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Chinese
  

  • CHIN 081. Transcending the Mundane: Taoism in Chinese Literature and Culture

    Chinese civilization has been imbued with Taoism for some 2.5 millennia, from popular belief and custom to intellectual and literary culture. In addition to consideration of the texts and contexts of both philosophical and religious Taoism, the class will examine the articulation and role of Taoism in Chinese literature and culture and the enduring implications of the Taoist ethos. All readings will be in English.
    Prerequisite: One introductory course on Chinese culture or religion or permission of the instructor.
    (Cross-listed as LITR 081CH )
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/chinese
    Modern Languages and Literatures: Chinese  


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  • CHIN 090. Practicum in Bridging Swarthmore and Local Chinese Communities

    Students will engage in directed projects in local Chinese communities under the supervision of the instructor. The projects will concern tutoring and translation or other social services within the immigrant groups. Fieldwork will be tied to theoretical and applied academic learning and will foster intercultural understanding and intellectual growth. A final written project will be required for credit. Speakers of any Chinese language/dialects are particularly welcome, as are students of Chinese language and others who wish to develop their interest in this area. Credit is awarded CR/NC.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/chinese
    Modern Languages and Literatures: Chinese  


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  • CHIN 091. Special Topics in Chinese Literature and Culture in Translation: Dancing Across Borders; the Body, Aesthetics and Ideologies in 20th-Century China

    This course uses dance as a unique artistic and theoretical prism to analyze the complex interplay among the body, aesthetics, and ideologies in 20th-century China. The goal of the course is to familiarize the students with the transnational and transcultural context within which modern dance was first introduced into China from the West via Japan, and to show the students how to situate the evolving trajectory of dance in China in the power struggles among competing political agendas, aesthetics, ideologies, and art forms. This course teaches the basic methods to read, reconstruct, and analyze dance works. The reading materials are all in English.
    Eligible for ASIA credit.
    (Cross-listed as LITR 091CH )
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/chinese
    Modern Languages and Literatures: Chinese  


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Chinese - Seminars
  

  • CHIN 103. Lu Xun and His Legacy in 20th- Century China

    This seminar is focused on topics concerning modernity, political/social change, gender, and morality through close examination of intellectuals’ responses to the chaotic era reflected in their literature writings in 20th-century China. Literary forms, styles, and changing aesthetic principles are also included for discussion. Literary texts, chosen from Lu Xun to Gao Xingjian, will be analyzed in a social and historical context. All texts are in English translation, and the seminar is conducted in English.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/chinese
    Modern Languages and Literatures: Chinese  


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  • CHIN 104. Chinese Poetry

    This seminar will explore Chinese poetry throughout ancient and imperial China. We will read and discuss a good many of the most renowned poems and poets, and trace the immutable role of poetry in Chinese traditional culture. We will learn how to read a Chinese poem, investigate predominant styles and genres, and trace texts and writers in context. And we will follow the development and significance of themes and imagery, examine the formulation of a literary aesthetics, and savor the telling of stories and the expression of feeling and philosophy through the medium of poetry. Readings will be in English, with many poems also explicated through the original Chinese. No knowledge of Chinese is required, but previous background in some aspect of Chinese literature, history, and culture will be helpful.
    2 credits.
    Fall 2014. Berkowitz.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/chinese
    Modern Languages and Literatures: Chinese  


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  • CHIN 105. Fiction in Traditional China: People and Places, Journeys, and Romances

    In this seminar, we will explore the most celebrated and influential examples of novelistic literature in traditional, pre-modern China. We will look at these extended, elaborate writings in terms of overt structure and content as well as backgrounded literary and cultural material, and we will address their production and consumption in literati and popular contexts. We also will consider these writings in terms of the formulation of enduring cultural contours of allegory and lyricism, individual and society, aesthetics and emotion, imagination and realism, heroism and valor.
    All readings will be in English translation.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/chinese
    Modern Languages and Literatures: Chinese  


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  • CHIN 108. The Remaking of Cinematic China: Zhang Yimou, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee

    The seminar focuses on three leading filmmakers, Zhang Yimou, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee, and their cinematic products, which have not only won international praises but also fundamentally reconstructed the national cinemas. We will explore their impact on the formation of the new wave of Chinese-language cinemas since the mid-1980s and its recent new developments by examining all possible aspects in the context of social and cultural change.
    2 credits.
    Spring 2015. Kong.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/chinese
    Modern Languages and Literatures: Chinese  


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  • CHIN 109. Daoism

    This seminar will look at the texts and contexts of both philosophical and religious Daoism, from intellectual and literary culture to popular belief and custom. It will explore the ways of Daoism from early into modern times: texts and contexts; sectarian religion and individual praxis; cultural taproot and personal mindset; cosmology and alchemy; gods, saints, priests, and recluses; aesthetics and the arts.
    Eligible for ASIA credit.
    All readings will be in English.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/chinese
    Modern Languages and Literatures: Chinese  


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  • CHIN 110. Beijing and Shanghai: Tale of Two Cities

