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ENGL 400 - Critical Procedures in Language & Literature
Consideration of the major theoretical positions in contemporary criticism with their application to selected literary texts. Designed for senior English majors. The portfolio produced in this course satisfies the Paper-in-the -Major college writing requirement for English majors. Note: Senior English majors only.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 410 - Senior Seminar in English
Intensive study of a particular figure or topic, for seniors.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221 , and instructor permission
3 credits
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ENGL 420 - Preceptorship: Teaching Literature
Collaboration with professors in teaching introductory literature courses. For advanced majors interested in the theory and practice of teaching literature. Requires attendance at the relevant course (ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221 ) and intensive work with the instructor.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
1 credits
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ENGL 490 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENGL 495 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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Environmental Studies |
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ECON 361 - Environmental Economics
Understanding how environmental problems come to be and how best to solve them, with keen attention to the role and nature of markets, human behavior, institutions, and governmental policy. Students learn to see and redefine environmental problems as failures of incentives; investigate economic theory, concepts and tools relevant for environmental policy and understand the political and environmental history and complexity of environmental issues such as water management and air quality control.
Pre-req: ECON 201 - Principles of Economics: Micro
Cross-listed with ECON 361
3 credits
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ENST 070 - Practicing Sustainable Urban Agriculture
This course introduces students to the foundations of sustainable urban agriculture through active participation in the campus garden lab. Students will learn how to build healthy soil (including composting and vermiposting), use low-water irrigation techniques, propagate plants, cultivate fruits and vegetables, save seeds, and will be introduced to sustainable modes of disease and pest management. The class meets once a week, has required readings and will ask students to contribute one additional hour of work in the garden lab per week. This course is a pre-requisite for participation in urban agriculture internships.
1 credits
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ENST 245 - Green Politics
This course examines the intersections among ecological, social/cultural, economic and political processes and practices that have produced contemporary ecological crises (climate change, deforestation, air and water pollution, urban sprawl, etc.). We will investigate the complex processes that produce environmental problems, examine how people are differently affected by these problems, and we will look at how people can act to solve these problems. The course will emphasize that environmental issues are almost always social issues: the ecological crises we face are lodged in complex relations of power; embedded in daily practices; bound up with cultural values and priorities; and are inexorably linked with what counts as a pressing issue as well as the tools selected to solve problems. Environmental problems also reflect existing social relations of power and inequality. We do not all pay the same price or pay in the same way, nor do we all have an equal hand in their promulgation.
Cross-listed with SOC 245
3 credits
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ENST 260 - Eco-Philosophy
The evolution of theoretical responses to unprecedented environmental crises such as Global Warming and mass extinctions-from application of traditional ethical theories to the development of comprehensive alternative environmental philosophies.
Cross-listed with GEN 260 / PHIL 260 - Eco-Philosophy
3 credits
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ENST 290 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENST 301 - Environmental Analysis, Policy and Law
Review of U.S. and California environmental regulations and their application, historical overview of national and international environmental policy development with attention to current environmental policy issues. Lecture and Field Trips.
Pre-req: ENVS 100
3 credits
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ENST 321 - China: Its Environment and History
This course examines the multifarious ways in which the natural environment conditioned the course of China’s history from Neolithic times to the present, and the ways in which human actions altered China’s environment. The paradox of China’s “sustainable” development over the past 3000 years is explored.
Pre-req: HIST 101 , HIST 220 , or ENVS 100
Cross-listed with HIST 321
3 credits
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ENST 323 - Environmental Anthropology
The changes that humans make in the natural environment are related to their world views and to their ideas about what the relationship between humans and nature should be. This course will explore these relationships cross-culturally through the readings of ethnographies and the viewing of films.
Pre-req: Sophomore standing or above
Cross-listed with ANTH 323
3 credits
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ENST 348 - Food and Food Systems
This course approaches food-something Americans often take for granted-as a complex social system. We will investigate the social relationships and modes of organization that constitute the economic, political, environmental and social contexts for the development, production, distribution, promotion and consumption of food in contemporary society. Thus the course engages topics such as genetically modified food, the politics of food regulation, industrial agriculture, alternative agriculture and/or sustainable development.
