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Environmental Studies
  

  • ENVS 001. Introduction to Environmental Studies

    Built around four case studies, this course provides a broad introduction to the inherently interdisciplinary work of environmental studies by providing historical background and examining options for action using tools from a variety of perspectives, chiefly from the sciences and social sciences. Course themes include tragedy of the commons issues, and rights and environmental justice; sustainable development, including increasing urbanization of humanity, population growth, and Kuznets curve; global climate change science and debate; feedback loops and tipping points; and community adaptation and resilience.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Jensen, Nackenoff.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/environmental-studies
    Environmental Studies 


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Film and Media Studies
  

  • FMST 001. Introduction to Film and Media Studies

    In this course students are introduced to forms and histories of film and other moving-image media, as well as to key concepts, theories, and methods in the discipline of film and media studies. We begin with analysis of the elements of film form; explore narrative, documentary, experimental and genre formats; and conclude with perspectives on authorship, national cinema, historiography, and topics in film and media theory. Emphasis is on developing writing, analytical, and research skills. Required weekly evening screenings of works from diverse periods, countries, and traditions. FMST 001 is the prerequisite for most upper-level FMST classes.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Fall 2015. White. Rehak.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 002. Digital Film Fundamentals

    This course introduces students to the expressive possibilities and rigors of the film medium while offering a sound technical foundation in digital production and post-production. We will explore documentary, experimental, and narrative approaches and also consider the opportunities and limitations-conceptual, practical and aesthetic- of exhibiting work through different venues and platforms. Emphasis will be on using the formal and conceptual palette introduced in the course to develop one’s own artistic vision. Coursework includes short assignments, discussions, screenings, and a final project.
    Prerequisite: FMST 001 .
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Cho.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 005. First-Year Seminar: Special Effects and Film Spectacle

    Focusing on the history and theory of spectacular media culture with an emphasis on visual effects and other forms of behind- the- scenes industrial knowledge, this course introduces students to the basics of studying and writing about spectacle in film, television, and digital entertainment, exploring questions such as the relationship between style and technology; formal and narrative principles of “showstoppers” such as musical numbers and fight scenes; and issues of realism and illusion, visual pleasure, sensory immersion, capitalism, and ideology. Required weekly evening screenings.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2016. Rehak.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 011. Advanced Production Workshop: Approaches to Narrative

    This course is an advanced filmmaking workshop for students with prior production experience. Through practical workshops in pre-production, sound production, cinematography, and editing, students advance their technical, aesthetic, and storytelling skills beyond the fundamentals. Through reading, discussion, and exposure to a variety of creative practices within film and video, the course promotes a critical understanding of these media. Production coursework includes collaborative exercises and the completion of a short film-documentary, narrative, or experimental. This course is designed to help students develop their voice as filmmakers through the creation of high-quality works and is strongly recommended for students interested in producing a senior capstone film project in FMST 090 . Required weekly evening screenings and final project screening.
    Prerequisites: FMST 001 , and FMST 002  or equivalent production course with instructor’s approval.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2015. Cho.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 013. Experimental Animation

    This course is an introduction to analog and digital animation concepts and techniques and includes workshops on cut-out animation, stop-motion, and hybrid computer based forms using Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop. The course emphasizes technical and aesthetic experimentation, with the goal of developing a personal vision through the creation of high-quality, experimental works. Through reading, discussion, and exposure to a variety of artistic practices within film, video art, and animation, the course promotes a critical understanding of these media. The class concludes with a public screening of final projects.
    Prerequisites: FMST 001  and FMST 002  or permission of the instructor. Students with knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and strong drawing skills are encouraged to contact instructor.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Cho.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 015. Screenwriting

    This course introduces students to the fundamentals of screenwriting while enabling them to explore their unique sensibility as writers. We consider how screenplays differ from other dramatic forms and understand what makes good cinematic storytelling. By looking at short and feature-length scripts and films, we examine issues of structure, character development, effective use of dramatic tension and dialogue, tone, and theme. Through in-class exercises and discussions, students flesh out their ideas and grapple with their writing in a supportive workshop atmosphere. Coursework includes screenings, short assignments, and the completion of several drafts of a short screenplay. By application only. No previous writing experience required.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Cho.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 020. Critical Theories of Film and Media