    This seminar focuses on the culture and urban history of China’s two major cities: Beijing-the capital of both imperial and post-1949 China-and Shanghai-one of the earliest treaty ports open to the West and the center of today’s Chinese economy. Through comparative analyses of urban planning, fiction about, and film of the two cities, we will examine the significance of these two distinct yet connected urban cultures in modern and contemporary China. The students are encouraged to develop a research project comparing the two cities, using either Chinese or English-language sources. This course is open to all students above the first year who have finished previous coursework in Chinese literature, film, art, urban studies or history, or have permission of the instructor. The required course readings and all discussions will be in English.
    Eligible for ASIA credit.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/chinese
    Modern Languages and Literatures: Chinese  


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Classical Studies
  

  • CLST 013. First-Year Seminar: Mythology

    This course examines selected myths in such major works of Greek and Latin literature as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Specific texts and images are treated both as individual stories and in relation to other texts and images that tell the same mythological tale. Primary texts are supplemented by modern theoretical readings in gender, psychology, and literary theory.
    Humanities.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics  


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  • CLST 014. First-Year Seminar: Mystery Religions and the Greek Philosophers

    What do ancient mystery religions teach us about spiritual transformation and contact with the divine? What were the secret rites of these religions? How do their mythological themes have universal value? Why are the language and themes of mystery traditions so central to the philosophical thought of Parmenides, Empedocles, and Plato? This seminar will study texts associated with Orphism, Pythagoreanism, the Eleusinian and Dionysian mystery cults, Isis and Osiris, and Presocratic and Platonic philosophy. Readings may include The Homeric Hymn to Demeter; Euripides’ Bacchae; fragments of Parmenides and Empedocles; the Derveni Papyrus; Plato’s Phaedo, Symposium, and Phaedrus; and Apuleius’ Golden Ass. Topics discussed will include cosmology, mystical knowledge/ascent; philosophical method; allegorical interpretation; immortality of the soul; archetypal figures of mother/daughter and rebirth.
    Humanities.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics  


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  • CLST 015. First-Year Seminar: Dante

    With Virgil, Beatrice, and Dante-poet as guides, we shall follow the Pilgrim on a journey of despair, hope, and redemption. We shall read the Divine Comedy in its entirety, teasing out the poem’s different levels of meaning and reconstructing Dante’s world view in the context of Medieval culture: his thought on life, death, love, art, politics, history and God.
    Humanities.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics  


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  • CLST 019. First-Year Seminar: The Birth of Comedy

    This course investigates the origins of comedy and satire in classical antiquity. In addition to plays by Aristophanes, Plautus, and Terence, and satirical poetry by Archilochus, Hipponax, Horace, and Juvenal, we will also explore the very idea of the “origins of comedy” from diverse perspectives. Questions about what motivates satirists to attack the behavior of their contemporaries and speculation about the quasi-religious roots of mockery have been fertile and contested areas of inquiry for centuries. We will read numerous thinkers (ancient and modern) who have proposed theories of the origins of comedy, including Aristotle, Freud, Bakhtin, Bergson, and Francis Cornford. And we will also encounter more recent comedians’ reflections on their own birth and origins, including performers such as Richard Pryor, Howard Stern, Tina Fey, Louis CK, Sarah Silverman, Jon Stewart, and Lenny Bruce.
    Humanities.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Lefkowitz.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • CLST 020. Plato and His Modern Readers

    Plato’s dialogues are complex works that require literary as well as philosophical analysis. While our primary aim will be to develop interpretations of the dialogues themselves, we will also view Plato through the lens of various modern and postmodern interpretations (e.g., Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Jung, Foucault, Irigaray, Rorty, Lacan, Nussbaum, Vlastos).
    Humanities.
    Writing course.
    (Cross-listed as PHIL 020 )
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Ledbetter.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • CLST 025. Greek Myth in Opera and Ballet

    Greek myths have provided the subject matter for some of the most important and pivotal works in the history of opera and ballet. Just as Greek myth informs these arts, so too, opera and ballet transform these myths and the way they are viewed by modern audiences. New and daring productions of classical operas continue to transform both Greek mythology and its operatic incarnations. George Balanchine’s Neoclassicism modernized ballet radically in the 20th century by drawing largely on Greek myth and classical aesthetic structures. In this course, we will study the relevant primary classical sources for operas and ballets such as Handel’s Xerxes, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Berlioz’s Les Troyens, Strauss’s Electra, Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, Balanchine’s Apollo, Agon, and Orpheus. At the same time, we will study the operas and ballets themselves in their cultural context, and in the course of their performance history, paying special attention to recent productions.
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics  


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  • CLST 036. Classical Mythology

    What is a myth? How is myth different from fairy tale or fable? What is its connection to ritual and religion? What sets myth apart from history? In this survey of the mythology of Greco-Roman antiquity, we will investigate the diverse meanings of ‘myth’, its social functions, its origins, its history, and its contemporary relevance. Students will get a broad overview of Classical mythology through direct and close readings of primary sources (all in English translation), including such texts as Homer’s Odyssey, plays by all three of the major Greek tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides), and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Our readings of ancient texts will be supplemented by study of ancient art and frequent investigations of modern responses to and theorizing of myth in diverse fields and media, including sociological, psychological, and philosophical treatises; modern poetry; visual arts; and film.
    Humanities.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Lefkowitz.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics  


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  • CLST 040. Visions of Rome

