College Bulletin 2022-2023

Apr 27, 2024

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Ancient History
	ANCH 039. Identities in the Ancient World: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity In this course, we will survey a wide range of literary, art historical, anthropological, and archaeological evidence in order to investigate the construction of identities in the ancient Mediterranean world and beyond. Key issues to be discussed will include the ways in which ancient ethnic identities were forged, sustained, and elaborated through time; the intersection of gender, power, and ritual; and the diverse manners in which race was perceived and instrumentalized in different media across the cultures of the Grego-Roman, Egyptian, and ancient Near Eastern worlds. Social Sciences. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANCH 040. The New Testament in the Greco-Roman World This course will treat the New Testament as historical documents. We will consider the writings of Paul, the accounts of the life of Jesus, and related texts. The texts of the New Testament, though written in Greek, invariably intersect with Jewish traditions and with Christian thought, but this course will consider them above all as artifacts of the Roman empire in which they were produced, focusing particularly on the influence of Greek thought (e.g. Platonism, Stoicism, Cynicism). We will also give some attention to some Jewish texts influenced by Greek thought (Philo, Maccabees, The Wisdom of Solomon), and to the pagan response to both Judaism and to the early Christians. Social Science. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANCH 042. Democracy and Its Challenges: Athens in the Fifth Century Using diverse primary sources (Thucydides’ Histories, tragedy, comedy, and others), this course explores several aspects of classical Athenian culture: democratic institutions and ideology, social structure, religion, intellectual trends, and the major historical events that affected all of these and shaped the Greek world in the fifth and early fourth centuries B.C.E. Social Sciences. Writing course. 1 credit. Fall 2024. Munson. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANCH 043. Thucydides on War, Plague, and Democracy Thucydides’ History is much more than a report on the causes and progress of the fifth-century BCE “Peloponnesian War’ between Athens and Sparta. It is a fundamental text that has been repeatedly debated, appropriated, and re-interpreted by different ideological camps, most recently in times of turmoil caused in this country by the Vietnam and Iraq wars. Thucydides concretely addresses our present uncertainties about the ideals of democracy, the nature of international justice, the value of public debate, the guilt (but also self-criticism) of imperialism, and the vulnerability of a developed and self-confident super power in the face of unexpected natural disaster. This course will give you access to the incredible intellectual value of Thucydides’ analysis of issues that are crucially important for our own society. Social Sciences. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http:www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANCH 044. The Early Roman Empire A detailed study of the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the Roman world from the fall of the Republic through the Antonine Age (50 B.C.E.-C.E. 192). Ancient authors read include Petronius; Apuleius; Suetonius; and, above all, Tacitus. Social sciences. Writing course. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Mahoney. Spring 2025. Turpin. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANCH 046. The History and Archaeology of the Late Roman Empire This course will examine the history and archaeology of the late Roman Empire from its height under Septimius Severus (ca. 193-211 CE), through the “conversion” of Constantine and the foundation of Constantinople, to the sack of Rome by Alaric the Visigoth (ca. 410 CE). The course will involve an historical overview of this period, with a view to understanding the social, political and military aspects of the empire, as well as the religious and cultural conflicts that emerged between pagans and Christians and within the Church itself. We will draw on a wide range of evidence to explore these themes, focusing on the close reading of works of ancient literature. Principal texts include the accounts of Christian martyrs, Eusebius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Augustine. In order to enhance and complicate these accounts, we will also examine the archaeological remains of the empire, focusing on those recovered from the city of Rome, the important provincial centers of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, and the frontiers of the empire. The class takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of history, and as such its main goals are to learn the history of the late Roman Empire and to interpret material and visual culture within its historical context. Social Sciences. Writing course. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANCH 056. Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire This course considers the rise of Christianity and its encounters with the religious and political institutions of the Roman Empire. It examines Christianity in the second and third centuries of the Common Era and its relationship with Judaism, Hellenistic philosophies, state cults, and mystery religions and concentrates on the various pagan responses to Christianity from conversion to persecution. Ancient texts may include Apuleius, Lucian, Marcus Aurelius, Porphyry, Justin, Origen, Lactantius, Tertullian, and the Acts of the Christian Martyrs. ANCH 044 (The Early Roman Empire) provides useful background. Social sciences. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL-Paired Spring 2024. Turpin. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANCH 066. Rome and Late Antiquity This course will consider the history of the Roman Empire from its near collapse in the third century C.E. through the “conversion” of Constantine and the foundation of Constantinople to the sack of Rome by Alaric the Visigoth in 410 C.E. Topics will include the social, political, and military aspects of this struggle for survival as well as the religious and cultural conflicts between pagans and the Christian church and within the Church itself. Principal authors will include Eusebius, Athanasius, Julian the Apostate, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ambrose, and Augustine. Social sciences. Writing course. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANCH 093. Directed Reading Independent work for advanced students under the supervision of an instructor. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANCH 098. Senior Course Study Independent study taken normally in the spring of senior year by course majors. Students will prepare for a graded oral exam held in the spring with department faculty. The exam will be based on any two-credit unit of study within the major (Honors seminar or course plus attachment), with students submitting their final exam and a paper, which can be revised. 0.5 credit. Spring 2023. Turpin. Spring 2024. Turpin. Spring 2025. Turpin. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Anthropology
	ANTH 001. Foundations: Culture, Power, and Meaning This course offers students a foundation in the theories, methods, and history of the discipline of cultural anthropology. Anthropology is a comparative study of culture, practice, and human diversity. This course will introduce students to some of the discipline’s key conceptual innovations, theoretical approaches, and past and present debates. Anthropologists study various societies to understand how meaning is constituted and circulated, how daily practices are structured by social norms and power systems, and how people resist, subvert, and transform inequalities and common modes of identification. Drawing on deep engagement with specific groups, communities, and processes, anthropology offers unique insights into pressing questions of our time, such as the effects of the global circulation of capital and people and how social structures, cultural-political ideologies, and everyday life interact. Topics to be covered include ritual and religion, kinship and family, gift and exchange, citizenship and nationalism, gender and sexuality, medicine and healing, media and circulation, and food and consumption. Students will gain familiarity with ethnography, anthropology’s flagship genre. We will also explore the discipline’s key field research methods and the ethical issues related to its goals to understand, interpret, and represent the lived experiences of people in diverse contexts. Required for SOAN majors and minors. Social sciences. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Azuero-Quijano. Fall 2023. Azuero-Quijano. Spring 2025. Nadkarni. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 002D. First-Year Seminar: Culture and Gender The goal of this seminar is to dismantle commonplace assumptions about gender, sexuality, and sexual difference. It brings key texts in gender theory (Foucault, Butler, and others) into conversation with anthropological studies that respond to, problematize, or advance these theoretical claims. Our focus is the gendered body as the site of power and resistance, in contexts that range from past empires to present-day inequalities, and from technologies of reproduction to drag performances of femininity. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for GSST Spring 2023. Nadkarni. Fall 2024. Nadkarni. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 003G. First-Year Seminar: Development and its Discontents In this course, our goal will be to gain a new perspective on an often-unquestioned social “good”: that of international economic development, including foreign aid to countries in the global south. This course will provide students with an introduction to the origin and evolution of ideas about development, and will encourage them to examine major theories and approaches to development from classical modernization theories to world-systems theories. Students will gain insight into how ideas of development fit into larger global dynamics of power and politics and how, contrary to professed goals, the practices of international development have often perpetuated poverty and widened the gap between rich and poor. During the course, we will investigate these issues through an array of texts that address different audiences including a novel, academic books and journals, film, popular writings and ethnographic monographs. Social sciences. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST, ENVS, PEAC, ESCH, GLBL - Core Spring 2024. Schuetze. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 009C. Cultures of the Middle East Looking at ethnographic texts, films, and literature from different parts of the region, this class examines the complexity and richness of culture and life in the Middle East. The topics we will cover include orientalism, colonization, gender, ethnicity, tribalism, nationalism, migration, nomadism, and religious beliefs. We will also analyze the local, national, and global forces that are reshaping daily practices and cultural identities in various Middle Eastern countries. Social sciences. Writing course 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM, GLBL-Paired Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 012C. Anthropology of Childhood and the Family The experience of being a child would appear universal, and yet the construction of childhood varies greatly across cultures and throughout history. This course examines childhood and child-rearing in a number of ethnographic contexts, investigating children as both social actors and as the target of specific cultural ambitions and anxieties. Topics include new forms of family and reproduction, children as objects (and agents) of violence, and representations of childhood in human rights discourse, among others. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for GSST Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 020J. Dance and Diaspora (Cross-listed as DANC 025A ) Social sciences. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA, BLST, GSST, GLBL-Core Fall 2023. Chakravorty. Fall 2024. Chakravorty. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 023C. Anthropological Perspectives on Conservation Conservation of biodiversity through the creation of national parks is an idea and a practice that began in the U.S. with the creation of Yellowstone in 1872. In this course, we will examine the ideas behind the initial creation of national parks and explore the global spread of these ideas through the historical and contemporary creation of parks in other countries. As we examine the origin of the idea for parks, we will also consider the human costs that have been associated with their creation. Ultimately, the class offers a critical exploration of theories and themes related to nature, political economy, and culture-themes that fundamentally underlie the relationship between society and environment. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST, ENVS, GLBL- core Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 023E. Ethnographic Research Methods (M) This course introduces students to the theory and practice of ethnographic research. Ethnography is the bread and butter of sociocultural anthropology, both as a research method and genre of writing. Ethnographic research methods are also gaining in popularity as a research methodology beyond the discipline as well as beyond the academy. Ethnographic research can be used to explore a range of scales, from the minutia of everyday experience-what Bronislaw Malinowski called the “imponderabilia of actual life”-to broad brushstroke analyses of social structure and symbolic meaning. But how do anthropologists practice their craft? What exactly do they do “out there” in the field and what is unique about their modes of studying human experience? This course offers students an opportunity to explore and gain practice using a variety of methods used in ethnographic research. We will pay particular attention to questions of knowledge, location, evidence, ethics, power, translation, experience, and the way theoretical problems can be framed in terms of ethnographic research. This course is in large part a workshop in which students will learn and mobilize various ethnographic methods and techniques, engage in ethnographic writing, and actively evaluate and guide one another’s work. Students will apply what they learn during the course toward designing their own ethnographic research project. Methods Course. Social sciences. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 027B. Digital Ethnography (M) An exploration of the trajectory and expansive potential for “virtuality” in anthropology along with examples of how ethnographers have been more recently engaging and experimenting with digital tools to do research remotely. The goal of the course is twofold. First, for students to learn the skills of virtual and digital ethnographic inquiry through the design of an individual ethnographic research project to be conducted over the course of the semester of the class. The course will provide students with the practical and critical skills to design, conduct, analyze, and write about ethnographic research through a series of weekly assignments, readings, and in-class discussions. Students will experiment and practice with different virtual ethnographic methods, including research at digital archives, data-gathering and analysis on social media, and online participant observation. Each student will choose the topic and format of their final project. Second, to reflect on and critically assess the dynamic character of ethnographic inquiry. We will pay special attention to the various ways in which digital ethnographic methods proved crucial to address the challenges of doing ethnographic research under changing global pandemic conditions. Methods Course. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for ESCH Fall 2022. Azuero-Quijano. Spring 2024. Azuero-Quijano Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 032D. Mass Media and Anthropology This intermediate course explores the anthropology of modernity and the mass-mediation of modern forms of knowledge. It examines how the emergence of mass media has produced new kinds of subjects and social relations: from novel images of nationhood to mass experiences of crime, war, and violence. Along the way, the course also asks the impact of new media technologies on how anthropology itself imagines identity, community, and locality. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for FMST, INTP Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 033B. Environmental Anthropology (Cross-listed as ENVS 024 ) This course offers students an introduction to Environmental Anthropology, a subfield of anthropology which encompasses the study of the interrelationships between humans and the ecosystems in which they are embedded as well as analysis and application of anthropological knowledge to contemporary environmental issues. Humans have transformed their environments for millennia, but in recent decades, have altered the global environment in ways that have no precedent in human history or in geological time. With contemporary environmental crises as its backdrop, this course examines some classic and contemporary anthropological approaches to the environment, exploring the value of anthropological theory, methods, and approaches in the humanistic study of the environment. In this sense, the course will expose students to diverse ways for thinking about the environment in its many dimensions and critical perspectives on contemporary environmental issues. We will review various theoretical approaches and their implications for our understanding of human relations to the environment, and explore how anthropologists and those they study are engaging with contemporary environmental issues including biodiversity conservation, deforestation, community-based natural resource management, ecotourism, and climate change. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 034C. Native American Cultures and Contemporary Music (Cross listed as MUSI 009 ) This course introduces students to Native American and Indigenous peoples through contemporary music. Students will read anthropological and ethnomusicology texts, engage Native pop culture and news media, watch music videos and listen to selections of Native American and Indigenous contemporary music from across the Americas. A main goal of this course is to gain knowledge and appreciation of Indigenous peoples, their cultures, and the social and environmental justice issues facing them in contemporary society. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC Fall 2022. Two Bears. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 034D. Indigenous Archaeology This course offers students an introduction to Indigenous Archaeology, which is archaeology for, by, and with Indigenous peoples. Since the colonization of this country Native Americans and Indigenous people’s connections to ancient archaeological sites have often been ignored by archaeologists. This course examines how archaeologists marginalized Native American and Indigenous peoples from the field of archaeology, and how tribes responded to make significant changes within the field of archaeology. Students will learn about Indigenous interpretations of and interconnections between the land, Native cultures, sacred places, and archaeological sites. We will review various Indigenous archaeological and heritage projects and the methodological approaches used to explore the past through collaborations between Native Americans and archaeologists. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 037B. Anthropology of Law This course introduces students to the anthropological study of law through the investigation of the relation of law to violence, capital, and justice. Rather than assuming that law is a well-defined set of formal rules that constitutes the opposite of violence, an equivalent of justice, or a sphere autonomous from capitalism, this course seeks to provide students with critical and analytical skills to interrogate the relation of law to each of these terms. Students enrolled in this class will be introduced to some of the major themes and debates in legal anthropology as well as to texts and topics that exemplify how the discipline’s approach to legal systems has changed over time. Through a combination of readings in anthropology, law, and legal studies as well as documentary and film, this course will offer students the opportunity to investigate law (both comparatively and in the U.S.) as a complex social practice, social technology, and mode of knowledge that constitutes the worlds we inhabit in both expected and unexpected ways. This class is ideal for students broadly interested in questions of law and justice, as well as students interested in anthropological theory and ethnographic methods. Social sciences. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Azuero-Quijano. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 037C. Anti-Corruption Politics in Latin America & the Caribbean Anti-corruption discourse has become one of the salient modes of articulating claims for justice and against political, financial, and corporate power in contemporary Latin America & the Caribbean. In fact, the mobilization of anti-corruption discourse in the region has become an undeniable force capable of toppling governments, sending corporate executives to prison, and bringing masses to the streets demanding change. What is the relation between today’s “wars” against corruption and ongoing transformations of political and economic power in Latin America & the Caribbean? How has anti-corruption discourse reshaped imaginaries of political transformation and emancipatory politics in the region? Rather than assuming a singular definition of corruption, this course explores it as a powerful concept that is not simply or neutrally defined by law or morality - one with a complex history linked to colonialism and imperialism, as well as to changing ideas of democracy and justice. Through our readings and discussions, we will develop critical and analytical tools to interrogate the long-standing stereotype of Latin America as inherently “corrupt” and how this stereotype is mobilized in the present. We will advance this critical work through exploring concrete cases that show the significance of anti-corruption politics as a tool for accountability and change. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for LALS, ESCH, GLBL-core Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 037D. Engaging the Law This class begins with two related questions: Can we engage the law to make new worlds possible? What are its limits? Each week this course will invite real-world law practitioners, from human rights lawyers to legal scholars working in and outside the U.S., to discuss ways in which their legal practice engages the law, its limits and possibilities. Using anthropological methods, students will work with the instructor to prepare a weekly panel during which they will interview our guests and reflect on the meaning of engaging with the law from different perspectives. The final project for the course will be a collaborative open-source syllabus designed by the class in response to our own learning process. This course does not require previous experience in anthropology and is particularly well-suited for pre-law students as well as those interested in law, justice and social transformation more broadly. Students who have taken Anthropology of Law at Swarthmore are also welcome. Social sciences. 1 credit. Fall 2023. Azuero-Quijano. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 039B. Globalization and Culture What is globalization? Is globalization “cultural imperialism,” Westernization, Americanization, or McDonaldization? Our class will examine such questions and critically analyze how global flows (of goods, capital, labor, information, and people) are shaping cultural practices and identities. We will study recent theories of globalization and transnationalism and read various ethnographic studies of how global processes are articulated and resisted in various cultural settings. Social sciences. Writing course. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 039C. Food and Culture Food, a daily necessity for human survival, is strongly shaped by social relationships and cultural meanings. Who makes our food, what we eat, how we eat, and with whom we eat all reflect and reproduce various social connections and inequalities. This class explores how food, its making, and its consumption have been analyzed by different scholars, particularly anthropologists. We will also look at how various societies define, manage, and regulate the preparation and consumption of food. The class consider questions such as: Why do we serve specific foods at certain occasions? What constitutes a proper meal? How does class, gender, race, and ethnicity shape the making and serving of certain foods? Why might a particular food be viewed a delicacy in one society, but be seen as disgusting and repulsive in another? How did food become a “problem” that has to be managed in many of our contemporary societies? Through our readings and discussions, we will seek a deeper understanding of edible matters, how we shape them and how they shape us. Social Sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL- core Fall 2023. Ghannam. Fall 2024. Ghannam. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 042D. Political Anthropology This course examines the anthropology of rights, justice, and the state. Its focus is citizenship: as both an ideal of formal equality and a lived practice of political belonging that reflects and reproduces social inequity. The first half investigates how citizenship intersects with forms of difference such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Ethnographic examples include debates about the legal recognition of gay marriage, spatial struggles over the right to the city, and disability activism and the biopolitics of citizenship. The second half examines how new forms of mobility of people, ideas, and capital challenge the nation-state as the site of political membership. What is the state’s responsibility towards its “others”: from transnational entrepreneurs to illegal migrant workers, and from political refugees to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay? Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for ESCH Spring 2023. Nadkarni. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 043E. Culture, Health, Illness People in all societies encounter and manage sickness. Yet, there are diverse and unique approaches to understanding and managing health and disease. The human experience of sickness entails a complex interplay between biological, socio-economic and cultural factors. This course offers an introduction to medical anthropology, and draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology to better understand those factors which influence health and well being (broadly defined), the experience and distribution of illness, the prevention and treatment of sickness, healing processes, the social relations of therapy management, and the cultural importance and use of pluralistic medical systems. Topics covered include how beliefs about health, disease and the body are constructed and transmitted, how healers are chosen and trained, social disparities in health and illness, and the importance of narrative and performance in the effectiveness of healing practices. Finally, we will consider the ways in which medical anthropology can shed light upon important contemporary medical and social concerns. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS, ESCH, GLBL - Core Fall 2023. Schuetze. Fall 2024. Schuetze. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 044B. Native American Gender Issues This course focuses on the role gender plays in the lives of Indigenous peoples of the Americas both in the past and present. Topics include the effects of colonization, gender roles, masculinity, Two-Spirit identities, missing and murdered indigenous people, gay marriage, support of the Indigenous LGBTQ+ community, and ways to understand and address intimate violence. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for GSST Spring 2023. Two Bears Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 049B. Comparative Perspectives on the Body Explore how different societies regulate, discipline, and shape the human body. In the first part, we examine social theories and explore the strengths and limitations of different approaches to the study of the body. In the second part, we look at several ethnographic cases and compare diverse cultural practices that range from seemingly traditional practices (such as circumcision and foot binding) to what is currently fashionable (including weight lifting, dieting, aesthetic surgery, piercing, and tattooing). When comparing body modifications through time and space, we seek to understand their socio-economic contexts and relate them to broader cultural meanings and social inequalities. We also investigate how embodiment shapes personal and collective identities (especially gender identities) and vice versa. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for GSST, INTP, ESCH, GLBL-Core Spring 2023. Ghannam. Spring 2024. Ghannam. Spring 2025. Ghannam. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 049BA. Attachment: Comparative Perspective on the Body An opportunity for interested students to expand their understanding of the theories that analyze the body and to comparatively explore how different societies manage, beautify, and regulate the human body. The first part of the semester, determined by the professor, focuses on reading theories that inform social analysis of the body while the second part, determined by both the faculty and the students, explores different topics that interest the students taking the course. This attachment is usually combined with the regular class to create a double-credit honors preparation. Social sciences. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 051. Contemporary Israel/Palestine (Cross-listed as PEAC 053 ) This course provides students with interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary Israeli and Palestinian societies and peace movements. Through ethnographic explorations, we will emphasize the heterogeneity of these communities and how politics, violence, religion, economics, psychology, and culture shape everyday lives in Israel/Palestine. In addition, students will advance their analytical and critical thinking skills, particularly in understanding debates on salient issues that animate the region and interrogating worldviews from across the ideological spectrum. By the end of the course, we will discern the central role of Israel/Palestine in global politics, and the stakes for people on the ground in this historic, conflicted, and beautiful land. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC Fall 2023. Atshan. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 053B. Anthropology of Public Health This course introduces students to the study of “public health” and various problems framed by public health actors through the theoretical and methodological lenses of sociocultural anthropology. The field of public health is typically defined by its commitment to understand not just the manifestations and patterns of illness in populations, but the social, political and economic forces that place certain individuals and populations at greater risk of morbidity and mortality. By critically examining various frameworks for understanding disease in human populations, the class will explore the potentials and challenges of improving health and healthcare in various populations, both within and outside of the United States. Additionally, this class aims to demonstrate the value of anthropology to the field of public health and to efforts to solve national and global health problems. Students will be urged to think about “public health” and “global health” as dynamic cultural artifacts and cultural systems; and likewise, to consider how ethnography is an important methodological tool, both to understand public health agendas as well as to investigate the subjects and elisions of public health interventions. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for ESCH,GLBL-core Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 072C. Memory, History, Nation How do national communities remember-and forget? What roles do commemoration and amnesia play in constructing, maintaining, or challenging national and collective identities? This course considers memory and its pathologies as a central problematic for the nation-state. It reads theory and ethnography against each other to explore the politics and aesthetics of national memory across numerous sites and contexts, attentive to both the collectivities such commemorations inspire and their points of resistance or failure. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for GSST, GLBL-Paired Fall 2022. Nadkarni. Fall 2024. Nadkarni. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 072D. Visual Anthropology (M) This course introduces students to the history, theory, and practice of visual anthropology. Topics include the intertwined histories of colonial photography and anthropology, how anthropologists use visual ethnographic methods as tools of cultural analysis, and how indigenous groups and activists use contemporary visual technologies to gain visibility and to remake their social worlds. The course will include a series of film screenings, as well as a small production component. Methods course. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for FMST Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 079B. Dancing Desire in Bollywood Films (Cross-listed as DANC 079 ) This course will explore the shifts in sexuality and gender constructions of Indian women from national to transnational symbols through the dance sequences in Bollywood. We will examine the place of erotic in reconstructing gender and sexuality from past notions of romantic love to desires for commodity. The primary focus will be centered on approaches to the body from anthropology and sociology to performance, dance, and film and media studies. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA, FMST, GSST Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 095. Independent Study All students wishing to do independent work must have the advance consent of the department and of an instructor who agrees to supervise the proposed project. Two options exist for students wishing to get credit for independent work. Option 1 - consists of individual or group directed reading and study in fields of special interest to the students not dealt with in the regular course offerings. Option 2 - credit may be received for practical work in which direct experience lends itself to intellectual analysis and is likely to contribute to a student’s progress in regular course work. Students must demonstrate to the instructor and the department a basis for the work in previous academic study. Students will normally be required to examine pertinent literature and produce a written report to receive credit. 0.5 or 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Anthropology - Seminars