Cross-listed with SOC 348
3 credits
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ENST 350 - World Environmental History
An examination of the world’s environmental history from both local (e.g. California and the U.S.) and global perspectives (e.g. deforestation, species extinctions, climate change and global warming, nitrogen flows) designed to explore the interaction between humans and the natural environment, and to assess the extent of the human impact on natural environments over time.
Pre-req: HIST 100 or any 200-level HIST course
Cross-listed with HIST 350
3 credits
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ENST 357 - Globalization and the Environment
Considers development issues related to economics, politics, inequality, human rights, gender, and environment and examines modernization, dependency, and world-system approaches to the theoretical understanding these issues.
Pre-req: ENVS 100
Cross-listed with INTD 357 and SOC 357
4 credits
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ENST 359 - Early North American Environmental History
This course explores the environmental history of early America. It particularly looks at the ways that colonial forms of land use, transportation, technology, and food systems emerged and evolved in early modern North America. Themes include cultural and ecological encounters, epidemiology, consumption, and production.
Pre-req: HIST 101 , HIST 206 or ENVS 100
Cross-listed with HIST 359
3 credits
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ENST 363 - Energy and Climate Change: Economics, Science and Policy
This course explores the science, economics and policy of climate change and energy resources. It covers a basic science foundation of climate change and an economics foundation for energy systems and climate policy. It also details how to conduct an economic feasibility and break-even analysis of a project such as renewable energy or energy efficiency installation. Students will become familiar building spreadsheets in Excel with costs and benefits over time and in present value terms. Regular readings on energy and climate change topics, including particular renewable energy technologies, will be assigned and discussed in small groups and as a class. A large portion of the class will be centered around team projects, which will identify, measure and analyze potential cost savings for a renewable energy or energy saving project on the Whittier College campus.
Pre-req: Pre-req: ECON 200 or ECON 201.
Cross-listed with ECON 363
3 credits
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ENST 365 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics
This course surveys the broad fields of agricultural and natural resource economics and policy. It examines the central concept of scarcity and how that drives economic value. We explore the concepts of value, efficiency and institutional failure in the management of renewable natural resources including arable land, timber and fisheries as well as of non-renewable resources such as minerals and hydrocarbon fuels. We also investigate agricultural development in the U.S. and what drives technological advancement. Finally, the course assesses the role and efficacy of markets and public policy in managing our natural resources efficiently and sustainably.
Pre-req: Pre-req: Pre-req: ECON 200 and ECON 201.
Cross-listed with ECON 365
3 credits
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ENST 370 - Environmental Sociology
This course focuses on sociological investigations of contemporary environmental/ ecological issues. From a sociological standpoint it is axiomatic that most of the ecological/environmental problems and crisis that we currently face are at their root social problems. This is not to minimize or erase the very real biogeochemical processes that have been disrupted, corrupted and eradicated by human actions; rather this perspective highlights those human actions and their outcomes. This course will be project based and organized around one or more case studies to introduce students to the relevant academic literature and to emphasize data analysis and concrete problem solving.
Pre-req: SOC 200 and Sophomore standing or above
Cross-listed with SOC 370
3 credits
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ENST 395 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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ENST 490 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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Environmental Science |
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ENVS 050 - Environmental Science Colloquium
Weekly colloquia from scientists engaged in study of the environment as well as various stakeholders in environmental issues. Students interested in environmental science and/ or environmental issues are encouraged to attend colloquia. Seniors will normally give a colloquium presentation as part of the paper in the major requirement. May be repeated for credit
1 credits
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ENVS 090 - Selected Topics in ENVS
May be repeated for credit. This course may not be used to meet requirements in any major.
