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Religious Studies
	RLST199 CM - Independent Study in Religious Studies 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: RLST199 CM
Silicon Valley
	ECON098 CM - Organizing for Innovation This course guides the student through several topics related to organizing for innovation. The material considers how organizational structures, processes and practices impact an organization’s ability to generate innovations and appropriate returns. Links between the course content and the internship are developed. The focus is on innovation in firms, but many of the insights apply to all types of organizations. Silicon Valley Program students only. Letter grade only. Offered: Every semester Credit: 1 Course Number: ECON098 CM
	INT030 CM - Silicon Valley Program Internship Taken as part of the Silicon Valley Program, this course integrates a full-time internship with career coaching, class discussions, and other professional development activities. This course complements the other coursework in the program to enhance the student’s understanding of the strategies and practices of innovative organizations, firm-level innovation ecosystems, high-tech markets and the regional system of innovation in Silicon Valley and the surrounding area. The professional development activities enhance the students’ understanding of and expertise in a set of career readiness competencies. Internships are obtained in consultation with the program director, and host organizations should either be pursuing innovations themselves or supporting the innovative activities of others (e.g. venture capitalists, consultants, law firms, etc.). Silicon Valley Program students only. Letter grade only. Offered: Every semester Credit: 1 Course Number: INT 030 CM
Sociology
	SOC030 CH - Chicanxs-Latinxs in Contemporary Society See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SOC 030 CH
	SOC109 PZ - African American Social Theory See Pitzer College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SOC 109 PZ
	SOC150 AA - Contemporary Asian American Issues See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SOC 150 AA
	SOC150 CH - Chicanxs-Latinxs and Education See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SOC 150 CH
Spanish
	SPAN001 CM - Introductory Spanish Acquisition of basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading, writing, with emphasis on aural comprehension and oral communication. This course includes laboratory work. Letter grade only. Offered: Every fall Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN001 CM
	SPAN002 CM - Continuing Introductory Spanish A continuation of SPAN 001 CM . Acquisition of basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading, writing, with emphasis on aural comprehension and oral communication. Increased emphasis on oral expression and laboratory work each week. Not open to students who have completed SPAN 022 CM . Letter grade only. Prerequisite: SPAN 001 CM or equivalent Offered: Every spring Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN002 CM
	SPAN022 CM - Intensive Introductory Spanish Designed for beginning students with some basic knowledge of the language, who are too advanced for SPAN 001 CM , but do not yet qualify for SPAN 033 CM . Students will complete in one semester the equivalent of SPAN 001 CM and SPAN 002 CM . Includes laboratory work. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: Placement. Offered: Every fall Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN022 CM
	SPAN033 CM - Intermediate Spanish Review and reinforcement of basic skills. Emphasis on conversation, reading, and writing. Course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged). Letter grade only. Prerequisite: SPAN 002 CM or SPAN 022 CM or equivalent Offered: Every semester Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN033 CM
	SPAN044 CM - Advanced Spanish: Contemporary Hispanic Culture and Society Discussion of texts and films concerning literary and social aspects of Spain and Latin America. Development of correct personal style in students’ oral and written expression. Course includes a tutorial session each week (times arranged). Prerequisite: SPAN 033 CM or equivalent Offered: Every semester Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN044 CM
	SPAN101 CM - Introduction to Literary Analysis This class provides students with both the tools for and the practice of interpreting and analyzing texts in Spanish. Students will be given a general overview of pertinent, major literary currents and movements, and will study the major genres: poetry, narrative, theater, and essay. Readings are taken from both Peninsular and Latin American literary traditions. Prerequisite: SPAN 044 CM or equivalent Offered: Every semester Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN101 CM
	SPAN102 CM - Introduction to Latin American Cultural Studies The rubric of cultural studies has created stimulating approaches that go beyond canonical texts in literature or history in order to study society at large. The main area of inquiry of Latin American cultural studies is symbolic production and cultural and social phenomena in present-day Latin America, from art and literature, to sports and media, music, television, and cultural and social institutions. This course will introduce students to the main theoretical, methodological, and themes of contemporary Latin American cultural studies as well as its foremost practitioners (Néstor García Canclini, Jean Franco, Jesús Martin-Barbero, Carlos Monsiváis, Beatriz Sarlo, among others). Prerequisite: SPAN 044 CM or equivalent Offered: Every semester Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN102 CM
	SPAN120A SC - Survey of Spanish Literature I See Scripps College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN120A SC
	SPAN120B CM - Survey of Spanish Peninsular Literature This course introduces students to the literature, history, and visual culture of contemporary Spain from the 18^th to the 21^st centuries. All readings will be in Spanish, although we’ll look at texts originally written in Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Basque. We will study representative novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, and films by Galdós, Campoamor, Bécquer, Unamuno, Lorca, Machado, Laforet, Matute, Cercas, Martín Gaite, and others. We will pay particular attention to the Spanish Civil War and its lasting effects on Spanish culture today. Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM or higher Offered: Every third year Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN120B CM
	SPAN120B SC - Survey of Spanish Literature II See Scripps College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN120B SC
	SPAN125A CM - Introduction to Latin American Literature and Civilization I A survey of the major events and texts of Latin American literature from the colonial period to the present. Readings in selected literary masterpieces coordinated with lectures, visual presentations, and discussions of the various periods. Offered alternately between CMC and Pomona. Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM or higher Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN125A CM
	SPAN125B CM - Introduction to Latin American Literature and Civilization II A survey of the major events and texts of Latin American literature from the colonial period to the present. Readings in selected literary masterpieces coordinated with lectures, visual presentations, and discussions of the various periods. Offered alternately between CMC and Pomona. Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM or higher Offered: Every year Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN125B CM