    This course provides an overview of cinematic responses to the idea of Rome, ancient and modern, city and empire, place and idea, from the silent era to the present day. We will spend some time comparing films set in Rome to ancient and modern representations of the eternal city in literary and other visual media. But our primary focus will be on the ways in which cinematic visions of Rome reflect evolving cultural, political, and social conditions on both sides of the Atlantic. Specific topics to be explored include the popularity of classical themes in early silent films; Rome on screen during the rise and fall of fascism; neorealism and the shifting landscape of the city; the politics of Hollywood epics; and the dialectic between conceptions of antiquity and modernity as reflected in cinema. Screenings of films by major Italian and Anglophone filmmakers, including Pastrone, DeMille, Rossellini, Visconti, Wyler, Pasolini, Fellini, Virzì, and other major directors. Readings of texts by Petronius, Juvenal, Byron, Hawthorne, Dickens, Freud, Yourcenar, Rohmer, Calvino, and Barthes.
    Humanities.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • CLST 060. Dante’s Divine Comedy

    We shall study the entire work and journey with the Pilgrim through the three realms of the world beyond. Special attention will be devoted to Dante’s re-reading of previous texts, from the Latin classics to the burgeoning vernacular literatures of his own time. We shall also attempt to reconstruct Dante’s world view in the context of Medieval culture: his thoughts on life, death, love, art, politics, history, his personal story, and God.
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • CLST 098. Senior Course Study

    Independent study taken normally in the spring of senior year by course majors. Students will prepare for a graded oral exam held in the spring with department faculty. The exam will be based on any two-credit unit of study within the major (Honors seminar or course plus attachment), with students submitting their final exam and a paper, which can be revised.
    0.5 credit.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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Classics - Honors Seminars and Capstone Seminars
  

  • CLST 094. Ancient Drama in Performance

    What does it mean to study the performance of plays that were composed and staged more than two thousand years ago? How is this approach different from simply reading the texts? Focusing on Greek and Roman tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays (all of which we will read in English translation), we will examine approaches to ancient drama that emphasize its performance, including historical and cultural conditions; the physical realities of ancient theaters; staging conventions; acting and actors; and the various ways in which Greek and Roman plays are continually rediscovered and reinvented through modern performances on stage and screen.
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • CLST 104. Classical Studies Seminar: Ancient Storytelling and Fiction

    This course will explore the origins, uses and genres of ancient Greek and Latin narratives in prose. We will be reading (in English translation) different types of fables, specimens of anecdotes, novelle, and myths embedded in the works of Herodotus, Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch and others, as well as the first representatives of the Westsern genre of the novel, such as the works of Petronius, Apuleius, Chariton, and Longus. With the help of narratological theory and parallels with modern narratives, we will especially pay attention to the voice of the narrator, the character of the narrate as inscribed in the text, and the different discourse techniques used for creating a narrative. We will also explore the ways in which a narrative advertises itself as a fiction, a piece of history, or a parable, and learn to recognize a narrative’s rhetorical purpose and the more or less covert message it intends to convey.
    Humanities.
    2 credits.
    Spring 2015. Munson.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics  


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  • GREK 115. Greek Lyric Poetry

    This seminar will focus on the development of archaic Greek elegy (Archilochus, Tyrtaeus, Solon, Xenophanes, Semonides, Theognis) monodic lyric (Sappho, Alcaeus, Anacreaon, and Simonides) and choral lyric (Pindar and Bacchylides), paying particular attention to lyric’s dialogue with the epic tradition, the so-called rise of the individual, political and performative contexts, and modern interpretive approaches.
    Humanities.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • LATN 102. The Roman Emperors

    This seminar explores Latin authors of the first and second centuries, with particular attention to their responses to the social and political structures of the period. Expressed attitudes toward the emperors range from adulation to spite, but the seminar concentrates on authors who fall somewhere in between, writing skeptically or subversively. Both prose writers (e.g., Tacitus, Suetonius, and Pliny) and poets (e.g., Lucan, Seneca, and Juvenal) may be included.
    Humanities.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • LATN 105. The Fall of the Roman Republic

    This seminar examines Latin texts from the traumatic period of the Late Republic (70-40 B.C.E.). It focuses on the social and political crisis of the period as well as its connections with the artistic and philosophical achievements of the first great period of Latin literature. Authors may include Lucretius, Catullus, Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust.
    Humanities.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • LATN 106. Tacitus

    The seminar will read extensive excerpts from the Annals of Tacitus, usually including at least one complete book. Additional readings from the Histories and the Agricola may also be included. The principal questions addressed will include: Tacitus’ accuracy and objectivity as a historian, the importance of rhetorical techniques on Tacitus’ language and narrative, and the question of his attitude to particular emperors (Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian, and Domitian). Above all we will consider the question of Tacitus’ ideas about the imperial system of government: to what extent did he think Romans should resist monarchy or tyranny, and to what extent should they adjust their morality to accommodate it?
    Humanities.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • LATN 107. Horace

    The seminar emphasizes the Odes and Epodes and their place in the tradition of Greek and Roman lyric poetry. Attention is also given to the Satires and Epistles, including the Ars Poetica, and to their importance for the history of satire and literary criticism. An effort is made to grasp the totality of Horace’s achievement in the context of the Augustan Age.
    Humanities.
    Writing course.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • LATN 108. Roman Comedy

