New & Revised Courses for 2008-09

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Biology
BIOL189N PO Microbiology: The Biology of Prokaryotes. Ms. Hamlett. Introduction to general microbiology emphasizing aspects unique to prokaryotes, including cell structure, metabolism, physiology, genetics, ecology, and role of microbes in human disease. Projects introduce laboratory and field methods for detecting, isolating, cultivating, quantifying, and identifying prokaryotes. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: 41C and CHEM 115. Fall 2008 only.

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Chinese
CHNT166 PO Chinese Fiction, Old and New. Mr. Barr. Examines classic works from China’s rich indigenous storytelling tradition, as well as notable achievements in twentieth-century Chinese fiction. Readings include 17th century love stories and tales of the supernatural, the great 18th century novel of manners The Dream of the Red Chamber, as well as recent work by authors such as Yu Hua and Su Tong. Themes include: family and individual in Chinese society, memory and fantasy, trauma and transcendence. Letter grade only. Fall 2008; offered occasionally.

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Dance
DANC140 PO Composition I. Beginning Creative Movement Exploration. Ms. Cameron. Exploration of the basic elements of human movement as tools for creative expression. Improvisation, creative problem-solving, and cultivation of sources for choreographic invention. This course is a preparation for more advanced work in composition. No dance background required, although participants should be engaged in ongoing physical activity to support and enrich an adventurous creative approach. Fall 2008; offered alternate years.

DANC141 PO Dance Composition II: Choreography Lab. Ms. Cameron. The craft of choreography through creative problem-solving, research, and exposure to live and video performance. Strategies for solo and group movement invention and spatial organization. Resources for choreographic themes, including text, visual art, and social issues. Development of sophisticated movement vocabulary for discussion and critical reviews. Prerequisite: 140. Fall 2009 (tentative); generally offered alternate years.

Course numbering changes for the Dance Program: 10, 12, 50, 51, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 152, 180, 181 replacing 10A/B; 12A/B; 50A/B;, 51A/B; 119A/B; 120A/B; 121A/B; 122A/B; 123A/B; 124A/B; 152A/B; 180A/B; and 181A/B.

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Economics
ECON129 PO Health Economics. Staff. Policy issues including but not restricted to: the demand for medical care services, especially as a function of insurance; the demand for insurance and issues of selection; reimbursement policies of Medicare and other payers toward health plans, hospitals, and physicians; effects of health maintenance organizations and managed care; malpractice and tort reform; the quality of medical care; preventive health care; universal coverage. Prerequisite: 52. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

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English
ENGL081 PO History of the Book: Papyrus, Parchment, Paper, Pixel. Ms. Worley. From the evolution of writing through the Chinese invention of paper and printing, medieval illumination, Inca quipu, the printing industry in Europe, copyright, the Brazilian cordel, and the politics of literacy, up to speculations about the future of the book. Hands-on work in Special Collections. Letter grade only. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

ENGL087 PO Writing: Theories, Processes, Pedagogies. Ms. Regaignon. Theoretical grounding in the writing process, as well as in teaching and tutoring. Students will undertake a major research project, investigating some aspect of the writing process, writing in a particular discipline, or tutoring writing. Each fall.

ENGL092 PO The Anglo-Irish Literary Tradition. Mr. Dettmar. A survey of the most significant English-language Irish writing from Jonathan Swift to the present day, with attention paid to linguistic and stylistic virtuosity, and to the politics of Ireland’s colonial and postcolonial experiences. Sterne, Goldsmith, Edgeworth, Yeats, Moore, Synge, Joyce, Beckett, Bowen, Heaney, Boland, Muldoon, Doyle, McDonagh, others. Letter grade only. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

ENGL153 PO Chaucer and His World. Ms. Worley. Poetry and prose, fact and fiction, piety and porno (or just about) -- Chaucer wrote it all. We will learn Middle English, get familiar with one of the cornerstones of English literature, and examine timeless issues like imperialism, gender roles, and class warfare. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

ENGL160 PO Theories of Authorship. Ms. Fitzpatrick. Exploration of authorship in a shifting technological and mediated landscape; topics include poststructuralist theories of authorship, auteur theory, corporate authorship, and battles over copyright. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

ENGL168 PO Writing Machines. Ms. Fitzpatrick. Exploration of the effects of new technologies of writing on the development and dissemination of narrative, from hypertext to blogs, and onward. Includes hands-on production. Next offering to be announced.

