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2019-2020 Catalog [ARCHIVED PUBLICATION] Use the dropdown above to select the current catalog.
Course Descriptions
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Mathematics (Includes mathematics courses frequently taken by HMC students at the other Claremont Colleges)
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MATH185 HM - Introduction to Wavelets and Their Applications
Credit(s): 2
Instructor(s): Staff
Description: An introduction to the mathematical theory of wavelets, with applications to signal processing, data compression, and other areas of science and engineering.
Prerequisite(s): MATH115 HM or MATH180 HM
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MATH187 HM - Operations Research
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Benjamin, Martonosi, Staff (CMC), Staff (Pomona)
Offered: Fall
Description: Linear, integer, non-linear and dynamic programming, classical optimization problems, and network theory. (Crosslisted as ENGR187 HM )
Prerequisite(s): MATH040 HM or MATH073 HM
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MATH188 HM - Social Choice and Decision Making
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Su
Offered: Spring, alternate years
Description: Basic concepts of game theory and social choice theory, representations of games, Nash equilibria, utility theory, non-cooperative games, cooperative games, voting games, paradoxes, Arrow’s impossibility theorem, Shapley value, power indices, “fair division” problems and applications.
Corequisite(s): MATH030B HM or MATH030G HM ; MATH055 HM recommended
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MATH189 HM - Special Topics in Mathematics
Credit(s): 1-3
Instructor(s): Staff
Description: A course devoted to exploring topics of current interest to faculty or students. Recent topics have included: Algebraic Geometry, Algebraic Topology, Convexity, Games and Gambling, Logic, Numerical Linear Algebra, and Mathematics of Big Data.
Prerequisite(s): Dependent on topic
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MATH193 HM - Mathematics Clinic
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Bernoff, Castro, de Pillis, Gu, Martonosi, Williams
Offered: Fall and Spring
Description: The Clinic Program brings together teams of students to work on a research problem sponsored by business, industry, or government. Teams work closely with a faculty advisor and a liaison provided by the sponsoring organization to solve complex, real-world problems using mathematical and computational methods. Students are expected to present their work orally and to produce a final report conforming to the publication standards of a professional mathematician. Students are expected to take the two semesters of Clinic within a single academic year.
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MATH196 HM - Independent Study in Mathematics
Credit(s): 1-3
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Fall and Spring
Description: Readings in special topics.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of department or instructor
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MATH197 HM - Senior Thesis in Mathematics
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Fall and Spring
Description: Senior thesis offers the student, guided by the faculty advisor, a chance to experience a taste of the life of a professional research mathematician. The work is largely independent with guidance from the research advisor. The principal objective of the senior thesis program is to help you develop intellectually and improve your written and verbal communication skills. Students are expected to present their work orally and to produce a thesis conforming to the publication standards of a professional mathematician.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of department
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MATH198 HM - Undergraduate Mathematics Forum
Credit(s): 1
Instructor(s): Castro, Jacobsen, Orrison, Yong
Offered: Fall and Spring
Description: The goal of this course is to improve students’ ability to communicate mathematics, both to a general and technical audience. Students will present material on assigned topics and have their presentations evaluated by students and faculty. This format simultaneously exposes students to a broad range of topics from modern and classical mathematics. Required for all majors; recommended for all joint CS-math majors and mathematical biology majors, typically in the junior year.
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MATH199 HM - Mathematics Colloquium
Credit(s): 0.5
Instructor(s): Benjamin, Jacobsen, Su
Offered: Fall and Spring
Description: Students will attend weekly Claremont Math Colloquium, offered through the cooperative efforts of the mathematics faculty at The Claremont Colleges. Most of the talks discuss current research in mathematical sciences and are accessible to undergraduates. No more than 2.0 credits can be earned for departmental seminars/colloquia.
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MCBI117 HM - Game Theory and the Evolution of Cooperation
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Donaldson-Matasci (Biology)
Offered: Fall, alternate years
Description: An introduction to game theory, a branch of mathematics that studies strategic interactions between individuals, with applications in fields such as biology, economics and political science. The course will introduce classical game theory, representations of games and Nash equilibria. The second part of the course will focus on evolutionary game theory, equilibrium concepts, and the evolution of cooperation.
Prerequisite(s): MATH035 HM or AP Statistics
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MCBI118A HM - Introduction to Mathematical Biology
Credit(s): 1.5
Instructor(s): Adolph (Biology), de Pillis (Mathematics), Jacobsen (Mathematics)
Offered: Spring
Description: An introduction to the field of mathematical biology. Continuous and discrete mathematical models of biological processes and their analytical and computational solutions. Examples may include models in epidemiology, ecology, cancer biology, systems biology, molecular evolution, and phylogenetics.
Prerequisite(s): (MATH065 HM or (MATH073 HM and MATH082 HM )) and BIOL052 HM
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MCBI118B HM - Introduction to Computational Biology
Credit(s): 1.5
Instructor(s): Bush (Biology), Donaldson-Matasci (Biology), Libeskind-Hadas (Computer Science), Wu (Computer Science)
Offered: Spring
Description: An introduction to the field of computational biology. Algorithms for phylogenetic inference and computational methods for solving problems in molecular evolution and population genetics.
