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Course Descriptions


 

Environmental Analysis

  
  • EA174 HM - Building Los Angeles


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Groves

    Description: This course explores the complex network of urban communities in which we live in order that we might think more deeply about the relationship of the built to the natural environment. To complicate our conceptions of Los Angeles, we consider the city’s history and infrastructure and examine the social stresses and environmental pressures that result from planning decisions. We also focus on Southern California architecture and design as a profound expression of the relationship between the built and the natural, including new urbanism and the maturation of green design. As a required experiential component, the course features a substantial number of Saturday field trips. $50 fee to cover transportation costs.

    HSA Course Area(s): Environmental Analysis
    HSA Writing Intensive: No

Geography

  
  • GEOG105 HM - Place, Power, and Difference


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Seitz

    Description: This course introduces students to social and cultural approaches to space and spatiality. It explores how cultural geography can open up understandings of race, class, gender, sexuality, and other modes of social difference and power. The course critically engages a number of key concepts – space, place, scale, intersectionality, performativity, and orientalism - in leading intellectual debates about place, power, and difference. It will help students develop an awareness of how processes of identity and community formation are inherently spatial, and the significance of the work of social and cultural cultural geographers to political and intellectual struggles around difference.

     

    HSA Course Area(s): American Studies; Geography; Gender Studies
    HSA Writing Intensive: No

  
  • GEOG125 HM - Geographies of Disease and Health Justice


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Seitz

    Description: This course examines the uneven geographical distribution of disease and health, the spatial, social, and political processes that shape that uneven distribution, and some of the ways in which differently marginalized people contest health inequalities and the power relations that generate them. The course introduces a set of core concepts and theories around economic, racial, environmental and reproductive (in)justice, which help to put disease and health into geographical, historical, and political-economic context. It also introduces some of the health justice movements that have sought to address these concerns.

    HSA Course Area(s): American Studies; Geography; Gender Studies; Science, Technology, & Society
    HSA Writing Intensive: Yes
  
  • GEOG175 HM - Geographies of Labor


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Seitz

    Description: What is work? How is work socially and spatially organized? How are these forms of spatial organization struggled over and transformed? Who performs what kind of work? Where? Why? This course introduces students to some of the leading critical approaches to the geographies of labor, including Marxist political economy and feminist, critical-race, anticolonial and queer theories. This course investigates a number of contemporary shifts in the organization of work, including the rise of neoliberalism, deindustrialization, the feminization of the paid labor force, the prevalence of precarious work, contemporary forms of labor migration, and the expansion of prison labor. Locating these shifts in the longer histories and geographies of unfree labor, students will examine some of the ways in which workers have used their labor as a departure point for collective action, including unionization, work refusals, and struggles over social reproduction.

    HSA Course Area(s): American Studies; Geography; Gender Studies
    HSA Writing Intensive: Yes

History

  
  • HIST081 HM - Science and Technology in the Early Modern World


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Hamilton

    Description: We will read works of natural philosophy from the 16th and 17th centuries, including selections by Vesalius, Copernicus, Galileo, Boyle, and Newton, individuals who have often been cast as crucial contributors to “The Scientific Revolution.” Engaging with historians who debate the merits of this term, we will ask whether it is possible to unite these figures and the changes they represent into one coherent intellectual and social movement.

    HSA Course Area(s): History; Science, Technology, & Society
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • HIST082 HM - Science and Technology in the Modern World


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Hamilton

    Description: An examination of several important episodes in the history of chemistry, biology, physics, and medicine from the late 18th to mid-20th centuries. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which new scientific theories have been developed and evaluated, to the impact of cultural beliefs about gender and race on science, and to fundamental debates within science and medicine about what counts as good evidence and proper methodology.

    HSA Course Area(s): History; Science, Technology, & Society
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • HIST127 HM - Twentieth-Century U.S. History


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Staff

    Description: An analysis of U.S. history from the Progressive Era to the present, with particular em­phasis on social, economic, and cultural developments and their relationships to political change.

    HSA Course Area(s): American Studies; History
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • HIST150 HM - Technology and Medicine


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Hamilton

    Description: This course explores the increasingly technological nature of medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, investigating the impact of new technologies on diagnostic practices, categories of disease, doctors’ professional identities, and patients’ understanding of their own bodies. Technologies studied include the stethoscope, electrotherapy devices, X-rays, ultrasound, and MRI.

    HSA Course Area(s): History; Science, Technology, & Society
    HSA Writing Intensive: Yes
  
  • HIST151 HM - Science in Fiction


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Hamilton

    Description: In this course, we will explore fictional texts as historical documents. Together, we will read novels from the 19th and 20th centuries in which the practice of science is central to the story being told, asking what each text reveals about cultural attitudes towards science in that time period. In addition, each student will pursue a historical research project centered on a fictional source of their choice.