ENGL170C PO Inventing the Great Books. Mr. Dettmar. The idea of “Great Books” appeared in the late 19th century, responding to cultural fears about the failing authority of the Good Book and the democratization of cultural capital available through a storehouse of valuable works: a secular canon. This course explores the “invention” and dissemination of this powerful cultural notion. Readings from Arnold, Newman, Farrar, Joyce, F. R. Leavis, Denby, Gates, Lauter, others. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: 67. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

ENGL170D PO The Poet’s Letter. Mr. Javadizadeh. What kind of writing is a poet’s personal letter? Biographical document or literary text? We will read deeply in some of the richest correspondence of the last two centuries and explore letters as texts that allow us to read between “ordinary” and “poetic” modes of discourse. Poets to include Keats, Dickinson, Crane, and Bishop. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: 67. Fall 2008; offered alternate years.

ENGL189G PO American Waters. Mr. Javadizadeh. What meanings does American literature submerge in bodies of water? How, for that matter, do the oceans that surround our continent and the rivers that bisect it usefully complicate the very notion of a national literature? Writers to include Melville, Whitman, Twain, Hemingway, Moore, Crane, and Bishop. Spring 2009 only.

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French
FREN103 PO Frenchness: May ’68- 2008. Ms. Pouzet-Duzer. Social, cultural, political and literary determinants of the notion of “Frenchness.” From the famous “Events of May ‘68” through May 2008, the evolution and transformation of ideas about what it means to be French. Stereotypes of French identity analyzed and discussed through newspaper articles, excerpts from novels, interviews, songs and films. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: 44. Spring 2009.

FREN182 PO Cannibalizing Surrealism. Ms. Pouzet-Duzer. The evolution of the French surrealist movement from the dawn of WWI through the 1960s. How surrealism continues to be embedded, cannibalized and commercialized today. Readings include manifestos, poems and novels. Aesthetic focus includes paintings, photographs and movies. Prerequisite: 44. Fall 2008; offered alternate years.

FREN183 PO Secrets of the Short Story. Mr. Conceatu. 20th century French “nouvelles” may not be long, but they may tell more complex stories than some novels. How do they do it? What makes them enigmatic and powerful? Is it the story itself or how it is told? Close readings include Proust, Camus, Sartre, and Ionesco. Prerequisite: 44. Fall 2008 only.

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Gender and Women's Studies
GWS 113 PO Step Right Up: Race, Gender, and Popular Culture, 1865-1917. Ms. Tompkins. Looks at the explosion of popular culture from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of World War II. Mixes primary texts such as advertising, popular and canonical novels, magazines, newspapers, and film. We will examine the ways that different U.S. demographics – Black, European immigrant, working class, female, male and adolescent – were both shaped by the popular discourses and the period. We will combine primary text with feminist and cultural theory, hence questions of gender and race will rest at the center of this course. There will be a movie-viewing night. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

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Geology
GEOL152 PO Climate Change. Mr. Gaines. An integrated perspective of Earth’s dynamic climate through time. Students will explore the linkages of physical, chemical, biological and geological factors which regulate the Earth’s intricate climate system. Special emphasis to be placed on the geologic record of Earth’s climate, and evaluation of anthropogenic influences on climate. Prerequisite: 125. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

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German in Translation
GRMT128 PO Multicultural Transnational Germany. Ms. Von Schwerin-High. Explores the history and culture of Turkish-Germans and other minority communities residing in Germany with emphases on political, legal, social, cultural and religious aspects of multicultural and transnational life. Course materials include historical accounts, newspaper and internet articles, autobiographical narratives, fiction, poems and films. In English. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

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History
HIST062 PO Modern East Asia: China, Japan and Korea in the 20th Century. Ms. Chin. History of China, Japan and Korea from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. Focuses on transnational themes, such as revolution, colonialism and modernity that have shaped the politics and identities of East Asians in recent times. Each fall.