1 to 3 credits
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ENVS 100 - Introduction to Environmental Science
An introduction to the field of environmental science, examined from multiple perspectives: biology, earth sciences, chemistry, and physics. The class focuses on the contributions these different disciplines make to the diagnosis and solution of environmental problems, with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary nature of these issues. Lecture, laboratory, and field trips.
Co-req: ENVS 100L
4 credits
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ENVS 100L - Introduction to Environmental Science Lab
Co-req: ENVS 100
0 credits
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ENVS 105 - Environmental Geology: Hazards & Resources
An introduction to processes at the Earth’s surface. The class explores the global weather and climate systems, the role of water in the environment, and processes that shape the surface of the earth. The class provides basic information on the physical processes maintaining the environment in which life exists. Special topics include global climate change, the greenhouse effect, tornadoes, hurricanes, El Nino, floods, landslides, and a survey of glacial, costal and stream environments.
Co-req: ENVS 105L
4 credits
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ENVS 105L - Environmental Geology: Hazards & Resources Lab
Co-req: ENVS 105
0 credits
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ENVS 190 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENVS 200 - Biological Anthropology
This course studies the physical aspects of human populations and the evolutionary history of our species. This history is studied through an overview of genetics and evolutionary theory, the fossil record, our close primate relatives and variation among contemporary humans, which underlies observable changes as our species continues to evolve.
Cross-listed with ANTH 200
3 credits
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ENVS 251 - Ecology & Evolution of Organisms
An introduction to the structure and function of populations of plants and animals. Topics to be covered include growth and behavior of populations, ecology of communities, ecosystem function, transmission genetics, and the evolution of populations and species. Lecture, Laboratories, and Field Trips.
Pre-req: ENVS 100 or BIOL 152
Co-req: ENVS 251L
Cross-listed with BIOL 251
4 credits
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ENVS 251L - Ecology & Evolution of Organisms Lab
Co-req: ENVS 251
Cross-listed with BIOL 251
0 credits
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ENVS 290 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENVS 291 - Earth’s Atmosphere
Fundamental properties of the atmosphere and the basic scientific principles behind weather and climate. Atmospheric circulation, weather patterns, atmosphere-ocean interactions and the human impact on the atmosphere such as air pollution, ozone depletion and climate change. Lectures and Laboratory.
4 credits
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ENVS 295 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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ENVS 320 - Environmental Chemistry
Atmospheric and condensed phase chemistry involved in modern environmental challenges including: global warming; energy supply; air, water and soil pollution; and ozone depletion. Lectures and Laboratory.
Pre-req: CHEM 110A
Cross-listed with CHEM 282
4 credits
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ENVS 320L - Environmental Chemistry Lab
Co-req: ENVS 320
Cross-listed with CHEM 282L
0 credits
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ENVS 330 - Soils & Environmental Geomorphology
The role of soil in the environment goes beyond being the media for vegetation to grow. The pedosphere (soils) is a complex and dynamic system at the interface between the atmosphere, the lithosphere, and the biosphere in which essential cycles of elements occur that support life on earth. Understanding the processes involved in soil formation and development across spatial and temporal scale will be the focus of this course, with emphasis on the effect of anthropogenic activity, such as soil management and use of soil resources, in affecting food production and causing environmental and water management issues. Lecture, Laboratory, and Field Trips.
Pre-req: ENVS 100 or ENVS 105
Co-req: ENVS 330L
4 credits
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ENVS 330L - Soils & Environmental Geomorphology Lab
Co-req: ENVS 330
0 credits
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ENVS 333 - Insects and Their Arthropod Relatives
This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to insects and their arthropod relatives. It will cover the key features of their classification, physiological structure and function, behavior and ecology, all within the context of the latest ideas on the evolution of the group. The course will also examine the economic importance of insects in veterinary and human medicine, pest management and pollination biology.
Pre-req: BIOL 251 or ENVS 100
Co-req: ENVS 333L
Cross-listed with BIOL 333
4 credits
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ENVS 333L - Insects and Their Arthropod Relatives Lab
Co-req: ENVS 333
Cross-listed with BIOL 333L
0 credits
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ENVS 345 - Energy Resources
An in-depth examination of energy resources from a geological and environmental perspective. Topics include petroleum geology, traditional and alternative energy sources, extraction methods, social impacts, and environmental hazards. Labs will use case-studies and datasets to investigate the decision-making process and current events. Lectures, laboratory, field trips.
