2012-2013 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MUS 173C JM - Concert Choir A study through rehearsal and performance of choracl music selected from the 16th century to the present, with an emphasis on larger, major works. Advanced singers may also participate in Chamber Singers group. This course is for JR and SR students.
Prerequisite: Audition
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MUS 173C JM
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MUS 173D JM - Concert Choir A study through rehearsal and performance of choral music selected from the 16th century to the present, with an emphasis on larger, major works. Advanced singers may also participate in Chamber Singers group. This course is for JR and SR students.
Prerequisite: Audition
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MUS 173D JM
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MUS 174A JM - Chamber Choir A study of choral music from 1500 to the present, with emphasis on those works composed for performances of a choral chamber nature. Students singing in the Chamber Choir also sing in the Concert Choir, attending one rehearsal per week of Concert Choir. This course is for FR and SO.
Prerequisite: Audition
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MUS 174A JM
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MUS 174B JM - Chamber Choir A study of choral music from 1500 to the present, with emphasis on those works composed for performances of a choral chamber nature. Students singing in the Chamber Choir also sing in the Concert Choir, attending one rehearsal per wekk of Concert Choir. This course is for FR and SO.
Prerequisite: Audition
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MUS 174B JM
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MUS 174C JM - Chamber Choir A study of choral music from 1500 to the present, with emphasis on those works composed for performances of a choral chamber nature. Students singing in the Chamber Choir also sing in the Concert Choir, attending one rehearsal per week of Concert Choir. This course is for JR and SR.
Prerequisite: Audition
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MUS 174C JM
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MUS 174D JM - Chamber Choir A study of choral music from 1500 to the present, with emphasis on those works composed for performances of a choral chamber nature. Students singing in the Chamber Choir also sing in the Concert Choir, attending one rehearsal per wekk of Concert Choir. This course is for JR and SR.
Prerequisite: Audition
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MUS 174D JM
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MUS 175A JM - The Claremont Concert Orchestra The study, through lecture, discussion, rehearsal, and performance, of styles and techniques appropriate for the historically accurate performance of instrumental works intended for the orchestra. Repertoire will include works from the mid-18th century to the present with special emphasis on the classical and romantic periods. This course is for FR and SO.
Prerequisite: Audition
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MUS 175A JM
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MUS 175B JM - The Claremont Concert Orchestra The study, through lecture, discussion, rehearsal, and performance, of styles and techniques appropriate for the historically accurate performance of instrumental works intended for the orchestra. Repertoire will include works from the mid-18th century to the present with special emphasis on the classical and romantic periods. This course is for FR and SO.
Prerequisite: Audition
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MUS 175B JM
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MUS 175C JM - The Claremont Concert Orchestra The study, through lecture, discussion, rehearsal, and performance, of styles and techniques appropriate for the historically accurate performance of instrumental works intended for the orchestra. Repertoire will include works from the mid-18th century to the present with special emphasis on the classical and romantic periods. This course is for JR and SR.
Prerequisite: Audition
Offered: Every Fall
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MUS 175C JM
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MUS 175D JM - The Claremont Concert Orchestra The study, through lecture, discussion, rehearsal, and performance, of styles and techniques appropriate for the historically accurate performance of instrumental works intended for the orchestra. Repertoire will include works from the mid-18th century to the present with special emphasis on the classical and romantic periods. This course is for JR and SR.
Prerequisite: Audition
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MUS 175D JM
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Neuroscience |
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NEUR 095 JT - Foundations of Neuroscience An introduction to the nervous system and behavior that explores fundamental issues in neuroscience from a variety of perspectives. Emphasis will be placed on technological advances, experiments, and methodologies that have most influenced our understanding of the nervous system. The class will be divided into three groups that will rotate through four 3-week modules covering the history and philosophy of neuroscience, the electrical nature of the nervous system, the chemical nature of the nervous system, and cognition and the nervous system. The course will end with a final integrative module that brings together fundamental principles developed throughout the course. Intended primarily for first- and second-year students. Permission of instructor required of third- and fourth-year students. Lecture, discussion, and laboratory.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: NEUR095 JT
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Philosophy |
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PHIL 030 CM - Philosophical Questions This course offers an introduction to philosophy. Some instructors focus primarily on historical texts, while others focus on contemporary readings; some survey a range of philosophical questions, while others compare how different authors deal with one core topic. All courses focus on teaching philosophical methods, including the skills of interpreting and evaluating arguments in a rigorous fashion.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL030 CM
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PHIL 033 CM - Political Philosophy This course challenges students to critically evaluate some of the most difficult political issues facing society. It provides an introduction to the problems themselves and to the logical methods that enable us to better resolve them. Specific topics may include: the source of governmental authority, economic and political rights, and international justice. The course may discuss abstract theories or specific political problems.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL033 CM
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PHIL 034 CM - Moral and Political Issues This course challenges students to critically evaluate some of the most difficult moral problems facing society. It provides an introduction to the problems themselves and to the logical methods that enable us to better resolve them. Specific topics may include: global poverty, war and terrorism, capital punishment, abortion, human cloning, environmental ethics, and animal rights.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL034 CM
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PHIL 036 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 RLST 143 CM .