    This seminar is devoted to Plautus and Terence, whose adaptations of Greek plays are among the oldest surviving works of Latin literature. The primary focus will be on close study of the language and structure of the plays, but students will also become familiar with a range of critical and theoretical approaches to comedy. Specific topics to be explored include the production and performance of ancient drama; the Roman appropriation of Greek literary genres; representations of slaves, prostitutes, and other marginal figures on the comic stage; and the influence of Roman Comedy on post-classical European drama.
    Humanities.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • LATN 110. Roman Rhetoric

    This seminar will focus on Roman rhetoric. We will read speeches delivered in the Roman Senate, before the popular assembly, or before juries. The principal author will be Cicero, but we will also read discussions of rhetorical theory and practice, both ancient and modern. In addition, students will have the opportunity to explore a number of topics related to ancient oratory and rhetoric, including (among others) public performance; theories of persuasion; the relationship between rhetoric and Roman law; Roman (and Greek) education practices; and the enduring influence of ancient rhetoric and oratory in the contemporary world.
    Humanities.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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Cognitive Science
  

  • COGS 001. Introduction to Cognitive Science

    An introduction to the science of the mind from the perspective of cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. The course introduces students to the scientific investigation of such questions as the following: What does it mean to think or to have consciousness? Can a computer have a mind? What does it mean to have a concept? What is language? What kinds of explanations are necessary to explain cognition?
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Durgin, Sikos.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/cognitive-science
    Cognitive Science 


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Computer Science
  

  • CPSC 021. Introduction to Computer Science

    This course presents fundamental ideas in computer science while building skills in software development. Students implement algorithms as programs in a high-level programming language. Introducing object-oriented programming and data structures allows students to construct correct, understandable, and efficient algorithms. CPSC 031  and CPSC 035  present a deeper coverage of these topics. CPSC 021 is appropriate for all students who want to be able to write programs. It is the usual first course for computer science majors and minors. Students with Advanced Placement credit or extensive programming experience may be able to place out of this course. Students who think that they may fall into this latter category should consult with any computer science faculty member.
    No prerequisites.
    Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
    Lab work required, programming intensive.
    1 credit.
    Each semester. Staff.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science 


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  • CPSC 031. Introduction to Computer Systems

    This course is a broad introduction to computer science that focuses on how a computer works and how programs run on computers. We examine the hardware and software components required to go from a program expressed in a high-level programming language like C or Python to the computer actually running the program. This course takes a bottom-up approach to discovering how a computer works. Topics include theoretical models of computation, data representation, machine organization, assembly and machine code, memory, I/O, the stack, the operating system, compilers and interpreters, processes and threads, and synchronization. This course also introduces parallel and distributed computing with a specific focus on shared memory parallelism for multicore and SMP systems.
    Prerequisites: CPSC 021  or equivalent.
    Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Each semester. Staff.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science 


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  • CPSC 035. Data Structures and Algorithms

    This course completes the broad introduction to computer science begun in CPSC 021 . It provides a general background for further study in the field. Topics to be covered include object-oriented programming in C++, advanced data structures (trees, priority queues, hash tables, graphs, etc.) and algorithms, and software design and verification. Students will be expected to complete several programming projects illustrating the concepts presented.
    Prerequisite: CPSC 021  or equivalent. Discrete Mathematics is recommended.
    Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Each semester. Staff.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science  


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  • CPSC 040. Computer Graphics

    Computer graphics focuses on the creation and manipulation of digital imagery. We cover the modeling, rendering, and animating of geometric object in two (2D) and three (3D) dimensions. Topics include drawing algorithms for 2D geometric primitives (points, lines, polygons), geometric matrix transformations, projective geometry, geometric object representations, hidden surface removal, hierarchical modeling, shading, lighting, shadows, ray-tracing, procedural (non-geometric) modeling, texture mapping, and animation. Labs will explore various tools for rendering graphics, including pixel buffers, OpenGL, shading languages, and general purpose GPU computing.
    Prerequisites: CPSC 031 , CPSC 035  and Linear Algebra required or permission of the instructor. (Linear Algebra may be taken concurrently.).
    Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
    (Cross-listed as ENGR 026 )
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Danner.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science 


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  • CPSC 041. Algorithms

    The study of algorithms is useful in many diverse areas. As algorithms are studied, considerable attention is devoted to analyzing formally their time and space requirements and proving their correctness. Topics covered include abstract data types, trees (including balanced trees), graphs, searching, sorting, NP complete optimization problems, and the impact of several models of parallel computation on the design of algorithms and data structures.
    Prerequisites: CPSC 035  required. Mathematics background at the level of Linear Algebra or higher is required (may be taken concurrently).
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Brody.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science 


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  • CPSC 043. Computer Networks

    This course covers the design, implementation and applications of computer networks, primarily focused on the protocols that enable the Internet and network applications. Additionally, this course will cover network security, such as viruses, worms, and botnets. Topics will include: data communication theory; packet-switched routing; the Internet and its protocols; socket and network application programming; overlays and P2P networks; and network security.
    Prerequisites: CPSC 031  and CPSC 035  required.
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2015. Webb.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science 


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  • CPSC 044. Database Systems