Pre-req: ENVS 100 and ENVS 105
Co-req: ENVS 345L
4 credits
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ENVS 345L - Energy Resources Lab
Co-req: ENVS 345
0 credits
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ENVS 351 - Principles of Ecology
This course examines the fundamental concepts in the rapidly developing areas of ecology. The topics covered include the factors that limit the distributions and abundances of organisms, the effects that organisms have on ecosystems, the integration of ecosystems around the globe, and the conservation of species diversity. The class also explores how the behavior and physiology of individual organisms shape both and the global patterns of distribution abundance. Laboratories emphasize collection, and quantitative analyses, of experimental and field data from local ecosystems. Lecture, Laboratory, and Field Trips.
Pre-req: BIOL 251
Co-req: ENVS 351L
Cross-listed with BIOL 351
4 credits
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ENVS 351L - Principles of Ecology Lab
Co-req: BIOL 351L
Cross-listed with BIOL 351
0 credits
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ENVS 352 - Long-term Environmental Change
Through its history the Earth system has experienced large climatic fluctuations and has undergone periods of glacial expansion followed by warming trends. The understanding of the links between climate and ecosystems of the past (million of years) can inform on current and future climate changes. However, in much shorter time frames (hundred of years) anthropogenic activity has caused dramatic and unprecedented changes in the global climate whose effect on ecosystem processes and function is still largely unknown. This course will expose the students to a number of techniques used to reconstruct past climate, with particular emphasis on the use of isotopes. Recent warming trends will be investigated with particular focus on the ecosystems’ response to current and predicted global change.
Pre-req: ENVS 100 or ENVS 105
4 credits
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ENVS 358 - Population, Problems & Policy
3 credits
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ENVS 360 - World’s Views: Globalization, Environment, Agricultural Economy
This course is rooted in environmental science and focuses on the issue of land use change on global climate and environmental sustainability. There are obvious connections with other disciplines and fields, including global sustainability, food production, business, economics, and social science. Students who will participate in this course should expect to learn the connection between the soil system, vegetation and the atmosphere at the local and global scale. The business component of land use change is evident. Many multinational companies have an interest in available productive land for their crop production and their activity is driven by local and especially global demand. The course will be experiential, meaning that students will learn from on site visits and direct interaction with actual players in the field of sustainability and land use. Participants will be exposed to research work conducted in the area.
Pre-req: Sophomore standing or above
Cross-listed with INTD 360
4 credits
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ENVS 379 - Conservation Biology
Conservation biology deals with the study of preserving biodiversity. Topics to be covered include the effects of habitat fragmentation on populations, reserve design, the effect of fragmentation on levels of diversity, and issues surrounding the problem of maintaining genetic diversity. Lectures, Laboratory, and Field Trips.
Pre-req: ENVS 100 or BIOL 251
Co-req: ENVS 379L
Cross-listed with BIOL 379
4 credits
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ENVS 379L - Conservation Biology Lab
Co-req: ENVS 379
Cross-listed with BIOL 379L
0 credits
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ENVS 384 - Marine Biology
The ocean covers approximately 71% of the Earth’s surface. It is home to an incredible diversity of species from unicellular bacteria to whales. Such diversity exemplifies the variety of habitats that differ in abiotic and biotic factors that determine the niche of each species. Thus, many species have evolved in different ways to survive in a complex, multidimensional environment.
The ocean environment provides us with food, medicine, recreation, transport, and many other resources. However, overutilization of these resources has resulted in habitat destruction and species extinction. With the threat of accelerated climate change, research and conservation efforts are as important as ever, to protect existing and yet to be discovered species. Marine Biology is a multidisciplinary course that includes physics, chemistry, geography, ecology, and conservation.