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL036 CM
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PHIL 095 CM - Fundamentals of Logic An introduction to formal techniques for evaluating arguments. These techniques include truth tables, natural deduction for propositional logic, natural deduction for predicate logic, and introductory model theory. The goal of the course is not only for students to develop skill with these formal systems, but also for them to develop an understanding of what it means to reason logically.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL095 CM
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PHIL 100A CM - Classical Philosophy This course introduces students to some of the earliest, most profound, and most influential thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition. The focus of the course is methodological, its goal to teach students skills which will enable them to develop their own interpretation and critiques of classical philosophical texts. We will focus on the works of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and the Skeptics. Some of the questions we will address will be what philosophy is, what one should aim at in life, what kinds of things exist, and what can be known.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL100A CM
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PHIL 100C CM - Early Modern Philosophy This course serves as an introduction to philosophy during the 17th and 18th centuries, the beginning of the modern period. Readings are drawn from central works by philosophers such as Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. We will focus especially on epistemology (including skeptical and anti-skeptical arguments) and metaphysics (including issues concerning the nature of reality, the nature of the mind, freedom of the will, and the existence and nature of God).
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL100C CM
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PHIL 100D CM - 19th-Century Philosophy This course focuses on major figures in 19th-century European (post-Kantian) philosophy, including readings by Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and others. Topics will include theory of knowledge, morality, theology, and theories of freedom.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL100D CM
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PHIL 101B CM - Classical Ethical Theory: Plato Plato is considered the first philosopher in the Western tradition to propose significant theories in ethics, moral psychology and political philosophy. This course will focus on a close reading of Platonic dialogues such as the Protagoras, the Republic and the Statesman. We will examine Plato’s views on virtue and vice, psychological conflict, our moral obligations to others, and the political role of the philosopher. We will assess Plato’s views for their philosophical merit, as well as discuss their influence on subsequent philosophers.
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL101B CM
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PHIL 101C CM - Classical Ethical Theory: Aristotle Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most significant texts in the history of philosophy; it has also proved enormously influential in 20th-century ethical theorizing. This course will focus on a close reading of Aristotle’s Ethics. We will also assess Aristotle’s views for their philosophical merit and discuss their relation to contemporary virtue ethics. Some topics we will focus on will be the relation of virtue to happiness, the role of intellectual activity in the good life, the doctrine of the mean, Aristotle’s analysis of weakness of will, and the nature and significance of friendship.
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL101C CM
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PHIL 101D CM - Classical Ethical Theory: Stoics, Skeptics, and Epicureans How should I live my life? What are my moral obligations? How do I sustain my moral commitments in situations of temptation and duress? The Greek and Roman philosophers of the Hellenistic period (4th century BC to 2nd century AD) pursued these questions in one of the most vigorous and probing debates in the history of Western philosophy. The Stoics identified happiness with virtue, the Epicureans with pleasure, and the Skeptics with the acceptance of one’s intellectual limitations. This course will focus on a close study of these three schools of philosophy. We will study the writings of figures ranging from Epictetus, a freed slave, to Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor.
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL101D CM
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PHIL 103 CM - Nietzsche An introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy. Topics include Nietzsche’s accounts of the problem of nihilism, the eternal recurrence, the death of God, his critique of morality, and his perspectivism. The emphasis will be on Nietzsche’s late works. Some discussion of interpretations of Nietzsche by later philosophers.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL103 CM
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PHIL 106 CM - Kant This course examines the philosophy of Kant. We pay special attention to Kant’s influential masterpiece, the Critique of Pure Reason. Topics include the nature and limits of our knowledge, freedom of the will, and Kant’s “transcendental idealism.”