    Film critic André Bazin’s famous question, “What is cinema?,” has gained new relevance since the advent of digital media. This course introduces classical film theory (realism, montage, theories of modernity and perception), contemporary film theory (theories of film language, the cinematic apparatus, and spectatorship), and approaches that cut across media (authorship, genre, stardom, semiotics, narratology, feminism, production and reception studies, cognitivism). Through readings and weekly screenings, we explore the significance of film and other media in shaping our identity and cultural experience. Required weekly evening screenings.
    Prerequisite: FMST 001 .
    Eligible for INTP credit.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2016. White.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 021. American Narrative Cinema

    This course surveys U.S. narrative film history from the 1910s to the 2010s 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). Required weekly evening screenings.
    (Cross-listed as ENGL 087)
    1 credit.
    Spring 2016. White.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies  


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  • FMST 022. Cinema and Modernity, 1894- 1934

    This course explores the first decades of film history in the context of global modernity and artistic modernism. In form and content, silent-era cinema functioned as both a vector and a reflection of the transformative subjective and social experiences of modernity. Urbanization, immigration, consumerism, and women’s participation in the labor force were refracted in silent movie genres and stars. We will pay special attention to cinema’s internationalism before the introduction of synchronized sound, looking at film culture and national film stars in Asia as well as the U.S. and Europe. Field trips and guests will address key topics of silent film historiography including archives and preservation and film music. Required weekly evening screenings.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2015. White.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 025. Television and New Media

    This course introduces students to major trends in critical thought regarding electronic media, including the rise of broadcast television, recent developments in narrowcast or niche programming and distribution, and the relationship among media industries, advertisers, and audiences. Special attention will be given to probing and historicizing the formal concepts of broadcast and digital TV, examining our ongoing cultural adaptation to emerging screen technologies and their attendant narrative and audiovisual forms. Coursework includes weekly blogging, one analytical paper, presentations, and the production of a creative TV-related project. Required weekly evening screenings.
    Prerequisite: FMST 001 .
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Simon.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 035. Histories of Water

    Film and history are narrative forms that have both been challenged-creatively and analytically-by the subject of water, its politics and its poetics. This course will explore the written and filmic histories of water through analytic as well as artistic practice. Students will watch films in different genres (the film essay, found footage film, experimental documentary, and dramatic narrative) and read across sub-disciplines of history (from the early modern Pacific world to climate change denialism in the late twentieth centuries). We will discuss themes that emerge at the intersection of water history and water cinema: water as mystery/nature; water as social, political, and ecological crisis; water as dream of leisure and recreation; water as space of labor, economy, transit. The final project addresses a specific problem in the history of water through a creative and analytical lens.
    Eligible for ENVS credit.
    (Cross-listed as HIST 061 )
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Cho, Azfar.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 041. Fan Culture

    Explores the history, philosophy, and impact of fandom in film, television, and new media. Drawing on methodologies including reception ethnography, feminism, performance, cultural studies, and convergence theory, we will consider topics such as the history of celebrity and “cult” status; the creation and sharing of fan fiction and videos; gendered, queer, and cis identities in fan culture; relationships between fans and industries; and fandom in digital social media. Screenings include serial and episodic TV, camp and “trash” cinema, narrative and documentary films, and fan generated content.
    Eligible for GSST credit if all papers and projects are focused on GSST topics.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2016. Rehak.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 042. Animation and Cinema

    This course examines the forms, technologies, and history of animation in film and other media. Screenings include short- and feature-length animated films, narrative and experimental animation from the U.S. and other countries, and animation in television and digital media. Emphasis is on framing animation in relation to an array of cultural and economic forces and theoretical perspectives, including performance, gender, the body, media evolution, taste, symbolism and realism, and the avant-garde. Required weekly evening screenings.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2015. Rehak.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 045. Feminist Film and Media Studies