Prerequisite(s): (CSCI005 HM or CSCI005GR HM ) and BIOL052 HM
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MCBI199 HM - Joint Colloquium for the Mathematical and Computational Biology Major
Credit(s): 0.5
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Fall and Spring
Description: Students registered for joint colloquium must attend a fixed number of colloquium talks during the semester in any field(s) related to their interests. The talks may be at any members of The Claremont Colleges or a nearby university and may be in any of a wide array of fields including biology, mathematics, computer science and other science and engineering disciplines including bioengineering, cognitive science, neuroscience, biophysics, and linguistics. Students enrolled in the joint colloquium are required to submit a short synopsis of each talk that they attend. No more than 2.0 credits can be earned for departmental seminars/colloquia.
Grading Type: Pass/No Credit
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Media Studies |
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MS050 HM - Introduction to Film
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Mayeri
Description: Introduction to film analysis, exploring the language of film through weekly screenings and discussions. The craft of filmmaking-screenwriting, cinematography, mise-en-scene, sound, editing—from silent films, to classical Hollywood cinema, to independent film, documentary, and animation. Consideration of film as an art form, as reflection of the culture at large, and as a force for change.
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MS060 HM - Documentary: Fact and Fiction
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Mayeri
Description: Examines the propaganda and poetry of documentary film. In weekly screenings, students will see films on a range of topics: from ethnographic adventures with other cultures to allegorical tales about our animal relatives. This class will explore documentary craft, history, and politics, and analyze the ethics of representing others.
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MS120 HM - Animal Media Studies
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Mayeri
Description: This course will examine representations of animals in film - wildlife documentaries, animated features, critter cams, scientific data, and video art - to address fundamental questions about human and animal nature and culture. Animal Studies is an interdisciplinary field in which scholars from philosophy, biology, media studies, and literature consider the subjective lives of animals, the representations of animals in media and literature, and the shifting boundary line between human and animal. In readings, screenings, and discussions, we will consider the cultural and material lives of humans and animals through the lenses of science, art, literature, and film.
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MS127 HM - The Harmony of Sound and Light
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Alves
Description: New technology has created exciting new opportunities in the arts of abstract film, video, and computer animation. This course will explore theories of abstraction from music into the visual arts and film, analyzing the works of such pioneers as Oskar Fischinger and John Whitney. Students will create their own computer images and animations of “visual music.”
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MS170 HM - Digital Cinema: Experimental Animation
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Mayeri
Description: Intermediate/advanced video course, exploring the creative potential of digital video techniques, such as compositing, animation, and motion graphics. Students develop digital projects and participate in critiques. Lectures, discussions, and screenings enhance students’ exposure to art and cinema. $100 course fee.
Prerequisite(s): MS182 HM
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MS172 HM - Third Cinema
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Balseiro
Description: Emerging in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, the notion of Third Cinema takes its inspiration from the Cuban revolution and from Brazil’s Cinema Novo. Third Cinema is the art of political film making and represents an alternative cinematic practice to that offered by mainstream film industries. Explores the aesthetics of film making from a revolutionary consciousness in three regions: Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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MS173 HM - Exile in Cinema
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Balseiro
Description: A thematic and formal study of the range of cinematic responses to the experience of exile. Exile is an event, but how does it come about and what are its ramifications? Exile happens to individuals but also to collectivities. How does it effect a change between the self and society, homeland and site of displacement, mother tongue and acquired language? This course examines how filmmakers take on an often painful historical process through creativity. Among the authors to read are Aime Cesaire, Edward Said, George Lamming, V. S. Naipaul, Med Hondo, and Hamid Naficy; films to be viewed focus on the third world.
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MS182 HM - Introduction to Video Art
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Mayeri
Description: This course is an introduction to video art through history, theory, analysis and production. The goal for this class is for students to produce meaningful, creative, expressive, innovative media for an intelligent and broad audience. In order to achieve this goal students will learn the fundamentals of video production in labs, critiques, and exercises: conceptualizing, planning, shooting, sound recording, editing and analysis. Students will also learn - through readings and discussions - about pioneers and contemporary practitioners of video art. $150 course fee.
Prerequisite(s): MS050 HM or MS 049 PO or MS 049 PZ or MS 049 SC or MS 051 PO or MS 051 PZ or MS 051 SC or LIT 130 CM
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MUS003 HM - Fundamentals of Music
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Cubek, Kamm
Description: In this course, the student learns elementary concepts of melody, rhythm, harmony, and notation. Basic principles of sight-singing and reading music are included. No previous musical experience is required. This course, or its equivalent, is a prerequisite for MUS 101 SC (Music Theory I) at Scripps College. Carries departmental credit when taught by Alves, Cubek, or Kamm.
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MUS048 HM - Electronic Music Ensemble
Credit(s): 1
Instructor(s): Alves
Description: Rehearsal and performance of new and recent compositions for synthesizers and other instruments. Instrumentation and musical styles may vary. Though some synthesizers may be provided, in most cases students will be expected to own their own instruments.