HIST070 PO. Early Modern Europe. 1347-1795. Mr. Woods. Title correction only.

HIST100AC PO East Asian Popular Culture. Ms. Chin. Examines the historical development of Chinese and Japanese popular culture in the 20th century. Topics include war mobilization, globalization, fandom, gender and race representations, transnational dissemination of culture. Prerequisite: One class on China or Japan. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

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Linguistics & Cognitive Science
LGCS040 PO Law and Language. Mr. Atlas. This course introduces aspects of philosophy, linguistics, and jurisprudence that are needed for interpreting legal texts and discourse (statutes, briefs, judicial opinions) and understanding debates about legal language in jurisprudence. Readins from Holmes, Hart, Dworkin, Smith, Miller, Brewer, Grice, Searle, White, Davidson, Carell, et al. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

LGCS079 PO Comparative Slavic and Germanic Linguistics. Ms. Harves. Introduction to the Slavic and Germanic language families; development of these languages from Proto-Indo-European. Comparison of the phonology, morphology, and especially syntax of various Slavic and Germanic languages, ranging from Czech, Russian, and Bulgarian to German, Dutch, and Icelandic. Assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics. Fall 2008; offered alternate years.

LGCS185S PO. Topics in Syntax. Ms Harves. Investigates advanced topics in syntactic theory. Topics vary from year to year; possible topics include: argument structure, the syntax of intensionality, WH-movement, economy, the syntax of scope, topic/focus structure, and antisymmetry. Prerequisite: 105. May be repeated for credit. Fall 2008.

LGCS185T PO. Topics in Semantics. Mr. Hackl. Name change only.

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Mathematics
MATH135 PO Functions of a Complex Variable. Mr. Garcia. Topics may include: Cauchy Riemann equations, harmonic functions, Cauchy's Theorem, Liouville's Theorem, Cauchy's Integral Formula, Maximum Modulus Principle, Argument Principle, Rouche's Theorem, series expansions, isolated singularities, calculus of residues, conformal mapping. Offered jointly by Pomona and CMC. Prerequisites: 32 or 107, and 60. A proof-based course above 100 is recommended. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

MATH142 PO Differential Geometry. Ms. Karaali. Curves and surfaces, Gaussian curvature, isometries, tensor analysis and covariant differentiation with application to physics and geometry. Intended for physicists and mathematicians. Prerequisites: 32 or 107, and 60. Offered jointly by Pomona, CGU and Harvey Mudd. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

MATH173 PO Advanced Linear Algebra. Mr. Garcia. Topics may include similarity of matrices and the Jordan Form, the Cayley Hamilton Theorem, limits of sequences and series of matrices; the Perron-Frobenius theory of non-negative matrices; estimating eigenvalues of matrices; iterative solutions of large systems of linear algebraic equations. Prerequisite: completion of a semester course in linear algebra. Offered jointly by Pomona, CGU, CMC and Harvey Mudd College. Fall 2008; offered alternate years

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Media Studies
MS 144 PO Film Authorship 1969-1979. Mr. Blackwood. A survey of emerging American and European filmmakers from the late 1960s and 1970s, focusing on questions of authorship in the Vietnam and post-Vietnam eras. Each spring.

MS 146 PO Sex & Violence in Film & TV. Mr. Blackwood. Close study of film and television depictions of sex and violence, with parallel readings from primary western sources such as Solomon, Freud, Machiavelli, Clausewitz, Marx and Nietzsche. Special attention paid to conscious reiteration (by filmmakers such as Hitchcock, Ophuls, Coppola and Scorsese) of classic ideas on sex and violence. Each semester.

MS 147A PO Contextualizing the Culture Wars. Ms. Friedlander. Explores the political, cultural, and psychic dimensions of controversial art and media projects in the US during the late 1980s - early 1990s. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: MS 49, 50, 51, or a contemporary art history class. To be announced.

