College Bulletin 2022-2023

Apr 29, 2024

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English Literature - 20th and 21st Century
	ENGL 047E. Southeast Asian Literature in Translation In traditional terms the part of the world between China and India, Southeast Asia lies at a global crossroads where its more powerful neighbors have spread their influence and where the East met the West in the European scramble for “the (East) Indies.” This position at a Pacific borderland has long led the region to function as a transnational contact zone, thus to be defined in reference to external actors-as intimated by a name for its peninsular half, “Indochina”-or in indeterminate ways-as intimated by a name for its maritime half, the “Malay Archipelago.” Given this irreducibly minor status to which Southeast Asia is relegated (not to mention the region’s multifarious colonial histories and diverse indigenous regimes), is there a Southeast Asian literature? If so, what histories does it lend sight of, both particular to the (nations in the) region and symptomatic of the world? This course turns to Southeast Asian literature that has been translated for a global readership-to folk tales, a “medieval” chronicle, the colonial novel/serial, a World War II novel, magic realism, melodrama, and ecofiction-to chart national/regional/world history from precolonial to contemporary times. In the process, it will examine history and literature’s common narrative structure and incommensurability, thus the potentials and problems of translation. Readings will be in English and may include Nusantara, The Genealogy of Kings (Sulalat Al-Salatin), Noli Me Tangere, Dumb Luck (So Do), Potions and Paper Cranes (Perempuan Kembang Jepun), Beauty is a Wound (Cantik Itu Luka), The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth (Saiduean Ta Bod Nai Khaowongkot), Revenge of Gaia, and Virtual Lotus. This is the second of a two-part course sequence that also includes Engl 47D, “Southeast Asian Literature in English” (47D and 47E may be taken independently of each other and in any order, and may also be combined into an Honors preparation). 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASAM, ASIA, GLBL-paired, CPLT. Spring 2023. Ku. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 049. Contemporary Irish Poetry Ireland’s complicated historical divisions have provided fertile ground for extraordinary poetry, both in the Republic and in the North. This course will consider poetry by Heaney, Boland, Carson, McGuckian, Muldoon, and ni Dhomnaill (among others) within the sociopolitical contexts of contemporary Ireland. 20th/21st c. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2023. Anderson. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 050D. Literature and Art on the US-Mexico Border This course will examine the shifting expressions of the U.S.-Mexico Border in the US-American literary and cultural imagination from 1848 to the present. We will begin by considering Chicanx theorist Mary Pat Brady’s suggestion that “the border might be understood more fully as a state-sponsored aesthetic project” (Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies 52). If the border is to be understood as an aesthetic project, what are its formal elements, and how have they shifted over time? Which narratives of belonging has this national project made hyper-visible and which has it occluded? How have treaties, maps, novels, pamphlets, poems, and films figured into the production of the border as a dividing line and a contact zone, a site of violence and of solidarity, a material place and a metaphor? In order to answer these questions and to generate more along the way, we will consider a range of legal, literary, and cultural texts. These may include The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta (1854), George Washington Gomez (c. 1930s), science-fiction, migrant testimonies, contemporary films, as well as recent interventions by digital artists and activists in the border zone. Limited to 30 students. For English Literature majors and minors, this course will count towards the historical distribution requirements as either an 18th/19th century course or as a 20th/21st century course, based upon the student’s final project and the recommendation of the professor. GATEWAY English Literature; no prerequisites, suitable for any student. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for LALS, ESCH Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 052A. U.S. Fiction, 1900-1950 “U.S. Fiction 1900 - 1950” focuses on selected well-known and newly recognized U.S. authors important for this period: L. Frank Baum, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anita Loos, Dashiell Hammett, and two writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston and George Schuyler. We’ll read mostly novels, but also some short stories. There will be attention to innovations in fiction as a flexible and varied literary form, and to the ways in which these writers engage with their historical context-particularly regarding issues of immigration, race, redefinitions of gender roles, the rising influence of new commercial media, and contestations over the meaning of “American.” Selected background / historical material will also be assigned. Novels on the syllabus: My Ántonia (Cather), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Loos), The Maltese Falcon (Hammett), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston), and Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940 (Schuyler). Short stories: two episodes from Baum’s sequel to The Wizard of Oz, The Emerald City of Oz (1912); plus F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Ice Palace,” “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” “Babylon Revisited,” and “An Alcoholic Case.” This is a GATEWAY English Literature course open to any student without prerequisite. The course will be taught so that it is accessible to students who are taking their first English Literature credit at Swarthmore. But advanced students of literature, including potential or actual majors and minors, will find much of interest too. 20th/21st c. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Schmidt. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 052B. U.S. Fiction, 1945 to the Present We’ll look at major authors and emerging figures, with attention to innovations in the novel as a literary form and the ways in which writers engage with their historical context, both within the U.S. and globally. Highsmith, Baldwin, Hemingway, and McCarthy, in different ways, introduce themes of gender roles, sexuality, and politics that will be taken up by a host of later works, including Marshall, Díaz, and Belleza. Both McCarthy’s and Wolitzer’s novels follow a group of young adult friends (Vassar students from the 1930s and summer arts camp friends from the 1970s) into their older adult lives-personal stories of friendship and betrayal, but also stories of the nation’s changes. Near the end of the semester, the YA [young adult genre] author Rhoda Belleza and her editor, Swarthmore grad Tiffany Liao, will visit Swarthmore to discuss Belleza’s new novel Empress of a 1000 Skies, which we’ll read. (If you liked the most recent Star Wars reinventions, you should really enjoy this work.) 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2024. Schmidt. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 052C. Contemporary US Fiction, 1990 to the Present This course will focus on contemporary U.S. fiction published since 1990 or so. The reading list will feature global perspectives on the U.S. as well as new understandings of the U.S.’s past and present by U.S.-born authors. We’ll explore the novels’ formal inventiveness as well as their engagement with history, race, gender, and a variety of other social issues, including multi-racial single and family identities (and, by implication, how this may help the U.S. national narrative evolve away from white suprematism). Three of the readings will use the genre of “historical fiction” to reinterpret U.S. history, but all the texts rewrite the possibilities of personal, family, and national/transnational narratives. A special feature of the course will be the celebration of Swarthmore alum Patricia Park, who will visit Swarthmore to read from and discuss her first novel. Entitled Re Jane, its heroine Jane Re is a mixed-race orphan on a quest to learn more about her family history. The novel is set in Queens, Brooklyn, and Korea, and is both a fun romantic comedy and a clever reimagining of the Jane Eyre plot. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ESCH Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 052D. Twenty-First Century Narrative In this class, we will examine some of the major texts, media, and themes of U.S. literature of the twenty-first century. What can we say about the history we are ourselves living through? What fears and anxieties distinguish our moment? What perspective (or lack thereof) do we have on our own time? In order to organize these disparate and difficult questions, we will organize our readings around an industry that quietly shapes where and how we live. It also organizes the themes of belonging, segregation, migration, the weight of the past, and the uncertainty of the future that are characteristic of U.S. life in this century: real estate. Texts may include Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, and Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 052M. Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City and Queer Pasts and Futures 28 Barbary Lane: the boarding house at a mythical address in San Francisco run by Anna Madrigal, the most beloved trans character in U.S. literature. It’s where those who are queer, straight, trans, and questioning find their logical or chosen family, the home where they are seen and to which they can always return. We’ll read several of Maupin’s novels from his Tales of the Cities series (1970s - 2014), including Michael Tolliver Lives, plus we will view and debate the most recent TV adaptation of Tales (HBO 2019). Also explored will be secondary sources by queer and other theorists of sexuality and sociality, including Butler, Sedgwick, Muñoz, Lorde, Halberstam, McCauley, Braidotti, and Love. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for GSST. Fall 2023. Schmidt. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 053. Modern American Poetry An introductory survey of the full range of 20th-century American poetry, but we will commence with Whitman and Dickinson, two key predecessors and enablers. The emphasis will be on particular poets and poems, but a recurrent theme will be poetry’s role in a democracy: is poetry really an esoteric art for the “educated” few, as some imply, or has poetry in the 20th century played a crucial role in shaping both democratic citizens and a sense of democratic culture? 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 053R. Research Topics in U.S. Literature A limited-enrollment, research-oriented colloquium for students who have done well in a previous U.S. literature course and would like to do advanced work. We will focus on readings and research materials to learn some basic methods and theory relevant for contemporary archival research using print and online resources. Later in the semester students will be able to propose, design, and present their own research project to the class. Students will conclude the course by writing a research thesis on a topic of their choice approved by the professor; they will also write a short paper on the earlier materials. 20th/21st c. Prerequisite: English 52 (A or B) or English 53, or an equivalent mid-level course covering U.S. or colonial literature taught by the Swarthmore English department. Enrollment limited to 15. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 054. Toni Morrison (Cross-listed as BLST 054 ) As the recipient of numerous literary prizes (Nobel, Pulitzer, and National Book Critics Circle Award, to name a few), Toni Morrison was an author of international renown whose books routinely occupied a place on domestic and international best seller lists. Indeed, it is safe to say that her work transcended what many readers ascertain as “black writing” in the 21st Century. Her works consistently engaged the role memory, place, and community play in our lived experience. But how did Morrison understand her literary project in light of the fact that she eschewed the white gaze as a controlling motif in her fictions? In a moment when discussions about how-and sometimes, whether-we value Black bodies are happening all around us, this course offers us an opportunity to use the reading of Morrison’s novels as a catalyst for new ways to think not only about how we can occupy place, but happily cohabit with our neighbors whether they look like us, share our point of origin, or reflect our values. In the process, we will endeavor to become a learning community in which critical thinking, analysis, dialogue, and debate are central to developing inclusive methods of inquiry. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 058. Climate Fiction (Cross-listed as ENVS 058 ) Climate fiction responds to the immensity of climate change through a variety of modes including journalism, dystopia, speculation, black comedy. We will hone skills of thinking, writing, and speaking critically about cultural forms and social structures entangled with our changing climate and environment. Authors include Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, Jesmyn Ward, and Richard Powers. 20th/21st c. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 062. Classic Black Autobiography A survey of twentieth-century Black autobiography, emphasizing the significance of the autobiography as an act of representation, not simply a document of experience. What strategies do Black narrators like Du Bois, Wright, Hurston, Dunham, Baldwin, Lorde, and Malcolm X employ to represent themselves, and how? How do their textual strategies and contextual concerns change from the Jim Crow regime into the post-Civil Rights era? 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 063. Contemporary Black Autobiography How does the Black subject become the source and site of intersectional theory? This course examines the complexities of Black self-presentation in relation to gender, sexuality, class, place, and history, with a particular focus on developments within the last decade, the era of Black Lives Matter. 20th/21st c. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST. Spring 2023. Foy. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 064B. Black Renaissance and Resistance The second in a sequence of courses on the development of African American literature, this course explores the historical conditions, political concerns, and aesthetic currents of Black cultural production during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s through its aftermath in the 1930s. 20th/21st c. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST. Spring 2025. Foy. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 064C. Black Protest and Possibility The third in a sequence of courses on the development of African American literature, this course examines both the rise of popular Black protest literature and other works that sought to counter, complicate, or complement it during the 1940s and 1950s. Through the work of such Black writers as Wright, Petry, Ellison, Baldwin, Brooks, Himes, Marshall, and Hansberry, we will consider how they addressed the dilemmas of racial representation. 20th/21st c. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST. Fall 2022. Foy. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 064D. Soul Power The fourth in a sequence of courses on the development of African American literature, this course examines the impact of Black cultural nationalism on the poetry, drama, fiction, and autobiography of the 1960s, attending to the iconography, ideology, and aesthetics of “soul.” 20th/21st c. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST. Spring 2023. Foy. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 065. Asian American Literature (Cross-listed as ASAM 065 ) How does Asian American literature function as the site of key debates about ethnic and national identity? This course explores Asian American cultural production over the past 50 years, beginning with Flower Drum Song (1961), the first Hollywood film starring an all-Asian American cast, and ending with the Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories. Authors include Maxine Kingston, Chang-Rae Lee, David Henry Hwang, and Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Fall 2022. Mani. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 066. In/Visible: Asian American Cultural Critique (Cross-listed as ASAM 066 ) Popular representations of Asian Americans frame this immigrant group as either invisible (unseen and unheard) or hypervisible (as “yellow peril” or “terrorist”). By contrast, the writers, scholars, and artists that we will examine in this class challenge such linear narratives, and create new futures of Asian America. This class will highlight critical theories of race and ethnicity in relation to a wide range of textual forms: literature, performance, visual culture. Students will also collaborate, when possible, with Asian American arts organizations in the Philadelphia area. 20th/21st c. Prerequisite: ENGL 065, 19th/20th Century English course. INTP, GSST, FMST classes will also be considered. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA, GSST, ESCH. Spring 2023. Mani. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 067. James Baldwin’s Civil Rights Focusing on that prolific period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s when James Baldwin arose as a spokesperson, celebrity, and artist of the Civil Rights Movement, this course engages his thought through his fiction, essays, drama, and memoir, paying particular attention to the ethics and aesthetics of Blackness, race, gender, sexuality, and history. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST, ASAM. Fall 2022. Foy. Fall 2023. Foy. Fall 2024. Foy. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 068. Black Culture in a “Post-Soul” Era Since the 1970s, younger generations of African American writers, artists, and intellectuals have struggled over the meaning of Blackness in the wake of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements that preceded them. Supported by a handful of historical and critical studies, we will examine how black novelists, playwrights, and poets in the ‘post-soul’ era have dealt with a complex of shifting and interconnected concerns, including the imperatives of racial representation in a society increasingly driven by mass consumption and global media, the contentious discourses of sexual politics, and the polarization of classes within Black America. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 069. Reconstructing US Culture 1866 to 1900 This course will introduce students to the U.S. literature of the Reconstruction era. We will interpret the historical period and political project of ”Reconstruction” broadly to include texts produced during and, in some cases, after the formal period of direct federal intervention in the south after the Civil War. If, as many scholars have suggested, Reconstruction was ultimately a contest over meaning-the meaning of the Civil War, of freedom, of race, of the nation, and of citizenship-then it did not end in 1877. Indeed, as the historian Eric Foner has suggested, Reconstruction is still not over. In addition to introducing students to the culture of the Reconstruction period, this course will also broadly consider the place of war, national citizenship, freedom, and race in post-bellum American literature. Authors to include Pauline Hopkins, Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, Albion W. Tourgée, WEB Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and Kate Chopin. GATEWAY English Literature. For English Literature majors and minors, this course can count as either an 18th/19th or 20th/21st century course. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 071D. The Short Story in the U.S. Reading assignments will primarily be short stories, but will also include selected other relevant materials. The course will begin in the early 19^th century with masters whose daring and innovative work gave the short story new prominence in literary history: Poe, Irving, Hawthorne, and Melville. The syllabus will include significant late 19^th- and early 20^th-century authors who built on this legacy (such as James, Chopin, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hurston, and Faulkner, among others). After vacation break we’ll turn to later authors such as Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Toni Cade Bambara, Thomas Pynchon, George Saunders, Sandra Cisneros, Jennifer Egan, Edwidge Danticat, and many others. Our syllabus will also feature published work by recent Swarthmore graduates who have gone on to become published fiction writers. This is a Gateway English Literature course, suitable for anyone’s first or second English literature course. Majors and minors are also welcome. For majors and minors, this course can count either as an 18th/19th or as a 20th/21st century course, depending on the topic of the final research paper. GATEWAY English Literature. Fall 2022. Schmidt. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 071E. Ecopoetry and the Climate Crisis Cross-listed as ENVS 041 This course will survey nature poems as well as poems on other relevant topics written in English from the Romantics in the early 19th century up to the present, with particular emphasis on poems from the post-WWII era-that time when scientists began publishing evidence that human beings’ use of fossil fuels was altering the Earth’s climate in ways that might bring about the sixth Great Extinction in our planet’s history. Also emphasized: the primary role that women and/or writers of color have played in shaping ecopoetry, and in linking the climate crisis to historical trauma, social inequality, and why reparative justice is needed. The course will be taught in ways to make it welcoming to students who have not taken a literature course at Swarthmore, much less a course on poetry. Advanced students in cultural studies or poetry are also welcome. This course is cross-listed, which means that students should register for credit as either ENVS 041 or English 071E. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS. Spring 2024. Schmidt. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 071K. Lesbian Novels Since World War II This course will examine a wide range of novels by and about lesbians since World War II. Of particular concern will be the representation of recent lesbian history. How, for instance, do current developments in cultural studies influence our understanding of the lesbian cultures of the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s? What is at stake in the description of the recent lesbian past? 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for GSST Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 071S. Contemporary Life Writing: Form and Theory In this course, we will explore contemporary forms of life writing. The term “writing” will be used flexibly to encompass self-representation in visual forms (including graphic memoir, photography, and video). Our topics will include the intersections among autobiography, biography, and fiction; self-narration as a public and political form; and how life writing has become intertwined with theoretical explorations of gender, sexuality, race, and biopolitics. Authors include Gloria Anzaldúa, Alison Bechdel, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Jamaica Kincaid, Maggie Nelson, and Paul B. Preciado. Assignments will include a creative life-writing project as well as academic essays with close textual analysis and scholarly argument. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for INTP Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 072. Global Modernisms: Anticolonial Modernism In this course, we will survey global fiction from the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, tracing an arc of modernist literary practices that extends beyond the largely American and European coterie of high modernists. We will put pressure on the geopolitics of literary modernism(s), exploring how historical currents and theoretical frameworks breed new critical lenses for modernist form. And we will ask: what does it mean to be modernist? 20th/21st c. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL-core Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 074A. Global South Literature Encompassing the regions of the world-Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania-outside of “the West,” the Global South is more than just a geographical designation. Associated with “underdevelopment,” it is the term that has come to take the place of the “Third World” to shift emphasis from cultural difference to geopolitical relations. This course surveys literature from the bottom half of the world to chart these relations as narrated and resisted by the world system’s downtrodden. First, we will examine the Western colonization of the world, thereby the ways that the globe can be thought of as a world due to the South. Secondly, we will follow the circuits of capital that outlasted the colonial world through the migrations of labor that are capital’s precondition. These political and economic structurations are reinforced in culture-most notably, through race-which works as a trace of historical structures. This persistence of oppressive history, including within the West, is what we will turn to finally by tracing the long history of slavery, indigenous dispossession after/amid genocide, and racial conflict in the diaspora. In the process, we will explore literature as a cultural form that reworks the processes of which it is a trace, not least by giving rise to a world literature from the South. Readings may include accounts of the Conquest of the Americas, Noli me Tangere, Death and the King’s Horseman, Waiting for the Barbarians, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Omeros, Coolie Woman, Homegoing, Baby No-Eyes, and “Zaabalawi.” 20th/21st c. GATEWAY English Literature Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASAM, GLBL-core, PEAC, CPLT. Fall 2022. Ku. Spring 2023. Ku. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 074B. U.S. Empire Literature There is a longstanding debate on whether the United States is or is not an empire. Born out of anticolonial revolution, the U.S. has also from its inception been ritually celebrated as an empire-something that started to be customarily denied after the Philippine-American War. This course centers the stories of the colonized outside/within the U.S. to interrogate the U.S. (as an) empire. After examining pronouncements of U.S. “manifest destiny” and theorizations of the U.S. as (the opposite of) an empire, we will read literature from or about the three main phases of U.S. imperialism. First, we will look at the settling of the American West and the dispossession it entailed, the continuation of the genocide that was the precondition of the Thirteen Colonies. We will then chart the extension of U.S. Western Expansion abroad in and around 1898, in which the U.S. annexed Hawaii and Spain’s remaining colonies-Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines-while dominating the Western Hemisphere. Finally, we will explore U.S. world-building after World War II in which “liberation” once again, as the Vietnam War and 9/11 eras show, works as a mode of empire. In tracing this history through literature, we will consider the ways that the U.S. tells a story about itself as the antithesis of empire amid minor attempts to tell another story. Readings may include American Progress, The Revenant, “The Homeland, Aztlán,” Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Fools Crow, Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen, “Our America,” “To Roosevelt,” “The White Man’s Burden,” “To The Person Sitting in Darkness,” Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Insurrecto, The Cosmic Race, The Sympathizer, and United States of Banana. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL-paired, PEAC, CPLT Fall 2022. Ku. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 076. The World, the Text, and the Critic This core course introduces students to critical approaches in contemporary global literatures. We will explore how literature represents the relationship between “the West and the Rest,” and examine our own relation to colonial and postcolonial histories. Novels include White Teeth, The God of Small Things, and Heart of Redness. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL-core Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 077. South Asians in America Cross-listed as ASAM 066 This class surveys a century of migration from the Indian subcontinent to the United States. Two questions will guide our readings and discussion: First, what does it mean to identify as South Asian? Second, how do new ethnic identities expand our understanding of what it means to be American? In this interdisciplinary class, we’ll read Pulitzer Prize winning authors Jhumpa Lahiri and Ayad Akhtar; discuss what it means to identify as “brown” or “Muslim” after 9/11; and explore the lives of South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley; political activists in New York City; and workers and artists nationwide. Throughout our readings, we will explore how ethnicity is shaped by differences of gender, religion, sexuality and class. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA, GSST Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 078. Modernism This course introduces students to high modernism, a period of literary experimentation that spanned the first half of the twentieth century. We will be interested in innovative forms, failed experiments, inner lives, social movements, and the looming shadow of history. Expect to encounter authors such as Conrad, Forster, Woolf, Joyce, Barnes, and Faulkner. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2023. Patnaik. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 078B. Modernist Narrative This course will focus on narrative developments in the modernist era. Literary modernism is often characterized as a shift from 19th-century realism toward interiority, abstraction, and fragmentation. The era’s aesthetic experimentation was shaped in part by the world wars and the influence of new technologies (e.g. radio, film, the airplane). We will consider how modernist narratives form ideas about character, the experience of time, community, race, gender and sexuality, labor, empire, and nation. We will read primarily novels and shorter fiction written in English, but will also take into account Freud’s case studies, narrative film, and philosophical writing. Authors may include James Joyce, Nella Larsen, Jean Rhys, Jean Toomer, and Virginia Woolf, among others. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Bryant. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 078P. Make it New: Modernism and International Experimentation Ezra Pound’s appeal to his contemporaries to “make it new” became the most famous dictum of literary modernism. While the phrase emphasized newness, it was, in fact, appropriated from a Chinese source. How might our understanding of literary modernism change when viewed in an international context? And how might an increasingly global world have contributed to the types of literary experimentation taking place across the globe in the first half of the 20th century? This course examines the explosion of literary and aesthetic experimentation that took place during the modernist period (ca. 1890-1945), with a particular focus on the ways in which formal invention was facilitated by global exploration. While we will primarily read American and British authors, this course will engage with how their writings explored, challenged, or were directly influenced by global texts, contexts, and encounters. Students will explore such topics as Zurich and Berlin Dadaism, French Cubism and Surrealism, Italian and Russian Futurism; and read such authors as T.S. Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, Virginia Woolf, and Louis Zukofsky. This course is open to first year students. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 079. What is Cultural Studies? What in the world is cultural studies? Focusing on film, art, fashion and music, we’ll explore how to read and write about culture and power. Literary close reading will go hand in hand with ethnography, historiography, cinema studies, and aesthetic theory. Highlighting how race, class, sexuality and gender intersect in the production and consumption of cultural texts, the class emphasizes how what we read is part of the world in which we live. 20th/21st c. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASAM, INTP, GSST. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 079P. Sanctuary. While the term “sanctuary” literally refers to a sanctum within a church, the term has come to more broadly signify different types of safety from harm and discrimination. A sanctuary might refer to a country willing to offer a refugee rights and privileges; a wildlife preserve to protect endangered species; a city or campus unwilling to share information about undocumented individuals; or a community space intentionally created to protect people from harm. This course will explore the theme of sanctuary broadly-to cover various political, institutional, and cultural understandings of sanctuary-but with a specific focus on Swarthmore College and Philadelphia. Students will analyze literature, artworks, films, and nonfiction texts that address the theme of sanctuary as it relates to such topics as: race and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; health and wellness; war and militarism. Alongside more canonical literary works, we will also consider community-based texts such as: Apiary Magazine’s special Sanctuary issue (2017); Sanctuary in Practice, a film made by Swarthmore students; and artists’ books commissioned by the Swarthmore College project Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary. Course requirements include active participation; a series of short writing assignments; and participation in a creative research project. For Fall 2022, this will be collaborating with individuals involved in harm reduction efforts in Philadelphia to co-create a zine that explores the intersection of art and harm reduction. 20th/21st c. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ESCH. PEAC. GLBL-paired. Fall 2022. Price. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 080. Introduction to Literary Theory Initially referring to the Frankfurt School project of pursuing liberation in the context of the power structures that condition thought (including the thought of liberation), Critical Theory has subsequently come to mean criticism itself, which draws on, diverges from, and even rejects “theory.” Integrating political economy, sociology, psychology, and philosophy, critical theory nonetheless rejects the all-explanatory systems of these disciplines while going beyond criticism in inquiring into not only the meaning of the text but also more fundamental questions like the text’s place in the world, meaning in the world (as a text?), and the world in and through the text. This course provides an introduction to critical theory through a survey of its schools, examining its classical precursors, German origins, and seminal later developments-notably, structuralism, hermeneutics, deconstruction, historicism, postcolonialism, feminism, and posthumanism. We will focus on theories of aesthetics, political economy, the psyche, language, history, empire, race, gender, sexuality, disability, and ecology, in the process exploring the different ways that literature can be read. Authors may include Aristotle, Nietzsche, White, Marx, Horkheimer and Adorno, Benjamin, Althusser, Balibar, Arendt, Freud, Khanna, Saussure, Heidegger, Derrida, Hegel, Jameson, Greenblatt, Said, Bhabha, Anderson, Spivak, Morrison, Roediger, Day, Perez-Torres, Byrd, Irigaray, Spillers, Mohanty, Butler, Muñoz, Spade, Haraway, Nixon, and Bennett. Prerequisite: At least one ENGL course. Ideal for juniors and seniors. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for INTP Fall 2022. Cohen. Fall 2023. Ku. Fall 2024. Staff. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 081. Transgender Life Writing This course engages the work of writers who identify as transgender, asking about the relationship between intersectional transgender experience and life narrative. How has the closet typically structured narrative and subjectivity? How does transgender writing redefine ideas of character and continuity? How do narrative and intersectional gender theory form and inform one another? How do various writers configure transgendered bodies? Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 082. Transnational Feminist Theory This class introduces perspectives from domestic United States and global contexts in order to ask: How do the contributions of women of color in the United States and of feminist movements in the “Third World” radically reshape the form and content of feminist and queer politics? Through critical inquiry into major texts in transnational feminist and queer studies, the course dynamically reconceptualizes the relationship between women and nation; between gender, sexuality and globalization; and between feminist/queer theory and practice. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for GSST Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 083. On Violence A dark lexicon emerged out of the 20th century: total war, genocide, and collateral damage were new terms invented to describe “new” versions of atrocity. But does our ability to name violence mean that we understand it any better? This course explores the aesthetic and narrative structures of violence in modern fiction, film, critical theory, and law. Even as we recognize texts as pertaining to distinct modes (modernism, postmodernism, contemporary literature) we will explore how histories of colonialism and racism condition formal innovation. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 084. Human Rights and Literature: Borderzones of the Human This course examines how twentieth- and twenty-first-century narratives imagine “the human.” Shortly after the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, Hannah Arendt argued that the “right to have rights” is not, in fact, universal: in practice, rights are secured by the state. But if human rights operate within the framework of the nation-state, the problems of the contemporary moment do not. How, then, do we begin to imagine the rights-bearing human in an age of mass migrations, privatized militaries, global flows of capital, climate crises, and the world wide web? The first section of this class will be devoted to studying the ways human rights advocacy and practice has traditionally depended upon narrative structures (testimony, witnessing, reportage) and the sympathetic imagination in order to raise awareness of atrocity. The second half of the class will explore how such attempts to narrate the human face new obstacles in the twenty-first century. Course readings will include a wide array of narrative forms, from novels, memoirs, photography and film to ad campaigns, NGO reports, and Freedom Information Act requests. Primary texts will be supplemented by secondary readings (Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, Joseph Slaughter, Deborati Sanyal, and Eyal Wiezman) and by research labs that will introduce students to local and regional human rights work. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC, ESCH Spring 2024. Patnaik. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 084A. Reparations In this course, we will analyze how reparations become embraced by human rights over the course of the twentieth century as a mechanism for redressing human wrongs. We will situate reparations as they emerge in national and international contexts, including redress for Japanese-American internment during World War II, the truth commissions in Central America and post-apartheid South Africa, civilian killings during the War on Terror, and reparations for slavery within America. Expect to engage with literature, philosophy, literary and legal theory, national and international treaties, and archival sources. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 086. Theory Capstone: Thinking in Crisis (Cross-listed as HIST 090J , INTP 091 ) This course explores important works of theory, history, and fiction that were produced during (and in response to) moments of profound social, economic, and political crisis. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for INTP Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 087. American Narrative Cinema (Cross-listed as FMST 021 ) This course surveys U.S. narrative film history with an emphasis on the Hollywood studio era. We consider how genres such as the western, the melodrama, and film noir express aspirations and anxieties about race, gender, class and ethnicity in the United States. Film is understood as narrative form, audiovisual medium, industrial product, and social practice. Classical Hollywood is approached as a national cinema, illuminated by attention to independent narrative traditions (“race movies,” New Queer Cinema). 20th/21st c. Humanities 1 credit. Eligible for FMST Catalog chapter: Film and Media Studies Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment (Cross-listed as SOAN 020M , ENVS 043 ) This course explores how ideologies and structures of race, gender, sexuality, and class are embedded in and help shape our perceptions of and actions in the “environment.” Drawing on key social and cultural theories of environmental studies from anthropology, sociology, feminist analysis, and science and technology studies, we will examine some of the ways that differences in culture, power, and knowledge construct the conceptual frameworks and social policies undertaken in relation to the environment. The course draws on contemporary scholarship and social movement activism (including memoir and autobiography) from diverse national and international contexts. Topics addressed include, for example, ideas/theories of “nature,” toxic exposure and public health, environmental perception and social difference, poverty and natural resource depletion, justice and sustainability, Indigenous environmentalisms, eco-imperialism, and disparate impacts of global climate change. The course offer students opportunities for community-based learning working in partnership with local organizations. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST, ENVS, ESCH, GSST, GLBL-core Spring 2024. Di Chiro. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 089B. Environmentally Engaged Literature: Pollutants, Fossil Fuels, and Atomic Bombs (Cross-listed as ENVS 044 ) Pollutants. Fossil Fuels. Atomic Bombs. In many ways, pesticides, oil, and plutonium structure our lives; they impact our health, our politics, and may even threaten the existence of life itself. Ironically, because these materials permeate nearly every aspect of our existence, the human mind can struggle to comprehend them. In this course, we will read literature that engages with our environment to help us bring humans’ relationship to these materials into focus. Scientific, historical, and economic studies of these materials tend to focus on their scale and widespread impact. Reading poetry, plays, short stories, and novels will allow us to imagine these materials more intimately-through individual, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives. In this course, students will ask: How can literature help us to understand-and perhaps change-our material, economic, and social environments? How has our relationship to materials changed over time? How do environmental and material realities impact cultural production and imagination? Texts under discussion will likely include: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962); Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge (1991); Mark Nowak’s Coal Mountain Elementary (2009); Lesley Battler’s Endangered Hydrocarbons (2015); Andrew Bovell’s When the Rain Stops Falling (2012); Adam Dickinson’s The Polymers (2013); and two films: Hiroshima mon Amour (dir. Alain Resnais, 1959) and There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Anderson, 2007). Course requirements include active participation; a close-reading paper; an engaged assignment; and a final research paper. All students are welcome. GATEWAY English Literature. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS, ESCH Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 089E. Ecofeminism(s) (Cross-listed as ENVS 042 ) An introduction to the central themes and histories of ecofeminist theories and praxis. We will study ecological feminisms/feminist environmentalisms from global perspectives, and examine how these transdisciplinary discourses and movements develop social and cultural critiques of systems of domination, and construct alternative visions for more just and sustainable human-earth relationships. Topics include ecofeminist approaches to: human rights, environmental and climate justice, food and agriculture, animal politics, health and bodies, queer ecologies, economies of “care,” militarism and imperialism, and sustainable development. Readings and course materials draw on the works of Vandana Shiva, Donna Haraway, Laura Pulido, Octavia Butler, Joni Seager, Rachel Carson, Winona LaDuke, Julie Sze, Rosi Braidotti, Jael Silliman, Starhawk, Eli Clare, Audre Lorde, Silvia Federici, Wendy Harcourt, Betsy Hartmann, Wangari Maathai. GATEWAY English Literature. First year students need instructor’s approval. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS, INTP, GSST, ESCH, GLBL-core Spring 2023. Di Chiro. Catalog chapter: Environmental Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/environmental-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 090. Queer Media (Cross-listed as FMST 046 ) The history of avant-garde and experimental media has been intertwined with that of gender non-conformity and sexual dissidence, and even the most mainstream media forms have been queered by subcultural reception. Challenging Hollywood’s heterosexual presumption and mass media appropriations of lgbt culture, we will examine lgbt aesthetic strategies and modes of address in contexts such as the American and European avant-gardes, AIDS activism, and transnational and diasporan film through the lens of queer theory. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for GSST, INTP, DGHU Fall 2024. White. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 090A. Minor Characters and Ordinary People: New Methods in History and Literature (Cross-listed as HIST 090N ) Novels, social media, close friends, and parents help us feel like main characters in our own lives, but most of us will remain minor, relatively unimportant characters in any larger context. This course will explore the problem of the minor character and the ordinary person from the conflicting and complementary perspectives of the historians and the literary critic, using both traditional and computational methods. Are there formal analytic strategies for interpreting and examining minor characters and ordinary individuals that do not insist on moving them from the margins to the center? Or are all minor characters simply understudy protagonists and consequential people waiting for their time in the spotlight? We will trace this problem through major works of history and literature and through their transformation and interpretation using qualitative and quantitative methods. Students will create an original essay, art project or other work on a minor character or about the idea of minor character as part of the course’s final publication project. For majors and minors, this course can count either as an 18th/19th or 20th/21st century course. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 091. Feminist Film and Media Studies Cross-listed as FMST 045 This course explores theories and methods at the intersection of film and media and gender and sexuality studies, including representation and self-representation, historiography and canon formation, intersectionality and transnational politics, gender performativity and sexual dissidence, cultural production and critique. Required weekly screenings feature films and programs from a range of historical periods, national production contexts, and styles: mainstream and independent, narrative, documentary, video art, and experimental. Readings in feminist film theory will address questions of authorship and aesthetics, spectatorship and reception, image and gaze, and current media politics. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for GSST, INTP Fall 2023. White. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 092. Marxist Literary and Cultural Studies How has Marxist thought informed the study of literature and culture, and how does Marxism speak to us today? This class provides a grounding in the work of Marx and Engels and then investigates how a range of more recent writers have built upon their ideas, particularly in relation to questions about race, gender, sexuality, and late capitalism. We will try out these interpretive approaches on a selection of primary texts, including poetry, pop music, advertisements, radical newspapers, fiction, and film–some assigned and some generated by the class. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for INTP, GLBL-Core Fall 2024. Cohen. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 094. Aydelotte Seminar on Liberal Arts Education (Cross-listed as HIST 090L ) The research-intensive, partly project-based Aydelotte Seminar surveys the past and present of liberal arts education, and speculates wildly on its possible futures. Drawing on research, writing, and in-person expertise from inside and outside the academy and from across a wide range of disciplines and methods, the seminar examines how access and financial aid, curricular decisions, diversity, inequality, governance, and knowledge production play out in the context of the liberal arts institution. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ESCH Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
English Literature - Creative Writing Workshops
	ENGL 070A. Poetry Workshop This workshop emphasizes each individual’s distinctive voice within the context of contemporary poetics as students work through formal exercises and thematic experiments, reading and commenting on each other’s writing. Attendance at readings required. Limited to 12 students. Graded CR/NC. Limited to 12. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Bolton. Spring 2024. Bolton. Spring 2025. Williamson. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070B. Fiction Workshop This course is a systematic introduction to the craft of fiction writing. It will consist of in-depth analyses of selected short stories in conjunction with workshops of your own stories. Basic craft elements such as plot, character development, dialogue, imagery, voice, figurative language, and point of view will be explored. Attendance at visiting author readings is required. This course is limited to 12 Students. Enrollment is by permission. Graded CR/NC. Limited to 12. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070C. Advanced Poetry Workshop Poetry books often represent their authors’ conscious statements, made through selection, organization, and graphic presentation. In this workshop, students design and complete their own volumes. Attendance at readings required. Limited to 12 students. Graded CR/NC. Prerequisite: ENGL 070A, 070D, 070G, or 070J, or similar workshop elsewhere. Admission and credit determined by instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Staff. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070F. Fantastic Genres Workshop This course will both explore readings in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, and offer participants the opportunity to write in this territory. Selected readings in the course will, it’s hoped, broadly represent the vastly multifaceted body of literatures that collectively make up literature of the fantastic, including “extragenre” or slipstream fictions. No brief collective of novels can hope to represent the breadth of the genres; so we’ll work with a few landmark books supplemented with a lot of short fiction to give participants examples of what they might do with the fiction they compose in the latter half of the semester. Graded CR/NC. Limited to 15. Humanities 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070G. Writing Nature: Digital Storytelling (Cross-listed as ENVS 045A ) This course uses the Crum woods as a laboratory setting for the production of multimedia poems and brief memoirs. Digital stories combine spoken words with images, sound, and sometimes video to create powerful short movies. We’ll spend time grappling with some of the stories inherent in the Crum woods ecosystem as well as the multifaceted story of our relationship to the woods. The class will conclude with a public screening of work produced. Limited to 15. Humanities 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS Spring 2023. Bolton. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070H. Advanced Fiction Workshop This course is hands-on and craft-oriented and devoted primarily to student work. And, as students at this advanced stage might have an interest in learning about the publishing world, this course will allow students to explore various publication venues while also honing in on their own craft. Our classes will consist of in-depth analyses of students’ stories with some informal discussion of published, selected short stories as well as novel excerpts. Authors will be invited to answer student questions related to craft and publication in a Q&A session when possible. This course will not insist on any one school of writing. However, just as you’d find in any discipline, there are guidelines to good fiction writing, and employment of craft elements will be analyzed according to these guidelines. Students will be required to participate in class discussions of submitted manuscripts and in Q&A with visiting authors. Timely submission of all workshop stories and final portfolio will be required for credit. Attendance at readings required. Limited to 12 students. Graded CR/NC. Prerequisite: ENGL 070B or similar fiction workshop, or permission of instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Rothman-Zecher. Spring 2025. Okparanta. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070J. The Poetry Project: Research and Development Behind the poem’s eloquence, there’s often a structure (scientific, historical, philosophical, literary) supported by focused research. This course examines poetry based on research, and students explore archival resources to write poems suggested by their own researches. Attendance at readings required. Limited to 12 students. 20th/21st c. Graded CR/NC. Open to first-year students. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects Students - whether Course or Honors majors or minors – who plan a directed writing project in fiction or poetry must consult with the Director of the Program in Creative Writing and if possible with a member of the Department’s writing faculty who might supervise the project, and must submit a prospectus to the Department by way of application for such work before the beginning of the semester during which the project is actually done. The number of these ventures the Department can sponsor each year is limited. The deadline for written applications for the Directed Creative Writing Project for 2022-23 is April 19, 2022. Graded CR/NC. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Staff. Spring 2023. Staff. Fall 2023. Staff. Spring 2024. Staff. Fall 2024. Staff. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070L. Creative Writing Outreach (Cross-listed as EDUC 073 ) Where do arts, education and activism meet? In this course students will explore artistic affinities through creative writing activities and consider arts education and advocacy through diverse texts. Students will cultivate skills necessary to becoming Teaching Artists in imaginative writing at the elementary level through coursework as well as through volunteer placement in local schools. Topics covered include: creative curriculum development and presentation, educational climate for grades K-5 and teaching pedagogy. Limited to 15. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for CBL Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070N. Fiction: Episodic Novel/la Writing Workshop Sometimes a short story can be drafted in a great surge of inspiration, but a novel is a different kind of literary beast. How do we prepare ourselves to keep a story going over a hundred pages? What forms can a novel’s outlining take? What organizational tools can we use when planning a novel? What models can we draw inspiration from? This generative workshop will provide students with two organizational options of approaching their novels or novellas. Published models of each option will be read, discussed, and explored at the onset of the semester, followed by the generative in-class portion of the class, followed by the student workshop section of the semester. Reading and commenting on each other’s work will form the core of our work during the workshop section of the semester. By the end of the semester, you should have some polished excerpts from the beginning, middle, and ending of your novel or novella, if not the whole. Attendance at readings is required. Limited to 12 students. Graded CR/NC. Humanities 1 credit. Fall 2024. Okparanta. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070Q. Fiction: Writing Fantasy and Other Worlds This class will introduce students to the art and craft of writing fantastical worlds. We will engage in close readings of selected fantasy/Sci-Fi published texts by well-known writers such as Octavia Butler, Adam Johnson, N.K. Jemisin, James Tiptree, Jr., and many more. Students will be required to participate in class discussions and creative writing assignments, to be completed both in and outside of our class sessions. Students will also be required to workshop two full-length pieces of their own. Basic craft elements such as plot, setting, character development, dialogue, scenes, imagery, voice, figurative language, point of view, clarity of thought, and sociocultural significance of theme(s) will be discussed during workshops. But more importantly, the course will focus on intricate world building techniques (The Magic and Its Rules, The Goal/Quest and the Obstacle in Its Way, The Unique Inhabitants, Naming Names, Movement of Time & Age, and Defining the Landscape). Attendance at readings required. Limited to 12 students. Graded CR/NC. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Okparanta. Spring 2024. Okparanta. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070R. River Stories (Cross-listed as ENVS 045B ) The Delaware River is the longest free-flowing river east of the Mississippi: it is also a repository of American history, from Washington’s midnight crossing during the Revolutionary War through Indian massacres through the era of pollution and the effects of the Clean Water Act. Twelve upper-class students will have the opportunity to spend time on the river before the start of the semester: we’ll take 7-10 days to canoe and/or kayak, camp, explore ecosystems and natural history, visit water treatment centers, write, and gather media (photos, video, sound files). In addition to a traditional English paper and a research essay on environmental issues affecting the Delaware River, students will keep field journals and write poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction prose. One or more of these creative pieces will be turned into a digital story; several will be added to a communal memory map of the Delaware. Graded CR/NC. Limited to 12. Eligible for ENVS, ESCH Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070T. Translation Workshop (Cross-listed as RUSS 070 , LING 070 , LITR 070R ) This workshop in literary translation will concentrate on both theory and practice, working in poetry, prose, and drama as well as editing. Students will participate in an associated series of bilingual readings and will produce a substantial portfolio of work. Students taking the course for linguistics credit will write a final paper supported by a smaller portfolio of translations. No prerequisites exist, but excellent knowledge of a language other than English (equivalent to a 004 course at Swarthmore or higher) is highly recommended or, failing that, access to at least one very patient speaker of a foreign language. Humanities 1 Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070U. Fiction: Life As Inspiration This class will focus on making fiction out of life experiences. We will engage in close readings of selected published texts by contemporary writers, looking at their biographies and the possible real life influences and inspirations for their fiction. Students will be required to participate in class discussions and creative writing assignments, to be completed both in and outside of our class sessions. Students will also be required to workshop at least two full-length pieces of their own. Basic craft elements such as plot, narrative arc, setting, character development, dialogue, scenes, imagery, voice, figurative language, point of view, clarity of thought, and sociocultural significance of theme(s) will be discussed during workshops. Attendance at readings required. Limited to 12 students. Graded CR/NC. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2023. Okparanta. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070V. Memory into Memoir This workshop will focus on memoir: prose writing based on personal history. In our practice we will pursue the art and craft of transforming the raw material of recollected experience into written narrative. Students will explore creative techniques including approach, research, organization, and stylistic concerns, with the aim of producing a polished original memoir project. The larger conversation in the course will address issues ranging from definitions of memoir, the ethical obligations of memoirists, the emotional weight of sharing personal writing, and the place of memoir in the literary marketplace. The majority of class time will be devoted to discussion of participants’ ongoing work. In addition, students will be expected to read widely from selected memoirs by authors ranging from Augustine to Akwaeke Emezi. At the end of term, students will submit a final portfolio of their revised work. Graded CR/NC. Limited to 12. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070W. Writing the Short Story Short story writing is arguably the most challenging of all fiction writing. This class focuses on the craft of writing short stories and breaks down the story into elements such as: character, dialogue, plot, point of view, and structure. Students will be required to read and discuss fiction by major writers, to critique each other’s work, and to write and revise at least one short story. Graded CR/NC. Limited to 12. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070X. Experiments in Nonfiction What are the personal and political stakes of writing from life? This workshop is for students interested in exploring non-fiction beyond conventional memoir. From lyric essays to critical life-writing, from hybrid journalism to conceptual writing, students will read and experiment with new forms as well as discuss each other’s work. Students will focus on contemporary writers like Anne Carson, John D’Agata, Claudia Rankine, and Maggie Nelson, while also hearing from other voices gleaned from antiquity to the present. Graded CR/NC. Limited to 15. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 070Z. Introduction to Creative Writing This multi-genre course will spend one intensive week focusing on each of the following genres: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Class will consist of readings and discussions of works by contemporary, renowned published writers, and “in-class” writing exercises based on writing prompts. The course will also include workshopping of individual student work in each genre. By the end of the semester, you will have a writer’s portfolio as well as a basic grasp of the elements of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Attendance at readings required. Limited to 12 students. Graded CR/NC. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
English Literature - Independent Study, Method, and Culminating Exercises
	ENGL 097. Independent Study and Directed Reading Students who plan an independent study or a directed reading must consult with the appropriate instructor and submit a prospectus before the semester in question. Normally limited to juniors and seniors and available only if a professor is free to supervise the project. 0.5 - 1 credit. Fall 2023. Staff. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 098. Senior Thesis Course majors may pursue a thesis for 1 (40-50 pages) or 2 (80-100 pages) credits. A proposal for the project must be submitted in April of the junior year. Before submitting this proposal, course majors must consult with a prospective faculty supervisor. This work does not replace ENGL 099 , required of every course major. Available only if a professor is available to supervise the project. 1 - 2 credits. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 099. Senior Course Majors Colloquium This colloquium is open to senior course majors in English Literature. Focusing on the senior essay required to complete the major, this class features guest lectures by faculty and critical readings on literary theory and methodology. Short writing assignments in this class will build towards the senior essay, as students work in peer-centered environments as well as individually with the instructor. Students will complete their senior essays by the end of the fall semester. See professor to establish credit category. Prerequisite: ENGL 096 or ENGL 080 Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Song. Spring 2024. Staff. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
English Literature - Honors Seminars
	ENGL 101. Shakespeare Study of Shakespeare as a dramatist. The emphasis is on the major plays, with a more rapid reading of much of the remainder of the canon. Students are advised to read widely among the plays before entering the seminar. Med/Ren Humanities. 2 credits. Fall 2023. Johnson. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 102. Chaucer and Medieval Literature A study of medieval English literature with an emphasis on Chaucer. Texts will include Beowulf, Old English poems, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, Margery Kempe’s autobiography, selected mystery plays and Everyman, and Arthurian materials. Some works will be in Middle English; others, in translation. Med/Ren Humanities. 2 credits. Eligible for MDST Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 111. Victorian Literature and Culture This research-intensive seminar on the Victorian novel as a genre and a material object asks how literature can be both product and producer of its historical moment. Readings include novels by authors like George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, and Margaret Oliphant. 18th/19th c. Humanities. 2 credits. Eligible for INTP Fall 2022. Buurma. Fall 2023. Buurma. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 114. Early American Media Cultures This course borrows some of the methods of new media studies to look anew at the multimedia culture of the 18th- and 19th-century United States. We will study newspapers, maps, wampum, photographs, songbooks, advertisements, and counterfeit money, alongside literary texts that thematize this rich media culture. 18th/19th c. Humanities. 2 credits. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 116. Redefining US Southern Literature (Cross-listed as BLST 116 ) Our focus this year will be on the long, grand, and problematic tradition of U.S. Southern literature especially fiction in both comic and tragic modes as it developed after the Civil War to the present. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 2 credits. Spring 2023. Schmidt. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 117. Theories and Literatures of Globalization This seminar examines the literary and cultural dimensions of globalization. Pairing novels and short stories by major global writers with ethnographic and historical texts, we will examine the relationship between colonialism and postcolonialism; modernity and globalization; racial formation and the nation-state. By developing a critical engagement with theories of identity and difference, we will explore the ways in which global literatures engender new politics of nationalism, race, and sexuality. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 2 credits. Eligible for GLBL-core Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 118. Modern Poetry A study of the poetry and critical prose of Yeats, Eliot, Stevens, and H.D., in an effort to define their differences within the practice of “modernism” and to assess their significance for contemporary poetic practice. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 2 credits. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 119. Black Cultural Studies How have black writers both represented and theorized a series of tensions characterizing African American culture since the end of slavery-between past and present, roots and routes, folk and modern, sound and vision, city and country, nation and diaspora, culture and capital, people and power? Motivated by such concerns, this seminar will examine approaches to African American literature that are historical, cultural, and theoretical. Prior work in African American literature and/or Black Studies is recommended. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 2 credits. Eligible for BLST Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 121. Modernism and Forgetting This course is an advanced research seminar on the literatures, cultures, and theories of modernism. Central questions include: How do aspects of psychic life, such as mourning and trauma, exert pressure on literary form? Why do memory’s material traces (the archive, the photograph) enthrall the modernist imagination? What ethical or political values attend literary projects of remembering? Of forgetting? We will situate modernist literary practice alongside psychoanalytic, postcolonial, queer, and feminist critique. 20th/21st c. Humanities. 2 credits. Eligible for INTP, GLBL-Core Spring 2023. Patnaik. Fall 2024. Patnaik. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
