PEAC 094. Special Topics: Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary

In this half-credit engaged scholarship course, students will learn about historical and contemporary refugees through a variety of methods, including readings, archival research, and co-creation. As part of the course, students will participate with resettled Iraqis and Syrians and Swarthmore faculty and staff in a series of artist-led workshops in which participants will co-create a graphic novella. The course will include discussions and written reflections based on the readings and workshops. This course is tied to Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary, a two-year project funded by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage that brings renowned book artists into conversation with Syrian and Iraqi individuals who have resettled to Philadelphia. Students will be working with and learning directly from project collaborators, and their work may be shared publicly on the Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary website and may also be published or exhibited in Spring 2019.
Graded CR/NC.
Limited to five students, by permission of instructors.
Non-distribution.
0.5 credit.
Eligible for PEAC
Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies

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