Prerequisite(s): Ability to play an instrument and read music; Audition may be required for instructor permission
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MUS049 HM - American Gamelan Ensemble
Credit(s): 1
Instructor(s): Alves
Description: Rehearsal and performance of new compositions for instruments adapted from the gamelan, a Javanese orchestra of metallophones and gongs. No prior experience on these instruments is required.
Prerequisite(s): Ability to read music; approval of instructor
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MUS063 HM - Music of the Peoples of the World
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Alves
Description: The fundamentals of music and listening through a survey of traditional music around the world as well as cross-cultural influences. Neither an ability to read music nor any other background in music is required.
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MUS067 HM - Film Music
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Alves
Description: An exploration of the history and aesthetics of the use of music in cinema, primarily the Hollywood film from the so-called silent era to the present. (We will not cover musicals, documentaries, or short films.) The course will include the development of skills of listening analysis and writing about music in the context of narrative film. No background in music or film history is required.
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MUS081 JM - Introduction to Music: Sound and Meaning
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Alves, Cubek, Kamm
Description: This course explores important works of Western art music from diverse historical epochs through listening and analysis. Elements of music, basic musical terminology, and notation are discussed. Attention is given to the relation of the arts—especially music—to culture and society. Carries departmental credit when taught by Alves, Cubek, or Kamm.
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MUS084 HM - Jazz Improvisation
Credit(s): 1.5
Instructor(s): Keller (Computer Science)
Description: The art of simultaneously hearing, composing, and performing music. Chords, scales, chord progressions, and tunes of modern jazz. Theory, listening, analysis, and group practice in improvisation skills.
Repeatable: May be taken for credit up to eight times
Prerequisite(s): Music reading ability, ability to play most of the 12 major scales on an instrument, motivation to play jazz, and permission of instructor
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MUS088 HM - Introduction to Computer Music
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Alves
Description: The basics of using software on a general purpose computer to synthesize and manipulate digital sounds. Neither a background in music nor the ability to read music is required. A background in computers is helpful but not required.
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MUS104 HM - Music Since 1900
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Alves
Description: An investigation of contemporary music through performances, analyses, recordings, and discussions of representative compositions from late Romanticism and such 20th-century styles as Neo-classicism, Serialism and Minimalism, as well as aleatoric and electronic techniques. Offered in conjunction with the Joint Music Program. Carries departmental credit when taught by Alves or Kamm.
Prerequisite(s): The ability to read music
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MUS118 SC - Music in the United States
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Kamm
Description: A survey of the history and development of music in the United States, this course will examine the diverse musical cultures and traditions, including European, African, Latin American, Native American, Asian, and others that have come to this country and have influenced the works of musicians and composers in the United States. Musical examples from American popular culture (jazz, rock, country, and pop), from religious services and practices of various denominations and sects, from ethnic groups and folk cultures within the United States and from art music in the United States will be studied as expressions of important concerns and values in our society, and as influences on music in other countries as well. Carries departmental credit when taught by Kamm.
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MUS132 SC - Stravinsky: His Milieu and His Music
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Kamm
Description: A seminar studying Igor Stravinsky’s life and his ballets, other instrumental music, and vocal music. Study of Russia at the turn of the 20th century, Paris in the early 20th century, ballet, and other arts contextualizes Stravinsky’s music. The course includes frequent student presentations on topics and works. Carries departmental credit when taught by Kamm.
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MUS173 JM - Claremont Concert Choir
Credit(s): 1
Instructor(s): Kamm.
Offered: Both semesters; joint offering of CMC, HMC, Pitzer, and Scripps
Description: A study through rehearsal and performance of choral music selected from the 16th century to the present, with emphasis on larger, major works. Singers will be invited to register after a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not reaudition. Carries departmental credit when taught by Kamm.
Prerequisite(s): Successful audition
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MUS174 JM - Claremont Chamber Choir
Credit(s): 1
Instructor(s): Kamm
Offered: Both semesters; joint offering of CMC, HMC, Pitzer, and Scripps
Description: A study of choral music from 1300 to the present, with emphasis on those works composed for performances of a choral chamber nature. Singers will be invited to register after a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not reaudition. Carries departmental credit when taught by Kamm.
Prerequisite(s): Successful audition
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MUS175 JM - Concert Orchestra
Credit(s): 1
Instructor(s): Cubek
Offered: Both semesters; joint offering of CMC, HMC, Pitzer, and Scripps
Description: 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. Class enrollment permitted only after successful audition. Carries departmental credit when taught by Cubek.
Prerequisite(s): Successful audition
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MUS176 JM - Claremont Treble Singers
Credit(s): 1
Instructor(s): Alves, Cubek, Kamm
Offered: Both semesters; joint offering of CMC, HMC, Pitzer, and Scripps
Description: A study through rehearsal and performance of choral music for soprano and alto voices selected from the 14th century to the present. Singers will be invited to register after a successful audition. Singers continuing from the previous semester need not audition. Carries departmental credit when taught by Alves, Cubek, or Kamm.