    HSA Course Area(s): History; Science, Technology, & Society
    HSA Writing Intensive: Yes
  
  • HIST152 HM - A History of Modern Physics


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Hamilton

    Description: An examination of the cultural and social worlds of physics in the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include the relationship of experiment to theory, the development of relativity and quantum mechanics, and the role of physicists in the atomic bomb project. We will consider how structures of race, gender and colonization have shaped contributions to modern physics.

    Prerequisite(s): One college-level course in physics.
    HSA Course Area(s): History; Science, Technology, & Society
    HSA Writing Intensive: No

Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

  
  • HSA010 HM - Critical Inquiry


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Staff

    Offered: Spring

    Description: This seminar course introduces students to inquiry, writing, and research in HSA, through focused exploration of a particular topic selected by the instructor in each section. To encourage reflection on the place of HSA within the Harvey Mudd curriculum, the course begins with a brief unit on the history and aims of liberal arts education. Writing assignments include a sub­stantial research paper on a topic of interest chosen by the student in consultation with their instructor. The course ends with student research presentations in each section, followed by a Presentations Days event featuring the best presentations from across all sections.

    Prerequisite(s): WRIT001 HM  
    Corequisite(s): WRIT001E HM  may serve as a co-requisite

Interdisciplinary

  
  • ID048 HM - Social Justice & Equity/STEM Educ


    Credit(s): 1

    Instructor(s): Yong

    Description: Despite many efforts over the last few decades to broaden participation in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields, women, African-American, Hispanic and Latinx, Native American, and Southeast Asian individuals remain underrepresented in STEM fields in the United States. Why have we not made more significant progress and what will it take to do so?  In this course, we will use critical theories (including critical race theory, feminism, Marxism, and others) to understand the entangled issues behind this and other persistent inequities. The purpose of this course is to help fulfill the HMC mission statement more completely by empowering students to be engaged, critical, and civic-minded participants who can positively impact society. This class will have a reasonable out-of-class homework requirement that will be commensurate with a one-unit course.


Leadership Studies

  
  • LEAD101 HM - Fundamentals of Leadership


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Zorman

    Description: Successful leaders must know how to lead themselves, how to lead others, and how to lead their cause. Many diverse competencies are required to be successful in those three dimensions of leadership. This course will introduce those competencies in theory and offer plenty of opportunities to practice them. Taught through some lecture but mainly through experiential learning, group discussions, self-reflection, and enthusiastic practice in real life. This course requires students to be willing to step out of their comfort zone, to take risks and participate actively in service of personal and group learning. No pass/fail grading (i.e., no pass/no credit, credit/no credit, etc.) 

    Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing
  
  • LEAD111 HM - Intersectionality of Leadership


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Zorman

    Description: In this experiential and student-driven course, students are asked to explore how intersectionality and social identities influence and shape leadership practices and leader identities. Students are not expected to be in an official leadership position and don’t need extensive leadership experience to benefit from this course. We define leadership as the capacity of influencing others to achieve a common goal. Students spend substantial time in small and intimate home-groups in which they are asked to engage authentically, take risks, and step out of their comfort zone with courage, compassion, and curiosity.

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission required.
  
  • LEAD151 HM - Interpersonal Dynamics


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Zorman

    Description: This course is designed to help students explore and understand their impact on others as well as other people’s impact on them. Students will experience in a small and intimate training group (max. 12) how changing their behavior is changing their impact on others. As a result students will learn how to authentically engage, have their intended impact, and create more productive and trusted relationships. Participation at the weekend retreat late in the semester is required to pass this course. No pass-fail grading.

    Prerequisite(s): Instructor permission and interview required

Literature

  
  • LIT035 HM - Fiction Workshop


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Plascencia

    Offered: Fall and Spring

    Description: This course is designed as an introductory workshop focusing on the writing of fiction and the discourse of craft. Through the examination of a variety of literary traditions, stylistic and compositional approaches, and the careful reading and editing of peer stories, students will strengthen their prose and develop a clearer understanding of their own literary values and the dynamics of fiction.

    HSA Course Area(s): Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: Yes
  
  • LIT104 HM - An Introduction to Middle English Literature


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Groves

    Description: A course for students interested in developing a basic ability to translate and pronounce Middle English. Works studied will include: the first fragment of Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”; “Sir Orfeo”; “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”; and selections from Malory’s “Le Morte D’Arthur.”

    HSA Course Area(s): Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • LIT107 HM - Fourteen Poems: An Introduction to Poetry


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Groves

    Offered: Fall, alternate years

    Description: In this course, we study what poetry is and how it is used in the world. Neither strictly canonical nor historical in approach, this course introduces students to a wide range of English-language poems, most of them from the last two centuries. In most weeks throughout the semester, we focus on one or two primary poems (fourteen primary poems in all), with the support of companion poems that provide context. This course is writing intensive.

    HSA Course Area(s): Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: Yes
  
  • LIT110 HM - Performing Shakespeare


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Groves, Dadabhoy

    Description: Covers selected dramatic and lyric works by Shakespeare with some attention to other Elizabethan and Jacobean writers. Final project: a public performance of a Shakespeare play.

