2012-2013 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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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 under-100 psychology course
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC126 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: Every year
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: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC135 CM
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PSYC 138 CM - The Art and Science of Human Action Both our own actions and those of others influence perception of human action. The goal of this course is to integrate knowledge from art, sports, psychology, kinesiology, neuroscience, biomechanics, and physics to provide insights into understanding what is unique about the human body and its movement. Course topics include: representing the human body, perceiving human action, producing human action, and the aesthetics of human action.
Prerequisite: One lower-division psychology course or neuroscience course or permission of instructor
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC138 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: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC153 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 This course will survey issues in psychology and law including an introduction to the legal system, eyewitness identification, confessions, competence and insanity, jury decision making, victims, and sentencing issues. Basic psychological theory, relevant case law, and methodological issues associated with conducting research in psychology and law will be covered.
Prerequisite: PSYC 030 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC162 SC
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PSYC 163 SC - Social Psychology and the Legal System Judge, jury, and executioner — what are the ways in which these and other legal players are influenced by their social environment? How are their decisions influenced in the same way ours are? In this course, we will investigate how social psychology can help us better understand the legal system.
Prerequisite: PSYC 188 CM recommended
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC163 SC
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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 and permission of instructor
Offered: Occasionally
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 186 CM - Seminar in Organizational Development Examines theories of organizational development and change from the perspective of individuals and groups in organizations, as well as from a structural or organization design perspective. Basic concepts in organizational theory and applied behavioral science are reviewed. Examples of organizational development interventions are examined using case studies and experimental learning activities. Includes an overview of strategies to measure the effectiveness of organizational development techniques.
Prerequisite: PSYC 037 CM or GOVT 121 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: PSYC186 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 and permission of the instructor
Offered: Every other year
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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Religious Studies |
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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 041 CM - Morality and Religion Introduction to moral theory, i.e., reasoning about moral obligation and the possibility of its justification, in which the arguments of selected Jewish and Christian religious ethicists are emphasized. Attention given to the questions of whether and how moral obligation is religious.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST041 CM
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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 060 SC - Feminist Interpretations of the Bible Analysis of a wide selection of biblical texts, using feminist strategies of interpretation. Consideration of readings of these texts by and with women from different cultural and religious traditions. Artistic representations of biblical texts produced by men of the Western tradition provide a contrast to modern and contemporary feminist biblical interpretations.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST060 SC
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RLST 061 SC - New Testament and Christian Origins Students will examine the New Testament and other Christian literature of the first and second centuries in the context of the history, culture, religion, and politics of the late ancient Mediterranean. The course will emphasize analytical reading, the varieties of early Christian expression and experience, and key scholarly and theoretical issues.
Offered: Every year
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 In this course we will explore physical religious behavior, understandings of the human body, and interpretations of bodily experience among early Christian men and women. The course will emphasize critical analysis of primary sources, secondary scholarship, and contemporary theoretical approaches concerning gender, sexuality, martyrdom, pilgrimage, asceticism, virginity, fasting, and monasticism.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST090 SC
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RLST 091 SC - Heretics, Deviants, and “Others” in Early Christianity How did the concept of “correct” belief and behavior, as well as “heresy” and “deviance,” develop and exert authority out of the diversity in early Christianity? This course will examine the evidence for several debates and notorious dissenters. Topics include traditional and revisionist views of the nature of “orthodoxy” and “heresy,” social theory as a tool for interpreting ancient sources, the rhetorical “construction” of otherness, and the use of violence by ecclesiastical and civil authorities.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST091 SC
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RLST 092 SC - Varieties of Early Christianity Through study of ancient texts and monuments, this course explores the diverse forms of Christianity that arose in the first six centuries CE. We will pay particular attention to political, cultural, and social expressions of early Christianity, including martyrdom, asceticism, religious conflict (with Jews, pagans, and heretics), and political ideology.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST092 SC
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RLST 093 SC - Early Christianity and/as Theory Why do scholars of early Christianity so often turn to theories developed in modern contexts, and why do modern theorists so often use ancient Christianity as a testing ground? We will examine this cross-fascination in the realms of sociology, anthropology, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, post-colonialism, and queer theory.