Prerequisite(s): Successful audition
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PHIL108 HM - Knowledge, Self, and Value
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Wright
Description: An introduction to philosophy covering representative issues in epistemology, the metaphysics of human nature, and theory of value. Readings are drawn from historical and contemporary sources.
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PHIL121 HM - Ethical Theory
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Wright
Description: A survey of contemporary philosophical thinking about morality, emphasizing how metaethical inquiry into the nature of “goodness,” “virtue” and “moral obligation” can inform normative inquiry into what is good and how to live. Attention is given throughout the course to the application of particular normative theories to personal decision-making and to contemporary social and political questions.
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PHIL122 HM - Ethics: Ancient and Modern
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Wright
Description: A comparative study of the theories of several major moral philosophers, beginning with Plato and Aristotle, and ending with Nietzsche’s critique of modern morality. Other figures studied may include Aquinas, Hobbes, Spinoza, Hume, Kant and Mill. The course emphasizes the ways in which philosophical accounts of the nature of “goodness” and “virtue” shape conceptions of the moral person and the moral life.
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PHIL124 HM - Morality and Self-Interest
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Wright
Description: A study of historical and contemporary arguments for the harmony of morality and enlightened self-interest, along with some of the main challenges raised against such arguments by their critics. Reading assignments may include selections from Plato, Aristotle, Sidgwick, Prichard, Ayn Rand, Rosalind Hursthouse, Derek Parfit, David Gauthier, and others.
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PHIL125 HM - Ethical Issues in Science and Engineering
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Wright
Description: After briefly exploring concepts and theories in normative ethics, this course examines a representative set of ethical issues confronting researchers and practitioners in the natural and formal sciences and in engineering. Issues covered will vary but may include animal experimentation, genetic engineering, internet privacy, the responsibility of engineers to foresee and prevent harm and others.
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PHIL129 HM - Contemporary Moral Problems
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Wright
Offered: Spring
Description: After a brief introduction to some of the main theoretical approaches in moral and political philosophy, and to some key principles of argument analysis, this course will explore philosophical debates on a set of moral-political issues of current concern. Topics will include drug laws; immigration; the ethics of abortion; torture and the ethics of war; the nature of racism and sexism; and religious exemption laws. We will also spend one class period looking at how we might contribute to improving the caliber of public discourse on contentious moral-political issues. Throughout the course we will work to understand how different theoretical orientations lead to different modes of analysis on particular issues, and how the issues themselves are often linked.
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PHIL130 HM - Political Philosophy
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Wright
Description: The major traditions of political thought from antiquity to the present, with emphasis on the modern era, including natural rights theory, social contract theory, political individualism and its critics, the twentieth-century transformation of political liberalism, and the underpinnings of contemporary conservatism.
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PHIL138 HM - Classical Liberalism and Libertarianism
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Wright
Offered: Spring
Description: “Libertarianism” and “classical liberalism” have become standard, if somewhat ambiguous, designations for a variety of political views that advocate a constrained role for the state, geared primarily or exclusively to protecting individuals from force and fraud (or that challenge the need for any state). Whatever their similarities, however, such views harbor important (and arguably fundamental) differences, including in the sorts of normative arguments they rely on; in their conceptions of and attitudes toward law and of the state; in the political role they assign to public justification and deliberation; and in various specific policy prescriptions. This course takes a comparative, critical look at several important statements of classical liberal and libertarian positions by philosophers and social theorists, and at the ways in which these theorists sometimes distance themselves from one another. In some semesters, the course will also consider left-libertarian views that fuse a commitment to self-ownership with egalitarian commitments. Authors may include Richard Epstein, Friedrich Hayek, Chandran Kukathas, Robert Nozick, Michael Otsuka, Ayn Rand, and/or others.
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PHYS019 HM - Physics on the Edge
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Sahakian
Offered: Fall
Description: This course is about the conceptual foundations of modern physics. It covers a wide range of examples and concepts that span many sub-disciplines while emphasizing the unity of physics and its fundamental character. It discusses general concepts from Relativity to Quantum Mechanics to Cosmology and Black holes, from superconductivity to the Standard Model of particle physics. The course relies on high school math, while visual interactive simulations replace equations wherever possible, and homework assignments help one explore explicit cases with basic computations. Near the end of the semester, the student chooses a topic from current physics news for presentation.
Prerequisite(s): HMC first-year students only.
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PHYS023 HM - Special Relativity
Credit(s): 1.5
Instructor(s): Gallicchio, Lynn, Shuve
Offered: Fall
Description: Einstein’s special theory of relativity is developed from the premises that the laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames and that the speed of light is a constant. The relationship between mass and energy is explored and relativistic collisions analyzed. The families of elementary particles are described and the equivalence principle developed.