    HSA Course Area(s): Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • LIT112 HM - Critical Shakespeares


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Dadabhoy

    Offered: Fall

    Description: This course will approach Shakespeare’s plays through contemporary social and cultural issues. We will explore and challenge the notion of Shakespeare’s universality, to understand how and why this writer and his work continues to resonate with us today. Themes that we might explore in any given semester include: #MeToo, Social Justice, Imperialism and Colonialism, and Global Shakespeare. The final project for this course will engage with “public humanities,” by creating either a zine, submitting writing to a blog, or creating a course conference. The topic will change/rotate every time it is offered.

    HSA Course Area(s): Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • LIT117A HM - Dickens, Hardy, and the Victorian Age


    Credit(s): 4

    Instructor(s): Groves, Eckert

    Offered: Fall and Winter break

    Description: An intensive study of the work and literary development of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. Readings drawn from the authors’ works and related critical, biographi­cal, and historical texts. Class travels to England over winter break; travel expenses are the responsibility of the student.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
    HSA Course Area(s): Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • LIT141 HM - Monsters in Literature


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Dadabhoy

    Description: Our culture is fascinated by things that are weird, strange, horrifying, and grotesque. In other words, we’re fascinated by monsters, those others that stand at the margins of human, civilized society, threatening us by their very existence. Are monsters only very scary things, or do they have a social and cultural function? In this course we will take up this and other questions as we investigate the nature of the monstrous. Moreover, we will explore the libidinal charge that the recognition of the monstrous or unnatural being evokes. Thus, we will examine both the physical and psychological permutations of monstrosity. In this course, we will consider monsters in their non-human, alien, and technological forms as well as some truly terrifying human monsters.

    HSA Course Area(s): Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • LIT144 HM - Poe Goes South: the Fantastic Short Story


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Balseiro

    Description: A consideration of Poe’s influence on the development of the fantastic short story in Latin America. Topics include: Poe’s reception in Europe and in the Southern Cone, Poe’s influence in the literature of magic realism in 20th-century Latin America.

    HSA Course Area(s): Latin American Studies; Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • LIT145 HM - Third-World Women Writers


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Balseiro

    Description: Focuses on the relationships between gender and identity in the writings of Third-World women as well as theoretical background on Third-World feminisms. Authors include Nawal El Saadawi, Alifa Rifaat, Mariama Ba, Bessie Head, Ana Lydia Vega, and Jamaica Kincaid.

    HSA Course Area(s): Literature; Gender Studies
    HSA Writing Intensive: Yes
  
  • LIT146 HM - Twentieth-Century South African Literature


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Balseiro

    Description: An introduction to the interactions between literature, politics, and history in 20th-century South Africa. Readings include drama, poetry, fiction, and biography, and viewings include several films and documentaries.

    HSA Course Area(s): Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • LIT147 HM - Writers From Africa and the Caribbean


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Balseiro

    Description: An examination of the themes of nation, exile, race, and gender in works by Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ayi Jwei Armah, Yusuf Idriss, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, and Rosario Ferre, among others. Theoretical background on Third-World literature will also be covered.

    HSA Course Area(s): Africana Studies; Latin American Studies; Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: Yes
  
  • LIT155 HM - Post-Apartheid Narratives


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Balseiro

    Description: This seminar maps the literary terrain of contemporary South Africa. Through an examination of prose, poetry, and visual material, this course offers some of the responses writers have given to the end of apartheid, to major social events such as the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and to the idea of a “new” South Africa.

    HSA Course Area(s): Africana Studies; Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: Yes
  
  • LIT156 HM - Translation; or, the Foreignness of Language


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Balseiro

    Description: This seminar is designed to introduce students to the foreignness of language through literary translation theory and its praxis. Participants will develop individual projects that will be revised and workshopped over the course of the semester. Weekly readings, including essays by theoreticians, accomplished writer-translators, and selections of multiple translations of a single text, will be used to familiarize students with a range of perspectives on translation and its relationship to writing. 

    Prerequisite(s): Students must have reading knowledge of at least one foreign language
    HSA Course Area(s): Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: Yes
  
  • LIT158 HM - Zora Neale Hurston: Theories of Race, Gender, and Art


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Balseiro

    Offered: Spring

    Description: This seminar is designed to introduce students to Zora Neale Hurston as an ethnographer and fiction writer. Hurston was the first African American woman to graduate from Barnard College. Born in the South, highly educated in the North, a luminary amongst the talents of the Harlem Renaissance, and buried in an unmarked grave in her native Florida, Hurston’s writing and life offer a unique view onto notions of race, gender, art, and class in the aftermath of Reconstruction that reverberate to this day.