MS 147B PO Body, Representation, Desire. Ms. Freidlander. Explores approaches to theorizing the corporeality of the body and places them in a critical relationship to post-structuralist, performative, and deconstructive accounts. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: MS 49, 50, 51, or a contemporary art history class. To be announced.

MS 147C PO Constructing and Dismantling the Body in Visual Culture. Ms. Mullens. Drawing examples from film and television, photography, and other visual media, as well as the histories of medicine and art, this course investigates the body as a subject of representation in visual culture. Prerequisite: MS 49, MS 50 or MS 51. Spring 2009 only.

MS 149A PO Marxism and Cultural Studies. Ms. Fitzpatrick. Focus on the relationship between Marxist social thought and its recent descendant, Cultural Studies, with application to the study of the contemporary media. Prerequisite: MS 49, 50, 51, or ENGL 67. To be announced.

MS 149B PO Postmodernism. Ms. Fitzpatrick. Exploration of the history of the postmodern debates, how the web of ideas known as postmodernism came to be applied to everything from geography to politics to media, with a focus on the status of the subject within postmodern culture. Prerequisite: 49, 50, 51, or ENGL 67. To be announced.

MS 149C PO New Media Theory. Ms. Fitzpatrick. Exploration of the effects of computer technologies on mediated communication, including shifts in traditional forms such as literature, film, and television, the new forms to which computer technologies give rise, and the social aspects of new technologies. Prerequisite: 49, 50, 51, or ENGL 67. To be announced.

MS 189A PO Censorship and American Cinema. Ms. Mullens. This course examines the history of film censorship, including both and overt attempts to censor film content, and those political, historical, moral, and cultural pressures which have contributed to this process. Prerequisite: 49, 50 or 51. Fall 2008 only.

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Music
MUS 010/020 PO Individual Instruction, Levels I and II. Changed from pseudo-grading to regular grading, with grade points, effective Fall 2008.

MUS 055 PO Seven Musical Wonders of the Western World. Ms. Lee. Historical, analytical, and aural study of seven major works from the Western European and American concert tradition. Genres include symphony, opera, solo and chamber, vocal and instrumental music. Some field trips. No previous musical experience required. Spring 2009; 2009-10 TBA.

MUS 091 PO Sites of Sound: Music, Technology, Aural Culture, Film. Mr. Cramer. A study of the position of sound and music on the boundary between media and content of media. Topics include theories of sound in culture; historical conceptualizations and experiences of sound in early modern Europe and other sites; sound and music in the context of 19th-century representational technologies from tableaux vivants, stenography and opera to telephone and phonograph; and film soundtracks of the past century. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

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Philosophy
PHIL037 PO Values and the Environment. Ms. Davis. Number change only. Fall 2008.

PHIL103 PO Philosophy of Science: Historical Survey. Ms. Perini. Number change only. Fall 2008.

PHIL104 PO Philosophy of Science: Topical Survey. Number change only. Fall 2008.

PHIL106 PO Philosophy of Biology. Ms. Perini. In the life sciences, distinctive methods and concepts play key roles in the production of knowledge. This course investigates biological explanation, examines concepts such as fitness, adaptation, gene, and species, and addresses questions about whether biology reduces to physics, and the role of evolutionary and genetic claims in explaining human behavior. Prerequisite: one college-level philosophy or biology course. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

PHIL187C,D PO Tutorial in Ancient Philosophy. Mr. McKirahan. Selected topics in ancient philosophy. Requires regular meetings with the instructor to discuss original texts, interpretations, and the student’s written work. Sample topics: Presocratic Philosophy, Socrates and the Sophists, Plato’s theory of Forms, Aristotle’s philosophy of science, Ancient ethical theories. 187C, full course; 187D, half course. May be repeated for credit. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: One course in ancient philosophy. Each semester.

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Physics
PHYS070 PO Spacetime, Quanta, and Entropy with Laboratory. Mr. Moore. Calculus-based introduction to principles of contemporary physics, designed especially for potential physics/astronomy majors (life-science students should take 51a/b). Topics will include conservation laws, special relativity, quantum physics, and thermal physics. Prerequisite: High school physics or instructor permission, concurrent Math 030. Each Fall.