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PHYS024 HM - Mechanics and Wave Motion
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Spring
Description: Classical mechanics is introduced beginning with inertial frames and the Galilean transformation, followed by momentum and momentum conservation in collisions, Newton’s laws of motion, spring forces, gravitational forces and friction. Differential and integral calculus are used extensively throughout. Work, kinetic energy and potential energy are defined, and energy conservation is discussed in particle motion and collisions. Rotational motion is treated, including angular momentum, torque, cross-products and statics. Other topics include rotating frames, pseudoforces and central-force motion. Simple harmonic and some nonlinear oscillations are discussed, followed by waves on strings, sound and other types of waves, and wave phenomena such as standing waves, beats, two-slit interference, resonance and the Doppler effect.
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PHYS024A HM - Mechanics & Wave Motion
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Spring
Description: Kinematics, dynamics, linear and angular momentum, work and energy, harmonic motion, waves and sound.
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PHYS031 HM - What’s the Matter?
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Gerbode
Description: Students in this course will examine ordinary objects and discuss what aspects of their composition determine their usefulness. The class will discuss how materials are described, classified, and tested, and look at them from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, materials science, geology, economics, and psychology.
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PHYS032 HM - Gravitation
Credit(s): 1.5
Instructor(s): Connolly, Esin, Lyzenga
Description: The theory and applications of Newtonian gravitation and an introduction to the ideas of gravitation in general relativity. Topics covered include gravitational potentials, orbits and celestial mechanics, tidal forces, atmospheres, Einstein’s equivalence principle, black holes, and cosmology. The target audience is students with a strong interest in fundamental physics and the mathematical as well as conceptual underpinnings of gravity and its applications.
Corequisite(s): PHYS024 HM
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PHYS050 HM - Physics Laboratory
Credit(s): 1
Instructor(s): Staff
Description: This course emphasizes the evidence-based approach to understanding the physical world through hands-on experience, experimental design, and data analysis. Experiments are drawn from a broad range of physics subjects, with applications relevant to modern society and technology.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS024 HM
Corequisite(s): PHYS051 HM
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PHYS051 HM - Electromagnetic Theory and Optics
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Donnelly, Lyzenga, Staff
Offered: Fall
Description: An introduction to electricity and magnetism leading to Maxwell’s electromagnetic equations in differential and integral form. Selected topics in classical and quantum optics.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS023 HM and PHYS024 HM
Corequisite(s): MATH060 HM
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PHYS051A HM - Electromagnetic Theory & Optics
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Sahakian
Offered: Fall
Description: An introduction to electricity and magnetism leading to Maxwell’s electromagnetic equations in differential and integral form. Selected topics in classical and quantum optics. A more in-depth version of its sister course Physics 51, targeted to students with prior exposure or strong interest in the subject. HMC students by permission only.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS023 HM and PHYS024 HM
Corequisite(s): MATH060 HM
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PHYS051M HM - Electromagnetic Theory and Topics in Vector Calculus
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Breznay, Esin
Offered: Fall
Description: An introduction to the theory of electricity and magnetism. This course covers foundational principles, including Maxwell’s equations in differential and integral form, electromagnetic energy, ending with a discussion of electromagnetic waves and the Poynting vector. In addition, this course presents an in-depth treatment of selected topics from multivariable calculus, focusing in particular on vector fields, Gauss’s theorem and Stokes’ theorem, in order to reinforce and complement the material covered in Math 60. Each week there are two 75-minute lectures as well as two 50-minute recitation sections. In the recitation sections material is reviewed, homework is discussed, and small groups work on tutorials or at the blackboard on new problems.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS023 HM and PHYS024 HM
Corequisite(s): MATH060 HM
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PHYS052 HM - Quantum Physics
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Spring
Description: The development and formulation of quantum mechanics, and the application of quantum mechanics to topics in atomic, solid state, nuclear, and particle physics.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS051 HM and MATH065 HM
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PHYS054 HM - Modern Physics Laboratory
Credit(s): 1
Instructor(s): Eckert, Staff
Offered: Spring
Description: Classical experiments of modern physics, including thermal radiation and Rutherford scattering. Nuclear physics experiments, including alpha, beta and gamma absorption, and gamma spectra by pulse height analysis. Analysis of the buildup and decay of radioactive nuclei.
Corequisite(s): PHYS050 HM and PHYS052 HM
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PHYS078 HM - Climate and Energy
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Donnelly
Description: Our climate’s dominant behavior is determined by the delivery of solar energy to the Earth and the redistribution of that energy by the atmosphere and the ocean. Along the way, humans tap into this energy supply using tools such as solar collectors, wind turbines, and engines that burn fossil fuels. How humans harvest and use energy matters because the byproducts of the 500 EJ (5×10^20 J) of energy that humans use globally each year impacts the atmosphere and the ocean and thereby affects our climate. The HMC Core curriculum provides a springboard for understanding the science that governs how our climate behaves. This course will use what you’ve learned in the core to study the most important levers that drive our climate and to educate you about carbon-free energy resources. Throughout the course we will explore how human activity currently affects our climate and how we might provide energy to meet our future needs while reducing our impact on the climate.