English Literature - Honors Thesis and Independent Study
	ENGL 180. Thesis A major in the Honors Program may, with department permission, elect to write a thesis as a substitute for one seminar. The student must select a topic and submit a plan for department approval no later than the end of the junior year. Normally, the student writes the thesis of 80 to 100 pages, under the direction of a member of the department. The 2-credit thesis project may take place over 1 or 2 semesters. 1 - 2 credits. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGL 183. Independent Study Students may prepare for an honors examination in a field or major figure comparable in literary significance to those offered in the regular seminars. Independent study projects must be approved by the department and supervised by a department member. Deadlines for the receipt of written applications are the second Monday in November and the first Monday in April. 2 credits. Catalog chapter: English Literature Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Engineering
	ENGR 003. Problems in Technology For students not majoring in science or engineering, this course will concentrate on the automobile and its impact on society. Class time will cover the principles of operation of vehicles and student lead discussions on related technical, political, social, and economic issues. Possible laboratory topics include evaluating alternative power systems (e.g., solar, hydrogen, and electric); investigating alternative fuels; and understanding existing automotive components. Enrollment is limited. Usually offered in alternate years. Natural sciences and engineering practicum. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS, GLBL-core Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 004A. Environmental Protection This course covers fundamentals of analysis for environmental problems in the areas of water pollution, air pollution, solid and hazardous wastes, water and energy supply, and resource depletion, with an emphasis on technological solutions. Topics include scientific concepts necessary to understand local and global pollution problems, pollution control and renewable energy technologies, public policy developments related to regulation of pollutants, and methods of computer-based systems analysis for developing economically effective environmental protection policies. ENGR 004A may not be used to fulfill the requirements for the engineering major or minor. Natural sciences and engineering. 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS, ESCH and GLBL - Core. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 006. Mechanics This course covers fundamental areas of statics and dynamics. Elementary concepts of deformable bodies are explored, including stress-strain relations, flexure, torsion, and internal pressure. Laboratory work includes a MATLAB workshop, experiments on deformable bodies, and a truss-bridge team design competition. Prerequisite: MATH 015 is required. PHYS 003 is strongly recommended. Natural sciences and engineering practicum. Lab required. 1 credit. Spring 2023. O’Donnell, Towles. Spring 2024. O’Donnell, Towles. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 007. Art and Engineering of Structures This introduction to the basic principles of structural analysis and design includes an emphasis on the historical development of modern structural engineering. It is suitable for students planning to study architecture or architectural history, or who have an interest in structures. This course includes a laboratory and is designed for students not majoring in engineering. Usually offered in alternate years. Natural sciences and engineering. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL - Core. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 009. Engineering and Scientific Applications of Calculus This half-credit course will focus on mathematical applications of single variable calculus, mainly from engineering and physics; it may also include some examples from other sciences if there is student interest. In addition, ENGR 009 will include a review of relevant pre-calculus topics. It is designed to give capable and hard-working students the best chance to excel in calculus, and is recommended for students who are interested in real-world contexts where calculus is used, including (but not limited to) potential science and engineering majors. The course will meet twice weekly for a total of 2.5 hours, and have little outside work associated with it. Most of the time in class will be spent solving problems and doing group work. ENGR 009 may not be used to fulfill the requirements for the engineering major or minor, and is available only to students taking MATH 015 concurrently. 0.5 credit. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 010. Fundamentals of Food Engineering In this course, we will study the scientific principles that will enable students to understand why a variety of ingredients, recipes, and cooking processes function the way they do, and why they sometimes don’t work as well as expected. The course will include lectures, demonstrations, and laboratory exercises. There are no prerequisites for this course, and it is open to all students, but it cannot be used to fulfill the requirements for a major or a minor in engineering. Natural sciences and engineering practicum. Lab required. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL - Core. Spring 2023. Molter. Spring 2025. Molter. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 011. Electrical Circuit Analysis The analysis of electrical circuits is introduced, including resistors, capacitors, inductors, op-amps, and diodes. The student will learn to develop linear differential equations to model electrical circuits, and to solve them for voltages and currents. Solutions will be formulated both in the time domain and in the frequency domain. Prerequisite: Corequisite: MATH 025 or its equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Natural sciences and engineering practicum. This course includes a laboratory. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Molter, Piovoso. Fall 2023. Molter, Piovoso. Fall 2024. Staff. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 012. Linear Physical Systems Analysis Engineering phenomena that may be represented by linear, lumped-parameter models are studied. This course builds on the mathematical techniques learned in ENGR 011 and applies them to a broad range of linear systems, such as those in the mechanical, thermal, fluid, and electromechanical domains. Techniques used include Laplace Transforms, Fourier analysis, and Eigenvalue/Eigenvector methods. Both transfer function and state-space representations of systems are studied. Prerequisite: ENGR 011 or the equivalent or permission of the instructor. Natural sciences and engineering practicum. Lab required. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Towles, Moser. Spring 2024. Towles, Ganapati. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 014. Experimentation for Engineering Design Students are introduced to measurement systems, instruments, probability, statistical analysis, measurement errors, and their use in experimental design, planning, execution, data reduction, and analysis. Techniques of hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and single and multivariable linear regression are covered. Prerequisite: MATH 025 or equivalent or permission of the instructor. Natural sciences and engineering practicum. Writing course Lab required. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Piovoso, Plata. Spring 2024. Piovoso, Staff. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 015. Fundamentals of Digital and Embedded Systems This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of digital and embedded systems. Digital topics covered will include Boolean algebra, binary arithmetic, digital representation of data, gates, and truth tables. Students will also learn basic programming skills, and apply those skills to build embedded systems. Embedded topics include the link between hardware and software, analog to digital and digital to analog systems, and an introduction to actuators (LED’s, speakers, servo motors, etc.) and sensors (buttons, accelerometers, microphones, etc.). In the laboratory students will implement a variety of systems with physical inputs and outputs. The course concludes with a self-chosen project. Natural sciences and engineering practicum. This course includes a laboratory. 1 credit. Eligible for DGHU Fall 2022. Delano, Phillips. Fall 2023. Delano, Zucker. Fall 2024. Staff. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 019. Numerical Methods for Engineering Applications (Cross-listed as MATH 024 ) This course is geared towards students who want to know how to transform a set of equations on a page into a working computer program. Potential topics include root finding, discrete and continuous optimization, gradient descent, solution of linear systems, finite element methods, and machine learning. We will also discuss how real numbers are represented by computers, especially insofar as they affect precision and accuracy of calculations. Techniques will be applied in a series of projects focused on engineering applications. Prerequisite: MATH 025 or its equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Natural sciences and engineering practicum. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Moser, Zucker. Fall 2023. Ganapati, Staff. Fall 2024. Staff. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 022. Operating Systems (Cross-listed as CPSC 045 ) Natural sciences and engineering practicum. Lab required. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 023. Compilers (Cross-listed as CPSC 075 ) Natural sciences and engineering practicum. Spring 2023. Palmer. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 025. Principles of Computer Architecture (Cross-listed as CPSC 052 ) This course covers the physical and logical design of a computer. Topics include current microprocessors, CPU design, RISC and CISC, pipelining, superscalar processing, caching, virtual memory, assembly and machine language, and multiprocessors. Labs cover performance analysis via simulation and microprocessor design using CAD tools. Prerequisite: ENGR 015 , CPSC 031 , or CPSC 035 Natural sciences and engineering practicum. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Delano. Spring 2025. Delano. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 026. Computer Graphics (Cross-listed as CPSC 040 ) Natural sciences and engineering practicum. Lab required. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ENGR 027. Computer Vision (Cross-listed as CPSC 072 ) Computer vision studies how computers can analyze and perceive the world using input from imaging devices. Topics include line and region extraction, stereo vision, motion analysis, color and reflection models, and object representation and recognition. The course will focus on object recognition and detection, introducing the tools of computer vision in support of building an automatic object recognition and classification system. Labs will involve implementing both offline and real-time object recognition and classification systems. Prerequisite: Either ENGR 019 or ENGR 056 , or permission of the instructor. MATH 027 or MATH 028 is recommended. Natural sciences and engineering practicum. 1 credit. Eligible for COGS. Spring 2023. Phillips. Spring 2024. Zucker. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Engineering Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/engineering Access the class schedule to search for sections.

