2015-2016 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PSYC 119 CM - Seminar in Clinical Research and Assessment This course teaches research and assessment procedures that determine the effectiveness of clinical interventions. Students will learn to assess treatment outcomes for individual patients. Emphasis will be on single-subject designs used primarily in behavior therapy, along with comparisons of treatment groups with waiting list control groups. Students will observe and participate in the use of these procedures in the Claremont Autism Center, which will serve as their clinic milieu. Lecture plus practicum component.
Prerequisites: One lower-division psychology course and permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC119 CM
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PSYC 120 CM - Seminar in Behavior Modification This course offers field experience in the application of behavior modification principles with autistic children at CMC’s Claremont Autism Center. Each student works in a supervised individual capacity in areas such as teaching an individual child, training parents to work with their children, and observing and scoring videotape measures of child and parent interactions. Emphasis is placed on providing students with the opportunity to utilize their knowledge of behavior principles in a real-life setting, participate in research, record behavior, and analyze treatment effectiveness. Lecture plus practicum component.
Prerequisites: One lower-division psychology course and permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC120 CM
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PSYC 122 CM - Seminar in Developmental Psychology This course is designed to provide study in the area of developmental psychology. Explores theories of development, developmental research methodology, physical development, cognitive development, and social development from infancy through adolescence. A practicum component will allow students to relate theory to actual childhood populations through observations and participation in the CMC Children’s School or in local elementary schools. Lectures plus practicum component.
Prerequisite: PSYC 081 CM or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC122 CM
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PSYC 126 CM - Children and Educational Policy In depth analysis on the impact of selected educational policies on children and adolescents’ development, including achievement, motivation, and subsequent labor outcomes. Basic concepts in developmental psychology, education, and applied research designs are reviewed. Readings will include policy briefs, court cases, evaluation reports, and empirical research articles from multiple disciplines including psychology, economics, education, and sociology.
Prerequisite: One lower division psychology course
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC126 CM
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PSYC 129 CM - Child Development in Diverse Contexts Examines the scientific and policy issues surrounding the cognitive, social and physical development of children raised in diverse contexts from infancy to adolescence. Topics include issues surrounding diversity of national origin, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. Course material will focus on the biological and social contributions involved in the study of human diversity, with an emphasis on how these findings may inform public policies that span national and global borders.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC129 CM
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PSYC 131 CM - Special Topics in Psychology This course is designed to offer psychology majors an additional upper level seminar experience in an area specific to a faculty member’s research. The topic of the class will change from semester to semester, and the content will reflect areas not already covered in other upper division psychology seminars. In addition, the Special Topics seminar will endeavor to have a multidisciplinary focus, so that students from other disciplines may be interested in enrolling in the class. Courses will often be cross-listed in other programs.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course or permission of instructor
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC131 CM
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PSYC 132 CM - Personality Psychology The course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the major theories of personality. These theories will be explored by examining the outstanding theorists and their theories in the areas of psychoanalytic, humanistic, behavioral, trait, and cognitive psychology. Although assessment techniques and research relative to each approach will be discussed, the main emphasis of the course will be on the “normal” personality and how it develops and not on pathology.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC132 CM
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PSYC 133 CM - Positive Psychology Positive psychology is the scientific examination and practice of developing methods for the promotion of human potential: to help people confront challenges, appreciate others, and live lives of meaning and purpose. Psychology has had great success in studying and repairing “what went wrong.” Positive psychology explores how to prevent things from “going wrong” in the first place and, more importantly, to develop methods to help things “go right.” This course reviews aspects of personality, social, cognitive, and clinical psychology as well as cognitive and social neuroscience to explore the emerging understanding of subjective well-being, flow, optimism, joy, creativity, strengths, virtues, and happiness, as well as methods for their promotion in our day-to-day lives.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC133 CM
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PSYC 135 CM - Controversies in Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive neuroscience serves as an interface between cognitive psychology (the study of information processing) and neuroscience (the study of the physical brain). In this course, we will discuss “hot” controversies in the field regarding how our brain gives rise to important cognitive activity such as visual perception, attention, executive function, memory, motor control, language, and consciousness. Questions include: Is the recognition of faces special? Do we need our cortex to see? How does the brain make moral judgments? Do we have special brain mechanisms to “hear” music? We will consider evidence from patients with localized brain damage, mind-brain relationships in normal individuals, and functional neuroimaging (e.g. PET, fMRI, EEG/ERP).