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PHYS080 HM - Topics in Physics
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Donnelly, Lyzenga, Saeta
Description: An area of physics is studied, together with its applications and social impact. Possible areas include energy and the environment, climate change, and sustainability. Active participation and group activities are stressed.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS051 HM
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PHYS084 HM - Quantum Information
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Lynn
Offered: Spring, alternate years
Description: Quantum computation and communication. Fundamentals of discrete-state quantum mechanics as appropriate for quantum information science. Possible topics include universal logic gates for quantum computing, quantum computing algorithms, quantum error correction, quantum cryptography and communication, adiabatic quantum computing, and hardware platforms for quantum computation and communication.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS051 HM , (CSCI005 HM or CSCI005GR HM or CSCI042 HM ), MATH040 HM , and MATH065 HM
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PHYS111 HM - Theoretical Mechanics
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Shuve
Offered: Fall
Description: The application of mathematical methods to the study of particles and of systems of particles; Newton, Lagrange, and Hamilton equations of motion; conservation theorems; central force motion, collisions, damped oscillators, rigid body dynamics, systems with constraints, variational methods.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS023 HM , PHYS024 HM , and MATH065 HM
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PHYS116 HM - Quantum Mechanics
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Gallicchio
Offered: Spring
Description: The elements of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. Topics include the general formalism, one-dimensional and three-dimensional problems, angular momentum states, perturbation theory and identical particles. Applications to atomic and nuclear systems.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS052 HM
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PHYS117 HM - Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Esin
Description: Classical and quantum statistical mechanics, including their connection with thermodynamics. Kinetic theory of gases. Applications of these concepts to various physical systems.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS052 HM
Corequisite(s): PHYS111 HM
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PHYS133 HM - Electronics Laboratory
Credit(s): 1
Instructor(s): Gallicchio, Lyzenga
Offered: Fall
Description: An intermediate laboratory in electronics involving the construction and analysis of rectifiers, filters, transistor and operational amplifier circuits.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS054 HM
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PHYS134 HM - Optics Laboratory
Credit(s): 2
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Spring
Description: A laboratory-lecture course on the techniques and theory of classical and modern optics. Topics of study include diffraction, interferometry, Fourier transform spectroscopy, grating spectroscopy, lasers, quantum mechanics and quantum optics, coherence of waves and least-squares fitting of data.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS051 HM and PHYS054 HM
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PHYS147 HM - Material Science of Energy Conversion and Storage
Credit(s): 2
Instructor(s): Saeta, Van Ryswyk
Description: Materials science of energy conversion and storage, dealing with photovoltaics, fuel cells, batteries, thermoelectrics, and other devices. Seminar format. (Crosslisted as CHEM192 HM and ENGR147 HM )
Prerequisite(s): CHEM052 HM or PHYS052 HM or ENGR086 HM
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PHYS151 HM - Electromagnetic Fields
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Eckert
Offered: Fall
Description: The theory of static and dynamic electromagnetic fields. Topics include multipole fields, Laplace’s equation, the propagation of electromagnetic waves, radiation phenomena and the interaction of the electromagnetic field with matter.
Prerequisite(s): (PHYS111 HM or PHYS116 HM ) and MATH115 HM
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PHYS154 HM - Fields and Waves
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Lyzenga
Offered: Spring
Description: The theory of deformable media. Field equations for elastic and fluid media and for conducting fluids in electromagnetic fields. Particular emphasis on body and surface wave solutions of the field equations.
Prerequisite(s): MATH115 HM
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PHYS156 HM - Foundations of Field Theory
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Sahakian
Offered: Spring
Description: This course explores concepts, methods, and applications of the classical theory of fields. On the physics side, we will learn about cosmological inflation, superconductivity, electroweak theory, solitons, the nuclear force, and magnetic monopoles. On the mathematics side, we will learn the basics of differential geometry and Lie algebras. Throughout the course, we will emphasize the unity of physical principles and techniques across a wide range of systems and disciplines.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS111 HM and MATH115 HM
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PHYS161 HM - Topics in Quantum Theory
Credit(s): 2
Instructor(s): Saeta
Offered: Fall
Description: Scattering, including the Born approximation and partial wave expansion. Path integrals. Time-dependent perturbation theory. Quantum theory of the electromagnetic field.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS116 HM
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PHYS162 HM - Solid State Physics
Credit(s): 2
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Spring
Description: Selected topics in solid-state physics, including lattice structure, lattice excitations, and the motion and excitations of electrons in metals.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS117 HM
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PHYS164 HM - Particle Physics
Credit(s): 2
Instructor(s): Shuve
Offered: Spring
Description: Topics in high-energy physics including the fundamental interactions, space-time symmetries, isospin, SU(3) and the quark model and the Standard Model.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS116 HM
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PHYS166 HM - Geophysics
Credit(s): 2
Instructor(s): Lyzenga
Offered: Spring
Description: Special topics in geophysical methods and their application to construction of earth models.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS023 HM and PHYS024 HM
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PHYS168 HM - Electrodynamics
Credit(s): 2
Instructor(s): Eckert
Offered: Spring
Description: Selected topics in electrodynamics including wave propagation in material media.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS151 HM
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PHYS170 HM - Computational Methods in Physics
Credit(s): 2
Instructor(s): Sahakian
Offered: Spring
Description: Typical numerical methods for solving a wide range of problems of current interest in physics. Examples are drawn from mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, solid state and chemical physics.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS052 HM and the ability to program
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PHYS172 HM - General Relativity and Cosmology
Credit(s): 2
Instructor(s): Sahakian, Shuve
Offered: Spring
Description: The principle of equivalence, Riemannian geometry, and the Schwarzschild and cosmological solutions of the field equations.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS111 HM
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PHYS174 HM - Biophysics
Credit(s): 2
Instructor(s): Gerbode, Ilton
Offered: Spring
Description: Selected topics in biophysics focusing on active research in the field. Possible topics include: biolocomotion, membrane biophysics, imaging techniques. Seminar format. (Crosslisted as BIOL174 HM )
Prerequisite(s): BIOL052 HM and PHYS051 HM
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PHYS178 HM - Special Topics in Physics
Credit(s): 1-3
Instructor(s): Staff
Description: The study of an area in physics not covered in other courses, chosen each year at the discretion of the Department of Physics.