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Politics
POLI091 PO. American Democracy in Theory and Practice. Mr. Crowe, Ms. McWilliams. A consideration of American democracy from the joint perspectives of political theory and empirical political science. Topics may include the nature of representation, the role and responsibilities of citizens, the influence of religion, and the makeup of political institutions. Course material drawn from classical and modern political theory, American political thought, historical documents, contemporary political scholarship, and current events. Spring 2009.

POLI112 PO Hannah Arendt: Politics, Love, Violence, Gender. Mr. Seery. Arguably the greatest political theorist of the post-war period, Hannah Arendt and her works are today undergoing extensive review by students interested in feminism and gender studies, queer studies, poststructuralism, identity politics, aesthetics, revolution and violence, civil disobedience and constitutionalism, liberalism, community, and the Holocaust. To be announced.

POLI189E PO Environmental Law. Mr. Holmes. Review of the scope and limits of major environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Air Act, along with other current issues including water quality control and noise pollution. The California Environmental Quality Act will be examined in detail, from its enactment to the present, as a case study in environmental politics. A previous course in constitutional law is strongly recommended. Fall 2008 only.

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Psychology
PSYC127 PO Psychology of Women. Ms. Burke. Review and analysis of research on how gender influences behavior, including academic achievement, parenting, work, intimacy, emotion and sexuality. Analysis of sociocultural and biological explanations of sex and gender. Prerequisite: 51. Fall 2008; offered alternate years.

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Religious Studies
RLST060 PO Feminist Introduction to the Bible. Ms. Van Heest. Sampling from various literary families of the Bible, this course will carry out feminist analysis of biblical texts and explore their feminist interpretations and their political motivations. Through the exploration of different feminist perspectives, methods, contexts and locations, the course will underline how these various factors shape feminist interpretations of the Bible.

RLST089B PO The Bible, Empire, and Globalization. Ms. Van Heest. The Bible is a colonial text, both because it references ancient structures of dominance and because of its collusion in modern empire and globalization. This course will closely examine influential text passages and investigate scriptural imperialism in historical context, with special emphasis on biblical interpretation by both colonizer and colonized in the global south. Fall 2008.

RLST124 PO Myth in Classical Religious Traditions. Mr. Planinc. A comparative analysis of mythological and literary symbolism in Ancient Greek epic, tragedy, comedy and philosophy. Readings will include selected texts by Homer, Euripides, Aristophanes and Plato.

RLST130 PO Convivencia: Religious “Tolerace” in Medieval Spain. Mr. Wolf. A critical, nuanced look at the idea that Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived together in relative harmony in Spain under Muslim rule between the eighth nand eleventh centuries, and benefited from their interactions with one another. This romantic notion, which has gained traction in the wake of 9/11, will be evaluated in light of actual historical evidence. Letter grade only. Fall 2008; offered alternate years.

RLST133 PO Modern Judaism. Ms. Eisenstadt. A survey of Jewish history, literature, thought, and practice from 1000 C.E. to the present, exploring the changing self-understanding of Jews against the background of the birth and development of the modern world, and focusing on the European ghetto, Haskalah, Hasidism, denominational schisms, early Zionism, and the events that heralded the development of modern antisemitism. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

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Russian Literature in Translation
RUST080 PO The Great Utopia: Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. Ms. Rudova. Title change only.

RUST185 PO Vladimir Nabokov. Ms. Dwyer. Equal time spent on Russian and American periods. Close reading; emphasis on Nabokov's cultivation of his reader, metafiction, and the role of cross-cultural experience in literary creativity. Texts: The Defense; Invitation to a Beheading; Despair; Lolita; Pnin; Pale Fire; Speak, Memory!. In English. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

RUST111 PO Russian Cinema. Ms. Rudova. The history of Russian cinema from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Topics include cultural politics under the Soviets; censorship; confrontation between the real Soviet world and the fictional reality created by the Soviets; masterpieces of Soviet and post-Soviet cinema; sex and violence of new Russian cinema. Readings on film theory, film criticism, and history of Russia. Fall 2009.