    This course provides an introduction to relational database management systems. Topics covered include data models (ER and relational model); data storage and access methods (files, indices); query languages (SQL, relational algebra, relational calculus, QBE); query evaluation; query optimization; transaction management; concurrency control; crash recovery; and some advanced topics (distributed databases, object relational databases). A project that involves implementing and testing components of a relational database management system is a large component of the course.
    Prerequisites: CPSC 031  and CPSC 035  required.
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Soni.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science 


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  • CPSC 045. Operating Systems

    This course is an introduction to the theory, design, and implementation of operating systems. An operating system is the software layer between user programs and the computer hardware. It provides abstractions of the underlying hardware that are easier to program, and it manages the machine’s resources. The following topics will be covered: processes (including synchronization, communication, and scheduling); memory (main memory allocation strategies, virtual memory, and page replacement policies); file systems (including naming and implementation issues); I/O (including devices, drivers, disks, and disk scheduling); and security.
    Prerequisites: CPSC 031  and CPSC 035  required.
    Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
    (Cross-listed as ENGR 022 )
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Next offered when staffing permits.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science 


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  • CPSC 046. Theory of Computation

    This study of various models of computation leads to a characterization of the kinds of problems that can and cannot be solved by a computer. Solvable problems will be classified with respect to their degree of difficulty. Topics to be covered include formal languages and finite state devices; Turing machines; and other models of computation, computability, and complexity.
    Prerequisite: CPSC 035  required. Mathematics background at the level of Linear Algebra or higher is required (may be taken concurrently).
    (Cross-listed as MATH 046 )
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2015. Staff.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science 


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  • CPSC 063. Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial intelligence (AI) can be defined as the branch of computer science that is concerned with the automation of intelligent behavior. Intelligent behavior encompasses a wide range of abilities; as a result, AI has become a very broad field that includes game playing, automated reasoning, expert systems, natural language processing, modeling human performance (cognitive science), planning, and robotics. This course will focus on a subset of these topics and specifically on machine learning, which is concerned with the problem of how to create programs that automatically improve with experience. Machine learning approaches studied typically include neural networks, decision trees, genetic algorithms, and reinforcement techniques.
    Prerequisites: CPSC 035  required.
    Natural sciences and engineering practicum. Eligible for COGS credit.
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Meeden.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
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  • CPSC 065. Natural Language Processing

    This course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts in natural language processing, the study of human language from a computational perspective. The focus will be on creating statistical algorithms used in the analysis and production of language. Topics to be covered include parsing, morphological analysis, text classification, speech recognition, and machine translation. No prior linguistics experience is necessary.
    Prerequisite: CPSC 035  required.
    Eligible for COGS credit.
    (Cross-listed as LING 020 )
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Next offered when staffing permits.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
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  • CPSC 068. Bioinformatics

    This course is an introduction to the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology, with a central focus on algorithms and their application to a diverse set of computational problems in molecular biology. Computational themes will include dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, supervised learning and classification, data clustering, trees, graphical models, data management, and structured data representation. Applications will include genetic sequence analysis, pair wise-sequence alignment, phylogenetic trees, motif finding, gene-expression analysis, and protein-structure prediction. No prior biology experience is necessary.
    Prerequisite: CPSC 035  required.
    (Cross-listed as BIOL 068 )
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Soni.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science 


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  • CPSC 071. Software Engineering: iOS Development

    This course is an introduction to software engineering, with a focus on iOS development. iOS is the name of the operating system that runs on many of Apple’s products including the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. In this course, students will learn how to write iOS apps in Objective C using Apple’s Xcode IDE (integrated development environment). Topics will also include readings on user interface design, project implementation and unit testing. Students do not need to own an iOS device to take the course.
    Prerequisite: CPSC 035  required.
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Next offered when staffing permits.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science 


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  • CPSC 081. Adaptive Robotics

    This seminar addresses the problem of controlling robots that will operate in dynamic, unpredictable environments. In laboratory sessions, students will work in groups to program robots to perform a variety of tasks such as navigation to a goal, obstacle avoidance, and vision-based tracking. In discussion sessions, students will examine the major paradigms of robot control through readings from the primary literature with an emphasis on adaptive approaches.
    Prerequisite: CPSC 035  required. CPSC 063  is recommended.
    Natural sciences and engineering practicum. Eligible for COGS credit.
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Next offered when staffing permits.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science  


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  • CPSC 087. Parallel and Distributed Computing

    This course covers a broad range of topics related to parallel and distributed computing, including parallel and distributed architectures and systems, parallel and distributed programming paradigms, parallel algorithms, and scientific and other applications of parallel and distributed computing. In lecture/discussion sections, students examine both classic results as well as recent research in the field. The lab portion of the course includes programming projects using different programming paradigms, and students will have the opportunity to examine one course topic in depth through an open-ended project of their own choosing. Course topics may include: multi-core, SMP, MPP, client-server, clusters, clouds, grids, peer-to-peer systems, GPU computing, scheduling, scalability, resource discovery and allocation, fault tolerance, security, parallel I/0, sockets, threads, message passing, MPI, RPC, distributed shared memory, data parallel languages, MapReduce, parallel debugging, and parallel and distributed applications.
    Prerequisites: CPSC 031  and CPSC 035  required. CPSC 045  is recommended.
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2016. Newhall.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
    Computer Science 


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  • CPSC 097. Senior Conference