Prerequisite(s): Dependent on topic
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PHYS181 HM - Advanced Laboratory
Credit(s): 2
Instructor(s): Breznay
Offered: Fall
Description: Experiments are selected from the fields of nuclear and solid-state physics, biophysics, quantum mechanics and quantum optics, and atomic, molecular and optical physics. Fast-time coincidence instrumentation and photon-counting detectors are employed, as well as an X-ray machine and a UV/VIS/ NIR spectrophotometer.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS134 HM
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PHYS183 HM - Teaching Internship
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Saeta
Offered: Fall and Spring
Description: An Introduction to K–12 classroom teaching and curriculum development. Internship includes supervision by an appropriate K–12 teacher and a member of the physics department and should result in a report of a laboratory experiment, teaching module, or other education innovation or investigation. Internship includes a minimum of three hours per week of classroom participation.
Prerequisite(s): EDUC170G CG (or as corequisite by permission of instructor)
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PHYS191 HM - Research in Physics
Credit(s): 1-3
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Fall and Spring
Description: Original experimental or theoretical investigations in physics undertaken in consultation with a faculty member. Projects may be initiated by the student or by a faculty member. Present faculty research areas include astronomy, atomic and nuclear physics, optics, solid-state and low-temperature physics, general relativity, quantum mechanics, particle physics, geophysics and biophysics.
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PHYS193 HM - Physics Clinic
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Fall
Description: Team projects in applied physics, with corporate affiliation.
Prerequisite(s): Seniors only
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PHYS194 HM - Physics Clinic
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Spring
Description: Team projects in applied physics, with corporate affiliation.
Prerequisite(s): Seniors only
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PHYS195 HM - Physics Colloquium
Credit(s): 0.5
Instructor(s): Eckert, Ilton
Offered: Fall and Spring
Description: Oral presentations and discussions of selected topics, including recent developments. Participants include physics majors, faculty members, and visiting speakers. Required for all junior and senior physics majors. No more than 2.0 credits can be earned for departmental seminars/colloquia.
Grading Type: Pass/No Credit
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PHYS197 HM - Readings in Physics
Credit(s): 1-3
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Fall and Spring
Description: Directed reading in selected topics. 1-3 credit hours per semester. Signed form required.
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PHYS199 HM - Senior Thesis in Physics
Credit(s): 1-3
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Fall and Spring
Description: Original experimental or theoretical investigations in physics undertaken in consultation with a faculty member. Projects may be initiated by the student or by a faculty member. Present faculty research areas include astrophysics, biophysics, optics, solid-state and low-temperature physics, general relativity, quantum mechanics, particle physics, geophysics, and soft matter physics. Students are responsible for an oral presentation on progress and plans in the first half of the thesis research.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of department. Senior standing.
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POST114 HM - Comparative Environmental Politics
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Steinberg
Description: An examination of the political challenges faced by environmental advocates in diverse countries around the globe. Drawing on the fields of comparative politics and public policy, topics include comparative political institutions, environmental movements, corruption, authoritarian regimes, democratization, lesson-learning across borders, policy reform, gender analysis, decentralization, and European unification.
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POST140 HM - Global Environmental Politics
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Steinberg
Description: Analyzes the political dynamics driving global environmental problems and current attempts to address them. Concepts from political science and public policy are applied to issues such as ozone depletion, climate change, trade in endangered species, treaty formation and effectiveness, transnational activism, and multi-level governance.
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POST168 HM - Bicycle Revolution
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Steinberg
Offered: Spring, alternate years
Description: This course explores the challenge of creating bike-friendly cities, using bicycle transportation as a window into broader themes surrounding the politics of social change in urban/ suburban settings. The course combines community engagement with an introduction to relevant research literatures. Each week we will ride along bike routes in the surrounding cities of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, meeting with community leaders.
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POST188 HM - Political Innovation
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Steinberg
Description: Under what conditions do novel political ideas become realities? This course explores the origins and impacts of political innovations large and small—from the framing of the Constitution to the development of major social policies, the creation and reform of government agencies and non-profit organizations, and experimentation with new forms of social protest and political mobilization.