RUST184 PO Russian Cinema: From Stalin to Present. Ms. Rudova. Title change only.

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Sociology
SOC 190 PO Senior Seminar. Staff. An advanced seminar on a selected topic in sociology. Required of all sociology seniors (except Sociology/PPA and Sociology/Gender and Women Studies majors. Prerequisites: 102, 104, 154, 157. Each fall.

SOC 191A PO Senior Thesis. Staff. Tutorial discussion and independent empirical research on an original project. Students select one or two sociology faculty advisors. Not required for graduation but counts as a sociology elective. Pre- or co-requisite: 190. Half course. Each fall.

SOC 191B. Senior Thesis. Staff. Second semester of tutorial discussion, independent empirical research, and writing on an original project. Students select one or two sociology faculty advisors. Not required for graduation but counts as a sociology elective. Prerequisite: 191A. Half course. Each spring.

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Spanish
SPAN050 PO Chévere: Advanced Spanish for Heritage Speakers. Mr. Cartagena-Calderón. Designed for students whose greater exposure to Spanish has been at home rather than the classroom. Students will produce writing in various formats, while continuing to develop skills in the correct use of spelling, the written accent and other grammatical aspects. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: 33. Each fall.

SPAN100 PO. Orale: Language, Culture and Writing for Heritage Speakers. Ms. Silverman. Designed for students with advanced oral and written language skills who wish to further develop their Spanish for academic and/or professional purposes. Heritage learners will develop skills for preparing and presenting information through discussions and written essays aimed at an academic or professional audience. Provides the necessary skills to successfully undertake courses that require strong competence in academic Spanish. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: 44 or 50. Each spring.

SPAN130 PO Spectacles of the Body: Theory, Discourse, and Performance in Contemporary Latin/o American Literature and Culture. Ms. Montenegro. Explores how fictions of desire are played out in textual and sexual bodies that become grounds for gender, racial, historical, and mythical inscriptions. Analyze notions of writing, spectacle and performance both from a theoretical perspective and within specific cultural contexts. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: 101. A previous transitional/ upper-level course highly recommended. XXXXX; offered alternate years.

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Theatre
THEA054C PO Voice for the Actor. Staff. Actors require special skills for speaking expressively and being understood easily in large spaces without artificial amplification. This course will give students a basic understanding of voice and speech for the theatre, help them engage their voices fully without injury to themselves, and allow them to become more expressive vocally. Correct breathing, good placement, and appropriate use of consonants become essential elements of scene study. This course may be repeated for credit up to 7 times. Students enrolled in THEA012 must co-enroll in this course. P/NC grading only. Prerequisites: THEA001, 004, or THEA005. Offered each semester.

THEA080 PO The Scenographic Imagination. Mr. Taylor. Scenography is the creation of artistically appropriate environments for works in theatre, dance, film and television. This project-based course enables students to explore and develop the conceptual, graphic and three-dimensional skills necessary for effective scenographic work. This project work will be supplemented by reading, discussion and play going: both on campus and at professional venues in the Los Angeles area. Each spring.

THEA082 PO Lighting Design: The Magic of Theatrical Light. Mr. Taylor. Lighting Design is the creation of artistically appropriate lighting for works in theatre, dance, film and television. Once mastery of lighting equipment is achieved, students will explore the artistic use of light through a variety of dynamic, hands-on creative projects. Project work will be supplemented by reading, discussion and play going: both on campus and at professional venues in the Los Angeles area. Each fall.

THEA100G PO Musical Theatre. Staff. In this workshop studio production class, students present solos and scenes from musical theatre for criticism and review. Students will receive essential and elementary training required to perform in musicals and enhance musical interpretation. Focus will be on improving natural, clear and unaffected speech for efficient vocal support, tone production, vocal quality and articulation, as well as on truthful and organic interpretive effectiveness. Prerequisites: 1 or 4 or 5, and 12. Spring 2009; offered alternate years.

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