This course will examine how marine organisms live and survive in their habitats through dissections, experiments, field trips, lectures, literature discussions, presentations, and reports.
Pre-req: BIOL 251
Co-req: ENVS 384L
Cross-listed with BIOL 384
4 credits
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ENVS 384L - Marine Biology Lab
Co-req: ENVS 384
Cross-listed with BIOL 384L
0 credits
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ENVS 390 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENVS 395 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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ENVS 396 - Integrated Research Methods
This course focuses on developing expertise in environmental sampling and analysis. Topics to be covered include basic surveying and mapping techniques, community sampling, air and water quality analysis, and basic statistical analysis of data. The course is topic based, and will investigate several problems over the course of the semester using field and laboratory instrumentation. This course is designed for sophomores or juniors. Lecture, Laboratory and Field Trips.
Pre-req: ENVS 100
4 credits
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ENVS 445 - Evolutionary Biology
Evolution by natural selection is a fundamental theory in Biology that explains how all organisms on Earth are related and how they have diversified. It is supported by numerous evidence from DNA, embryology, anatomy, geography, and fossil record. Evolutionary Biology is an examination of the mechanisms of evolutionary change from DNA to species.
Pre-req: BIOL 251 and Sophomore standing or above
Co-req: ENVS 445L
Cross-listed with BIOL 445
4 credits
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ENVS 445L - Evolutionary Biology Lab
Co-req: ENVS 445
Cross-listed with BIOL 445L
0 credits
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ENVS 473 - The Southern California Flora: Ecology, Evolution & Taxonomy
Taxonomic and ecological study of native plants. Lectures, Laboratory, and Field Trips.
Pre-req: ENVS 100 or BIOL 251
Co-req: ENVS 473L
Cross-listed with BIOL 473
4 credits
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ENVS 473L - Southern California Flora: Ecology, Evolution & Taxonomy
Co-req: ENVS 473
0 credits
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ENVS 485 - Advanced Field Studies
Pre-req: Instructor permission
Cross-listed with BIOL 485
4 credits
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ENVS 490 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENVS 495 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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ENVS 496 - Senior Seminar
This course is designed for seniors completing their paper in the major and their senior presentation. This course will meet weekly to evaluate progress toward the paper in the major. Requirements for the course include the selection of a faculty sponsor, preparation for the oral senior presentation, and peer review of progress on the paper in the major.
Pre-req: ENVS 396
1 credits
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FILM 170 - Fundamentals of Cinema
This course provides an introduction to the aesthetics and language of film. It also understands film as an artistic expression, an economic product, and a social text. Lectures and discussions are supplemented by class screenings.
Cross-listed with THEA 170
3 credits
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FILM 190 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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FILM 250 - Documentary Film Movements & Genres
Will take an in-depth look at specific movements and genres within documentary cinema. The subject matter will vary from semester to semester as in its narrative film equivalents, FILM 270 and FILM 275 . Movements examined can include cinema verite, performative, and digital/animated documentary films, for example. Genres can include ethnographic, historical, science & nature, and social documentaries focusing on specific topics such as health and wellness, race relations, environmental issues, gender discrimination, politics, media, etc. Lectures and discussions are supplemented by class screenings.
Cross-listed with THEA 250
3 credits
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FILM 270 - Film Genre
This course surveys the major films, filmmakers, themes, and issues of a major film genre. The genres will vary from semester to semester and during any given term, the genre might be the musical, gangster, western, film noir, or horror films. Lectures and discussions are supplemented by class screenings. May be repeated for credit
Cross-listed with THEA 270
3 or 4 credits
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FILM 273 - Film Style
This course looks at the films of a particular film maker. It examines the formal, thematic, and cultural significance of his or her work.