	SPAN127 CH - Literature Chicana en Español See Scripps College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN127 CH
	SPAN129 CM - The Latin American City This course explores the evolution of cities in Latin America from the pre-Colombian cities in the Andes and Mesoamerica to present day megacities such as Mexico City, Sao Paolo, and Buenos Aires. What is a city? What does the city mean? In cinema, arts, literature, architecture, history, anthropology, and music, we discover Latin American cities as sites of creativity, production and circulation of contested meanings. This course aims to study the complexity, diversity, and richness of past and present urban experiences in Latin America from a cultural perspective. Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM or higher Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN129 CM
	SPAN131 SC - Queer Lives in Latin America See Scripps College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN131 SC
	SPAN140 PO - From Borges to “Literatura Lite”: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN140 PO
	SPAN142 CM - Narrating Neo-Liberalism This course uses the concept of neoliberalism, and some of its main characteristics (the emphasis on individual freedom, a mostly economic understanding of human and social issues, the globalization of Western values and markets, an extractivist and utilitarian view of nature, the explosion of different types of human migration, and the importance of information and media) to map the main currents of contemporary Latin American literature, from the 1980’s to the present. With the help of several contemporary thinkers (like David Harvey, Byung-Chul Han, Néstor García Canclini, Josefina Ludmer, Maristella Svampa), we will read works by Latin America’s key contemporary authors, including Roberto Bolaño, Samantha Schweblin, César Aira, Alberto Fuguet, and Valeria Luiselli, among others.) Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN142 CM
	SPAN142 PO - Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN142 PO
	SPAN148 CM - Special Topics in Spanish Selected topics vary each offering. Offered: Occasionally Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN148 CM
	SPAN153 CM - Political and Social Leadership in Latin America in the 21st Century This course will introduce students to central issues in political and social leadership in Latin America. Over the past decade Latin American nations have experienced often tumultuous change as political power has shifted from traditional white male elites to an increasingly diverse set of stakeholders. In today’s context, such phenomena include the presence of leaders of indigenous descent and female presidents as well as social movements spearheaded by the urban poor, peasants, and students. By examining several specific case studies, the course will seek to contextualize the appearance of these collective actors and the strategies employed to achieve their goals. Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM or higher Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN153 CM
	SPAN153 PO - Spanglish in Context: Bilingualism in the United States See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN153 PO
	SPAN154 SC - Trans-Caribbean Formations: Translating Identity, Race, and Gender in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico See Scripps College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN154 SC
	SPAN158 CM - Revolutions and Revolutionary Thought in Spanish America It could be said that the Latin American countries were created out of a violent revolution. Since then some nations have undergone dramatic revolutions that have radically altered the political, cultural, economic, and social scenes. This course focuses on the literature of (and against) revolutions and on revolutionary thinking throughout Latin America. The specific focus may vary from semester to semester but typically will include an examination of the revolutionary literature of Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, as well as texts produced in countries such as El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, and Argentina, among others. Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM or higher Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN158 CM
	SPAN179 CM - Mexican Cinema in the New Millennium The popularity of Mexican cinema has grown recently, thanks to a number of films that have done very well at the box office and won recognition at international film festivals. This course explores the development of Mexican cinema in the 21^st-century (2000-2010), focusing on the most innovative filmmakers. It examines thematic and stylistic variety in films dealing with history, politics, gender, democracy, and society. We also will consider Mexican filmmakers that are filming in Hollywood such as Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo Del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu as well as the impact of globalization in Mexican film production. Prerequisite: SPAN 044 CM or higher Offered: Every third year Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN179 CM
	SPAN182 CM - Latin American Documentary Cinema This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the thematic and stylistic variety in documentary films from and about Latin America. We will examine a series of questions related to the content, form, and politics of documentary films. The course will include documentaries by Santiago Álvarez, Fernando Birri, Luis Buñuel, Patricio Guzmán, Luis Ospina, Fernando Pérez, Lourdes Portillo, Marta Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Rulfo, Fernando Solanas, Carmen Toscano, Win Wenders, among others. Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM or higher Offered: Every other year Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN182 CM
	SPAN183 SC - Interculturality and Bilingualism in the Andes See Scripps College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: SPAN183 SC
	SPAN199 CM - Independent Study in Spanish Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for an independent study under the direction of a faculty reader. Offered: Every semester Credit: 0.5 or 1 Course Number: SPAN199 CM
Speech
	SPCH061A CM - Speech and Debate A study of reasoned discourses, including argumentation theory and practice, argument anticipation and opposition research, position briefing, evidence evaluation, fallacies, stratagems, and persuasion, applied to current political, social, and economic issues. Students participate in intercollegiate tournaments and campus and public speaking events, including debates and round-table discussions. May be repeated up to four times. Offered: Every semester Credit: 0.5 Course Number: SPCH061A CM
	SPCH061B CM - Speech and Debate A study of reasoned discourses, including argumentation theory and practice, argument anticipation and opposition research, position briefing, evidence evaluation, fallacies, stratagems, and persuasion, applied to current political, social, and economic issues. Students participate in intercollegiate tournaments and campus and public speaking events, including debates and round-table discussions. May be repeated. Offered: Every semester Credit: 0 Course Number: SPCH061B CM
Theatre
	THEA130 PO - Introduction to Directing See Pomona College Catalog for course description. Credit: 1 Course Number: THEA130 PO