    This course focuses on critical approaches to films and videos made by women in a range of historical periods, national production contexts, and styles: mainstream and independent, narrative, documentary, video art, and experimental. Readings will address questions of authorship and aesthetics, spectatorship and reception, image and gaze, race, sexual, and national identity, and current media politics Required weekly evening screenings.
    Eligible for GSST or INTP credit.
    (Cross-listed as ENGL 091)
    1 credit.
    Fall 2015. White.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies  


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  • FMST 046. Queer Media

    The history of avant-garde and experimental media has been intertwined with that of gender non-conformity and sexual dissidence. Queer theory has developed in relation to queer film texts and cultures. How do lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (lgbt) filmmakers queer sexual norms and standard media forms? Challenging classic 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.
    Eligible for INTP credit.
    (Cross-listed as ENGL 090  and GSST 020 )
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. White.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Gender and Sexuality Studies 


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  • FMST 050. What on Earth Is World Cinema?

    Is there such a thing as world cinema, or is the concept a naïve or imperialist one? What is the relationship between “world cinema” and national cinemas? What is “national” about national cinemas? This course introduces students to theoretical debates about the categorization and global circulation of films, film style, authorship, and audiences through case studies drawn from Iranian, Indian, East Asian (Korea, Taiwan), Latin American, European, and U.S. independent cinemas presented at required weekly evening screenings. Special attention to how film festivals, journalism, and cinephile culture confer value.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. White.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 051. European Cinema

    The course introduces post-war directors (Bergman and Fellini), British and French New Waves, Eastern European cinema (Tarkovsky, Wajda), Post-New Wave Italian auteurs, Spanish cinema after Franco (Erice, Saura, Almodovar), New German Cinema (Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders), British cinema after 1970 (Roeg, Leigh, Loach, Greenaway) and Danish cinema: Dogme 95 and others. The course addresses key issues and concepts in European cinema such as realism, authorship, art cinema, and political modernism, with reference to significant films and filmmakers and in the context of historical, social, and cultural issues. Required weekly evening screenings.
    (Cross-listed as LITR 051G)
    1 credit.
    Spring 2016. Simon.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies  


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  • FMST 052. Postwar France: French New Wave

    This course is an in-depth exploration of the development and evolution of the French New Wave in postwar France. We will concentrate on the history of the New Wave in France from the 1950s through the late 1960s by the close study of the styles of individual filmmakers, the “film movement” as perceived by critics, and the New Wave’s contribution to modernizing France. The primary emphasis will be on the stylistic, socio-political, and cultural dimensions of the New Wave, and the filmmakers and critics most closely associated with the movement. Directors who were once all film critics for the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma-Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and François Truffaut-will be studied along side other important filmmakers of the era Chris Marker, Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda.
    Eligible for FMST credit, fulfills national cinema requirement.
    (Cross-listed as LITR 073F )
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Yervasi.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 059. Re-Envisioning Diasporas

    This course is team-developed and co-taught in an interdisciplinary, international collaboration. It addresses the historical, cultural, representational, and theoretical specificities of diasporas through examining how visual and literary productions deal with questions of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, nationality and globalization from a perpetual state of “elsewhere.” How does this experience mark the conceptualization, aesthetics, and politics of the artistic process and textuality? What role do language, body memories, and visualization/projection play in the works we will discuss? How do virtual and real-life diasporic communities interact with their imagination and reception? Students are encouraged to do work in their first and secondary languages. Commitment to cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration a must. Film Studies background helpful but not required. Seminar-style class taught in English.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2015. Simon, Yervasi.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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  • FMST 090. Film and Media Studies Capstone

    This team-taught course begins by exploring a major paradigm or debate in the field and reviewing research methodology and production techniques. Students then undertake an individual or collaborative research or creative project (in some cases building upon work started in another class or independent study), meeting to workshop ideas and present works-in-progress. Research projects will incorporate multimedia presentation, and creative projects will be accompanied by written materials. The semester culminates in a panel/film festival.
    Required for senior majors and minors.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Spring 2016. Cho, White. Cho, Rehak.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
    Film and Media Studies 