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology or neuroscience course
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC135 CM
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PSYC 140 CM - Leadership Examines the broad range of theoretical and empirical literature on effective leadership in organizations. Theories are related to leadership in business, politics, and social movements. Topics include contingency, transactional, transformational, cognitive, gender, and cultural influences on leadership processes; ethical considerations; and integrative approaches.
Prerequisites: PSYC 037 CM or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC140 CM
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PSYC 141 CM - Leading Entrepreneurial Ventures The purpose of this course is to explore the leadership challenges that entrepreneurs face as they build their venture. The course will examine the following topics: 1) sourcing entrepreneurial venture ideas; 2) developing and refining venture ideas; 3) translating ideas into business plans; 4) obtaining financial resources; 5) assembling non-financial resources; 6) leading the psychological dynamics of the entrepreneurial team; 7) managing risk; 8) leading during critical transitions as the enterprise grows and matures; and 9) building an enduring organization and culture. These topics will be presented in a venture life-stage framework. The learning experience includes readings, case studies, and presentations by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC141 CM
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PSYC 145 CM - Psychology of Morality This class will use current psychological research to explore how and why moral thought influences our judgments and actions. We will survey the history and evolution of the field as well as consider the function of moral thought in shaping decision-making across a variety of applied domains (e.g. economics, law, politics, religion).
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC145 CM
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PSYC 150 CM - Child Psychopathology The study of various disorders of childhood ranging from mild behavior problems through autism and childhood schizophrenia. The course will review the description, diagnosis, etiology, and treatment of each disorder and will examine the implications of research findings for education, placement, institutionalization, and public policy.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC150 CM
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PSYC 151 CH - Psychology of Multicultural Education See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC151 CH
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PSYC 153 CM - Asian American Psychology Introduces students to the salient psychological issues of Asian Americans. Taking into account the social, cultural, and historical context of the Asian American experience, this course addresses values and cultural conflict development, acculturation, marriage and gender roles, vocational development, psychopathology, and delivery of mental health services.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC153 CM
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PSYC 154 CM - Seminar in Meditiation, Mindfulness, and Well-Being The practice of meditation and mindfulness is deeply rooted in many Eastern healing traditions. Mindfulness and meditation have been shown to be beneficial for reducing stress, improving mental and physical well-being, and increasing focus and performance outcomes. In addition, the practice of mindfulness has been integrated into Western psychotherapy and evidence-based practices. This course is designed to provide a multifaceted understanding of mindfulness and meditation. We will examine historical and contemporary issues, review and practice different types of mindfulness, examine the physiological underpinnings of mindfulness, and research how mindfulness can be beneficial across a variety of domains. Prerequisite - one previous course in psychology.
One previous course in Psychology
Offered: Annually
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC154 CM
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PSYC 155 CM - Seminar in Ethnic Minority Psychology and Mental Health This course examines the roles and influences of ethnicity, race, and culture on psychology and mental health. Students will learn about intergroup dynamics, racism and White privilege, ethnic identity development, acculturation and immigration, ethnic differences in the expression of distress, differential patterns and barriers to help-seeking, mental health disparities, and ethnocultural issues that influence treatment processes.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC155 CM
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PSYC 158 CM - Seminar in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy This seminar is designed to teach the basics of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Students will learn about the theory underlying CBT and acquire practical skills and clinical techniques. Students will also develop an in-depth understanding of CBT-related research, empirically-supported treatments, and clinical-trial methodology.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC158 CM
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PSYC 161 CM - Seminar in Decision Making and Memory Although we live in an uncertain world, our decisions are influenced in predictable ways. This course is an analysis of the human decision-making process with a unique emphasis on how memory influences that process in both conscious and unconscious ways. Students will learn to understand decision making by appealing to classical theories of decision making as well as theories explaining how our memories and experiences influence our decisions. We will also investigate everyday decision making related to happiness, stress, emotional arousal, social influence, rationality, and legal issues.
