SPAN 140 SC: The Spanish Transition through the Lens of Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most recognizable auteur directors in Europe today. This course studies Pedro Almodóvar’s development from his directorial debut to the present, from the “shocking” value of the early films to the award-winning mastery of the later ones. Instructor: C. Sanjuán-Pastor. Prereqs: SPAN 40 and 101. Course is taught in Spanish. […]
HMSC 141 SC: Writing Culture: Theories, Texts & 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. Instructor: E. Cuming. […]
GRMT 167 SC: Metropolis: Imagining the City
Whether pictured as a labyrinth, stage set, utopian pleasure-dome or gigantic living room, the urban landscape has played a crucial role in the attempt of 20th-century writers and artists to come to terms with modernity. The course will move from the squares of 19th-century Berlin, the grid of Manhattan, to the malls and theme parks […]
GRMT 114 SC: Plotting Crime
This course covers various “genres” of criminality in modern European fiction and film, including murder, criminal vice, theft, sex crimes, white-collar corporate conspiracy crimes of passion and domestic violence. We explore two related (but distinct) topics: how crimes are planned and executed; and how they are then turned, step-by-step, into compelling literary and cinematic storylines. […]
FREN 111 SC: French Cinema: Images of Women
This course will concentrate on three aspects of the role of women in French film in order to define the relationship between women as icons (larger-than-life images in the collective fantasy of a certain “Frenchness”), women as subjects, and, finally, women as creators of film. Appropriate readings in French will be assigned. Some films may […]
ART 135 SC: Typography & Book Arts
Working in collaboration, students create a limited-edition, letterpress-printed artist’s book under the Scripps College Press imprint. Through local field trips, library visits and archival research on the fruit trees and plantings on Scripps College campus, regional environmental changes and conservation, students develop original texts, generate imagery, hand set metal and wooden type, hand print on […]