    This course provides honors and course majors an opportunity to delve more deeply into a particular topic in computer science, synthesizing material from previous courses. Topics have included dynamic analysis (2013, sensing for healthcare (2012), data management systems (2010, 2011), computer perception (2008, 2009), computational geometry and geographic information systems (2006, 2007), computer security (2005), natural language processing (2004); advanced algorithms (2003); networking (2001, 2002); distributed computing (2000); evolutionary computation (1998 and 1999); complexity, encryption, and compression (1996); and parallel processing (1995). CPSC 097  is the usual method used to satisfy the comprehensive requirement for a computer science major and the senior honors study requirement for a computer science honors major.
    Writing course.
    Lab work required.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Waterman.
    http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/
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Dance - Introductory Courses
  

  • DANC 003. First-Year Seminar: “Shall We Dance?” Dance in the Movies

    This first-year seminar will investigate how dance has served as a catalyst and a vehicle for investigating class, gender, race, romance, and technology in films from the early 20th century through the present. Documentaries, narrative, animated, feature-length and short films, produced in the United States and abroad by small independent and major motion picture industry companies, will be included. One video viewing/screening session per week in addition to class meetings. Response and research papers, digital stories, and poster presentations will all be included.
    Writing course.
    This is a reading and writing intensive course open to all students and fulfills a prerequisite requirement for dance major and minors.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Friedler.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 004. The Arts as Social Change

    This course aims to bring together students with an interest in investigating and investing in social change work through the arts. Our seminar community will engage in discussion of readings and video viewings, will host and visit local leaders from the arts and social change movement, and will engage in community internships as required parts of the course. Papers, journals, grant writing exercises, digital storytelling, and hands-on projects will all be included.
    Eligible for PEAC credit.
    (Cross-listed as MUSI 006 )
    This course is open to all students. This course fulfills a prerequisite requirement for dance majors and minors.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Friedler.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 008. Anatomy: Bones, Muscles, and Movement

    Human musculoskeletal anatomy class that applies anatomy to dance technique and general movement. Covers muscles and bones, kinesiology, strengthening/stretching techniques, and injury identification/management. Theoretical knowledge supported with actual movement analysis in dance studio. Reading, quizzes, midterm, final.
    (Cross-listed as MUSI 008B )
    This course fulfills a prerequisite requirement for dance majors.
    0.5 credit.
    Spring 2015. Malcolm-Naib.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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Dance - Composition, History, and Theory Courses
  

  • DANC 011. Dance Lab I: Making Dance

    A study of various basic principles of dance composition and choreography. We will explore/invent movement through experimentations with time, space, and energy qualities, often using improvisation and generative movement “games”. Explorations will be geared toward honing the student’s individual voice through movement, and challenging preconceived ideas of what that voice sounds/looks/feels like. All previous dance/movement experience is welcome; this class is not exclusive to any one genre of movement. Reading, video and live concert viewing, short dance studies, journals, and a final piece for public performance in the Troy dance lab are required.
    Prerequisite: Any dance course or permission of the instructor. A course in dance technique must be taken concurrently.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Friedler.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 012. Dance Lab: Making Dance II

    An elaboration and extension of the material studied in DANC 011 . Stylistically varying approaches to making work are explored in compositions for soloists and groups. Coursework emphasizes using various approaches and methods (e.g., theme and variation, motif and development, structured improvisation, and others). Reading, video and live concert viewing, movement studies, journals, and a final piece for public performance that may include a production lab component are required.
    Prerequisites: DANC 011  or its equivalent. A course in dance technique must be taken concurrently.
    Students with whom the choreographer works and who commit to 3 hours weekly, may receive PE credit under DANC 011A . Dance Production Practicum.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 013. Dance Composition: Tutorial

    The student enrolling for a tutorial will enter the semester having identified a choreographic project and will be prepared to present material weekly. Projects in any dance style are encouraged. All students proposing tutorials are advised to discuss their ideas with a member of the dance faculty before enrollment. Choreography of a final piece for public performance is required, as are weekly meetings with the instructor and directed readings and video and concert viewings. A journal or research paper may also be required.
    Prerequisites: DANC 011  or its equivalent. A course in dance technique must be taken concurrently.
    Students with whom the choreographer works and who commit to 3 hours weekly, may receive PE credit under DANC 011A . Dance Production Practicum.
    0.5 credit.
    Fall 2014. Spring 2015. Chakravorty. Friedler.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 022. History of Dance:Europe’s Renaissance Through 1900

    A study of social and theatrical dance forms in the context of various European societies from the Renaissance through thev 19th century, including an overview of the development of ballet. Influential choreographers, dancers, and theorists representative of the periods and of different cultures will be discussed. Reading, writing, inclass presentations, and video viewing in conjunction with learning several period dances will lead to a final research paper.
    Prerequisite: DANC 003 , DANC 004  or DANC 025A  or permission of the instructor.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 023. History of Dance: 20th and 21st Centuries

    This course is designed to present an overview of 20th- and 21st-century social and theatrical dance forms in the context of Western societies with an emphasis on North America. Focusing on major stylistic traditions, influential choreographers, dancers, and theorists will be discussed. Through readings, video and concert viewings, research projects, and class discussions, students will develop an understanding of these forms in relation to their own dance practice. Two lectures and 1-hour video viewing per week.
    Prerequisite: DANC 003 , DANC 004 , or DANC 025A  strongly recommended.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 025A. Dance and Diaspora