Prerequisites: One lower-division psychology course
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC161 CM
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PSYC 162 CM - Seminar in Remembering and Forgetting This course explores the functionality of human memory by critically evaluating both the exceptional powers and peculiar limitations of everyday memory that allow us to reminisce, survive, create, and interact in socially acceptable ways. Important findings and conceptual frameworks in both contemporary and classical theories are discussed. The primary focus is on memory experiences in real-world contexts.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course or permission of instructor
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC162 CM
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PSYC 162 SC - Psychology and Law See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
PSYC 030 CM
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC162 SC
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PSYC 163 SC - Social Psychology and the Legal System See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC163 SC
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PSYC 164 CM - Autobiographical Memory Autobiographical memory encompasses everything we know about our personal past, from general semantic knowledge about ourselves (e.g., one’s birth date) to the most transformative moments of our lives. This course is an in-depth analysis of these self-referential memories. We will tackle the challenges of studying autobiographical memory from a scientific perspective, examining both behavioral and neuroimaging techniques. We will also discuss different research areas within the domain of autobiographical memory such as false memories, functions of personal memories, prospection (imagining the future), flashbulb memories, involuntary memories, collective memory, cultural influences on what we remember, and autobiographical memory across the lifespan.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC164 CM
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PSYC 165 CM - Critical Thinking Students will learn to recognize and apply critical thinking skills which include evaluating arguments, distinguishing fact from opinion, identifying common fallacies (such as the either-or, slippery slope, and straw arguments), using the principles of reasoning and evidence, and understanding how cause is determined. Class materials will be drawn from a wide variety of sources.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC165 CM
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PSYC 177 CM - Organizational Communication and Leadership This course examines the role of communication in the development and perpetuation of organizational culture. The course focuses on the relationship between the organization’s external environment and internal processes, e.g. strategic planning, decision-making, functional specialization, and leadership.
Prerequisites: PSYC 037 CM or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC177 CM
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PSYC 180 CM - Forensic Psychology Examines the interaction of clinical psychology and law. Explores topics such as psychological testimony about insanity, competency to stand trial, child custody decision-making, guardianship, future dangerousness, and civil commitment. Legal standards regarding psychology expert testimony, and policy implications of these legal standards will be discussed.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC180 CM
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PSYC 180M CH - Chicano/Latino Cultural Psychology See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC180M CH
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PSYC 185 CM - Health Psychology The relationship of behavior to such variables as diet, exercise, sleep, stress, and smoking will be studied as factors involved in health and illness. Current psychological techniques for stress and anxiety management; coping with chronic pain; treating addictions; and dealing with medical compliance, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and dying may be included.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC185 CM
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PSYC 187 CM - Practicum in Organizational Intervention This course offers field experience in the assessment of organizational problems and the design of organizational interventions. Over the course of the semester students will work with an outside client to diagnose organizational problems and their associated causes, and to recommend organizational interventions to address these problems. The final product of the course will involve a major written report and a formal presentation of findings to the client organization. Students will have the opportunity to use various software packages including statistical analysis, graphics, presentation, and project management software.
Prerequisites: PSYC 037 CM or permission of the instructor
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC187 CM
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PSYC 188 CM - Psychology and Law Examines psychological assumptions and interpersonal processes in the American legal system. Issues such as police interrogation, plea bargains, jury selection, eyewitness identification, attorney persuasion tactics, jury decision-making, lie detection, the insanity defense, the effectiveness of prisons, and the death penalty are analyzed from a social-psychological perspective.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC188 CM
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PSYC 188 PZ - Seminar: African American Psychology Critically examines contemporary literature in African American psychology. Emphasizes the ideas of leading theorists (e.g. Na’im Akbar, Wade Nobels, Linda Myers) and the research literature on contemporary problems (e.g. teen pregnancy, gangs).