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French and Francophone Studies
  
  
  
  
  

  • FREN 015. Advanced French: La France et le monde francophone contemporains 2

    Offered each semester, this course gives students the opportunity to further develop French language skills through the study of articles, essays, and images. Engage in reading, discussing, and writing about cultural and visual texts selected from ads, newspapers, literature, television shows, comic strips, videos, and film from France and the Francophone World. Writing skills will be addressed using the second half of Controverses (textbook). Particular attention will be paid to oral and written communication and cultural analysis. FREN 004, FREN 014 , or placement required.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Spring 2015. Yervasi.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/french-francophone-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: French and Francophone Studies  


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  • FREN 024. Foreign Language Teaching and Pedagogy

    This course has two elements that are developed together throughout the course of the semester. Students can serve the Swarthmore community by teaching a foreign language to local elementary school students in an after-school program that meets two times/week. Students must teach for the entire 6-week session, two days per week. During the evening pedagogy sessions held on campus, we will discuss writing weekly lesson plans, foreign language acquisition in children, teaching methodologies and approaches. We use a common goal-oriented curriculum among all the languages. Students must register for the language or educational studies course that they will be teaching and for a service time (A) M/W or (B) T/Th.
    (Cross-listed as EDUC 072 )
    0.5 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/french-francophone-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: French and Francophone Studies 


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  • FREN 043. Ecrire le Moi/Writing the Self

    Reading the texts by authors of various parts of the Francophone world who, through their confessions, memoirs, autobiographies, autofictions, journals, etc., narrate different moments of their life. We will explore the role of history, social class, language, education, race, colonial past, in the construction of their subjectivity and identity, and will also read their texts as keys to the understanding of the cultures and societies they inhabit. Parallel reading of studies on the various forms of the autobiographical genre will inform us on the writings of authors such as Rousseau, Sartre, Ferraoun, Bouraoui, Nothomb, Genet, Lefevre, Zoble, Condé, Pineau, Maximin, Lahens, Sarraute, Duras. In French.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Rice-Maximin.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/french-francophone-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: French and Francophone Studies 


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French and Francophone Studies - Seminars
  

  • FREN 111. Le Désir colonial: représentations de la différence dans l’imaginaire français

    This course addresses how the colonial encounter has shaped modern perceptions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality through the production, circulation and consumption of deformed images of its colonial subjects. From noble savages and whimpering slaves to hideous monsters and seductive harem girls, we will examine the dynamics of representation embedded in colonial narrations and visual constructions of the “Other,” focusing on conceptualizations of power as they relate to race, sexual politics and the gendering of the colonial subject. Primary texts include literature of the slave trade, orientalist fictions and photographs, colonial films, museum exhibitions and world’s fairs, and contemporary works of fiction that deal with the legacy and sometimes continue the colonial desire. This course has a Francophone component.
    Eligible for BLST or GSST credit.
    2 credits.
    Fall 2016. Gueydan-Turek.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/french-francophone-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: French and Francophone Studies 


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German Studies
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • GMST 008. Texts in Contexts: Topics in German Culture and Society from the Reformation until Today

    GMST 008 is a 4th semester course integrating the continued work on advancing the students’ linguistic skills with the acquisition of cultural, historical, and literary content about German-speaking countries. This course is the gateway to all upper level courses in the German studies curriculum. Topics alternate every year.

    Topic for Spring 2015: Deutsche Popmusik - Von Gassenhauer bis Hip Hop

    In this course, we will trace the development of German popular music from Weimar era street and vaudeville hits, musical films of the Third Reich and the postwar decades, to post-1968 protest songs, German Schlager, New German Wave, and Hip Hop. While fine-tuning your knowledge of German cultural history, advancing your stylistic, lexical and grammatical competency in German will be the overall goal.
    Prerequisite: placement test score or GMST 003 .
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Wegener.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies 


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  • GMST 020. Introduction to German Studies: Topics in German Literature and Culture