Prerequisite: One prior course in philosophy or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL106 CM
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PHIL 108 CM - Hegel This class focuses on Hegel’s philosophy, which stands at the crossroads between Early Modern Philosophy and later figures such as Marx, Nietzsche and Heidegger. We pay special attention to extremely difficult readings from the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Science of Logic. Topics include the nature of dialectic, the struggle for recognition and the dialectic of lordship and bondage, freedom of the will, Hegel’s criticisms of Kant, the laws of nature, teleological explanation, and Hegel’s account of “absolute knowledge.”
Prerequisite: One prior course in philosophy or permission of instructor
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL108 CM
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PHIL 126 CM - Metaphysics An introduction to the basic questions regarding existence: What is there? What is it like? Topics include the nature of the self and the mind, the existence of God, particulars and universals, necessity and possibility, the nature of truth, and the possibility of free will.
Prerequisite: One prior course in philosophy or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL126 CM
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PHIL 127 CM - History of Metaphysics This class surveys the history of metaphysics. Topics covered may include: Arguments for and against the existence of God; Accounts of universals including Plato’s forms; atomism; monism; causation; the laws of nature; time; the existence of a fundamental level of reality. Also, we address arguments that metaphysics is objectionable because it is either not meaningful, knowable, of pragmatic relevance, or a symptom of a broader problem. Figures may include: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Ockham, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Hegel, Nietzsche, Bradley, McTaggart, Russell, Dewey, Heidegger.
Offered: Every other year
Course Number: PHIL127 CM
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PHIL 128 CM - The Metaphysics of Persons This course investigates how we should conceive of ourselves as persons. What is a person, and what is it that makes someone the same person over time? Is there such a thing as the self, and if so, can it be conceived of as a unified entity? We will also explore the relationship between the metaphysical nature of persons and various important moral, legal, medical, and psychological issues.
Prerequisite: One prior course in philosophy or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL128 CM
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PHIL 132 CM - Philosophy of Cognitive Science Cognitive science is the study of cognition (and specific cognitive capacities, such as reasoning, perception, and language) by researchers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy. This course introduces the main issues involving the field’s unifying concept: information processing. What does it mean to say the mind is a computer? What other models of information processing are there? How well do these models explain cognitive phenomena?
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL132 CM
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PHIL 134 CM - Special Topics in Metaphysics and Epistemology This course covers special topics in metaphysics and epistemology, considered broadly to include philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. The course content changes each time the course is offered.
Prerequisite: One prior course in philosophy.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL134 CM
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PHIL 135 CM - Philosophy of Mind An exploration of problems concerning the nature of the mind. The main topic of the course will be the mind-body problem: Is there a mind (or a soul) that is distinct from the body? Related topics include: What is the nature of consciousness? Can computers think? How can we know of the existence of other minds?
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL135 CM
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PHIL 136 CM - Belief, Justification, and Religion This course will explore various justifications that have been offered for religious belief. We will begin with a general survey of the ways in which beliefs can be justified. We will then ask whether religious belief fits one or more of these categories. We will look at traditional approaches to justifying religious belief—such as the design argument and Pascal’s wager—as well as modern approaches—such as Plantinga’s “reformed epistemology” and appeals to research on happiness. We will conclude by asking whether belief per se is really a core part of being religious.
Prerequisite: One prior course in philosophy or permission of instructor
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL136 CM
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PHIL 137 CM - Skepticism Skepticism about a particular subject matter is the view that nothing can be known about that subject matter. This course surveys various types of skepticism–such as external-world skepticism, religious skepticism, moral skepticism, and scientific skepticism–and the interesting relationships among them. We will also be paying close attention to the way in which skepticism interacts with more practical matters–e.g., if you have no reason to believe that the external world exists, do you still have reason to get out of bed in the morning?
Prerequisite: One previous course in philosophy or consent of the instructor.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL137 CM
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PHIL 139 CM - Language and Reality An exploration of issues in the philosophy of language and, in particular, the relation between language and the world. Topics to be discussed include: the nature of meaning, the nature of thought, and the reference of proper names and definite descriptions. Readings will be drawn primarily from late 19th-century and 20th-century sources.
Prerequisite: One prior course in philosophy or permission of instructor
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL139 CM
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PHIL 141 CM - Free Will, Responsibility, and Determinism This course focuses on philosophical issues concerning freedom of the will, responsibility and determinism. Do we have a free will? Is free will compatible with determinism? What are we doing when we deliberate about what do do? Would it make sense to believe determinism is true and yet still deliberate about what to do? What is it to hold someone responsible? Is this compatible with determinism? What is determinism? Is it true? Can punishment be justified in a manner consistent with reflection on the nature of freedom of the will, responsibility, and determinism?