Prerequisite: Introductory Africana Studies psychology course or permission of instructor
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC188 PZ
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PSYC 189 CM - Seminar in Clinical Psychology with Practicum This seminar and practicum course will investigate diagnosis, assessment, and treatment in clinical psychology. It will explore the scientific knowledge that clinical psychologists have developed in these areas as well as critically examine existing weaknesses. Additionally, areas of concern in clinical psychology will be discussed, including: the use of the DSM-IVTR, how to effectively differentially diagnose, issues with psychological testing, the problems inherent in the assessment and treatment of individuals for diverse backgrounds, and the validity of psychotherapy outcome research. The course is designed for upper level psychology majors who are contemplating a career in clinical psychology. The course includes a practicum component where the student will work in a clinical setting 10 hours a week over the course of the semester.
Prerequistite: PSYC 070 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC189 CM
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PSYC 194 PZ - Seminar in Social Psychology This seminar examines current issues in social psychology with an emphasis on personal and social problems. An emphasis is on oral presentations and writing. Enrollment is limited.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, major in psychology and PSYC 10 (or permission of instructor). PSYC 103 or PSYC 104 preferred.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC194 PZ
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PSYC 198 CM - Psychology Senior Research Seminar This course is required of all students conducting year-long empirical senior theses in psychology. Key topics include research planning, literature searches, goal setting, thesis writing, and oral reporting.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC198 CM
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PSYC 199 CM - Independent Study in Psychology Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 0.5 or 1
Course Number: PSYC199 CM
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RLST 010 CM - Introduction to South Asian Religious Traditions A historical study of major South Asian religious traditions, including Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Islam. Comparative methodology used to examine a significant number of specific themes in each religious tradition.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST010 CM
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RLST 015 CM - Myth and Religion This course examines myth in the context of religious thought and how it has been interpreted in ancient and contemporary societies. The course surveys various types of myth and the theoretical understandings of them. Students apply these models of understanding to myths from ancient Babylonian, Greek, Australian, Indian, and Native American traditions.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST015 CM
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RLST 016 PO - Life-Story of the Buddha See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST016 PO
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RLST 020 PO - The Biblical Heritage See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST020 PO
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RLST 021 CM - Jewish Civilization Through readings from classical Jewish texts (e.g. Bible, Talmud, Midrash, philosophy, mysticism), popular literature (e.g. memoirs, short stories), and contemporary scholarship, the course explores the history of Jews and Jewish communities, major textual and intellectual traditions that have defined Jewish life, and the various constructions of Jewish identity articulated through its texts, beliefs, and practices.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST021 CM
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RLST 022 CM - Introduction to Western Religious Traditions Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, this course is a study of major Western religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Comparative methodology used to examine significant themes and issues in each religious tradition.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST022 CM
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RLST 037 CM - History of World Christianity Explores the history of Christianity from Jesus to the present in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Focus on key debates and conflicts over the canon of Scripture, orthodoxy versus heresy, the papacy, church-state conflicts, the crusades, Christian-Muslim-Jewish debates, the Protestant Reformation, Protestant feminism, liberalism, fundamentalism, evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, liberation theology, and key struggles over missions, colonialism, and indigenization.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST037 CM
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RLST 040 PO - Religious Ethics See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST040 PO
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RLST 042 PO - The Art of Living See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST042 PO
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RLST 043 CM - Introduction to Religious Thought A study of such concepts as creation, evil, and the nature of God in recent and contemporary monotheistic traditions.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST043 CM
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RLST 055 CM - Visual Judaism The course examines history of Judaism through the lens of its visual culture, particularly art and architecture. Media such as Jewish sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, ceremonial objects, synagogues, and monuments have often been employed to express central beliefs and to affirm Jewish identity, particularly as minorities interacting with and confronting dominant societies.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST055 CM