Cross-listed with THEA 273
3 credits
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FILM 275 - Film Movements
This course explores the major films, filmmakers, themes, and issues of a particular critical fashion or period in the history of cinema. During one term, the course may, for example, cover the Hollywood Renaissance, Italian Neo-Realism, or French New Wave. As in THEA 270 , the subject matter will vary from term to term. Lectures and discussions are supplemented by class screenings. May be repeated for credit
Cross-listed with THEA 275
3 or 4 credits
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FILM 285 - Documentary Cinema
A survey of the history, aesthetics, and theory of the documentary film/video tradition. Lectures and discussions are supplemented by class screenings.
Cross-listed with THEA 285
3 credits
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FILM 290 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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FILM 295 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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FILM 303 - Ways of Knowing: Exploring the City of Angels
As an expansive team-taught course with faculty, and guest artists from various disciplines including: business, education, environmental studies, history, mathematics, music, political science, psychology, and theatre, students will be immersed in understanding topics and theories from multi-disciplinary perspectives. Specifically students will compare and contrast form, function, audience, intention, and meaning through multiple disciplines and forms of artistic expression; grasping how different disciplines approach a similar experience is central to this class. At its core, this course is steeped in the theory of multiple intelligences posited by Howard Gardner in ‘Frames on Mind’. Classes are designed to be experiential in nature and will incorporate discussions, lectures, film screenings, workshops, visiting guest artists, and excursions to various museums and live performances in the Greater Los Angeles area.
Pre-req: Junior standing or above
6 to 8 credits
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FILM 305 - Screenwriting
An introduction to writing aspects for films, including artistic and professional aspects of the trade. Workshops, readings, and writing exercises will lead toward a full-length screenplay.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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FILM 320 - Introduction to Video Production
Scripting, videography, audio, and editing are among the procedures and principles covered in the students¿ planning, producing, and evaluating video projects.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
Cross-listed with THEA 320
3 credits
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FILM 325 - Documentary Video Production
Video production of a documentary.
Pre-req: FILM 320
3 credits
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FILM 380 - Screenwriting Workshop
This intensive course teaches students how to write a full-length screenplay and treats screenwriting as part of the longstanding storytelling tradition, extensively referencing contemporary screenwriting analysts. Students will formulate their individual story ideas and develop them through a complete story outline, treatment, and first draft of a full-length feature script (from 90 to 129 pages long).
Pre-req: Instructor permission
3 credits
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FILM 390 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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FILM 395 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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FILM 420 - Advanced Video Production
Advanced video production techniques with emphasis upon scripting, pre-production planning, and logistical coordination.
Pre-req: FILM 320
Cross-listed with THEA 420
3 credits
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FILM 421 - Directed Study in Video Production
For advanced students wishing to produce independent productions.
Pre-req: FILM 320
3 credits
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FILM 480 - Film Theory & Criticism
Provides students with an overview of major film theories and critical writings that have shaped discussion of film for the past 100 years. Frameworks examined will include those provided by auteur, psychoanalytic, postmodern, feminist, Marxist, and queer theories. Critical analysis through writing and class discussion will be a central feature of the course.
Pre-req: FILM 170
3 credits
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FILM 490 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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FILM 495 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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FREN 120 - Elementary French I
This course is designed for students who have never studied French, or who have placed into French 120 on the French Placement Test. It is taught in French with four hours of classroom instruction and one hour of lab per week. Immersion of students is facilitated through the use of authentic material as well as the usage of video and other technological tools (multimedia, Web). By the end of this course students should have developed basic oral and written communication skills as well as reading skills, and be acquainted with some aspects of Francophone culture.
4 credits
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FREN 121 - Elementary French II
This course is a sequel of Elementary French 1. It is taught in French with four hours of classroom instruction and one hour of lab per week. Immersion of students is facilitated through the use of authentic material as well as the usage of video and other technological tools (multimedia, Web). By the end of this course students should have further developed their communicative competence and reading skills, as well as be better acquainted with the Francophone world.
Pre-req: FREN 120 or equivalent
4 credits
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FREN 173 - French Cinema
This course presents the main movements and directors in French cinema. Students will be introduced to cinematographic vocabulary and the will be able to develop critical thinking through the analysis of films. Taught in English.