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ENGL 047E. Southeast Asian Literature in Translation

ENGL 049. Contemporary Irish Poetry

ENGL 050D. Literature and Art on the US-Mexico Border

ENGL 052A. U.S. Fiction, 1900-1950

ENGL 052B. U.S. Fiction, 1945 to the Present

ENGL 052C. Contemporary US Fiction, 1990 to the Present

ENGL 052D. Twenty-First Century Narrative

ENGL 052M. Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City and Queer Pasts and Futures

ENGL 053. Modern American Poetry

ENGL 053R. Research Topics in U.S. Literature

ENGL 054. Toni Morrison

ENGL 058. Climate Fiction

ENGL 062. Classic Black Autobiography

ENGL 063. Contemporary Black Autobiography

ENGL 064B. Black Renaissance and Resistance

ENGL 064C. Black Protest and Possibility

ENGL 064D. Soul Power

ENGL 065. Asian American Literature

ENGL 066. In/Visible: Asian American Cultural Critique

ENGL 067. James Baldwin’s Civil Rights

ENGL 068. Black Culture in a “Post-Soul” Era

ENGL 069. Reconstructing US Culture 1866 to 1900

ENGL 071D. The Short Story in the U.S.

ENGL 071E. Ecopoetry and the Climate Crisis

ENGL 071K. Lesbian Novels Since World War II

ENGL 071S. Contemporary Life Writing: Form and Theory

ENGL 072. Global Modernisms: Anticolonial Modernism

ENGL 074A. Global South Literature

ENGL 074B. U.S. Empire Literature

ENGL 076. The World, the Text, and the Critic

ENGL 077. South Asians in America

ENGL 078. Modernism

ENGL 078B. Modernist Narrative

ENGL 078P. Make it New: Modernism and International Experimentation

ENGL 079. What is Cultural Studies?

ENGL 079P. Sanctuary.

ENGL 080. Introduction to Literary Theory

ENGL 081. Transgender Life Writing

ENGL 082. Transnational Feminist Theory

ENGL 083. On Violence

ENGL 084. Human Rights and Literature: Borderzones of the Human

ENGL 084A. Reparations

ENGL 086. Theory Capstone: Thinking in Crisis

ENGL 087. American Narrative Cinema

ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment

ENGL 089B. Environmentally Engaged Literature: Pollutants, Fossil Fuels, and Atomic Bombs

ENGL 089E. Ecofeminism(s)

ENGL 090. Queer Media

ENGL 090A. Minor Characters and Ordinary People: New Methods in History and Literature

ENGL 091. Feminist Film and Media Studies

ENGL 092. Marxist Literary and Cultural Studies

ENGL 094. Aydelotte Seminar on Liberal Arts Education

ENGL 070A. Poetry Workshop

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ENGL 070C. Advanced Poetry Workshop

ENGL 070F. Fantastic Genres Workshop

ENGL 070G. Writing Nature: Digital Storytelling

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ENGL 070J. The Poetry Project: Research and Development

ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects

ENGL 070L. Creative Writing Outreach

ENGL 070N. Fiction: Episodic Novel/la Writing Workshop

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ENGL 070R. River Stories

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ENGL 070X. Experiments in Nonfiction

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ENGL 101. Shakespeare

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ENGL 111. Victorian Literature and Culture

ENGL 114. Early American Media Cultures

ENGL 116. Redefining US Southern Literature

ENGL 117. Theories and Literatures of Globalization