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RLST 058 CM - The End of the World As We Know It Apocalypticism remains one of the most potent and enduring dimensions of human religiosity. Apocalyptic symbolism has been implicated in the rise and renewal of major religious traditions, revolutions (of both “secular” and “religious” varieties), and major historical events. The events of the apocalypse have also provided material for some of the most creative expressions of artistic, literary, and cultural phenomena throughout human history. This course explores some of the ways in which the apocalyptic is expressed across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and beyond while also addressing key theoretical concerns in apocalyptic studies.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST058 CM
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RLST 060 SC - Feminist Interpretations of the Bible See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST060 SC
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RLST 061 SC - New Testament and Christian Origins See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST061 SC
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RLST 080 PO - The Holy Fool: the Comic, the Ugly, and Divine Madness See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST080 PO
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RLST 084 CM - Religion, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement The course examines the influence of religion on white supremacy and the civil rights movement in the United States from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. In particular, it explores how religious ideologies, symbols, texts, and narratives were incorporated and employed as strategies and mechanisms for social change in the African American, Mexican American/Chicano, and American Indian (AIM) civil rights struggles. It will focus on how key leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, César Chávez, Ralph Abernathy, Reies López Tijerina, Dolores Huerta, Dennis Banks, and others drew on their religious ideologies, symbols, texts, and counter-narratives in their struggles against white supremacy, segregation, political disenfranchisement, and for civil rights and social justice.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST084 CM
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RLST 090 SC - Early Christian Bodies See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST090 SC
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RLST 091 SC - Heretics, Deviants, and “Others” in Early Christianity See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST091 SC
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RLST 092 SC - Varieties of Early Christianity See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST092 SC
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RLST 093 SC - Early Christianity and/as Theory See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST093 SC
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RLST 100 PO - Worlds of Buddhism See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST100 PO
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RLST 101A CM - Sanskrit and the Indian Epics I – The Mahabharata The course will introduce the basics of Sanskrit grammar that will allow for translation of the classical language and an understanding the importance of Sanskrit as a sacred sound system. Students will apply their study of the language to a reading of the Māhabhārata, including extended sections of the Bhagavad Gita, and Rāmāyana.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST101A CM
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RLST 101B CM - Sanskrit and the Indian Epics II – The Ramayana A continuation of RLST101A, the course will introduce the basics of Sanskrit grammar that will allow for translation of the classical language and an understanding the importance of Sanskrit as a sacred sound system. Students will apply their study of the language to a reading of the Māhabhārata, including extended sections of the Bhagavad Gita, and Rāmāyana.
Prerequisite: RLST 101A CM .
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST101B CM
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RLST 102 CM - Hinduism and South Asian Culture Explores the main ideas, practices, and cultural facets of Hinduism and Indian culture. Emphasis on the historical development of the major strands of Hinduism, from the Vedas to the modern era.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST102 CM
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RLST 103 PO - Religious Traditions of China See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST103 PO
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RLST 104 PO - Religious Traditions of Japan See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST104 PO
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RLST 105 HM - Religions in American Culture See Harvey Mudd Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST105 HM
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RLST 106 PZ - Zen Buddhism An examination of Zen Buddhism, not as a mystical cult, but as a mainstream intellectual and cultural movement in China, Japan, and also in the modern West.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST106 PZ
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RLST 107 PO - Tradition and Innovation in the Making of Modern Chinese Buddhism See the Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST107 PO
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RLST 108 PO - Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asia See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST108 PO
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RLST 109 CM - Readings in the Hindu Tradition This is an advanced, seminar-style course designed for students who already have a background in the Hindu Tradition. Reading and discussion topics are changeable and selected in line with the students’ interests. The course aims to develop the students’ ability to read both primary Hindu texts and academic interpretations of such texts. Emphasis is also placed on writing critical essays.
