Few economics electives are as popular as Economics of Sports at Pomona College. This spring, Professor Marisa Cameron, an avid football fan herself, is teaching two sections of the upper-division elective. From using data analytics to calculate player value to learning the history of free agency, students like Tara Kamshad PO ’28 use sports as an accessible gateway to the world of economics.
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Seminars and scoreboards: Sports and politics
Every semester, the Claremont Colleges advertise nearly 2,700 courses across dozens of disciplines. This semester, course selections offer a whopping six sports courses taught by four different instructors across three colleges. In Jake Creelan’s PO ’29 new column, Seminars and Scoreboards, he dissects the contents of each course with the course’s instructors and students. First on the list is Sports and Politics taught by Tom Le of Pomona College.
Eat, drink, move: Nutritional biology students on the science and culture behind our health
Eating isn’t just essential to our survival — it’s engrained in our social, cultural and political worlds. In this compilation of articles, students from BIOL 183: Nutritional Biology go behind the issues that affect our bodily and mental health.
OPINION: We need more religious understanding
Last year, Elizaveta (Lisa) Gorelik CM ’25 was born again. This process of discovering faith has revealed the extent to which secularism and religious prejudice have seeped into the conversations we have at our institutions.
Gorelik argues that if our colleges want to uphold their mission of shaping responsible leaders, then our classes ought to bridge the gaps of understanding between the upper class, secular, liberal spaces of our campuses with the rest of the country.
Science as a Human Endeavor: A professor’s call to humanize science education
Many students enter into science majors out of curiosity about our world and their place in it. Gabriel Brenner PO ’26 discusses recentering scientific learning around human experience, and physics professor Elijah Quetin’s efforts to do just that.
OPINION: Participation grades should extend beyond speaking in class
The participation grade is an arbitrary grading component designed exclusively for extroverts, argues Tess McHugh PO ‘25.
CMC set to offer its inaugural Napier Initiative course this fall
Associate Professor of Psychology Sharda Umanath will teach Claremont McKenna College’s first Napier Initiative course, “Effective Learning Across the Lifespan,” which will engage about 12 undergraduates and six elders.
CMC’s fly fishing class has hooked students for decades
An activity that has been around for four decades, Fly Fishing is a unique class requiring skilled techniques while providing memorable for students and instructors alike.
OPINION: Eliminate the zero-sum game of quota grading
Quota grading fosters competition over collaboration and does not reward improvement, argues Serena Mao HM ’25.
OPINION: It’s okay to not be happy back on campus
A return to campus has brought new challenges coupled with romanticized expectations, says Abby Loiselle PO ’23.