Prerequisite: One prior course in philosophy or permission of instructor
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL141 CM
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PHIL 158 CM - Ethical Theory This course will address the question “What makes an action moral or immoral?” In the process of answering it, students will be introduced to the techniques that philosophers use to resolve ethical problems and to some of the greatest works of ethical philosophy in the Western canon, including works by Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill.
Prerequisite: One prior course in philosophy or permission of instructor
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL158 CM
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PHIL 160 CM - Special Topics in Value Theory This course covers special topics in value theory, including special topics in ethical theory, applied ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics. Course content changes each time the course is offered.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL160 CM
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PHIL 164 CM - Political Philosophy: Current Debates The government taxes you and regulates your everyday behavior in countless ways. It claims the right to draft you into the military and may fine or jail you if you commit a crime. What, if anything, gives it the right to do these things? What are the limits on state power? What obligations does a state have to its citizens, and what obligations do citizens have to the state? In this course, we’ll look at recent work in political philosophy addressing the appropriate relationship between a state and its citizens. Readings from Rawls, Nozick, Hayek, Cohen, Sandel, and others.
Prerequisite: One previous course in philosophy or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL164 CM
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PHIL 165 CM - Global Justice, World Poverty, and Human Rights This course introduces students to the subject of global justice by (i) familiarizing them with the major theories of domestic justice, (ii) exploring the ways in which political theorists have extended these theories to the global arenas, and then (iii) challenging the students to re-think and make consistent their own opinions on such matters as global justice, world poverty, and human rights. Specific topics may include: global democracy, world governance, business and globalization, the distribution of wealth, the conduct of war, and terrorism.
Prerequisite: One prior course in philosophy or permission of instructor.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL165 CM
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PHIL 166 CM - Political Philosophy: The Social Contract Tradition Many contemporary views - both liberal and conservative - about the nature, purpose, and proper role of government can be traced directly back to a number of figures in the 17th and 18th centuries, who gave birth to what is frequently called the social contract tradition. In this course, we’ll read the works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant, supplemented by selections from their contemporaries and philosophical descendants. Our aim will be to understand these works both on their own terms, and as foundations for today’s political debates.
Prerequisite: One previous course in philosophy or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL166 CM
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PHIL 167 CM - Theism, Naturalism, and Morality Debates between theists and atheists typically focus on (1) naturalistic evolution and (2) the problem of evil (i.e. the tension between the existence of suffering and an all good god). These issues raise difficult questions concerning morality. Naturalists charge that any god willing to allow suffering is too immoral to be worthy of worship; theists counter that naturalistic evolution leaves no place for morality at all. This course will explore the moral implications of theism and naturalism. We will look at historically important religious and naturalistic accounts of morality, and we will explore the recent research on the (alleged) evolution of our moral sensibilities.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL167 CM
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PHIL 176 CM - Philosophy of Law Participants in this course will first examine prominent theories of law, including positivism and recent variations upon natural law and legal realist approaches. We then proceed to the study of alternative approaches to statutory (including constitutional) interpretation, theories of tort law, and theories of punishment.
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL176 CM
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PHIL 183 CM - Aesthetics of Literature The principal question of the course is: what, if anything, makes one work of literature superior to another? Readings are varied, and may include classic and modern philosophical work on aesthetics, the reflections of authors on how best to write, and specific works of fiction. Students will be asked to examine their instincts about the merits of certain works of fiction and to determine whether those instincts can be transformed into a single coherent theory of the aesthetics of literature.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL183 CM
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PHIL 185 CM - Life, Death, and Survival of Death A study of philosophical and theological answers to questions about death and the meaning of life. Also listed as RLST 144 CM .
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL185 CM
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PHIL 186 CM - Bioethics An exploration of ethical issues arising in the biological sciences and in the practice of medicine. Topics discussed may include abortion, euthanasia, human experimentation, genetic and reproductive intervention, and allocation of scarce medical resources. Intended especially but not exclusively for juniors and seniors concentrating in pre-medicine, biology, or philosophy.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL186 CM
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PHIL 188 CM - Philosophy Through Science Fiction Philosophers have long turned to science fiction to help bring into focus the abstract ideas with which we deal. This class uses the works of Asimov, Bradbury, Dick, Heinlein, Le Guin, and Zelazny (among others) to explore some of the most fundamental philosophical problems facing humankind. Questions to be considered will be drawn from among the following: What is the moral status of machines? Can we have free will? How can we know we’re not dreaming? Is time travel conceptually coherent? What are the philosophical implications of our increasing reliance on technology?