    HSA Course Area(s): Africana Studies; American Studies; Anthropology; Gender Studies; Literature
    HSA Writing Intensive: No

Mathematics

(Includes mathematics courses frequently taken by HMC students at the other Claremont Colleges)

  
  • MATH019 HM - Single and Multivariable Calculus


    Credit(s): 4

    Instructor(s): Staff

    Offered: Fall

    Description: A comprehensive view of the theory and techniques of differential and integral calculus of a single variable together with a robust introduction to multivariable calculus. Topics include limits, continuity, derivatives, definite integrals, infinite series, Taylor series in one and several variables, partial derivatives, double and triple integrals, linear approximations, the gradient, directional derivatives and the Jacobian, optimization and the second derivative test, higher-order derivatives and Taylor approximations, line integrals, vector fields, curl, divergence, Green’s theorem, and an introduction to flux and surface integrals.

  
  • MATH021 HM - Mathematics of Games and Puzzles


    Credit(s): 1.5

    Instructor(s): Benjamin

    Offered: Fall

    Description: Using simple mathematical tools, many popular games and puzzles can be analyzed, leading to improved performance and a more enjoyable experience. In this class we will derive probabilities, expected values and optimal strategies for games like roulette, craps, blackjack, backgammon, and poker. The theory of zero sum games will be introduced, along with optimal wagering strategies. We will also explore solution methods for classic puzzles like Lights Out, Sudoku, and Rubik’s Cube. Half-semester course.

    Prerequisite(s): Harvey Mudd College first-year students only.
  
  • MATH055 HM - Discrete Mathematics


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Benjamin, Bernoff, Lindo, Martonosi, Orrison

    Offered: Fall and Spring

    Description: Topics include combinatorics (clever ways of counting things), number theory, and graph theory with an emphasis on creative problem solving and learning to read and write rigorous proofs. Possible applications include probability, analysis of algorithms, and cryptography.

    Corequisite(s): MATH073 HM  
  
  • MATH055A HM - Topics in Discrete Mathematics


    Credit(s): 1

    Instructor(s): Benjamin

    Description: Topics include combinatorics (clever ways of counting things), number theory, and graph theory with an emphasis on creative problem solving and learning to read and write rigorous proofs. Possible applications include probability, analysis of algorithms, and cryptography. 
     

    Prerequisite(s): By permission only
  
  • MATH062 HM - Introduction to Probability and Statistics


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Staff

    Offered: Spring

    Description: Sample spaces, events, axioms for probabilities; conditional probabilities and Bayes’ theorem; random variables and their distributions, discrete and continuous; expected values, means and variances; covariance and correlation; law of large numbers and central limit theorem; point and interval estima­tion; hypothesis testing; simple linear regression; applications to analyzing real data sets. Possible additional topics include ANOVA, multiple regression, and logistic regression. 

    Prerequisite(s): MATH019 HM  
    Corequisite(s): MATH073 HM  
  
  • MATH073 HM - Linear Algebra


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Staff

    Offered: Spring

    Description: Theory and applications of linearity, including vectors, matrices, systems of linear equations, dot and cross products, determinants, linear transformations in Euclidean space, linear independence, bases, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and diagonalization. General vector spaces and linear transformations; change of basis and similarity. Additional Topics.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH019 HM  or equivalent
  
  • MATH082 HM - Differential Equations


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Staff

    Offered: Fall

    Description: Modeling physical systems, first-order ordinary differential equations, existence, uniqueness, and long-term behavior of solutions; bifurcations; approximate solutions; second-order ordinary differential equations and their properties, applications; first-order systems of ordinary differential equations. Applications to linear systems of ordinary differential equations, matrix exponential; nonlinear systems of differential equations; equilibrium points and their stability. Additional topics.

    Prerequisite(s): (MATH019 HM  and MATH073 HM ) or equivalent 
  
  • MATH092 HM - Mathematical Contest in Modeling/Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling Seminar


    Credit(s): 1

    Instructor(s): Martonosi

    Offered: Fall

    Description: This seminar meets one evening per week during which students solve and present solutions to challenging mathematical problems in preparation for the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) and Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM), an international undergraduate mathematics competition. This course is not eligible for major elective credit in the HMC mathematics major.

  
  • MATH093 HM - Putnam Seminar


    Credit(s): 1

    Instructor(s): Bernoff, Omar, Su

    Offered: Fall

    Description: This seminar meets one evening per week during which students solve and present solutions to challenging mathematical problems in preparation for the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, a national undergraduate mathematics contest. This course is not eligible for major elective credit in the HMC mathematics major.

  
  • MATH094 HM - Problem Solving Seminar


    Credit(s): 1

    Instructor(s): Bernoff, Omar

    Offered: Spring

    Description: This seminar meets one evening per week during which students solve and present solutions to problems posed in mathematics journals, such as the American Mathematical Monthly. Solutions are submitted to these journals for potential publication.