	ANTH 112. Cities, Spaces, and Power This seminar explores recent interdisciplinary insights to the analysis of spatial practices, power relationships, and urban forms. In addition, we read ethnographies and novels and watch films to explore questions such as: How is space socially constructed? What is the relationship between space and power? How is this relationship embedded in urban forms under projects of modernity and postmodernity? How do the ordinary practitioners of the city resist and transform these forms? Our discussion will pay special attention to issues related to racism and segregation, ethnic enclaves, urban danger, gendered spaces, colonial urbanism, and the “global” city. Social sciences. 2 credits. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 122. Urban Ethnographies (M) As key players in the global economy, cities are the focus of a rich body of literature that explores how urban life is shaped by the complex interplay between global, national, and local processes. How to best understand this interplay and how it shapes daily life in cities? How can we understand the inequalities that structure daily life in urban centers around the globe? How to analyze the different identities, spaces, and subjectivities that are being constituted under changing economic, social, and political conditions? In this seminar, we read ethnographies from and about cities around the globe and analyze how scholars, particularly anthropologists, have studied cities, their cultures, and social groups. We pay attention to the forces (such as neoliberalism, modernism, nationalism, and globalization) and inequalities (such as class, race, and gender) that shape urban life. The texts we read explore current pressing issues such as poverty, violence, policing, gentrification, and homelessness. Alongside our investigation of city life, students also will have the opportunity to develop their skills in ethnographic research methods by closely analyzing how different authors accessed and wrote about cities as well as by conducting their own mini-ethnographies. Methods course. Social sciences. 2 credits. Eligible for GLBL-core Fall 2022. Ghannam. Fall 2023. Ghannam. Fall 2024. Ghannam. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 123. Culture, Power, Islam This seminar will be an interdisciplinary investigation into the shifting manners by which Islam is multiply understood as a creatively mystical force, a canonically organized religion, a political platform, a particular approach to economic investment, and a secular but powerful identity put forth in interethnic conflicts, to name only a handful of incarnations. Though wide ranging in our theoretical perspective, a deeply ethnographic approach to the lived experience of Islam in a number of cultural settings guides this study. Social sciences. 2 credits. Eligible for ISLM Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 133. Anthropology of Biomedicine In this seminar we explore biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of bodies with history, environment, culture, and power. We begin the course with a focus on the historical emergence of biomedical technologies and their related discourses and practices and then move into contemporary contexts of their use and circulation. Throughout, we focus on the ways in which the development, use, and distribution of biomedical technologies and discourses are influenced by prevailing medical systems, political interests, and cultural norms. Topics to be covered include biomedicine as technology, medical categorization and ideas of the normal, ethics and moral boundaries, the space of the clinic, the circulation of pharmaceuticals, and health and inequality. Prerequisite: ANTH 043E or permission of the Instructor Social sciences. 2 credits. Eligible for GLBL-core Spring 2025. Schuetze. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ANTH 137. Law and Violence This seminar explores a question that has been central to both anthropology and critical legal studies: What is the relation between law and violence? Is law really the opposite of violence when the state relies on “legal violence” to enforce its own laws? Our exploration of the thorny question of “legal violence” is situated within a particular trajectory of social, political, and anthropological thought, perhaps best articulated in Walter Benjamin’s 1921 essay, “Critique of Violence,” a cryptic yet influential text in which the German thinker formulated the idea that violence is constitutive rather than antithetical to law. Our goal is to take a closer look at the ways in which law is entwined with violence and explore how, although formulated one hundred years ago, Benjamin’s argument remains critical for contemporary debates about police violence as well as critiques of liberal democracy and capitalism. In this seminar, students can expect to engage closely with works in anthropology, philosophy, political theory, and legal studies alongside art and film exploring the relation between law and violence as well as recent writing in different genres by feminist, queer, and thinkers of color who further expand and challenge how we think and act in relation to the law and its violence. This course is suited for students interested in law, anthropology, and social theory as well as students interested in the relation between theory and social change. Social sciences. 2 credit. Spring 2024. Azuero-Quijano. Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Arabic
	ARAB 001. Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic Students who start in the ARAB 001-002 sequence must complete 002 to receive credit for 001. The purpose of this course is to develop students’ proficiency and communication in modern standard Arabic in the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading (both oral and for comprehension), and writing. Cultural aspects are built into the course. These courses, as well as subsequent Arabic-language courses, help students to advance rapidly in the language and prepare them for more advanced work in literary Arabic, as well for employment, travel, or study abroad. By the end of this sequence, the majority of students are expected to reach a level of intermediate low, according to the ACTFL proficiency rating. Humanities. 1.5 credits. Fall 2022. Hanna, Ahmed. Fall 2023. Hanna, Ahmed. Fall 2024. Hanna, Ahmed. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 002. Intensive Elementary Modern Standard Arabic Students who start in the ARAB 001-002 sequence must complete 002 to receive credit for 001. The purpose of this course is to develop students’ proficiency and communication in modern standard Arabic in the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading (both oral and for comprehension), and writing. Cultural aspects are built into the course. These courses, as well as subsequent Arabic-language courses, help students to advance rapidly in the language and prepare them for more advanced work in literary Arabic, as well for employment, travel, or study abroad. By the end of this sequence, the majority of students are expected to reach a level of intermediate low, according to the ACTFL proficiency rating. Humanities. 1.5 credits. Spring 2023. Hanna, Ahmed. Spring 2024. Hanna, Ahmed. Spring 2025. Hanna, Ahmed. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 003. Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic I This course builds on skills in comprehension, listening, reading, writing, and speaking developed at earlier levels. Students will gain increased vocabulary and understanding of more complex grammatical structures. They will begin to approach prose, fiction, and non-fiction written in the language. Students will also increase their proficiency in the Arabic script and sound system, and widen their cultural and historic knowledge of the Arab World and the modern Middle East. Humanities. 1.5 credits. Fall 2022. Hanna, Ahmed. Fall 2023. Smith, Ahmed. Fall 2024. Hanna, Ahmed. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 004. Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic II This course is a continuation of ARAB 003 . Because the material covered in this course relies heavily on the previous course, students are expected to review and be familiar with the previous work in ARAB 001 , ARAB 002 and ARAB 003 . Prerequisite: ARAB 003 or equivalent or permission of the department. Humanities. 1.5 credits. Eligible for ISLM Spring 2023. Hanna, Ahmed. Spring 2024. Smith, Hanna. Spring 2025. Ahmed, Hanna. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 009P. First Year Seminar: Refuge: Resettled in Philadelphia (Cross-listed with ENGL 009P ) The number of individuals displaced by persecution, war, or climate, who then seek refuge in another place, continues to grow. This course will explore the theme of refuge broadly-to cover various political, institutional, and cultural understandings of the term-but will specifically focus on the experiences of Philadelphia’s Arabic-speaking community that has navigated the resettlement process. Students will analyze literature, artworks, films, and nonfiction texts that address the theme of refuge. We will explore broad topics such as: language, culture, and religion; race and ethnicity; war and militarism. Students will have the opportunity to collaborate directly with Philadelphia’s Arabic-speaking community through a series of artist-led workshops that will explore the idea of a “sticky family” that is formed beyond national and linguistic boundaries. These workshops will result in a professionally-illustrated comic book. This course is conducted in English. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ESCH. PEAC. GLBL-paired. Fall 2023. Price, Smith. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 011. Advanced Arabic I This course will: (1) conduct a quick review of the basic structures, grammar, and vocabulary learned in earlier courses, (2) introduce new vocabulary in a variety of contexts with strong cultural content, (3) drill students in the more advanced grammatical structures of MSA, and (4) train students to comprehend a variety of MSA authentic reading passages of various genres from Intermediate to Intermediate High on the ACTFL scale. Prerequisite: Successful completion of ARAB 004 and permission of the instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM Fall 2022. Al-Masri. Fall 2023. Al-Masri. Fall 2024. Smith. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 011A. Arabic Conversation A conversation course concentrating on the development of intermediate skills in speaking and listening through the use of texts and multimedia materials in Modern Standard Arabic. The aim of this course is for the student to acquire well-rounded communication skills and socio-cultural competence. The selected materials seek to stimulate students’ curiosity with the goal of awakening a strong desire to express themselves in the language. Students are required to read chosen texts (including Internet materials) and prepare assignments for discussion in class. Moreover, students will write out skits or reports for oral presentation in Arabic before they present them in class. This class is conducted entirely in Arabic. Prerequisite: ARAB 011 (may be taken concurrently) or the equivalent 0.5 credit. Eligible for ISLM Fall 2022. Ahmed. Fall 2023. Hanna. Fall 2024. Hanna. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 012. Advanced Arabic II This course is a continuation of ARAB 011 and all previous course in the sequence. This course will begin with a quick review of advanced grammatical structures and vocabulary. Students will continue to encounter a wide range of authentic texts and audiovisual materials to enhance their competency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, with a special emphasis on vocabulary building. Prerequisite: Successful completion of ARAB 011 and permission of the instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM Spring 2023. Al-Masri. Spring 2024. Smith. Spring 2025. Smith. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 012A. Advanced Arabic Conversation A conversation course concentrating on the development of intermediate skills in speaking and listening through the use of texts and multimedia materials in Modern Standard Arabic. The aim of this course is for the student to acquire well-rounded communication skills and socio-cultural competence. The selected materials seek to stimulate students’ curiosity with the goal of awakening a strong desire to express themselves in the language. Students are required to read chosen texts (including Internet materials) and prepare assignments for discussion in class. This class is conducted entirely in Arabic. Prerequisite: ARAB 012 (may be taken concurrently) or the equivalent 0.5 credit. Eligible for ISLM Spring 2023. Ahmed. Spring 2024. Ahmed. Spring 2025. Ahmed. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 013. Levantine Arabic The aim of this course is to introduce, develop, and cultivate Levantine Arabic (LA) speaking, listening, and reading skills. Emphasis is placed on the similarities and differences in spoken Arabic used in everyday situations by Jordanian, Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian speakers. Students will learn the phonological and syntactic rules of LA and acquire knowledge of the social and cultural elements embedded within LA, as well as the contexts in which it is used. Students will be exposed to textual and audiovisual materials predominantly in LA. Prerequisite: Two years of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or equivalent. Those who have completed one year of MSA and wish to enroll in this course are encouraged to consult with the Arabic Program. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM. Fall 2023. Hanna. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 021. Topics in Modern Arab Literature This course surveys the major writers, trends, themes, and experiences in Arabic literature from the 19th century to the present. Beginning with the nahda (the Arab renaissance), we will explore the impact of intellectual debates and developments on the emergence of modern Arabic literature. Through the study of a variety of different texts and authors, from a range of geographies and periods, we will investigate diverse literary and cultural narratives. Common themes, such as the negotiation of modernity and tradition, social and political transformation, and the changing role of women, will provide a structure for comparison. This course is taught in Arabic. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM, GLBL-Paired Fall 2022. Al-Masri. Fall 2023. Al-Masri. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 022. Discourses of Oppression in Contemporary Arabic Fiction Designed to meet the needs of students who have completed ARAB 021: Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, this course provides an in-depth look at major fictional representations of the institutionalized and non-institutionalized sites and structures of oppression explored by Arab writers. Subtle and overt forms of political oppression are investigated, as well as experiences of hegemony related to gender, sexuality, class, religion, and ethnicity. This course also examines the ways in which oppression is rethought, restructured, and challenged in Arabic fiction, leading to new understandings and possibilities in reality. This course is conducted entirely in Arabic. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM, GLBL-Paired Spring 2024. Al-Masri. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 023. Identity and Culture in Arab Cinema This course offers an in-depth study of the cultural politics and poetics of Arab Cinema. Students will analyze and critique films produced in the 20th and 21st centuries from a variety of different periods, styles, and genres. Through these films, the course will explore topics such as colonialism; ethnic, religious, and national identities; civil conflicts; oppression and censorship; gender and sexuality; poverty; and the rural and the urban. Students will read critical essays and book chapters on the screened films and related themes. This course is conducted entirely in Arabic. Advanced knowledge of Arabic is required to successfully complete this course. Prerequisite: Three years of Arabic or the equivalent. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM, GLBL - Paired Spring 2023. Al-Masri. Spring 2024. Smith. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 024. Topics in Contemporay Arabic Fiction and Criticism This course examines key topics in twentieth-century Arabic literature and literary criticism. Exploring a variety of genres, ranging from plays to novels, short stories, and works by prominent literary critics from the Arab world, we will investigate how literary narratives respond to their historical context as the twentieth century unfolds. In particular, we will focus on questions relating to the comparative method and the place of Arabic literature in the age of globalization. Readings may include works by Iraqi author Hassan Blasim, Egyptian writers Naguib Mahfouz and Sonallah Ibrahim, Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani, as well as several films. The course is taught in Arabic. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 025. War in Arab Literature and Cinema (Cross-listed as LITR 025A ) This course will explore literary and cinematic representations of war in the Arab world, focusing on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the Lebanese Civil War, and the Iraq wars. We will look at poetry, fiction, memoir, prison narratives, film, and experimental texts. Through the examination of a variety of experiences, genres, and perspectives, we will ask questions like: How do narratives of war contribute to the formation of national, local, and Arab identities? How has the experience of war impacted understandings of religion, masculinity, gender, and domestic violence? We will identify common themes and images and investigate how these patterns change and develop in different spatial and temporal contexts. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM, PEAC Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 029. Arabs Write the West (Cross-listed as LITR 029A ) Drawing on historical, fictional, and autobiographical narratives, this course investigates Arab representations of the Occident. These texts explore cultural encounters, both at home and abroad, border crossings, hybridity, experiences of colonialism and neocolonialism, the psychology of Orientalism and Occidentalism, processes of assimilation and resistance, and the question of contact zones. Differences in geography, period, context, and positionality will provide a variety of perspectives on the theme. Works by Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jabarti, Rifa’a Al-Tahtawi, Yahya Haqqi, Sulaiman Fayyad, Tayyib Salih, Leila Ahmed, and Fadia Faqir will be discussed. This course is taught in English. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 030. Writing America in Arabic This course will explore how Arab writers have fictionalized and narrated their experiences in America since the first major wave of Arab immigration to the United States in the late 19th century until the present day. Readings will be primarily drawn from literary texts, such as excerpts from novels, short stories, and poetry, but also include autobiographical and editorial pieces. Debates concerning minority status, women’s rights, individual and community identification, tradition versus assimilation, Orientalist and Occidentalist stereotyping, and political engagement will animate our discussions. Works by Afifa Karam, Abd al-Masih Haddad, Yusuf Idris, Radwa Ashour, Sunallah Ibrahim, Miral al-Tahawi, Alaa al-Aswani, and others, will be studied. This course is conducted entirely in Arabic. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM, PEAC Fall 2024. Smith. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 041. Self and Nation in Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetry and Prose As one of the greatest, most distinct voices in Arabic literature, Mahmoud Darwish has played a significant role in shaping Palestinian national identity politics and cultural imaginations, while also offering thoughtful reflections on the human condition more broadly. This course explores how Darwish’s poetry and prose articulate themes like homeland, exile, displacement, dispossession, loss, love, nostalgia, death, and grief. Our examinations of his prominent texts serve as a gateway to understanding the story of Palestine and to analyzing the tensions between individual and national identity, history and mythology, memory and forgetfulness, and peace and conflict. Additionally, the course pays special attention to Darwish’s literary innovations and the stylistic features of his work, which grant him a central spot on the vast Arabic literary map. This course is conducted entirely in Arabic. Advanced knowledge of Arabic is required to successfully complete this course. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 045. Contemporary Thought in the Arab World (Cross-listed as LITR 045A ) This survey course will trace some of the main themes, problems and issues that have been debated among Arab thinkers and intellectuals since the latter part of the 19th century. The course will start with the 19th century but emphasize discussions following the military defeat of 1967 and the ensuing cultural and political crisis. Discussions related to “turath” (heritage), the different strategies of its reading and interpretation, and the possibilities of using these readings to confront contemporary challenges will be the center of attention of the course. Readings will comprise three types of texts: those providing historical and social background, translations by the different thinkers under discussion, and articles and essays that interpret and critique these thinkers. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 093. Directed Reading 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARAB 095. Arabic Literature: Society and Scandal (Cross-listed as LITR 095A ) Societal scandals and controversies surrounding Arabic literary works have arisen across the Middle East and North Africa throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The free expression fostered in the literary field frequently confronts the realities of state censors and other forces in society, such as political ideologies or religious orthodoxies. In this course we aim to contextualize and study these scandals and controversies by closely analyzing the literary works at their source, as well as the debates and transgressive acts they elicited. From intentional omissions in translation, to debates surrounding the portrayal of homosexual characters, to assassination attempts on authors lives, this course will focus on a number of important inflection points across the Middle East and North Africa in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will study works by authors from Morocco to Saudi Arabia, including Taha Hussein, Naguib Mahfouz, Mohamed Choukri, Nawal El Saadawi, Saud Alsanousi, Alaa Al Aswani, Rashid al-Daif, Rajaa al-Sanea, amongst others. This course will be conducted in English, using texts translated from Arabic. Prerequisite: This course is open to all students, no prerequisites are required. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for CPLT Spring 2025. Smith. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Arabic Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/arabic Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 025A. War in Arab Literature and Cinema (Cross-listed as ARAB 025 ) This course will explore literary and cinematic representations of war in the Arab world, focusing on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the Lebanese Civil War, and the Iraq wars. We will look at poetry, fiction, memoir, prison narratives, film, and experimental texts. Through the examination of a variety of experiences, genres, and perspectives, we will ask questions like: How do narratives of war contribute to the formation of national, local, and Arab identities? How has the experience of war impacted understandings of religion, masculinity, gender, and domestic violence? We will identify common themes and images, and also investigate how these patterns change and develop in different spatial and temporal contexts. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM, PEAC Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 029A. Arabs Write the West (Cross-listed as ARAB 029 ) Drawing on historical, fictional, and autobiographical narratives, this course investigates Arab representations of the Occident. These texts explore cultural encounters, both at home and abroad, border crossings, hybridity, experiences of colonialism and neocolonialism, the psychology of Orientalism and Occidentalism, processes of assimilation and resistance, and the question of contact zones. Differences in geography, period, context, and positionality will provide a variety of perspectives on the theme. Works by Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jabarti, Rifa’a Al-Tahtawi, Yahya Haqqi, Sulaiman Fayyad, Tayyib Salih, Leila Ahmed, and Fadia Faqir will be discussed. This course is taught in English. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 045A. Contemporary Thought in the Arab World (Cross-listed as ARAB 045 ) This survey course will trace some of the main themes, problems and issues that have been debated among Arab thinkers and intellectuals since the latter part of the 19th century. The course will start with the 19th century but emphasize discussions following the military defeat of 1967 and the ensuing cultural and political crisis. Discussions related to “turath” (heritage), the different strategies of its reading and interpretation, and the possibilities of using these readings to confront the contemporary challenges of a globalized world will be the center of attention of the course. Readings for the course will comprise three types of texts: historical and social background, translations of texts by the different thinkers under discussion, and articles and essays that interpret and critique these thinkers. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ISLM Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 095A. Arabic Literature: Society and Scandal Cross-listed as ARAB 095 Societal scandals and controversies surrounding Arabic literary works have arisen across the Middle East and North Africa throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The free expression fostered in the literary field frequently confronts the realities of state censors and other forces in society, such as political ideologies or religious orthodoxies. In this course we aim to contextualize and study these scandals and controversies by closely analyzing the literary works at their source, as well as the debates and transgressive acts they elicited. From intentional omissions in translation, to debates surrounding the portrayal of homosexual characters, to assassination attempts on authors lives, this course will focus on a number of important inflection points across the Middle East and North Africa in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will study works by authors from Morocco to Saudi Arabia, including Taha Hussein, Naguib Mahfouz, Mohamed Choukri, Nawal El Saadawi, Saud Alsanousi, Alaa Al Aswani, Rashid al-Daif, Rajaa al-Sanea, amongst others. This course will be conducted in English, using texts translated from Arabic. Prerequisite: This course is open to all students, no prerequisites are required. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for CPLT Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures/courses-taught-english-0 Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Art History
	ARTH 001C. First-Year Seminar: Making Art History Are works of art direct extensions, pure reflections, or unique expressions of an individual artist’s genius, fragile by implication and susceptible to destruction from over analysis? Or are works of art (as well as the definition just offered) cultural artifacts produced under specific material and social conditions, and fully meaningful only under extended analysis? Must we choose? And are these questions themselves, and the talk they generate or suppress, yet another manifestation of the Western European and American commodification of art, its production, and its consumption? Such questions will underlie this introduction to the goals, methods, and history of art history. Focusing on works drawn from a variety of cultures and epochs, as well as on the art historical and critical attention those works have attracted, students will learn to describe, analyze, and interpret both images and their interpretations and to convey their own assessments in lucid writing and speaking. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 001D. First-Year Seminar: Architecture of Philadelphia Philadelphia offers a virtual hall of fame of architectural and urban history. Even a cursory list touches on many of the major developments in the built environment over the last five centuries and beyond: William Penn’s Philadelphia Plan; Independence Hall; Eastern State Penitentiary; Levittown; Society Hill; the Vanna Venturi House; and the Barnes Foundation. This discussion-based seminar turns to this history not only to understand the architecture of one important metropolitan area, but to understand how these examples can teach about broader themes including the history of land use and planning, the industrial and urban revolutions, social struggle and social change, public memory, metropolitan growth and urban renewal, and aesthetic and formal innovation. Through field trips, archival research, critical interpretation of interdisciplinary sources, and writing assignments, students will learn the foundational methods of architectural history as well as many of the major cultural and social forces that have shaped it. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Fall 2024. Goldstein. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 001E. First-Year Seminar: Michelangelo and Renaissance Culture In this discussion-based first-year seminar, we will study the sculptures, paintings, architecture, poetry, drawings, and biographies of the Renaissance artist Michelangelo. We will investigate these in light of Michelangelo’s patrons, audiences, and the larger cultural, political, and religious contexts in which these works were produced. We will also consider the ways in which these works have been analyzed over the centuries and how the biographies and myths of Michelangelo have been created and understood. In doing so, we will develop a critical understanding of the methods and terminology of the discipline of art history itself. Course projects include convening as a mock group of museum trustees to discuss whether the museum should purchase a sculpture that has recently been attributed to Michelangelo. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 001F. First-Year Seminar: Picasso This course looks at the questions and arguments art historians have developed to address the multiple facets of Picasso’s art, richly represented in the nearby Philadelphia Museum of Art and Barnes Foundation. Methods and perspectives explored include formal analysis, iconography, biography, social history, feminism, semiotics, and museum practice. Class sessions will focus on discussion of case studies and assignments will encourage critical skills and effective written and oral communication. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 001J. First Year Seminar: Arts of Everyday Life Centered on the study of five artworks, this first year seminar introduces students to the interconnectedness of art and everyday life. The course traces the parallel histories of feminism and art in US modernity. Students of this seminar will study the work of women who relied on art to make sense of their everyday experience and fight for a more inclusive art world. At the end of this writing course students will have produced forms of art writing such as the art review, the personal essay, the wall caption, and the research paper. Humanities. Writing Course. Fall 2023. Checa-Gismero. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 001L. FTA: From Handscrolls to Comic Books: Pictorial Narratives in Japan Through examination of select pictorial narratives produced in Japan between the 12th century and the present, this first-year seminar introduces students to the basics of art historical research and analysis. We will look at the ways in which handscrolls, folding screens, and (comic) books employ image and text in addressing subjects such as romances, miracles, battles, and fantasies, and consider the roles and functions performed by pictorial narratives in society. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 001M. First-Year Seminar: Leonardo: Artist, Engineer, Architect, and Anatomist Leonardo da Vinci was a great anatomist, engineer, architect and inventor whose drawings circulated around the courts of Europe. In this discussion-based course we will study the inventions, writings, paintings, drawings and biographies of this important Renaissance artist. We will consider the ways in which the works, biographies, and myths of Leonardo have been analyzed (and created) over the centuries. In doing so, we will develop a critical understanding of the methods and terminology of the discipline of art history itself. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 001P. First-Year Seminar: Objects of Empire: The Global Arts of the Early-Modern World This class seeks to understand the so called “Age of Discovery” (15th- 17th century) through the lens of material culture, looking at the objects that motivated and facilitated European imperial expansion as well as those that negotiated the cross-cultural interactions produced by European exploration. We will examine this “stuff” for insights into the lives of the people who made, purchased, or collected it. Although grounded in the field of art history, this course capitalizes upon the recent “material turn” in the humanities and the proliferation of object-based inquiries to consider material culture from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (including art history, history, and anthropology). We will not only learn to think about the “objects of empire,” but also to think with them, gaining a better understanding of important issues such the role of art in establishing colonial regimes, questions of hybridity and artistic influence, the origins of global exchange, and the politics early-modern collecting practices. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for LALS Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 002. Cave Painting to the Sistine Ceiling This course is an introduction to the Western tradition of art and architecture as developed in the Mediterranean, Egypt, and Europe from prehistoric cave painting through the seventeenth century. The goal of this course is to provide you with a chronology of the major works of art and architecture from this period and to teach you the vocabulary and methodologies necessary to closely analyze them. In addition to considering works of art and architecture in terms of the material, historical, and cultural circumstances in which they were produced, we will analyze the concept and history of the “Western tradition” itself. A full range of issues related to the production and reception of artworks will be examined in this course, including: the representation of-and construction of-race, gender, class, religion, social relations, and politics; the use and status of materials; the context in which these works were used and/or displayed; and the critical responses these works elicited. Note: This course is an Introductory Survey Course Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for MDST, GLBL-Paired Fall 2022. Reilly. Spring 2025. Reilly. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 003. Asian Art: Past and Present This course provides a thematic introduction to the arts of India, China, Korea, and Japan from prehistoric times to the present. Through explorations of select works of calligraphy, painting, prints, ceramics, sculpture, and architecture, this course aims to familiarize students with artistic vocabularies and conventions, sociocultural contexts of production and consumption, and tools of art historical analysis. Particular focus will be given to the interrelationships between art, religion, philosophy, and literature. Note: This course is an Introductory Survey Course Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Fall 2023. Lee. Fall 2024. Staff. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 005. Modern Art in Europe and the United States This course surveys Western European and American art from the late 18th century to the 1960s. It introduces significant artists and art movements in their social and political contexts and also focuses attention on art historical approaches that have been developed to interpret this art, including socio-economic and feminist perspectives. Note: This course is an Introductory Survey Course Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for GMST, GLBL-Paired Fall 2022. Green. Fall 2024. Checa-Gismero. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 006. Contemporary Art This course takes a focused look at European and American art from 1945 to the present, a period during which most conventional meanings and methods of art were challenged or rejected. Beginning with the brushstrokes of abstract expressionism and continuing through to the bitmaps of today’s digital art, we consider the changing status of artists, artworks, and institutions. Emphasis will be placed on critical understanding of the theoretical and historical foundations for these shifts. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for GMST, DGHU Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 007. Modern and Contemporary Indigenous Art This course examines the diverse styles and histories of modern and contemporary Indigenous art. Focusing on global contexts, including the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand, we will examine how art is a material form through which international relationsand exchanges between Indigenous artists and cultural producers have been practiced since time immemorial. We will consider how different forms and languages of visual art allow Indigenous artists, activists, and community members to express decolonial,diplomatic, economic, kinship, cosmological, and place-based relations within and beyond the category of fine and contemporary art. Students will come away with an understanding of and appreciation for the key issues that inform the reception, curation, and history of modern and contemporary Indigenous art, including the boundaries of gender, craft, and tradition; authorship and ceremony; interventions in archives, collections, and displays; sovereignty over self-representation, territory, and identity; ecocritical and land-based practice; and the impacts of commodification and nationalist exploitation. Humanities. 1 Credit. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 010. Art and Climate Change (Cross-Listed As ENVS 051 ) In this mid-level seminar students will learn how changing conceptualizations of nature have shaped the genealogy of art in Euro-American modernity. Special emphasis will be placed on the strategies developed by contemporary artists to make sense of the unfolding climate crisis. Eligible for ENVS Humanities. Spring 2025. Checa-Gismero. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 013. The Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome This exploration of ancient Greek art and architecture will consider issues such as mythology in daily ritual; the religious, social, and political functions of sculpture; the use of architecture as propaganda; and the invention of the ideal warrior, athlete, and maiden. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL-Paired Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 014. Facing Race and Identity in American Art In the late 20^th Century, scientists concurred that race is more of a social construction than it is a biological one. Although physical markers of race such as skin color, hair texture, and the shapes of facial features are determined by a tiny part of human genetic information, art history evidences the persistent impact of racial concepts on American lives and art. This social interpretation of race has had a tremendous impact on the history of American cultural production and its engagement with the global art world. This course explores art history in terms of racial and cultural identity, and points to the ways in which race intersects with other group identifications such as class, religion, sexual orientation or gender. We will examine the visual history of race in the United States, as both self-fashioning and external cultural mythology, by looking at the ways that conceptions of Native American, Latino, and Asian identity, alongside ideas of Blackness and Whiteness, have combined to create the enduring ideologies of class, gender, and sexuality evident in our historical visual and material culture. How did race become attached to individual bodies? How did art, fashion, and film aid in the creation and reification of racial categories in the United States during the 19th through 21st centuries? We will also investigate the ways that these creations have subsequently helped to launch new visual expression, from the colonial period through the early 2000’s, including painting, sculpture, photography, film, installation art, and performance. In this class you may have the opportunity to ask and explore open-ended questions, investigate your own identity, visit museums, archives, and local art collections, to analyze works of art and art movements in terms of various identity issues, to hear from contemporary artists, and to look at, read about, and discuss how artists have used their work to investigate their identity or larger ideas about identity, diversity, race, and ideas about the Americas. We will analyze art and imagery that may be considered by some to be controversial and challenging. Participants must make a commitment to openly consider multiple perspectives and diverse arguments with dignity and respect. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/art-art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 016. Renaissance Art This course will provide a rich introduction to the art and architecture produced in Florence, Rome, Venice, Siena, Padua, Mantua, and other important cultural centers in Italy from the late 14th to the 16th century. In addition to learning about painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, and architecture, we will also study stage design, temporary festival decorations, banners and costumes. A full range of issues related to the production and reception of artworks will be addressed, including the representation of the individual, the state, and religion. We will also examine art and anatomy, art and gender, the critical responses these works elicited, and the theories of art developed by artists and non-artists alike. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 019. Contemporary Art This survey class introduces students to key developments within global art practices since 1950. The course will explore how the politics, ideologies, and the contexts of contemporary artists working around the world shaped diverse artistic approaches in diverse media, including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, performance, new media, and digital art. Students will be introduced to the major stylistic trends in art since 1950 and examine how these styles were translated across international and cultural contexts and developed in response to or as an alternative to the dominant narrative of modernism as conceived by the West. Areas of study include instances of Abstraction, Pop art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Land Art, Video, Performance Art, and Installation Art in geographic areas including the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Indigenous Americas. Each class will explore major historiographic themes through case studies of exemplary contemporary artists including postcolonialism, feminism, postmodernism, hybridity, decolonization, ecocriticism, and transnationalism. Note: This course is an Introductory Survey Course Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Green. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 021. Art and Technology This course examines the intersections of art and technology across a wide range of art and popular media. Beginning with an exploration of a set of aesthetic and cultural production that includes 16^th century woodcuts, 17^th century cabinets of curiosity, 18^th century magic lantern shows, and 19^th century stereoscopes and panoramas, the course will provide historical context for a consideration of the role that various forms of technology have played in shaping art and culture in the 20^th and 21^st century. Through class trips to local museums and galleries, classroom and online discussions, guest lectures, readings, screenings, and creative experiments in art and technology, this course will reflect on emerging technologies and their historical origins to understand the ways in which the relationships between humans and machines continue to evolve in our contemporary cultural context. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 027. Colloquium: Exhibiting Women The course considers the history and practice of exhibiting art. Using Philadelphia’s rich array of museums, galleries, and public art collections, we will examine past and present exhibition practices to ask: what educational, aesthetic, and political purposes do exhibitions serve? How have they done so and why? How do exhibition curators and designers use space, design, and technology to contribute to–and control–the experience of the visitor? As part of this course students will conceive, design, and execute a virtual exhibition. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Art Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 028. Replication in Chinese Art The making of duplicates informs a long tradition of artistic productions in China. This course explores diverse modes and technologies of reproduction, bringing into focus the function and cultural value of the copy in the history of Chinese art and visual culture. Through case studies of replications of painting, calligraphy, sculpture, film, architecture, ritual and religious art, we will consider a range of motivations for making copies that often became something more than just mindless imitation, serving as integral components of an artist’s training, as acts of piety, as forms of preservation and documentation, as agents of dissemination, and as homage to artists and calligraphers of the past. As we study multiples made from the Bronze Age to contemporary China, we will pay close attention to the different processes of reproduction, examining how technique and material shape not only the duplicate produced but also the varied perception of the practice of copying. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Fall 2023. Lee. Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/art-art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 030. Brought to Life: The Art of Animation in East Asia To bring an image to life is an undying fantasy, one that predates anime and computer-animated films. This course takes as its focus the art of enlivenment in East Asia. It explores the idea of animation through a range of topics spanning across time, media, and contexts, including: the production of remarkably life-like images, such as ikiningyo (“living doll”) in Japan; activation and enlivenment of Buddhist icons; theories on the criteria of “spirit resonance” in Chinese paintings; pictorial formats and optical devices that set static pictures into motion; animated films from Korea, China, and Japan; and the use of animation in experimental and contemporary art. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/art-art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 031. Arts of China 1 credit. Fall 2024. Staff. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 034. Colloquium: Asian Calligraphy This colloquium examines the major calligraphic traditions of China, Korea, and Japan from 1200 B.C.E. to the present. We will study the functions and contexts of calligraphic inscriptions among a rich range of material texts, such as animal bones, bronze vessels, stone stelae, mountain cliffs, and various paper-based formats. In addition to analyzing the development and circulation of calligraphic styles within East Asia and celebrated works of individual calligraphers, we will explore how calligraphy conveys meaning and how it has been used as a powerful tool for cultural and political commentary. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 036. Modern Architecture in Japan: Culture, Place, Tectonics This course explores the diversity of forms and meanings that architecture took on in Japan since its industrialization in the 19th century. With that focus, it opens up more general questions on the capacity of construction, structure, materials and their assembly to express cultural, aesthetic, environmental and social concerns. It begins by introducing the context of traditional architecture that served as a foundation for the emergence of modern architecture, and continues to discuss the work and words of architects who demonstrated salient topics in architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries in Japan. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: Art Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 037. Modern & Contemporary Chinese Art This course explores Chinese art and visual culture from the late nineteenth century to the present. It surveys key artists, movements, landmark exhibitions, major debates and issues to trace the contours of the modern and contemporary art scene, focusing on intercultural encounters beginning from the era of international treaty ports to contemporary global art circuit. By studying works across media in tandem with primary sources including artist writings, group manifestoes, and exhibition statements, we consider how artistic concerns engaged with the unfolding seismic sociopolitical and economic transformations in China, as well as with an expanding art world and art market. Option: Honors Attachment Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/art-art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 042. Photo & East Asia This course explores the history of photography in China, Japan, and Korea from the 1840s to the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the development of this powerful form of visual communication against specific cultural and historical contexts, examining the various motivations for making and displaying photographs as well as the ways in which the history of modern East Asia was mediated through the lens. We consider how photography was integrated into artistic practices and everyday life, playing a vital role in forging new national and social identities and the shaping of both public and personal memories. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Fall 2022. Lee. Spring 2024. Lee. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 043. Colloq: Tricks and Deception 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/art-art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 044. Contemporary Art in Asia 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/art-art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 046. Socially Engaged Art in the Americas Can art change the world? Questions about the impact of art in the social fabric are constitutive of the idea of avant-garde art. This course will introduce students to these debates as they took shape in the American continent since 1960. With an emphasis on forms of art practice that outspokenly seek to provoke positive social change, this class provides a parallel narrative of contemporary art, in which art exits the museum space to ingrain itself in broader social processes. During the semester students will learn about different theories of socially engaged art articulated by artists and art historians alike. We will consider art as activism in the Civil Rights era, forms of artistic resistance to Latin American military dictatorships, second wave feminist art, contemporary community-based art, and forms of engaged art practice concerned with planet-wide environmental crisis. We will debate the tactics and ideals guiding these practices, and we will evaluate the potential risks that come with relying on art for social transformation. This course alternates short lecture periods with in-class discussion of primary and secondary sources. It is structured around six thematic blocs, at the end of which students will produce a short written assignment. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ESCH, PEAC, GLBL-paired, LALS Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/ Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ARTH 047. Counterculture Architecture and Urbanism During the 1960s and ‘70s in the United States, young builders and planners gave form to the ideological shifts generated by the Countercultural Movement. Their radical designs were formal condemnations of the technocratic, homogenous strategies favored by the previous generation. This course examines the multifaceted nature of countercultural architecture, planning, and technology through primary sources and critical texts that provide a broader cultural, social, and political context for the work. Each seminar focuses upon either an abstract component of “outlaw” design, such as whole systems theory, gender and race politics, cybernetics, etc., or particular building forms that came to symbolize the movement, including inflatables, geodesic domes, and vernacular constructions. The course encourages students to draw connections between built work and countercultural theory and to challenge preconceived notions of architecture during the period. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/art-and-art-history Access the class schedule to search for sections.

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ANCH 039. Identities in the Ancient World: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity

ANCH 040. The New Testament in the Greco-Roman World

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ANCH 044. The Early Roman Empire

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