Prerequisite: RLST 010 CM or RLST 101A CM or RLST 101B CM or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST109 CM
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RLST 111 CM - Rebels, Radicals and Religions on the Margins Students will learn about religions on the margins and how religion served to differentiate some communities from the dominant culture. By examining religious radicals, this course demonstrates various responses from narrating a critical stance against the mainstream to more subtle ways of elevating radical elements as exemplary and positive contributions to larger society. This course will select several case studies from a variety of radicals in the early modern to the modern periods, such as the Anabaptists, Mormons, Davidians, Amish, Al-Qaeda, Sufis, Hasidic Jews, Aum Shinrikyo, Moonies and Hare Krishna.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST111 CM
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RLST 113 HM - God, Darwin, Design in America: A Historical Survey of Religion and Science See the Harvey Mudd College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST113 HM
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RLST 115 CM - Asian American Religions This course explores the role that religion has played in shaping Asian American identity and community through processes of immigration, discrimination, settlement, and generational change. It will analyze how Asian Americans make sense of their Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, Protestant, and Catholic identities, and how their faith communities have been sites of unity and division in the struggle for social change. This interdisciplinary course will draw from historical, sociological, cultural studies, and religious studies sources and examine how race and religion shape discussions of gender, sexuality, violence, trans-nationalism, and popular culture in Asian America.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST115 CM
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RLST 116 PO - The Lotus Sutra in East Asia See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST116 PO
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RLST 117 PO - The World of Mahayana Scriptures: Art, Doctrine, and Practice See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST117 PO
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RLST 118 CM - Hindu Goddess Worship This upper division course is a historical and comparative treatment of devotion to Hindu goddesses from prehistory to the modern era. Topics will include: concepts of gender in the divine, continuations and divergences between textual and popular goddess worship, Shaktism, Tantra, spirit possession, female saints and renunciants, and the relation of human men and women to Hindu goddesses.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST118 CM
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RLST 119 PZ - Religion in Medieval East Asia Survey of the shamanism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Neo-Confucianism of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam during the 10th-15th centuries. Examines religious texts and institutions in the context of socio-historical transformations, such as changing gender roles, church-state relations, growing merchant economies, scientific and technological developments, and foreign relations. Also emphasizes the religious dimensions of East Asian culture, including landscape painting and poetry, theater, and artistic and literary theory.
Prerequisites: RLST 010 CM , RLST 100 PO , RLST 103 PO , or RLST 117 PO or permisison of instructor.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST119 PZ
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RLST 120 CM - The Life of Jesus A survey of the issues surrounding scholarly study of the life of Jesus. Readings from the gospels, and from ancient, modern, and contemporary constructions of the life of Jesus. The gospels will be studied with emphasis on understanding the historical Jesus in his religious and cultural context.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST120 CM
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RLST 121 SC - Pauline Tradition See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST121 SC
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RLST 128 CM - Religion of Islam Introduction to the Islamic tradition; its scripture, beliefs, and practices and the development of Islamic law, theology, philosophy, and mysticism. Special attention will be paid to the emergence of Sunnism, Shi’sm, and Sufism as three diverse expressions of Muslim interpretation and practice, as well as to gender issues and Islam in the modern world.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST128 CM
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RLST 129 CM - Formative Judaism A survey of Jewish history, literature, thought, and practice from the Second Temple period to the early Middle Ages. Particular attention will be given to the formation of classical Jewish ideas and institutions, such as modes of biblical interpretation, the role and authority of rabbis, halakha (Jewish law), synagogue, philosophy, and mysticism.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST129 CM
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RLST 133 PO - Modern Judaism See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST133 PO
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RLST 135 CM - Jerusalem, the Holy City Survey of the religious, political, and cultural history of Jerusalem over three millennia as a symbolic focus of three faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Focus on the transformation of sacred space as reflected by literary and archaeological evidence by examining the testimony of artifacts, architecture, and iconography in relation to the written word. Study of the creation of mythic Jerusalem through the event and experience, and discussion of the implications of this history on Jerusalem’s current political situation.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST135 CM
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RLST 136 CM - Religion in Contemporary America This course explores the religious, spiritual, and sociological trends and developments in American religions since the 1960s with particular attention to race, ethnicity, gender, church-state debates, moral issues, and politics.
