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education aims for freedom of mind, it has a moral dimension as well. Scripps ... preparation for the more focused work done in the students major. 32 courses, or ... students are encouraged to, and often do, exceed the minimum. The Core Curriculum ... is exceptional in having had from its founding a commitment to the kind of ... advantageous position to train its students in the broadly based ... lecture/discussion course that examines how these ideas developed from the 18th- ... most interesting current scholarship, it is also excellent training for the kind ... students think strategically about how to answer basic questions about culture ...

groups with their various environments. How do people of these cultures think about ... foods environmentally determined? How does the physical environment affect a ... , politics, art, religion? What impact do these cultural factors have on a groups ... utilization of its environment? We will examine these and ... and Ethnography. This course will use documentaries and feature films as ethnographic ... the cultures of China and Japan. It will juxtapose the examination of ... ground in their womanhood; often, however, old patterns of separation were ... and patterns of political-economic domination. D. Segal. 36. Malls, Museums, and Other ... contemporary American lifestyle. We ask how ideas about gender, class, and race ... the arts of Oceania are Aboriginal dot paintings, Maori ancestor-houses, masks ...

. 108. Kinship and Social Organization. How do cultures organize human reproduction ... and integrate it into social life? Biological facts ... In this regard, this course emphasizes how gender and kinship are mutually ... of persons. This course looks at how social stigma affects, and even creates ...

societies.Yet the United States is itself both a former colony and colonial power ... and cultures to America, even as it extends the reach of American cultural ... that compel those literary productions? How do they use literary form to explore ... these concerns? To what extent do these texts capitalize on and/or ... diary/autobiography, emphasizing works by women. Readings in literary ... video as a medium, particularly as it is utilized by women, people of color, ... the history of video technology, and how certain developments within it made ... of media in North America, and look at how changing political, social, and ...

important manifestoes and theoretical works.We shall also read novels by William ... . A study of the changing world as it is reflected principally in the novel ( ... societies.Yet the United States is itself both a former colony and colonial power ... and cultures to America, even as it extends the reach of American cultural ... work in sight, the American Dream with its concomitant values of hard work and ... individualism, seemed a failure. But how did the American fiction of the time ... of texts from literary and experimental works like Agees Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ... and Dos Passos 42nd Parallel to works of popular fiction (e.g., Chandlers ... Literature. By bringing canonical works together with U.S. minority literatures ... and American race and gender relations. How does the struggle between capitalism ...

who are too advanced for French 1, but do not yet qualify for French 2. Students ... , France started to come to terms with its Fascist past and its complicity with ... Holocaust. This course examines why and how French collective memory was reshaped a ... the end of World War II.We will look at works by historians like Paxton, Rousso,Azema ... . 106.The French Business World and its Language. While focusing on French ...

Studies of Twentieth-Century Physics. How do physicists make sense of the world? ... knowledge and the reasons why it works. Examines the sociological, ...

transformations that made Europe a dominant force in the modern world. It will give ... as a source of value and power, and how workers movements, feminism, and anti- ... : Power, Law, and Society. Using the works of Machiavelli as a basis, this course ... Renaissance. This course will examine how the emerging states of Renaissance ... Baker and Marlene Dietrich. In doing so, it will consider how the urban, ...

lecture/discussion course that examines how these ideas developed from the 18th- ... and universities over many questions: Do our cultural commitments affect our ... beliefs, or do they determine what those beliefs are ... students to these vital issues. It tries to identify the assumptions and ... on these issues, and to show how the various disciplines in the ...

SCRIPPS COLLEGE The Nature of Evil. How does an individual come to commit evil ... , and film. Students will read works by various authors including Sade, ... our contemporary world.We will examine how postmodern thinkers have deconstructed ... truth, knowledge, history, or art) and how, rejecting the Enlightenments claims to ... gender identities. Readings may include works by Venturi, Jencks, Foucault, Derrida, ... centuries, this course will explore how Enlightenment ideals affected music, ... raised in the course will include: How are collective identities formed? How ... identity formulation lead to mass hate? How are communities of hate constructed ( ... of mass hate? By which processes do groups and societies create the Other ... purely ideological notions? Finally, how do we combat the politics of hate when ...