Cross-listed with FREN 473
3 credits
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FREN 174 - Le Flaneur I
This is the pre-departure course for the January class in Paris (Le Flaneur II). A “flaneur” is defined as “an aimless idler; a loafer…from flaner, to idle about, stroll.” By walking about and observing Los Angeles, and by thinking about cities critically through diverse readings, students will be initiated to fields of knowledge ranging from urban studies to literature. Students will use what they learn in this class and in the field to construct a project to be completed in Paris during January. Though the course is in English, some language abilities are a must. Students are therefore required to enroll in a French language course or have taken courses in French at Whittier prior to the January course in Paris. Experience in sociology is strongly recommended. Pre-departure course for January class in Paris
Cross-listed with FREN 374 and SOC 280
3 credits
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FREN 175 - Le Flaneur II
This is the companion course to FREN 174 and builds on the theoretical knowledge and experiences of Le Flaneur I. Le Flaneur II takes place in Paris and uses the city to build comparative knowledge of the historical, cultural, environmental, geographical and other forces that inform the modern city. The Paris experience is intended not only to give fuller knowledge of an alternate urban environment, but should serve as a comparative tool for better understanding of Los Angeles. In order to get Liberal Education Connections 2, Comparative Knowledge, credit students must successfully complete both Le Flaneur I and II. Like FREN 174 , FREN 175 is for students who will be completing the coursework in English.
Cross-listed with FREN 375 and SOC 281
3 credits
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FREN 176 - Women’s Portraits/Portraits de Femmes
Course designed to expose students to various portrayals of women, by women and by their male counterparts. Works studied are representative of different genres and centuries in French and Francophone literature. Taught in English.
3 credits
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FREN 177 - Franco-African Cinema & Literature
Course designed to introduce students to contemporary African literature and cinema. It is based upon detailed analysis of literary texts and of films, both addressing a variety of cultural aspects of African Francophone life. Taught in English.
Cross-listed with FREN 477
3 credits
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FREN 178 - Pre and Post-Revolutionary Child: The Invention of Childhood
This course covers the history, literature, political, and cultural aspects of childhood in France from the early-modern period to the present. Though no one area of knowledge can be covered in-depth, you should leave the course with a solid background in the transformations affecting childhood and family during this time.
Cross-listed with FREN 478
3 credits
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FREN 181 - Franco-Asian Literature
This course explores the Asian influence in Francophone literatures and cultures. It exposes students to non-traditional aspects of the Francophone culture deriving from a history of complex and diverse interactions between Asia and French-speaking societies. Students will gain insight about the subject through the study of literature and films. Taught in English.
Cross-listed with FREN 481
3 credits
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FREN 182 - Riots & Revolutions
This is a course about dramatic moments in French history, literature and culture. The course explores these pivotal moments through multiple types of documents and media as a means to answering questions about the course of French history and France’s future role in the European Union. FREN 182 is for non-French-speaking students.
Cross-listed with FREN 382
3 credits
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FREN 190 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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FREN 195 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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FREN 220 - Intermediate French I
This course is a sequel of Elementary French II. It is taught in French with three hours of classroom instruction a week. It includes a brief review of the material studied in Elementary French I and II, presents more elaborate structures of the French language and culture, and introduces students to literary and contemporary readings. Three hours of class, one hour of lab.
Pre-req: FREN 121 or equivalent
3 credits
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FREN 221 - Intermediate French II
Course is designed to strengthen students’ competence to communicate in the French language. It is taught in French with three hours of classroom instruction. It includes a thorough review of grammar and strongly emphasizes oral and written communication. Three hours of class, one hour of lab.
Pre-req: FREN 220 or equivalent
3 credits
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FREN 225 - Conversation, Culture & Communication
This course is designed to extend students’ aural comprehension and oral expression, and to further the acquisition of a more complex vocabulary associated with contemporary issues described in newspaper, television, and the Web.
Pre-req: FREN 221 or a score of 5 or higher on the French Placement Exam
3 credits
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FREN 290 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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