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RLST199 CM - Independent Study in Religious Studies

ECON098 CM - Organizing for Innovation

INT030 CM - Silicon Valley Program Internship

SOC030 CH - Chicanxs-Latinxs in Contemporary Society

SOC109 PZ - African American Social Theory

SOC150 AA - Contemporary Asian American Issues

SOC150 CH - Chicanxs-Latinxs and Education

SPAN001 CM - Introductory Spanish

SPAN002 CM - Continuing Introductory Spanish

SPAN022 CM - Intensive Introductory Spanish

SPAN033 CM - Intermediate Spanish

SPAN044 CM - Advanced Spanish: Contemporary Hispanic Culture and Society

SPAN101 CM - Introduction to Literary Analysis

SPAN102 CM - Introduction to Latin American Cultural Studies

SPAN120A SC - Survey of Spanish Literature I

SPAN120B CM - Survey of Spanish Peninsular Literature

SPAN120B SC - Survey of Spanish Literature II

SPAN125A CM - Introduction to Latin American Literature and Civilization I

SPAN125B CM - Introduction to Latin American Literature and Civilization II

SPAN127 CH - Literature Chicana en Español

SPAN129 CM - The Latin American City

SPAN131 SC - Queer Lives in Latin America

SPAN140 PO - From Borges to “Literatura Lite”: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture

SPAN142 CM - Narrating Neo-Liberalism

SPAN142 PO - Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad

SPAN148 CM - Special Topics in Spanish

SPAN153 CM - Political and Social Leadership in Latin America in the 21st Century

SPAN153 PO - Spanglish in Context: Bilingualism in the United States

SPAN154 SC - Trans-Caribbean Formations: Translating Identity, Race, and Gender in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico

SPAN158 CM - Revolutions and Revolutionary Thought in Spanish America

SPAN179 CM - Mexican Cinema in the New Millennium

SPAN182 CM - Latin American Documentary Cinema

SPAN183 SC - Interculturality and Bilingualism in the Andes

SPAN199 CM - Independent Study in Spanish

SPCH061A CM - Speech and Debate

SPCH061B CM - Speech and Debate

THEA130 PO - Introduction to Directing