    This course serves as the introduction to the interdisciplinary field of German studies. What is German “culture,” how has it been defined, which narratives, theories, and events have shaped the national imaginary from the 18th century to today? Students will develop speaking and writing skills through short assignments and presentations intended to familiarize them with the vocabulary of literary and cultural analysis in German. Topics change every year. Topic for Fall 2014: Verlorene Unschuld: literarische und filmische Jugendporträts This course will explore representations of youth and coming-of-age in literature and film of the German-speaking world. We will read both canonical and non-canonical texts beginning in the 18th century and extending into the 21st that engage with themes of love, education and crisis. What do these narratives reveal about national, cultural and individual identity formation during early stages of maturity? How are these narratives shaped by various political and historical contexts? In addition to works by authors such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frank Wedekind, Ingeborg Bachmann, Bernhard Schlink, and Jana Hensel, we will also examine key theoretical texts and films that focus on narratives of youth.
    Prerequisite: placement test score or GMST 008 .
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Wegener.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies 


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  • GMST 054. German Cinema

    This course is an introduction to German cinema from its inception in the 1890s until the present. It includes an examination of early exhibition forms, expressionist and avant-garde films from the classic German cinema of the Weimar era, fascist cinema, postwar rubble films, DEFA films from East Germany, New German Cinema from the 1970s, and post 1989 heritage films. We will analyze a cross-match of popular and avant-garde films while discussing mass culture, education, propaganda, and entertainment as identity- and nation-building practices.
    Eligible for FMST credit, fulfills national cinema requirement.
    Writing course.
    (Cross-listed as LITR 054G /FMST 054)
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies  


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  • GMST 091. Tatort Deutschland: History, Practice and Theory of German Crime Fiction and Film

    Crime - real and fictional - has always been an important part of German culture, symbolizing, defining and analyzing its own boundaries as well as intersections with Others. Think about Fritz Lang’s M (1931) or the 40+ long run of the cult series Tatort (1973-). This course will investigate the history, practice and theory of crime fiction, TV and film with an emphasis on the post-1945 German landscapes (East and West). How and why do crime narratives, in formal structure and content, deal with the legacy of the German Past (Weimar Years, Third Reich and Holocaust) and a divided Germany (1949-89)? How do they incorporate and interrogate watershed political events? What contributions do Krimis make to the theory of narrative? Why are some of Germany’s longest running TV-series crime dramas? What accounts for their popularity? These and other questions will shed light on the ways in which the crime genre interacts with concepts of nationality, as well as regional and local identity constructions. In addition to weekly readings, students will watch episodes of the most famous classic and current crime dramas, prepare presentations on specific aspects of German crime, and write two shorter papers (one on fiction and one on film). Taught in German.
    Prerequisite: GMST 008  or GMST 020 .
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Simon.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies 


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German Studies - Seminars
  

  • GMST 104. Goethe und seine Zeit

    ith arguably the greatest German writer whose literary works revolutionized German poetry, drama, and the novel. Often regarded as the founder of German classicism, Goethe’s literary writings, spanning over six decades, defy easy categorization. Texts read in the seminar include the early drama Götz von Berlichingen and the influential epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, the classical drama Iphigenie auf Tauris, the novels Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Die Wahlverwandtschaften, early essays on Shakespeare and Gothic architecture, poetry from all periods of his life, and, of course, Faust. We will also look at Goethe’s scientific ideas (morphology of plants and theory of optics) and his philosophical and economic worldview.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies 


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  • GMST 108. Wien und Berlin

    Between 1871 and 1933, Vienna and Berlin were two cultural magnets drawing such diverse figures as Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Leon Trotsky, Gerhard Hauptman, Käthe Kollwitz, Rainer Maria Rilke, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Tucholsky, Else Lasker- Schüler, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schönberg, and Adolf Hitler. This course will examine the multiple tensions that characterized “fin-de-siècle” Vienna and Berlin, such as the connection between gender and the urban landscape, the pursuit of pleasure and the attempt to scientifically explore human sexuality, and the conflict between avant-garde experimentation and the disintegration of political liberalism.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies 