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL188 CM
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PHIL 198 CM - Senior Seminar in Philosophy Readings and discussions centered around important topics of current philosophical interest. Required of CMC senior philosophy majors; admission to others by permission of instructor.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHIL198 CM
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PHIL 199 CM - Independent Study in Philosophy 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: PHIL199 CM
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Physics |
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PHYS 030L KS - General Physics A first-year general physics course introducing mechanics, sound, fluids, wave motion, heat, electricity, magnetism, atomic physics, relativity, and nuclear physics. This course is designed for majors in fields other than physics, chemistry, or engineering. This course has a laboratory fee.
Prerequisite: MATH 030 CM (or concurrent enrollment), or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS030L KS
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PHYS 031L KS - General Physics A first-year general physics course introducing mechanics, sound, fluids, wave motion, heat, electricity, magnetism, atomic physics, relativity, and nuclear physics. This course is designed for majors in fields other than physics, chemistry, or engineering. This course has a laboratory fee.
Prerequisite: PHYS 030L KS ; MATH 030 CM (or concurrent enrollment), or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS031L KS
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PHYS 033L KS - Principles of Physics A first-year general physics course designed for physics, chemistry, and engineering majors. Topics include Newtonian mechanics, gravitation, fluids, wave motion, electrical measurements, DC and AC circuits, Maxwell’s equations, and light. This course has a laboratory fee.
Prerequisites: MATH 030 CM or equivalent preparation; MATH 031 CM (or concurrent enrollment), or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS033L KS
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PHYS 034L KS - Principles of Physics A first-year general physics course designed for physics, chemistry, and engineering majors. Topics include Newtonian mechanics, gravitation, fluids, wave motion, electrical measurements, DC and AC circuits, Maxwell’s equations, and light. This course has a laboratory fee.
Prerequisites: PHYS 033L KS ; MATH 030 CM or equivalent preparation; MATH 031 CM (or concurrent enrollment), or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS034L KS
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PHYS 035 KS - Modern Physics An introductory modern physics course designed as a continuation for PHYS 033L KS , PHYS 034L KS . Topics include thermodynamics, relativity, atomic physics, elementary quantum mechanics, chemical bonding, solid state physics, band theory and appropriate applications.
Prerequisites: PHYS 034L KS or both semesters of AISS; MATH 032 CM (or concurrent enrollment)
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS035 KS
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PHYS 077L KS - Great Ideas in Science This course surveys a number of fundamental ideas in science that have revolutionized our modern conception of Nature and challenged our understanding of our place in the natural world. Examples include: Big Bang Theory, evolution, genomics and cloning, chaos theory, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, quantum mechanics, debates about global warming, the analysis of risk and coincidence, game theory. Underlying scientific principles as well associated public policy issues will be described. The course will be co-taught by faculty from multiple scientific disciplines. This course has a laboratory fee.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS077L KS
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PHYS 079L KS - Energy and the Environment Examination of the options available for meeting projected U.S. and global energy requirements. Consideration of resources and conversion and consumption patterns, thermodynamic limitations, immediate and long-range engineering options, environmental consequences. Topics include conservation, fossil fuel, nuclear, geothermal, and solar energy systems. This course has a laboratory fee. Also listed as ENGR079L HM.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS079L KS
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PHYS 100 KS - Computational Physics and Engineering This course is a comprehensive introduction to the application of computational techniques to physics and engineering. It provides direct experience in using computers to model physical systems and it develops a minimum set of algorithms needed to create physics and engineering simulations on a computer. Such algorithms are employed to solve nontrivial, real world problems through the investigation of seven major projects. Students will use MatLab computer mathematical software. No prior computer course is assumed.
Prerequisites: PHYS 033L KS and PHYS 034L KS or both semesters of AISS; MATH 030 CM , MATH 031 CM
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS100 KS
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PHYS 101 KS - Intermediate Mechanics The applications of classical mechanics to statics and dynamics of rigid bodies, central force motions, and oscillators. Numerical analysis, Lagrangian methods, and nonlinear approximation techniques will be used.
Prerequisites: PHYS 033L KS and MATH 111 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS101 KS
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PHYS 102 KS - Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism An upper division course in electrodynamics using analytical, but emphasizing numerical, techniques to solve problems. Topics include electrostatic solutions using Laplace’s and Poisson’s equations, polarization, magnetostatics, magnetization, Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic waves, and electromagnetic radiation.