Mass Media. Who are you when you laugh? How is what people find funny determined by ... somehow depend only upon myself. It is clear, however, that too often our ... competing conceptions of the self and its relation to the social. C.Walker, D. ... and afford the opportunity to do more individualized, self-directed ... other perspectives through literary works, philosophy, social science, and films. ... will explore the notion of culture and its representation as a key element of ... content in the various linguistic domains examined in the course. Students may ... : Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, or Spanish. ...

course asks two interrelated questions: how did the Greeks represent cultures, ... they called barbaroi (non-Greek), and how do we construct the Greeks in relation ... thinking about larger social issues. It requires students to take independent ... the social construction of femininity. It combines literature, film, history, ... fiction, film, and fashion, and explore how cultural and aesthetic constructions of ... progress and reaction or backlash as it is named by Faludi.The larger aim of ... during the 18th century in England and its empire, by surveying representations of ... universally valid? To what extent is it culturally determined? These are the ... of seduction outside of France, decode its meaning, and propose how its essential ... fiction films and nonfiction films? Do documentaries simply observe the real world? If not, ...

of womens bodies.Though helpful, it is not necessary to have taken Female ... . Cyberculture. This course will study how the digital age has impacted ... to the creation of cyberspace with its own unique culture.This course will ... . Cultural Visions Through the Arts. How does culture shape or influence form ... and content in the arts? How do the arts, both visual and performing, ... reflect, represent, or shape culture? Do they document, protest, respond to, ... 20th century as represented in existing works within the performing and visual arts. ... of Female Identity in Renaissance Italy. A great deal of ambiguity and ... representation of women in Renaissance Italy. Sometimes women were viewed as ... morally weak, to be relegated to the domestic sphere; other views portray them more ...

nation of family farmers.What benefits do we gain from that image of ourselves? ... . Self and Society in the Renaissance. It is a commonplace of Renaissance studies ... Europe between 1300 and 1600, first in Italy and then throughout the rest of the ... the rediscovery of antiquity which was itself part of that cultures reevaluation of ... maxim, Know Thyself, they went beyond it to construct the self as a work of art ... course will explore these notions in works of fiction, poetry, drama, art, and ... these charges. Readings will include works by Thomas Kuhn, Evelyn Fox Keller, ... the nearly 100 scientists at Claremont doing science, and interviewing these ... will study the American fifties through its cultural products, including pulp ... ask ourselves questions such as:What do we think we know about the fifties? How ...

112 SCRIPPS COLLEGE ITALIAN 44. Advanced Italian: Readings in ... outstanding modern poet. Prerequisite: Italian 33 or equivalent.This course may be ... toward a selfdesigned major or minor in Italian. Offered annually. Staff. 131. Early ... Twentieth-Century Italian Literature. This course examines ... Italian literary production from the early 20th ... , and Grazia Deledda. Prerequisite: Italian 44 or equivalent. M. Coburn. 132. ... Modern Italian Literature. Literary perspectives of ... 20th-century Italy with a particular focus on World War II ... and its aftermath.Authors to be read include ... Elio Vittorini, Cesare Pavese, Italo Calvino, Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi, ... , and Umberto Saba. Prerequisite: Italian 44 or equivalent. S.Adler. 133. ...

. (HMC) Readings in a selection of works from Marx to Marcuse, focusing on the ... -2005.P. Hurley. 137. Skepticism. (CMC) How do you know that your whole life isnt ... to develop an understanding of what it means to reason logically. Offered ... , philosophers have been puzzled by how it is that an individual can act freely ... to temptation, would appear to be facts it makes little sense to dispute. In this ... . Are we ever self-deceived? If so, how and why do we become so? How is it that ... , as some theorists have it, we can lie to ourselves, persuade ...

115. Asian Politics. An analysis of the domestic political systems of East Asia (Japan, ... Culture and Political Institutions. Why do some democracies succeed and others ... . T. Kim. 121. U.S. Foreign Policy. How should the United States approach the ... between business and government domestically and internationally.Topics include: ... American politics.The course examines how racial and ethnic interest groups ... .Thematically, the course will focus on how these groups interact with strategic ... strategies, and electoral systems. It also connects theory to the real world ... outlining what the government must not do, civil rights protect the individual ...

interpretation of the literature in its historical and religious context. ... Israel, forms of worship, Scripture and its interpretation, Jewish law, sacred ... , and Ethics 40. Religious Ethics. How do various world religions accommodate ... ? In answering these questions, what do we discover about our own ethical ... orientation, religious or secular? How do we make moral decisions? Lecture and ... moral obligation and the possibility of its justification, in which the arguments ... given to the questions of whether and how moral obligation is religious. Offered ...

and scientific ways of knowing. How do they diverge and/or converge? How do ... mirror and shape our experience? How do we imagine and exercise personal agency ... history and contemporary culture, its governing questions include: How do ... view wealth and poverty? What does money symbolize, and how does it induce ... , identity, and status? What role does affluence play in contemporary notions ... in shaping moral and religious values? Does consumerism function as a religion? And ... . Religious Ethics and Social Practice. How do our beliefs, our processes of moral ... relate to one another? To what extent do factors such as class, culture, and ... of canonical and non-canonical gospels. It will analyze the gospel texts; feminist ... and their methods of reading, analyzing how these interact to produce various ...

and enable organisms to live where they do. Finally, we will look at human ... are considered in order to understand how the ecosystem is structured to ... accomplish its life-supporting functions. Such ... background allows discussion of how living, natural resources (e.g., ...