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  • GMST 110. German Literature After World War II

    The aim of the seminar is to acquaint students with literary developments in the German-speaking countries after the end of World War II. The survey of texts will address questions of “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” and social critique in the 1950s, the politicization of literature in the 1960s, the “Neue Innerlichkeit” of the 1970s, and literary post-modernity of the 1980s. We will also study the literature of the German Democratic Republic and texts dealing with post-wall, unified Germany. Authors included are Böll, Eich, Grass, Frisch, Bachmann, Handke, Bernhard, Jelinek, Strauss, Wolf, Delius, Plenzdorf, Süskind, and Menasse.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies 


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  • GMST 111. Medienkultur - German Media Culture

    German Media Culture, beginning with the first Western book printed in movable type in the 1450s (Gutenberg’s Bible), is a rich source of inquiry for historical, political, sociological, philosophical, technological, and aesthetic reasons. In this interdisciplinary senior seminar, we will not only read, view and listen to primary media sources in their specific historical contexts, but we will also investigate and analyze media theories by Freud, Marx, Benjamin, Heidegger, Adorno, Brecht, Enzensberger, Habermas, Kracauer, and Kittler (among others) that develop alongside and in reaction to the rapidly changing mediascapes of 19th-21st century German-speaking countries. From print and popular press culture, letters and postcards, to radio, film, television and digital media, the seminar will devote two weeks to each major medium with authentic material made available on a course website and on reserve. Students are responsible for one oral presentation (submitted in written form a week later) and researching, composing and constructing a detailed analytical project in digital form in German, which they will present as a poster session at a German Studies event in early December.
    2 credits.
    Fall 2014. Simon.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies 


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  • GMST 112. German Short Fiction (Erzählungen, Novellen, Gerschichten)

    When the Austrian writer Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, himself an accomplished writer of stories (Erzählungen), published a collection of 19th-century German Erzählungen, he stated that he only needed to remember the most moving reading experiences of his youth to establish a long list of indelible stories written by the greatest writers of the century. The popular genre of German (short) prose fiction, characterized by thematic diversity and narrative innovation, has been flourishing in various literary movements from Goethe to the present time. In this seminar, we will read a great variety of prose fiction (Erzählungen, Geschichten, Novellen), from the late 18th century onward, and examine the changing narrative forms and thematic preoccupations found in these texts. Authors include: Goethe, Tieck, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Arnim, Eichendorff, Kleist, Büchner, Keller, Gotthelf, Droste-Hülshoff, Stifter, Hebbel, Grillparzer, Schnitzler, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Kafka, Langgässer, Kaschnitz, Koeppen, Lenz, Bachmann, Hildesheimer, Böll, Aichinger, Lenz, Wohmann, Handke, und Hein.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies
    Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies 


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Greek
  

  • GREK 001. Intensive First-Year Greek

    Students learn the basics of the language and are introduced to the culture and thought of the Greeks. The course provides a selection of readings from the most important Greek authors, including Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, and Plato. The course meets four times a week and carries 1.5 credits each semester. Students who start in the GREK 001-GREK 002  sequence must pass GREK 002  to receive credit for GREK 001. Year-long course.
    Humanities.
    1.5 credits.
    Fall 2014. Spring 2015. Lefkowitz. Turpin.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • GREK 002. Intensive First-Year Greek

    Students learn the basics of the language and are introduced to the culture and thought of the Greeks. The course provides a selection of readings from the most important Greek authors, including Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, and Plato. The course meets four times a week and carries 1.5 credits each semester. Students who start in the GREK 001 -002 sequence must pass GREK 002 to receive credit for GREK 001 . Year-long course.
    Humanities.
    1.5 credits.
    Fall 2014. Spring 2015. Lefkowitz. Turpin.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • GREK 011. Plato and Socratic Irony

    This course will focus on one or more of the Socratic dialogues of Plato in Greek. Emphasis will be placed on developing skills in reading and composing Greek, and also on the analysis of Plato’s characteristic literary techniques and philosophical thought. The course will include a systematic review of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. GREK 011 is normally taken after GREK 002 .
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • GREK 013. Introduction to Plato’s Republic