Prerequisites: PHYS 034L KS or both semesters of AISS; PHYS 100 KS (or equivalent); MATH 032 CM , or permission of instructor
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS102 KS
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PHYS 105 KS - Computational Partial Differential Equations A survey with examples of modern numerical techniques for investigating a range of elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic partial differential equations central to a wide variety of applications in science, engineering, and other fields.
Prerequisites: Entry-level programming, differential equations, scientific computing or equivalent courses, or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS105 KS
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PHYS 107 KS - Materials Science An introductory examination of materials and their properties. Topics covered include: atomic packing and crystal structure, elastic and plastic deformation of metals, strengths of materials, ceramics, polymers, electric properties of semiconductors, piezoelectricity, paramagnetism and ferromagnetism.
Prerequisites: PHYS 033L KS and PHYS 034L KS or both semesters of AISS
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS107 KS
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PHYS 108 KS - Programming for Science and Engineering This course is a comprehensive introduction to programming using MatLab, the primary language of engineering computations. It covers control constructs, internal and external procedures, array manipulations, user-defined data structures, and recursion. These elements are used to develop some computational techniques in engineering. No prior computer experience is required.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS108 KS
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PHYS 114 KS - Quantum Mechanics: A Numerical Methods Approach Introductory upper-level quantum mechanics using analytical, but emphasizing numerical, methods to solve problems. Both Shrodinger’s wave mechanics and Heisenberg’s matrix formulation of quantum mechanics are used. Topics include: eigenvectors and eigenvalues tunneling, Koenig-Penney model, harmonic oscillator, WKB approximation, spin and Pauli matrices, hydrogen atom and Hatree-Falk approximation, Dirac notation, eigenvalue perturbation method (non-degenerate, degenerate, and time-dependent), Fermi’s Golden rule, and variational approximation.
Prerequisites: PHYS 100 KS (or equivalent), MATH 111 CM , or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS114 KS
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PHYS 115 KS - Statistical Mechanics with Numerical Approach and Application This course covers, at the junior-senior level, statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Standard topics include the laws of thermodynamics, kinetic theory, classical statistical mechanics and its connection to thermodynamics, quantum statistical mechanics and its applications. In addition, numerical techniques are implemented and used to solve realistic thermodynamics problems in the computer lab.
Prerequisites: PHYS 033L KS and PHYS 034L KS or both semesters of AISS, PHYS 100 KS (or equivalent), and MATH 111 CM .
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS115 KS
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PHYS 178 KS - Biophysics An examination of biological systems from the point of view of classical physics, including mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism. Topics may include molecular diffusion, low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics, cooperative transitions in biomolecules, the mechanism of nerve impulses, the physics of vision and hearing, and principles of medical imaging and radiation therapy.
Prerequisites: BIOL 043L KS ; CHEM 014L KS & CHEM 015L KS or CHEM 029L KS ;PHYS 030L KS & PHYS 031L KS or PHYS 033L KS & PHYS 034L KS ; or both semesters of AISS ; or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS178 KS
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PHYS 188L KS - - Senior Thesis Research Project in Physics Seniors may apply to do laboratory or field investigation with a faculty member. The topic should be chosen by the end of the junior year. In this course, library and lab materials are developed, research begun, and seminar discussion held with faculty members and students in the field of concentration. This is the first course for students doing a two-semester senior project. Registration in this course will be followed by registration in PHYS 190L KS . This course has a laboratory fee.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS188L KS
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PHYS 189L KS - Senior Thesis Summer Research Project in Physics Students who intend to satisfy a two-semester senior thesis project by conducting a substantial research project during the summer after their junior year should enroll in this course in the fall semester following their research. No credit towards graduation will be awarded for this course. Typically registration in this course will be followed by registration in PHYS 190L KS . Graded CR/NC.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 0
Course Number: PHYS189L KS
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PHYS 190L KS - Senior Thesis Research Project in Physics, Second Semester Senior laboratory or field investigation research is culminated and results are summarized in a written thesis and formal presentation. This is the second-semester course for those doing a two-semester research thesis. This course has a laboratory fee.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS190L KS
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PHYS 191 KS - One-Semester Thesis in Physics All students who intend to complete a one-semester thesis should enroll in this course. Students are required both to submit a substantive written thesis—which may involve experimental work, analysis of datasets previously collected by other researchers, or a critical analysis of the literature—and to make a formal presentation. Students register for this course during the semester in which the one-semester thesis is written and due.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: PHYS191 KS
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PHYS 199 KS - Independent Study in Physics Students who have the necessary qualifications, and who wish to investigate in depth an area not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange with a faculty member for independent study under his or her direction. A limited opportunity open to all students with permission of instructor.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 0.5 or 1
Course Number: PHYS199 KS
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PPE 001A CM - Philosophy Seminar An interdisciplinary double course, seminar- and tutorial-based, that focuses on social theory, ethics, and theories of knowledge.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PPE 001A CM
