course is designed to explore depictions of gender within various mediums of the media - including advertisements, sports, scripted television, reality television, film, pop music, alternative music genres, internet, gaming, comics, the sex industry, and the news.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 071 PZ -Sociology of Popular Music


    Institution: Pitzer

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 073 PZ -Model Minority and Perpetual Foreigner: Asians in America


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: What is the contemporary Asian American experience? How does Asian America look when we take into account differences in ethnicity, class, gender, and generation? This course offers a sociological examination of what it means to be Asian American today. Topics include immigration, assimilation, demographic trends, ethnic identity, discrimination, socioeconomic mobility, gender, and relationships with other groups. By exploring the structures that shape Asian American experiences and Asian American challenges to those forces, the course encourages students to  consider their own role in transforming US society.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 074 PZ -Indigenous Educational Access and Mentorship


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This is an engaged learning course aligned with partnerships between Pitzer and Native Nations as well as between Pitzer and educational institutions that serve Native students and communities. Students participate in research and action projects that promote educational access and advance collaborations with community partners. Specific research and action projects vary by semester. Sometimes offered for half course credit, sometimes for full course credit.

    Prerequisite(s): some involvement with American Indian or Indigenous communities, and/or study of American Indian and Indigenous issues and/or settler colonialism, or similar experience and knowledge.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 074 PZ -Unsettling Histories


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This project-based learning experience will work on three collective and one individual projects: 1) the decolonizingKairos Blanket Exercise, a popular education tool for education about settler colonialism and Indigenous resilience; 2)an Archive of Tongva materials and documents, as requested by members of the Tongva community; and 3) advancingcritical discussion of a Land Acknowledgement, and 4) an individual project, the Personal Portfolio, through whichstudents will research process of settler colonialism in relation to their hometown or territory. Default Pass/Failevaluation; letter grade evaluation possible. Some praxis times will be scheduled outside of class time, including some 3-hour weekend slots.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 075 PZ -American Settler Colonialism


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: Although completely denied by dominant national narratives, the United States is a settler colonial society. How does this affect all aspects of social life in the United States? This course will examine the impact of this ongoing settler colonial nature on a variety of aspects of American society, including; incarceration, militarism, gender, sexuality, national culture, education, citizenship, racial inequality, capitalism, political power, and social movements. Material will address historical and contemporary dynamics. A sub-theme of the course will be identifying the experiences of and resistance by the Indigenous nations of North America in response to processes of colonization and settlement.

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 077 PZ -Indigenous Movements


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 078 PZ -American Indian Movements


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course examines Indigenous resistance to ongoing settler colonialism in North America, with attention to institutional change, ethic group formation and decolonizing action. This version will focus on education as a dimension of colonization, the principles and recovery of indigenous knowledge systems, the nature of human’s place within, and relationship to, the natural world within Indigenous cultural views, symbolic incorporation of those understandings into various artistic expressions, and the holistic integration of these understandings of the natural world in indigenous educational pedagogy. 

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

    Formerly: Formerly Indigenous People of Americas

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


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 081 PZ -Sociology Through Film


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 082 PZ -Racial Politics of Teaching


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

    Cross-listing: LGCS 082 PZ, ASAM 082 PZ

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


    Institution: Pitzer

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

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

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


    Institution: Pitzer

  
  • SOC 086 PZ -Social Inequality


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

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


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 092 PZ -The Social World, Graphically


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This interdisciplinary course will use graphic novels as vehicles for exploring various aspects of the social world: social issues, conflicts, identities, movements, etc. Students will read graphic novels that focus on various aspects of contemporary social life, and they will also write/draw/create their own graphic novel pages which explore some social issue, movement, conflict, pattern, etc. Part sociology, part art, this course will look at how graphic novels can inform us about issues of social significance, how they function visually and aesthetically, how they both engage and entertain, and how they can be an effective form of artistic expression, social commentary, historical accounting, and political critique.

    Cross-listing: Art

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 095 PZ -Contemporary Central Asia


    Institution: Pitzer

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

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

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 099 PZ -Social Construction of Morality


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: How do we decide what is good or bad, wrong or right, moral or immoral? For many, God is necessary in order to answer such questions. However, this class will approach morality and ethics as social constructions, created by humans over time. We will look at how people – as social beings embedded in history, culture, and society – construct morality and fight for justice. Part sociology, part secular studies, and part philosophy, this class will explore the on-going process whereby humans come to determine what is wrong or right, just or unjust, ethical or unethical, and we will become familiar with various theories of morality and ethics and apply those theories to real-world problems.

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

    Cross-listing: SOC

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 101 PZ -Quantitative Research Methods


    Institution: Pitzer

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

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 PZ Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 102 PZ -Qualitative Research Methods


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: This course will introduce students to the range of qualitative research practices in the field of sociology, including ethnographic research design, multiple interviewing and observation techniques, writing field notes, content and discourse analyses, analysis of data, and presentation of research findings.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 PZ. Please also check the current course schedule for requirements.

    For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal.
  
  • SOC 108 PZ -Moon Called: Black Women, Pregnancy and Ritual


    Institution: Pitzer

    Description: The moon’s connection to women’s wombs is honored within southeastern African American: a) folklore and menstruation, birthing, pregnancy and fertility rituals; b) midwifery practice; and c) superstitions. The course is divided into four sections, with each section being organized around one or more major questions about the ways in which culture, religion and society influenced the ways in which pregnancy, menstruation, and birthing are viewed among African Americans. We begin with an introduction of the social roles of rituals, and how pregnancy symbolizes social cohesion for communities of color. We then explore symbolic rituals within African American pregnancy and birthing traditions as practiced by Black midwives on slave plantations and within southern US black communities post-Emancipation. We next critically analyze the social codification of pregnancy and birthing by the US medical establishment and its impact on Black midwifery practice, and end with a feminist investigation of how certain rituals and superstitions persist within Black communities via feminist qualitative methods, namely one-on-one interviews with black women from Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties.

    Prerequisite(s): SOC 001 and Intro to Gender Studies

    Cross-listing: STS

    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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