    The main focus will be on reading Book I of the Republic in Greek, giving sustained attention Greek grammar and vocabulary. We will also read the rest of the Republic in English, and consider select problems of interpretation, such as the role of Plato’s “guardians,” the place of poetry, and Plato’s purpose in exploring an “ideal state.” The course is intended for students who have completed a first year of classical Greek, or the equivalent in High School or summer courses.
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Turpin.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics
    Classics 


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  • GREK 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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Gender and Sexuality Studies
  

  • GSST 001. Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies

    This interdisciplinary core course is an introduction to key concepts, questions, and analytical tools developed by scholars of gender and sexuality studies. Through this course, you will become familiar with key contemporary debates in the field, as well as the historical formation of these debates. Substantial attention will be paid to the development and application of queer theory within the history of the field, including discussion of social construction of gender identities and expressions, as well as LGBTQ identities, texts, theories, and issues. Course materials will include “classic” and contemporary gender and sexuality studies scholarship from a variety of disciplines. We will explore gender and sexuality in relation to topics such as media representation, embodiment, economics, health and reproduction, technology, activism, social movements, and violence.
    Required course for GSST minors and special majors.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Surkan.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/gender-sexuality-studies
    Gender and Sexuality Studies 


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  • GSST 020. Theory and Methodology Special Topics: Queer Media

    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 sub-cultural reception. How do LGBT filmmakers “queer” sexual norms and standard media forms? How are sexual identities mediated by popular culture? Challenging classic 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.
    Prerequisite: GSST 001  or permission of instructor.
    (Cross-listed as GSST 020 , FMST 046 )
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. White.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/gender-sexuality-studies
    Gender and Sexuality Studies 


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History
  
  

  • HIST 001D. First-Year Seminar: China and the World: A History of Collecting

    This seminar examines how the creative and multifaceted process of collecting shaped and was shaped by the production of knowledge about the world’s people both within and outside of China. We will trace the movement of “things” into and out of China, investigate the practices of collecting in their social and political contexts, and study the wide cast of characters who participated in the cultures of collecting.
    Eligible for ASIA credit.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Chen.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/history
    History 


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  • HIST 001E. First-Year Seminar: Past & Present in Latin America: Problems and Researching Tools

    An examination of how historians and social scientists use a variety of primary sources-from literature and movies to cartoons, photographs, paintings, printed media, statistics, official documents, personal narratives and ads-to interpret the making of neo-colonial, modern, and multifaceted Latin America.
    Eligible for LASC credit.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Armus.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/history
    History 


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  • HIST 001G. First-Year Seminar: The Golden Age of Portability: The Silk Road

    Organized around the theme of “portability,” this seminar explores the multiple objects that traveled across the Asian continent along the Silk Road trade routes. We will track the process by which different cultures situated along the various routes came into contact with new ways of seeing and making that spawned innovations in art, industry, and thought.
    Eligible for ASIA credit.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/history
    History 


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  • HIST 001J. First-Year Seminar: A New History of the Cold War Era

    The opening of the former Soviet Union archives created a firestorm of historical debate concerning the politics of the Cold War. This seminar focuses on that debate and the scholarship introduced into the hotly contested issues of McCarthyism, isolationism and containment, the Korean War, Truman’s issuance of the Loyalty Oath, Eisenhower’s leadership and the Central Intelligence Agency’s role in Guatemala, Iran, Cuba and Nicaragua.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Murphy.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/history
    History 


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  • HIST 001R. First-Year Seminar: Remembering History

    Explores the relationship between the creation of personal and collective memory and the production of history. The seminar will examine the tensions between memory and history in U.S. history, using some of the most acclaimed recent history books. Students will think critically about memoirs and autobiographies, oral histories and personal reminiscences, festivities and holidays of commemoration, historical memory in popular culture, and family lore and stories. What receives the privilege of being remembered and what gets deliberately forgotten constitutes the essence of what we know as history.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. B. Dorsey.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/history
    History 


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