Catalog: Scripps College Academic Catalog 2004-2006 | |
| 69 ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMICS, AND POLITICS SCRIPPS COLLEGE Biology 165. Advanced Topics in Environmental Biology. Readings and discussion of current technical journal articles in active areas of environmental biology.Topics are chosen for their current relevance and technical interest. Students present papers for class discussion, and conduct a formal literature review on the topic of their choice. Prerequisites: Biology 43, 44, or equivalent. E. Morhardt. Biology 169L. Marine Ecology. A course designed to expose students to the study of the ecology of marine organisms. Lectures will cover various ... | |
| 78 SCRIPPS COLLEGE FRENCH STUDIES 172. Baudelaire and the Symbolist Aesthetic. A study of the poetic theories and practices of Baudelaire and the principal symbolist poets.This course will examine the origins, goals, realizations, and paradoxes of the symbolist movement as it distinguishes them from realist traditions and modernist modes. Readings from Baudelaire, Mallarme,Verlaine, Rimbaud, and the minor symbolists will frame the movements central themes and illuminate the function of language in art and thought. Prerequisite: French 44 or equivalent. E. Haskell. 176. Voyage et Exotisme. A search ... | |
| 102 SCRIPPS COLLEGE THE HUMANITIES The course begins with the 18th-century Enlightenment by laying down certain key principles basic to a modern understanding of knowledge and the self. However, Enlightenment premises have always been subject to challenge, usually by those who have been excluded from modern conceptions of what it is to be a human subject.Throughout the course we will examine the ways in which women, minorities, and people outside the West have all questioned the sense of certainty and universality that many ideas derived from the Enlightenment hold. If we are far less sure about ... | |
| 135 POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCRIPPS COLLEGE Political Economy and Legal Studies 130. Introduction to Political Economy. This course explores the ways in which the study of politics and economics are interrelated, and introduces students to several models that attempt to explain and analyze the ways in which politics and economics affect each other.These include public choice theory, game theory, new institutionalism, and neo-Marxism. Open to first-year students. N. Neiman Auerbach. 131. Political Economy of Law. This course introduces students to a variety of legal and regulatory applications ... | |
| 142 SCRIPPS COLLEGE RELIGIOUS STUDIES Contemporary and Womens Studies in Religion 60. Feminist Interpretations of the Bible. Sampling from various literary families of the Bible, this course will carry out feminist analysis of biblical texts and explore their feminist interpretations. It will expose students to a variety of feminist interpretation of the Bible and their political motivations.Through the exploration of different feminist perspectives, methods, contexts and social locations, the course will underline how these various factors shape feminist interpretations of the Bible and equip ... | |