  
  • MATH104 HM - Graph Theory


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Martonosi, Omar, Orrison

    Offered: Alternate years

    Description: An introduction to graph theory with applications. Theory and applications of trees, matchings, graph coloring, planarity, graph algorithms, and other topics.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH073 HM  and MATH055 HM  
  
  • MATH106 HM - Combinatorics


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Benjamin, Omar, Orrison

    Offered: Alternate years

    Description: An introduction to the techniques and ideas of combinatorics, including counting methods, Stirling numbers, Catalan numbers, generating functions, Ramsey theory, and partially ordered sets.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH055 HM  
  
  • MATH108 PZ - History of Mathematics


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Staff (Pitzer)

    Offered: Alternate years

    Description: A survey of the history of mathematics from antiquity to the present. Topics emphasized will include: the development of the idea of proof, the “analytic method” of algebra, the invention of the calculus, the psychology of mathematical discovery, and the interactions between mathematics and philosophy.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH019 HM  
  
  • MATH109 CM - Introduction to the Mathematics of Finance


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Staff (CMC)

    Offered: Alternate years

    Description: This is a first course in Mathematical Finance sequence. This course introduces the concepts of arbitrage and risk-neutral pricing within the context of single- and multi-period financial models. Key elements of stochastic calculus such as Markov processes, martingales, filtration, and stopping times will be developed within this context. Pricing by replication is studied in a multi-period binomial model. Within this model, the replicating strategies for European and American options are determined.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH073 HM  and MATH082 HM  
  
  • MATH115 HM - Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Bernoff, Weinburd, Yong

    Offered: Spring

    Description: Complex variables and residue calculus; Laplace transforms; Fourier series and the Fourier transform; Partial Differential Equations including the heat equation, wave equation, and Laplace’s equation; Separation of variables; Sturm-Liouville theory and orthogonal expansions; Bessel functions. May not be included in a mathematics major program. Students may not receive credit for both Mathematics 115 and MATH180 HM .

    Prerequisite(s): MATH073 HM  and MATH082 HM  
  
  • MATH119 HM - Advanced Mathematical Biology


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Adolph (Biology), de Pillis, Jacobsen

    Description: Further study of mathematical models of biological processes, including discrete and continuous models. Examples are drawn from a variety of areas of biology, which may include physiology, systems biology, cancer biology, epidemiology, ecology, evolution, and spatiotemporal dynamics. (Crosslisted as BIOL119 HM )

    Prerequisite(s): MCBI118A HM  
  
  • MATH131 HM - Mathematical Analysis I


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Castro, de Pillis, Karp, Omar, Su, Zinn-Brooks

    Offered: Jointly; Fall semester at HMC and Pomona, Spring semester at HMC and CMC

    Description: This course is a rigorous analysis of the real numbers and an introduction to writing and communicating mathematics well. Topics include properties of the rational and the real number fields, the least upper bound property, induction, countable sets, metric spaces, limit points, compactness, connectedness, careful treatment of sequences and series, functions, differentiation and the mean value theorem, and an introduction to sequences of functions. Additional topics as time permits.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH055 HM  
  
  • MATH132 HM - Mathematical Analysis II


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Castro, Omar, Su, Staff (Pomona)

    Offered: Jointly; Fall semester at HMC, Spring semester at Pomona

    Description: A rigorous study of calculus in Euclidean spaces including multiple Riemann integrals, derivatives of transformations, and the inverse function theorem.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH131 HM  
  
  • MATH136 HM - Complex Variables and Integral Transforms


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Bernoff, Castro, Jacobsen, Karp, Yong

    Offered: Fall

    Description: Complex differentiation, Cauchy-Riemann equations, Cauchy integral formulas, residue theory, Taylor and Laurent expansions, conformal mapping, Fourier and Laplace transforms, inversion formulas, other integral transforms, applications to solutions of partial differential equations.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH073 HM  and MATH082 HM  
  
  • MATH137 HM - Graduate Analysis I


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Castro, Staff (Pomona), Staff (CMC)

    Offered: Fall

    Description: Abstract Measures, Lebesgue measure, and Lebesgue-Stieltjes measures on R; Lebesgue integral and limit theorems; product measures and the Fubini theorem; additional topics. (Crosslisted as MATH331 CG)

    Prerequisite(s): MATH132 HM  
  
  • MATH138 HM - Graduate Analysis II


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Castro, Omar, Staff (Pomona), Staff (CMC)

    Offered: Spring

    Description: Banach and Hilbert spaces; Lp spaces; complex measures and the Radon-Nikodym theorem. (Crosslisted as MATH332 CG)

    Prerequisite(s): MATH137 HM  or MATH331 CG
  
  • MATH142 HM - Differential Geometry


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Gu, Karp, Staff (Pitzer)

    Offered: Fall

    Description: Curves and surfaces, Gauss curvature; isometries, tensor analy­sis, covariant differentiation with application to physics and geometry (intended for majors in physics or mathematics).