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PPE 001B CM - Philosophy Tutorial An interdisciplinary double course, seminar- and tutorial-based, that focuses on social theory, ethics, and theories of knowledge.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PPE 001B CM
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PPE 011A CM - Politics Seminar A double course, seminar- and tutorial-based, that focuses on selected topics in policy.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: PPE 011A CM
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PPE 011B CM - Politics Tutorial A double course, seminar- and tutorial-based, that focuses on selected topics in policy.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PPE 011B CM
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PPE 110A CM - Economics Seminar A double course, seminar- and tutorial-based, that focuses on selected topics in economic theory and public policy.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PPE 110A CM
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PPE 110B CM - Economics Tutorial A double course, seminar- and tutorial-based, that focuses on selected topics in economic theory and public policy.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PPE 110B CM
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Political Studies |
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POST 107 CH - Latino Politics The role of Latinos in the American political process will be examined. Latino political empowerment movements will be analyzed with a focus on political culture/voter participation; organizational development in the different Latino subgroups; leadership patterns, strategy, and tactics; and other issues impacting the Latino community.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: POST107 CH
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POST 174 CH - US Immigration Policy and Transnational Politics Examines the factors shaping the size and composition of past and contemporary immigration flows to the U.S. Areas examined include the role of economics, social networks, policy, and politics in shaping immigration flows and the process by which immigrants simultaneously participate in the politics of sending and receiving countries.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: POST174 CH
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Politics |
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POLI 118 SC - Politics, Economics and Culture of Korea This course is an intensive introduction to North and South Korea, with their interlocking histories and greatly divergent economic, political, and social realities. The course pays special attention to the impact of U.S. foreign policy on Korean national formation and Korean American identity and community formation.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: POLI118 SC
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POLI 127 SC - Asian American Politics Examines the intersection between Asian Americans and the politics of race and ethnicity. Central to the course is the claim that understanding race is critical to understanding American politics and that any sophisticated analysis of race must include the role of Asians in America.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: POLI127 SC
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POLI 143 SC - Civil Liberties and Fundamental Rights While civil liberties protect the individual from coercive power by outlining what the government must not do, civil rights protect the individual from coercive power by obligating the government to take positive action. This course examines civil liberties and civil rights in American public law and jurisprudence.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: POLI143 SC
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POLI 144 SC - Legal Storytelling and the Rule of Law This course examines the competing claims of “legalism” (with its emphasis on formal rules and neutral principles) and “legal storytelling” (which prioritizes subjective experiences of the law as actually practiced) regarding questions of race, gender, and justice in American constitutional law. Through close readings of both literary and legal texts, the course adopts a humanistic approach to legal scholarship, locating the force of law within its discursive and rhetorical dimensions. Topics to be discussed include: rights to privacy, sexuality, and reproductive freedom; sexual harassment and racist speech; anti-discrimination, integration, and affirmative action.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: POLI144 SC
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PSYC 012 AF - Introduction to African American Psychology This course provides an introduction to African American psychology. It includes perspectives, education, community, life span development, gender, and related issues. The course emphasizes the critical examination of current research and theory. Students are expected to contribute orally and in writing.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC012 AF
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PSYC 030 CM - Introduction to Psychology A survey of the major areas of scientific psychology including such topics as perception, learning, motivation, child development, personality, social behavior, and abnormal psychology.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC030 CM
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PSYC 037 CM - Organizational Psychology Applies psychological theory and research to problems of work and other organizations. Topics include individual motivation and satisfaction, group dynamics and productivity, leadership, organizational structure, and the effects of external environments on internal organizational processes.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC037 CM
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PSYC 040 CM - Cognitive Psychology Introduction to the experimental study of the human mind. In this course the mind is studied as a complex system that processes information. Topics include attention, perception, learning, memory, language processing, problem solving, and reasoning.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC040 CM
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PSYC 065 CM - Behavioral Psychology Introduction to applied behavioral analysis. Course material includes the broad implications of behaviorism and the application of behavior modification techniques to a wide range of individuals from children to psychotic adults, and in various settings from the home to the organization.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC065 CM