    Dance is as unconventional but powerful device for studying migration and social mobility. This course will explore the interrelated themes of performance, gender, personhood, and migration in the context of diasporic experiences. By focusing on specific dance forms from Asia, Africa and Latin America, we will examine the competing claims of placeness, globalization, and hybridization on cultural identity and difference. This is a reading and writing intensive course.
    Eligible for ASIA or GSST credit.
    Writing course.
    (Cross-listed as SOAN 020J)
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Chakravorty.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 036. Dancing Identities

    This course explores ways that age, class, gender, and race have informed dance, particularly performance and social dance, since 1960. The impact of various cultural and social contexts will be considered. Lectures, readings, and video and concert viewings will be included. Students will be expected to design and participate in dance and movement studies as well as submit written research papers.
    Prerequisite: DANC 003 , DANC 004 , DANC 025A  or permission of the instructor.
    Eligible for GSST credit.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 038. Performing Ecstasy Dancing the Sacred

    By locating the sacred in the experiences of ecstatic dance and music, the course will specifically examine the evolution of Bhakti (Hindu) and Sufi religious practices from ritual to performance art. By exploring the sacred in relation to social processes of culture and their transformations, it will connect the sacred not only to history, tradition, ritual, spirituality and subjectivity but also to national identity, commodity and tourism in contemporary culture.
    (Cross-listed as RELG 042 )
    It is a reading and writing intensive course.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Chakravorty.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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Dance - Technique and Repertory Course
  

  • DANC 040. Dance Technique: Modern I

    This course introduces students to the Horton Technique which was designed with studies to stretch and strengthen different areas of the body. The basic warm up is taught: flat backs, primitive squat, descent and ascent, lateral stretches, release swings and deep lunges. Many of the beginning level studies focus on the Achilles tendon, abdominal muscles and hamstring muscles. Simple combinations are taught to introduce musicality and dynamics to the beginning dancer’s vocabulary.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Fall 2014 and spring 2015. King.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 043. Dance Technique: African I

    African Dance I introduces students to Umfundalai. In a contemporary context, the Umfundalai dance tradition surveys dance styles of African people who reside on the continent of Africa and in the Diaspora. Upon completion of the course, students will gain a beginning understanding of how to approach African dance and the aesthetic principles implicit in African-oriented movement. Students enrolled in DANC 043 for academic credit are required to keep a weekly journal and write two short papers.
    Eligible for BLST credit.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Fall 2014 and spring 2015. Staff.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 045. Dance Technique: Yoga

    Vinyasa Flow/Power Yoga course with a focus on asanas (physical postures) and pranayama (breath control) and relaxation techniques. While this is a vigorous class, the practice is intended to be joyful and energizing with a goal of producing calm in mind and body, a practical knowledge of body alignment, injury prevention, and muscle and skeletal usage. The course will consist of a mix of styles incorporating elements of Ashtanga, Vinyasa Power Yoga, and Byron (AU) Yoga Centre Purna. If taken for academic credit, three short papers are required.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Fall 2014. Arrow.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 046. Dance Technique: Kathak

    The class introduces the hot rhythms (/talas/) and the cool emotions (/rasa/s) of the Indian classical dance art: Kathak. The dancing involves high energy, rapid turns, and fast footwork as well as movement of eyes, hands, neck, and fingers. This syncretic dance style from north India draws on Hindu and Muslim cultural traditions (Bhakti and Sufi) and forms the raw material for the global-pop Bollywood dance. Students who are enrolled for academic credit will be required to write papers and/or create performance texts or choreographies.
    Eligible for ISLM credit.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Fall 2014. Chakravorty.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 047. Dance Technique: Flamenco

    This is an introductory flamenco course designed to develop basic movement vocabulary and technique associated with flamenco as a dance form. Flamenco dance involves body attitude and carriage, braceo (arm movements), floreo (movements of fingers and hands), taconeo (footwork), vueltas (turns), and palmas (rhythmic hand clapping technique). A variety of exercises and technique studies in each of these elements will be presented. All forms of flamenco are structured around rhythmic patterns which will be introduced and explored through dance movement and live guitar music. Students will learn choreographic sequences that develop and embody their knowledge of flamenco rhythms and style. Class meets one time weekly and includes 4 Saturday meetings. Students taking DANC 047 for academic credit are required to keep a weekly journal and write two short papers.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Fall 2014. Gmitter.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 048. Dance Technique: Special Topics in Technique

    Intensive study of special topics falling outside the regular dance technique offerings. Topics may include Alexander technique, contact improvisation, jazz, Pilates, and musical theater dance. If taken for academic credit, concert attendance and one or two short papers are required. Section 2: Embodying Improvisation: a global cross-disciplinary discourse This studio course will examine improvisation as a tool to create and expand performance potentials. We will explore the practice of improvisation from multiple global perspectives. The course is performance-centered, though we will interrogate practices that occur in a variety of settings, from the proscenium stage to the after-hours niteclub, from the “in front of your mirror when no one is looking” persona to the pop star stadium highly staged persona, from the quotidian to the ecstatic. As a result, we will begin to ponder the presence of performance in all spaces. We will be informed by a number of dance and movement techniques (for example, contemporary improvisation through shifts of energetic mode, social partner dances- salsa, bachata, swing, contact improvisation, viral sensations-such as twerking), though students do not need to have a background in dance to participate in the class. We have all been accumulating movement information throughout our lives, and your personal accumulation of this information will be our raw material for investigation in class. This course is ideal for any students with interest in exploring performance (dance, theater, music, performance art), transformation, and the immediate moment.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Fall 2014. Poe.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 049A. Performance Dance: Repertory Section 1: Tap