Offered: Every other year
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 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 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 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 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 CM - Pauline Tradition An examination of the genuine letters of Paul in their social, cultural, and religious settings, and later writings, both biblical and non-biblical, from early Christian literature claiming to represent the thoughts of Paul. Special attention given to women’s role in Pauline communities and to the impact of Pauline theology on women’s lives and spiritual existence.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST121 CM
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RLST 128 PO - The Religion of Islam See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST128 PO
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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 131 CM - Synagogue and Church A survey of early synagogues and churches, along with related examples of Greco-Roman temples and shrines, through their architecture and art work. The course will explore the contributions archaeological data make to the understanding of Judaism and Christianity and how each religious tradition physically and ideologically constructs sacred space.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST131 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 145 CM - Religion and Science An examination of the historical encounters between science and religion, and a systematic analysis of their present relationship. The goal of the course is for the student to produce an appropriate synthesis of science and religion. Readings from ancient, modern, and contemporary science, philosophy of science, and theology. Issues include those of evolution, mechanism, reductionism, indeterminacy, incompleteness, and the roles of faith and reason in science and religion.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST145 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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RLST 158 PO - Jewish Mysticism See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST158 PO
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RLST 159 CM - History of Christianity in Asia This course analyzes the history of Christianity in Asia from the ancient to the modern periods in India, the Philippines, China, Japan, and Korea. It analyzes the religious and social factors that contributed to its growth along with its reception, rejection, and indigenization. It also explores Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, Marxist, Post-Colonial, and Orientalist critiques of Christianity, interfaith-dialogue, and the challenges it faces today in Asia.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST159 CM
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RLST 161 CM - Gurus, Swamis, and Others: Hindu Wisdom Beyond South Asia Examination of variously understood Hindu teachers such as gurus, rishis, maharishis, babas, matas, swamis, and mahatmas, who have had profound influence in the West. We will explore indigenous categorization of these special personalities and modern historical developments and trends, as well as how their messages have been variously received and reshaped as their popularity spread throughout, and eventually beyond, South Asia.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST161 CM
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RLST 161A CM - Contemporary Religious Leadership in India RLST 161a is a half-credit course taught in India (Delhi/New Delhi, Agra, and Amritsar) in January that examines Hindu, Yogic, Muslim, Sikh, and other religious leaders in contemporary India, and includes interactive learning with lecture series, site visits, group activities and presentations. Students will visit prominent religious sites and learn how religious institutions and leaders work to lead social change in India.
Offered: Special Offering January 2013
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: RLST161A CM
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RLST 161B CM - Contemporary Religious Leadership in India RLST 161b is a half-credit course taught at CMC that will examine religious leadership in contemporary India, extension into the diaspora, and include field trips to local sites.
Prequisite: RLST 161A CM or permission of instructor. Students who complete RLST 161A and/or RLST 161B for credit cannot take RLST 161 CM for credit and vice-versa.
Offered: Special Offering Spring 2013
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: RLST161B CM
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RLST 162 PO - Modern Jewish Thought See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST162 PO
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RLST 163 CM - Women and Gender in the Jewish Tradition Examination of the representation of women and gender in Jewish tradition and how women from the biblical period to the present have experienced Judaism. Special attention is given to the articulation of these issues in biblical and rabbinic texts, the influence these texts have had on shaping Jewish attitudes and practices, the particular religious activities practiced by women, and developments in contemporary Judaism, including liturgical revisions and Rabbinic ordination.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST163 CM
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RLST 164 PO - Engendering and Experience: Women in the Islamic Tradition See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST164 PO
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RLST 165 CM - Religion and Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Europe This course analyzes religion and politics in Western Europe from approximately 1054 to 1650 CE. After surveying the decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Papacy, it explores key church-state conflicts over Lay Investiture, the Crusades, Catholic-Jewish relations, gender/sexuality roles, and the Inquisition. It also examines how reform movements affected the political situations in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Scotland, as well as the Anglican and Puritan revolutions led by Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, and Oliver Cromwell in England.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST165 CM
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RLST 166A PO - The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST166A PO
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