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PSYC 070 CM - Abnormal Psychology Explores the etiology, assessment, and treatment of the major classes of psychological disorders, including mood, psychotic, substance use, anxiety, eating, and personality disorders. Special topics include problems in defining “abnormality,” risks and benefits of psychiatric diagnosis, research methods, and ethical issues.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC070 CM
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PSYC 081 CM - Developmental Psychology Explores the development of the child from infancy through adolescence. Topics include theoretical foundations of development, prenatal development, physical development, cognition and intelligence, and the role of parents, peers, and school in social and emotional development.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC081 CM
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PSYC 084 CH - Psychology of the Chicano/a See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC084 CH
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PSYC 092 CM - Social Psychology An introduction to theories and principles that describe how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. Topics include attitudes, people’s explanations of social behaviors, conformity, persuasion, attraction, aggression, and prejudice.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC092 CM
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PSYC 096 CM - Neuropsychology Can a college professor who suffered a stroke really mistake his wife for a hat? In this course, the complex relationship between the brain and cognitive functions will be introduced. Students will learn about what parts of the brain are involved in different aspects of psychological functions, such as facial recognition, language, emotions, or memory. Clinical cases of patients who suffered different types of brain damage will be discussed along with the study of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC096 CM
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PSYC 097 CM - Sensation and Perception We often say that “seeing is believing,” but how exactly does the brain construct a vivid 3D representation of the world from rays of light falling onto the eye? In this class, we will examine how sensory input from the external environment is transformed into the sensations of color, motion, depth, and form. Through readings, demonstrations, and the occasional experiment, we will explore how basic neural codes give rise to the perception of complex objects, and how these percepts are affected by high-level processes such as attention.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC097 CM
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PSYC 107 CM - Neuroeconomics The emerging discipline of neuroeconomics combines approaches from psychology, economics, and neuroscience in order to better understand how decision-making is implemented in the brain. In this course, we will discuss basic concepts and seminal findings in this nascent research area, including the neural representation of value, decision-making under risk and uncertainty, and strategic interaction and social reward. Cross-listed as ECON 107 CM .
Prerequisites: One lower-division psychology course and ECON 050 CM .
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC107 CM
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PSYC 109 CM - Introduction to Statistics for Psychologists This course emphasizes the role of statistics in psychological research. The course covers both descriptive and inferential statistics and will include: hypothesis testing, the role of sampling distributions, the use of statistical techniques such as t-tests, analysis of variance, correlation, multiple regression, and the use of non-parametric statistics. Throughout the course, students will use computerized statistical packages.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course or permission of instructor
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC109 CM
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PSYC 110 CM - Research Methods Introduction to the logic of research design. Emphasis is on true experiments in the laboratory and the field. Other topics include quasi-experiments, questionnaire construction, systematic observation, archival analysis, and the use of physiological measures. Explores the uses of theory, as well as practical and ethical constraints on psychology research. This course must be taken prior to the senior year.
Prerequisites: One lower-division psychology course; PSYC 109 CM (or equivalent); concurrent enrollment in PSYC 111L CM (PSYC 030 CM is also recommended)
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC110 CM
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PSYC 111L CM - Research Methods Practicum In this companion course to PSYC 110 CM , students apply principles of design to their own research. Students first conduct a team research project, or computerized project, and present their findings in a poster session. Then students conceive and conduct an individual research project. This project entails a review of relevant scientific literature, development of an appropriate research design, data collection, statistical analysis, and interpretation of findings. Research findings are presented both orally and in writing.
Corequisite: Concurrent enrollment in PSYC 110 CM
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC111L CM
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PSYC 116 CM - The Psychology of Child, Family and Work Emphasizes the psychological impact of changing societal influences on children and family structure. Reviews the empirical literature on the impact of current changes and crises in several domains including: school systems, the workplace, child care, and medical services. Main issues identified and debated to generate potential solutions and potential changes in public policies regarding: economic and work related factors, the impact of technological and medical advances, trends in the educational system, and current social crises.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course and one course in statistics
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC116 CM
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PSYC 118 CM - Seminar in Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Overview of theory and research on the psychology of prejudice and intergroup relations, including theories of personality, social categorization, stereotyping, group conflict, group identity, and social dominance. Explores individual, group, and societal factors which lead to prejudice, ways in which members of disadvantaged groups cope with and respond to prejudice, and ways in which prejudice can be reduced.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC118 CM
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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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