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PSYC053 HM - Introduction to Psychology
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Staff
Description: An introduction to the field of psychology with a special emphasis on overarching themes and methodologies employed in the discipline.
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PSYC108 HM - Introduction to Social Psychology
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Staff
Description: The study of the way individuals think about, influence, and relate to one another. Sample topics include: conformity, persuasion, social cognition, self-justification, prejudice, and attraction.
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RLST105 HM - Religions in American Culture
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Dyson
Description: An exploration of American religious history from pre-colonial indigenous civilizations through the present, focusing on three related issues: diversity, toleration, and pluralism. The course asks how religions have shaped or been shaped by encounters between immigrants, citizens, indigenous peoples, tourists, and, occasionally, government agents. In relation to these encounters, the course considers how groups and individuals have claimed territory, negotiated meaning, understood each other and created institutions as they met one another in the American landscape. Attention is also given to questions of power, translation, and the changing definitions of religion itself.
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RLST112 HM - Engaging Religion
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Dyson
Description: This advanced-level seminar uses case studies to explore what counts as religion in a variety of contexts: media, law, academia, economics, politics, etc. How do people recognize religion? What consequences are there for recognizing or denying the legitimacy of religious practices or beliefs? How is that legitimacy judged? How is it narrated? By approaching a few cases studies from multiple perspectives, students gain insight into how the lenses used to assess religion can enable, deepen, or limit understanding.
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RLST113 HM - God, Darwin, Design in America: A Historical Survey of Religion and Science
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Dyson
Description: Course examines the relationships between science and religion in the United States from the early 19th century to the present. Starting with the Natural Theologians, who made science the “handmaid of theology” in the early Republic, we will move forward in time through the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and Andrew Dickson White’s subsequent declaration of a war between science and religion, into the 20th century with the Scopes trial and the rise of Creationism, the evolutionary synthesis, and finally the recent debates over the teaching of Intelligent Design in public schools.
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RLST114 HM - Prophecy, Apocalypse
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Dyson
Description: This course looks at American configurations of the End Times, including, but not limited to, the ending of the Mayan calendar in 2012, Ghost Dance religions, Y2K predictions, The Church Universal and Triumphant, Heaven’s Gate, the Left Behind books and movies, and varied interpretations of the book of Revelation in the Christian Bible. Students taking this course will become familiar with various forms of American apocalyptic thinking as well as literature from “new religious movement” or “cult” scholarship in order to explore the enduring appeal of End Time scenarios and to question what makes these scenarios persuasive to individuals at varied points in American history.
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RLST147 HM - World Religions and Transnational Religions: American and Global Movements
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Dyson
Description: What happens to religious practices and communities when they are transplanted to new terrain? Examples include the establishment of “old world” religious enclaves in the United States, New Age adoptions of “foreign” practices, American understandings of world religions, or the exportation of American or Americanized religion to other countries through missionaries, media, or returning immigrants. Considering exchange, conflict, adaptation, and innovation as multi-directional, and always historically and politically informed, the course looks at several historic and contemporary instances of religious border crossings.
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RLST168 HM - Activism, Vocation, Justice
Credit(s): 1.5
Instructor(s): Dyson
Description: The histories of social change activism are filled with individuals who understand their call to fight injustice, to work for community rights, or to alleviate suffering as grounded in their philosophical, religious, or spiritual practices. In this course, students will combine community engagement work with their class work; learning about diverse thinkers and reformers, who have either found religious meaning in their activist or service work, or who have interpreted philosophy, doctrine, theology, or liturgy as demanding action from them. Each semester, readings will be grouped around a particular theme such as: Engaged Buddhism; interfaith activism; violent vs. non-violent protest; the Direct Action years of the Civil Rights Movement; education as activism; theological and philosophical theories of justice; socialisms and social change; queer and Christian communities; and Hindu environmentalism. The class will meet once a week, every other week.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission
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RLST180 HM - Interpreting Religious Worlds
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Staff
Offered: Alternating years at CMC, HMC, Pomona, and Scripps
Description: Examines some current theoretical and methodological approaches to the academic study of religion.
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RLST183 HM - Ghosts and the Machines
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Dyson
Description: An exploration of the interrelations between occult mediumship, modern media, and technology in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth-century through the present. The aim of the course is to explore how the Enlightenment and its offspring, modern technology, in their seemingly stark material and rational promises of progress, have never rid themselves fully of the paranormal and irrational. To explore the multiple relations between ghosts and the machines, topics for the course include: ghostly visions and magic lantern phatasmagoria; American spiritualism and the telegraph; phrenology and the rise of the archive; psychical research and stage magic; radio’s disembodied voices; spirit photography and light therapies; psychic television; and magic on film.
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RLST184 HM - Science and Religion
Credit(s): 3
Instructor(s): Dyson
Description: A seminar that examines a variety of interpretative strategies for approaching science/religion interactions; explores the historical patterns of interaction from the Bronze Age to the present; then concludes with an extended exploration of the place of science in the works of a major contemporary theologian such as Wolfhart Pannenberg.
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