    Prerequisite(s): MATH073 HM  and MATH082 HM  
  
  • MATH143 HM - Seminar in Differential Geometry


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Gu

    Offered: Spring

    Description: Selected topics in Riemannian geometry, low dimensional manifold theory, elementary Lie groups and Lie algebra, and contemporary applications in mathematics and physics.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH131 HM  and MATH142 HM MATH147 HM  recommended
  
  • MATH147 HM - Topology


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Karp, Su, Staff (Pomona)

    Offered: Jointly with Pomona; Spring semester

    Description: Topology is the study of properties of objects pre­served by continuous deformations (much like geometry is the study of properties preserved by rigid motions). Hence, topology is sometimes called “rubber-sheet” geometry. This course is an introduction to point-set topology with additional topics chosen from geometric and algebraic topology. It will cover topological spaces, metric spaces, product spaces, quotient spaces, Hausdorff spaces, compactness, connectedness, and path connectedness. Additional topics will be chosen from metrization theorems, fundamental groups, homotopy of maps, covering spaces, the Jordan curve theorem, classification of surfaces, and simplicial homology.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH131 HM  
  
  • MATH148 PZ - Knot Theory


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Staff (Pitzer)

    Offered: Alternate years

    Description: An introduction to theory of knots and links from combinatorial, algebraic, and geometric perspectives. Topics will include knot diagrams, p-colorings, Alexander, Jones, and HOMFLY polynomials, Seifert surfaces, genus, Seifert matrices, the fundamental group, representations of knot groups, covering spaces, surgery on knots, and important families of knots.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH073 HM  
  
  • MATH152 HM - Statistical Theory


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Martonosi, Williams, Staff (Pomona), Staff (CMC)

    Offered: Jointly; Spring semester at Pomona and CMC

    Description: An introduction to the general theory of statistical inference, including estimation of parameters, confidence intervals, and tests of hypotheses.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH 157 HM  
  
  • MATH153 HM - Bayesian Statistics


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Williams

    Offered: Spring, alternate years

    Description: An introduction to principles of data analysis and advanced statistical modeling using Bayesian inference. Topics include a combination of Bayesian principles and advanced methods; general, conjugate and noninformative priors, posteriors, credible intervals, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, and hierarchical models. The emphasis throughout is on the application of Bayesian thinking to problems in data analysis. Statistical software will be used as a tool to implement many of the techniques.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
  
  • MATH155 HM - Time Series


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Williams

    Offered: Spring, alternate years

    Description: An introduction to the theory of statistical time series. Topics include decomposi­tion of time series, seasonal models, forecasting models including causal models, trend models, and smoothing models, autoregressive (AR), moving average (MA), and integrated (ARIMA) forecasting models. Time permitting, we will also discuss state space models, which include Markov processes and hidden Markov processes, and derive the famous Kalman filter, which is a recursive algorithm to compute predictions. Statistical software will be used as a tool to aid calculations required for many of the techniques.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
  
  • MATH156 HM - Stochastic Processes


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Benjamin, Martonosi, Staff (CMC)

    Offered: Jointly; Fall, alternate years at HMC

    Description: This course is particularly well-suited for those wanting to see how probability theory can be applied to the study of random phenomena in fields such as engineering, management science, the physical and social sciences, and opera­tions research. Topics include conditional expectation, Markov chains, Poisson processes, and queuing theory. Additional applications chosen from such topics as reliability theory, Brownian motion, finance and asset pricing, inventory theory, dynamic programming, and simulation.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH073 HM  and MATH157 HM  
  
  • MATH157 HM - Intermediate Probability


    Credit(s): 1.5

    Instructor(s): Benjamin, Haddock, Martonosi, Su, Williams

    Offered: Fall and Spring

    Description: Continuous random variables, distribution functions, joint density functions, marginal and conditional distributions, functions of random variables, conditional expectation, covariance and correlation, moment generating functions, law of large numbers, Chebyshev’s theorem, and central-limit theorem. 

    Prerequisite(s): BIOL154 HM  or MATH035  HM or MATH062 HM  
  
  • MATH158 HM - Statistical Linear Models


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Martonosi, Williams, Staff (Pomona)

    Offered: Fall, alternate years

    Description: An introduction to linear regression including simple linear regression, multiple regression, variable selection, stepwise regression and analysis of residual plots and analysis of variance including one-way and two-way fixed effects ANOVA. Emphasis will be on both methods and applications to data. Statistical software will be used to analyze data.

    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
  
  • MATH164 HM - Scientific Computing


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Bernoff, de Pillis, Yong

    Description: Computational techniques applied to problems in the sciences and engineering. Modeling of physical problems, computer implementation, analysis of results; use of mathematical software; numerical methods chosen from: solutions of linear and nonlinear algebraic equations, solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations, finite elements, linear programming, optimization algorithms, and fast-Fourier transforms. (Crosslisted as CSCI144 HM )

    Prerequisite(s): MATH073 HM MATH082 HM , and CSCI060 HM  
  
  • MATH165 HM - Numerical Analysis


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Bernoff, Haddock, de Pillis, Yong