    The various sections of this course offer opportunities for study of repertory and performance practice. Students are required to perform in at least one scheduled dance concert during the semester. Three hours per week. A course in dance technique should be taken concurrently. Open to students with some tap experience, this class draws on the tradition of rhythm tap known as “hoofin’.” A new dance is made each semester, working with the varying levels of skill present in the student ensemble. Students will be expected to attend additional ensemble rehearsals.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Fall 2014. Davis.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 049B. Performance Dance: Repertory Section 4: Taiko

    The various sections of this course offer opportunities for study of repertory and performance practice. Students are required to perform in at least one scheduled dance concert during the semester. Three hours per week. A course in dance technique should be taken concurrently. The class will offer experience in traditional or traditionally based Japanese drumming repertory. The relationship between the drumming and its concomitant movement will be emphasized. Open to the general student with performances in December. Two (2) semesters of this course fulfills the World Traditions Component requirement for the music major.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Fall 2014. Arrow.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 049C. Performance Dance: Repertory Section 5: Ballet

    The various sections of this course offer opportunities for study of repertory and performance practice. Students are required to perform in at least one scheduled dance concert during the semester. Three hours per week. A course in dance technique should be taken concurrently. This class will offer students experience with learning and performing classical ballet, while also being part of the creative process of new choreography. Choreography will be performed in December. Open to advanced students from Ballet III, or with permission of instructor. Auditions will be held at the first class.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Fall 2014. Chipman-Bloom.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 049D. Performance Dance: Repertory Section 1: Modern

    The various sections of this course offer opportunities for study of repertory and performance practice. Students are required to perform in at least one scheduled dance concert during the semester. Three hours per week. A course in dance technique should be taken concurrently. This repertory class will explore the physicality and psychology of performing movement. Movement sources will range form modern dance to hip-hop to contact improvisation. Students need not specialize in any one type of dance to take this course, though it is recommended for intermediate/advanced dancers. Students will be expected to attend additional ensemble rehearsals.
    A technique class should be taken concurrently, and Modern III is highly recommended.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Spring 2015. Poe.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 049E. Performance Dance: Repertory Section 3: African

    The various sections of this course offer opportunities for study of repertory and performance practice. Students are required to perform in at least one scheduled dance concert during the semester. Three hours per week. A course in dance technique should be taken concurrently. Auditions for admission to this course will be held at the first class meeting. Additional information regarding the course is available from the instructor. Resulting choreography will be performed in the spring student concert. Students will be expected to attend additional ensemble rehearsals.
    Prerequisite: DANC 043 , DANC 078 , or permission of the instructor.
    Eligible for BLST credit.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Spring 2015. Staff.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 049F. Performance Dance: Repertory Section 6: Kathak

    The various sections of this course offer opportunities for study of repertory and performance practice. Students are required to perform in at least one scheduled dance concert during the semester. Three hours per week. A course in dance technique should be taken concurrently. This is a moderate level technique course on Kathak. We will work on teen tala or metrical scale of sixteen beats to learn complex rhythmical structures called bols. The various patterns of bols such as tukra, tehai and paran will also be explored. The two aspects of Kathak technique nrtta (abstract movement) and nritya (expressive gestures) will be used for a final composition. The final composition will be presented in a scheduled student dance concert.
    Prerequisite for this course is 048 or prior knowledge of any classical Indian dance forms.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Spring 2015. Chakravorty.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 049G. Performance Dance: Repertory Section 7: Flamenco

    The various sections of this course offer opportunities for study of repertory and performance practice. Students are required to perform in at least one scheduled dance concert during the semester. Three hours per week. A course in dance technique should be taken concurrently. This repertory class consists of choreography set to traditional flamenco rhythms with an emphasis on the embodiment of flamenco style and attitude in posture, body and arm positions, movement and footwork. Ongoing technique practice strengthens the dancer’s movement vocabulary and stamina. Communication between dancer and live guitarist is cultivated. Resulting choreography will be performed in the spring student concert. Class meets 1x weekly and includes 5 Saturday meetings. Attendance at additional rehearsals is expected. Students taking DANC 049 for academic credit are required to keep a weekly journal and write one or two short papers.
    Prerequisites: DANC 047  or its equivalent, or with permission of instructor.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Spring 2015. Gmitter.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 053. Dance Technique: African II

    African dance for experienced learners aims to strengthen students’ African dance technique. The course will use the Umfundalai technique allied with neo-traditional West African Dance vocabularies to enhance students’ visceral and intellectual understanding of African dance. Students who take African Dance II for academic credit should be prepared to explore and access their own choreographic voice through movement studies.
    Prerequisite: DANC 043 .
    Eligible for BLST credit.
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Fall 2014 and spring 2015. Staff.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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