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST136 CM
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RLST 137 CM - Jewish-Christian Relations The course will examine the relations between Jews and Christians from antiquity to the present. It will trace the origins of Christian and anti-Judaism, and explore the ways in which Jews and Christians have thought about the other. We shall attempt to understand what issues divided the two communities, how theological, social, political, and racial concepts contributed to the development of anti-Semitism, how Jews have understood Christians and responded to Christian religious and social claims about Jews, and what attempts have been made throughout history, but particularly since the Holocaust, to establish more constructive relations.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST137 CM
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RLST 138 CM - American Religious History This seminar examines the role that religion has played in the history of the United States, and asks students to critically explore how peoples and communities in various places and times have drawn upon religion to give meaning to self, group, and nation. The course will cover a wide range of traditions, including Protestant Christianity, Roman Catholicism, and Judaism, was well as regional, denominational, and racial-ethnic dimensions within these groups. Readings will consist of history monographs, fiction, biography, and scholarly articles.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST138 CM
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RLST 139 PO - Benjamin, Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida: Contemporary Continental Jewish Philosophy See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST139 PO
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RLST 140 PO - The Idea of God See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST140 PO
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RLST 141 PO - The Experience of God: Contemporary Theologies of Transformation See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST141 PO
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RLST 142 AF - The Problem of Evil: African American Engagements with(in) Western Thought See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST142 AF
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RLST 143 CM - Philosophy of Religion An examination of questions such as: (1) Can God’s existence be proved? (2) Is religious faith ever rationally warranted? (3) Are religious propositions cognitively meaningful? (4) Can one believe in a good, omnipotent God in a world containing evil? Readings from historical and contemporary sources. Also listed as PHIL 036 CM .
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST143 CM
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RLST 144 CM - Life, Death, and Survival of Death A study of philosophical and theological answers to questions about death, the possibility of life after death, and the meaning of life. Also listed as PHIL 185 CM .
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST144 CM
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RLST 149 PO - Islamic Thought See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST149 PO
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RLST 152 PO - Ritual and Magic in Children’s Literature Many children’s stories describe a passage from immaturity to individuality and responsibility, and facilitate such a passage in their readers. We study this pattern in various works with a focus on the role of ritual and magic. Our purpose is to arrive at a critical awareness of how the stories work, and to speculate on the residue they leave on our religious sense and hermeneutics.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST152 PO
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RLST 153 CM - Religion and American Politics This seminar will explore major debates and controversies in American religions and politics from the colonial period to the present. Special attention will be paid to debates about the impact of religion on the Constitution; the Bill of Rights; the Declaration of Independence; African American and Latino Civil Rights movements; the Christian Right; Church-State debates; Supreme Court decisions; presidential elections; religion and political party affiliation and voting patterns; women, religion, and politics; and Black, Latino, Jewish, and Muslim faith-based politics and activism.
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST153 CM
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RLST 154 PO - Life, Love, and Suffering in Biblical Wisdom and the Modern World See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST154 PO
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RLST 155 PO - Religion, Ethics, and Social Practice See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST155 PO
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RLST 156 CM - The Protestant Reformation This course examines the origins and developments of the Protestant Reformation in early modern Europe through key reformers like Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, Philip Melanchthon, Katarina Schütz Zell, and Menno Simons as well as leading Catholic reformers like Erasmus and Ignatius of Loyola. It will also analyze key religious and social controversies through post-colonial and gender approaches, as well as the various ways the reformers brought about innovation and religious change within the Christian tradition.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST156 CM
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RLST 157 PO - Philosophical Response to the Holocaust See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST157 PO
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