    Offered: Fall

    Description: An introduction to the analysis and computer implementation of basic numerical techniques. Solution of linear equations, eigenvalue prob­lems, local and global methods for non-linear equations, interpolation, approximate integra­tion (quadrature), and numerical solutions to ordinary differential equations.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH073 HM  and MATH082 HM  
  
  • MATH167 HM - Complexity Theory


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Staff (Pomona)

    Offered: Fall

    Description: Brief review of computability theory, followed by a rigorous treatment of complexity theory. The complexity classes P, NP, and the Cook-Levin Theorem. Approximability of NP-complete problems. The polynomial hierarchy, PSPACE-completeness, L and NL-completeness, #P-completeness. IP and Zero-knowledge proofs. Randomized and parallel complexity classes. The speedup, hierarchy, and gap theorems. (Crosslisted as CSCI142 HM )

    Prerequisite(s): (CSCI060 HM  or CSCI042 HM ) and MATH055 HM  
  
  • MATH168 HM - Algorithms


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Boerkoel (Computer Science), Monta​ñez (Computer Science), Schofield (Computer Science), Stone (Computer Science)

    Offered: Fall and Spring

    Description: Algorithm design, computer implementation, and analysis of efficiency. Discrete structures, sorting and searching, time and space complexity, and topics selected from algorithms for arithmetic circuits, sorting networks, parallel algorithms, computational geometry, parsing and pattern-matching. (Crosslisted as CSCI140 HM )

    Prerequisite(s): (CSCI070 HM  and CSCI081 HM ) or ((CSCI060 HM  or CSCI042 HM ) and MATH131 HM ))
  
  • MATH171 HM - Abstract Algebra I


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Karp, Lindo, Omar, Orrison, Staff (CMC), Staff (Pomona)

    Offered: Jointly; Fall semester at HMC and CMC, Spring semester at HMC and Pomona

    Description: Groups, rings, fields, and additional topics. Topics in group theory include groups, subgroups, quotient groups, Lagrange’s theorem, symmetry groups, and the isomorphism theorems. Topics in Ring theory include Euclidean domains, PIDs, UFDs, fields, polynomial rings, ideal theory, and the isomorphism theorems. In recent years, additional topics have included the Sylow theorems, group actions, modules, representations, and introductory category theory.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH073 HM  and MATH055 HM  
  
  • MATH172 HM - Abstract Algebra II: Galois Theory


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Karp, Omar, Orrison, Su, Staff (Pomona)

    Offered: Jointly; Spring semester at HMC and Pomona

    Description: The topics covered will include polynomial rings, field extensions, classical constructions, splitting fields, algebraic closure, separability, Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory, Galois groups of polynomials, and solvability.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH171 HM  
  
  • MATH173 HM - Advanced Linear Algebra


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): de Pillis, Gu, Orrison

    Offered: Jointly in alternate years

    Description: Topics from among the following: Similarity of matrices and the Jordan form, the Cayley-Hamilton theorem, limits of sequences and series of matrices; the Perron-Frobenius theory of nonnegative matrices, estimating eigenvalues of matrices; stability of systems of linear differential equations and Lyapunov’s Theorem; iterative solutions of large systems of linear algebraic equations.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH131 HM  
  
  • MATH174 HM - Abstract Algebra II: Representation Theory


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Karp, Lindo, Omar, Orrison, Su

    Offered: Jointly; Spring semester at HMC and Pomona

    Description: The topics covered will include group rings, characters, orthogonality relations, induced representations, applications of representation theory, and other select topics from module theory.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH171 HM  
  
  • MATH175 HM - Number Theory


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Benjamin, Omar, Staff (Scripps)

    Offered: Spring; offered jointly Fall semester at Scripps

    Description: Properties of integers, congruences, Diophantine problems, quadratic reciprocity, number theoretic functions, primes.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH055 HM  
  
  • MATH176 HM - Algebraic Geometry


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Karp, Omar

    Offered: Fall, alternate years

    Description: Topics include affine and projective varieties, the Nullstellensatz, rational maps and morphisms, birational geometry, tangent spaces, nonsingularity and intersection theory. Additional topics may be included depending on the interest and pace of the class.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH171 HM ; Previous courses in Analysis, Galois Theory, Differential Geometry, and Topology are recommended
  
  • MATH178 HM - Nonlinear Data Analytics


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Gu

    Offered: Fall

    Description: Analysis of nonlinear large dynamic data including but not limited from automobiles, cell phones, robots, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Visualization of such data using geometric methods, followed by representation in certain configuration spaces to capture the intrinsic non-linear relationship in the data. (For example, UAVs’ data, including accelerometer and gyroscope data, obeys nonlinear kinematics and dynamics relationships, a curved 3-D sphere S3 can capture their rotations when we use unit quaternion representations. A traditional statistical correlation matrix cannot capture those nonlinear relations since a correlation matrix only captures linear relationships in the data.) Advanced geometric data analysis techniques including nonlinear Riemannian (non-Euclidean) distances for modeling such big data problems (as used for building a cost function). We will also demonstrate how to perform optimization techniques on curved configuration spaces by extending optimization methods such as gradient descent and Newton’s method to such curved spaces. Application of learned techniques to solve real world problems involving big nonlinear dynamic data.

