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128 Courses of Study Interdisciplinary Courses Scripps College Catalog
130. Schools of Cultural Criticism: Culture and Critique. This team-taught course will
examine the categories by which philosophers, social scientists, historians, and literary critics
have understood culture. Topics may include historicism (the role of history in defining individual
experience), the development of mass culture and new media, and post-colonialism. May be
completed twice for credit with different topics. A. Aisenberg, M. Katz, M. Pérez de Mendiola, D.
Roselli.
141. Writing Culture: Theories, Texts and Stories. This course examines the idea of culture and
the diverse ways it has been debated and narrated by literary critics, philosophers, anthropologists
and historians. The course considers topics of mass culture, language, class gender and sexuality,
post-colonialism, and urban space through theoretical readings as well as literature from Jane Eyre
to Trainspotting. E.Cuming.
142 Interiors: Selfhood and Domestic Space in British Culture.This course explores the idea of
the interior – the domestic spaces within which individuals live and work – and its representation
in literature, film, and social documents. The course focuses on British living spaces, from the
nineteenth-century bourgeois interior to the modern urban high-rise. E.Cuming.
148. The Poetry and Science of Sleep. This course looks at ways scientists, social scientists, and
artists approach sleep, and at ways sleep is positioned in various cultures and societies. It draws on
multiple perspectives: neuroscience, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, immunology,
psychoneuroimmunology, endocrinology. Instructor permission required. G. Greene.
167. Metropolis: Imagining the City. For description, see German Studies 167. M. Katz.
185. Humanities Major Junior Seminar. Provides intensive instruction to majors in the study
of culture, using both theoretical and archival materials in the investigation of a specific assigned
topic. Students will develop skills in critical thinking and in archival and bibliographical research.
In the second half of the semester, they will apply these skills by choosing and researching their
own topic in the area of culture. Prerequisite: two of the following: HMSC 123, HMSC 130, an
introductory course related to discipline. Permission of instructor required. Staff.
190. Senior Seminar. The course will consider issues in the field of Interdisciplinary Studies
in Culture as they are presented in classic and contemporary scholarship in the humanities and
the interpretative social sciences. The aim will be to prepare students to write the thesis in the
Humanities major. A. Aisenberg.
191. Senior Thesis. Staff.
199. Independent Study in the Humanities major. Staff.
Interdisciplinary Courses
ID 100. Off-Campus Study Program. Students participating in Off-Campus Study programs
are registered into this administrative course pending receipt of the official program transcript.
Registration is equivalent to four courses to verify full-time enrollment for the semester. Staff.
ID 191D. Senior Thesis for Dual Majors. Offered annually. Staff.
ID 191S. Senior Thesis for Self-Designed Majors. Offered annually. Staff.
ID 199. Independent Study. This course number may be used to enroll a student approved to
complete an independent study of an interdisciplinary nature that does not fit into one of the
established majors or programs and is overseen by two or more faculty from different academic
departments. Offered only when approved by petition. Staff.
International Relations
Please refer to the Politics and International Relations section of this catalog.