    Prerequisite(s): CSCI070 HM  and (CSCI140 HM  or MATH131 HM  or MATH157 HM  or MATH168 HM )
  
  • MATH180 HM - Introduction to Partial Differential Equations


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Bernoff, Jacobsen, Weinburd, Zinn-Brooks

    Offered: Fall

    Description: Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) including the heat equation, wave equation, and Laplace’s equation; existence and uniqueness of solutions to PDEs via the maximum principle and energy methods; method of characteristics; Fourier series; Fourier transforms and Green’s functions; Separation of variables; Sturm-Liouville theory and orthogonal expansions; Bessel functions.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH082 HM  and MATH131 HM  
  
  • MATH181 HM - Dynamical Systems


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Bernoff, Jacobsen, Zinn-Brooks, Staff (Pomona)

    Offered: Jointly; Fall semester at Pomona, Spring semester at HMC in alternate years

    Description: Existence and uniqueness theorems for systems of differential equations, dependence on data, linear systems, fundamental matrices, asymptotic behavior of solutions, stability theory, and other selected topics, as time permits.

    Prerequisite(s): MATH115 HM  or MATH180 HM  
  
  • MATH184 HM - Graduate Partial Differential Equations


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Bernoff, Castro, Jacobsen

    Offered: Spring, alternate years

    Description: Advanced topics in the study of linear and nonlinear partial differential equations. Topics may include the theory of distributions; Hilbert spaces; conservation laws, characteristics and entropy methods; fixed point theory; critical point theory; the calculus of variations and numerical methods. Applications to fluid mechanics, mathematical physics, mathematical biology, and related fields.

    Prerequisite(s): (MATH115 HM  and MATH131 HM ) or MATH180 HM ; recommended MATH132 HM  
  
  • 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): MATH073 HM  
  
  • 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): MATH055 HM  recommended
  
  • 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: Commutative Algebra, Convexity, Finite Fourier Analysis, Numerical Linear Algebra, and Mathematics of Big Data.

    Prerequisite(s): Dependent on topic
  
  • MATH193 HM - Mathematics Clinic


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Staff

    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.

    Prerequisite(s): Senior standing as a mathematics major or permission of the Mathematics Clinic director.
  
  • 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 
  
  • 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): Senior standing as a mathematics major and permission from the Mathematics Senior Thesis Coordinator.
  
  • MATH198 HM - Undergraduate Mathematics Forum


    Credit(s): 1

    Instructor(s): Castro, Jacobsen, Orrison, Weinburd, Williams, Zinn-Brooks

    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.

  
  • MATH199 HM - Mathematics Colloquium


    Credit(s): 0.5

    Instructor(s): Staff

    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. 


Mathematical and Computational Biology

  
  • MCBI117 HM - Game Theory and the Evolution of Cooperation


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Donaldson-Matasci (Biology)

    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): Permission of instructor
  
  • MCBI118A HM - Introduction to Mathematical Biology


    Credit(s): 1.5

    Instructor(s): Adolph (Biology), de Pillis (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): MATH073 HM MATH082 HM , and BIOL052 HM  
  
  • MCBI118B HM - Introduction to Computational Biology


    Credit(s): 1.5

    Instructor(s): Bush (Biology), Donaldson-Matasci (Biology), 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  and BIOL052 HM  
  
  • 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


Media Studies

  
  • 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. 

    HSA Course Area(s): Media Studies; Science, Technology, & Society
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • 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.”

    HSA Course Area(s): Media Studies
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • 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. $75 course fee.

    Prerequisite(s): MS182 HM  
    HSA Course Area(s): Art; Media Studies
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • 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.

    HSA Course Area(s): Latin American Studies; Literature; Media Studies
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • 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.

    HSA Course Area(s): Africana Studies; Latin American Studies; Literature; Media Studies
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • 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. $75 course fee.

    Prerequisite(s): 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
    HSA Course Area(s): Art; Media Studies
    HSA Writing Intensive: No

Music

  
  • MUS003 HM - Fundamentals of Music


    Credit(s): 3

    Instructor(s): Alves, 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.

    HSA Course Area(s): Music
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • MUS046 HM - Early Music Ensemble


    Credit(s): 1

    Instructor(s): Alves

    Description: Performance of music of European Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music on instruments of the period. Students will be expected to learn Baroque recorder but may play other instruments as well. Prerequisite: ability to read music.

    HSA Course Area(s): Music
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • 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
    HSA Course Area(s): Music
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • 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
    HSA Course Area(s): Music
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • 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.

    HSA Course Area(s): Music
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • 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.

    HSA Course Area(s): Media Studies; Music
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • 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.

    HSA Course Area(s): Music
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
  
  • 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.

    HSA Course Area(s): Music
    HSA Writing Intensive: No
 

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